Update
Posting again today, as there is election news you might
want to share. Get out and vote Tuesday. ~Bob
General News and Comment
KY: McConnell takes lead and momentum
Excerpt: The poll found that 48 percent of likely voters
plan to vote for McConnell while just 43 percent plan to back Grimes. Three
percent said they are voting for Libertarian David Patterson and 6 percent said
they haven't made up their minds. While the results are within the poll's
margin of error of 4.1 percentage points, McConnell's lead shows that he has
the momentum in the race's waning days. Grimes, meanwhile has gone from being 2
percentage points ahead in the poll to 5 behind.
So the desperation "Hail Mary" happens: Mitch
McConnell’s sick new low: New mailers expose the GOPer’s shameless voter
suppression tactics
Excerpt: Mailed in envelopes that blare “ELECTION VIOLATION
NOTICE” and state “You are at risk of acting on fraudulent information,” the
Kentucky Republican Party issued a letter that accuses Grimes of “blatant lies”
about McConnell’s advocacy for a local coal plant and his support from
“anti-coal activists like Michael Bloomberg.” The letter also takes Grimes to
task for her support among “anti-coal and anti-gun” Hollywood
celebrities and accuses her of hypocrisy in her call for an increased minimum
wage because a restaurant owned by her family pays employees less than the
minimum. (Gee, you can tell from the headline that Salon is an unbiased,
straightforward journalism site. Of course, last minute charges that won't be
ruled upon until after the votes are counted are nothing new, for either party.
There's even a report being circulated that 40kg Of Cocaine
Found On Mitch McConnell’s Father-In-Law’s Boat. Sounds bad, right? But the "boat" is one of
several ships owned by the guy's company. No indication that the father-in-law
is really involved, never mind McConnell himself, but the headline names
McConnell. More likely to be the ship captain or a couple of crew members.
Typical left wing smear. (http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/10/31/mcconnell-cocaine/)
~Bob)
Tweet from Josh Jordan @NumbersMuncher
PPP has McConnell up 8 in Kentucky
and Cotton up 8 in Arkansas .
Both of those races have fallen out of reach for Dems in recent weeks.
McConnell-Grimes
outcome could decide whether Kentucky
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/kentucky-labor-unions-112385.html#.VFVvCd7Xbos.twitter
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/kentucky-labor-unions-112385.html#.VFVvCd7Xbos.twitter
Excerpt: All eyes will be on Kentucky Tuesday as Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell faces a serious challenge from Democrat Alison Lundergan
Grimes. But beneath that marquee matchup lies a fierce battle between labor
unions and anti-union groups over whether Kentucky , long a rare pro-union outpost in
the anti-union South, becomes a right-to-work state.
Excerpt: The New York State Democratic Committee is bullying
people into voting next week with intimidating letters warning that it can
easily find out which slackers fail to cast a ballot next Tuesday. “Who you
vote for is your secret. But whether or not you vote is public record,” the
letter says. “We will be reviewing voting records . . . to determine whether
you joined your neighbors who voted in 2014.”
Krauthammer:
Race-Baiting By Dems What Happens When You ‘Don’t Have Any Arguments’ [VIDEO]
Excerpt: Krauthammer: Well, the desperation and the ad
hominems come into play when you don’t have any arguments. the 2010 election,
the shellacking the Democrats took was about ideology. It was about liberal
overreach–the stimulus, Obamacare, over-taxation, over-regulation, and we know
what the result was. that set off this counterreaction called the Tea Party.
And what we’re seeing now six years later is an election that’s not only about
ideology. It is a rejection of hyper-liberalism, but there’s now an overlay of
sheer incompetence.
Tweet From Mike Beacham @Mike_Beacham
11 STATES W/ MORE PEOPLE ON WELFARE THAN EMPLOYED!!!!
Excerpt: Joni Ernst has charged to achieve a 7-point lead
over Democrat Bruce Braley in a new Iowa Poll, which buoys the GOP's hope that an
Iowa victory
will be the tipping point to a Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate. Ernst, a
state senator and military leader, enjoys 51 percent support among likely
voters.
GOP likely to win in
AR and KY, Louisiana
Excerpt: PPP's final polls in Arkansas
and Kentucky
find Republicans in a strong position to win the Senate seats in those states
on Tuesday, but the Louisiana Senate race still has the potential to be pretty
competitive. ... In Arkansas ,
we find Republicans leading the races for Governor and the Senate by 8-10
points. Tom Cotton is up 49/41 on Mark Pryor, and Asa Hutchinson is up 51/41 on
Mike Ross. (Think PPP is leftist polling group. ~Bob)
Excerpt: "Politics have no relations to
morals"...Machiavelli. "I tried pot but I didn't inhale"...Bill
Clinton. "I did not have sex with that woman"...Bill Clinton.
