Update
On the plus side, I had my follow up Wednesday on my
cataract surgery. I'm now 2-25 in both eyes, don't need glasses except for
reading. My license says I do, but the doctor gave me a note.... Guess I have
to get to the registry soon. On the down side, I twisted the wrong way reaching
under the car seat Saturday and think I bruised a rib. Not killing me, but it's
some painful when I move, more so if I move the wrong way. Just as well I'm
restricted in rehab by the eye doc until next week. This is, of course, your fault. I don't know why it's your
fault, but this is America
in the 21st century, so nothing can possibly be my fault. That would mean I'd
have to take personal responsibility. Probably a government program, complete
with union workers and highly-paid political bureaucrats to help poor victims
like me. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Hillary Clinton's service as secretary of
state was remarkable - in lack of accomplishment. And she left under the black
cloud of negligence and incompetence and deceit.
Here Are the Most
Hilarious Reactions to Hillary’s Email Scandal Press Conference
Liar, liar, pantsuit on fire: Hillary said she
emailed with Bill, but the thing is ... Bill Clinton doesn't use email
Excerpt:. At a press conference on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton
said the server that housed her emails while she was secretary of state (that
was reportedly housed at her home in New
York ) was set up for President Bill Clinton. She also
said that some of the "personal" emails she deleted were between her
and her husband. But just before Hillary began the press conference at the
United Nations building, the Wall Street Journal reported that Bill
Clinton does not use email. "The former president, who does
regularly use Twitter, has sent a grand total of two emails during his entire
life, both as president, says Matt McKenna, his spokesman," WSJ
reported.
FACT CHECK: Clinton
Excerpt: At the very least, Clinton appears to have
violated what the White House has called "very specific guidance"
that officials should use government email to conduct business. (...) Federal
law during Clinton 's
tenure called for the archiving of such private email records when used for
government work, but did not set out clear rules or punishments for violations
until rules were tightened in November. In 2011, when Clinton was secretary, a cable from her
office sent to all employees advised them to avoid conducting any official
business on their private email accounts because of targeting by unspecified
"online adversaries." (Note that this article is from AP via AOL,
both relatively liberal sources. "If she’s lost the liberals...."
Also, a companion article–sourced from Fox News–asks who her server should be
given to, if she’s ordered or persuaded to give it up. That answer is easy: a
joint NSA and FBI team as both have experts in computer forensics. For that
matter, why hasn’t one of those agencies already seized it? They certainly
would have if it belonged to anyone with an "R" after his/her name.
Imagine the liberal outcry if this had happened to be Gov. Palin instead of Clinton . Ron P.)
Interesting: AP Files Suit After Hapless Hillary Just
Poured Jet Fuel On Her Spreading Email Fire
http://www.westernjournalism.com/breaking-ap-files-suit-hapless-hillary-just-poured-jet-fuel-spreading-email-fire/#1uSGwqlQJyGhxPyW.97
http://www.westernjournalism.com/breaking-ap-files-suit-hapless-hillary-just-poured-jet-fuel-spreading-email-fire/#1uSGwqlQJyGhxPyW.97
Excerpt: The Times article quotes a number of security
experts and government insiders doubtful about Mrs. Clinton’s vehement
assertion that classified information was kept out of her private email
messages. “A former senior State Department official who served before the
Obama administration said that while it was hard to be certain, it seemed
unlikely that classified information could be kept out of the more than 30,000
emails that Mrs. Clinton’s staff identified as involving government business.”
Contradictions in
Hillary Clinton's press conference raise new questions as she says private email
server was first set up for Bill and swears she only had one smartphone at
State Department
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2989170/Contradictions-Hillary-Clinton-s-press-conference-raise-new-questions-says-private-email-server-set-Bill-swears-one-smartphone.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2989170/Contradictions-Hillary-Clinton-s-press-conference-raise-new-questions-says-private-email-server-set-Bill-swears-one-smartphone.html
Excerpt: Two claims she made during a 20-minute scrum with
200 reporters at the United Nations almost immediately drew head-shakes from
opposition-research groups and memory-hole-digging journalists.
Tuesday’s Big
News: Hillary Defied Obama Requests on Preserving Records. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Excerpt: Politics is less fun when you can see the strings.
We all more or less guessed what Hillary Clinton was going to say Tuesday afternoon.
