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Excerpt: Tullus
Aufidius is that very commonly-encountered figure, the mediocrity whose
ambition and ruthlessness is greater than his capacity: the type that now seems
to rule the world, or a very large part of it (and perhaps always has done so).
... Demagogues and war heroes we have with us still, while discernable
principles seem very few and far between. The crowds are still demanding that
the candidates display their war wounds: when Mrs Clinton ‘mis-spoke’ she was
trying to demonstrate that she, too, knew what it was to be under fire. The
desire and willingness to present others in the worst possible light, as a
sufficient argument in itself, is still with us. At the same time, a man of
utter consistency, such as Coriolanus, would still be chewed up and spat out by
the whole political system, just as he was nearly two thousand five hundred
years ago.
Excerpt: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker may have taken a
step toward catapulting himself into the presidential top tier with a
well-received performance at the Iowa Freedom Summit over the
weekend, generating raucous applause from the grassroots audience and rave
reviews from the attending media.
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by
the individual who can labor in freedom. - Albert Einstein
Excerpt: As conservative opposition to the national
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known as Common Core continues to grow, a leading figure in the Republican
Party is lending his voice in support of the system.
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known as Common Core continues to grow, a leading figure in the Republican
Party is lending his voice in support of the system.Weekly Situation report--SOTU
Excerpt: Well, the 114th Congress is off and running. As has
been the tradition for the last century, the President came to Congress to
deliver his thoughts on the state of the union. As has been the tradition for
the last five years, the President delivered his own unique version of that – a
lecture. What struck me about this speech in particular, is that the
President’s tone (and content) still hasn’t evolved despite a dramatic change
in the composition of Congress. When he was first elected, President Obama
enjoyed massive majorities in both the House and Senate. He preached
bipartisanship in his State of the Union while
also presenting a fairly partisan agenda. I didn’t begrudge him that his first
time out. He’d won big and he’d run on that message. As he famously said to
then-minority leader Eric Cantor, “elections have consequences”. But as time
wore on and the American people became less enamored with his vision and his
execution, the bipartisan notes he sounded in his speeches started to sound
hollow. He wasn’t reaching across the aisle at all. After two years in
office and one massive government takeover of healthcare, the President lost
his majority in the House. Not one Republican voted in support of his bill. I
entered Congress that very next year. Like a lot of people, I was interested to
see whether the President took anything away from that loss and whether he
would take a different tone in that year’s State of the Union Address. As it
turned out, he didn’t. ... But in this most recent election, the President got
trounced one more time. He lost complete control of Congress. The American
people voted against him. They voted against his team. They voted against the
Democrats’ track record and style of governing. Surely, with only two years
left in his administration and a natural desire to ensure some tangible legacy
beyond the disastrous healthcare law that bears his name, President Obama would
finally take a different strategy. He’d be more conciliatory and more genuinely
interested in finding what common ground there is between the two political
parties. I’m not sure if you watched his speech on Tuesday – a huge percentage
of the country did not. But if you did, then you saw the same speech he’s given
year after year. Lofty goals without any corresponding detail. Hollow lectures
about bipartisanship. Liberal talking points designed to fire up his base. The
show went on just as it always has. The challenge, at this point, is not to
allow the stale air from these speeches to affect our ability to push forward
with new ideas and better solutions for America . ... In the three
weeks since Republicans took control of the Senate, they have already
considered more amendments than they did in all of 2014. You read that
correctly. More amendments in the first three weeks than in all of last year.
The Democrats got to offer their amendments, just as Republicans did. They got
to make Republicans take politically dicey stands on things. They got to play
“gotcha”. And the end result is that the Senate worked its will a little bit.
They’re debating the issues again. They are taking a stand on things. This
week, it’s the Keystone XL Pipeline – something they hope to wrap up next week.
And while it appears they are four votes short of what would be necessary to
override the President’s threatened veto, I am genuinely encouraged by what
might be possible with a Senate that does something – anything really. There
are plenty of issues out there that we need to work on. -- Sincerely, Rich
Nugent, Member of Congress. (Someone to watch. You can get on his mailing list
at his website. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Or maybe Moore was
implying that the Japanese sniper who, according to Moore ,
shot and killed his uncle was actually a brave neighbor defending an Asian
community in the Co-prosperity Sphere from American invaders like Moore ’s uncle who had
travelled thousands of miles to invade it. ... Much closer to the looser rules
of engagement of the traditional sniper is the U.S. drone, which blows up
targets regardless of their current activity (e.g., sleeping in their homes
when the missile arrives) — on the premise that they are likely enemy
terrorists who at some future date may harm U.S. interests. If Moore were
really worried that popular culture too lightly accepts such targeting, perhaps
he would do better to post instead his outrage that the president of the United
States once joked — to laughs from the media corps — about using such predator
drones against any would-be suitors of his daughters.
