Update
Minus 10 degrees when I got up this morning to do my med
routine before rehab. Zero when I got home at noon. Made Lasagna and Corn Bread
for dinner, hunkering down, hoping for global warming. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Worth Seeing: This 12yr.Old Georgia Young Man Goes
Off On Obama In This Viral Video
Tweet from Pam Besteder @pambesteder
Wanna know what an articulate, clean, young Black man thinks
about our articulate, clean, Black President? (See above link. ~Bob)
FLASHBACK: Liberals Cheered Obama When He Questioned
George Bush’s Patriotism (Video). By Jim Hoft
Excerpt:
In 2008 then Senator Obama called President Bush “unpatriotic” for adding
trillions to the national debt. ... You certainly didn’t hear any reporters
lecturing Obama for his uncivil rhetoric after that outrageous attack.
Dad Furious About
Son's Immigration Assignment That Bashes GOP
Excerpt: An 8th grade social studies class at Shattuck Middle School
What Scott Walker Actually Said. By Lawrence Kudlow
Excerpt: Yes, believe it or not, Wisconsin governor Scott
Walker actually spoke at some length at the dinner this past week where Rudy
Giuliani charged that President Obama doesn’t love America . All the hullabaloo went to
Giuliani, but in terms of the Republican presidential race, a number of Scott
Walker’s pointed comments about policy and politicians are not to be missed.
... Walker was also highly critical of President
Obama’s conduct in the war against radical Islamism, and said the U.S. must wage a stronger battle in the air and
on the ground against ISIS . He stressed the
need for a positive Republican message in 2016, and bluntly criticized Mitt
Romney for spending too much time on the pessimistic economic negatives
emanating from Obama’s policy failures. And in an unmistakable rip at both Jeb
Bush and Hillary Clinton, he called for a new generation and fresh faces to
turn America
back in the right direction.
Excerpt: Walker
had vowed that union power would shrink, workers would be judged on their
merits, and local governments would save money. Unions had warned that workers
would lose benefits and be forced to take on second jobs or find new careers.
Many of those changes came to pass, but the once-thriving public-sector unions
were not just shrunken — they were crippled. Unions representing teachers,
professors, trash collectors and other government employees are struggling to
stem plummeting membership rolls and retain relevance in the state where they got
their start. (If the workers saw value in the unions, the unions wouldn't be
shrinking. I managed professional associations for 31 years. Every association
I was with had more paying members when I left than when I took over and no one
was required to join by government or anyone else. [Bar Associations are an
exception, as lawyers have to join to practice law.] People don't like being
forced to do things like join unions or give up large sodas "for their own
good." That's called freedom, now a quaint notion. ~Bob)
On, Wisconsin
Excerpt: The movement of Midwestern states toward
right-to-work comes just as they find a need to shield themselves and their
employers from the aggressively pro-union policies of the Obama administration,
which are aimed less at respecting workers' rights and more at propping up a
dying source of Democratic political strength. It also comes just as unions
have been exposed adopting new, desperate and heavy-handed tactics to stem
membership losses and reassert their relevance in a market where labor
standards and wages have passed them by. In at least three midwestern states,
unions developed a scheme to skim off the top of government benefits intended
for the ill and indigent, by forcing their unwilling caretakers to become
dues-paying members.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin
Lawyers Up After Three Deaths Are Linked To A VA Report She Sat On For Months.
by Matt Vespa
Excerpt: Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), the first openly gay
member of the U.S. Senate, may have landed herself in some trouble after it was
reported her office did
little to address the rather high rate of opiate prescriptions coming
out of the Veterans Affairs center in Tomah ,
Wisconsin Baldwin 's office fired a top
aide, offered her a severance package, and a confidentiality agreement. The
aide, Marquette Baylor, rejected the deal and is considering a sexual
discrimination lawsuit against Baldwin . At the
same time, Baldwin 's office had the Tomah VA
report since last summer. To make matters worse, three deaths are linked to the
overmedication problem highlighted in the report on the facility.
