Update
Random Thoughts for
February, 2015. By Robert A. Hall
Feel free to post or forward.
General News and Comment
Quote
When a man says that he approves
something in principal, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting
it in practice. --Otto Von Bismarck
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/opinion/column/guest/orange-county-register-crowded-gop-field-will-thin-itself/article_87a2571e-52b7-5c78-94bb-cc134b084935.html
Excerpt: The temptation for Republicans is to worry that too
many candidates will crowd the field. Since George W. Bush left office, every
presidential primary has acquired more than a whiff of a freak show — with dud
candidates like Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich creating
political circuses that ultimately amounted to nothing. It all compounds the
adage that the quicker a nominee is selected, the sooner he or she can train
fire on the other party’s pick. On balance, however, Republicans ought to
relax.
Obama’s Green
Lipstick Moment
Excerpt: There was a time, not so long ago, when
interviewing the President of the United States was considered the
pinnacle of a professional journalist’s career. Such an opportunity to probe
the mind of the man responsible for directly or indirectly impacting the lives
of virtually every person on the planet, was entrusted only to those with the
qualifications and pedigree to handle such an important assignment; not to
mention making the most of the president’s valuable and limited time.
An "Own Goal" Error: Legislator Apologizes
After Photo Shows He Parked In Handicapped Space
Excerpt: The photo was posted by Kevin Brookman on his We
The People
blog Friday and shows state Rep. Brandon L. McGee Jr.'s BMW parked in a
handicapped parking spot outside the Dunkin' Donuts shop at 365 Capitol Ave. McGee, a Democrat,
represents portions of Hartford and Windsor .
‘Iraqi Muslim’ Interpreter Has
More Than a Few Words for People Who Claim Chris Kyle Was ‘Racist.’ By Jason Howerton
Excerpt: One of the repeated allegations made against
legendary Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle is that he was “racist” because he
referred to radical Islamic militants in Iraq as “savages.” Just on Tuesday,
MSNBC’s foreign correspondent claimed that “some” people believe Kyle was open
about his “racist tendencies” as he went on “killing sprees” while
serving in Iraq .
Chris Matthews: The
2016 Democratic National Convention belongs in Philadelphia
Hope so. Convention costs in Philly are very high due to the
Union rules. ~Bob
Interesting: Bernie Sanders is right to be outraged
Excerpt: It’s just 9 a.m., but the socialist senator,
contemplating a presidential run as a Democrat or as a populist independent, is
red in the face and his white hair askew. In a conference room at
The Washington Post, he’s raising his voice, thumping his index
finger on the table and gesturing so wildly that his hand comes within inches
of political reporter Karen Tumulty’s face. (He can't win the Democrat
nomination. And if he runs as an independent, some left wing fanatic is likely
to take him out to protect Hillary. I doubt he has the guts to run. ~Bob)
Jeb Bush Wins Big With Mitt Romney Out of 2016 Race.
By Jeff Henderson
Excerpt: If Jeb Bush wins the Republican presidential nomination,
he might have Mitt Romney to thank. Bush was smart enough to plant his flag
early, announcing six weeks ago that he was exploring running for president.
That was enough for donors and staffers to join Bush’s team early in the
process and force Romney to bow to reality. Sure, Romney was at the head of the
pack in the polls this month but that would not have lasted long once the
knives came out. Nobody seemed enthused about yet another Romney presidential
campaign. (Many "conservatives" have been demanding Romney not run.
