Update
Seven appointments at the VA Thursday, over six hours of tests
and consultations. Numbers all good. No bad news--they are happy with my
progress since July. ~Bob
General News and Comment
True Love
As the pastor loves his God,
As the miser loves his lock,
As the farmer loves the sod,
The liberals love Barack.
As the mother loves her child,
As the mobster loves his pelf,
As the hunter loves the wild,
Obama loves himself. ~Bob
Defend Senator Ron
Johnson
WI conservative with a tough reelection fight in 2016. ~Bob
Excerpt: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) announced on Thursday
that she will not seek reelection in 2016, the first retirement announcement
from a Democratic senator ahead of the 2016 political cycle that will spark a
major political contest in California .
(Wish I thought California
wouldn't send the country someone even worse. Pray for a wealthy, articulate,
photogenic RINO who can win. The alternative could be Pelosi. ~Bob)
Obama avoids Phoenix
VA hospital, holds event less than mile away
Excerpt: Ignoring calls by veterans and Republicans to visit
a Veterans Affairs hospital in Phoenix
that launched a health care scandal, President Obama gave a speech about
homeownership instead Thursday less than a mile from the VA facility.
Are Democrats losing Jewish voters? By Jennifer Rubin,Washington Post
Are Democrats losing Jewish voters? By Jennifer Rubin,
Excerpt: Gallup
reports that in 2014, 29 percent of Jewish Americans said they
were Republicans, compared with 22 percent in 2008. “Meanwhile, 61% of American
Jews identified as Democrats or leaned Democratic, down from 71% in the
strongly Democratic year of 2008.” This appears to be more than just the normal
downturn in Democratic support: “The diminished Democratic skew among American
Jews in recent years is slightly more pronounced than the same trend among all
Americans. The percentage of the general population that identifies with or
leans Democratic has fallen by about seven percentage points since 2008,
compared with the 10-point drop among Jews
Hating John Kerry from the Left! Kerry, Murderer Of A Vietnamese Patriot, Comments On
Terror In Co-Terrorist France
Excerpt: What first comes to mind is US Secretary of State John Kerry's prestige for
his heroic Swift Boat killing of a Vietnamese in his own beloved country during
the holocaust the US
committed in Vietnam .
A wounded Vietnamese freedom fighter, who had been aiming a rocket launcher at
the Swift Boat Kerry commanded, was shot by Kerry as he was running away. Kerry
by daringly running his boat right at the danger was decorated for having saved
the boat and its crew. ["KERRY leaped ashore, pursued the man behind a
hootch and killed him" from official Silver Star Citation "For the
President, E.R. Zumwalt, Vice Admiral, Commander of US Forces in Vietnam"]
Secondly, that Kerry quite amazingly had enlisted more than a year after the
obvious sham Tokin Bay incident and the extending the bombing in the
South to include North
Vietnam as well. Kerry would later star in
headline news condemning the US
war on the Vietnamese, describing atrocities as nearly continuous during his
testimony before a congressional committee of the US House of Representatives.
Below is a great example of those people that we sometimes forget are out
there, the true haters of Western democracy in general, but of course the USA
at the top of the list. The writer is from the "rabid dog"
school of anti-US, procommunist activists. And sadly, there are people who tune
into this and love every word of it. Apparently it's OK in his mind that some
cartoonists in Paris
should be murdered in cold blood because of the history of French colonialism a
century ago. An interesting example of crazy righteousness. --Del )
Important: The House Just
Made It Harder for Politicians to Steal From Social Security Retirement Fund.
By Romina Boccia
Excerpt: This Tuesday, House Republicans nearly unanimously
adopted new
rules for the 114th Congress (H. Res. 5) which set the stage for
long-overdue Social Security reforms to protect disabled Americans and seniors
from indiscriminate benefit cuts. The new rule strengthens the integrity of
Social Security’s separate trust funds (disability and retirement) by putting a
procedural barrier in place to prevent lawmakers from raiding retirement funds
to shore up the bleeding disability trust fund. (I hate to tell them, but
there is no money in the SS retirement Trust fund. It's just IOE. The government
already spent the money and replaced it with special government bonds that
cannot be sold. The checks go out, because the government borrows more money to
pay off the bonds to cover the shortfall between what comes in in SS FICA taxes
and what must go out. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Working-class voters once believed that
Democratic-inspired intervention into the economy – minimum-wage laws, overtime
pay, Social Security, Medicare, workers' compensation – protected their
interests better than unfettered free-market capitalism. Republicans often had
trouble selling the argument that an unleashed economy and new technology would
relegate poverty to a relative, not absolute, condition – something like
suffering with a cheap outdated iPhone 4 while the better-off afforded an
iPhone 6. Why, then, have Democrats lost the working class – especially white,
lower-middle-class voters?
