Update
Expecting about 4 inches of snow Sunday night. Hopefully it
won't last. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Excerpt: This week at Hofstra University Baghdad
is secure, the Iraqi government would be overrun by extremists on all sides. We
could expect an epic battle between Shia extremists backed by Iran , and Sunni
extremists aided by al Qaeda and supporters of the old regime. A contagion of
violence could spill out across the country -- and in time, the entire region
could be drawn into the conflict. For America , this is a nightmare
scenario. For the enemy, this is the objective. Chaos is the greatest ally --
their greatest ally in this struggle. And out of chaos in Iraq would emerge an emboldened enemy with new
safe havens, new recruits, new resources, and an even greater determination to
harm America .
To allow this to happen would be to ignore the lessons of September the
11th and invite tragedy. Ladies and gentlemen, nothing is more important
at this moment in our history than for America
to succeed in the Middle East, to succeed in Iraq and to spare the American
people from this danger.” (What I find the most interesting part of all in this
is the quote about what would happen if we left Iraq too early. Read that, then
consider what we watched happen there, and then ask if Mr. Bush was really as
stupid as all his detractors make him out to be. Not that I don't agree
with some criticisms of him, I certainly do; but he wasn't the bungling
incompetent that the Left insists on portraying at every turn. And comparing
his foreign policy record with that of the current President, and how nations
regarded the US
at the end of Bush's terms and how they regard us now, presents another
argument about just who was better at foreign policy. Lastly, Mr. Bush's
behavior in general since leaving the White House has been nothing but class,
not a syllable of criticism of his successor, but lots of appearances to
support troops everywhere from airports to the hospitals where the victims of
Ft Hood were. He deserves respect for all that. --Del )
Obama's Generals.
By Jonathan Keiler
Excerpt: President Obama likes to fancy himself a modern
incarnation of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln
was a wartime president who famously struggled to find generals that
shared his strategic vision of victory. Obama also seems to be in search
of generals who share his strategic vision. But where Lincoln sought fighting generals who wanted
to win, Obama has tried to create a politically sensitive and strategically
befuddled military.
Obama’s impact on the Pentagon has been both social and
operational. (Points out that whoever is President has a lot of influence on
which generals get promoted, which get retired, and how a very significant
amount of influence gets exerted on the military overall. Obama doesn't care
much for the military in the first place, doesn't know or understand much about
war and military actions in the second place, but does have very strong ideas
on social matters (like women in combat, etc.) and how to interact with Muslim
countries. All of which adds up to a real mess for our military, complicated by
the bad tendency of politics and complacency to become far too influential in
peacetime military. (That's always happened, we can go back to Billy Mitchell
for an example.) We can only hope that in 2016 a very different leadership will
start doing the things that rebuild a strong military. --Del )
Integrating women into combat reduces effectiveness, harms
unit cohesion. By Jacqueline Klimas
Excerpt: As the American military prepares to open all
combat positions to women by 2016, a British report found that integrating
women into combat would reduce effectiveness in battle and could harm unit
cohesion. The British report, released in December, found that physiological
differences put women at a disadvantage in both strength-based and aerobic
fitness tests. Even women who are able to overcome the physiological
disadvantage will likely get injured more easily or get tired quicker, making them
easier targets and poorer marksmen in combat. (Here comes another input on
women in combat. Not that it'll stop the PC mania to get women into infantry
units. So far the Marines are still holding out, no changes in any physical
fitness test for women candidates, but it still seems like at some point the
Army will collapse and stick women into infantry units. And that is going to
turn out very badly at some point, but it won't be for years because we won't
be sending any regular infantry into combat for a long time now. --Del )
Worth Reading
Excerpt: By the letter of the
definition for public servant - (a person) holding a government job by election
or appointment - Hillary Clinton has technically been a public servant. Talk aplenty there
is she wants to again be a public servant - as president. (When has Hillary ever been concerned with people other than
what they can do for her especially at election time.