They got their wish...and likely Jeb with it. In my book, every one running on
the GOP side is a conservative, some more than others, and some are off track
on some issues with me. And there is no one running I don't have some problem
with. But if you refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils, you will be
governed by the greater of two evils--see Obama, Barack. ~Bob)
Suicides of young
vets top those of active-duty troops
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/10/suicide-veterans-rates-high-prevention/4393547/
Excerpt: Young veterans just out of the service and
receiving health care from the government committed suicide at nearly three
times the rate of active-duty troops in recent years, according to data
released Thursday by the Department of Veterans Affairs. VA officials
say the data show that severe personal issues driving self-destructive tendencies
for those in uniform follow them when they leave the military. The figures were
released through a USA
TODAY public records request. (It looks like the suicide rate of young vets is
4X that of nonvets of the same age group right now. This is pretty disturbing,
and I wonder what's going on, and I hope the VA can get a really decent study
done soon that explains some of it, and thus shows the way to start working
against it. One detail... one article said 22 vets a day are committing
suicide, which is a total mindblower. Also totally nuts, that would
be 8000 vet suicides per year. In 2011 the total was 152. Apparently
some people who write news articles are just a tad deficient in math skills.
--Del. As with global warming and other scares, I always ask cui bono? Researchers have a lot of
research dollars to gain from all these scares. Treatment groups too. ~Bob.)
Worth Reading
Excerpt: 1. In the President’s State of the Union address,
he bragged about how U.S.
oil production has surged thanks to shale drilling. Question for Mr. Obama:
Does he not recall that he and his followers have been fighting and harassing
the oil companies that are finding and producing all of that oil? Does he
believe he deserves any credit at all for acts and successes done by people
against whom he has waged war since he was a child? 2. In his SOTU, Mr. Obama
bragged that the USA
now has the highest high school graduation rate in its history. Roughly 80
percent of entering high school freshmen now graduate. Questions: Is Mr. Obama
aware that in the city where he gave his speech, Washington , D.C.
The Debaltseve Encirclement Complete- 9000 Ukrainian
Soldiers Trapped! Mercy Offered! By George Eliason
Excerpt: Debaltseve is a key transportation city in Donbass
and is now the scene of the largest battles of the Ukrainian war. Forces from
Donetsk Peoples Republic (DNR) and Lugansk Peoples Republic(LNR) moved in
surrounding Ukrainian infantry, artillery, and tank divisions over the last few
days. A few days ago one Ukrainian tank and armored personnel carrier(BMP)
group tried to break through at the village
of Elenovka near Donetsk . Ukrainian
troops stormed the village killing 9 DNR infantry. The tanks and BMP’s
then attacked civilians trying to escape.
The Surprising Power
of Blue-State Republicans
Excerpt: The blue-state Republicans make it far harder for a
very conservative candidate to win the party’s nomination than the party’s
reputation suggests. They also give a candidate who might seem somewhat out of
touch with today’s Republican Party, like Jeb Bush, a larger base of potential
support than is commonly thought. ... But the blue-state Republicans still
possess the delegates, voters and resources to decide the nomination.
Excerpt: Mitt Romney’s decision to forgo a third try at the
White House has settled the question of whether the 2016 GOP presidential field
has a front-runner — bestowing a coveted status on former Florida governor Jeb
Bush that also raises new challenges and perils. Republicans have a tradition
of picking an anointed one early. That establishment candidate almost always
ends up with the nomination, although not without a fight and some speed bumps
along the way.
Excerpt: Echaveste was Bill Clinton’s deputy chief of staff,
is a supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton and an advocate for immigration
reform – which all would have made her a target in the now
Republican-controlled Senate.