"You'll have to define what sex is"...Bill Clinton.
Excerpt: News is piling up right now about crunch time for
the Iran nuclear talks; ISIS, Ebola, Russian warplanes buzzing NATO, and
upheaval in Burkina Faso (where this week protesters set fire to the
Ouagadougou parliament, the longtime president tweeted his resignation and fled
the country, the military stepped in, and fallout of the upheaval may entail
problems for U.S. anti-terror operations in West Africa). What next? Call me
impulsive, but I had a twitch today that amid these crises, it’s about time
for North Korea to
throw its hat into the ring — with its next nuclear test.
Connecticut Governor:
Malloy (D) 48%, Foley (R) 47%
Excerpt: Does Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy have a chance
to keep his job after all?
The final Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of
Likely Connecticut Voters finds Malloy picking up 48% of the vote to Republican
Tom Foley’s 47%.
Iowa Governor: Branstad
(R) 55%, Hatch (D) 37%
Excerpt: Iowa Republican Governor Terry Branstad looks
comfortably on his way to reelection next Tuesday.
Legal teams brace for election battles. By Alexandra Jaffe
Excerpt: Candidates from Alaska
to Iowa are
preparing legal teams in case tight election battles go into overtime,
potentially prolonging the battle for Senate control indefinitely.
New voting laws in some states, razor-thin margins in others
and high stakes nationwide have increased the likelihood of recounts and
challenges that could drag on for weeks or even months.
Excerpt: While outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder
continues to fend off responsibility for the law enforcement snafu known as
Operation Fast and Furious, documents obtained through a judge’s order reveal
that not only did Holder know about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives (ATF), but he discussed it via email with his physician spouse,
Sharon Malone, however President Barack Obama is granting those emails to be
withheld based on an “executive privilege” claim.
Excerpt: The first case of voter fraud in New Mexico this election has been confirmed
by the Rio Arriba County Clerk's Office. According to the Rio Arriba County
Clerk's office, a voter trying to cast an early ballot in Espanola Saturday was
told he had already voted three days prior.
The man told poll workers he hadn't voted. He was then shown
the signature of the voter, but he says it wasn't his signature.
62p AN HOUR: What
women sleeping 16 to a room get paid to make Ed and Harriet's £45 'This Is What
A Feminist Looks Like' T-shirts
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2817191/62p-HOUR-s-women-sleeping-16-room-paid-make-Ed-Harriet-s-45-Feminist-Looks-Like-T-shirts.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2817191/62p-HOUR-s-women-sleeping-16-room-paid-make-Ed-Harriet-s-45-Feminist-Looks-Like-T-shirts.html
Excerpt: Feminist T-shirts proudly worn by Ed Miliband, Nick
Clegg and Harriet Harman are made in ‘sweatshop’ conditions by migrant women
paid just 62p an hour, a Mail on Sunday investigation has revealed. The women
machinists on the Indian Ocean island
of Mauritius
Guns
Open-Carry Advocate
Targeted In 'Swatting'
Excerpt: He said yes when an officer asked if he could
remove a handgun from a holster Dickens was wearing. He gave the same answer
when the officer asked to take temporary custody of a pocketknife he had in his
pocket. In the end, he’s thankful he’s still alive after an up-close and
personal encounter with “swatting,’ the practice of making a false report of an
on-going critical incident to prompt an emergency response.
Tweet from Gun
Shots @Gun_Shots
The medical cost of gun violence is only 0.16% of America ’s
annual health care expenditures.
Accidental Gun Deaths
At All Time Low
Excerpt: Unintentional Firearms Fatalities Remain at
Historically Low Levels Data released by the National Safety Council
demonstrates that unintentional firearms-related fatalities continue to remain
at historically low levels.
Senate Flip Key to Securing Gun Rights. By David Codrea
Excerpt: The elections are almost upon us, and activist gun
owners are looking at the possibility of fundamentally transforming the
composition of the U.S. Senate by switching the majority party to the
Republicans. While support by individual GOP incumbents and candidates at times
runs counter to the interests of Second Amendment advocates, there is no
question that, as a whole, the Democrats, with a central
component in their platform calling for “strengthening our background
check system [and] commonsense improvements—like reinstating the assault
weapons ban and closing the gun show loophole,” is the party of “gun control.”