Don)
Worth Reading
Excerpt: However, the Secretary of State of the United States of America
is the number two intelligence target IN THE WORLD, behind only her boss, the
President. To tap into her communications guarantees lavish rewards and
promotions to the intelligence team who does it. All eyes are on her, like
vultures, waiting. Yes, it really works this way. An email system such as the
one described is considered "easy pickings." After seeing the details
in the press, my first conclusion is this: Russians and the Chinese were
reading her emails. In real time. I'm not saying maybe or perhaps. They were.
Why Was CIA Director
Petraeus Required to Sign Separation Form If Secretary Clinton Was Not? By
Andrew C. Mccarthy
Excerpt: In my column on the plea agreement the Obama
Justice Department allowed David Petreaus to enter after it was discovered that
he mishandled classified information, I noted that he had been required to sign
a separation agreement when he left the CIA. It is called a “Security Exit
Form” and is obviously the CIA version of the State Department departure form
described in Jim’s post (and linked in Shannen’s column) that Secretary Clinton
should have signed upon leaving government service.
Excerpt: Foreign donors are refusing to say why they sent
millions of dollars in 2014 to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton
Foundation. Of 38 donors listed on the foundation's website who were contacted
by the Washington Examiner,18 declined to answer at all, and the other 18
either responded suspiciously or stuck to generalities and refused to address
follow-up questions. The importance of who gave to the foundation and why was
highlighted this week when CBS News revealed that one donor in 2013 was Rilin
Enterprises. Rilin is headed by Wang Wienlang, a Chinese businessman who was
invited to join the National Peoples' Congress as a delegate in the same year
as he made the donation.
A bit over-hyped: Hillary Caught Red-Handed in
Massive New Criminal Scandal
Excerpt: Democrats are even more afraid now that the
possibility exists that her scandals have a bit of crossover, according
to Breitbart. Communications involving undisclosed foreign
donations would not be something she’d want any emails to reveal, especially
knowing that her records would eventually be requested and thoroughly searched.
A private email server where you get to pick the people who sort through what’s
personal and what’s business-related would be quite convenient in an effort to
cover up past donors to her foundation. “And there’s a lot of Democrats, by the
way, who are saying, ‘follow the money.’ A lot of Democrats are really worried
about the Foundation, that’s what they’re really worried about,” said National
Journal senior political columnist and editorial director Ron Fournier. (But I
suspect this may really be why she wanted her own server so she could delete
anything she claimed was personal. ~Bob)
David Letterman
Recounts Marine’s Injuries at the Hands of Muslim Jihadists and Leaves Audience
Speechless
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/03/david-letterman-recounts-marines-injuries-at-the-hands-of-muslim-jihadists-leaves-audience-speechless/
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/03/david-letterman-recounts-marines-injuries-at-the-hands-of-muslim-jihadists-leaves-audience-speechless/
Excerpt: Medal of Honor Recipient Cpl. Kyle Carpenter, a US
Marine, had his injuries described which he suffered at the hands of Muslim
jihadists in Afghanistan
to the audience of David Letterman on his television show last year. The
audience was speechless, and you will be too.
Sen. Ted Cruz will announce White House bid at Liberty University
Excerpt: Sen. Ted Cruz, the combative conservative who has
made liberty the clarion call of his politics, will announce his intention to
pursue a presidential bid Monday morning at Liberty
University in Lynchburg , Va.
Who’s funding the
president’s legacy?
Excerpt: A bipartisan group of senators thinks the people
deserve to know more.
One of the strange things about these historical
repositories is that private fundraising generates most of their money. Indeed,
presidents, especially in their second term, spend a lot of time soliciting
donations for what will become a temple to their time in office. Someone who
needs a presidential favor could do far worse than drop a few hundred thousand
on a president’s library. It was no doubt purely coincidental that Presidents
Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush both pardoned relatives of people who
supported their libraries.
Important: A colossal waste of money. U.S.