Commissary Hours
Would Be Cut Under Draft Budget Proposal
Excerpt: The proposals already are raising alarms in some
quarters. "This is a death knell for commissaries," said Tom Gordy,
president of the Armed Forces Marketing Council, when asked about the
proposals. He said the plan would be a "death knell" for the
commissary benefit as generations of troops have known it. "If it
moves forward, it's an indication that DoD is saying, 'We'll no longer provide
this benefit — it's a business.' This is not good for military families,"
Gordy said. (Not normally newsworthy except it comes on the heels of another
Military Times article with Chuck Hagel talking about how to improve morale
within the military. Sorry Chuck, but closing commissaries and eliminating jobs
for military spouses and dependents won't go too far improving the morale of young
married military members. --MasterGuns)
Whistleblower: Pelosi
Covered Up Role In Crisis
Excerpt: In a just-released book, former FCIC member Peter
Wallison says that a Democratic Congress worked with the commission's
Democratic chairman to whitewash the government's central role in the mortgage
debacle. The conspiracy helped protect some of the Democrats' biggest stars
from scrutiny and accountability while helping justify the biggest government
takeover of the financial sector since the New Deal. Wallison's sobering,
trenchantly written "Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World's
Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again" reveals that the
Democrat-led panel buried key data proving that the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development and other federal agencies pushed the housing market over
the subprime cliff. The final FCIC report put the blame squarely on Wall
Street.
The Modern Archer Who Can Fire Three Arrows In 0.6 Seconds
Some very impressive feats of archery here. This chap is
resurrecting old combat archery as it was in its hey-day. --Jim
Obama's State of the Union fantasy world: We need a real
national security strategy, VA reform. By Pete Hegseth
Excerpt: Here’s a prediction: expect a narrative to emerge
in certain media outlets in the coming days that Tuesday night’s
State of the Union speech was a grand return to form for President Obama. The
elite, east-coast intelligencia line will be that the beleaguered lame duck
president—facing a hostile, conservative Congress—regained his momentum with
renewed energy and purpose. How Obama Got His Groove Back,
Washington-style. Groove aside, the fact remains that Obama’s next-to-last
State of the Union address did not substantially address two of the most
pressing issues currently facing our nation and that matter most to its
military veterans: the lack of a clear United States national security
strategy—to include the crisis facing our military—and the inability of the VA
bureaucracy care to deliver timely health care to millions of our veterans.
(Pete Hegseth is a very active vet, as his short bio at the end shows. His
group has been doing a lot on the VA situation, but he is not afraid to step up
on other matters, as he has done very well here. --Del )
Interesting: Boehner and McConnell can veto Obama. By
Ed Rogers
Excerpt: The president has faced criticism — most notably
from Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) — for what appears to be his willingness to
accommodate Iran .
But when Boehner invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to
address a joint session of Congress next month without telling the White House,
he sent a strong message. Boehner’s action essentially vetoed the president’s
plan to acquiesce to Iran .
Obama may think he can govern around Congress, but he will learn that if
pushed, Congress can also do some governing around him. He has just gotten his
first taste.
Excerpt: There has been and will continue to be a running
debate about “experience” with regard to the 2016 presidential race. Truth be
told, no job really can prepare one for the Oval Office, but the reassurance in
knowing we are not going to elect another neophyte as president makes the issue
especially important in this cycle, all the more so since Hillary Clinton will
probably be the Democratic nominee. (She has plenty of experience, but a shoddy
record, Republicans will say.) There are lots of aspects of experience to
consider.
Excerpt: The rate of union membership has been on a steady
decline over the past three decades. It grew slightly
from 12.1 percent in 2007 to 12.4 percent in 2008. During President Obama’s
first year in office, however, it fell once more. Richard Trumka, president of
the AFL-CIO, said in
a statement today that though there has been job growth over the past 58
months, many of the jobs created do not provide fair wages. (You mean Obama's
recovery is not good for unions? ~Bob)
STUDY: Obama's Unemployment Policies Increased
Unemployment. By Conn Carroll
Excerpt: President Obama's continued efforts to extend
unemployment insurance kept the nation's unemployment rate high long after the
recession ended, according to a new economic study.
Former CIA officer
convicted in leak case
Excerpt: The Obama administration has pursued more leak
cases than all previous administrations combined, but in many ways, the
prosecution of Sterling
stood out. Federal prosecutors initially sought to subpoena Risen to testify
against his will, and though they won in court, the Justice Department
ultimately decided not to put the reporter on the stand at the trial.
Risen had vowed to go to jail before he would reveal any sources.
Koch-backed network aims to spend nearly $1 billion on 2016
elections. By Matea Gold
Excerpt: A network of conservative advocacy groups backed by
Charles and David Koch aims to spend a staggering $889 million in advance of
the next White House election, part of an expansive strategy to build on its
2014 victories that may involve jumping into the Republican primaries. The
massive financial goal was revealed to donors during an annual winter meeting
here hosted by Freedom Partners, the tax-exempt business lobby that serves as
the hub of the Koch-backed political operation, according to an attendee. The
amount is more than double the $407 million that 17 allied groups in the network
raised during the 2012 campaign.