She would claim that what she did was nothing unusual, even though it was. She was going to insist she complied
with the law, even though she didn’t. She would insist that there were no
breaches of security on her servers, even though there was at least one, and
without access to them there’s no way for any U.S. cyber-security official to
verify her claim. Her acolytes would go onto cable news and insist, as Hilary
Rosen did, that the options were to believe everything Hillary said or believe
in “conspiracy theories.” Critics would be attacked. She unveiled her official
narrative, asking others to trust her that all of her personal e-mails were
entirely personal, and that she turned over everything she had to turn over. As
she once said of General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, as they
made accurate reports of progress in Iraq, believing her required “a
willing suspension of disbelief.” Her staff later stated she turned over 30,490
of 62,320 e-mails to the State Department -- 48 percent. The rest were personal
and she “chose not to keep them,” which is a really soft euphemism for deleting
them. (Worth subscribing to. ~Bob)
New Poll Shows Why Rubio Could Possibly Win the Nomination.
By Daniel Doherty
Excerpt: Scrolling through the latest NBC News/Wall Street
Journal poll, which is making headlines for
this reason, I found something rather interesting: GOP primary voters
seem very open to the idea of supporting Sen. Marco Rubio
(R-FL) in
2016:
Marijuana from the
American Lung Association
Excerpt: Tobacco vs. Marijuana: Like tobacco smoke,
marijuana smoke contains cancer-causing chemicals. There are 33
cancer-causing chemicals contained in marijuana. Marijuana smoke also deposits
tar into the lungs. In fact, when equal amounts of marijuana and tobacco
are smoked, marijuana deposits four times as much tar into the lungs. This
is because marijuana joints are un-filtered and often more deeply inhaled than
cigarettes. Marijuana and the Lungs Marijuana smoke is also an irritant
to the lungs, and frequent marijuana smokers can have many of the same
respiratory problems experienced by people who smoke tobacco. These include
coughing and phlegm production on most days, wheezing, bronchitis, and greater
risk of lung infection, although most of these may go away after stopping
smoking marijuana. Frequent marijuana smokers also have more healthcare
visits both overall and for respiratory conditions compared to
nonsmokers. While research has not shown a clear increase in risk for lung
cancer among marijuana, smokers, results have been mixed for heavy, long term
use. Smoking marijuana may be associated with the formation of large air sacs
in the lung, called bullae, which can lead to shortness of breath and, if
they rupture, death. Similarly, there are reports of sudden lung collapse or
air pockets forming between the lungs among marijuana smokers. (Still glad I
never tried it. ~Bob)
Nemtsov murder: Zaur
Dadayev confession 'forced'
Excerpt: One of men charged with the murder of Russian
opposition politician Boris Nemtsov confessed under duress, a member of Russia 's human
rights council says. Wounds on Zaur Dadayev's body suggested he had been
tortured, Andrei Babushkin said after visiting the suspect in prison on
Tuesday.
Semper Fidelis, brothers: Human remains found as
search continues for 11 service members involved in helicopter crash
Excerpt: Human remains washed ashore Wednesday, as officials
continued their search for seven Marines and four soldiers in waters off the
Florida Panhandle, where a military helicopter had crashed during a training
exercise. “We have confirmed that we have had some human remains wash ashore in
the area where our search and rescue team have begun a larger scale
operation,” Andrew Bourland, a spokesman for the Eglin Air Force
Base, told The Washington Post. (this will be news for 48 hours, tops. when JFK
Jr. killed himself, his wife and sister-in-law through hubris, it was news for
weeks. At the same time, three service members were killed in a crash, serving
the Republic. It made the page 5 news for a day. The great military science
fiction writer has his protagonist in the Desert
of Peace series set up a system whereby those who die in rigorous training
receive the same honors as those KIA in battle. It makes sense to me. ~Bob)
One Year Later, Obama
Administration Still ‘Reviewing’ Lethal Aid to Ukraine
Excerpt: More than a year after Russian
President Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea and the Pentagon began receiving
requests from Ukraine for military assistance, the Obama administration is
“still working on reviewing” the option of lethal aid, officials told senators
on Tuesday.
