Update
Need a gift? Recommended Books for Christmas or Hanukkah
I have read all these (except the ones I wrote which I
skimmed) and recommend them. I'm giving some of them as gifts myself, and have
given others in the past. Fiction is at the end. ~Bob
Funny: Hitler learns
about Operation Wolverine
I found out a guy I know in Madison, Tim Donovan, does
spoofs on the Hitler-Downfall clip. This one is funny. He had several good ones
on the Mary Burke campaign, but they are a tad outdated now that she went down
in flames. ~Bob
Offensive?
People are welcome to post comments disagreeing with me. I
don't get offended at that at all--or I wouldn't be speaking to my wife and most
other family members. But a couple of correspondents--both Marines, alas--got
insulting and offensive about my positions. One questioned my integrity because
I reported that I have had very good experiences with the care team at the
Madison VA. The other called me a RINO because he disagreed with my anti-Obama
tactics! I took them off the notification list. I don't get paid anything for
doing this blog so there's no value in letting myself be degraded. I do it as I
think it is a service for people looking for these types of stories. If they
want to read it, they can check it on the web when they have time.
BTW, I moderate all comments. Some I delete for language,
though some of that I let through as they reflect on the cognitive functioning
of the commenter. But I delete all spam, about 50% of the comments. They go
something like, "Wonderful blog--I hope you write more about this topic.
Please see my website: www.fakeviagraforsale.com." I'm not making money on
this--and don't want other folks bombarding you with questionable sales
pitches. ~Bob)
General News and Comment
The Democratic Party’s long term problem is worse than you
think. By Greg Sargent
Excerpt: As I noted
this morning, anyone who cares about the future of the Democratic Party
needs to ask whether the party’s elders and wise men are thinking hard enough
about how to regain ground on the state level. That would make it more
likely that the next round of redistricting battles, in 2020, could help
Democrats win back the House in the face of population shifts and GOP
redistricting successes that have gamed the national map in favor of GOP
control. This process needs to start now. If you look a bit more deeply
into the problem, though, it appears even more daunting than you might have
expected. (They have a strategy. In GOP controlled states like Wisconsin , they and
their media allies are pushing for non-partisan redistricting as fairer. In Dem
controlled states like Illinois ,
the old gerrymander system is fine with them. If you could design a truly
non-partisan redistricting system and require it nationwide, I'd be in favor. But not a piecemeal one that benefits
Democrats in both types of states. The real hoot is the claim that putting
blacks into one district is a GOP trick to concentrate these Democrat voters.
When I was in the Massachusetts
senate, we created a black senate district to give blacks the opportunity to
elect a black state senator. The Dem leadership was opposed because it meant
one of their caucus members had to go. I believe in some cases the courts have
ordered that blacks be a majority in some Congressional districts to add to the
Black caucus in Congress. ~Bob
Inane attack: Jeb Bush not conservative?! By Jennifer Rubin
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/12/08/inane-attack-jeb-bush-not-conservative/
Excerpt: Is Jeb Bush really going to run against the
conservative base? That would be odd since he
is a conservative – a pro-Second Amendment, pro-life, pro-defense,
pro-growth, tax reducing and spending cutting conservative.
TV News Legend: Obama
Explodes With 'Profanity.' Journalist slams administration as 'most opaque'
Legendary ABC News journalist Ann Compton says President
Barack Obama launches into “profanity-laced” tirades against the news media in
off-the-record meetings with reporters, and she calls his administration “more
opaque than any I have covered.” Compton retired
from the network in August after a 40-year career, and she made the comments
about Obama in a new interview that aired Sunday night with Brian
Lamb of C-SPAN.... And when policy decisions and presidents are
inaccessible and don’t take questions from the press on a regular basis, I
think they reap what they sow.”