Excerpt: According to previous documents
uncovered by Judicial Watch, the Speaker’s military travel cost the United
States Air Force $2,100,744.59 over a two-year period — $101,429.14 of which
was for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol. For example, purchases
for one Pelosi-led congressional delegation traveling from Washington, DC,
through Tel Aviv, Israel to Baghdad, Iraq May 15-20, 2008 included: Johnny
Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème,
Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey,
Beefeater gin, Dewar’s scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey,
Corona beer and several bottles of wine. (Good think they didn't drink single
Malt. ~Bob)
Chris Kyle on Conan-
worth a watch
Here is a really neat, funny interview of Kyle, in which you
can see him as a pretty decent guy with a sense of humor and humility. In the
second clip, he is talking about war, people's understanding of war, the
effects of war on those who wage it and their families. Again, he comes across
as a decent guy, and his death at the hands of a disturbed vet seems to me more
and more of a terrible tragedy for the country. And here is the guy that
various damned, obnoxious, ignorant beyond belief, idiots call a coward, a
psychopathic killer, and so on. None of them are fit to lick his boots. --Del. They are too busy
anyway licking Obama's boots. ~Bob
Women in the
Military: Fiat Equality. Unwelcome Facts from a Closet. By Fred Reed
Excerpt: Sigh. I have just read
that a young woman named Sage
Santangelo has failed the infantry-training course
for Marine officers at Quantico ,
bringing the rate of female failure to 29 out of 29. As an old hand with thirty
years covering the military, I can attest that this vu is getting
more deja all the time. Women have never succeeded at physical things
in the military because they can’t. More on that in a moment. Santangelo seems
a most impressive woman. Any woman who would attempt the TBE course
is necessarily impressive. We are not talking
pampered Swarthmore brats in Women’ Studies. She reports making
her first solo flight at fifteen, climbing most of Colorado’s highest
peaks, playing goalie on a boy’s hockey team. She is Marine material,
and has my respect. But she washed out on day one. (Forwarded from a classmate. The first part shows some bias,
but the facts are telling. I suspect that there are some women who can do what
is required by infantrymen, but should we be making decisions based on a small
percentage. We will end up carrying them and their gear. Little has been said
about the conditions in the jungle or cold weather. Clothing literally rots off
the troops in the jungle and in cold weather the amount of weight in cold
weather clothing and gear is significantly greater. --Don)
Excerpt: While some potential Republican candidates are
taking swipes at each other, Fiorina will aim her fire at the likely Democratic
nominee. “I too have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe,”
Fiorina will say, according to prepared remarks obtained by National
Review Online. “But unlike her, I have actually accomplished something. Mrs.
Clinton, flying is an activity, not an accomplishment. I have met Vladimir
Putin and know that it will take more to halt his ambitions than a gimmicky red
‘Reset’ button.” (Whether she is
open about it or not, she’s running for vice president, not president. The
thing is, the way she tears into Hillary and touts her own accomplishments, she
may be a much more serious contender for that slot than most people think right
now. " Having done business in over 80 countries and having served as the
Chairman of the External Advisory Board at the CIA, I know that China Iran
What Is a Rich
Person's "Fair Share?"
Excerpt: That the rich should "pay their fair
share" is a constant refrain in American politics, but what exactly does
that mean? Wealthy Americans are already paying disproportionate amounts of
taxes. National Tax Limitation Foundation Chairman Lewis Uhler and Senior Fellow
Peter Ferrara detail exactly who is paying federal taxes - and how much: The
top 20 percent of income earners earn just 50 percent of pretax income, yet
they pay 70 percent of all federal taxes. The top 20 percent of earners pay 93
percent of all federal income taxes. The top 1 percent earn 14.6 percent of
pretax income, yet they pay 24 percent of federal taxes.
2016: It Begins: Clear
winners and losers emerged from the first major candidate huddle in Iowa
Excerpt: The field this cycle is the most open and
competitive I’ve ever seen. Traditionally, Republicans have picked as their
nominee the candidate who placed second in the most recent competitive
nomination contest (the “it’s your turn” mentality). Think Ronald Reagan in
1980, George H. W. Bush in 1988, Bob Dole in 1992, John McCain in 2008, and
Mitt Romney in 2012. This year is different.
Greek leftist leader
Tsipras claims victory over austerity
Excerpt: Greek leftist leader Alexis Tsipras promised on
Sunday that five years of austerity, "humiliation and suffering" imposed
by international creditors were over after his Syriza party swept to victory in
a snap election on Sunday. ... "Greece leaves
behinds catastrophic austerity, it leaves behind fear and authoritarianism, it
leaves behind five years of humiliation and anguish," Tsipras told
thousands of cheering supporters gathered in Athens .
Brave Men: Venezuela
Excerpt: The Venezuelan government has turned down a request
by former presidents of Chile
and Colombia
to visit opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez in jail. Chile 's
Sebastian Pinera and Colombia 's
Andres Pastrana say they are in Venezuela
to support the opposition.
Why are so many
college students failing to gain job skills before graduation?
Because so much of "higher" education today
consists of indoctrination with left wing tripe, rather than teaching
marketable skills, like math and reading and grammar. I never see jobs ads for
majors in gender studies, environmental studies, gay studies (called Queer
Studies on some campuses), peace studies and so one. Tell the interviewer you
know all about global warming, white privilege and male privilege and see what
job he or she offers you. Students should look at the job prospects for majors
before borrowing thousands from Uncle Sammy to become a Burger Provider. The
colleges are happy to take your borrowed money and turn out ten grads in
education or social work. But if there is only one job for the ten, one will be
low paid in the field, and the others will ask, "You want fries with
that?" ~Bob
Jewish American
soldier, 91, gets service medals for risking life to fight Nazis in WWII
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0115/90_year_old_soldier_gets_medals.php3
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0115/90_year_old_soldier_gets_medals.php3
Excerpt: When Milton Kaplan served in the U.S. Army during
World War II, he was one of the soldiers who would sneak into enemy territory
and then report back to his commanders what he saw. On Friday, during a special
presentation at Skokie Village Hall, Kaplan, 91, was finally awarded the Army
medals he earned when he put his life at risk more than 70 years ago. "Things
move slowly," he quipped before the presentation. Army officers presented
Kaplan with a Bronze Star Medal and a Combat Infantryman Badge, as well as a
shadowbox containing the Army Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle
Eastern Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, the Army of Occupation
Medal with a Germany clasp and a Honorable Service lapel button.