Excerpt: Even if the members do not know this, the GAO does.
It evaluated the MPCP in 2001 and concluded that its students came from poorer
backgrounds. It found that these students were performing more poorly than
other public school students before they enrolled in a voucher school, but
that, after enrolling in a voucher school, performed about the same or better
than public school students in tested subjects. The GAO found no evidence that
students were harmed by voucher programs. Martin F. Lueken is the education research director at the
Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, a nonprofit law and policy center
based in Milwaukee Sundays
Wisconsin State
An insult to Gomer...
In College and Hiding
From Scary Ideas. By Judith Shulevitz
Excerpt: But why are students so eager to self-infantilize?
Their parents should probably share the blame. Eric Posner, a professor at the
University of Chicago Law School, wrote on
Slate last month that although universities cosset students more than they used
to, that’s what they have to do, because today’s undergraduates are more
puerile than their predecessors. “Perhaps overprogrammed children engineered to
the specifications of college admissions offices no longer experience the risks
and challenges that breed maturity,” he wrote. But “if college students are
children, then they should be protected like children.”
Most Americans’ Perfect Presidential Candidate Will Change
Obama’s Policies, According to New Poll — and Fox News Didn’t Conduct It. By Dave Urbanski
Excerpt: More from CNN about the poll results: Three
statements generated wide-reaching support. Fifty-nine percent of Americans say
they’d like a candidate who has been in the public eye as a political leader
for many years over one who’s new to the political scene. Further, 59% say they
prefer a candidate with executive experience over one who’s worked as a
legislator, and 57% say their perfect Obama successor would change most of the
policies enacted by Obama’s administration.
Excerpt: Personally, liberal students scare the shit out of
me. I know how to get conservative students to question their beliefs and
confront awful truths, and I know that, should one of these conservative
students make a facebook page calling me a communist or else seek to formally
protest my liberal lies, the university would have my back. I would not get
fired for pissing off a Republican, so long as I did so respectfully, and so
long as it happened in the course of legitimate classroom instruction. The same
cannot be said of liberal students. All it takes is one slip—not even an
outright challenging of their beliefs, but even momentarily exposing them to
any uncomfortable thought or imagery—and that’s it, your classroom is
triggering, you are insensitive, kids are bringing mattresses to your office
hours and there’s a twitter petition out demanding you chop off your hand in
repentance. Is paranoid? Yes, of course. But paranoia isn’t uncalled for within
the current academic job climate.
Gun News
Tweet from RockPrincess @Rockprincess818
The same folks who want Iran to have nuclear weapons don't
want you and me to have a gun. Let that sink in
Man shot dead in Munroe Falls
home identified as Kent
Excerpt: A Kent Police officer is on paid administrative
leave after a fatal shooting at her home in Munroe Falls
Race Card News
Starbucks will stop
writing ‘Race Together’ on your cups now
Worth Reading : In personnel file, a fuller picture of Matt Kenny, officer
involved in fatal Madison
Excerpt: The letter is one of 46
accolades in Kenny’s personnel file. The thick folder documents his 13 years
with the Madison Police Department, from green recruit in 2002 through the
later years as he became increasingly relied upon to train new officers and his
peers in first-aid and firearms. ... Kenny had responded that evening to a
disturbance following reports of Robinson running in traffic and battering
people. Madison
police officials have said Robinson punched Kenny in the head and knocked him
off balance before Kenny fatally shot him. A Robinson family member has
since said Robinson took hallucinogenic mushrooms earlier on March 6,
lending credence to statements by friends that his behavior was out of
character.
