Update
Sainsbury's Christmas
advert... don't forget your tissues!
Based on the 1914 Christmas truce. Controversial in the UK . ~Bob
Book Recommendation: The Passing of Armies: An Account of The
Final Campaign of The Army of The Potomac .
By Joshua Chamberlain
A book I'm currently reading has a section on Chamberlain,
reminding me of this wonderful book I read a while back. History buffs will
know Chamberlain as the CO of the 20th Maine ,
who held Little round Top on the left of the union line the second day at Gettysburg . He finished
the war as a Major General, and was selected by Grant to receive the
Confederate surrender at Appomattox .
His order to his troops to render a salute to the surrendering rebels is
credited with starting the healing process. This book is a fine account of the
end of the war. But it is worth reading to savor Chamberlain's use of the
English language. reading it, I felt like an uneducated bumpkin (no comment,
please, unless you can write like this). I recommend this both for the
interesting history and the writing by a great American. ~Bob
General News and Comment
New comment received on
The Coming Collapse of the American
Republic
Started reading and ended up powering through it all this
morning. You did a nice job of organizing and cataloging things. It makes a
great primer for the uninitiated and a solid reference work for those who are
already aware of the problems. Nice job. I have read most of the books on your
recommended list and quite a few more, of course. I trade the Russell 2000
futures markets for a living and am pretty well dialed into the Fed's
shenanigans and the USG's market manipulations. As a 60+ year old conservative
who grew up in Palo Alto , CA Arkansas ,
and Dan Sullivan in Alaska ).
My 96 year-old mother still lives in her original house and loves it. I can't
leave CA as long as she is still here, but am likely headed for Texas when I can. I have
followed many of your recommendations and will be pretty self-reliant and
well-armed should troubles come. I will get around to an Amazon review before
long. Good luck with your health struggles. I'll say a rosary for you even
though you're not a Catholic ;-) --Paul
Almost half of the 114th Congress has been elected since
2010. By Aaron Blake
Excerpt: You can say a lot of things about the U.S.
Congress. One thing you can't really say, though, is that they've been in Washington way too long.
Come January, nearly half of Congress (48.8 percent) will have been in office
for four years or less -- i.e. elected in 2010 or later. That includes 49.7
percent of the House and 45 percent of the Senate -- assuming GOP Rep. Bill
Cassidy defeats Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu in the Louisiana runoff Dec. 6.
30,000 ‘Missing’
Emails From IRS’ Lerner Recovered
Excerpt: Up to 30,000 missing emails sent by former
Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner have been recovered by the IRS
inspector general, five months after they were deemed lost forever. (Will make
interesting reading. If we really have them. Usually Chicago pols are better at disappearing
evidence. ~Bob)
Tweet from Walter Cronkite @CronkiteSays (Parody
account)
Upon hearing Lois Lerner's 30,000 missing email had been
recovered, Obama demanded they be turned over to Eric Holder for safekeeping.
Entire county board
arrested following citizens arrest by 2 military veterans
Excerpt: Clark
County , Illinois Clark County , Illinois
Only ‘Rudimentary Monitoring’ of Many High-Threat U.S. Volcanoes:
Can take “a good 20 years” under the current budget for USGS to update
instruments at one volcano.
Excerpt: An expert volcanologist and geochemist told
Congress this week that efforts to predict potential volcanic eruptions are
being hampered by outdated equipment and lack of funding. The United States
Geological Survey’s (USGS) Volcano Hazards Program has designated 55 volcanoes
in the U.S.
as serious threats. Of these volcanoes, 18 are deemed “very high threats”
because an eruption occurring at any of these could cause significant air
travel disruptions and threaten people’s lives. (Rumor has it the Elite are
purposely understating/reporting the strengths of earthquakes that monitor
volcanoes, making equipment less sensitive; so, when the s$%t hits the fan, it
will be too late for John Q. Public, while they are all tucked safely in their
1-5 million dollar missile silo condos with air filtration systems. Think
planet change versus "climate change." --Barb. "Never
attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." ~Bob)
A Name On The Wall:
Football player Bob Kalsu was the only U.S. pro athlete to die in Vietnam
A lot of pro athletes served and some died in WWII. Giants
lost a running back on Iwo .