Excerpt: In an attempt to promote transparency in military
activities between the two countries, Russia will
conduct an observation flight over the United
States as part of the Treaty on Open Skies between
Dec. 8 and Dec. 13, Sergei Ryzhkov, head of Russia 's
National Nuclear Risk Reduction Center California and
cover a maximum range of 2,640 miles. A group of U.S. specialists
will also board the Russian aircraft to monitor the flight and to ensure that
norms of the treaty are not violated. (One site said something like,
"Those I know retired from Alphabet Soup agencies took to the hills to
their seed camps/shelters a couple months ago and have gone quiet.....Barb)
Report: Chinese Air
Force Closes Gap With U.S.
http://defensetech.org/2014/12/04/report-chinese-air-force-closes-gap-with-u-s/#more-24192
http://defensetech.org/2014/12/04/report-chinese-air-force-closes-gap-with-u-s/#more-24192
Excerpt: The U.S. Air Force’s air power superiority over China is
rapidly diminishing in light of rapid Chinese modernization of fighter jets,
cargo planes and stealth aircraft, according to a recently released
Congressional review. The 2014 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review
Commission recommends that Congress appoint an outside panel of experts to
assess the U.S.-Chinese military balance and make recommendations regarding
U.S. military plans and budgets, among other things.
Excerpt: Dozens of the Republican Party’s leading
presidential donors and fund-raisers have begun privately discussing how to
clear the field for a single establishment candidate to carry the party’s banner
in 2016, fearing that a prolonged primary would bolster Hillary Rodham Clinton,
the likely Democratic candidate. The conversations, described in interviews
with a variety of the Republican Party’s most sought-after donors, are centered
on the three potential candidates who have the largest existing base of major
contributors and overlapping ties to the top tier of those who are uncommitted:
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey , former Gov.
Jeb Bush of Florida
and Mitt Romney. (Christie far down my list, given hi help to Obama in2012 and
his pro-Islamist views. ~Bob)
Excerpt: For many of the war-weary troops who deployed to
combat zones over and over again for 13 years, the end of an era of war in Iraq and Afghanistan is good news.
But for Marine Sgt. Zack Cantu and
other service members, it's a total morale killer. For many of them,
particularly the young grunts and others in combat arms specialties, it's the
realization that they may never go into battle for their country and their
comrades. (If I hadn't been concerned before about what's gone on with our
military, this would have most certainly pushed me over the edge in real worry.
It's not a short article, but that's because the subject deserves a lot more than
an executive summary. I strongly recommend taking the time to open the link and
read through the full article. Taking the politics out of it (as much as
possible), the bottom line is still that as a nation we are not giving our
military the kind of support that it needs and that its members, past and
present, so well deserve. This should be a bipartisan matter, that
Congress is made fully aware of, and that we the people demand be addressed
properly. --Del )
Today I Stopped
Caring
Excerpt: We represent a “Police State” where “jackbooted
badge-wearing thugs” randomly attack innocent people without cause or concern
for constitutional rights. We are Waco ,
Ruby Ridge, and Rodney King all rolled into one lone police officer stopping to
help change an old lady’s tire. I stopped caring today as no one wants us
around, but instantly demands answers, results, arrests, when a crime takes
place.
Will U.S.
Excerpt: Too bad shame died in America long ago, else Democrat
leaders would be hiding their heads. Not only because of the election results,
but the mainstream media, having delivered an exhaustive defense of Obama, is
now trumpeting two false messages on behalf of Democrats. Talking heads begin
with, “What the voters were saying ...” and then they add their own agenda,
which usually ascribes to the voters the desire to get rid of gridlock,
compromise and get things done. But the voters were saying nothing of the sort.
Cash on the Table. By Russ Choma
Excerpt: The 2014 election might have been the most
expensive midterm ever, and it might have seen some of the most extravagant
spending on wall-to-wall advertising ever — but when Election Day had come and gone, there was a surprising amount of money still
sitting on the table. The Service Employees
International Union PAC reported yesterday that, as of Nov. 24,
it had $19.7 million in cash on hand. It spent $29 million over the course of
the two-year cycle, but that’s a very large pile of leftovers.