SEE IT: 4 teen girls
attack victim in Brooklyn McDonald's as dozens
stand and watch (WARNING: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE AND VIOLENT CONTENT)
Excerpt: Every punch, every gasp and every cheer was
captured on video, but the teens responsible for a brutal beatdown at a
Brooklyn McDonald’s may never be captured since nobody will speak up — not even
the victim, officials said Wednesday. Dozens of kids and at least two adults
watched Monday’s cringe-worthy attack inside the Flatbush eatery, but did
nothing to stop it, a video that emerged online shows. Nobody inside the
McDonald’s called 911, police said. (Kid is scared to testify. bet she wishes
one of NY's "racist" cops had shown up. ~Bob)
Unbelievable: Kay Hagan Blames Money in Politics for
Election Loss Despite Outspending Opponent. Hagan now teaching “Money in
Politics” class at Harvard
Excerpt: During a Wednesday interview, Kay Hagan blamed her 2014 defeat to Sen. Thom
Tillis (R., N.C.) on “money in politics,” despite the fact that she spent more than twice as much money as Tillis and that
outside groups supporting her far outspent groups supporting Tillis.
Gun News
Burglars shot trying
to enter man's home
Excerpt: In broad daylight Saturday, three suspects
attempted to break into a man's home.
But they were quickly chased off as the homeowner grabbed a
gun and opened fire, hitting two of the suspects.
Woman shoots,
critically wounds suspected robber who charged at her from her backyard in
Detroit
Excerpt: A 46-year-old woman is under arrest after she
critically wounded a 47-year-old man who reportedly charged at her from her own
backyard. ... Moment after parking in her driveway, she saw the suspect
charging at her and she opened fire, she told relatives. According to the
woman's husband, the man got back up after being shot in the chest and said he
was going to kill her.
Suspected burglar
shot in auto shop near downtown S.A.
Excerpt: According to police, a man who lives in the shop at
Buena Vista Street
and South San Marcos heard someone breaking
into the building just before 7 a.m. The man then shot at the suspected
burglar, who took off on foot, said police.
Area home invasion
leaves suspected robber dead, resident injured
Excerpt: Initial reports indicate three teens forced their
way into the home, and at least one of them was armed. The homeowner was shot
in the stomach. He was also armed and returned fire at the robbers, shooting
one of the suspects, who then fled. 19-year-old Joshua Mulkey was found dead
just outside the home.
Race Card News
Suspicious Fires Twice Destroyed Key Sharpton Records. By
Jillian Kay Melchior
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415212/suspicious-fires-twice-destroyed-key-sharpton-records-jillian-kay-melchior
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415212/suspicious-fires-twice-destroyed-key-sharpton-records-jillian-kay-melchior
Excerpt: As Al Sharpton ran for
mayor of New York City
in 1997 and for president in 2003, fires at his offices reportedly destroyed
critical financial records, and he subsequently failed to comply with tax and
campaign filing requirements. The first fire began in the early hours of April
10, 1997, in a hair-and-nail salon one floor below Sharpton’s campaign
headquarters at 70 West 125th
Street . From the start, investigators deemed the
fire “suspicious” because of “a heavy volume of fire on arrival” and because
many of the doors remained unlocked after hours, according to the New York Fire
Department’s fire-and-incident report.
Birds of a Feather
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Worth Reading
Excerpt: One of the reasons people rebelled against
Obamacare was that it financed the growth of government-run health care through
drastic cuts to Medicare. According to the Congressional
Budget Office (CBO), Medicare spending will see a $455 billion cut
over the next decade, which would finance almost half of Obamacare spending. Most
of the Medicare cuts were simply reducing the fees Medicare pays doctors and
hospitals. These payment mechanisms would make a Soviet bureaucrat blush.
William Hsiao, the economist who designed the Medicare Prospective Payment
System, determined Medicare’s fees as follows: (Reminds me of the farmer who
told his neighbor he was saving money by cutting his horse's feed 10% every
month. "But," he said, "Just when it started to pay off the damn
horse died." ~Bob)
Obamacare's 1095-A Nightmare. By Michelle Malkin
Excerpt: The screw-ups, incompetence and bureaucratic blame
avoidance over the health insurance exchange tax forms make the healthcare.gov
website fiasco look like a flawless product launch. How do I know? My family
inexplicably got ensnared in the 1095-A paperwork pit. It's a government roach
motel: Taxpayers check in, but they can never check out.