By the current wars, Pat Tillman was vilified for serving. Thus nations die.
~Bob
Rich donors corrupting politics: Wealthy leftists
help unions bankroll ‘progressive’ groups. By Jason Hart
Excerpt: Committee on States, a project of the secretive
Democracy Alliance, is helping labor unions and leftist millionaires
coordinate advocacy for big government in 20 states.
Working with union coalition AFL-CIO and its
public-sector affiliate American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Employees as “institutional partners,” COS has steered over $45 million into
state-based “progressive” organizations since 2013,according to internal documents obtained by The Washington Free
Beacon.
Gun News
Tweet from Gun Shots @Gun_Shots
The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman
and a slave. - James Burgh, 1774
Fifth Grader
Suspended For Making Gun With Fingers
Excerpt: Another little boy has gotten in trouble at school
for having something that primitively, comically represents a gun but isn’t
actually anything like a real gun. This time, the student is Nickolas Taylor, a
fifth grader at Stacy Middle School in the distant Boston
suburb of Milford .
(The idiots are in charge of educating the kids. ~Bob)
Florida shootout
leaves deputy, gunman dead
Excerpt: A man set his house on fire and then started
shooting at responding police officers and firefighters Saturday, killing a
deputy and wounding another one before he was shot to death by law enforcement,
authorities said.
Race Card News
Two New Black Panther
Members Arrested with Explosives Near Ferguson
Excerpt: The FBI arrested members on Thursday on
outstanding warrants, they're "accused of purchasing explosives they
apparently planned to use during protests in Ferguson ,
Missouri , a
law enforcement source told CBS News." (The New Black Panther Party, AKA
"Holder's Irregulars." ~Bob)
Excerpt: "I was following developments of a 5-year-old
little girl who was sitting on her dad’s lap and just got shot in the head by a
drive by shooting and if some of the people here gave a good god damn about the
victimization of people in his community by crime, I’d take some of their
invective more seriously," Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn told
reporters. "80% of my homicide victims every year are African American.
80% of our aggravated assault victims are African American. 80% of our shooting
victims who survive their shootings are African American. Now they know all
about the last three people killed by the Milwaukee Police Department over the
course of the last several years. There's not one of them can name one of the
last three homicide victims we've had in this city," Flynn said.
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Worth Reading
Excerpt: It should come as no surprise to Townhall readers
that the new Republican congress has no plan to deal intelligently with
Obamacare. That’s unfortunate. The worst thing that can happen over the next
two years is for president Obama to appear to take the high road – insuring the
uninsured and fighting the mean insurance companies – while Republicans rail
about the small and trivial parts of health reform. And the worst thing that
can happen is the very thing that is about to happen. So here is some
unsolicited advice.
Post-Obamacare Reform
That Works for Workers and Employers. By John Graham
Excerpt: Judging by the midterm election results, the
American public hasn’t forgotten President Obama’s broken promise that “if you
like your health plan you can keep your health plan.” The good news for
healthcare is that the fallout has disrupted the political status quo so much
that a partially patient-centered healthcare reform may be possible soon after
the president leaves office. Even partial reform could bring welcomed relief to
millions who lost their health plans.
Health Care Law
Recasts Insurers as Obama Allies. By Robert Pear
Excerpt: As Americans shop in the health
insurance marketplace for a second year, President Obama is
depending more than ever on the insurance companies that five years ago he
accused of padding profits and canceling coverage for the sick. ... But since
the Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010, the relationship between the Obama
administration and insurers has evolved into a powerful, mutually beneficial
partnership that has been a boon to the nation’s largest private health plans
and led to a profitable surge in their Medicaid enrollment.