Excerpt: The new standard backed by
animal rights advocates has drawn ire nationwide because farmers in Iowa , Ohio and other
states who sell eggs in California
have to abide by the same requirements. To comply, farmers have to put fewer
hens into each cage or invest in revamped henhouses, passing along the expense
to consumers shopping at grocery stores. California
is the nation's largest consumer of eggs and imports about one-third of its
supply. ... Daniel Sumner, an agricultural
economist at the University of California, Davis, said prices initially could
rise dramatically this year but he expects them to eventually settle anywhere
from 10 and 40 percent higher in California and return to their normal price
elsewhere in the country. (So the CA legislators got overwhelmed by the PETA
people and decided that laying hens needed cages big enough for them to spread
their wings. That's somewhat larger than the standard cages for layers in real
chicken farms, and so, like anything that forces a business person to invest
more in producing their product, will increase their cost. OK, if people in CA
don't mind paying more for their eggs, then that's OK. The ones who are buying
free range eggs already pay more, quite a bit more, per dozen and choose to do
so. But getting so ambitious that the law forbids the sale of eggs from other
states if they don't meet the CA cage law is over the line, it's called
restriction of trade, and the Commerce Clause of the Constitution says you
can't do that between states. (That was the original purpose of that Clause way
back when.) So now other states are suing CA about this, which will cost the CA
taxpayers again, to defend this, and pretty likely lose. Meanwhile, some CA egg
producers will be able to invest in overhauling all their barns and get the
money back from revenues in the future when the price goes up. Other, smaller
producers will end up giving up. There's that Law of Unintended Consequences
again. You might hope that people elected to a legislature would think things
through better, but clearly that's asking too much up in Sacramento . --Del. Going to raise the price
of the free breakfasts they give to school students, too, thus hit the state
budget. ~Bob)
Show me your shocked face: Exclusive:
Spending- why 'red' states shoulder the deepest cuts under Obama. By Andy Sullivan
Excerpt: As Washington
has tightened its belt in recent years, the budget cuts have sliced most deeply
in states where President Obama is unpopular, according to an analysis of
federal spending by Reuters. ... Though Congress sets overall spending levels,
the Obama administration determines where much of that money ends up. ...
That has given administration officials more power to steer money to places
that might return the favor with votes, said John Hudak, an expert on federal
spending at the centrist Brookings Institution who worked with Reuters on the
analysis.
American Education: Teacher keeps job
despite ‘unsatisfactory’ rating 6 years in a row. By Susan Edelman and Amber Jamieson
Excerpt: The city Department of Education has failed to fire
a teacher rated “unsatisfactory” for six consecutive years. Ann Legra, 44, a
first-grade teacher at PS 173 in Washington
Heights
"Russian bomber
intercepted by Norwegian F-16s carried nuclear warhead"
Excerpt: A Norwegian military listening post intercepted
cockpit conversations revealing that one of the Tu-95 flying around the coast
of Norway
last Wednesday had a nuclear payload onboard. Two F-16s were scrambled from
Bodø airbase and met the Russian planes outside Finnmark."
Gun News
Excerpt: Because she bans Muslims, this Arkansas gun range is an Islam-free zone. If
I were in this business owner’s position, I don’t think I’d go this far. But at
the same time, it’s her business. If she wants to bar certain people from her
gun range for whatever reason, it’s her prerogative to do so. If she suffers as
a result, maybe she should change her policy. The thing is, it’s quadrupled her
business ever since she started enforcing the ban. And yes, she’s gotten the
threats of lawsuits from Muslims and organizations like CAIR, but she’s not
backing down.
This Marine Was The
‘American Sniper’ Of The Vietnam War
Excerpt: Long before Chris Kyle penned “American Sniper,”
Carlos Hathcock was already a legend. ... He deployed in 1966 as a military
policeman, but immediately volunteered for combat and was soon transferred to
the 1st Marine Division Sniper Platoon, stationed at Hill 55, South of Da
Nang. This is where Hathcock would earn the nickname “White Feather” — because
he always wore a white feather on his bush hat, daring the North
Vietnamese to spot him — and where he would achieve his status as the Vietnam
War’s deadliest sniper in missions that sound like they were pulled from the
pages of Marvel comics.
Then there was Chuck
Mawhinney
Excerpt: Charles Benjamin "Chuck"
Mawhinney (born 1949) is an Oregon-born American who
served in the United States Marine Corps as a sniper during
the Vietnam War.
He holds the record for the most confirmed kills by a USMC sniper, having
recorded 103 confirmed kills and 216 "probable kills" in his 16
months of action.[1]
Southgate man, 74,
shoots man breaking into house
Excerpt: “The defendant entered the home through a window
and had a firearm with him,” Smith said. “The house was occupied by a man and
his wife. He had a legal firearm and confronted the intruder. He ended up
shooting him and the defendant died at the scene.”
