Update
239. By Andy Weddington , Col.
General News and Comment
I ordered a bumper sticker. I'm not locked into Walker , but I do like to
piss off the Madison Progressives. ~Bob
Excerpt: As I stand back from this whole surprising election
and try to ignore all of the bloviating about it, I would like to add a few
observations and thoughts of my own.
Worth Reading
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/opinion/column/guest/mitch-henck-gop-wins-big-but-for-how-long/article_1abf586a-0868-5664-a364-31b4ee2f05d3.html
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/opinion/column/guest/mitch-henck-gop-wins-big-but-for-how-long/article_1abf586a-0868-5664-a364-31b4ee2f05d3.html
Excerpt: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker turned back an
onslaught of opposition from national labor unions, John Doe investigators, Big
Ed Shultz of MSNBC and his left-of-center media and entertainment comrades from
New York to Hollywood . Democrats were selling government
solutions to problems when voters have lost faith in government. In Wisconsin , independents
and enough working-class Democrats saw low property taxes as a result of Act
10, where a school board can save big money by changing insurance companies for
teachers — money that financially strapped taxpayers didn’t have to pay. (We
heard Henck speak at a recent "Pints & Politics." Interesting guy
with good insights. ~Bob)
2016 Contender Watch:
Rob Portman. By Kevin Glass
Excerpt: With the 2014 elections a distant memory (er...),
the potential 2016 presidential contenders are beginning to get their ducks in
a row. We heard about Ben Carson this week, we all know what Hillary Clinton is
doing, Martin O'Malley is damaged - and now Ohio Sen. Rob Portman is weighing his
options for a presidential bid.
Mormon bishop
critical of Democrat Harry Reid's stances on abortion, gay marriage
Excerpt: A Mormon bishop in Los Angeles is under fire for his assertion
that Sen. Harry Reid is unworthy to enter the faith's temples because of his
support of Democratic Party positions. Mark Paredes, in a Wednesday blog titled
"Good Riddance to Harry Reid, the Mormon Senate Leader," expressed
his belief that Democrats' support of same-sex marriage, abortion rights and
gambling runs contrary to church stances.
The Will to Fell. By
Mark Steyn
http://www.steynonline.com/6654/the-will-to-fell
http://www.steynonline.com/6654/the-will-to-fell
Excerpt: Today marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the
Berlin Wall. It did not fall, of course. It was felled. It was felled by
ordinary East German men and women who decided they were not willing to spend
the rest of their lives in a large prison pretending to be a nation. On the other
side of the wall - the free side - far too many westerners were indifferent to
the suffering of the east (Steyn does a super job here, bringing back an
important history, and blasting off the fog of sentimentalism about what really
didn't happen, putting the spotlight on what really did happen, and who made it
happen. Really an important thing to remember, that sometimes it takes a few
good men (& women) to stand up from the complacent crowd and fearlessly
unfurl a banner that screams for the truth to be seen and the evil to be
fought. Seems we need more of that right now. --Del )
Interesting: GOP presidential hopefuls jockey for
position in a crowded 2016 field
Excerpt: More than a dozen Republican governors and senators
are rushing to line up supporters, pore over policies and map out strategies
for the 2016 presidential campaign, concluding that last week’s midterm rout of
Democrats shows that the GOP has a strong chance of taking back the White
House.
Climate Model
Predicts Very Cold Winter in Northern Hemisphere; Another Record Breaker? By Mike Shedlock
Excerpt: There is a huge buildup up snow in Siberia this year like last. Meteorologists believe that
portends another brutal winter. Bloomberg reports Climate
Model Predicts Very Cold Winter in Northern Hemisphere. (Oh, shut up. ~Bob)
Why Democrats Lost –
A Retrospective
Excerpt: There are so many reasons why Democrats lost. The
economy, jobs, foreign policy, the IRS scandal, ObamaCare, the response to
Ebola, the NSA scandal, obviously I could go on and on. However, David Rutz of the Washington Free Beacon has put
together a reel of campaign blunders by Democrats which provides a host of
other reasons…
Transcript: President
Obama’s Nov. 5 news conference on midterm election results
Excerpt: "What stands out to me, though, is that the
American people sent a message, one that they’ve sent for several elections
now. They expect the people they elect to work as hard as they do. .... They
want us to get the job done." (Over 200 rounds of golf and over $40
millions taxpayer dollars spent on holidays for himself and family (not
including 2014). Right. "Get to work." This have onerous meaning in a
totalitarian state. --Barb)
Easy to get an
Obamaphone. Corruption is Rampant with Waste, Fraud and Abuse.
Excerpt: “Want to sign up for a free phone?” an agent
representing Total Call mobile asked a CBS4 producer. The representative then
asked if the undercover producer had a food stamp card, a Medicaid card or any
other evidence that he qualified for a phone. “No,” replied the CBS4 employee.
But one of the cellphone agents then ordered his colleague to “push it
through,” by using someone else's food stamp card to provide eligibility for
the CBS4 employee. “Did you just use that guy’s food stamp card for me?”
questioned the CBS4 employee. “Yeah,” responded the Total Call representative.