Ebola and Enterovirus News
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2816826/Reunion-Dallas-nurse-survived-Ebola-dog.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus
Excerpt: A Dallas
nurse who recovered from Ebola has been reunited with her dog Bentley, who has
spent 21 days in quarantine. The King Charles Cavalier spaniel has undergone
twice-daily check-ups by vets in hazmat suits at a secret naval base while his
owner, Nina Pham, was treated for the deadly virus. (Both cute. Glad they are
okay. ~Bob)
Race Card News
Maybe Racist? Black Power: A Done Deal. By Fred Reed
Excerpt: As I write America
waits, again, to see whether blacks will riot, this time in Ferguson . Will they loot, burn, kill, and
rape? The usual? The police in Ferguson
prepare to protect stores from looters, as rioters seem to regard their
insurrections as shopping opportunities. Will it come, we wonder tensely? Will
the destruction get out of hand, spread to other cities? (Liberals, centrists
and many conservatives will find this piece racist. I know too many decent
black folks, including some fine Marines like my late Drill Instructor, Gunnery
Sergeant Ezekiel Owens, Jr. (Ret) to put people in groups like this. But some
of the points he makes should be considered and discussed. ~Bob)
MSNBC admits not
showing viral catcall video because only black men were in clip
Excerpt: MSNBC’s Chris Hayes had no problem admitting
to his audience that his network chose not to play the recent
mega-viral video of a woman getting catcalls throughout New York City
because she was white and the men bothering her in the chosen sample clip were
black. (Race trumps gender rights. ~Bob)
Tweet from Judianna @Judianna
.....she obviously didn't steal English or spelling from any
school she went to.
Black Grandmother
Calls C-SPAN to Explain Why She Voted ‘Straight Republican’
Excerpt: Recently on C-SPAN, a woman describing herself as a
“black senior-citizen grandmother” called in to let the nation know why she
just voted “straight
Republican,” including miserable economic conditions in the black
community, the Democratic Party’s advocacy of abortion, and its mishandling of
welfare:
Teen Dies Speeding
Away From Police In Stolen Car and Her Mother Says Police ‘Killed My Baby’
Bad parenting killed your baby. ~Bob
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Obamacare Covers
Foreign Diplomats
Excerpt: Two House committees are demanding answers after
learning that the Affordable Care Act makes foreign diplomats eligible for
health care subsidies. Obamacare has a loophole that allows foreign diplomats
to receive healthcare subsidies, the House
Ways and Means and Foreign Affairs Committees
revealed Wednesday as they announced a joint investigation.
Excerpt: WRTV reports that around 30,000 are going to lose
their health care plans due to Obamacare in Indiana :
Undocumented Democrat News
Mexico police
questioned in killing of 3 Americans
Excerpt: Authorities were investigating on Friday a possible
police connection to the killing of three U.S. citizens visiting their father
in Mexico who
were found shot to death along with a Mexican friend more than two weeks after
going missing.
"You're Greener than Gore" News
UN climate report
offers stark warnings, hope
Excerpt: Pointing to the solution, the IPCC said the costs
associated with mitigation action such as shifting the energy system to solar
and wind power and other renewable sources and improving energy
efficiency would reduce economic growth only by 0.06 percent
annually. And Pachauri said that cost should be measured against the
implications of doing nothing, putting "all species that live on this
planet" at peril. The report is meant as a scientific roadmap for the U.N.
climate negotiations, which continue next month in Lima , Peru Paris in
2015 to adopt "global plan." Solar is frying birds. Wind turbines
chop up birds, eagles bats, insect eaters, leading to overgrowth of insects,
spreading of diseases that would be controlled by predators. UN and ilk trying
to play gods with our world.... manipulating the jet streams....There is a
price for their unregulated experimentation. --Barb)
Religion of Peace News
Interesting: Obama Administration: To Defeat ISIS , We Must Highlight ‘Our Profound Respect’ for Islam
Excerpt: Obama says the Islamic State “is
not Islamic.” Obama says Islam
is peace. His Secretary of State insists that Islamic jihad “exploits
a legitimate and beautiful religion.” President Obama, are these Islamic
groups also exploiting a “legitimate and beautiful religion,” while they invoke
the quran and Islamic texts and teachings myriad times daily?: Hamas,
Hezb’allah, Boko Haram, the Muslim Brotherhood and these other designated
Islamic terrorist organizations: (Includes a LONG list of Muslim organizations
designated by us as terrorists, all of whom invoke the Qur'an and Hadith,
chapter and verse, to justify their depredations. ~Bob)
Worth Reading : A
halfhearted U.S. war effort
in the Middle East . By Andrew J. Bacevich
Excerpt: A common thread connects U.S. military operations of the
last 20 or more years: We've persistently tried to fight them on the cheap. In
gauging the requirements of a prospective campaign, “What do we need to win?”
has repeatedly taken a back seat to “What's the minimum we can get by with?” The
ongoing air campaign against Islamic State illustrates the point. Having
declared that this new threat must be destroyed, the Obama administration
refuses to provide the forces needed to do just that. (Bacevich is not always
my favorite military writer, he has occasionally said not so bright things
about Viet Nam ,
but this time he has hit one out of the park. No damn half measures, don't send
our people into danger unless you are reading and willing to do whatever it's
going to take to really do the job right and get it over with. That is what
makes sacrifice worthwhile, and incidentally, gets us the respect needed for us
to function well as a force for good in the world. Wasting billions but more
importantly, lives has not worked at all for us for a long time now, what does
it take for our leaders to figure out we have to do things differently? --Del )
Islamic State
captures large swaths of Shaer gas field in Homs
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2014/11/islamic_state_captures_large_s.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2014/11/islamic_state_captures_large_s.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Excerpt: The Islamic State has released pictures showing its
capture of large parts of the al Shaer gas field in the eastern part of Homs province, Syria . The field is due east of the
ancient city of Palmyra .