The Media's Breathtaking Double Standards on Patriotism and
'Civility.' By Guy Benson
Excerpt: When a conservative figure says something that
seems to impugn or question a prominent liberal's character or love of country,
"civility" SWAT teams are dispatched to knock down some proverbial
doors. Such transgressions mustn't stand. But when the dynamic is reversed,
the civility
police are curiously
off duty. Which brings us to Rudygate.
Welcome to the 2016
Piranha Tank, Republican Presidential Candidates. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Excerpt: Remember that Atlantic piece on the Islamic State that
everyone raved about, and that is really changing the way people think about
that Islamist terrorist group? Graeme Wood put tons of work into it. He
completed lots of interviews with some particularly unsavory characters, which
must have taken a lot of negotiation. Enormous amounts of research. The lengthy
article walks through some complicated concepts and a lot of history and
geography.
Journalism work like that is hard. It requires a really
good reporter/writer/researcher/thinker, good editors, and a publication
willing to be patient. Not everybody is that good. Not every editor is that
good, and not every publication can afford to be that patient. No, the simplest
and easiest news story that can create a stir, get web traffic and attention,
is the “can you believe this guy said this?” story. (Lord knows, I’ve written my share of them.) And just about any Republican at
any level, in office or out of office, is fair game for a national “can you
believe this guy said this?” story. (Dave Weigel identifies the “Republican
lawmaker” story trend here, where controversial comments from little-known, usually-powerless GOP
state legislators become national news.) (Morning Jolt is free and worth subscribing to. ~Bob)
Movie deals death
blow to vicious lies about Vietnam
Excerpt: Executive Producer Richard Botkin and Producer Fred
Koster take a provocative look at the Vietnam War and the troops who fought it
in the new documentary film, “Ride the Thunder: A
Vietnam War Story of Honor and Triumph.” The movie portrays the
inspirational story the media neglected – one of friendship, bravery,
patriotism and sacrifice. (Wherever this movie shows up, we need to go see it,
and preferably bring as many friends as possible. Please send this far and
wide. --Del )
Quote From The Patriot Post
"The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt.
Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression."
--Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Samuel Kerchival, 1816
Excerpt: Kiev accused
pro-Russian rebels of opening fire with rockets and artillery at villages in
southeastern Ukraine on Monday,
all but burying a week-old European-brokered ceasefire deal.
The Ukrainian military said it could not pull weapons from
the front as required under the tenuous truce, as long as its troops were still
under attack.
Excerpt: When grilled by Coffman on whether progress has
been made since McDonald took office and whether he has changed the culture of
mismanagement and unethical behaviors at the VA, the new chief responded in
defense of his record: “I ran a large company, sir, what have you done?” This
“Oh, snap!” moment went viral, and Coffman issued a statement about his own credentials in response,
including that he is a Marine Corps combat veteran. Coffman’s spokesman Tyler
Sandberg noted again to our colleagues at In the Loop that Coffman is a combat veteran who
served in both Iraq
wars, and took another jab at McDonald’s performance in his first six months on
the job.