Man dies after
shooting at Leesburg apartment complex
Excerpt: The Leesburg Police Department said investigators
spoke with a man, identified as 28-year-old Jimmy Soto, who told them he heard
knocking at both his apartment doors and repeatedly said “go away” to the
person knocking. Investigators said Soto told them that Ricker attempted to
enter the doorway so he fired one shot hitting Ricker in the torso area Police
said Soto told them he was in fear for his fiancé, young daughter and son who
were in the apartment with him.
Woman, child shot in
south city home invasion; suspects sought
http://www.kmov.com/news/crime/Emergency-crews-responding-to-possible-shooting-in-South-City--289922661.html
http://www.kmov.com/news/crime/Emergency-crews-responding-to-possible-shooting-in-South-City--289922661.html
Excerpt: Police said an adult man was getting ready to leave
a home in the 3900 block of Lafayette
Avenue around 8:45 Tuesday morning when he opened
the garage and found a man with a gun. There was a struggle between the suspect
and man, which ended when a woman inside the house got a handgun and began
shooting at the suspect. The suspect and woman then exchanged gunfire. After
gunshots were exchanged, the suspect got into the victim’s car, which was
warming up in the driveway, and drove away.
Race Card News
You’ll Be Shocked to Read Who Helped Create This ‘Deeply
Disturbing’ Cop Killing Music Video. By Zach Noble
Excerpt: The city’s paying them for legal work — and they’re
shooting music videos calling for cop killings? A pair of New York City lawyers are facing heat for
participating in a music video that decries police shootings of young black men
and calls for police to be killed in return, Gothamist reported Thursday. The two lawyers with the
taxpayer-funded Bronx Defenders appeared in a December WorldStarHipHop music video and
allowed their office to be used in the video as well.
Tweets from BLACK REPUBLICAN @blackrepublican
This may come as a shock to many, but #BlackHistoryMonth
was created by Carter G. Woodson, who many historians consider to be a
conservative. - Why February was chosen for #BlackHistoryMonth:
it coincided w/the birthday of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Tweet from Paul Benedict @paulbenedict7
Met my 1st victim of #ObamaCare. Young
guy. Trying to lay a foundation 4 his life. Made 17 grand last year. $1,500
fine...oops I mean "tax"
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Excerpt: After years spent pushing biofuels as a
"clean" and "renewable" energy source, and after taxpayers
have spent billions of dollars in subsidies, environmentalists are starting to
realize that feeding crops to gas tanks isn't such a good idea after all. A
report released Wednesday by the World Resources Institute,
which the New York Times calls a "prominent
environmental think tank," blasts biofuels as land hogs that will raise
the price of food while doing little to meet the world's energy needs or fight
global warming. It sounds like a great idea to grow fuel instead of digging
coal or pumping oil. After all, people lived with burning wood for fuel for millennia.
But real technology and social practices need to be based on facts and logic,
not what sounds good. Corn into ethanol for fuel is counterproductive
energy-wise, but it sounded good and now the corn growers pay lobbyists to keep
Congress from canceling the subsidies. Every way of generating energy needs to
be examined objectively, with a close look at the cost/benefit ratio, but
that's now how things have been going for the last 20 years. Certainly some use
of biofuels for energy make good sense, so we won't see wood stoves all vanish.
Burning biodiesel from recovered cooking oils makes sense too. Other things can
be explored, but objectively, systematically, and without any rush based on how
people feel about it. --Del. I've been saying this on the blog for years, and
I'm hardly alone. Finally a "prominent environmental think tank" is
catching up to our thinking. In another ten years, they may even discover that
wind power is inefficient and economically not viable, while slaughtering
eagles and other birds. After pouring millions in tax dollars and subsidies
into it, like biofuels, of course. Duh. ~Bob)
Climate Change
Indicators in the United
States
Check out the heat waves in the 1930s. ~Bob
Religion of Peace News
Excerpt: In Iraq ,
the theater at Baghdad ’s
Mansour Mall was “full
and rowdy” during the film’s opening week—and the crowd was into it. ...
