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General News and Comment
Excerpt: Hillary Clinton has figured out a way to monetize
Mother’s Day — inviting supporters to enter a contest where she’ll ring up
Mom just in case you forget to send flowers. The Clinton camp tweeted out the
contest Sunday, just when many Americans were scrambling for last-minute
gifts and brunch reservations. Entering is free, but those who sign up get
directed to a page where they get the chance to “increase your odds” by giving
cash to Clinton ’s
presidential campaign. (I assume the call will be collect...~Bob)
Worth Reading
Excerpts: The New York Times reports in their latest poll released
late yesterday that Americans don’t care about Hillary Clinton’s e-mail and Clinton
Foundation. They conclude that the former secretary of State and putative
Democratic presidential nominee in 2016 has weathered the storm so far. For
Democrats, it’s always advantageous when pollsters turn to Americans in general
or even registered voters rather than Likely Voters like those we routinely
survey here at Rasmussen Reports. It’s true that Republicans are more likely
than Democrats to say they intend to vote which helps explain why Democrats are
always championing schemes like same-day vote registration, mail-in voting and
the like to get their voters to the polls. But, historically, we’ve also found
that polling likely voters gets us closer to the actual end result than
surveying Americans as a whole. ... By contrast, Rasmussen Reports finds that
when you survey Likely U.S. Voters: -- 63% think it’s likely some actions Clinton took as secretary of
State were influenced by donations made to the Clinton Foundation,
including 42% who say it’s Very Likely.
Worth Reading : The Clintons
Excerpt: Oh, Bill. There you go again. We knew you were
going to pop off, but did it have to be so soon — and so tone-deaf? The Clinton deal is “two for the price of one,” as Bill Clinton
famously promised in 1992. But 23 years later, that bargain comes with
different baggage attached. Then it was the intimations of Hillary Clinton as co-president,
Machiavelli in a pantsuit. Now — and let us pause to appreciate the role
reversal and the country’s journey on issues of gender — it is the awkward
reality of running not only while married to an ex-president but also as a name
partner in the sprawling entity of Clinton Inc. (I think she's a leftie! ~Bob)
Excerpt: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is the top dog with a
big early lead in the Iowa Republican Caucus, with a four-way scramble for
second place and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in seventh place with 5 percent,
according to a Quinnipiac
University
Excerpt: The Des
Moines Register reports, “Over four days here from May 16-20, [Rick] Perry,
a former governor of Texas, will do nine public events — four in conservative
northwest Iowa, three in more politically splintered northeast Iowa, and two in
the Des Moines area, the state’s heaviest population center. Perry has not
yet formally entered the 2016 presidential race, but he seems to be aiming at
hitting all 99 counties — a strategy for building support and infrastructure
that has worked well for candidates in Iowa .”
He has already hired a core
group of staffers.
Exclusive: Ben Carson
calls on officials to take immediate precautions against EMP
http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/secure-the-grid-now/
http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/secure-the-grid-now/
Excerpt: If urgent steps are not taken to make the bulk
power distribution system for our electricity – better known as “the grid” –
more resilient, we could face the loss of possibly many tens, if not hundreds,
of millions of lives. If that seems unbelievable, just think about how long you
and those you love would last if there were no access to clean water, food,
medicine, finances, communications, transportation or any of the other goods
and services supplied by our critical infrastructures. If there is no
electricity, none of them will work.
If You Want to Change
American Culture, Should You Be Running for President? By Jim Geraghty
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/417940/if-you-want-change-american-culture-should-you-be-running-president-jim-geraghty?utm_source=jolt&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Jolt&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/417940/if-you-want-change-american-culture-should-you-be-running-president-jim-geraghty?utm_source=jolt&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Jolt&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign
Excerpt: Dr. Carson may very well be right. (Mike Huckabee,
announcing today, has also emphasized the need for an American cultural and/or
spiritual renewal to overcome our current plethora of problems, as has once and
perhaps future candidate Rick Santorum.) It’s easy to imagine an America
with a better, healthier, culture: Children raised by moms and dads in stable
homes. Teenagers finishing high school and going on to trade school or college.
