Update
My talk to "Pints and Politics" Tuesday night went
very well, though I had to stop a couple of times for breathing issues. Those
who know me well will be stunned to know that I was supposed to speak for 30
minutes, but went 45.
Wednesday morning, the VA called just as I was getting ready
for Rehab. They wanted to move my right eye cataract surgery from April 8 to
this Friday, March 6. Guess they had a cancellation and saw I lived in Madison . I said yes, so
Wednesday after rehab I did the Pre-op, which pretty much killed the day--thus
a shorter post now. My health in general has been stable; not much change in
February from January. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Worth Seeing: Grandpa takes kids to the movies
Excerpt: The U.S.
ambassador to South Korea
was injured by a man wielding a razor Thursday morning in Seoul , and his assailant was immediately
detained.
Mark W. Lippert was rushed to a nearby hospital with cuts to
his face and wrist, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported, and appeared
to be splattered with blood but was on his feet, TV images show. He was on his
way to attend a morning lecture in central Seoul
when the attack took place shortly before 8 a.m. YTN TV reported that the man,
only identified by his surname, Kim, screamed "South and North Korea should be
reunified" during the attack.
Hillary Clinton's
Off-the-Books Mail Server Was in Her House, Registered to a Non-Existent Man.
Excerpt: Stage 2 of the Hillary email scandal has been achieved,
as yesterday’s “confused old lady who didn’t understand how email works”
defense utterly collapsed with the Press' discovery that Clinton’s mail
server was located in her house (her estate in Chappaqua, to be exact
— the one she had to settle for because she was “dead broke” after Bill left
office) and was registered under the name of a man who does not appear to
exist.
Latest Scott Walker
Scandal: His Spokeswomen Are WAY TOO HOT. By Eric Owens
Excerpt: The crusade to find some scandal — any scandal — to
sink 2016 Republican presidential frontrunner Scott Walker officially jumped
the shark on Monday when a deeply concerned American suggested that the Wisconsin governor’s spokeswomen are problematically
attractive. Isthmus,
an alternative weekly newspaper out of Madison, raised the allegation in
Tell All, a regular advice column.
Scott Walker Pledges to Sign Controversial Pro-life Bill.
By Cortney O'Brien
Excerpt: As the Wisconsin
legislature moves forward in the coming session, further protections for mother
and child are likely to come to my desk in the form of a bill to prohibit
abortions after 20 weeks. I will sign that bill when it gets to my desk and
support similar legislation on the federal level.
Is Walker Ready for Prime
Time? By Jonah Goldberg
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/414780/walker-ready-prime-time-jonah-goldberg
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/414780/walker-ready-prime-time-jonah-goldberg
Excerpt: Wisconsin governor
Scott Walker has nearly all of the right ingredients to win the GOP nomination.
He is popular among both anti-establishment activists and the big donors of the
establishment. He has working-class appeal (desperately needed for the GOP),
and he’s battle-tested in his home state — a state many believe the Republicans
could finally pick off in a presidential election. The question is whether his
timing is off. In countless discussions I had at CPAC, the Conservative
Political Action Conference — as well as among people I’ve talked to who
attended the Club for Growth meeting in Florida last weekend — the concern for
friends, and the hope for foes, is that Walker is peaking too soon.
No One Cares!’: Major
Garrett Unloads On WH ‘Deference’ To Hillary Over Emails. By Al Weaver
Excerpt: After taking multiple questions on the topic during
Tuesday’s briefing, White House press secretary Josh Earnest was taken to the
woodshed by CBS’s Major Garrett, who wondered if the Obama administration paid
too much “deference” to Clinton
due to the pair’s contentious relationship. “Let’s just step back for a second
on this email thing,” Garrett started. “Hillary Clinton did not arrive in this
administration like any other cabinet secretary. As you have often said from
this podium over the past two days, she brought with her a team. She brought
with her a formidable political backing and the strenuous campaign against this
president who was elected.”
Awash in cash, Bush
asks donors not to give more than $1 million – for now
Excerpt: An unusual request has gone out to wealthy donors
writing large checks to support former Florida
governor Jeb Bush: Please don’t give more than $1 million right away. The
requested limit, confirmed by multiple people familiar with the amount, may
mark the first time that a presidential hopeful has sought to hold off
supporters from contributing too much money. (I understand the problem. I ask
that people contributing to the bob hall retirement Fund not give more than $1M
as well. please keep that in mind when writing out your checks...~Bob)
Too Funny: Obama Supporters Endorse Karl Marx for
President in 2016
Venezuela Bars Bush
And Cheney As 'Terrorists'
Excerpt: The travel bans target those who “violated
human rights and bombed villages as in Iraq ,
Syria and Vietnam .”
- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. (I'm sure they are bothered.
If they want to visit a socialist paradise, Washington has better restaurants and hotels
and the airfare is cheaper. Obama will likely increase their foreign aid. ~Bob)
Lawyer: Department of
Justice Shut Down Search For Lois Lerner’s Emails
The Department of Justice blocked an attempt to force the
Internal Revenue Service to search for Lois Lerner’s missing emails at off-site
storage facilities, according to a lawyer pushing to obtain the emails. The IRS
never looked for Lerner’s backup email tapes at the West Virginia storage facility where
they were being housed. Treasury deputy inspector general Timothy Camus told
Congress that the IRS never asked IT professionals at the New Martinsville,
W.V. storage site for the backup tapes. Camus only found the backup tape for
Lerner’s missing 2011 emails about two weeks ago.
Nobel Peace Prize
Committee OUSTS Chairman Who Crowned Obama With $1.4 Million Award
The Nobel Peace Prize committee demoted chairman Thorbjoern
Jagland on Tuesday. The Oslo ,
Norway-based committee gave no reason for downgrading the former Norwegian
prime minister and respected diplomat from his perch.... The Nobel Peace
Prize is the one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish business mogul
Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
Random Thoughts. By Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: When President Obama keeps talking about
"violent extremists" in the abstract, you might wonder whether
Presbyterians are running amok. The mainstream media seem desperate to try to
find something to undermine Republican governor Scott Walker's rise in the
polls. The worst they have come up with is that he didn't finish college.
Neither did Bill Gates or Michael Dell. The Wright brothers didn't finish high
school. Neither did Abraham Lincoln or George Washington.
Gun News
Deputies identify man
shot by homeowner during home invasion. http://www.wafb.com/story/28249586/deputies-homeowner-shoots-intruder-in-deadly-home-invasion
Excerpt: According to officials at the scene, detectives
believe a man and a woman tried to break into the home around 10 a.m. when the
man was shot by the homeowner. The man shot by the homeowner has been
identified by the coroner as 31-year-old Jermoid Wheeler. The coroner was
called to the scene and Wheeler was pronounced dead.
Race Card News
Justice Department
won't prosecute Ferguson
Excerpt: The Justice Department announces it will not
prosecute former Ferguson , Missouri
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Excerpt: In March 2010, Congress passed, and President Obama
signed, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA was never
implemented as written. The ACA authorizes subsidies to health insurers
operating in state-established exchanges, but not the federal exchange. Some 37
states opted not to establish their own exchanges. Nevertheless, the
Administration has been paying subsidies to insurers in those 37 states. On
March 4, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in King vs. Burwell. At
stake is the Administration’s payment of subsidies to health insurers operating
in states which use the federal exchange. The Supreme Court is expected to
announce its decision by July. A decision to uphold the ACA, as written, will
surely cause millions of people to stop paying premiums that will double,
triple, or more after the Supreme Court strikes down the illegal subsidies.
Undocumented Democrat News
GAO: Chance Of "Path To Citizenship" Was A
"Primary Cause" Of 2014 Migration Surge. By Conn Carroll
Excerpt: "Some Hondurans believed that comprehensive
immigration reform in the United States
would lead to a path to citizenship for anyone living in the United States
at the time of reform," the report found. These beliefs were "a
primary cause of UAC [unaccompanied alien children] migration," the
report continued.