Excerpt: An Austin lawyer is
claiming responsibility for several stickers placed on East
Austin businesses that claimed they were “exclusively for white
people.” Adam Reposa posted
the video on YouTube and made a statement on Facebook saying
he was trying promote the issue of gentrification in East
Austin . (Warning: The video contains
explicit language)
Undocumented Democrat News
Federal Judge
Threatens Sanctions Against DOJ for Perjury in Obama Amnesty Case
Excerpt: In December, U.S. District Court
Judge Arthur Schwab ruled that
Obama had acted unconstitutionally following his speech on
executive amnesty. Just weeks ago, a Texas federal judge Andrew Hanen ordered an
investigation into Obama's illegal executive amnesty. Days later
an appeal was filed
against the injunction imposed against the unconstitutional amnesty
put forward by Barack Obama. Now, Judge Hanen is threatening sanctions against
the Obama Justice Department for committing perjury in is courtroom.
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Worth Reading
Excerpt: [Editor’s Note: Patrick Moore, Ph.D., has been a
leader in international environmentalism for more than 40 years. He cofounded
Greenpeace and currently serves as chair of Allow Golden Rice. Moore
received the 2014 Speaks Truth to Power Award at the Ninth
International Conference on Climate Change, July 8, in Las Vegas . Watch his presentation about
this piece at the video player to the left.] I am skeptical humans are the main
cause of climate change and that it will be catastrophic in the near future.
There is no scientific proof of this hypothesis, yet we are told “the debate is
over” and “the science is settled.” My skepticism begins with the believers’
certainty they can predict the global climate with a computer model. The entire
basis for the doomsday climate change scenario is the hypothesis increased
atmospheric carbon dioxide due to fossil fuel emissions will heat the Earth to
unlivable temperatures. In fact, the Earth has been warming very gradually for
300 years, since the Little Ice Age ended, long before heavy use of fossil
fuels. (Dr. Moore's credentials are impeccable, and his use of basic facts
about climate and CO2 levels is straightforward and easy to understand. And if
the planet is warming (the last 17 years of satellite data say it isn't) there
is no way for humans to stop it or even slow it, but the oceans will not rise
six feet or anything like that in some sudden disaster. Whatever happens,
humans will have to adapt, maybe a bunch of low-lying countries will have to
learn what the Dutch learned centuries ago and build dikes to protect their
lands. But going crazy about "carbon credits" will accomplish nothing
other than to make the cost of living higher in industrialized countries and
make the people in charge of it billionaires. --Del )
Religion of Peace News.
Important: Produce the Fatwa. By Thomas Joscelyn
Excerpt: With his very next words, Obama said the following:
“Iran ’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah
Khamenei has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons, and
President Rouhani has said that Iran
would never develop a nuclear weapon.” Of course, the existence of Khamenei’s
alleged fatwa is hotly disputed. If the president is so confident it exists,
then his administration should be able to produce a copy of the fatwa,
revealing when it was written and what it says. The Washington
Post’s fact checker went
looking for the fatwa in November 2013, as administration officials were
citing it at the time, and couldn’t find it. (So Kerry has "Great
Respect" for a fatwa that he probably hasn't seen and that may not exist.
Wonderful. ~Bob)
Iranian
Vulnerability: Their nuclear progress can still be stopped. By Lee Smith
Excerpt: Many nuclear experts, Middle East analysts, and
journalists argue, after all, that an attack on Iran ’s nuclear facilities would set
the program back only two to three years. Indeed, Jeffrey Lewis, director of
the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for
Nonproliferation Studies, asserted last week that setting Iran back “only a
couple of years” is “the best-case scenario.” However, it’s not entirely clear
where that assessment—a couple years, or a few years, or two to three
years—comes from. “When U.S.
government officials have given specific estimates, like two to three years,
these are for an Israeli attack on Iranian facilities,” says Matthew Kroenig, a
former Pentagon official. “They’re not talking about a U.S. attack,
which would obviously be more than what an Israeli strike could accomplish.”
(If we don't stop them and they develop a nuclear bomb, I think it's at least a
90% probability they will give at least two to terrorists, one for Tel Aviv and
one for New York City .
