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use links to pieces in the Washington
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intemperate language or wild speculation, conspiracy theories with no
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these posts critically and with skepticism.
General News and Comment
Worth Reading
Excerpt: The world might currently seem unusually disorderly,
but it can be so without being unusually dangerous. If we measure danger by the
risk of violence, the world is unusually safe. For this and other reasons,
Americans should curb their pessimism. The Post’s Anne
Applebaum recently reminded readers that in three decades of terror the
Irish Republican Army murdered more than 2,000. And Italy ’s Red Brigades committed many
attacks, killings and kidnappings. Both groups had foreign support. The Islamic
State is dangerous, but the West has faced, and surmounted, worse. ... An
Egyptian diplomat, expressing his nation’s disdain for other Arab nations, once
dismissed them as “tribes with flags.” (Maybe so, but it seems to me American's
position in the world has been declining over the last six years. We lost the
gains in Iraq
paid for in American blood. Iran
is ever-closer to being able to nuke New York City
or Washington , DC Libya had been made quiet, is now a
terrorist hell hole, thanks to Obama. Yemen , his success story, has
fallen to Iran-allied Shi'a, but al Qaeda is on the march there as well. Nigeria
may soon be lost to Boko Haram. The White House has managed to alienate both Egypt and our one true friend in the area, Israel .
Saudi Arabia continues to
play its double game, and increasingly sees the US as the weak horse. [Obama sees
them as an ally in his war on American energy production.] The situation in Syria
grows worse every weak, as we vacillate on bad guys to support; there are no
good guys there. China is on the march in the Far East, intent on recreating
Japan's "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, and increasingly our
allies there are realizing that America burdened by unbelievable debt,
including the unfunded liabilities for SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Government
Pension promises, Food Stamps and Obamacare--much of that debt held by
China--and an increasingly feeble military as defense is cut to pay for free
butter, cannot protect them. I think we will start to see them making the best
deals they can with the Chinese dragon. And the invasion of illegal aliens
intent on colonizing us with the failed culture they fled threatens to destroy
the very things they came here for, a fine example of the Tragedy of the
Commons. Meanwhile, Americans grow more ignorant of government, politics and
current events, and are distracted by political sidelines like Ebola, vaccines
and gay marriage, that do not have near the impact on our future that he above
issues do. I only fight on because I'm a Marine, and quit wasn't on the
curriculum at Parris Island . ~Bob)
FLASHBACK? All Those
Times Hillary Clinton Had ‘Brian Williams Moments’ & Nobody Asked Her to
Resign. By Kyle Becker
Excerpt: Way back in March 2008, prior to becoming Secretary
of State under President Obama, the former Senator of New York conceded that
she “did misspeak” about an unbelievably dramatic incident that was
supposed to have happened in Bosnia during a visit she had made there in 1996.
You see, Mrs. Clinton had once “embellished” her record (for those of us
in flyover country, that’s fancy talk for “made up”). In 1996, Hillary
Clinton claimed of her Bosnia
visit, “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some
kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our
heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”
I'm shocked! Shocked, I say! Lois Lerner Emails Show
Obama’s Justice Department Assisted IRS To Target Conservative Groups
Excerpt: Despite
the government’s refusal to release over 800 pages of Lerner communications,
some documents that have been released show that she was discussing the
targeting of conservative groups with members of the DOJ two years before the
IRS even admitted that its actions were improper.
Tweet from Daniel @Orlandodanny
All the Democrats who endorsed and voted for the governor of
Oregon knew
essentially as much in November as they do now
Excerpt: After Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber (D)
officially resigns on
Wednesday, the state will become the first with an openly bisexual governor in
American history. Secretary of State Kate Brown, the incoming governor, has
been involved in state politics for decades. She was first appointed to the
state House of Representatives in 1991 and elected a year later. She later rose
to the state Senate where she served as majority leader. Brown was elected as
secretary of state in 2008. (If I lived in Oregon , this wouldn't bother me at all,
though I suspect she would support progressive anti-growth policies that hurt
the poor and middle class which would bother me a great deal. ~Bob)
Tweet from AJ Bulldis @AJBulldis
She will also be the first openly bisexual governor that MSM
cannot shut up about.
Tweet from Anna Maria Perez⭐ @A_M_Perez
Actually genocide is the easiest way to earn the Nobel peace
prize.