“It's verification that you are on some kind of assistance program. It's to get
you through.”
Barack Obama strips
down an entire hotel floor to search for bugs and listening devices to prepare
for his stay for the G20
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2827792/Barack-Obama-strips-entire-hotel-floor-search-bugs-listening-devices-prepare-stay-G20.html#ixzz3IeNqWUdE
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2827792/Barack-Obama-strips-entire-hotel-floor-search-bugs-listening-devices-prepare-stay-G20.html#ixzz3IeNqWUdE
Excerpt: U.S. security
officials have stripped down an entire floor of a Brisbane hotel and removed furniture to
prevent President Barack Obama being spied on during his stay for the G20
summit this weekend. Mr. Obama's security agents ordered beds, mirrors and
bedding be removed from rooms surrounding the suite where the President will
stay at the five-star Marriott Hotel in Queensland 's capital city, the Courier-Mail reported. The floor will be checked for
bugs before Mr Obama arrives on Saturday, to ensure he can make secure
phone calls and conduct meetings. (O staying in a Marriott? --Barb. Not
unreasonable in today's world. ~Bob)
Salon: 'Forced Troop
Worship and Compulsory Patriotism Must End.' By William Bigelow
Excerpt: Radical leftist writer David Masciotra waxes
somewhat less than eloquently that Americans who think all soldiers and police
are heroes are childish, and betray “a frightening cultural streak of
nationalism, chauvinism, authoritarianism and totalitarianism” in a piece published Sunday on Salon.com. But
what is childish is Masciotra’s rant; it begins, “Put a man in uniform,
preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him.” You
just know that Michael Brown’s death will be found somewhere in the polemic.
Sure enough, Masciotra later writes, “Michael Brown’s murder represents the tip
of a body pile.” Forget the information pointing to Brown’s possible assault on
the police officer who shot him. (Patriotism is awful, and military service
despicable? Absolutely, according to the real Leftist. But probably those
"people's armies" of China and the old Russia are OK, in fact, much
better than OK, since they will only fight where the enlightened elite of the
Party tells them to. I wonder if he's considered the seriously compulsory
patriotism indoctrinated into small children in Viet
Nam and China .
Nahh, that's different. Just read this article and it'll take care of your
lowered BP for the rest of the day. My main curiosity is the same as for all
the rest of his comrades.... why are you still here? There are so many places
you can go to where there is almost no patriotism at all being taught, and the
military get little respect. Or the places where the Left rules completely,
wouldn't you be so much more comfortable there? Please? I'll drive you to the
airport and even pay any extra charges on your overweight bags, as long as it's
a one-way ticket you're buying. --Del. "And gentlemen now abed...will
think themselves accursed they were not here. And hold their manhoods cheap,
whist any speaks, who fought with us." Just trying to get over their
self-loathing for their cowardice. ~Bob)
A Message Sent to a Grudging President. After a thumpin’,
Obama doubles down on hostility, antagonism and distance. By Peggy Noonan
Excerpt: Republicans won not only because of a favorable
map. In solid Democratic states, they won big or came close. Nor were the
results due only to low midterm turnout. Nate Cohn, in the New York Times ,
noted that turnout in Colorado
was up over 2010, yet Republican Cory Gardner beat incumbent Sen. Mark Udall
with room to spare. The sheer number of blowouts was mind-boggling. Sen. Mitch
McConnell was supposed to win in Kentucky ,
but not by 15 points. In Arkansas
the Republican challenger, Tom Cotton, beat Democratic incumbent, Sen. Mark
Pryor, by 17 points. In Georgia ,
where the Senate race was assumed to be close, the Republican won by eight.
Republican Pat Roberts, left for dead in Kansas
months ago, won by 10.
VA chief to announce
restructuring, firings. By Jeremy Diamond
Excerpt: The Secretary of Veterans Affairs will announce Monday a
massive restructuring of the department in the wake of a scandal that left more
than a hundred thousand veterans waiting for health care. VA Secretary Robert
McDonald, who took over the agency three months ago after his
predecessor Eric Shinseki resigned, said at least 35 people will
be initially fired -- and more than 1,000 could soon follow. "We're
simplistically talking about people who violated our values," McDonald
said in an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" that aired Sunday.
"It's integrity, it's advocacy, it's respect, it's excellence. These are
the things that we try to do for our veterans." (Finally, the new guy
seems to have found a way to actually fire unionized civil servants, although
it'll take a judge signing off on every one of them because of those union
rules. Hopefully they will have enough on all these fatcat corrupt managers to kiss
them all goodbye, and they won't just be transferring to high level jobs
somewhere else in the government. This is what has been needed, the real
overhaul of the system. Obviously we don't know the details of what that will
entail and how the new system will avoid the problems of the old, but I keep
thinking that after all this, what they put in now just has to be better than
what's been in there so far. Maybe our brothers who died on the waiting lists
will at least have their deaths bring on consequences, so they will still have
contributed to all the rest of us even as they passed on. RIP. --Del )
Excerpt: The current crisis in Ukraine has highlighted one of the
problems of globalization: It is no longer possible to punish key trading
partners as an instrument of foreign policy without calling into question the
fundamental principles that created the current global economic system. As
Western nations began to impose sanctions against Russia ,
they not only punished Russia
for its actions in relation to Ukraine ,
but also punished themselves. As a result of globalization, economies are too
tightly linked to make economic sanctions viable - a fact that Western leaders
are just now beginning to realize.