Young adults staying away from crime and addictions of all kinds. Neighbors
looking out for each other, instead of calling the cops on children of
“free-range parents” they deem insufficiently irresponsible. Folks who are
facing hard times embraced by a warm support network of family, friends,
neighbors, and their broader community — Americans going through their lives
reassured by the sense that if they stumble and fall, their churches,
synagogues, and other faith groups and Burkean platoons will be there to catch
them and help them back on their feet.
Excerpt: In February, China ’s
nuclear experts electrified their U.S.
counterparts with an estimate that North Korea has 20 nuclear warheads
and can double that arsenal next year. Congress is now deciding how to best
protect America ’s
homeland from long-range missiles, and there is no longer much margin for
error. Lt. Gen. David L. Mann, commander of the Army’s Space Missile Defense
Command, has said 22 countries now have ballistic missile capability, nine of
which have nuclear weapons. Besides North Korea ,
the group includes Russia
and China ,
each with huge numbers of nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles.
(Chet Nagle is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, a Naval Aviator, a former
navy research and development project officer, a former CIA agent and is a
director of the Committee on the Present Danger. He is also the author of three
terrific thrillers: Lazarus Man, The Iran Covenant and The Woolsorter's Plague. http://www.amazon.com/Lazarus-Man-Cyberhawk-Chet-Nagle/dp/0991324331/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1423325629&sr=1-1&keywords=lazarus+man
~Bob)
Obama's Next
Executive Order: Closing
Guantanamo Bay
Excerpt: Speaking at the White House Wednesday, Press
Secretary Josh Earnest was asked directly by a reporter if President Obama was
willing to close Guantanamo
Bay Guantanamo ?"
Earnest was asked by a foreign reporter. "The President has indicated a
willingness to use as much of his executive authority as he can to try to take
the steps that he believes are consistent with the national security interests
of the United States and
that's closing the prison of Guantanamo
Bay
Military eyeing
former Cold War mountain bunker as ‘shield’ against EMP attack?
Excerpt: New concerns are being raised that the nation's
electrical grid and critical infrastructure are increasingly vulnerable to a
catastrophic foreign attack -- amid speculation over whether officials are
eyeing a former Cold War bunker, inside a Colorado mountain, as a
"shield" against such a strike. North American Aerospace Defense
Command is looking for ways to protect itself in the event of a massive
electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, attack -- a deliberate burst of energy that
could disrupt the electrical grid and cripple NORAD's ability to defend the
nation. ..."Nine out of ten Americans could die from starvation,
disease and societal collapse, if the blackout lasted a year." (That's
why the rush to the moon and Mars, eh? Look on the bright side: Population
reduced, all those carbon emissions decreased and the crickets and roaches
might survive. Gee, folks that survive might have to learn how to talk to one
another real face to face...versus Skype. --Barb)
Republican Areas
Designated 'Hostile' For Military Training. Member of Congress warns:
'Patriotic Americans have reason to be concerned'
Excerpt: U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, released a
public statement Tuesday responding to constituents’ worries about
Jade Helm 15, a previously announced military exercise that is to have
thousands of military personnel training on public – and even private –
property outside of military bases... “Over the past few weeks, my office has
been inundated with calls referring to the Jade Helm 15 military exercise
scheduled to take place between July 15 and September 15, 2015. This military
practice has some concerned that the U.S. Army is preparing for modern-day
martial law,” Gohmert said.
Obama's Charity Ties
Raise Transparency Concerns
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/charity-transparency-keeper-alliance/2015/05/04/id/642569/#ixzz3ZKAsdHlj
Excerpt: Obama traveled toNew
York on Air Force One to attend the My Brothers
Keeper Alliance event and two fundraisers for the Democratic National
Committee, and to tape an appearance on "The Late Show with David
Letterman." During the media's chat with Earnest, reporters
questioned how close the president is with My Brothers Keeper Alliance, given
the fact that it was formed after he asked corporations to help the nation's
inner-city youth. Earnest deflected the question and said, "That
could be used to describe hundreds of different organizations." (Quite a
CO2 footprint with all that flying....and US taxpayers foot the bill again
Excerpt: Obama traveled to
for...? --Barb)
Excerpt: The Obama Administration’s view of federal power is
so extreme that since President Obama took office in January 2009, the U.S.