Obama Takes on His Own Party. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: he theme of Obama’s last campaign was “Forward.”
Having thoroughly alienated Republicans in Congress, he is boldly moving
forward on his final mission of also alienating the Democrats. It’s no secret
that Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader, now loathes Obama. But the
conflict between Senate Democrats and Obama is approaching explosive
temperatures. Senator Menendez accused Obama of parroting talking points out of
Tehran as the
Senate approaches a sanctions vote.
Obama meets with
YouTube kids but refuses to meet Netanyahu
Excerpt: Earlier this week, our president, Barack Obama,
added to the dignity of the office of the president by sitting down for an
interview with a clutch of YouTube
personalities: (CNN)In his continuing effort to connect to a younger
audience (like the time he went on
‘Between Two Ferns’), President Barack Obama sat down with, and took
questions, from three YouTube stars: GloZell Green (3 million followers), Bethany
Mota (8 million followers) and half of the vlogbrothers (2.4 million
followers). Not being a tween, (or suffering from a clinical mental impairment)
I hadn’t heard of any of these people. Here is a rundown:
Gun News
Funny: My VA Medical Appointment
Funny, but doubtful, not verified. I've gad a lot of
appointments at the VA, they never asked about guns. ~Bob. Excerpt: She
replied, “Guns. Do you have any guns in the house?” I asked, “Why?” She
said, “I’ve got to ask this question. It is required under the Affordable Care
Act.” I asked, “What are you going to do with the data?” She said,
“We compile it, amalgamate it, and submit it to the government.” I said,
“Well, I have a Tommy Gun. I let my kid Tommy play with it.” She said,
“What’s a Tommy Gun? I don‘t think that is the kind of gun they are concerned
with.” With THAT, I knew I had a live one. I said, “It’s similar to a
B.A.R., but a little heavier and shorter. I have a B.A.R. also.” She said,
“A B.A.R.?”
Homeowner tells
officers he fatally shot intruder
Excerpt: Deputy Coroner Jeff Fowler has identified the
deceased man as John Michael Ferrell, 51, also of Simpsonville. Simpsonville
investigators said Ferrell was the estranged husband of someone staying at the
home. There were also family members of the estranged wife inside the home, as
well as one non-relative, according to police.
Police: Man, 74,
opens fire at burglar trying to break in home
Excerpt: As he walked through the house, the man saw a hand
reaching through broken glass trying to unlock the rear kitchen door. The man
then fired two shots through the top of the door and heard a scream. He later
saw the burglar get into a vehicle and leave. Police found drops of blood near
the back entrance to the home.
Race Card News
Professor: George W.
Bush took money away from New Orleans
Excerpt: Last week, Progressives Today provided extensive
coverage from inside the 15th annual White Privilege Conference. One
nugget of idiocy your tax dollars paid for that may have been overlooked came
courtesy of Berkeley
law professor John A. Powell: "The point is we had levees breaking and
thousands of black people were stranded. So it was a racialized system because
it distributed resources – it was designed to racialize anxiety." (Well, I
confess I did not know there was such a thing as a "White Privilege
Conference." Of course, offhand I didn't think anybody needed one, but
clearly some people believed it and organized it fifteen years ago,
and the most recent was attended by a fair number of people. When I saw
the link I was curious and opened it up, even watched the video of this
professor speaking. The quotes shown in the article are accurate. This man is a
Law professor, teaching at a university, and he actually believes and preaches
that the levee system in New Orleans
was constructed to make Black people anxious, and that it was deliberately
neglected because of institutionalized racism in the government. I immediately
recall the George Orwell quote that goes "Some ideas are so absurd that only
an intellectual can believe them." You have to be highly educated
with a very respectable IQ to think at a level of consummate stupidity like
this Berkeley
professor. Had I not seen the video but only heard the quote somewhere I would
have assumed it was made up or a really twisted misquote, but no, he really
said all this. And he is out there in Berkeley teaching law students every
week, if that doesn't make you worry about what kind of lawyers they will be I
don't know what would. This would be funny, hysterically funny, if it weren't
so deeply, abysmally depressing to think of this man being a teacher. And
needless to say, his audience was eating up his comments, which of course just
deepens one's depression. Where do these people come from? Heaven help us. --Del )
Excerpt: Who knew this "White Privilege" rally cry
pre-dates the Michael Brown experience? I was just reading a story about some
rather indignant Blacks down in Baton Rouge, Louisiana who felt Whites weren't
feeling guilty enough....especially when it came to forking out higher and
higher property taxes to rebuild schools that Blacks simply loved to destroy as
soon as new construction was complete. So the Blacks in urban Baton Rouge began holding White Privilege
rallies in an attempt to raise awareness of just how guilty Whites should feel.