When asked by the Global
Post whether he felt the film was in any way racist or anti-Arab, as
one MSNBC reporter suggested on Friday, Mohammed replied, “No, why? The sniper
was killing terrorists, the only thing that bothered me was when he said he
didn’t know anything about the Quran!” Mohammed also went on to say that movies
like American Sniper gave him “strength to face ISIS .”
(Inviting an ISIS suicide bomber. ~Bob)
Worth Hearing: A special kind of hate. By Pat Condell
The basis of anti-Semitism in Europe .
Excerpt: For anyone who believed the British government
tripe claiming “significant progress has been made in partnership with the
community in tackling anti-Semitism,” here’s a bit that ought to be a wake-up
call – if the Paris
attacks didn’t already do that for you. A group called “Liberate Stamford Hill”
has planned a rally for March 22 at 2pm local time to oppose what it calls the
“Jewification of Great Britain.”
Excerpt: It has become routine. If the kosher-grocery
massacre in Paris
hadn’t happened in conjunction with Charlie Hebdo, how much worldwide
notice would it have received? As little as did the murder of a rabbi and three
children at a Jewish school in Toulouse .
As little as did the terror attack that killed four at the Jewish Museum in Brussels . The rise of
European anti-Semitism is in reality just a return to the norm.
Student Leader:
'Hamas & Shariah LawHave Taken Over UC Davis.' UC Davis Student Senator
Proud that Islamist Terrorist Group Represented on Campus
Excerpt: However the actual divestment vote was overshadowed
by a member of the UC Davis student senate, Azka Fayyaz, captioning a photo on
Facebook that "Hamas & Sharia law have taken over UC Davis. Brb crying
over the resilience." Hamas is an internationally recognized terrorist
organization with the goal of murdering Jews worldwide. The photo features
students in favor of divestment gathering around multiple Palestinian flags.
Muslims Gloat at Paris
Excerpt: A group of French Muslims posted photos of
themselves in front of the supermarket to Facebook just after the attack,
making rude gestures with their middle fingers in the pictures, reports
the French-language Le Monde Juif which provided screenshots.
In the caption of the photos posted by user
"Abdellah du Futur" reads vile messages such as "Charlie's
a mother (expletive)."
Official: Gunman
recorded terror attack on Parisian kosher grocery. By Paul Cruickshank, Jim
Sciutto and Steve Almasy, CNN
Excerpt: The information backed up a report by Eric
Pelletier, a national security reporter at the French magazine L'Express, who
wrote that Amedy Coulibaly recorded seven minutes of the attack, including the
moments when he killed three people. Citing a French source close to the investigation,
Pelletier reported Friday that Coulibaly was able to use a computer at the
market to email a copy of the attack video before he was killed by police.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: “The fight would continue, as it had in the
Crusades, until the injustice was completely removed. By imposing partition,
the United Nations would virtually precipitate Palestine into a bloodbath.” –Jamal Husseini,
1947. ... It should be obvious to all by now that the goals and visions of
Islamic jihad, as it exists in the West Bank and Gaza, takes precedence over
the lives and well-being of ordinary Palestinians: death to the Jews and the
elimination of the State of Israel, in the minds of Hamas and PA leadership, is
far more important than providing a means of livelihood and enduring
infrastructure for ordinary Palestinians. Better to build concrete tunnels with
the purpose of attacking Israeli Jews than to build homes and schools and
hospitals for Palestinian families. Moreover, that the majority of ordinary
Palestinians actually concur (after all, they elected Hamas) with these
nefarious adventures, as defined by Arafat and Abbas, speaks volumes about this
overwhelmingly anti-Jewish mindset an assortment of Israeli governments since
1948 have vainly attempted to conciliate.
French fracture laid
bare as 8-year-old praises terrorists
Excerpt: It was bad enough when France learned that the minute of
silence for victims of the nation's deadliest terror attacks in decades was not
respected by all students. Some children contested it, others walked out. But
when an 8-year old Muslim boy proclaimed, "I am with the terrorists,"
the alarm bells sounded at full strength. ... "I said, my son, do you know
what terrorism is. He said, 'No,'" the father, Mohamed Kebabsa, said later
on French television. He said he told his son the killings were "barbaric
... not an act of Islam."