The photos were disseminated on Twitter by the jihadist group's supporters
after being posted elsewhere online. The Islamic State has taken to releasing
its propaganda this way after the social media site began to crack down on its
official accounts.
Team Obama
Inadvertently Takes ‘Credit’ for Ensuring Iran
Excerpt: Much has already been written about Jeffrey
Goldberg’s piece this week in The Atlantic, where two senior
Obama administration officials deride Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi”
Netanyahu as “chickensh*t.” Most pundits have focused on the juvenile
name-calling, but the importance of that is dwarfed by a devastating admission
that was inadvertently made by one of those officials: Thanks to the Obama
administration’s pressure on Israel ,
it is now too late to prevent Iran
from going nuclear. (Official credits "our pressure" for
stopping Israel .
So, Iran goes
nuclear along with N. Korea and what happens to the security of the United States ?
What's it matter? --Barb)
Fanatics sink to a
new low: Shocking photograph shows ISIS
supporter getting a BABY to kick the severed head of a Syrian soldier
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2816766/WARNING-GRAPHIC-CONTENT-Shocking-ISIS-photos-shows-toddler-kicking-severed-head-crucifixion-ex-regime-policeman-Syria.html#ixzz3HpXElo1C
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2816766/WARNING-GRAPHIC-CONTENT-Shocking-ISIS-photos-shows-toddler-kicking-severed-head-crucifixion-ex-regime-policeman-Syria.html#ixzz3HpXElo1C
Excerpt: A sickening photo has emerged social media showing
a toddler kicking the severed head of a dead soldier in Syria . The
toddler's father is believed to be an avid Islamic State supporter and is
wearing a camouflage military style baseball cap on his head. (These fellows
are starting to annoy me. As my tee shirt says, 'Some people just need killing.
That's why we have Marines." ~Bob)
Excerpt: Raif Badawi was arrested in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia )
in June 2012. On July 29, 2013 after he was convicted under Saudi Arabia ’s
Anti-Cybercrime Law of “founding a liberal website,” “adopting liberal thought”
and for “insulting Islam”, he was sentenced to 600 lashes and seven years
and three months in prison. He is now facing 10 years in prison, 1,000
lashes and a fine of 1 million Saudi riyals.
U.S. readying plan to send advisers to Iraqis fighting ISIS in Anbar
Excerpt: Pentagon officials are readying a plan that would
deploy U.S. military
advisers to the volatile Iraqi province
of Anbar to advise and assist Iraqi
security forces in a region currently dominated by ISIS
militants.
English translation
of clip showing ISIS fighters discussing
"buying and selling Yezidi slaves"
The Jihadi Connection
between Sinai, Gaza
Excerpt: What kind of relations do the jihadists of northern
Sinai and Gaza
have with Islamic State, and with Hamas? Egyptian President Abdel Fattah
al-Sisi declared a three-month national emergency this week, following the
killing of over 31 Egyptian soldiers in a suicide car bombing carried out by
jihadists in northern Sinai.
Excerpt: A suicide bomber killed more than 50 people in a
blast today at the Wagah border crossing in Pakistan . Two major Pakistani
jihadist groups claimed credit for the attack.
The blast occurred outside of a restaurant near a checkpoint
manned by Pakistani border guards. The Wagah border crossing is the only road link
between Lahore and the Indian city of Amritsar .
Excerpt: Islamic State (IS)
fighters have beheaded a man for allegedly working for Syrian President Bashar Assad and
announced that all who insult Allah are to be executed, the Syrian Observatory
for Human Rights (SOHR) said Friday.
PA Calls Assassin
Terrorist 'Hero Defending Freedom'
Excerpt: Palestinian Authority (PA) Minister of
Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqa on Thursday lionized Mu'taz Hijazi, the Islamic
Jihad terrorist who tried to assassinate Temple
Mount activist Yehuda Glick in Jerusalem on Wednesday and
was later killed in a shootout with police. "Hijazi was one of the heroes
of the Palestinian prisoners' movement who defended freedom and dignity,"
Qaraqa wrote in a statement published by the Palestinian Arab Ma'an News
Agency.
*****
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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