Supreme Court unanimously rejected DOJ’s arguments for additional federal
power twenty times in cases involving a federal party.
Bird flu may take
bite out of Thanksgiving's turkey supply
Excerpt: The largest-ever U.S. outbreak of avian influenza,
which has devastated Midwestern poultry and egg producers in recent weeks,
could be felt at Thanksgiving tables across the nation come November, farmers
and some trade groups say. The virulent H5N2 strain has already spread to
14 states and led to the deaths or scheduled euthanizations of more than 21
million birds, including 3.3 million turkeys in Minnesota , the nation's top turkey producer.
And now, with Thanksgiving just seven months away, farmers say they may be
running out of time to raise enough turkeys - the traditional centerpiece of
holiday feasts - to meet the demand. (The UN wants you to eat crickets. Living
in the dung hut without AC comes later. --Barb)
Gay couple wins High
Court battle over baby girl
Excerpt: A baby girl should be removed from her mother and
live with her father and his boyfriend instead, a judge has ruled. The
judgement follows a legal fight over the nature of the parents' agreement when
the child was conceived. The woman said they had agreed for her to be the main
parent, but the father, who donated sperm, said she had agreed to be the gay
couple's surrogate. Ms Justice Russell said it was in the "best
interests" of the one-year-old girl to live with her father.
Quote
Today, if you
invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
--Ronald Reagan
Good News: IRS Sent
Billions in Education Credits to People Who Aren't Qualified to Receive Them.
By Katie Pavlich
Excerpt: According to a new
report from Treasury Inspector General J Russell George, the IRS paid
out $5.6 billion in education credits to more than 3 million people who aren't
qualified to receive them. (Any day I expect Obama to claim fraud stimulates
the economy. A fiscal collapse is coming. ~Bob)
Blaming the Right Culprits. By Edward Cline
Excerpt: Diana West has performed yeoman's work in exposing
the Soviet-FDR connection in American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character.
She has aired out America 's
dirty laundry and hung it out to dry. Neocons and other strange creatures
attacked her for contradicting their over half-century-old meme that FDR was a
blameless dupe of Joseph Stalin and that there were no real Soviet agents and
fellow travelers in FDR's administration. (A real screed about cowardice in
various forms. And the author holds back... nothing. He trashes the GOP for not
doing the job they should have to protect the Republic, and a whole lot of
others as well for all the stupid, scaredy-cat things they have done (or not
done) from lack of fiber and resolve. Does a hell of a job on writers too. Altogether
a real scream of outrage at a lot of people who deserve it. --Del )
It Looks Like Social
Justice Warriors Chased the Social Justice Warrior Joss Whedon Off Twitter, And
That's Just Terrific
Excerpt: No sir, they are not like the Tea Party at all. The
Tea Party attempts to enforce their political willon their elected political
representatives, which is not only permissible, it is well-nigh necessary,
unless Patton Oswald is one of those imbeciles who thinks politicians go to
Washington to Do the Right Thing For People and Stuff. The Social Justice
Warriors, on the other hand, are simultaneously more trivial and more
profoundly disturbing: They do not attempt to whip-saw the elected members of
the political class, but instead pick out random airplane passengers, random
computer programmers, random pizzeria owners, and so own to drive them from
their jobs and
homes for no other reason than to
show That The Herd Is Angry At Them. (They say "Social Justice."
I hear "Stand and Deliver!" ~Bob)
Freedom’s just
another word for mandatory dues, union says. By Jason Hart
Excerpt: Freedom means paying a union to keep your job? What
sounds like a riff on a George Orwell story is actually the
heart of an argument by one of America ’s most powerful labor
unions. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
recently equated forced dues with freedom in defense of an AFSCME video
portraying nonmembers as deadbeats.