(Isn't this interesting? This is from the New York Times, the all-time media
supporter of ObamaCare, but they have discovered that now there's collusion
between the insurance companies and the program, and the insurance companies
will be making MORE money under the system than before! I'm pretty sure that
was not among the things that were supposed to happen, it was the American
people who were going to be better off all around, not the insurance companies.
Funny how things work out. --Del )
Tweet from PatriotinMD @PatriotinMD
We were paying $867/mo for health ins. Just got notice that
as of January, our rate is going up to $996/mo for family of five.
Obamacare’s Jonathan
Gruber fired by second state — North Carolina
Undocumented Democrat News
New DHS immigration
rules: Drunk drivers, sex abusers, drug dealers, gun offenders not top
deportation priorities
Excerpt: The new priorities are striking. On the tough side,
the president wants U.S.
immigration authorities to go after terrorists, felons, and new illegal border
crossers. On the not-so-tough side, the administration views convicted drunk
drivers, sex abusers, drug dealers, and gun offenders as second-level
enforcement priorities. An illegal immigrant could spend up to a year in prison
for a violent crime and still not be a top removal priority for the Obama
administration.
Tweet from Razor @hale_razor
"Republicans oppose my order to legalize immigrants who
mow lawns, make beds, and clean out bedpans because the GOP stereotypes
Mexicans."
http://www.westernjournalism.com/washington-post-fact-checker-gives-obama-upside-pinocchio-immigration-flip-flop/
Excerpt: Yet even The Washington Post editorial board is
skeptical of Obama’s actions: “Mr. Obama may find a constitutional way to
rewrite the nation’s immigration laws. But in his frustration with democracy,
he is likely to prove his point: Unilateralism will not make the system work.”
So much for Obama’s pledge to work with Congress on immigration reform: ... “Previously
he said that was not possible, using evocative language that he is not a ‘king’
or ‘the emperor.’ Apparently he’s changed his mind. The president earns an
upside-down Pinocchio for his flip-flop.”
Excerpt: Finally, the first biting political spoof
from Saturday Night Live in a while: the Bill from Schoolhouse Rock
explains to a student how he becomes a law, only to be violently beat up by
Barack Obama and his new best friend, “Executive Order.” Even then, the poor
Executive Order still thinks he’s used for simple things, like declaring
holidays and creating national parks, until Obama informs him that he’s going
to be used to grant amnesty to 5 million undocumented immigrants. His reaction:
“Whoa.”
'Whoa... go hard or
go home, right?': SNL takes aim at Obama's executive order that vetoed Congress
to grant amnesty to five million immigrants
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2845795/Go-hard-home-right-SNL-takes-aim-Obama-s-executive-order-vetoed-Congress-grant-amnesty-five-million-immigrants.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2845795/Go-hard-home-right-SNL-takes-aim-Obama-s-executive-order-vetoed-Congress-grant-amnesty-five-million-immigrants.html
Excerpt: President Barack Obama has received the SNL
treatment with a sketch that took aim at his executive order vetoing Congress
to secure the protection of at least five million immigrants from deportation. The
Bill from the educational series Schoolhouse Rock! arrives at Capitol Hill to
explain to a student the route he makes through Congress. But the lesson is
disrupted by a calm, collected and smiling Obama who kicks him down the steps -
before introducing a very laid back Executive Order.
Major Newspaper Pulls
Cartoon Critical of Obama’s Immigration Reform After Many Call It ‘Racist’
Excerpt: After the Indianapolis Star published a political
cartoon on Friday that was decidedly against President Barack Obama’s
executive action on immigration reform, the paper’s executive editor Jeff
Taylor said many readers were offended and called it “racist.”(What isn't "racist"
according to the libs? --JB)
Excerpt: They chose the United States , embracing the unique
kind of freedom that flourishes here precisely because of the Constitution that
has remained, until now, the foundation of communal life. Some argue—as
President Barack Obama often does—that the process of political action does not
matter, only the result. ...That is when illegality can become the law.