Swastikas Found
Painted On Jewish Frat House
Excerpt: Two red swastikas were found painted on Alpha
Epsilon Pi’s house, an off-campus fraternity. The Davis Police Department says
they are investigating the incident as a hate crime. (Despite all the
media/liberal fretting about Islamophobia and a backlash against Muslims after
every Allah-murder, like Charlie Hebdo, hate crimes against both Jews and Gays
remain much higher than against Muslims. ~Bob)
Netanyahu Fires Back At 'Obama Army' Plotting His Defeat.
By Aaron Klein
Excerpt: Victory 2015, or V15, attracted U.S. media
attention after it hired 270 Strategies, a consulting firm whose senior
leadership is comprised mostly of former top staffers for President Obama’s
2012 re-election campaign. During a press conference Sunday, the Likud Party
officially accused V15 and other related nonprofits of being supported “through
millions of dollars funneled from Europe, the U.S. and the New Israel Fund and
international factors interested in bringing down Prime Minister Netanyahu” who
think “that all means are appropriate.”
The Return of
Anti-Semitism: Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, violence and
hatred against Jews is on the rise, especially in the Middle East and among
Muslims in Europe . By Jonathan Sacks
Excerpt: The moment would have been emotional at the best of
times, but this year brought an especially disturbing undercurrent. The Book of
Genesis says that, when God told Abraham what would happen to his descendants,
a “fear of great darkness” fell over him. Something of that fear haunted the
survivors this week, who have witnessed the return of anti-Semitism to Europe after 70 years of political leaders constant
avowals of “Never again.” As they finished saying Kaddish, the Jewish prayer
for mourners, one man cried out, “I don’t want to come here again.” Everyone
knew what he meant. For once, the fear was not only about the past but also
about the future.
New video purportedly
shows beheading of 2nd Japanese hostage by ISIS
Excerpt: An online video released Saturday appears to show
Islamic State executing Japanese journalist Kenji Goto -- the apparent end to a
frantic past couple of days in which Japan officials tried negotiating
to save Goto’s life. The video shows a militant with a British accent beheading
Goto, similar to other, recent execution videos released by the extremist
group. (I wouldn't want to write a term life policy on the Jordanian pilot
either. ~Bob)
Kenji Goto beheading
video: Wife says she is 'extremely proud' as a nation mourns hero killed by Isis . PM Shinzo Abe says Japan
Excerpt: Japan
has vowed to make Isis pay for its execution
of hostages Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe saying
they "will never forgive the terrorists".
The
release of a video on Saturday purporting to show the beheading of
Goto has sent shockwaves across the country, prompting the government to
heighten security measures at airports and overseas facilities following
further Isis threats.
'Kill our pilot and
we'll execute ALL your prisoners': Jordan
'says it will hang its ISIS captives' if
airman hostage is dead
Excerpt: Jordan
has threatened to fast-track the execution of a would-be suicide bomber the
Islamic State is trying to free if the terror group kills its captured pilot,
it was reported today.
The government has apparently warned that Sajida al-Rishawi
and other jailed ISIS commanders would be
'quickly judged and sentenced' in revenge for Muath al-Kaseasbeh's death.
It comes after a deadline for a possible prisoner swap
allegedly set by ISIS passed yesterday with no
clue over the fate of al-Kaseasbeh or fellow Japanese hostage Kenji Goto.
Excerpt: Contrary to what the Obama administration had
initially claimed in its public comments, top U.S.
diplomatic officials knew the U.S.
compound in Benghazi , Libya Diplomatic Security
Commander Center in Washington , D.C. , knew
that U.S.
embassy personnel were under a terrorist attack from the moment it began.
Qaddafi was willing
to step down peacefully but Hillary prevented it
http://www.examiner.com/article/qaddafi-was-willing-to-step-down-peacefully-but-hillary-prevented-it
Excerpt: The Citizens Commission on Benghazi revealed last year that Qaddafi was
willing to step down peacefully and was in negotiations with the U.S.