Democrats Plan To Win
Elections With Illegal Alien Votes. By Phyllis Schlafly
Excerpt: The Obama Democrats have an audacious scheme for
winning future elections. They just plan to import 5 million non-citizens and
credential them as voters who will, in gratitude, vote Democratic. The way this
devious formula works is stunningly simple. Just get the new Republican
Congress (under Speaker John Boehner and Sen. Mitch McConnell) to pass a
full-funding bill for Homeland Security without any exception for the funding
of Obama's illegal executive amnesty, which will allow Obama to give work
permits, Social Security numbers and driver's licenses to 5 million illegal
aliens. (F. Y. I. If this was ever allowed to become a reality,
every legal American should be very, very scared. If it does happen -
and I'm not being a doom and gloomer or an uneducated paranoiac - the country
will be a thing of the past within five years; it'll become the largest, and
failed, socialist country ever in this world; and we'll see major social
and crime problems that will outdo even the worst turmoil that we're seeing now
in Greece. As such, I would suggest that every reasonably patriotic American should
become much more attuned to everything that's happening in America and the
world today; make your families, friends, neighbors, business associates, all
of your local, State's, and national elected officials, and any other American
that you can think of because, if this would actually occur, I do believe that
the America that we grew up in will begin going down a long and dark road
that will lead to untold disasters in the freedom and liberty that we have
fought for, worked for, and cherished for over 200 years will begin to rapidly
erode. People, the fact that this may actually happen - unless we wake up and
start to act now - is chilling to and for all of us. We have to be aware of
those positive signs that this is a very real possibility and then start acting
now to ensure that it doesn't happen. Regards, Paul Rendine)
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Excerpt: The following is from a scientific journal that
questions the validity of human activity's impact on climate change. What is
really scary (and should scare everyone, regardless of your opinion on climate
change) is how our monstrous big government is now persecuting those who refuse
to fall in line with the government's thinking. This is scary and you should be
concerned. This is why I can't stand government interference into literally
every facet of our lives...and why I'll never trust them. Footnote: I read that
many, many scientific organizations promote the concept of human caused climate
change because literally hundreds of billions of dollars are being funneled to
them. Money talks, folks! It also corrupts! There are as many scientists who
don't believe as those that do. As you can see the "non-believers"
are being persecuted and threatened! A little over four hundred years after the
Salem witch
trials, witch-hunts are still used as a tactic of social persecution and a
vehicle to censure those who do not conform to a special interest agenda. From Salem to McCarthy to
today's attacks on so called "climate skeptics," witch-hunts tear the
fabric of a free society.
Religion of Peace News
Excerpt: Massive columns of Shiite militias, including some
groups that are listed by the US
as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, have been leading the fight in Tikrit. Qods
Force commander Qassem Soleimani has been spotted at the front lines.
Obama has already lost on Iran
Excerpt: The White House is not bothering to defend the
concessions it has made to Iran
because they are indefensible. Instead President Obama sets out to convince the
media that the only alternative to his bad deal is war (more sanctions, a
credible threat of military action and a new president with superior
credibility are all yet to be deployed), smear the Israeli prime minister and
whip up left-wing Democrats. But if his aim is to wave his agreement in hand,
leave a “legacy” and put Iran
effectively on a glide path to join the world’s nuclear powers — but not for 10
years — he has already failed.
The World Bows to
Iranian Regional Hegemony. By David P. Goldman
Excerpt: The problem with Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin
Netanyahu's address to Congress March 3 was not the risk of offending Washington , but rather Washington 's receding relevance. President
Barack Obama is not the only leader who wants to acknowledge what is already a
fact in the ground, namely that "Iran has become the preeminent strategic
player in West Asia to the increasing disadvantage of the US and its regional
allies," as a former Indian ambassador to Oman wrote this week. For
differing reasons, the powers of the world have elected to legitimize Iran 's
dominant position, hoping to delay but not deter its eventual acquisition of
nuclear weapons.
Netanyahu Responds to
Obama’s Criticism of His Speech to Congress
Excerpt: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
said Wednesday he offered a “practical alternative” to the deal being
negotiated over Iran ’s
nuclear program, after President Barack Obama criticized his address to Congress as containing “nothing new."
Obama said Netanyahu didn’t offer any “viable alternative” and that “as far
as I can tell, there was nothing new” in the Tuesday speech.
‘I Hope a Rocket
Will Fly Up Your …’: Israeli Ambassador Reads Hate Letters on Camera. By Sharona Schwartz
Excerpt: “It’s the truth that the Jews are resting on the
Holocaust, and they are just too lazy to work.” “Child murderer! I hope that a
rocket will fly up your ass.” “I am very happy that Adolf Hitler massively
decimated you %&$f**ing Jews here in Germany .” That’s just a sample of
the 20 or so hate letters the Israeli Embassy in Berlin receives every day.
Democrat Leader Calls
Israeli Leader “Arrogant” and says He Doesn’t “Speak for Her”
http://eaglerising.com/15768/democrat-leader-calls-israeli-leader-arrogant-says-doesnt-speak/
http://eaglerising.com/15768/democrat-leader-calls-israeli-leader-arrogant-says-doesnt-speak/
Excerpt: Hearing Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
call anyone “arrogant” is funny, because the irony in the statement is just so
thick. Here is a woman who has, for years, been name-calling and demonizing her
Republican counterparts while also belittling our beliefs and philosophies. And
she has the audacity to call the leader of one of our closest allies
“arrogant.” For years, these same Democrats have dictated to Israel , telling the only Western democracy in
the Middle East what they can and can’t do
with their own nation to protect themselves… and now one of these foolish
Democrats is calling their representative “arrogant’? If the situation weren’t
so disgustingly maddening, it could be the basis for a Hollywood
farce. (Well, she knows "arrogant." ~Bob. It struck me that Pelosi commenting on intelligence is
rather like a blind person being engaged as an art critic. --Steve)
Nancy Pelosi on Bibi.