US Allies
Cleared to Buy Arms Worth $3.5 Billion. By Marcus
Weisgerber
Excerpt: The State Department has approved five
arms deals worth nearly $3.5 billion for U.S. allies
in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific, two
regions of intense focus for the Pentagon. State OKed the sale of
more than 1.2 million rounds of ammunition for mortars and other guns for the
Iraqi Security Forces, which are embroiled in a fight against Islamic
State militants.
Rising Dragon News
Excerpt: Last Wednesday, the Times published a
front-page story about the movie and real-estate mogul Wang
Jianlin, who is the richest man in Asia ,
worth an estimated thirty-five billion dollars. ... The article was
fascinating, and so, too, was its backstory: it had been in the works for three
years, at first not at the Times but at Bloomberg News. For
journalists working in China ,
there is no more sensitive subject than the wealth of the top leadership; it
poses more potential problems than anything one could write about Tibet or Taiwan or human rights.
Gun News
Alleged intruder
shot, killed in Boulder ID
Excerpt: Boulder
resident Roberto Zamora was shot and killed by the owner of a home at 98 Pima Ct. The shooting
occurred on Monday at 8:40 p.m.
Police say the occupants of the home, a man and a woman, were
watching when they heard the suspect banging loudly on a window in
the rear area of the house. The man told the woman to call the police, and he
retrieved his handgun.
Race Card News
Must Read: Decoding the Rules of Baltimore
Excerpt: Almost everyone blames the subsequent Baltimore
rioting on some –ism — endemic racism, economic inequality, the lack of jobs,
the legacy of slavery, systematic police brutality and insensitivity, the
pathologies of the black underclass, the destruction of the black family and on
and on. However, most of America, rich and poor, black, white and other,
liberal and conservative can more or less chart the conditions that explain a
Ferguson or Baltimore — and remain quiet about it. At this point, I don’t think
much will change until action follows rhetoric and someone like Barack Obama
symbolically puts his kids in the public schools rather than at Sidwell
Friends, or some of the loud MSNBC team choose to live, in desegregated style,
in the Baltimore inner city, or Apple and Google grandees mentor East Palo Alto
gangbangers, or an Al Gore recruits inner-city youth on his green staffs, or a
Warren Buffett leads a national effort on the part of plutocrats to invest
money in Detroit or Oakland shopping centers. And as long as the proverbial
black community has self-appointed adjudicators of racial redress that blame
pathologies on cosmic racism rather than demand introspection — of the likes of
the Revs. Al Sharpton [1], Jesse Jackson [2], and Jeremiah Wright[3], in a way quite unlike the Asian,
Jewish, ethnic, and Latino communities — things will not change much. Is there
a Cuban or Chinese or Korean national reverend who takes it upon himself to
agitate and negotiate collective grievances?
Telling young black
men--who said it?
Excerpt: We know that too many young men in our community
continue to make bad choices. And I have to say, growing up, I made quite a few
myself. Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the
world trying to keep a black man down. I had a tendency sometimes to make
excuses for me not doing the right thing. But one of the things that all of you
have learned over the last four years is there’s no longer any room for
excuses. ... Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if
you suffered some discrimination. And moreover, you have to remember that
whatever you’ve gone through, it pales in comparison to the hardships previous
generations endured -- and they overcame them. And if they overcame them, you
can overcome them, too.
Baltimore
Excerpt: I don’t think the chaos in Baltimore
Tweet from ACLU National ✔@ACLU
#BlackSpring
has begun. Protesters, #knowyourrights!
Big Brother's Keeper:
How Obama Exploits Black Poverty. By Jim Harrington
Excerpt: In the wake of the Baltimore riots, Barack Obama
argued that the violence there and in Ferguson
was caused by a “sense of unfairness and powerlessness.” Of course, that’s a
“sense” he’s harped on and nurtured for his entire adult life. Amazing how an
entire segment of the population can feel aggrieved and victimized — and then
lash out violently — when they’re told repeatedly how unjustly they’re treated.