Excerpt: Florida
man Christian Gomez is alleged to have killed his mother with an ax, severing
her head at approximately 7:30 PM on December 31. He is charged with
first-degree murder in Pinellas
County FL
Coast Guard Sees 117%
Increase in Cuban Escape Attempts
Excerpt: Even as Washington
renews diplomatic ties with Havana , hundreds of
Cuban refugees continue to flee the Castro regime for America ,
braving the 90 miles of perilous open sea in crude homemade vessels. On Monday
the U.S. Coast Guard announced a surge of Cuban immigration attempts. In the
last week alone, in seven separate incidents, border patrols intercepted 121
Cuban refugees.
Gun News
Caption
that came with this photo:
106-year-old
Armenian woman protecting her home with an
AK-47 (1990).
Chris Christie administration proposes crop of new gun
regulations. By Chris Eger
Excerpt: Both firearms retailers and gun owners may soon
have to contend with a myriad of minor changes to state laws in New Jersey
ranging from shotgun reclassification to records inspections and other
mandates. As reported by NJ.com, the Garden
State
Terrorists take
advantage of restrictive French gun laws to kill 12
Excerpt: Gun Policy.org, a project of the Sydney School of
Public Health, which, while decidedly anti-gun nonetheless provides instructive
and useful compilations of gun laws from around the globe, notes “The regulation
of guns in France is categorized as restrictive.” The right to own
guns is not guaranteed by law, and private possession of handguns, “semi-automatic
assault weapons” and fully automatic weapons “is prohibited with only narrow
exceptions.” There is “genuine reason”-based licensing, which expires and must
be renewed, criminal and mental health background checks, registration, as well
as limits on how many guns and how much ammunition may be owned. It’s telling
that with under three million “civilian” guns registered (in a country with a
population of over 66 million), there are an estimated additional 16 million
“illicit guns.” (Restricting guns ensures that the law abiding are defenseless
in the face of armed criminals. ~Bob)
Excerpt: A year after Illinois
became the 50th and final state to implement concealed carry, law enforcement
officers in the state have reported what anyone in 49 previous states with
concealed carry could have told them in advance: fears ginned up by gun control
advocates of “blood on the streets” never came to pass.
Another M-16 response
Re, the M-16. Did three years of Combat Security in Vietnam .
Fired thousands of rounds without a single jam. When they dropped the magazine
count from 20 to 18 I never heard a single complaint of jamming. Just my
experience. -- A Modest Scribbler
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
How the White House Responded to Harvard Professors
Complaining About Obamacare Costs. By Natalie Johnson
Excerpt: White House spokesman Josh Earnest was on the
defensive Tuesday when Fox News’ Ed Henry pressed him on Harvard professors’
criticism of Obamacare amid rising health care costs.
Undocumented Democrat News
Coming soon across open borders: Ten bodies and 11
heads found in violent Mexican state
Excerpt: Mexican police found 10 decapitated corpses and 11
heads in a southwestern state that has become a major problem for President
Enrique Pena Nieto since the apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers there in
September.
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Climate change’s instructive past. By George F. Will
Excerpt: Actually, however, something about which everyone
can agree is that of course the climate is changing — it always is.
And if climate Cassandras are as conscientious as they claim to be about
weighing evidence, how do they accommodate historical evidence of enormously
consequential episodes of climate change not produced by human activity? Before
wagering vast wealth and curtailments of liberty on correcting the climate, two
recent books should be considered.
Religion of Peace News
Any newspapers that do not reprint the Charlie Hebdo
cartoons as a protest cannot say they are standing in solidarity with these
brave people who were murdered by Islamic terrorists. If every newspaper had
reprinted them, this would have spread the risk and perhaps stopped the murders
as they would know it wouldn't stop free speech. But few journalists or media
outlets have the Charlie Courage. Slowly they are being published. The
terrorists have guaranteed that tens of millions will see them. ~Bob.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Afghanistan
fighting started as a result of the terrorist attack on the United States on 9 September, 2001 when 3000 of
our people were killed in New York , Washington , and Pennsylvania .
President Bush went on TV and stated that this attack would not go unpunished.
He also let it be known that countries would either be with us or against us.
Countries that protected or housed terrorists would be considered as
unfriendly. That seemed to be quite clear, even though very broad. Radical
Islamists were identified as the major focus led by Osama Bin Laden under
al-Qaeda. For the last six years, radical Islamists have seemed to be given a
pardon because we no longer even speak their name. “Work place violence” is the
term used rather than terrorism when Maj. Nidal Hasan opened fire on unarmed
soldiers while killing 13 and wounding 30 others.