Well, apparently the campaign didn't work! Whites in the southern part of Baton Rouge kept looking
at their property bills and saw higher and higher increases in the costs to
maintain their community; higher police costs, higher fire district costs,
higher school costs, all attributable to the higher crime rates in
predominantly Black neighborhoods. Accordingly, the high crime rates, and the
failure to properly maintain both commercial and residential properties led to
an erosion of the tax base, causing the predominately White neighborhoods to
bear a larger share of city wide property taxes. So, exercising their
"White Privilege" the Whites have decided to secede from Baton Rouge and rebrand
their municipality as St. George. Whites, outnumbered by Blacks in Baton Rouge , decided
they'd had enough of bearing two thirds of the taxes, yet having minority
voting status when it came time to decide how their taxes would be spent...or
wasted!
8 injured, 3 dead at
party in Omaha , Nebraska
Excerpt: A large party was shot up late Friday night. Omaha authorities said most of the people who
attended the 40-50 person party refused to talk to police for fear of
retaliation. Schmaderer promised high security in the area to prevent such
an event, and vowed confidentiality of those who did speak. ... Two women were
pronounced dead at the scene and a man died later Saturday at the Nebraska Medical Center
Sheriff David Clarke:
‘Sharpton Ought to Go Back to the Gutter Where He Came From
Excerpt: This Sheriff just blasted Sharpton in the best way
ever. Enjoy. “I don’t expect anything intelligent to come out of the mouth of
Al Sharpton,” Clarke said. “We know he is a charlatan. Al Sharpton ought to go
back into the gutter he came from. The police officer is owed a lot from him,
Eric Holder and the President of the United States .”
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Excerpt: The American Cancer
Society (ACS) has just released its annual Cancer Facts and
Figures. The announcement describes
how successful the war on cancer has been: Annual statistics reporting from the
American Cancer Society shows the death rate from cancer in the US has fallen
22% from its peak in 1991. This translates to more than 1.5 million deaths from
cancer that were avoided. There are a number of explanations for this success.
... In light of this success, Americans should be wary of overly optimistic
promises to change our health coverage dramatically, which could threaten
future successes in the war on cancer. Obamacare brings about such change.
Unfortunately, the ACS sees only good outcomes from Obamacare, cheering that it
will increase the number of insured people. However, most of Obamacare’s newly
insured will be dependent on
Medicaid, where breast-cancer patients have worse health
outcomes than privately insured patients. As for those on
Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges, Avalere, a healthcare consulting
practice, has published a series of papers analyzing prescription coverage in
those plans. The latest concludes that
they have complicated, multiple tiers of co-pays and co-insurance for specialty
drugs, including cancer drugs: (The UK, with government run healthcare, has
much worse cancer survival rates than the US . ~Bob)
The Obama administration wants to dramatically change how
doctors are paid. By Jason Millman
Excerpt: The Obama administration on Monday announced an
ambitious goal to overhaul the way doctors are paid, tying their fees more
closely to the quality of care rather than the quantity. Rather than pay more
money to Medicare doctors simply for every procedure they perform, the
government will also evaluate whether patients are healthier, among other
measures. The goal is for half of all Medicare payments to be handled this way
by 2018. Monday’s announcement marks the administration’s biggest effort
yet to shape how doctors are compensated across the health-care system. (Good
luck seeing a doctor. A friend told us last year her daughter had switched from
pre-med to engineering due to Obamacare. ~Bob)
NAACP Official: Cop
Who Fatally Shot Armed Man Is Proof of ‘Shoot First and Ask Questions Later’
Culture
Excerpt: After reviewing body-cam video of a police officer fatally shooting an armed
man, the president of a local NAACP said the incident is proof of a “shoot
first and ask questions later” culture. ... “He’s here with a gun,” Jones said
on the 911 call. “I need a police officer because I got to stop this. I got a
whole bunch of people here, and I don’t need nobody hurt.” Witnesses
reported to police that Walker
told a woman at the wedding he “had a bullet with her name on it.” Officer
Chansey McMillin’s body-cam video showed him approaching Walker
in a parking lot and patting him down; suddenly Walker ran from McMillin and down a
road. McMillin chased Walker, who dropped something on the ground; Walker stopped to pick it
up and was facing McMillin, who then fired five times. (Suggest the NAACP guy
be made a cop and sent unarmed into South Chicago or East Saint Louis . They are black
neighborhoods, so I'm sure he'll be safe. Here why police shoot first: https://athomeinnyack.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/hands-up-dont-shoot-how-nyack-changed-police-procedure-nationally/
~Bob)
New York Times writer
Charles M. Blow ‘fuming’ that son was detained by Yale police
Excerpt: New York Times op-ed columnist Charles M. Blow
claims in a tweet that his son, who is black and a junior biology major at Yale University Yale University
Undocumented Democrat News
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Excerpt: According to NOAA, today and tomorrow the 14th
major impact snowstorm of the 2010s will hit the NE USA .
That makes the 2010s – in terms of such major impact snowstorm events – the
snowiest decade on record. The previous record-holding decades were the
1960s and 2000s. Each of those decades had 10 such . Since it’s only January
2015, I don’t suppose I need to remind our readers that the 2010s are not even
yet half over. (This is why they changed it to "Climate Change."