Struggling Mother Of
Child With Cerebral Palsy Wins $188 Million In Powerball Grand Prize
Excerpt: A struggling North Carolina mother of four who had quit her jobs at McDonald’s and
Walmart to focus on taking care of her children, one of whom has cerebral
palsy, just found out she has won $188 million dollars in the recent
Powerball lottery, WECT.com reports. Twenty-six-year-old Marie Holmes
claims that she was not a frequent lottery player, although she did buy tickets
from time-to-time when she had some extra money lying around. (I hope she gets
some good advice before the sharks attack. ~Bob)
Bush blows away GOP
rivals with 2016 war chest
Excerpt: Jeb Bush’s money juggernaut is far eclipsing the
efforts of his would-be rivals for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination,
putting his two political committees on pace to amass an unprecedented sum of
tens of millions of dollars by early spring. The former Florida governor’s
overwhelming dominance in the race to line up financial backers has come at a
speed that has impressed longtime Republican money players, who say wealthy
party backers have rapidly migrated to Bush since 2012 nominee Mitt
Romney decided against another White House run two
weeks ago. (The people who wanted Romney out may have locked in Bush as the
nominee. We will see if the Law of Unintended Consequences bites them. ~Bob)
The Hate Crime President. By John Ransom
Excerpt: Over a parking spot, right? Murder? Yes. Hate
crime? No. And lawyer Obama should know it. Except for this: One gets the
feeling that Obama and the Department of Justice have long planned for a
scenario where innocent Muslims would face a backlash over continuing Islamic
violence aimed at Western societies.
Good Article Written by the AFL-CIO President... Seriously.
By Nick Sorrentino
Excerpt: However, a new and outrageous wrinkle has gained
increasing prominence on Wall Street: the acceleration of equity awards for
executives who voluntarily resign to enter government service. ...
Government-service golden parachutes raise troubling questions. How do Wall
Street banks benefit from giving their executives a financial incentive to
enter government service? Do they expect to receive favorable government
treatment from their former executives? And if not, why should bank
shareholders be asked to bear the cost of such golden parachutes?
Trucker Catches a
Girl’s Face Peeking Out of RV Window. What He Saves Her from is Beyond
Horrific.
Excerpt: “I saw a guy come up and knock on the door then go
inside the Pilot–then quickly came back and knocked again, all of the sudden
the thing was rocking and rolling.” Kimmel, a veteran trucker, said it was a no
brainer what was going on, so he dialed deputies. When the authorities arrived,
they arrested a couple who had been forcing a 2o-year-old girl into sex
slavery. The girl was malnourished and tortured by her captors.
Journalism today: Write something historically sub-literate
and myopic, oblivious to other points of view, then be confused at criticism.
Excerpt: Forty years after the Swedish parliament
unanimously decided to change the formerly homogenous Sweden into a
multicultural country, violent crime has increased by 300% and rapes by 700%. Sweden is now number two on the list of rape
countries, surpassed only by Lesotho
in Southern Africa . Significantly, the report
does not touch on the background of the rapists. One should, however, keep in
mind that in statistics, second-generation immigrants are counted as Swedes. In
an astounding number of cases, the Swedish courts have demonstrated sympathy
for the rapists, and have acquitted suspects who have claimed that the girl
wanted to have sex with six, seven or eight men. (Multi-Culturalism Mega Fail.
--Lauren.)
Has the minimum wage
kept up with inflation? By Paul Guppy, WPC Vice President for Research
A rare photo of Lincoln
Tweet from Famous-Quote.net @famousquotenet
Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written
Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. - Thomas
Jefferson
Gun News
Kris Held, MD in Texas
Concealed Carry Can Help Reduce Sexual Assault at
Universities. By Gabriella Hoffman
Excerpt: In a time where sexual assault is on the rise at
American universities, it's important to curb this trend by effective means. How
can universities best address and eradicate the threat of sexual assault on
campus? Allow concealed carry on campus. (Gun-free zones are really criminal
empowerment zones, where criminals know their law abiding victims will be
unarmed. ~Bob)
Ruidoso man shoots
would-be burglar; another suspect has not been arrested yet
Excerpt: The department reports that Saiben R. Gabaldon, who
was born in 1992, and another man kicked in the door to a home in the 100 block
of Sunny Slope Drive
in Ruidoso while the homeowner was there with his young child. The homeowner,
who had armed himself with a .45 caliber pistol, confronted the two men inside
the home. The homeowner, fearing for the safety of himself and his child, fired
one round at Gabaldon, striking Gabaldon in the back of the left leg. The other
unknown male fled the scene and was not located. (Homeowners needs more time at
the range. ~Bob)
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Rep. Mia Love on the
floor discussing healthcare
Last-minute glitch
ahead of Sunday ACA deadline
Excerpt: As the clock ticked toward the Sunday night
deadline for Obamacare's 2015 enrollment, federal officials on Saturday
grappled with a glitch that prevented people from getting their income verified
so they could sign up for insurance. Federal and state officials had said they
were prepared for a last-minute surge in Affordable Care Act sign-ups. But some
consumers were unable to submit their applications because of
"intermittent issues" with the external income verification sources
used by HealthCare.gov, . Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman
Katie Hill said Saturday afternoon.