Satire: Take the Presidential Competency Exam! By Matt Barber
http://townhall.com/columnists/mattbarber/2015/02/23/take-the-presidential-competency-exam-n1960517?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
http://townhall.com/columnists/mattbarber/2015/02/23/take-the-presidential-competency-exam-n1960517?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
What the Chinese
professor learned about democracy here
The link is 90 seconds from which you will learn, or
perhaps just hear what you know already, about what makes a society really
successful. Basically, if there is no underpinning of morality for a society,
it will become what used to be referred to sometimes as pagan society, which
means everybody is out for himself/herself first and foremost, and only
refrains from whatever they want to do when they are sure there are penalties
too consistent and too high to make it worthwhile. In the countries where
avoiding paying taxes is a major national drive, things don't work well, since
there is always a cost to running a government, whether it's good or not so
good. If the government cannot collect taxes with some level of efficiency
because everyone is cheating every way they can, then all kinds of problems
arise. Especially when the people still expect the government to supply lots of
benefits and services. Greece
with its near bankruptcy is a fine example of this. If people don't really
believe in morality, then petty theft becomes a normal thing to do, as we saw
in East Germany
under the communists. At least some of the problems in former soviet dominated
countries are due to people having lost religion in large part, and over
generations, the morality that went with it. Once a person no longer believes
in God and commandments, they readily fall into gross materialism,
self-centeredness, greed, and lack of compassion for others. The video I sent
around recently about the millionaire Chinese students in CA with their car
club for super expensive cars is a perfect example of this. It goes right to
the "He who dies with the most set of toys, wins" kind of thinking. You
show how important you are, how much better than everyone else, by your display
of tawdry wealth, and you revel in being able to do so. The USA was founded by primarily
religious people, mostly Christian of various types, but some others as well,
including the Jews whose money kept the Continental Army going when Congress
ran short. And the values of those who accept either directly or indirectly the
idea of the Ten Commandments and the ideal of loving your neighbor as yourself
are what Jefferson thought made the right kind
of citizens for a democracy. I think he was right, and even though we don't
need to force religion on anyone, the current push of secularists to remove
religion, most especially Christianity, from being a major force in our society
will, in the long run, really be bad for the nation. Separation of Church and
State only means no official state religion, it does not at all mean necessary antipathy
between the State and those who practice religion. What is ironic is that here
in Viet Nam ,
where the constitution supposedly guarantees freedom of worship for all, there
IS a state religion. It is communism as taught by the Party, starting in kindergarten
and through high school, with Ho Chi Minh truly regarded as a demigod, and the
Party as the source of all power and all goodness on earth. You may in your
heart not accept all this, as many Vietnamese who are religious do not, but you
do not fight the system in any way, or life becomes difficult in a variety of
ways. If you are truly brave and in any remotely public way try to push the
idea of more than one party in the nation, eventually you will go to jail. Sentences
have ranged from 2 to 7 years in jail, but usually this is followed by more
years of "house arrest", which means you cannot go anywhere, see
anyone, work any job, and are constantly watched. It's something like being
paroled, and if you don't follow the rules, you will end up back in the jail.
It is time for religious Americans to actively protest the push of secularism,
to uphold the freedom we all should enjoy, but also for the long term good of
the nation. Just my two cents worth...Del
Russian conscripts
tell of fears of being sent to Ukraine
http://host.madison.com/news/world/russian-conscripts-tell-of-fears-of-being-sent-to-ukraine/article_7cd29e91-3428-598c-95ed-23a7c36cc1cd.html
http://host.madison.com/news/world/russian-conscripts-tell-of-fears-of-being-sent-to-ukraine/article_7cd29e91-3428-598c-95ed-23a7c36cc1cd.html
Excerpt: Human rights groups have received dozens of
complaints in the past month alone from Russian conscripts like Alexander who
say they have been strong-armed or duped into signing contracts with the
military to become professional soldiers, after which they were sent to
participate in drills in the southern Rostov
region.
Young is a blogger who is also on Twitter. ~Bob
Gun News
Half Of Tulsa’s
Homicides This Year Have Been Justified
Excerpt: Tulsa ,
Okla. Tulsa has had 11 homicides in 2015, nearly half of them by
regular people acting legally in self defense, Tulsa
World reports. “It’s been an odd year,” Tulsa police homicide Sgt. Dave
Walker told Tulsa World. “I’m sure it will even out over the next 12
months, but, yeah… it’s been odd.”
