Update
Fleeting time! I expect to be out-of-pocket Saturday, in Milwaukee for a Third Marine
Division WI Chapter lunch. Shorter post today ~Bob
General News and Comment
Getting some traction on this story: Ethics complaint
filed against Dane
County Milwaukee
Excerpt: The complaint filed by Robert Hall of Madison points to a Dane County
Flashback: Justice Bradley Defends the Rights of
Necrophiliacs
Excerpt: Bradley, for instance, wrote the dissenting opinion
in a 2008 case in which the Supreme Court ruled to reinstate charges against
three men accused of digging up a corpse with which to have sex. The majority
opinion made clear state law does indeed prohibit sexual intercourse with
anyone who does not give consent, whether a victim is dead or alive. In short,
Justice Patience Roggensack wrote, dead bodies cannot give consent. Bradley did
not agree. “This justice is so extreme, so far to the left that in that
particular case even the chief justice (Shirley Abrahamson), who also is pretty
far to the left, even she concurred with the opinion of the majority,” said
Hans von Spakovsky, legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III
Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, said in a Wisconsin Reporter story last
month. (Defending down-trodden corpse-boinkers. There's always a victims group
for the left to embrace. ~B ob)
Senate Democratic Leader Reid announces retirement
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/27/senate-democratic-leader-reid-announces-retirement/
Excerpt: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid announced Friday
he will retire at the end of his term, closing a long and controversial career
in Congress that spanned four decades.
The five-term Nevada
Democratic senator announced the decision in a YouTube video message.
Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz declared unfit to work,
officials say. By Michael Pearson, Laura Smith-Spark and
Faith Karimi, CNN
Excerpt: Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz was hiding an
illness from his employers and had been declared unfit to work by a doctor,
according to German authorities investigating what could have prompted the
seemingly competent and stable pilot to steer his jetliner into a French
mountain. Investigators found a letter saying that Lubitz, 27, wasn't fit to do
his job in the waste bin of his Dusseldorf , Germany ,
apartment, city prosecutor Christoph Kumpa said Friday. The note, Kumpa said,
had been "slashed." (Did the doctor alert the authorities? Of course
not. The mentally-ill are another victim group whose rights must be protected.
If that mean 149 people, including 15 teens and two infants, die, well, at
least the powers-that-be get to feel all warm and fuzzy about their compassion.
~Bob)
Can Family Breakdown
in Low-Education America
Excerpt: Our kids, at least many of them, are not doing very
well. The reason, writes Harvard professor Robert Putnam in his just-published
“Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis,” is the “two-tier pattern of family
structure” that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s and continues to prevail today. Starting
in the late 1960s, rates of divorce, unmarried births and single parenthood
rose sharply among all segments of society. About a decade later, they fell and
leveled off among the college-educated, who almost entirely raise their kids in
Ozzie-and-Harriet style families today (except that Mom usually works outside
the home). Among the bottom third of Americans in education and income,
however, the negative trend accelerated. (Before Obama, the 1960s fundamentally
transformed America .
These are just some of the results. Tune in, turn on ,drop out indeed. ~Bob)
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Shortly after the prisoner swap, which was
celebrated by President Obama with a White House Rose Garden ceremony,
Bergdahl's platoon mates started to publicly come forward with desertion
allegations. They were quickly dismissed and smeared by the administration.
Now, they're speaking out about the new charges. "The truth has been out
there the entire time. We've been telling everybody that wants to listen what
the truth is from shortly after Bergdahl disappeared to the initial Army
investigation to when he was traded back last year. Everybody that was around
him, knew what the truth was and it's just a relief that the United States Army
did the right thing in charging Bergdahl with desertion and misconduct," former
Army medic Josh Cornelison, who served in Bergdahl's platoon, said last night
on The Kelly File. (What I find interesting about the Bergdahl story is
that it is the quintessential Obama fiasco. If you were compiling a checklist
of all the things that drive conservatives crazy -- and by conservatives I
basically mean people who are (a) paying attention and (b) not enthralled in
the Obama cult of personality -- the Bergdahl story would achieve a
near-perfect score. The Obama M.O. remains remarkably consistent. He announces
some initiative, policy, or presidential action. The public rationale for the
move is always rhetorically grounded in some deep, universally shared
principle, even if the real agenda is something far more ideological or
partisan. The facts driving the decision are never as the White House presents
them. Indeed, the more confident the White House appears to be about the facts,
the more likely it is they’re playing games with them. Sometimes the facts are
simply made up. There are millions of “shovel ready jobs” right around the
corner! “You can keep your doctor!” The Benghazi
attack was “about a video!” “One in five women are raped!” “The Islamic State
isn’t Islamic!” “These exclamation points are totally necessary!” At other
times, the facts are selectively deployed. “Something something tax breaks for
corporate jets mumble mumble poor Warren Buffet’s secretary’s tax bill blah
blah Spain is winning the future with solar panels” and, course, “core al-Qaeda
has been decimated” (in which “core al-Qaeda” is defined as “the bits of
al-Qaeda that have been decimated”) -- Jonah
Goldberg, The Goldberg File http://www.nationalreview.com/newsletters.)