Religion of Peace News
The Consequences
of Misunderstanding the Middle East: The Obama administration is
conducting a "policy review" on what to do about Syria and Iraq
Excerpt: But in reality, trying to get getting rid of Assad
right now will almost certainly make the situation in Syria worse, boosting
IS's standing and recruitment capacity while embroiling Washington in further
battles with Iran and Russia that it can't possibly win. Such a shift would
also reflect the fact that some of U.S. President Barack Obama's advisors have
learned very little about the Middle East
these past several years and almost nothing about the consequences of their own
actions. The fact is that the Obama administration has consistently
overestimated the receptivity of this region to positive change as well as their
own capacity to do much about it. Being on the right side of history doesn't
always mean you're on the smart or winning side. (What an horrendous mess the Middle East is. It seems the choices we have there are to
not act, and lose, or act one way, and lose, or act any other way, and lose. Is
there ANY way we can act there that is less likely to have major negative
consequences and more likely to have at least some positive ones? I sure don't
know, although part of me says if we could somehow really bring to bear the
power to destroy ISIS, or at least hurt them so badly that they dropped back to
a small enclave in Syria, that would be a good thing, both in itself and in
getting the rest of the world to accord us just a small bit of respect for our
abilities. --Del )
Radwan Taleb
Al-Hamdouni Dead: Senior Islamic State Figure Reportedly Killed In Mosul
Excerpt: An Islamic State leader has been killed in an air
strike in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul ,
residents and a local medical source said on Thursday. Radwan Taleb al-Hamdouni,
whom the sources described as the radical militant group's leader in Mosul , was killed with
his driver when their car was hit in a western district of the city on
Wednesday afternoon.
The United States has no good options on Syria
Excerpt: It should come as no surprise that the Obama
administration continues to wrestle with its approach to Syria . There
are no good options in a war that has claimed
200,000 lives and displaced nearly 10 million people. The
president is right to say that there
are no magic solutions, yet he also clearly understands that avoidance is
not an alternative if we are to achieve his declared objective of degrading
and eventually destroying the Islamic State. Leaving the terrorist
group with a haven in Syria
ensures it both an ability to wreak havoc in Iraq and an operational space from
which to plan, recruit and, in time, carry out attacks worldwide. (Obama should
read my blog. as I've been saying for years, THERE ARE NO GOOD GUYS IN SYRIA!.
You might want to write that down. ~Bob)
Iraqi forces,
Iranian-supported militias report success in Baiji
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/11/iraqi_forces_shiite.php#ixzz3JoGbNLak
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/11/iraqi_forces_shiite.php#ixzz3JoGbNLak
Excerpt: The Iraqi military and Iranian-backed Shiite
militias are reported to have liberated the central city of Baiji from the
Islamic State and are close to breaking the siege on the nearby oil refinery.
The Shiite militias, which are heavily supported by Iran 's Qods Force, are playing a
key role in recent gains against the Islamic State. US airpower has supported the
militias and Iraqi government forces. ... Asaib al Haq, or the League of the
Righteous, a Shiite militia that is responsible for killing hundreds of US
soldiers in Iraq
between 2006-2011, is known to be fighting in Baiji.
Ex-Gitmo 'poet' now recruiting for the Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Ex-Gitmo 'poet' now recruiting for the Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Excerpt: An ex-Guantanamo detainee based in northern Pakistan is leading an effort to recruit
jihadists for the Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that controls large
portions of Iraq and Syria . Abdul
Rahim Muslim Dost, who was detained at Guantanamo
for three years, has sworn allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al
Baghdadi. Dost's oath of allegiance was issued on July 1, just two days
after Baghdadi named himself "Caliph Ibrahim I" and declared that his
Islamic State was now a "caliphate."