In 2013, our private high-deductible PPO from Anthem Blue
Cross got canceled because of "changes from health care reform (also
called the Affordable Care Act or ACA)." Millions of others like us in the
individual market for health insurance -- including self-employed people,
small-business owners, writers, artists and home-based entrepreneurs --
suffered the same fate.
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Excerpt: "But the debate is settled. Climate change is
a fact," said President Barack Obama in his 2014 State of the Union
address. Saying the debate is settled is nonsense, but the president is right
about climate change. GlobalChange.gov gives the definition of climate
change: "Changes in average weather conditions that persist over multiple
decades or longer. Climate change encompasses both increases and decreases in
temperature, as well as shifts in precipitation, changing risk of certain types
of severe weather events, and changes to other features of the climate
system." That definition covers all weather phenomena throughout all 4.54
billion years of Earth's existence.
In the 50s,
Scientists Warned of Melting Polar Ice Caps
http://lastresistance.com/10510/in-the-50s-scientists-warned-of-melting-polar-ice-caps/
http://lastresistance.com/10510/in-the-50s-scientists-warned-of-melting-polar-ice-caps/
Excerpt: In the 70’s, the new ice age was all the craze.
Just two decades before that, believe it or not, it was global warming. The ice
caps were melting, and the subsequent sea level rise was going to drown all the
coastal cities.
Religion of Peace News
White House Claims
Senate Has No Role In Reviewing Iran
Excerpt: On Monday morning, it was revealed a letter sent
to Iran's theocratic government, signed by forty-seven Senate Republicans,
declared that "only the Senate can confirm long-lasting treaties with foreign
powers." The letter indicated that any agreement on the
nuclear weapons program not approved by Congress would be considered as an
"executive agreement between President Obama and Ayatollah Khamenei"
and indicated the Senate had constitutional authority to review treaties. Obama
has kept details of the negotiations from the Senate.
Excerpt: Credit Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) for raising the
issue. Without a letter reminding the White House, Congress and the American
people that a deal must be approved by the Senate in order to be binding, we
might never have learned from Secretary of State John Kerry that “we are not
negotiating a legally binding plan.” Oh, really?
Worth Reading : Republicans’
letter to Iran
Excerpt: Helms did not simply write to foreign leaders
explaining the Senate’s constitutional role in foreign policy. Together with Biden,
he went to the U.N. headquarters in New
York to deliver the message in person. On Jan. 20,
2000, Helms became the first U.S.
senator ever to address the U.N. Security Council, where he warned of steep
consequences if the U.N. failed to accept the U.N. reforms he and Biden had
passed. And he explained to the gathered world leaders what a mistake it was to
try to ignore the role of the Senate in foreign policy. Citing the example of
Woodrow Wilson’s failure to secure congressional approval for the League of
Nations, Helms declared, “Wilson probably could
have achieved ratification of the League of Nations
if he had worked with Congress.” Helms and Biden then invited the Security
Council to Washington , where he gathered all
the U.N. ambassadors in the old Senate chamber for a lecture from Senate
historian Richard Baker on the Senate’s role in U.S. foreign policy. (People
who would wet themselves if you suggested they or their kids wear the uniform
of the Republic are calling Combat vet Cotton a "traitor." They
forget that in a sensitive time, Nancy Pelosi, defying the request of President
Bush, went to Syria
to undermine Bush by lending her personal prestige to Assad the Butcher. To applause
from Hillary Clinton, among others. ~Bob)
Senator Tom Cotton
5 times Democrats
undermined Republican presidents with foreign governments. By Philip Klein
Excerpt: The reality is that on many occasions, Democrats
have reached out to foreign leaders to undermine the foreign policy of a
sitting Republican president. Here are just five examples.
House Democrats Send Letter to U.S.
Excerpt: It might be because history did not begin until the
Obama Administration for most reporters these days and this was actually from
March 20, 1984. That is the day the Democratic Leader of the House and soon to
be Speaker, Jim Wright, and a number of his congressional colleagues, sent a
letter to communist
leader “Commandante” Daniel Ortega. The press then too gave the “Dear
Commandante” letter writers a pass in a way they refuse to give Republicans a
pass. It is worth pointing out that the Speaker at the time of this letter was
Tip O’Neil whose chief of staff was Chris Matthews. Matthews is now calling on
the 47 Republicans to be prosecuted under the Logan Act. Neither he nor his
boss objected to the “Dear Commandante” letter.