By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Meanwhile, here’s Nancy Pelosi’s official statement responding to the speech:
I was near tears throughout the Prime Minister’s speech -- saddened by the
insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the P5 +1 nations,
and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by
Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation. (Above is)
a meeting with a foreign leader where Nancy Pelosi wasn’t near tears and didn’t
feel insulted. Gee, why would anyone ever think Nancy Pelosi wasn’t
sufficiently knowledgeable about a threat?
Boost for Bibi?
Widening rift with Obama could propel Netanyahu in upcoming election
Excerpt: The OneVoice Movement, launched in 2002 by snack
bar mogul Daniel Lubetzky and boasting the star power of such celebrities as
Brad Pitt, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman and Sir Paul McCartney among its honorary
advisors, is headed by Marc Ginsberg, who advised President Carter on
Middle East Policy and served as President Clinton’s ambassador to Morocco .
Ginsberg is a former Fox News contributor. His communications staff said he
would not speak to FoxNews.com directly
about OneVoice’s links with V15, but he has described the Obama
administration’s approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – an approach to
which Netanyahu has been cool – as a “window of opportunity.” The group focuses
on Israel ’s
1967 borders as a starting point for negotiating a final settlement, which
parallels Obama’s thinking, but runs counter to Netanyahu’s.
Important: U.S.-Backed Syrian Rebel Group Collapses,
U.S.-Supplied Weapons End Up in Al-Qaeda Hands. Unexpectedly.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/03/03/us-backed-syrian-rebel-group-collapses-us-supplied-weapons-end-up-in-al-qaeda-hands-unexpectedly/#ixzz3TQliAJfc
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/03/03/us-backed-syrian-rebel-group-collapses-us-supplied-weapons-end-up-in-al-qaeda-hands-unexpectedly/#ixzz3TQliAJfc
Excerpt: Reports this week revealed that a U.S.-backed
Syrian rebel group, Harakat al-Hazm, had officially dissolved itself under pressure
from Jabhat al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda’s official affiliate in Syria, and many of the
fighters have joined up with the jihadist Islamic Front. With the group’s
dissolution, the U.S.-provided TOW anti-tank missiles have reportedly fallen
into the hands of al-Nusra. Hazm was the first U.S.-backed group to receive TOW
missiles, the Washington Post reported last April – and at the time the
Washington D.C. foreign policy establishment hailed Hazm as “rebels worth supporting.” But now with the demise of Hazm
it seems the fantasy of backing “vetted moderate” groups in Syria is
effectively at an end. )FSA backed by John McCain with his outed pro-Islamist
advisor. --Barb)
Imam Who Said Ayaan
Hirsi Ali Deserved Death Penalty Was Hired By DOJ To Teach Muslim Classes To
Federal Prisoners
An Egyptian-born imam who in 2007 said that Somali-born
activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali should receive the death penalty for her criticism of
Islam is now a Department of Justice contractor hired to teach classes to
Muslims who are in federal prison. According to federal spending records,
Fouad ElBayly, the imam at Islamic Center of Johnstown in Pennsylvania , was contracted by the DOJ’s Bureau of Prisons beginning
last year to teach the classes to Muslim inmates at Cumberland Federal
Correctional Institution in Cumberland , Md.
Good Man Gone: Syria
Excerpt: A former Royal Marine has become the first Briton
to be killed while fighting alongside Kurdish forces against Islamic State in Syria , a
Kurdish militia has told the BBC. The Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG)
named him as Konstandinos Erik Scurfield, from Barnsley .
Jihadi John family's
20 years on benefits: How it's cost taxpayers up to £400k to house fanatic and
his relatives in upmarket areas
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2978334/Jihadi-John-family-s-20-years-benefits-s-cost-taxpayers-400k-house-fanatic-relatives-upmarket-areas.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2978334/Jihadi-John-family-s-20-years-benefits-s-cost-taxpayers-400k-house-fanatic-relatives-upmarket-areas.html
Excerpt: Jihadi John and his asylum-seeking family have
milked the British benefits system for 20 years, the Mail can reveal today. Housing
the Islamic State executioner and his relatives in affluent parts of London has cost taxpayers
up to £400,000. One landlord said Mohammed Emwazi’s family were ‘parasites’ and
‘tenants from hell’. Incredibly, they are still believed to be pocketing
£40,000 a year in handouts despite there being no sign of them in Britain .
*****
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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