Indeed, Obama has only exacerbated
racial discord. (If some people have a “sense of unfairness and
powerlessness” over Obama's executive orders, would they--God forbid--be
justified in attacking him? ~Bob)
Freddie Gray arrest
documents drawn up for wrong people
Excerpt: When charges were announced Friday against Alicia
White for the death of Freddie Gray, her phone started buzzing from
journalists and bail bondsmen. The problem was, they were calling the
wrong Alicia White. The elementary school cafeteria manager from East Baltimore was not the Baltimore Police sergeant
charged with manslaughter in the high-profile police custody death - even
though court
records listed her.
Excerpt: Comments about recent events in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray
provide a glimpse at perhaps one of our greatest challenges — perception. In
this case, as in too many others involving police, perception seems to be black
and white.
Excerpt: I just watched four Black news announcers on MSNBC,
who all are delinquent on their taxes (from $45,000 to $4.5 million) discussing
"White Privilege and Black Victimhood". As I sat there and watched
these liberal Blacks, pampered and nourished by liberal Whites, sanity finally
deserted me. There are a cult of liberal urban Whites who, during the last 50
years, have grown and cultivated a crop of urban liberal Blacks who have been
granted rights and privileges that Whites can only dream of...and then sit back
and bitch because there's not more. Let's take Baltimore . Thanks to federal grants and sky
high middle class property rates, Baltimore 's
predominately Black schools receive $16,000 dollars per student (highest per
pupil payout in the nation!)...and only half of Black kids show up for
school...then complain that they need even more. And every facet of Baltimore 's municipal
government is run by Blacks, their courts, their cops, their justice system,
their schools, their municipal services...and they somehow blame it on honkies.
Black Army Sgt
Receives Threats After Saying This About Race Rioters
Excerpt: An outspoken Christian U.S. Army sergeant who
happens to be black recently posted a video on
Facebook with an epic rant explaining to Baltimore
race rioters why their actions were wrong and how they were inflicting
undue damage on an already damaged community. Sgt. Marcus Rogers
made a point that the racial, violent, anti-police
behavior exhibited by the black community
in places like Ferguson and Baltimore is “hypocritical” and that blacks should
concentrate on “looking in the mirror, keeping it real, stop making excuses,
stop trying to blame everybody else.”
Here Are 8 Trayvon
Martin “Revenge” Attacks Across America
Excerpt: In America today, many media outlets won’t cover
news that doesn’t fit their liberal ideology, for example, incidents
following the death of Trayvon
Martin by George
Zimmerman and Zimmerman’s subsequent acquittal.
Old news, you say? That’s what the media would like you to believe. But there
were at least eight attacks committed to avenge the murder of Martin that the
media never mentioned.
Undocumented Democrat News
Quote
One can not be an American by going about saying that one is
an American. It is necessary to feel America ,
like America , love America and
then work.. --Georgia O'Keeffe
Quote from The Patriot Post
"[F]oreigners will generally be apt to bring with them
attachments to the persons they have left behind; to the country of their
nativity; and to its particular customs and manners. They will also entertain
opinions on government congenial with those under which they have lived; or if
they should be led hither from a preference to ours, how extremely unlikely is
it that they will bring with them that temperate love of liberty, so essential
to real republicanism?" —Alexander Hamilton, 1802
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Rethinking the U.S. Russia and
China
Excerpt: The ghosts of Lenin and Mao might well be smirking.
Communist and authoritarian nations are moving to take global leadership in,
and profit from, the commercial use of nuclear power, a technology made
possible by the market-driven economies of the West. New research and
development could enable abundant, affordable, low-carbon energy as well as
further beneficial products for industry and medicine. Yet outdated and
burdensome regulations and restrictions have stifled nuclear innovation in the U.S. and other Western nations, and are pushing
these opportunities to China
and Russia .