U.S. sues Deutsche
Bank for alleged tax fraud, seeks $190 million
Excerpt: The U.S. government on Monday sued
Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE), seeking to recoup more than $190 million from
the German bank over alleged tax fraud more than 14 years ago. According
to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan , Deutsche Bank used
"insolvent" shell companies to conduct a series of fraudulent
conveyances designed to hide taxable gains from the U.S. Internal Revenue
Service. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said the case arose from Deutsche Bank's
late 1999 purchase of a corporation that was sitting on an unrealized $150
million gain in shares of drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co
Is this proof mysterious bangs heard on
both sides of Atlantic WERE caused by a top-secret US
Excerpt: There was growing evidence today that some kind of
hypersonic jet may have been the cause of the mysterious bangs heard over both
the UK and the US on Saturday. Engineering
expert Dr. Bhupendra Khandelwa told MailOnline he believes the loud, repetitive
bangs sounded like an experimental jet engine called a pulse detonation engine
(PDE). Other theories - including weather phenomenon or meteors and space junk
'burning up' in the atmosphere - have been largely dismissed by experts.
Curiosity rover finds
crater it is exploring was once a giant Martian LAKE
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2865886/Mars-warm-wet-entire-PLANET-Curiosity-rover-reveals-crater-mountain-exploring-giant-lake.html#ixzz3LMUQk8JA
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2865886/Mars-warm-wet-entire-PLANET-Curiosity-rover-reveals-crater-mountain-exploring-giant-lake.html#ixzz3LMUQk8JA
Billions of years ago, a lake once filled the 96-mile-
(154-km) wide crater being explored by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, bolstering
evidence that the planet most like Earth in the solar system was suitable for
microbial life. (Podkayne was there...~Bob)
Ebola and Enterovirus News
Excerpt: The CDC has notified the Office of Management and
Budget that CDC expects to actively monitor 65,250 at risk Ebola travelers
entering the USA per
year. Obviously CDC came to this number by counting the number of travelers
that have already entered the USA in the last 3 months and
projecting it out to 12 months. Reverse engineering CDC's
projection, 16,313 Ebola exposed travelers have entered the USA since
the Ebola outbreak began. (Stage set for martial law? Plague or race riots;
with executive order, you can be interned for a cough/cold. Let's talk about a
movie about POTUS/FLOTUS. --Barb)
Race Card News
Must Read: Hands Up Don’t
Shoot? How Nyack Changed Police Procedure Nationally. By John Patrick Schutz
Excerpt: .. like her fellow convicted and now released
member of the Weather
Underground, Kathy Boudin. What does a crime from 30 years ago have
to do with current events in Ferguson , Missouri and Staten Island ?
Much, actually. You see, when Ms. Clark and Ms. Boudin and their group finished
their shopping trip to Nyack and the Nanuet Mall on October 20, 1981 they left
in their wake two dead Nyack Police Officers and one dead Brinks Guard. And,
sadly, the reason that African-American Police Officer Waverly Brown and
Irish-American Police Officer Edward O’Grady were dead was because Kathy Boudin emerged from the get-away van with her hands up,
begging the Officers to put down their guns because she was unarmed, knowing
full well when they did her comrades would ambush the officers from the van,
firing round after round into the two soon-to-be dead officers along with
Officer Artie Keenan who was badly injured. They continued firing into Officer
Brown’s body after he was down and as a final farewell ran over the body of
Officer O’Grady.
Mau-mauing the Ferguson
Excerpt: Last week during a sympathy march in Madison (of course) for the Ferguson rioters, one civic-minded
businessperson told Bring It! “I swear I heard this chant when stuck in traffic
because of the protestors … ‘Pants up. Don’t loot.’” My friend, you didn’t hear
that in Madison !