Undocumented Democrat News
IRS: Illegal
Immigrants Who Didn't Pay Taxes Could Get Refunds
Excerpt: Illegal immigrants who have never paid taxes can
now claim tax refunds due to President Barack Obama’s executive action, the IRS
commissioner admitted. Commissioner John Koskinen said that no one bothered to
ask what the tax implications of Obama’s sweeping action on illegal immigration
could be. About 7,000 undocumented workers pay taxes using a current taxpayer
ID. Now, 7 million illegal immigrants can apply for work permits and Social
Security numbers, making them automatically eligible for earned income tax
credit. (This kind of thing will bring a rise in tax evasion. ~Bob)
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Global Warming was NEVER Scientific. By Paul Benedict
Excerpt: A Philosophy of Science: Part I. All anyone has to
do to get an American to believe any absurd lie is to hire some “scientist”
with alphabet soup behind his name, put him in a white lab coat, and have him
utter: “Science conclusively shows that…” Then name the absurdity: “the sky is
green,” “toothpaste causes tooth decay,” or “fungi have an I.Q. equal to
baboons.” The idiot American will wander off marveling and willing to vote for more
limited economic conditions or to have fungi teach in the public schools. Americans,
and the West in general, can be excused to an extent for this naiveté about the
claims of “science” because they are surrounded on every side with evidence of
the power of science.
Religion of Peace News
Must Watch: Bill Warner, PhD: Jihad vs. Crusades
Tweet from David Burge @iowahawkblog
And seriously, reporters, what's up with this "the
Prophet Mohammed" business? Would you ever use "the Savior Jesus
Christ" in a story?
Excerpt: Between 20 and 25 ISIS fighters
wearing Iraqi Army uniforms infiltrated al-Asad airbase Friday -- the sprawling
western Iraqi base where 400 American forces are training Iraqi troops -- and
tried to enter the base, military officials said. The ISIS fighters were killed
as Iraqi forces repelled the attack, officials said, and no U.S. military service members were
affected by the attack.
All murder is a hate crime. No need to investigate it. They
got the guy. I say try and execute him if found guilty. Will the left support
the death penalty for this left-wing atheist? And, you can check with the
FBI--hate crimes against both Jews and gays far exceed those against Muslims. Lot 's of hate crimes against whites as well, though often
not labels as such. ~Bob
Excerpt: A quick trip to the Craig Hicks's Facebook page reveals
that not only was Hicks a fan of the SPLC, he was a self-described
“militant atheist”- with numerous photos, memes and posts mocking Christianity.
Some posts call God a sociopath and call Christianity a “pyramid
scheme.” His other Facebook likes include the Neil DeGrasse Tyson
television show “Cosmos,” famous British atheist Richard Dawkins, Bill Nye the
Science Guy, Sarah Silverman, Friedrich Nietzsche, The Huffington Post, LGBT
Ally groups and various other progressive fan pages. ... Hicks isn’t the first
SPLC fan to turn violent. In 2012, the group’s “Hate Map,” which lists the
addresses of various groups SPLC claims are right-wing extremists, inspired a
gunman to enter the Family Research Council in 2012 and attempt to kill
everyone in the building.
CNN reports Islamic
center fire intentional; ‘Tea party members are out here killing
innocent people’
Excerpt: CNN’s Erin Burnett is reporting Friday night that
the fire that broke out at Quba Islamic Institute in southeast Houston early Friday
morning was set intentionally, at least according to a preliminary
investigation.