Tweet from David Burge@iowahawkblog
(The Obama Position:) "What kind of scum would slander
this fine brave patriotic US
soldier!" "His platoon mates." "And you actually believe
those baby killers?"
Modern Problems: Guardian Column: Straight Women in
Baggy Clothes Are Appropriating Lesbian Culture
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415990/guardian-column-straight-women-baggy-clothes-are-appropriating-lesbian-culture
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415990/guardian-column-straight-women-baggy-clothes-are-appropriating-lesbian-culture
Excerpt: “Unisex” clothing styles are ruining everything. A
lesbian columnist wrote a piece in the Guardian complaining that the
straight women who wear less-than-feminine clothing are “appropriating” lesbian
culture and making it too hard for lesbians to tell who the other lesbians are.
Handicapping the 2016 Field. By Charles Krauthammer
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416059/handicapping-2016-field-charles-krauthammer
Excerpt From the top tier to the hopeless, my odds for the current candidates.
With Ted Cruz announcing and Rand Paul and Marco Rubio soon to follow, it’s
time to start handicapping the horses and making enemies. No point in wasting
time on the Democratic field. There is none. The only thing that can stop
Hillary Clinton is an act of God, and he seems otherwise occupied. As does
Elizabeth Warren, the only Democrat who could conceivably defeat her.
Watch: 'Obama is Out
of Control.' Democratic assemblyman slams Obama who is 'desperate' for a
foreign policy accomplishment at Israel
excerpt: The Democratic assemblyman (Dov Hikind,
D-NY) admitted "I don't understand Obama, you know he's a little
bit out of control." ..."Obama is more difficult, I think now
he's very very upset, but he's upset - it's silly to be honest - he's upset
that Obama lost, the people of Israel won, it's a democracy," he noted.
Hinting at Obama's own elections, Hikind noted that he won in a campaign in
which "many things were done, some of them controversial even by the
Democratic party."
Interesting: The ‘Gerasimov Doctrine’ and Russian
Non-Linear War
https://inmoscowsshadows.wordpress.com/2014/07/06/the-gerasimov-doctrine-and-russian-non-linear-war/
Excerpt: Call it non-linear
war (which I prefer), or hybrid
war, or special, Russia ’s
operations first in Crimea and then eastern Ukraine
have demonstrated that Moscow
is increasingly focusing on new forms of politically-focused operations in the
future. In many ways this is an extension of what elsewhere I’ve called
Russia’s ‘guerrilla
geopolitics,’ an appreciation of the fact that in a world shaped by an
international order the Kremlin finds increasingly irksome and facing powers
and alliances with greater
raw military, political and economic power, new tactics are needed which
focus on the enemy’s weaknesses and avoid direct and overt confrontations.