Government, but those negotiations ceased. AIM's Roger Aronoff quotes
their findings, "Despite the willingness of both AFRICOM Commander
Gen. Carter Ham and Muammar Qaddafi to pursue the possibility of truce talks,
permission was not given to Gen. Ham from his chain of command in the Pentagon
and the window of opportunity closed." (Yes, but would a GOP
administration have done any differently? The GOP legislators just recently
passed a bill to help the "moderates" defeat Assad, the only person
standing between Syrian Christians and death. Evil is bipartisan! --Don)
Worth Reading
Excerpt: On Feb. 12, 2008, Imad Mughniyah, Hezbollah’s
international operations chief, walked on a quiet nighttime street in Damascus after dinner at a
nearby restaurant. Not far away, a team of CIA spotters in the Syrian capital
was tracking his movements. As Mughniyah approached a parked SUV, a bomb
planted in a spare tire on the back of the vehicle exploded, sending a burst of
shrapnel across a tight radius. He was killed instantly. The device was
triggered remotely from Tel Aviv by agents with Mossad, the Israeli foreign
intelligence service, who were in communication with the operatives on the
ground in Damascus .
Worth Subscribing to JihadWatch.org: Brooklyn imam: “Let us admit…that we, the Muslims, are
time bombs…The majority of us Muslims hate the Christians.” By Robert Spencer,
JihadWatch.org
Excerpt: The imam Tareq Yousef Al-Masri apparently believes
that jihad terrorists have hijacked the Religion of Peace, as he says: “Anyone
claiming that we are not allowed to wish the Christians happy holidays has
prepared the killers in France, Boston, in Iraq, in Syria, in Egypt…These
people constitute the fertile ground for terrorism, which they present as the
religion of Allah, conveyed to the Prophet Muhammad, while Islam has nothing to
do with them.” Nonetheless, he has gone much farther than virtually all other
Muslim authorities and spokesmen in admitting that all too many Muslims are
taught to hate Christians (he could have added “and other non-Muslims”), and in
saying, “I am ashamed of the rotten and despicable conduct of the Muslims,”
when Islamic supremacists never, ever say a negative word about the activities
of any Muslim, but instead blame the Infidels for every jihad attack. Will he
now be denounced as an “Islamophobe” and a tool of the Zionists?
Coalition kills
Islamic State 'chemical weapons engineer'
Excerpt: US Central Command, or CENTCOM, reported yesterday
that it killed Abu Malik, an Islamic State "chemical weapons
engineer," in an airstrike near Mosul ,
Iraq Iraq
and then the Islamic State for a decade before he was killed.
The Strategic
Implications of Iran
Excerpt: In the 5th Century BC, the "Persian
disease" noted by Hippocrates probably was bubonic plague; in 8th-century Japan , it meant
the measles. Today it well might mean chlamydia. Standout levels of infertility
among Iranian couples, a major cause of the country's falling birth rate,
coincide with epidemic levels of sexually transmitted disease. Both reflect
deep-seated social pathologies. Iran
has become a country radically different from the vision of its theocratic
rulers, with prevailing social pathologies quite at odds with the self-image of
radical Islam. Iran 's
fertility decline from about seven children per female in 1979 to just 1.6 in 2012 remains a conundrum to
demographers. (The replacement rate is 2.1 live births per woman. ~Bob)
Video: State Department refuses to say if Taliban
attack on Americans was a terrorist attack
Worth Reading
Excerpt: 9. In the United States, Obama is operating in a
political environment where the public — based on longstanding prudential
American policy — believes we should not negotiate with terrorists because that
encourages and legitimizes their savage methods. Similarly, the public strongly
believes international terrorists are enemies who must be defeated, not
defendants who must be indicted. Obama knows he is negotiating with, intends to
settle with, and eventually will leave Afghanistan to the tender mercies
of, the Taliban. Therefore, the administration is desperate that you not look
at the Taliban as terrorists. 10. But they are terrorists.
*****
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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