Israel, Jews,
and the Obama Administration. By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: Even some Democrats in Congress have come to the
conclusion that after the brouhaha over Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s
speech before Congress, President Obama wants to radically downgrade the long
American special relationship with democratic Jewish Israel — and perhaps has a
dislike of the idea of Israel. Add up the administration’s initial
disparagement on the matter of Israeli settlements, untoward administration
remarks during the Gaza War, its assumptions that a future autonomous West Bank
had a right to insist on becoming Judenfrei, its downplaying the Iranian
nuclear threat, John Kerry’s various editorializing about Israeli supposed
overreactions, the constant hectoring of Israel, and rumors of a slowdown in
military aid to Israel during the Gaza war, and so on and so on. These acts
seem to fit into a prior landscape of the administration’s anti-Jewish and
anti-Israeli supposed slips, gaffes, and smears.
Senator to CMC: Marines might have to go back to
Excerpt: "To both of you, and to those who serve under
you, I am sorry that some of you may have to go back," Graham said.
"But I think you know better than anyone else why you may have to go back.
And the only commitment I will make, as a senator from South Carolina , is if you go back, you go
back to win. And that we get this right this time." (So does that mean
they get to go back and fight on the same terms as their enemy, with no restrictions
and rules to hinder them? That we leave the chair-warming lawyers at home
so they won't pour over every after action report looking for some infraction
to charge Marines with? And lastly, and most importantly, is it safe to assure
that it was never intended for us to win the first time around? --MasterGuns)
Excerpt: The threat of the Islamic State not only makes Iraq more dependent on Tehran
and legitimizes Iran ’s
military presence in Iraq ,
it also provides the regime in Tehran
with another bargaining chip in nuclear negotiations.
http://lastresistance.com/10516/isis-just-released-a-video-of-a-child-executing-a-so-called-israeli-spy/
Excerpt: Then the video transitions
to Musallam being taken to a field and summarily executed by the boy
with a shot to the head and then three more shots.
34 killed in
explosion at market in northeastern Nigeria
Excerpt: At least 34 persons were killed by a teenage girl
suicide bomber on Tuesday at a crowded market in the northeastern Nigerian city
of Maiduguri ,
said witnesses. The blast by a female teenager occurred in the market near the
Old Elkanemi Cinema in the late afternoon, said Musa Danbaba, a member of a
civilian protection militia. He said 34 bodies were counted and many more were
wounded.
Four Rival Factions
Pick Over Syria
Excerpt: In the latest blow to supporters of the
"moderate" elements among the Syrian rebels, the Harakat Hazm
"Movement of Determination" last week announced that it was
disbanding. Hazm was never a large group. It never possessed more than around
5,000 fighters and was active only in northwest Syria . But for a period of time, it
was held up by those who supported arming the Sunni Arab rebels as the kind of
militia that the U.S.
and the west could get behind. It had ties neither to the Salafi jihadists nor
to the Muslim Brotherhood. Nor was it given to the kind of open and florid
corruption favored by some of the other "secular" groupings in Syria 's north.
As a result, Hazm was the recipient of a number of U.S.-made BGM-71 (TOW)
anti-tank missiles in the spring of 2014. Its demise comes in the same week
that the U.S.
plan for beginning a program to train and equip a force that will fight the
Islamic State is set to commence. The timing is not auspicious.
Tweet from Drake W. Travis @drakewtravis
Ever notice "Tolerance" applies to Christians and
conservatives ONLY? No one else has to be tolerant. (Nope--applies to Jews as
well. ~Bob)
Yemeni boy, 10,
locked in a cage and set alight by his friends in sickening imitation of ISIS ' barbaric murder of Jordanian pilot
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2980754/Yemeni-boy-10-locked-cage-set-alight-friends-sickening-imitation-ISIS-barbaric-murder-Jordanian-pilot.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2980754/Yemeni-boy-10-locked-cage-set-alight-friends-sickening-imitation-ISIS-barbaric-murder-Jordanian-pilot.html
Excerpt: As many as seven boys are believed to have attacked
the as-yet unnamed victim in Al Dahthath village in the country’s northern Ibb
province. The defenceless child was then locked in a wooden cage and had petrol
poured over his body before being set alight. Thankfully a group of locals
spotted the attack and managed to save the boy’s life, although he was still
left with horrific burn injuries on his legs
*****
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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