Hard to Prove: Bernie Sanders’ Wife May Have
Defrauded State Agency, Bank
Excerpt: Jane Sanders was the president of tiny Burlington College
in Burlington , Vermont
Bill prohibiting
federal workers from watching porn at work passes House committee
The Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act, which would
prohibit federal employees from accessing pornographic or explicit material on
government computers and devices, passed through the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee Wednesday....The new bill is an extension of
the prior one, which stems from a May 2014 inspector general's report on
federal employees watching pornography while at work. The report revealed a
top-level employee at the Environmental Protection Agency was viewing as many
as six hours of pornography a day in his office on his government computer. (So
many fed employees paid x2 what local folks get, aren't subject to Obamacare
(?), most not ever fired despite inefficiency/breaking rules, allowed to
double- and triple-dip pensions, and watch porn versus work? And we idiots pay
for this? --Barb. Probably set up a system whereby the supervisor has to view
all porn in advance to clear it. ~Bob))
Gun News
Race Card News
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Half of ObamaCare
subsidy recipients will owe on their taxes
Excerpt: Half of all households that received ObamaCare tax
credits last year will likely owe money to the federal government, a new study
found. Nearly all families that received tax credits will either owe money or
receive extra money because their tax filings had changed after they calculated
their ObamaCare subsidies, according to a new report by
the Kaiser Family Foundation. (Bet Obama issues an executive order forgiving
their debts. ~Bob)
Undocumented Democrat News
DHS released another
30,000 criminal aliens onto streets. By Stephen Dinan
Excerpt: Federal immigration officers released another
30,000 immigrants with criminal records last year, following the 36,000 it
released in 2013, the government announced Wednesday — though it
promised to take steps to cut down on the problem. U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, the agency that handles detention and removal of illegal
immigrants, said it will no longer allow overcrowding to be the main reason a
dangerous illegal immigrant is released, and will require a top supervisor to
approve the cases of any serious criminals that officers want to release. (I
was previously unaware of the magnitude of this problem, where we can't get rid
of some illegals because their home country won't take them back. (It seems
they are happy to have their problem citizens be our problem instead of
theirs.) Clearly the majority of such people were convicted of things like
drunk driving (certainly a bad thing), but I put into bold some of the really
special cases that caught my eye. Homicides, sexual assaults, and kidnappings
really seem worthy of concern. Do we really want any such people let loose in
our society? And they can't watch them all, all the time. My own answer to
things like this is simple, but of course we can't do it. Which is to parachute
the people into their home countries, or drop them on a beach if they have
coastlines. You, Mr. Foreign Country, don't get to tell me you won't take back
your own citizen when they've made problems here. I'll take back all the
Americans you want to get rid of, fair enough? --Del )
Religion of Peace News
Worth Reading : Obama's Mideast 'free fall.'
Mounting chaos in the region puts the administration on the defensive. By Michael Crowley
Excerpt: Barack Obama faces a slew of Middle East crises
that some call the worst in a generation, as new chaos from Yemen to Iraq
— along with deteriorating U.S.-Israeli relations — is confounding the
president’s efforts to stabilize the region and strike a nuclear deal with Iran . The
meltdown has Obama officials defending their management of a region that some
call impossible to control, even as critics say U.S. policies there are partly to
blame for the spreading anarchy. ... “We’re in a goddamn free fall here,” said
James Jeffrey, who served as Obama’s ambassador to Iraq and was a top national
security aide in the George W. Bush White House. ... Now the U.S. is in the strange position of fighting ISIL
alongside Iran at the same
time it backs the Sunni campaign against Iran ’s
allies in Yemen — even as
Secretary of State John Kerry hopes to seal a nuclear deal with Iran in Switzerland
Worth Reading
http://defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/may-clifford-d-what-netanyahu-didnt-say/
http://defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/may-clifford-d-what-netanyahu-didnt-say/
Excerpt: What is it about Israel in general and Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in particular that leads to so much careless
reporting and tendentious commentary? Start with The New York Times,
trendsetter that it is, which ran this headline on March 16: “Netanyahu
Says No to Statehood for Palestinians.” An editorial then referred to the
prime minister’s “outright rejection of a Palestinian state.” Columnist
Thomas Friedman piled
on, accusing Mr. Netanyahu of having “declared” he would “never permit a two
state-solution between Israelis and Palestinians.” Here’s what Mr. Netanyahu
actually said to an Israeli reporter shortly before last week’s election: “I
think that anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state today and
evacuate lands is giving attack grounds to radical Islam against the state of Israel .” (The Islamists
will be glad to accept a two-state solution--one state for Hamas, one state for
Fatah--after the Jews are all dead. ~Bob)
Somali special forces
storm Mogadishu
Excerpt: Terrified victims leapt from windows as Somali
special forces stormed a Mogadishu
hotel where Muslim extremists from Al-Shabaab mounted a deadly attack Friday,
first exploding a car bomb at the gate and then mounting a siege of the
compound frequented by government officials.
Rethinking Operation
Protective Edge. The 2014 Gaza
Excerpt: On July 8, 2014, in response to a barrage of
rockets and missiles on its population centers from the Gaza Strip, Israel launched
heavy air and artillery strikes against the Islamist terror group Hamas that
had ruled the area since 2007. As these failed to stop the attacks,
on July 17, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) invaded the Strip in strength.
After three weeks of heavy fighting, the IDF withdrew to the international
border and sustained the air campaign until a cease-fire came into effect
on August 26. Operation Protective Edge, as the campaign was codenamed,
was Israel 's
third war against Hamas in five years, and, unlike the previous two encounters,
its outcome has been far from conclusive.
Excerpt: First he comes for the banks and health care,
uses the IRS to go after critics, politicizes the Justice Department, spies on
journalists, tries to curb religious freedom, slashes the military, throws open
the borders, doubles the debt and nationalizes the Internet.
*****
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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