~Bob)
What France Really Thinks of U.S. Iran
Excerpt: The Quai d’Orsay (the French Foreign Ministry) may
loathe, on principle, Israel ’s
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: any briefing by French diplomats will, as a
matter of course, explain how very wrong Israel is to alienate its “American
ally.” All the same, France ’s
political stance on the projected U.S.-Iran deal is astonishingly close to that
of the Israeli PM, as he outlined to the U.S. Congress on March 3.
Tweets from Bill Kristol @BillKristol
Problems w/ "two-state solution:" There are now 3
entities not 2; W Bank & Gaza
aren't now capable of statehood; as of now no solution. -- "Two-state solution" as
theological-political dogma: If you utter the common sense heresy it
won't happen soon, Inquisitors come after you. -- BREAKING: British PM Cameron,
in close reelection contest, has called WH to ask that Obama intervene against
him. -- BREAKING: Bibi has placed a call to Obama to thank him for throwing a
hissy fit over his speech to Congress. Probably saved his premiership.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: In the aftermath of Benjamin Netanyahu's
inconvenient (to Barack Obama) victory in the Israeli election, it looks like
the administration is heading towards exacting revenge. The administration's
threat is that under President Obama the United States will "join the
jackals"—the permanent, global, virulently anti-Israel caucus at the
United Nations. The phrase comes from the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who
knew a thing or two about Israel-hatred at the U.N. (and famously denounced it
in 1975 when he was the U.S.
ambassador). This gambit has been tried before, disastrously, under President
Jimmy Carter. Moynihan's masterful dissection of Carter's failed and
self-destructive policy, in the February 1981 issue of Commentary—“Joining
the Jackals: The U.S. at the U.N.”—is well worth re-reading today. Here are
some of the highlights:
Khamenei calls ‘Death
to America Iran
Excerpt: Iran ’s
Supreme leader Ali Khamenei called for “Death to America ”
on Saturday, a day after President Barack Obama
appealed to Iran to seize a “historic opportunity” for a nuclear deal
and a better future, and as US Secretary of State John Kerry claimed
substantial progress toward an accord. (Just trying to ingratiate himself with
Obama. ~Bob)
We never learn: Iran ’s
Ayatollah: Introduce Youth of America ,
Europe to ‘the Islam of Jihad’
Excerpt: In a speech translated into English and posted on
his official website, Iran ’s
Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told Iran ’s “Assembly of Experts” last
week that “our goal and main guideline should be to pursue Islam in its
entirety.”
“What we understand from all Quranic teachings is that Islam
commands Muslims to create a perfect and complete Islamic government,” said the
Supreme Leader. “Islam wants the complete implementation of Islam.” The ayatollah
also said Iran
should use what he called “Islamophobia” and the “targeting of Islam” to reach
out to youth throughout the world and “provide them with real Islam.” (The
"Real Islam" in Iran
includes stoning women accused of adultery, executing apostates and hanging
gays. ~Bob)
Susan Rice on Israel
The Knights Templar
Maps a Plan to Fight ISIS and Win.
By Andrew L. Peek
Excerpt: 701 years ago, on March 18th, the last Grand
Master of the Knights Templar was burned at the stake in France . As he
died, Jacques de Molay cursed the French king who had betrayed him, and whose
own dynasty collapsed fourteen years later. That didn’t help de Molay, whose
order was exterminated as a road bump in the path of French power. Today, days
after the Iraqi government admitted that its attack on Tikrit
has ground to a halt, the death of the Templars offers lessons on how to fight
the Islamic State, an entity they would have recognized very well. The only
successes against ISIS have come at the hands
of expressly ethno-sectarian troops—not states you could identify on a Google
map:
Islamic State jihadi
with engineering degree: “I am happy with my Jihadi work.” By Robert Spencer,
JihadWatch.org
Excerpt: “Except Tanki who was an HSC dropout, rest three
were engineering students with well-to-do family backgrounds. Shaikh had a
mechanical engineering degree from Kalsekar
College
Islamic State Posts
Kill List for U.S.