Since the Earth's climate has been changing for millions of years, they are
ipso facto always right. ~Bob)
Al Gore: Spend $90
Trillion To Ban Cars From Every Major
City
Excerpt: Calderon and Gore made their presentation at the
World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland where, ironically (or maybe not, at
this point), some 1,700 private jets — which use petroleum — were used to
shuttle in conference participants and others to discuss global warming and
other pressing global issues. There was such a big influx of air traffic, reports
Newsweek, that the Swiss military had to open an air base for the private
jets to land. At last year’s meeting in Davos, some 200 helicopters were used
to bring in conference-goers. (I think that works out to $1,500 for every
person on Earth. Since about 90% of them are worth far less than that, your
share will be....~Bob)
Religion of Peace News
Worth Reading : What If
ISIS Wins? By Loren Thompson
Excerpt: Which is why it will be a big blow to America ’s
prestige when the region is finally lost to Western influence. That’s the
vector the Middle East has been on for some
time now, and if you look beyond the confusion of daily headlines, it isn’t
hard to see the shape of what lies ahead. One by one, each of the Arab states
in the Middle East is failing. From Iraq to Lebanon
to Syria to Yemen , governments are losing control of the
countryside and descending into the kind of chaos once thought unique to Somalia .
As this decay progresses, the borders laid out by Western powers a century ago
are beginning to dissolve. The most important force driving this collapse is
pan-Arab fundamentalism, embodied most powerfully in the organization often
called ISIS .
Excerpt: Secretary of State John Kerry said at the World
Economic Forum in Davos today that branding terrorism as Islamic is an “error”
that could lose the U.S. allies
in fighting groups such as ISIS . “Today
we are witnessing nothing more than a form of criminal anarchy a nihilism that
illegitimately claims an ideological and religious foundation,” he said. Kerry
said that “obviously the biggest error we could make would be to blame Muslims
collectively for crimes not committed by Muslims alone … crimes that their
faith utterly rejects.” (We should not blame Muslims collectively. But the
theology of ISIS, Boko Haram, al Qaeda, et al is pretty mainstream among
Islamic clerics. Kerry isn't one, as far as we know. ~Bob)
The Other Side of
Autocracy: State Collapse in Yemen
Excerpt: This week in Yemen , an Iran-backed Shia militia
captured the presidential palace. The president has since resigned. It was the
latest stage in the slow advance of the Houthis, who entered the capital Sana'a
in September of last year. The latest Houthi victories do not bring the Shia
rebels undisputed control of the country. They do, however, ensure the
undisputed presence of the Iranian clients in the central government.
Tweet from Tarek Fatah @TarekFatah
Most Muslims I know are the sweetest people I can imagine
anyone to be, but every Islamist I know is an SOB deserving Dante.
What Bobby Jindal
Gets about Islam — and Most People Still Don’t. We need a great
deal more honesty about the religion, as the “no-go zone” debate
reveals. By Andrew C. McCarthy
Excerpt: Footballs are deflating, the president is detached
from reality, the Saudi king is deceased, and the sharia state next door, Yemen , is
descending into bloody chaos. With mere anarchy loosed upon the world, it would
be easy to miss the fact that, in England this week, Bobby Jindal gave as
important and compelling a speech as
has been delivered in years about America — our leadership role on the world
stage, our preservation as a beacon of liberty.
In the birthplace of the Magna Carta, it has nonetheless
become legally risky to speak with candor (even when quoting
Churchill). Yet Louisiana ’s
Republican governor became that rarest of modern Anglo or American statesmen.
Bobby Jindal told the truth about Islam, specifically about its large radical
subset that attacks the West by violent jihad from without and
sharia-supremacist subversion from within.
Interesting: U.S. Teams
Up With Rebels Taking Over Yemen
Excerpt: As the Iranian-backed Shiite Houthis take over the
Yemeni capital, there are indications the U.S. and
the Houthis may be teaming up to battle a common foe, al-Qaida in the Arab Peninsula U.S.
intelligence official Michael Vickers has indicated that despite the political
unrest in Yemen , the U.S. has developed an intelligence relationship
with the Houthis that may allow the U.S. to continue its
counterterrorism attacks against AQAP. The undersecretary of defense for
intelligence, Vickers told the Washington-based Atlantic Council that it is a
“safe assumption” that the U.S.
maintains these intelligence ties. (Working with Shi'a rebels may not make the
Saudi Sunni fundamentalists next door all that happy. ~Bob)
Are Muslim Uighurs
fleeing China
Excerpt: Nearly every week, new reports surface of Muslim
Uighurs trying to flee China .
They’ve been found in refugee camps in Thailand and caught with fake
passports trying to board planes. This week, Chinese police after they
reportedly tried to cross China ’s
southern border into Vietnam .
The exodus has strained China ’s
relations with other countries, especially with Turkey , which has a historic bond
with Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking ethnic group. So why are so many Uighurs –
pronounced “WEE-ghurs” – trying to flee China ?
Kippah-wearing Swedish reporter assaulted in
Excerpt: A Swedish reporter who walked around Malmo while wearing a
kippah to test attitudes toward Jews was hit once and cursed at by passersby
before he fled for fear of serious violence. Sveriges Television on Wednesday
aired secretly recorded footage from Petter Ljunggren’s walk through Malmo , which documented
some of the incidents that occurred within the space a few hours. In one scene,
Ljunggren — who, in addition to wearing a kippah was also wearing Star of
David pendant — was filmed sitting at a café in central Malmo reading a newspaper, as several
passersby hurled anti-Semitic insults at him. (Just don’t call it a no-go zone, you greasy, right-wing
Islamophobe. --Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.org.)
Excerpt: Religious parties Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Jamiat
Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) announced a bounty
of Rs100 million on the people who made and published the caricatures. Hundreds
of activists led by JI’s Abdul Mastan, JUI-F’s Amir Hidayatul Haq and ASWJ
leaders protested against the cartoons on Friday in Shabqadar and adopted a
declaration urging people to boycott French products.