Man Found Dead After
Area Homeowner Fires At Burglar Identified
Excerpt: Authorities Sunday identified a man whose body was
found near a rural home
where
residents fired several times at a burglar early Saturday as Gus Peter Grammas,
48 of Gatesville.
where
residents fired several times at a burglar early Saturday as Gus Peter Grammas,
48 of Gatesville.
Undocumented Democrat News
Excerpt: In a joint Department of Justice (DOJ) and
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) far-reaching investigation, members
of the Arizona National Guard, including military recruiters were
discovered working as “muscle” and “traffickers” for Mexican drug gangs,
according to a report on Friday from the DOJ. About 12 National Guard were
identified as suspects in one of the FBI’s biggest government corruption cases
ever, which was almost totally ignored by government officials in Washington and major
national news outlets.
Obama-Nominated Judge:
New Illegal Immigrants Must Be Released
Excerpt: A federal judge has ordered the federal government
to grant U.S.
civil rights to illegals who are caught at the border, and to release all
migrants except for those who may endanger Americans. The migrants “may have
legitimate claims to asylum … [and] their presence here may become permanent …
[so] that they are entitled to the protection of the Due Process
Clause, especially when it comes to deprivations of liberty,” said
the judge, who was nominated by President Barack Obama.
My Son Is Dead
Because The Concept Of Borders Is Dead
Excerpt: A grieving Texas
father told Breitbart Texas , “my
son is dead because the concept of borders is dead.” Spencer Golvach was
senselessly murdered by an illegal alien who had been deported a number of
times after being convicted of committing crimes, including as law enforcement
officers now tell us, crimes of violence. Golvach was shot in the head on
January 31st while sitting in his car waiting for a stoplight to change.
Golvach’s father said he wants the “boomerang” of deportation and illegal
reentry into the country to be stopped.
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Green Cronyism: Companies Benefiting From Energy Department’s Newest Solar
Farm Also Recipients of Export-Import Bank Financing. By Melissa Quinn
Excerpt: This week, the Obama administration praised the
opening of a solar farm in California ,
which was constructed with the backing of a $1.5 billion loan guarantee from
the Department of Energy. But the project’s critics argue it “reeks of
cronyism,” and they’re finding themselves in lockstep with opponents of the
controversial Export-Import Bank, as the solar farm’s owners are also some of
the bank’s biggest beneficiaries.
Religion of Peace News
Worth Reading
Google the title if the link doesn't get you to the article:
Excerpt: Above all, we need to recognize that the strength of radical Islamists
is directly correlated to their battlefield success, and the growing perception
that they are the strong horse against moderate Muslim leaders. Communist
ideology lost its appeal when it was seen to fail against the prosperity and
freedom of the West. Islamic State will lose its allure when it is defeated and
humiliated in the arena it cares about most, which is the battlefield. Mr.
Obama and other Western leaders must summon the will to win the war on the
ground, or they will find themselves in permanent retreat in the war of ideas.
Saudi sentenced to
death for abusing Islam.
Excerpt: The unidentified man, in his 20s, was also charged
with ripping a copy of the Holy Koran, filming the act and publishing it on
social networks, ‘Sharq’ said.
Egyptian children
carry out Isis-style mock beheading in chilling video
Excerpt: A chilling video showing a group of Egyptian
children staging an Islamic State (Isis)-like beheading with wooden sticks has
sent shockwaves through the country after it emerged in the aftermath of
the brutal execution of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christian
workers who were abducted by IS in Libya. The 24-second video follows the style
of clips produced and shared by IS, with two small children kneeling before two
bigger children who represent jihadi militants holding wooden sticks to their
throats. The group is edged by two other children who hold their wooden sticks
like swords. (How long before some multicultural progressive teacher decides to
do this with American kids? ~Bob)
Terror trainees: New ISIS video shows indoctrination of kids as young as 5
Excerpt: The latest disturbing video from ISIS
shows what the Islamist group touts as the next generation of jihadist killers,
pint-sized terror trainees who appear to be as young as 5 participating in
drills and reciting verses from the Koran. The 9-minute video released Monday
shows about 70 camouflage-clad kids, who are reportedly the children of foreign
fighters who have flocked to Iraq
and Syria
to join the Islamist army. An instructor states in Arabic that most of the
children are in the second phase of training and that they represent the "next
generation" of ISIS .