G.O.P. Is Making
Progress Toward Presidency but Is Still Playing Catch-U. Bt Nate Cohn, New York
Times
Excerpt: After five of six presidential elections in which
the Republicans have lost the popular vote, this year’s midterm elections point
toward a plausible Republican path to winning the White House. The Democratic
losses were not simply because of low turnout. Republicans often made
significant gains among rural, white voters. Some candidates made inroads among
young and Hispanic voters, as well, according to exit polls and county and
precinct-level results.
But the Republican path is also narrow, one the Democrats
could block if they reassemble their support among the young, nonwhite and
suburban voters whom President Obama won in 2008 and 2012.
Call a Marine By Toby
Keith-W/ Lyrics
Excerpt: President Obama’s second daylong summit with
Chinese President Xi Jinping will be the best chance this year to clarify some
fuzzy lines on Asia’s biggest potential flash point: the South China Sea. This
is the time to further clarify U.S. interests,
including whether the United
States cares about possible outcomes to the
region’s many territorial disputes.
The Dems Lost and
It’s Not Their Fault. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: The Democrats lost and no one is resigning. Harry
Reid and Nancy Pelosi intend to stay on even after overseeing the largest
political catastrophe for their party in decades. In six years, Pelosi went
from a House majority of 257 seats to a current running total in the 180s.
Harry Reid took a Senate majority and turned it into a minority and all he has
to show for it are a lot of donations from out-of-state law firms. Not only
aren’t Harry and Nancy resigning, but they aren’t even taking any
responsibility. Irresponsibility is the Democratic word of the day and the
decade. ( “Never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Attributed to Napoleon. ~Bob)
Sharyl
Attkisson: America
Excerpt: Sharyl Attkisson, who rejects having any political
allegiance while focusing on the truth, discusses here how powerful, hidden
special interests in the media increasingly hide the truth and homogenize
American news. The media, to her, seem nonplussed by government privacy
invasions, even when it happens to themselves.....She even identified that
someone planted classified documents in her computer, seemingly to frame her or
her sources.
Too Funny: Man Spends Ten Hours Walking Around Austin
Excerpt: Never judge a person until you’ve walked ten hours
in their shoes. Austin
is known for many great things but when you scratch the surface, you’ll find a
seedy underbelly of social injustice. This brave man set up an experiment in
which he walked the city wearing only casual hipster clothing. What happens
along the way, might shock you and cause your genitals to leak.
Ebola and Enterovirus News
Obama Accused Of
Allowing American Children To Be Killed By
Illegal Alien “Dreamers”
Illegal Alien “Dreamers”
Excerpt: Judicial Watch claims that prior to the virtual
tsunami of illegal aliens who were supposed to be youngsters, Enterovirus D68
(EV-D68) was practically nonexistent within this nation's borders, at least until
the recent tidal wave of illegal alien minors entering the U.S. while the
Border Patrol agents helplessly watched. "Thanks to the Obama
administration, the agents had their hands tied by their Obama-appointed
superiors at the Department of Homeland Security and were used as baby sitters
and makeshift hotel bellboys for the illegal alien children, some of whom were
19-years-old," said Kenneth Lorenzo, a former inner-city police detective.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2014/11/recently-arrived-illegal-alien-minors-spread-deadly-virus/
Excerpt: The “humanitarian crisis” concocted by President
Obama to let tens of thousands of illegal immigrant minors stay in the U.S. has
fueled a deadly respiratory virus epidemic that’s struck American kids across
the country and killed at least nine....According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from
mid-August to the end of October state public health laboratories have
confirmed a total of 1,105 people in 47 states and the District of Columbia
with respiratory illness caused by EV-D68. What the agency conveniently omits
is that the deadly virus was first discovered in cities with large numbers of
relocated illegal immigrant minors, officially identified by the government as
Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC). (Per article, by October 2014 x300
infection rate for past 30 years. --Barb)
According to the Center for Aerobiological Sciences,
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort
Detrick, Maryland: (1) Ebola has an aerosol stability that is
comparable to Influenza-A (2) Much like Flu, Airborne Ebola transmissions
need Winter type conditions to maximize Aerosol infection (Published 09/16/14.
--Barb)
CDC Increasing Supply
of Ebola-specific Personal Protective Equipment for U.S.