US Apache Helicopters
Attack ISIS Base: Report
Excerpt: American helicopters engaged Islamic State group
fighters in Iraq
on Friday, according to CNN’s Chief National Security Correspondent Jim
Sciutto. The deployment of helicopter gunships comes days after U.S. President
Barack Obama submitted a request to Congress for authorization to wage war
against the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS.
Muslims exercising the multicultural veto
on speech: 1
dead as Copenhagen
Excerpt: Copenhagen
No Surrender: ISIS
Captures 17 Soldiers and Plans Brutal Murders in Same Way as Last Execution
They Carried Out on Video
Excerpt: ISIS has
released a new video of a parade with seventeen humans in cages, which shares
way too many similarities with how Jordanian pilot Moaz Al-Kasasbeh was burned
alive.
The video reportedly takes place in Kirkuk , Iraq Iraq in June of 2014. (People fighting
American Indians knew that the routinely tortured captives to death for
entertainment, so saved the last bullet for themselves, as the leaders of the
Fetterman disaster reportedly did in1866. This will have to be the rule for
those fighting ISIS . ~Bob)
Israeli Political
Commercial
Click on image to enlarge.
Turkish police use
water cannon on protesters decrying religion in schools
Excerpt: Turkish police used water cannon in the western
coastal city of Izmir
on Friday to disperse scores of protesters boycotting schools over the growing
influence of religion in the classroom, local media reported. Education is the
latest flashpoint between the administration of President Tayyip Erdogan, and
secularist Turks who accuse him of overseeing creeping 'Islamisation' in the
NATO member state.
Everything We Know So
Far About The Alleged Chapel Hill Shooter
Excerpt: Craig Hicks was charged with first-degree murder
Wednesday. He has shared many atheist and anti-religious posts on Facebook. He
appears to have defended Muslims and freedom of religion in past online
comments. .. " Beyond that though after being in D.C. for a decade and
knowing several dozen Muslims for most of that time I can say that they aren’t
what most think of them. In fact, I’d prefer them to most Christians as I was
never coerced in any way by the Muslims to follow their religion, which I
cannot say about many Christians."
Excerpt: Three Muslims were murdered by a psychopath enraged
over a parking space in North
Carolina , and Muslims all over are tweeting
#Muslimlivesmatter. Will they get similarly outraged over this, and start to
address the theological foundations of the Sunni-Shi’ite dispute, so as to try
to prevent further bloodshed? Will they begin to work toward reform and
rejection of the understandings of Islam that incite Muslims to violence?
Excerpt: In North
Carolina , a psychopath murdered three Muslims over a
parking space, and we are admonished that #Muslimlivesmatter, and there are new
calls for restricting speech that examines how Islamic jihadists use the texts
and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism. About this
incident, in contrast, there will be no such outrage, and no calls to restrict
anti-Christian hate speech. Do #Christianlivesmatter? “Isis horror, 21
Christians slaughtered in Libya ,” ANSAmed, February 13, 2015:
'Half of names of Gaza
Excerpt: Almost half the names that appear on a Palestinian
list of journalists killed during last summer’s conflict with Israel actually
belong to Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives and members of Hamas media outlets
who were involved in Gazan terrorist organizations, a new report has found.
U.N. Report: ISIS Enticing
Young Recruits with Christian Sex Slaves. But they are just
"JV" right? By Trey Sanchez
Excerpt: According to a newly released U.N. report, ISIS is
auctioning off nearly 500 women and girls trafficked from Christian and Yezidi
communities to entice young recruits from Iraq
and Syria .
The 29-page report states: Women and girls are brought with price tags for the
buyers to choose and negotiate the sale. The buyers were said to be mostly
youth from the local communities. Some of the women are also being offered to
current ISIS fighters as rewards. The report
also states that ISIS is executing
professional and political women.
Border Patrol Agents
Catch Middle Eastern Man Sneaking Into Texas
Excerpt: The
arrest took place earlier this week just south of the border city of Pharr
WARNING--VERY GRAPHIC: Islam
“I know it is not Islam, but Muslims do not protest and our
leaders still are in extremely good contact with those countries that
supply weaponry and support those beasts !” -- Sent by a Belgian friend to a
blog reader. (This is as bloody ad graphic as it gets. ~Bob)
*****
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.
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