One surrenders, two
sought in Paris
Excerpt: One of the suspects, Cherif Kouachi, had a history
of funneling jihadi fighters to Iraq
and a terrorism conviction from 2008. He and his brother, Said, should be
considered "armed and dangerous," French police said in a bulletin
early Thursday, appealing for witnesses after a fruitless search in the city of
Reims, in French Champagne country. A third man, Mourad Hamyd, 18, surrendered
at a police station in a small town in the eastern region after learning his
name was linked to the attacks in the news and social media, said Paris
prosecutor's spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre. (They will send him to
prison, but not for life, where he will get Halal means and every consideration
for his faith. And be a bargaining chip for them to release when the terrorists
kidnap some decent folks, probably kids. ~Bob)
Apparently, Yelling
"Allahu Akbar" While Murdering Innocent People Has Nothing to Do with
Islam
http://lastresistance.com/9487/apparently-yelling-allahu-akbar-murdering-innocent-people-nothing-islam/
http://lastresistance.com/9487/apparently-yelling-allahu-akbar-murdering-innocent-people-nothing-islam/
Excerpt: This was clearly an act of radical Islamic
violence, there is no debating that, and yet there are those who fiercely do
so. The motivation behind the killings was the fact that the French publication
had routinely mocked Islam, and its prophet, Mohammed. Just as others who have
mocked, and exposed radical Islam have been executed, and threatened, these
men, and women were murdered for satire. They dared to draw the prophet, and
they paid the price for it.
The killing of cartoonists. By Ann Telnaes
Excerpt: After an initial feeling of shock upon learning of
the killings at the offices of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, I became
nauseous when I learned that four cartoonists were among the
twelve murdered during an editorial meeting. I never personally met any of
them, but I was familiar with the magazine and its irreverent cartoons and how,
in 2006, they defiantly published the Danish Mohammed cartoons when hardly any U.S. newspapers
decided to do so (including The Washington Post). It was not long though,
before my shock turned into the determination to join my colleagues in speaking
out against the attacks. It’s the 21st century, but cartoonists are being
murdered by people who are living in centuries past. (Maybe if the Washington
Post and the other major western papers had had the courage to republish the
cartoons, the terrorists would have realized they couldn't censor free speech
by killing the staff of one publication. ~Bob)
Excerpt: In Thursday’s print edition, the Washington Post
op-ed page is publishing the controversial cartoon of Charlie Hebdo magazine
spoofing the prophet Muhammad — the very piece of satire that prompted the 2011
fire-bombing of the publication’s Paris offices. (See a PDF of the full
page here.) (Good for the Post. Better late than never. Nice to see that
terror put some steel in their spines. ~Bob)
The Charlie Hebdo
Covers the Terrorists Didn’t Want You to See
Say Islam Is Violent and Jihadis Will Kill You. By Debra J. Saunders
Excerpt: Here's what I love about the French: They've long
understood the dangers presented by radical Islam. French President Francois
Hollande swiftly called the deadly Wednesday shooting at Paris ' Charlie Hebdo magazine "an act of
exceptional barbarity," without doubt a terrorist attack. There was no
hedging. The Socialist leader didn't engage in the sort of blather White House
spokesman Josh Earnest offered on MSNBC shortly after the shootings. Earnest
called the attack a "terrible act of violence," but not necessarily
terrorism.(If [God forbid] a Muslim terrorist shoots President Obama in the
White House, I bet President Biden [God forbid] calls it "Workplace
Violence. ~Bob)
Bill Maher: If You
Don’t Defend Freedom to Insult Prophet, You’re An Extremist Muslim
Excerpt: In his tweet, Maher wrote that condemning an
attack is not enough and alluded to a previous statement he made last year, in
which he pointed to the violent reaction extreme followers of the religion
elicit when Islam is made fun of; a reaction that differs starkly from any
other organized religion of modern time.
Maher: ‘Mainstream’
Muslims ‘Applaud’ Murder for Insulting Mohammed
Excerpt: To be a liberal, you have to stand up for liberal
principles. It’s not my fault that the part of the world that is against
liberal principles is the Muslim part of the world. There have been studies. We
have facts on this. Treatment of women. They studied 130 different countries.
Seventeen of the bottom 20 were Muslim countries. In 10 Muslim countries, you
can get the death penalty just before being gay. They chop heads off in the
square in Mecca .
Well, Mecca is their Vatican City . If they were chopping the
heads off of catholic gay people, wouldn’t there be a bigger outcry among
liberals?
Worth Reading
Which of these represents incitement to violence? A) Making
a film depicting the violent death of the ruler of North Korea , Kim Jong-un. B) Telling an angry crowd the night of the Ferguson grand jury
decision, “Burn this b*tch down!” C) Chanting, “What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it [sic]? Now!”