More attuned to the Emerald City is The
Nation magazine (sentences we did not finish): “Even as activists are
organizing against police violence, many Americans continue to see blacks as
criminals — and want our police to act accordingly.” (I prefer, "Hands
off, don't loot." ~Bob)
The Department of Social Justice: Federal
officials lectured Ferguson
Excerpt: As investigators combed through Ferguson Ferguson
What’s Really Going on with Holder’s Civil-Rights Crusade against Police
Departments. Federal investigations of the Garner and Brown
cases are just a pretext.
Excerpt: But the Justice Department
civil-rights investigations Holder is fond of announcing are not like
public trials. ..... More significant, they happen with the air of extortion
created by the nearly $28 billion in funding Congress keeps giving Justice
every year, no matter how many congressional investigations it obstructs, how
many false statements its officials make, and how much it politicizes law
enforcement. The investigations are taxpayer-funded jihads that states, cities,
and towns know they lack the resources to fight off. (And female nominee
well-trained on how to carry on. --Barb)
‘Juveniles’ Attack
Another Bosnian In St. Louis
Excerpt: Do #BosnianLivesMatter?... They’re not a Designated
Victim Class in the United
States , and they look white, so whatever
happens to them is just too bad. If they don’t want to be dragged from their
cars, beaten, and discarded in the street like garbage, they shouldn’t have
come to America to
escape genocide. (Evil being preached to the Community and they are selling
their souls to hate. Welcome to Obama's America . Oh, and Merry Christmas,
whitey. "If I had a hammer...." --Barb)
Excerpt: Relations between blacks and whites in America today
are worse than they have been in decades under the Obama regime, a new poll
says. Sadly, many whites voted for Obama thinking--erroneously, as it turns
out--that voting a black man into the White House might help usher in a new era
of harmony between the races in America .
Many simply thought that racism would fade even more in this new era. But those
who make a living pushing racism won't let it die. Not Al Sharpton, not Jesse
Jackson, not Barack Obama. Racism has not receded and now, it appears that a
majority believe that the opposite has occurred, race
relations are worse than ever.
Race relations. By
Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Excerpt: ... we may be reaching the point where the
progressive Left’s interest in perpetual public outrage over claims of
racially-motivated police abuse is working against the interests of President
Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and incoming nominee Loretta Lynch, and New York City mayor Bill
de Blasio. Because progressives like Obama, Holder/Lynch, and de Blasio are in
charge now, ostensibly in charge of both police forces and the investigation of
those police forces when there are allegations of abuse. If there are indeed
horrific abuses of police power and targeting African Americans occurring like
clockwork, and never with any serious consequence . . . all of this is
happening on their watch. You particularly have to wonder if the president
likes hearing about violent protests against police in Berkeley and Manhattan, and shutting down highways in Washington, Long Island, Miami, and elsewhere. No one at those protests is chanting,
“Way to go, Mr. President.” For Obama, we’re about to enter the seventh year of
an eight-year presidency. It’s getting late. Walking into America ’s
poorer minority neighborhoods, are things significantly better or worse than
they were on January 19, 2009, the day before Obama took office? Are the
schools performing any better? Are there more job opportunities? Are there
fewer people struggling with addiction? Are there paths to success? Have the
crime rates changed dramatically? Is the relationship between the citizens and
the police forces any better?
Excerpt: But what is odder still is how it seems a local St. Louis police
investigation has been smothered, overtaken, and downplayed. When Gertz called
the local police for comment, they referred him to the U.S. attorney in St. Louis . ...Then, when Gertz called the
U.S. attorney, he was
told he had to call the Office of Public Affairs in Washington . (Per author, AKA Holder's
flunkies. --Barb. I use "Holder's Irregulars." ~Bob)
Family Of Man Shot By
NYC Cop Warn Al Sharpton To Stay Away
Excerpt: "He just wants to take credit for this,"
she said, even though Sharpton never took the time to contact the family and
ask if he was wanted. The family says that they were shocked when they heard
that Sharpton had scheduled himself to give a eulogy for Gurley. "How can
you do a eulogy for someone you don't even know?