China is joining Russia to build five new reactors in Iran —regardless of what becomes of the current
negotiations over Tehran ’s
nuclear program. Beijing and Moscow
are also marketing nuclear technology and infrastructure to other Mideast and Asian nations. China
and Russia
have a clear commercial and strategic purpose in advancing nuclear technology
abroad, technology that the West seems loath to exploit. (This is a GREAT
article, the writer must be a genius, because he is saying exactly what I've
been saying for many years. The French get 75% of their national power grid
from a wide network of standardized nuclear power plants of relatively modern
design (what we might call third generation technology) and there is now
available fourth generation designs that are even more efficient and can use up
some of the waste products from earlier types of plants. And this nation, who
invented nuclear power and has never had a significant accident even with all
the older generation plants (At Three Mile Island the safeties worked as they
should and almost nothing was emitted to the environment), we are mired in a
horrendous regulatory jungle of ever-higher barriers, that means it'll take no
fewer than five years (if you're lucky) and many, many millions of dollars, to
get permission to build a new plant. Oddly enough, this seems to have stifled
the building of any new plants. It would be nice if we had some leadership in
Congress and the White House to reform the system and make it a reasonable
business idea to set up new, advanced technology nuclear plants. And
standardize the designs so that once one of then is up, running, and has run
long enough for all the inevitable minor bugs to be ironed out, others can be
approved with a fraction of the previous effort. This is a common sense as it
gets. When will our elected leaders get on board to the 21st century? --Del )
Excerpt: Well, it looks like that whole “separation of
church & state” thing the libs like to talk about can be suspended when it
comes to federal
regulations: The Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC) issued a regulation for Christmas lights on Monday, deeming
some holiday decorations a “substantial product hazard.”
Lift the crude oil
export ban? Obama administration just doesn’t seem that into it. By Rob
Nikolewski
Excerpt: The calls to lift the 40-year-old ban that keeps U.S. companies
from exporting crude oil have grown louder, but it appears the Obama
administration may not be that interested in repealing it. And that may mean
lifting the ban — described by a former administration official as a decision
that is “clear” and “easy” — may not happen until President Obama
leaves office in January 2017.
Drilling our way to
energy independence is possible, despite the naysayers. By Steve Mac Donald
Excerpt: History will inevitably decide who was stupid, but
my suspicion is that it will not be the industrious people in the Dakotas, Pennsylvania , Ohio ,
and elsewhere who took to heart the chant “drill baby, drill.” While Democrats
were dumping billions in taxpayer bailouts into renewable
boondoggles that were failing faster than the Department of Energy
could fast-track the loans, other energy interests were drilling. While the
media was managing the Solyndra collapse, the Ivanpah solar farm was cooking birds in the Mojave, and other taxpayer
backed investments were causing other problems, America discovered that you
can drill your way out of all sorts of things. The U.S.
Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) 2015
Annual Energy Outlook Report notes that between 2005 and 2008,
domestic drilling for oil and gas reduced foreign imports from 30 percent to 13
percent.
Religion of Peace News
Excerpt: A few years ago it was the Muslim
Brotherhood. These days it’s Iran . Next week it may be ISIS or
Al Qaeda. Obama stands with the worst elements in the Middle
East . That’s always been his philosophy. If the left had a foreign
policy, it would be, “The squeaky wheel gets the grease.” But the wheel is a
sword and it’s lubricated with blood. The squeakiest wheels and the bloodiest
swords get the most grease from the State Department because they hate us the
most. And hating us the most means that somewhere along the way we must have hurt
them the worst. They hate us, therefore we’re guilty.