Explosion in Philippines
Excerpt: The blast occurred at a bar across the street from
a busy bus terminal in Zamboanga city, damaged nearby establishments and
hitting the victims with flying glass and debris. One officer was among the
wounded, police said. Police suspected the militant Abu Sayyaf group, which
operates in Zamboanga and nearby provinces, saying the attack could have been
in retaliation for the foiled prison escape of a brother of one of the group's
leaders.
Why I Want My Range
to be a Muslim Free Zone
http://janmorganmedia.com/2014/09/business-muslim-free-zone/
http://janmorganmedia.com/2014/09/business-muslim-free-zone/
Excerpt: To understand why I am having a problem with Islamists,
you must first consider the nature of my business. This is not a coffee and
donut shop. This is a live fire indoor shooting range. People come here to buy,
rent, and shoot lethal weapons. In the range, people are shooting guns in close
proximity to each other, so my patrons depend on me and my discretion regarding
who I allow to shoot beside them. One mistake in judgment on my part could cost
innocent people their lives. The primary reasons I am do not want Muslims
shooting at my range are listed:
The Real Islam: Boko Haram releases photos showing children in
training
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2015/01/boko_haram_releases_photos_sho.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2015/01/boko_haram_releases_photos_sho.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29
Excerpt: A media organization linked to Boko Haram, al Urwa
al Wuthaqa, has released two images purporting to show children training
somewhere in northeastern Nigeria. The two photos show at least a dozen
children in what appears to be a weapons training program. Several are seen
holding AK-47 assault rifles, while others are seen holding cutouts of weapons.
Some children appear to be girls, while the majority pictured are young boys.
Boko Haram joins several other jihadist groups around the world in showcasing
training for young children.
US drone strike kills
3 suspected AQAP members. By Oren Adaki
Excerpt: The US reportedly killed
3 suspected members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in a drone
strike today that took place in a border region between the provinces of Shabwa
and Marib. The strike is the first reported in Yemen in more than two and a half
months. Arabic-language reports indicated that the
strike targeted a Suzuki Vitara carrying AQAP operatives, allegedly resulting
in the complete destruction of the vehicle and the deaths of at least three
individuals.
Boko Haram takes key
town in northern Nigeria, advances on Maiduguri
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/01/maiduguri_holds_its.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/01/maiduguri_holds_its.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29
Excerpt: Over the weekend, Boko Haram launched a series of
attacks in the latest part of its vicious campaign to take control of Nigeria and
build its caliphate. Concentrated in the northeast, a number of villages came
under fire within hours of an official visit by US Secretary of State John
Kerry to Lagos .
(If Nigeria falls to Boko
Haram, it will export Islamic terror throughout Africa .
We are behind, need to step up. ~Bob)
She dead: Denis McDonough’s slip of the tongue. By Jennifer Shutt
She dead: Denis McDonough’s slip of the tongue. By Jennifer Shutt
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/denis-mcdonough-isil-hostage-name-114575.html#ixzz3Py4rvmyeWhite
House chief of staff Denis McDonough suffered a slip of the tongue Sunday when
he offered the first name of an American woman held hostage by the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant . In an interview
with host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week” about the ongoing
situation with a Japanese hostage held by ISIL, McDonough mentioned the woman’s
first name, which is not public knowledge. (She might get lucky, be sold as a
sex slave and live until no longer attractive. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Alaska ’s
all-Republican delegation to Congress is accusing President Barack Obama of
attacking the economic health of their state by recommending that 12 million
acres of land be designated as wilderness area, a move that would make the land
off-limits for energy development. The Department of the Interior and the White
House on Sunday announced its proposal to protect a huge chunk of the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge, an area about as big as South Carolina that sits in the northeastern
region of the state. The administration said only a portion of ANWR is
protected, and that officially designating 12.28 million more acres would help
protect it for future generations. (Glad to hear this because my family, like
yours, is planning a vacation in ANWAR this year. Or would if we could afford
it. ~Bob)
Tens Of Thousands
Of Germans Rally In Streets Carrying Crosses, Israeli Flags, Ready To Fight
Islam. By Walid Shoebat
Excerpt: Last time PEGIDA tried to rally their troops, it
was the police that stopped them claiming that threats from ISIS is a hazard for public safety. And while PEGIDA is
hated by many in the German government including Merkel, PEGIDA persisted to
whom even Merkel had to respond to an ultimatum: does Germany stand behind the right of assembly, or
has Germany
become Dhimmi buckling under Muslim pressure? With PEGIDA, it was
Merkel who buckled and vowed to
protect the right of PEGIDA to demonstrate in Germany.
And while PEGIDA were accused of being “Nazi” and “Fascist”
PEGIDA decided to debunk all such claims and brought in an Israeli flag in
honor of the Jews when leftist announced that they were going to mount a
massive counter-demonstration on Monday to disrupt the PEGIDA event. PEGIDA
organizers had to act quick and within just 48 hours were able to muster the
troops and decided to hold the demonstration on Sunday (today) instead of on
Monday, their normal day, to avoid violence from leftists and despite what
the media claimed, they brought in even more massive numbers than before.