Excerpt: The war is about to come home. We must all be
diligent and ready. Please protect yourself and your families. Check it
out: Calling for their beheadings, a self-proclaimed arm of the Islamic
State published a list of addresses purportedly belonging to approximately 100
members of the U.S.
military late Friday night. (Is it time yet to end the foolish
PC and do some serious profiling? --JB).
Islam Bulldozes the
Past. By Daniel Pipes
Excerpt: The recent bulldozing by the Islamic State (ISIS)
of the ancient cities of Nimrud, Hatra, and Korsabad, three of the world's greatest archaeological and
cultural sites, is just this group latest round of assaults across the large
area under its control. Since January 2014, the flamboyantly barbaric ISIS has
blown up Shi'i mosques, bulldozed churches, pulverized shrines, and plundered museums. Worse, the ISIS
record fits into an old and common pattern of destruction of historical
artifacts by Muslims.
Afghan cleric and
others defend lynching of woman in Kabul
Excerpt: It was unclear whether she had actually burned a
Koran, but during Friday prayers at a mosque in a smart area of Kabul , a cleric's sermon
broadcast by loudspeaker told devotees that the crowd had a right to defend
their Muslim beliefs at all costs.
The Symbol for
Shadaha
It is the Muslim way of silently saying the Shadaha,
"The only god is Allah and Mohammed is his prophet." Index finger
extended vertically, symbolizing "one god." (I don't believe Obama is
a Muslim or a Christian, but a secular humanist whose only religion is the
progressive creed. I suspect he made the gesture to win support from Muslims,
just as he went to Wright's church for years to win support from black
Christians. ~Bob)
Excerpt: “’Do you believe the United States government acts
unfairly towards Muslims in this country or in other parts of the world?’ asks
No. 60. ‘Do you believe the ‘war on terror’ unfairly targets Muslims?’ reads
No. 61. ‘Do you believe the ‘war on terror’ is overblown or exaggerated?’ asks
No. 62.” Apparently if you answer “Yes” to all three of these questions, the
defense wants you on the Tsarnaev jury.
PA TV host and Muslim
preacher: “If a fish in the sea fights with another fish…the Jews are behind
it”
Excerpt: The Jews are behind all that is wrong in the world,
according to the host of a weekly Palestinian Authority TV program on Islam.
Even when fish fight in the sea, "the Jews are behind it," said the
Muslim preacher and professor of Quranic Studies, Imad Hamato. To back up this
Antisemitic hate speech, Hamato went on to say that the Quran teaches that humanity
will never "live in comfort... peace or fortune or tranquility" as
long as "the Jews are causing devastating corruption throughout the
land." The solution for Muslims, according to the professor, is to fight Jews:
"Our real Jihad is to take revenge."
Excerpt: Yemen 's
Shiite rebels issued a call to arms Saturday to battle forces loyal to the
country's embattled president, as U.S.
troops were evacuating a southern air base crucial to America 's drone
strike program after al-Qaida militants seized a nearby city. The turmoil comes
as Yemen battles al-Qaida in
the Arabian Peninsula , the target of the drone
program, and faces a purported affiliate of the extremist Islamic State group
that claimed responsibility for a series of suicide bombings killing at least
137 people Friday.
US has 4th Largest
Number of Islamic State (ISIS ) Supporters on
Twitter http://pamelageller.com/2015/03/us-has-4th-largest-number-of-islamic-state-isis-supporters-on-twitter.html/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Excerpt: But…but…Obama
says all the Muslims in the U.S.
are moderate. Where are all these ISIS supporters in the US ? Who is
watching them? Is the FBI too busy holding seminars on “Islamophobia” to be on
this?
I don't think Obama is a Muslim or a Christian. I think he's
a secular humanist whose only religion is the progressive creed. I think he was
conning the Muslims with this as he conned black Christians when he needed
their support by going faithfully to Rev. Wright's church. ~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.
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For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s
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