D) Making cartoons that offend Muslims. As you no doubt have observed, some
Americans on the left would pick (A) and (D), but not (B) and (C). I can see
the case for B and C, but I would be pretty wary about prosecuting individuals
in either case. If our society is going to bring the force of the law against a
person, and either fine them or put them in jail, there has to be a pretty
direct connection between their words and the violence that ensued. A certain
segment of Muslims in France
-- and in just about every Western country -- is attempting to implement
blasphemy laws through vigilantism. Sure, there’s no law on the books saying
you can’t do it, but if anybody catches you doing it, some young man -- with
seemingly nothing in this world he fears losing if he’s caught or killed
attempting to commit murder -- will come and find you and attack you. Few
American media companies are showing the cartoons of Charlie Hebdo that enraged
the rage-addicted Islamists of France. Credit Slate, the Huffington Post, the Daily, and BuzzFeed for showing them. That’s not an easy
decision; you never know when some Islamist out there might decide to show up
at the front door of the offices with a knife, a gun, lighter fluid, or a
homemade bomb to register their objection to a publication’s decision. Or maybe
the bastards look up your home address. Nonetheless, two of the infamous images are on NRO right now. (The Morning Jolt e-newsletter is free and
you should subscribe. ~Bob)
Cowards! Worth Reading
Excerpt: Ed Morrissey notes that
this editorial's authors fail to mention that Charlie Hebdo frequently
published images that offended and skewered other religions and revered images.
Was that also "stupid"? Or is that part and parcel of equal
opportunity satire? ... Perhaps insulting other religions is less stupid
because their adherents are less likely to, say, execute you for doing so. ..
Turns out the AP actually sells the
"Piss Christ" photo. Because, you see, they meticulously eschew
"deliberately provocative" photographs, unless those being provoked
aren't expected to firebomb offices, start riots, or mow down cartoonists. And
unless there's a buck to be made.
Excerpt: It’s time that we finally admit it. The battle for
Old Europe is over. The Gates of Vienna have finally been breached. Old Europe has been experiencing a tidal wave of violence and
terror in recent years correlating to and in direct proportion with the growing
influence of Muslims in the western part of the continent.
A publisher published something that offended. It mocked, it
offended, and it showed the fallacy of a religion. It angered. So the
terrorists decided they needed to publicly destroy and ruin the publisher in a
way that would not only make that destruction a public spectacle, but do it so
spectacularly that others would think twice before publishing or saying
anything similar.
Islam is the Most Violent Religion in the World, But Let’s
Keep Calling it ‘Peaceful’ Anyway. By Matt Walsh
Excerpt: And here we are again. You might recognize this
place. We’ve been here frequently over the past, say, 1,500 years or so. It’s
the place where the whole world stands in dumbfounded shock after witnessing
unspeakable brutality at the hands of Islamists. Maybe we should stop being so
surprised.
Palestinian Authority
Daily Praises Stabbing of Israeli Soldiers
Excerpt: A Palestinian Authority newspaper praised the Dec.
25 stabbing of two Israeli soldiers, referring to the act as Palestinian
"pride," a Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) translation of a story
in Al-Asima shows.
Excerpt: Two weeks after terrorists killed U.S. Ambassador
Christopher Stephens and three other Americans in Benghazi in September 2012, Barack Obama
announced to the UN, "The future must not belong to those who slander the
prophet of Islam." The Religion of Peace™ took his advice
Wednesday in Paris ,
as jihadis killed 12 people for daring to "slander the prophet of
Islam."
Islamic State crisis:
Religious police 'kidnapped' in Syria
Excerpt: Reports from Syria say that some members of the
religious police force set up by the militant group Islamic State (IS) have been
kidnapped. Activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said they had
been ambushed and abducted by unknown gunmen in the eastern city of Mayadin .
Jamaat Ansar al-Islam
in Syria
Excerpt: As outlined previously on this site and elsewhere in my writings, Jamaat Ansar al-Islam (JAI) is a
jihadi group that originated in Iraq and expanded into Syria in 2011 thanks at
least in part to the efforts of one Abu Muhammad al-Muhajir (an Iraqi himself
who was later killed near Mosul while returning from Syria to Iraq). A rival of the Islamic State (IS) because it did not
accept the statehood claims of IS or its previous incarnations, JAI tried to
ride the initial rapid wave of IS-spearheaded insurgent gains in Iraq beginning
with the fall of Mosul in June 2014 but soon found itself suffering from
arrests, killings and defections at the hands of IS.
Prime Minister Of Turkey Now Talking About Invading Jerusalem
Excerpt: A major talk was organized in Konya , the birth place of Prime Minister of
Turkey Ahmet Davutoğlu, and in his presence, before a jubilant crowd shouting
in Nazi style, Davutoğlu can be seen elated at the statements spoken by the
leader of Hamas, Khalid Mashal. The fiery speech hailed Turkey headed by Erdogan and Davutoğlu as the
representative and head of the entire Muslim world and praised him for the soon
invasion of Jerusalem
in the coming world war.
*****
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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