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
A Cadillac (Tax)
For Everyone. By Sally Pipes
Excerpt: While campaigning for the White House, President
Obama promised to cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans. As he put it,
“In an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the
middle class.” And then, the president went ahead and raised taxes on the
middle class, thanks to Obamacare. ... But President Obama and his allies
misled the public by claiming that the tax would only affect gold-plated health
plans.
Undocumented Democrat News
Exclusive: House GOP
Leaders Trick 216 House Republicans Into Accidentally Supporting Obama's
Executive Amnesty
Excerpt: By adding that exception to the original bill,
we would now give the president the statutory authority to do what he’s doing
to issue these work permits,” Gohmert said. “I know that this language is in
there for people claiming asylum and for refugee status, but not ever for
providing work permits. But by adding this to this bill that’s supposed to
claim his effort to provide work permits is illegal, unconstitutional, and
inappropriate, the exception that was added gives him a statutory basis for
arguing his work permits are now statutorily allowed.”
"You're Greener than Gore" News
NOAA report says California drought mostly due to natural
causes, not global warming. By Jason Samenow,
Washington Post
Excerpt: The build-up of heat-trapping gases in the
atmosphere may worsen western droughts in the future, but it is not the
principal driver of historic drought afflicting the entire state of California right now,
says a
major NOAA report released today. “Natural oceanic and atmospheric
patterns” are to blame for the drought, the 42-page report says. (Diverting
water to save bait fish and the use of over a gallon for every almond produced
might figure in. ~Bob)
Religion of Peace News
Christian Kids
Murdered by Muslims for Refusing to Convert instead saying “No, We Love Jesus”
Excerpt: Sometimes the stories I feel compelled to write
about seem like “too much.” I have felt my heart break numerous times since I
began writing for Eagle Rising… and this is one of those hard stories.
Excerpt: France 's
interior minister has vowed to make the fight against anti-Semitism a
"national cause" following an attack on a Jewish couple last week.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
fights radical Islam's real war on women
Excerpt: In early April of this year, Brandeis University
ISIS fighter from Ottawa appears in video threatening Canada
Excerpt: The six-minute video said Canadians would be
indiscriminately targeted and that Muslims were obliged to either join ISIS or
“follow the example” of the attackers who struck in Ottawa and
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que. “You either pack your bags, or prepare your
explosive devices. You either purchase your airline ticket, or you sharpen your
knife,” said the video, produced by a propaganda group linked to the Islamic
State of Iraq and Al-Sham.
Firebombs thrown at
police in Stockholm
Excerpt: "What is quite unusual here is that this was
seemingly somewhat planned ahead," police spokesman Kjell Lindgren said.
He said firebombs and piles of paving stones were already prepared when police
arrived and the approximate 30 people behind the riot were reported to have
been masked. ... Like Husby, Ragsved has a large immigrant population, and
further violence in immigrant suburbs could help boost the far-right
anti-immigration Sweden Democrats in snap elections in March next year.
Excerpt: Mr. Hagel’s slow pace this year in approving
proposed transfers of low-level detainees contributed to larger tensions with
the White House before his resignation under pressure
last month.....The Obama administration hopes that if it can shrink the inmate
population to two digits, Congress will revoke a law that bars the transfer of
detainees into the United States. It would be far cheaper for taxpayers to house
the inmates on domestic soil, and the White House argues that closing Guantánamo would
eliminate a propaganda symbol for terrorists to use against the country. (Of
course, King and his ilk determine who is "low-level." --Barb)
Radio Host: Obama Has
An ‘Anti-American Foreign Policy’
Excerpt: His foreign policy “has been an anti-American
foreign policy.”...I think a big part of his legacy will be the emergence of
the Islamic Republic as a nuclear armed power with intercontinental missiles.
He walked away from Iraq recklessly
and irresponsibly for selfish political reasons, foolishly, giving rise to the
Islamic State which now owns northern Syria and
much of northern Iraq .
*****
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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