Excerpt: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) has ordered $2.7 million in personal protective equipment (PPE) to
increase Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) supplies to assist U.S. hospitals
caring for Ebola patients. ...Purchases are based on PPE guidance for
caring for Ebola patients that was issued by CDC on October 20. ... Purchases
include impermeable gowns, coveralls, and aprons; boot covers; gloves; face
shields and hoods; N95 respirators; powered-air purifying respirator systems
and ancillaries; and disinfecting wipes. (Listed on "Outbreak"
tab on CDC site. N95 respirators are airborne precautions. --Barb)
Race Card News
Judge Strikes Down
Obama's 'Disparate Impact' Rule
Excerpt: The courts have finally stepped in to stop Obama
regulators from using the fraudulent anti-bias cudgel known as "disparate
impact" to mug businesses for racial quotas and payola for favored groups.
A federal judge last week struck down the administration's "disparate
impact" rule, just as Obama's race bullies were trying to use it to shake
down insurers in addition to bankers. They've already extorted more than $1.1
billion from car and home lenders to settle bogus claims that disparate
outcomes for minority borrowers are proof of racism. (The whole idea of
"you have different stats for different groups means you MUST be
discriminating illegally" has been totally wrong from Day One, but it's
given some groups great ways to extort money from organizations. That some
minorities are distributed lower in economics than the general public is a
social problem, not one of deliberate racist action. And taking money from
organizations and businesses because of theoretical discrimination is just
extortion no different from the kind practiced by the Mafia. But they've gotten
away with it for years now, and thank heavens for a brave judge who'll call
this out for the illicit practice that it is. There is still hope for
correcting, one by one, the excesses and stupidities of the monster bureaucratic
government created in the last decade. We have to hope the Supremes will come
down on the side of reason and justice when this gets to them. --Del. Damn. I
was hoping to collect big bucks from the NBA and the NFL whose merit-based
hiring practices have a disparate impact on us white folks. ~Bob)
Here we go again: AG
nominee Loretta Lynch wants to free blacks from the 'Prison of Racism'
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/11/here_we_go_again_ag_nominee_loretta_lynch_wants_to_free_blacks_from_the_prison_of_racism.html#ixzz3Idhg7A7W
Excerpt: If confirmed, it looks as if Barack Obama's nominee for Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, will be carrying out Eric Holder's politics of racial vengeance. Based on her family history, social justice statements and close ties to black activists, Lynch will deploy law enforcement resources based on race and political ideology, not on the rule of law From 1994 to 1998, Lynch was a partner in Connecticut-based Ujamaa Investment Group. According to David Horowitz's Discover the Networks site, “Ujamaa” is a Swahili term signifying a commitment to the practice of “shared wealth” and a repudiation of economic inequality." (Seems to be cut from the same cloth with the same chip on the shoulder as Holder, damning everyone in the south....but that's not racist. Spreading hate and fear, not love. What is the source of hate and fear? Think about it....Barb)
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/11/here_we_go_again_ag_nominee_loretta_lynch_wants_to_free_blacks_from_the_prison_of_racism.html#ixzz3Idhg7A7W
Excerpt: If confirmed, it looks as if Barack Obama's nominee for Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, will be carrying out Eric Holder's politics of racial vengeance. Based on her family history, social justice statements and close ties to black activists, Lynch will deploy law enforcement resources based on race and political ideology, not on the rule of law From 1994 to 1998, Lynch was a partner in Connecticut-based Ujamaa Investment Group. According to David Horowitz's Discover the Networks site, “Ujamaa” is a Swahili term signifying a commitment to the practice of “shared wealth” and a repudiation of economic inequality." (Seems to be cut from the same cloth with the same chip on the shoulder as Holder, damning everyone in the south....but that's not racist. Spreading hate and fear, not love. What is the source of hate and fear? Think about it....Barb)
Scholar-Athlete Charade. By Dr. Walter Williams
Excerpt: Over two decades, more than 3,100 students enrolled
in and received credit for taking nonexistent phantom classes in the
university’s department of African and African-American studies. Nearly 50
percent of the students taking the phantom classes were athletes on the
university’s football and basketball teams. Students officially enrolled in
African and African-American studies lecture courses that never met. According
to a university-commissioned report, Deborah Crowder, the department’s
administrative assistant, required students to turn in a single paper. The
papers were often largely plagiarized or padded with fluff. The students were
given A’s or B’s after a cursory read.
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Caught on Camera:
Obamacare Architect Admits Deceiving Americans to Pass Law
Excerpt: “Lack of transparency is a huge political
advantage,” says the MIT economist who helped write Obamacare. “And basically,
call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was
really, really critical for the thing to pass.” (Well, we knew that and they
knew that, but the media will never inform the voters about that. ~Bob. Use the
link to go to a PJTV article about how ObamaCare was passed, and listen to the
words right from the horse's mouth about how complicated language and lack of
transparency and manipulating the "stupidity of the American voter"
were used to get the Bill passed. It's beautiful, just beautiful, and it'll be
so much fun asking your Liberal friends to explain how all that is honest,
decent, proper politics to serve the people. Sure it is. --Del )
Congressional Budget Office Lowers Obamacare Expectations
Once Again. By Christine
Rousselle
Excerpt: If at first you don't succeed, lower your
expectations...or something like that.