Muslim Man arrested, accused of slashing man after
heated religious conversation
Excerpt: Upon their arrival, officers learned the victim,
Jerome Bullock and 54-year-old Jimmy Stepney had been arguing about the Bible
and the Quran. According to the arrest affidavit, Stepney is a Muslim and the
Bullock is a Christian. The report went on to say Stepney had been making
comments about beheading people. "We were watching the news," said
Bullock. "He said he felt like more
Muslims need to step up to the plate and do certain thing. He was talking about
beheading people." ("Certitude leads to violence." --Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~Bob)
Islamic State
jihadi tells Muslims in France to attack non-Muslims: “Kill them and spit in
their faces and run over them with your cars.” By Robert Spencer
Islamists are just Nazis in nightgowns....~Bob
Deemed 'too Western'
teenager beaten by family
Excerpt: A 15-year-old girl who was viciously beaten up by
her family and locked in a bathroom because she was "too Western" has
been entrusted to the social services after hospital treatment. (Here's a tip
for Muslims. If you don't want your children to become "Westernized,"
don't live in a western country. No need to kill your kids for the family's
"honor." Just move to a Muslim majority country before they are about
six. There are many where some version of Shari'a Law and their views of
"True Islam" are written into law--and enforced without mercy. Find
one you like. ~Bob
Important Discussion: Should Presidents Call Islam a
'Religion of Peace?' Two George W. Bush Officials Debate
Excerpt: "For American government officials to be
telling Muslims, 'I know real Islam' ... is ridiculous," he added.
"... It would be an outrage about Judaism and Christianity as well. ...
For government officials who are 99 percent Christians to be trying to find
what is authentic in Islam seems to me to be a fool's errand." ... When
presidents say Islam is a religion of peace, "the average American thinks
this is crap," he said, because the average American reasons
that "the only people doing the beheadings are Muslims, so don't tell me
it's all wonderful." (Government officials who say this don't really
believe it, but are trying to keep the Muslim masses quiet. It's not working.
~Bob)
The Real Islam: ‘One by One They Were Shot in the
Head’: Islamist Hijackers Use a Simple Test to Find — and Kill — Non-Muslims
Excerpt: Suspected Islamic extremists from Somalia hijacked a bus in Kenya ’s north
and killed 28 non-Muslims on board after they had been singled out from the
rest of the passengers, police officials said Saturday. One passenger said the
hijackers used a disturbing, simple test to identify who they would kill:
knowledge of the Koran.
Excerpt: More of the Obama administration’s supposed “moderate”
jihadist rebels this month defected to al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch known as Jabhat
al-Nusra, which was also reportedly working with the self-styled “Islamic
State.” Obama’s “moderate” rebels, armed and trained by U.S. taxpayers under
the guise of fighting less-moderate ISIS jihadists (whom Vice President Joe
Biden admitted
were actually armed and funded by Obama’s “anti-ISIS” coalition),
reportedly took their heavy American weapons with them. Eventually, those
U.S.-supplied weapons are likely to be used against Western interests and
citizens, analysts said.
Excerpt: “He was always trying to convert me, (saying) ‘You
should read the Qur’an, bro,’ ” Banek said. When asked if he would be happy
with world peace but no religion, Zehaf-Bibeau told Banek, “No, there can’t be
world peace until there’s only Muslims.”
Director of US-funded UN school calls synagogue jihad murders “wonderful.” By Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.org
Excerpt: Your tax dollars at work. Tom Gross notes that a UNRWA report “reveals that the
girls’ branch of the Zaitoun Elementary School was ‘completed in 2012 … with
funding from the United
States of America .'” If the UN were anything
like what it claims to be, it would fire Naief Al-Hattab immediately. And if
the U.S. had a sane
administration, Zaitoun Elementary School and others like it wouldn’t get a
penny more funding from the U.S.
But Naief Al-Hattab is actually one of many UN teachers who openly express
genocidal Islamic Jew-hatred
The Real Islam: Suicide bomber kills 45 at Afghanistan
Excerpt: At least 45 people were killed and 60 others
wounded Sunday when a suicide bomber attacked a crowd watching a volleyball
match in the Yahyakhil district of Afghanistan's southeastern Paktika province,
according to a spokesman for the provincial governor.
*****
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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