(We can now say that Europe is no longer under
the control of the elites. Greece
has fallen to the anti-bailout party Syriza and on the very same weekend, Germany (along with new recruits all over Europe ) saw near-record rallies of Pegida, which the
"lying press," as they call it, has tried to suppress and grossly
misrepresent. They are flying the Israeli flag, demonstrating to the world that
it is not they who are anti-Semitic but rather
the elites who import boatloads of Muslims who then persecute the
Jews. This is real grassroots organizing of the kind not seen since the fall of
the Soviet Union . These people understand that
the EU IS the Soviet Union transplanted. When
will it be our turn? --Don Hank)
ISLAM: The Murder,
Mayhem and Misery
Excerpt: One need look no further than West
Africa to understand that Islam is the ideology of murder, mayhem
and misery. Earlier this month the Islamic terror group Boko Haram rampaged
through the Nigerian town of Baga
slaughtering over 2,000 innocents.
Armed police arrest
five men after fight in Bromley as officers seize AK47 rifle, WWII machine gun
and a rocket launcher
Excerpt: Armed police arrested five men after a fight in
south east London
this morning as police seized an AK47 rifle, a WWII machine gun and a rocket
launcher. (I'm posting this here because I have twenty bucks that says they
were members of the Religion of Peace. The tradition of the "Unarmed
Bobby" is as dead as chivalry. ~Bob)
Spielberg warns of
growing anti-Semitism at Holocaust event
Excerpt: Film director Steven Spielberg told a group of
Holocaust survivors on Monday that Jews are again facing the "perennial
demons of intolerance" from anti-Semites who are provoking hate crimes and
trying to strip survivors of their identity. His warning came in a speech to
dozens of Auschwitz survivors the evening before official commemorations
marking the 70th anniversary of the Soviet army's liberation of the death camp
in Nazi-occupied Poland.
About 300 survivors will gather with leaders from around the world Tuesday to
remember the 1.1 million people killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau and the millions
of others killed in the Holocaust. Leaders expected include the presidents of Germany and Austria ,
while the United States
is sending a delegation led by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, who is an Orthodox
Jew. Lew's family left Poland
before World
War II.
The Real Islam: Israel
was behind terror attacks in France
Excerpt: The poll found that 84.4% support the claim that
"the operation (i.e., terror attack) was suspicious, and that Israel may be behind it," while
"only 8.7% believed that the murder of the French [citizens] in Paris was a natural result of the spread of Islamic
extremism in Europe ."
Kurds close to
driving Islamic State out of Syria
Excerpt: Kurdish fighters, backed by U.S.-led air strikes,
are close to regaining full control of the Syrian town of Kobani
near the Turkish border from Islamic State fighters, a group monitoring Syria 's war and
a Kurdish official said on Monday.
Toll of Filipino
commandos killed in rebel clash rises to 43
Excerpt: At least 43 Philippine police commandos were killed
in a fierce battle with Muslim guerrillas after launching an assault in which
they may have killed one of Southeast Asia 's
most-wanted terrorists, officials said Monday. The clash Sunday — the biggest
single-day combat loss for the government in recent memory — may have resulted
from the commandos' failure to follow the terms of a cease-fire with the
guerrillas by notifying them of their presence in the area, a rebel leader
said.
Important: New Saudi king ascends the throne as
terrorism threat grows
Excerpt: At 3 a.m. on a cold desert night earlier this
month, four Islamic State militants carrying guns, grenades and cash slipped
into Saudi Arabia here through a hole in the new heavy fencing that separates
this country from Iraq. ... Heavily armed troops were dispatched to confront
them. When the battle ended, the four intruders — all Saudi citizens — and
three Saudi soldiers were dead, including the local base commander, who was killed when a militant pretending
to surrender detonated a suicide vest. ... Except
for Syria and Iraq , where the Islamic State controls
territory, no country is more directly threatened by Islamist militants than Saudi Arabia , which the extremists regard as a
traitor to Islam for Riyadh ’s close associations
with the United States
Inside France
Excerpt: This has been reported for years. The New York
Times reported
in April 2002, “Arab gangs regularly vandalize synagogues here, the North African
suburbs have become no-go zones at night, and the French continue to shrug
their shoulders.” And Newsweek said
in November 2005: “According to research conducted by the government’s domestic
intelligence network, the Renseignements Generaux, French police would not
venture without major reinforcements into some 150 ‘no-go zones’ around the
country–and that was before the recent wave of riots began on Oct. 27. Just two
weeks ago, the New
Republic wrote: “The word banlieue (‘suburb’) now connotes a
no-go zone of high-rise slums, drug-fueled crime, failing schools and poor,
largely Muslim immigrants and their angry offspring.”
IS Executes Women in Mosul
Excerpt: The Islamic State (IS) militants have executed
seven women in Mosul
for refusing temporary marriage, or ‘nikah’. Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
official from Mosul Saed Mamuzini told BasNews that IS are demanding women
accept nikah with insurgents. Nikah is a temporary marriage which permits the
participants to have sex. “Many women refuse to have sex with IS militants, in
which cases they are arrested. The militants often kill them,” said Mamuzini. (Temporary marriage is an established
Shi’ite concept. Shi’ites justify temporary marriage, mutah, by their reading of
Qur’an 4:24: --Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.org)
*****
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://www.amazon.com/Coming-Collapse-American-Republic-prevent/dp/1461122538/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304815980&sr=1-5
For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s
eleven books are listed here:
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html.
His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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