The Congressional Budget Office is apparently taking that
train of thought, as it has once again lowered the 2015 expectations for
Obamacare enrollment from 13 million to just 9.9 million, in what is
being called by CNN
Money as a "significant" drop.
Industry Succeeds
Where Obamacare Fails. By Sally Pipes
Excerpt: Walmart is about to get into the health insurance
business. The retail giant’s Sam’s Club division just announced that it would
launch a private health insurance exchange for its small-business customers.
Business owners shopping at the wholesaler will effectively be able to pick up
health insurance for their employees along with their industrial-size tubs of
mayonnaise. Sam’s Club’s chief competitor, Costco, unveiled a similar private exchange for
its members earlier this year.
Obama officials work
on health site contingency plans as enrollment nears. By Amy Goldstein
Excerpt: Behind the scenes, however, federal health
officials and government contractors are scrambling, according to confidential
documents and federal and outside experts familiar with this work. They have
been making contingency plans in case the information technology or other
aspects prove less sturdy than the administration predicts. And some
preparations are coming down to the wire.
Obamacare’s Most
Popular “Patient Protection” is Why Patients Can’t Get Paid for Saving the
System Money. By John R. Graham
Excerpt: The California Employees Retirement System
(CALPERS), in collaboration with WellPoint, Inc., introduced reference pricing
for knee and hip replacement surgery. This meant that the employer would pay a
fixed fee — and no more — to have the operations done at high-quality,
low-priced facilities. Employees who wanted to go to higher-priced facilities
paid the difference. As a result, high-priced facilities cut their
rates by one third. This started back in 2008. So, you would think that, by
now, WellPoint would have introduced reference pricing for hip and knee
replacements to all its corporate clients across the United States . No such luck. As a
result of Obamacare, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is threatening to regulate this
practice:
Undocumented Democrat News
Tech cranks up
pressure on Obama for immigration order
Excerpt: The tech industry is dialing up the pressure on
President Obama over immigration, arguing moves to free up more work visas
should be among his executive actions. TechNet, which counts many Silicon Valley companies as members, said it
respected Obama’s decision to delay the immigration moves until after the
election, but said the time for action has come.... FWD.us — the lobby
group cofounded by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg — called on supporters this week
to share their stories and contact members of Congress to urge reform.
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Must Read from 2009: Is Nature Warning Us of a New
Ice Age? By Laurence Hecht, Editor-in-chief, 21st Century Science & Technology
Excerpt: By the calculations of astronomers, the present
interglacial, which has lasted about 11,000 years, is due to end any time. Indeed
we have been in a period of long-term cooling for more than 6,000 years. The
maximum summer temperature experienced in Europe
over the last 10,000 years occurred about 6000 B.C. Over North
America , where the process of glacial retreat lagged somewhat, the
maximum was reached by about 4000 B.C. These estimates based on a vast array of
evidence from geology, botany, and many other fields are consistent with the
orbital theory of climate, for the northern hemisphere Summer would have been
occurring at a point in Earth’s orbit much nearer to the Sun than presently.
Important: World's largest
solar plant applying for federal grant to pay off federal loan. By William La Jeunesse
Excerpt: After already receiving a controversial $1.6
billion construction loan from U.S.
taxpayers, the wealthy investors of a California
solar power plant now want a $539 million federal grant to pay off their
federal loan. "This is an attempt by very large cash generating companies
that have billions on their balance sheet to get a
federal bailout, i.e. a bailout from us - the taxpayer for their pet
project," said Reason Foundation VP of Research Julian Morris. "It's
actually rather obscene." The Ivanpah solar electric generating plant is
owned by Google and renewable energy giant NRG, which are responsible for
paying off their federal loan. (Google execs and employees have been among the
most generous Obama
supporters in the corporate world, so the odds of this
application being fast-tracked to approval are looking good:
--Doug Powers. The green they want is in your wallet. Bet it gets approved. ~Bob)
Consumers Saved $248
Billion in 2013 Thanks to Fracking
Excerpt: Much has been said about the many jobs and economic
boost created by new drilling technologies, but the benefits extend far beyond
areas rich in oil and gas. According to a new study from ICF International,
American consumers saved somewhere between $63 and $248 billion thanks to
horizontal drilling and fracking technologies. The Institute for Energy
Research says these new numbers call into question the president's claim that
the country can't "drill our way to lower gas prices." According to
the study, without fracking and horizontal drilling, gasoline would have cost
between 29 cents and 94 cents more per gallon. Almost half (48 percent) of oil
and gas production in 2013 came from shale formations that required fracking
and horizontal drilling. The impact on these technologies becomes evident when
you look at oil and gas production just five years earlier, in 2008 -- then,
just 11 percent of American oil and gas production came from shale. That's a
537 percent increase. The study is more proof of fracking's positive impact on
consumers. Last year, a report from HIS Global Insight demonstrated that the
typical American household saved $1,200 in 2012, just from using techniques
like fracking and horizontal drilling. (I think it was higher. you have to add
in the energy cost of growing crops and making goods, and the cost of shipping
them to market. ~Bob)
Feds Upend
Landowner's Plans For Own Property: Challenge claims government imposing
'punitive sanctions'
Excerpt: The danger of leaving the decision unchallenged is
evident, the attorneys explain, because under the language of the Clean Water
Act, a bureaucrat could claim authority over just about any piece of land in
the nation. That point was made by Justice Samuel Alito in the Sackett
decision, who said the law’s language is unclear and it could cover “any piece
of land that is wet at least part of the year.”...Hopper said: “Because of the
Clean Water Act’s potentially limitless scope, it is imperative that the courts
safeguard a landowner’s right to challenge the erroneous application of the law
to his property. The Fifth Circuit’s failure to provide such a safeguard
established a dangerous precedent, making this case highly appropriate for
Supreme Court review.”