The Obama Administration says that we can't defeat ISIS by killing them, we must get them jobs. Can Midnight
Basketball for Jihadists be far behind? ~Bob. "Jobs for Jihadis?"
He hasn't even delivered jobs for Americans. --TH
Admiral (Ret) James
Lyons on Islam as a threat doctrine
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bc0_1423721020
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bc0_1423721020
Excerpt: James Aloysius "Ace" Lyons, Jr. (born
September 28, 1927) is a retired Admiral in the United States Navy whose
36-year career was capped by serving as Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet from 16
September 1985 to 1987 Only 3 minutes long and well worth listening to. (Really
shocking and disappointing to learn how so many opportunities were thrown away
by idiot politicians. --Del )
More Voters Than Ever
Say Terrorists Are Winning
Excerpt: Just 19% of Likely U.S. Voters now believe the United States
and its allies are winning the War on Terror, according to a new Rasmussen
Reports national telephone survey.
Family of American Hostage Kayla Mueller: Bergdahl Swap
Greatly Diminished Chances of Her Release. By Katie Pavlich
Excerpt: In an interview with NBC News, Carl, Marsha and
Eric Mueller told Today Show anchor Savannah Guthrie that President Obama's
decision to swap alleged deserter and Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five top
Taliban commanders had an extremely negative impact on the chances of getting
Kayla released. They explained that until Bergdahl was exchanged, they were in
regular communication with their daughter. Things went south after Bergdahl's release.
"That's when the demands got greater. They got larger.
They realized that they had something. They realized that, ‘Well, if they're
gonna let five people go for one person, why won't they do this? Or why won't
they do that?’”
Excerpt: Gallup
reports: “Seventy percent of Americans now view [Israel ] favorably, and 62% say they sympathize
more with the Israelis than the Palestinians in the Mideast
conflict. By contrast, 17% currently view the Palestinian Authority favorably,
and 16% sympathize more with the Palestinians.” But as has been the case over a
long period of time, there is an increasing partisan divide. “A key reason
Americans’ sympathy for Israel has solidified at a sizable majority level is
that Republicans’ support for the Jewish state has increased considerably, rising
from 53% in 2000 to more than 80% since 2014 — with just 7% choosing the
Palestinian Authority. A particularly large jump in GOP sympathy for Israel occurred
in the first few years after 9/11 and at the start of the 2003 Iraq War.”
Democrats’ support is now at 48 percent.
Excerpt: The footage shows the suspect, a 19-year-old
Palestinian, stab a 30-year-old ultra-Orthodox man before swinging at
bystanders. Then, Mayor Nir Barkat, 55, and his bodyguards approach the
suspect, quickly taking him down and neutralizing the threat. (One country in
the Middle East is a democracy that has multiple political parties, protects
freedom of speech, the press and religion, offers equal rights to women and is
a true friend and ally to the United States :
Israel .
Naturally, progressives hate Israel
and make apologies for the barbarians who do none of these things, stone rape
victims for adultery, hang gays, encourage child marriage and FGM, execute
people for apostasy and blasphemy and wish to destroy the Israel state
and exterminate the Israeli people. ~Bob)
Hear out Israel
Excerpt: Last week, 23
House Democrats asked Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to postpone
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint meeting of
Congress scheduled for March 3. But it is absolutely clear that the speaker
will neither postpone nor rescind his invitation. The prime minister will be
there to speak. Therefore, I appeal to those 23 individuals and any other
undecided members of Congress to go to the joint meeting and hear what the
prime minister has to say. Let me suggest some good reasons why:
Good News: Jury Finds Palestinian Authority Liable
for Intifada Terror
Excerpt: Palestinian Authority (PA) policies, including
direct financial support to employees convicted by on terrorism charges, and
payments to families of those killed waging terrorist attacks, make it liable for damages in attacks which killed
wounded Americans, a New York jury decided Monday. Jurors awarded $218.5
million in damages to the victims and their families. Provisions in the U.S.