Religion of Peace News
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,
Islamic State leader, wounded in airstrike, reports say. Iraqi officials
confirm injuries; Pentagon quiet on his condition.
Excerpt: U.S.
and Iraqi officials were scrambling Sunday night to determine the extent of
injuries suffered by Islamic State leader Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi amid conflicting reports that the terrorist leader had
been wounded over the weekend by an airstrike in western Iraq.
important: The war over
President Obama’s new war in Iraq
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/president-obama-war-iraq-112730.html
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/president-obama-war-iraq-112730.html
Excerpt: But two months later, Obama is once again seeking
strategic clarity amid mixed results on the ground and a rising call of
complaints that he launched the war without fully committing to doing what was
necessary to win it. Even as Obama dispatched another 1,500 troops to Iraq
Friday, nearly doubling the existing force — and with a new senior general
headed to the country soon, according to a Defense Department source —
coalition allies and his own secretary of defense are warning that his war plan
needs a rethink. That problem has been compounded — according to interviews in
recent days with more than a dozen current and former administration officials,
experts and diplomats — by a lack of senior officials with deep expertise in Iraq and Syria and by a policymaking process
hounded by rivalries and unclear leadership.
Excerpt: THE ABC’s plan: confront Attorney-General George
Brandis with an audience stacked with “moderate” Muslims and make him hop. It
took precautions. It did not select extremists to ask questions — no jihadists
who’d illustrate the danger the Abbott Government is battling. Despite that,
last Monday’s Q&A backfired spectacularly. It simply confirmed
concerns that too many Muslims have a group loyalty and inflamed sense of
victimhood that made them the sea in which jihadists swim. One reason it backfired
was that Brandis was brilliant in defending the Government’s anti-terrorism
strategy. But what really undid the exercise was the audience which grabbed the
ABC’s microphone.
Excerpt: If they’re angry about the coverage they’re
getting, perhaps we should send some of our large coterie of pro-jihad
journalists over to the Islamic State. Christiane Amanpour, Spencer Ackerman,
Niraj Warikoo, Jennifer Fermino, Corinne Lestch, Bob Smietana — what a
wonderful time they would have, and we would be treated to a series of puff
pieces showing the good side of those poor, misunderstand jihadis. Then they
would put down their scimitars and show us Islam’s peaceful and tolerant side.
State Department
Spokeswoman Picks Another Fight with Israel. By Bryon Preston
Excerpt: According
to Haaretz, Gen. Martin Dempsey, U.S.
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made some helpful and conciliatory
comments toward Israel .
The nation’s top military officer lauded Israel for going to “extraordinary
lengths” to avoid civilian casualties during the latest round of fighting with
the Palestinians.
Top U.S. General Just
Defied the White House… Obama Is NOT Happy
Excerpt: The chasm between liberal political expediency and
cold, hard reality is wide enough to reduce all of the canyons west of the Mississippi to mere
potholes. However, even by the reduced expectations cultivated by the
left, the administration’s reaction to Israel’s recent campaign against Hamas-led forces in Gaza was a new low, putting a Stygian abyss
between themselves and the facts. Now, one of America ’s top generals has come out
with an unequivocal statement which puts the lie to the Obama administration’s
anti-Israel propaganda. According to Western Journalism, Gen. Martin Dempsey,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently said that “Israel went to
extraordinary lengths to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties” in
their campaign against Hamas. (General Dempsey has actually not been fighting
Mr. Obama on much of anything, which of course makes sense in general, given
who is the superior here. But coming out with this frank statement about
Israel's care in trying to avoid collateral damage when the tone of all the
other WH inputs has been far more critical, is still a bold step for him. Good
to see that he can still stand up for the truth, at least on occasion. --Del )
Retired Marine gets
threats after guarding Canadian war memorial
Excerpt: Retired Marine Maj. "Fox" Sinke says he
has received threatening phone calls from Arabic speakers since he stood guard
at Canada 's
National War Memorial last week. But as he told police: "If they're
looking for a fight, they came to the right guy."
'Her Majesty will not
shirk her duty': Queen to attend Remembrance ceremony at Cenotaph tomorrow
despite police arresting four Islamic extremists over 'plot to kill her'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2825277/Four-Islamic-terror-plot-suspects-arrested-west-London-Home-Counties.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2825277/Four-Islamic-terror-plot-suspects-arrested-west-London-Home-Counties.html
Excerpt: The Queen has vowed to attend the Remembrance Day
centenary ceremony at The Cenotaph despite police arresting four Islamist
terror suspects plotting to kill her on the day.
The 88-year-old monarch insisted she will carry on with
tradition - laying the first wreath following the two-minute silence at 11am on
November 11.
Don't Tell Erdogan
Jihadists Kill People. Burak Bekdil
Excerpt: Slightly more than a year ago, the world was
shocked at the dramatic death tolls in Kenya
and Pakistan when jihadists,
in separate attacks over one weekend, killed more than 150 innocent people --
with the Kenya
attack claiming victims aged between two and 78. In a public speech after the
"black weekend," Turkey 's
then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (now President) looked very sad.
Indeed, he was sad. But not for the victims of terror attacks the previous
weekend. He was mourning Asmaa al-Beltagi, a poor, 17-year-old Egyptian girl
who had been shot dead by security forces in Cairo as she was protesting the
ouster of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood president, Mohamed Morsi, in a July coup
d'état. Asmaa's father was a senior Brotherhood figure and after her death,
Erdogan once even shed tears during a televised speech. He then commemorated
the girl at almost every election rally.
Iran-Backed Shia
Rebels Push Forward in Yemen
Excerpt: The Iranians are the central pillar of the united
and cohesive Shia-dominated bloc which includes the Assad regime in Syria,
Hizballah in Lebanon and its allies, the government of Iraq and the Shia
militias in that country. he Saudis are now the main force seeking to stem the
Iranian advance. The anti-western Turkey-Qatar-Muslim Brotherhood alliance is
also an important element on the Sunni side.
Islam Is Britain
Excerpt: “We’re paralysed by Islam.” -Pat Condell
THE CRUSADES: A
Direct Response To Islam’s Bloodlust. By Audrey Russo
Excerpt: Most of us infidels in the West have been lied to.
Trusting the education system, foolishly, we believed all the bunk bundled into
our textbooks concerning the period in history (1096 AD -1272 AD) when the
Crusades took place…they left out an itty bitty piece of info…This will be
great for all your “enlightened” friends…
Netanyahu: Iran
Excerpt: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
reacted Sunday to threatening
statements made on Saturday by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran 's 'supreme
leader,' and said that the crisis over Iranian nuclear ambitions was at a
critical moment.... In the last year alone, there has been a deterioration in
human rights, in elimination of citizens. And now Iran expects that the powers will present
it with a surrender agreement in which Iran continues its aggression,
and it will receive nuclear weapons.
Op-Ed: 'Night of
Broken Glass' in Jerusalem Berlin
Excerpt: Seventy six years ago, within just one day, the
entire citizenry of Germany turned
against the Jews. The pogrom, known as 'The Night of Broken Glass', or
Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, saw Nazi thugs plunder
Jewish businesses throughout Germany , torch 300 synagogues and
round up about 30,000 Jewish men for deportation to
concentration camps.... The glasses are not those of Berlin ’s commercial
shops, like 76 years ago, but those of the Israeli cars smashed by Arab stones
and Israeli train stations smashed by Arab cars. (In the US , we have
POTUS and DOJ, Holder, Sharpton et al repeatedly race baiting to turn black
against white. White will be the "new Jew." Shops repeatedly looted,
people beaten on streets by gangs....and police threatened with prosecution.
--Barb)
Take A Wild Guess Why
This Basketball Player Won’t Stand for National Anthem
Excerpt: On Wednesday, before the Cavaliers’ game in Utah , those following Cleveland noticed Dion Waiters did not join
the team during the pre-game presentation, including the singing of the
national anthem. When asked by the Plain Dealer’s Chris Haynes, Waiters
attributed his absence to his religious beliefs: Waiters informed Northeast
Ohio Media Group that he is a Muslim and that he plans to excuse himself prior
to the national anthem from here on out. (Maybe he should be knocked out in an
elevator preferably by a nude woman. ~JB. He has a right not to stand. And we
have a right to be offended and to loath him. By offending Muslims is wrong.
Offending the rest of us is fine. ~Bob).
Qaradawi Calls
Muslims to Arms Against Israel
Excerpt: The Muslim Brotherhood's leading global
voice, Sheik Yusuf Qaradawi, called on Muslims Thursday to
fight "the greatest battle of liberation" against Israel and the Jews. In an Arabic
message posted on his website and translated by the Investigative Project on
Terrorism, Qaradawi called on Muslims to rise up and defend Jerusalem 's
Al-Aqsa mosque – Islam's third holiest shrine – against Israel . His
comments come amid heightened tension between Israel and the Palestinians.
A Sunni Hezbollah? By Jonathan Spyer, The Jerusalem Post
Excerpt: Jabhat al-Nusra, like the Lebanse Shi'ite
organization, is emerging as a movement that combines uncompromising jihadi
ideology with tactical flexibility. Jabhat al-Nusra, the Islamist group which
constitutes al-Qaida's "official franchise" in Syria , this week carried out a successful
offensive against Western-backed rebel militias in northern Syria . Key
areas were captured.