Anti-Terrorism Act triple that to $655.5 million. The jury's award "will
not bring back these families' loved ones, nor heal the physical and
psychological wounds inflicted upon them, but it truly is an important measure
of justice and closure for them after their long years of tragic suffering and
pain," said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner of Israel's Shurat HaDin law center,
said after the jury award was announced.
"Mystery of the
Jews" video
One may have quibbles with the theology, but this is a
useful short history of the "miracle" of Jewish survival through
history. A good intro to the uninitiated. Cordially, Larry Greenberg
CIA attempted to
contact Hamas despite official US ban, spy cables reveal. Leaked files show US
‘desperate to make inroads’ into Gaza
Excerpt: The CIA tried to gain access to Hamas through
backchannels despite a US
government ban on contact with the Palestinian Islamist movement, the spy
cables show. They suggest US
intelligence has been anxious to make inroads with Hamas, or recruit agents,
inside the Gaza Strip. The US
designated Hamas, which won the last Palestinian election in 2006 and now runs Gaza , as a terrorist group
in 1997.
Worth Reading : They
don’t hate Israel
Excerpt: Imagine for a moment that Israel became majority Muslim, elected a
government composed of Muslims, and changed its name to “Palestine ”. Imagine also that Israel , while making these changes, maintained
the exact same policies towards Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza . How would the rest
of the world react? Would the UN keep writing anti-Israel resolutions by the
dozens, while largely ignoring the rest of the world? Would arrogant university
“students” continue to demonize Israel ?
Would the BDS movement continue its anti-Israel campaign unabated? Would the
Western left, in a sudden bout of integrity, criticize the newly renamed Palestine as strongly as it criticizes Israel today? To answer these
questions, we need only look at Israel ’s
neighbours. Palestinians are treated far worse in Lebanon
and in Syria than they are
in the West Bank .
When Saudi-backed
Terrorists Come Home to Roost. By Raymond Ibrahim
Excerpt: In a move reminiscent of ancient history, Saudi Arabia is building a 600-mile-long
"Great Wall"—a combined fence and ditch—to separate from the
Islamic State to the north in Iraq .
The irony here is that those Muslims that Saudi Arabia is trying to keep out
are the very same Muslims most nurtured and influenced by a Saudi — or
"Wahhabi," or "Salafi" — worldview. Put differently, Saudi Arabia is
again appreciating how jihad is a volatile instrument of war that can easily
backfire on those who support it.
Excerpt: The quote above was taken from Barack Obama's book
"Dreams of My Father". If we were to stretch as far as we could be
might be able to give Barry the benefit of the doubt and write it off as
someone who is just naive about the dangers of radical Islam. However, this
past week I came across something that should strike fear in everyone of us. It
seems someone had posted something about Hillary and Barack's support for an
Islamic group called the Organization for Islamic Cooperation. Sounds pretty
benign, huh? Well, when I read in the posting that Hillary and Barack want to
make it a crime to criticize Muslims I thought it was just some right wing
radical making more of something than is there. So I did a little research on
this Organization for Islamic Cooperation. Seems the group is real, is funded
largely by oil rich Saudi
Arabia and has membership representing some
of the more radical elements of Islam. AND...Hillary and Barack are four square
behind this group. As a matter of fact, Hillary was dispatched to Istanbul , Turkey
Charlie Hebdo
memorial vandalised in Paris four times in two
weeks: A shrine in memory of 17 people killed in terrorist attacks in Paris
Gee, I wonder who done it? Presbyterians? Buddhists? ~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.
His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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