Send In The Marines.
by JG
Excerpt: As America
and the world watch the Global Islamic Movement rolling across Africa, and
nations like Syria , Libya , Iraq , and elsewhere, the greater
threat is here at home. As UTT has detailed continuously, the Muslim
Brotherhood’s jihadi network in America
consists of the most prominent Islamic organizations whose leaders continue to
advise the White House, the National Security Staffs, FBI, CIA, DHS, the
Pentagon, media organizations, university leaders, local school boards, and
religious organizations of every flavor. On this day, as Marines stationed across
the globe celebrate the founding of the Corps by an act of the Continental
Congress in 1775, this call goes out to all who wear the title of “U.S. Marine”
that you are needed today – you are needed in this fight. Our nation is not
only under assault from those who seek to erode our founding principles, but
also from the Islamic Movement which seeks to destroy us from within – “Civilization
Jihad” is what the enemy calls it. (I think most Marines are in the fight.
And most, following the core values of honor and courage, sign their names to
their opinions. ~Bob)
Kerry's "Real Islam:" Nigeria Nigeria
Excerpt: A suicide bomb attack killed 47 people and injured
79 others as students gathered for Monday morning assembly at their school in
north-east Nigeria,
police have said.
Christians ‘Losing Everything’ to Islam. By Raymond Ibrahim
Excerpt: In Christian-majority Uganda , matters have gone from bad
to worse to murderous. The plight of Hassan Muwanguzi, for instance, a Muslim
convert to Christianity-whose initial sacrifices are recorded in Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians (page
131)-far from abating, has only gotten worse.
http://madworldnews.com/halal-butcher-pork-muslims/
Excerpt: According to Morocco World News, the Swiss butcher reportedly sold 3.1
tons of pork to his Islamic customers, telling them it was halal and trying to
pass it off as calf meat. Upon inspection of his facility, it was discovered
that what he was selling as calf meat looked nothing like it should.
Canada: “Peaceful
teachings of Islam” event threatened by un-peaceful Muslims. By Robert Spencer,
Jihad Watch.org
Excerpt: “You’d be shocked to hear that there are students
on campus who have very extreme views. So much so, that they question whether
what ISIS is doing is right or wrong, and
don’t completely condemn their actions.” I wouldn’t be shocked at all, but I am
sure York University U.S. ,
Ahmadi spokesmen such as Qasim Rashid and Harris Zafar are eager waterboys for
the Islamic supremacist agenda, smearing foes of jihad terror and partnering
with individuals and groups who are linked to those who hate and persecute the
Ahmadiyya in Pakistan and Indonesia . But
that doesn’t win the Ahmadis any support from those Muslims who consider them
heretics. And of course, the idea of an event on how peaceful Islam is being
threatened by Muslims who disagree is a rich example of deception of the
Infidels meeting reality.
The Real Islam: Firebomb on Kosher Eatery in Paris
Excerpt: A firebomb was thrown at a kosher Jewish
restaurant in the 17th district of Paris at week's end. Several minutes
earlier, some young Muslims who walked by the restaurant threatened
the diners inside and called them “dirty Jews.” Thediners did
not react.
The Real Islam: Shocking hotel footage captures
moment girl aged 13 is lured into room to be raped by paedophile
Excerpt: The bewildered runaway has already been picked up
off the street by three other cunning
perverts who passed her from one to the other. Now the youngster is in
the hands of an evil abuser who kisses and hugs her at a hotel reception desk
before leading her willingly away to a room. But minutes after this CCTV footage was
filmed, she was held down on the bed and raped by Shakeal Rehman, 26. He then
made way for Mohahammed Shapal, 22, who also had sex with her in the same room.
Obama’s Libyan
adventure continues to bear fruit
Excerpt: The mantra that we need to train the forces of
friendly governments and, for that matter, rebel groups, may have become a
staple of every 21st century Western intervention in the Middle
East , but sometimes things just go wrong. Really wrong. A new
generation of the Libyan army was supposed to be trained in the West as part of
international efforts to rebuild the country after the ouster of Muammar
Gaddafi. Hand-picked recruits were invited to rural England for basic infantry and
junior command training. On Tuesday, however, the British Ministry of Defense
announced that all 300 trainees would be sent home early after a string of
sexual assaults were perpetrated against the residents of Cambridgeshire,
culminating in the alleged gang rape of a young man.
Excerpt: Ayatollah Khamenei is a man who has been leading
the massive chants of “Death to Israel ” (and the Jews) literally
every day since 1979. Only a true anti-Semite could attempt to make a secret
deal with such a person. Indeed, someone who would want to make a deal with
Khamenei has about as much respect for human rights in general as Torquemada. That
person would have to be an unmitigated liar and sociopath.
*****
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
http://tiny.cc/g02s4 For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at
tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s eleven books are listed here: http://tinyurl.com/o4nu65u. His blog of
political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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