Americans
overwhelmingly support Muhammad cartoonists’ right to offend. By Christopher
Ingraham
Excerpt: Combining an offensive religious stereotype with a
vigorous defense of the First Amendment's right to freedom of expression,
Fawstin's cartoon neatly sums up what's at stake in
debates over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that have flared
up periodically over the past ten years. Following incidents like the Garland shooting, Americans
tend to come down overwhelmingly in favor of free expression. For instance,
a January Pew Research Center survey found that among
Americans who had heard about the Charlie Hebdo attacks, 60 percent said it was
okay for the magazine to publish the cartoons, compared to only 28 percent who
said it wasn't okay. (Funny how the media is squeamish about a drawing of
Mohammad, but had no problem publishing picture of the taxpayer-funded
"art" Piss Christ. Maybe because Christians are unlikely to come
after you with guns. ~Bob)
Excerpt: The United States
is offering big pay outs to anyone who has "information" on key ISIS leaders. "The U.S. Department of State's
Rewards for Justice Program is offering rewards for information on four key
leaders of the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The
Secretary of State has authorized rewards of up to $7 million for information
on ‘Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli; up to $5 million each for information on
Abu Mohammed al-Adnani and Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili; and up to $3
million for information on Tariq Bin-al-Tahar Bin al Falih al-‘Awni
al-Harzi," reads a press release from the State Department. Despite having
retired to the genteel poverty of Social Security, I and my M1 would do them
for free if I could. ~Bob)
Islamic State on
Pamela Geller: “We will send all our Lions to achieve her slaughter” http://pamelageller.com/2015/05/islamic-state-on-pamela-geller-we-will-send-all-our-lions-to-achieve-her-slaughter.html/
Excerpt: This threat illustrates the savagery and barbarism
of the Islamic State. They want me dead for violating Sharia blasphemy laws.
What remains to be seen is whether the free world will finally wake up and
stand for the freedom of speech, or instead kowtow to this evil and continue to
denounce me. What’s really frightening and astonishing about this threat is
that the media in denouncing me is essentially allying with and even cheering
on the Islamic State. I expected this from jihadists. I never expected it from
my fellow Americans in the mainstream media. ... We
have 71 trained soldiers in 15 different states ready at our word to attack any
target we desire. Out of the 71 trained soldiers 23 have signed up for missions
like Sunday, We are increasing in number bithnillah. (The media are saying she
provoked the attack by publishing offensive cartoons. if someone attacked an
abortion clinic, would the media say the clinic provoked it by providing
abortions that many find offensive? ~Bob)
Does Islam Prohibit
Drawing Mohammed? By Tarek Fatah
Excerpt: At the root of Muslim protestations is the false
belief that Islam prohibits the depiction of Prophet Mohammed. There is no
prohibition on creating images of Prophet Mohammed in the Qur'an. Up until the
14th century; such depictions were common in the non-Arab Muslim world. On my
website,www.tarekfatah.com,
I have posted many depictions of Prophet Mohammed, drawn mostly by Muslim
artists. Even if it were true that such depictions were prohibited, the
prohibition would not be applicable to non-Muslims. (Muslim writer. ~Bob)
Middle eastern woman
leaves behind a surprise that mystifies everyone
Advantages of the Burka. ~Bob
Excerpt: Three jihadist groups, including one led by a key
commander who has served as a senior leader in al Qaeda and the
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, have united with the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan . The
merger is part of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan ’s efforts to rebuild
itself, likely with the guidance of al Qaeda. The jihadist organization split
in 2014 after a contentious leadership dispute that festered when the US killed the
group’s former emir, Hakeemullah Mehsud, in a drone strike.
See the entries. ~Bob
Excerpt: Now that he’s no longer in office, it appears that
the former Deputy Director of the CIA – Michael Morell – has decided to make
some money as an author. He’s written a book about his career called The
Great War of Our Time. As you might guess from the title, it focuses largely on
post-9/11 events. Here’s what he had to say about the “Arab Spring”. It
explains quite a bit, actually. “We thought and told policy-makers that this
outburst of popular revolt would damage al-Qaeda by undermining the group’s
narrative. [Instead], the Arab Spring was a boon to Islamic extremists across
both the Middle East and North Africa . From a
counterterrorism perspective, the Arab Spring had turned to winter.” (As
long-time readers of this blog know, I was an "Arab Spring" skeptic
at the time. Guess I should have been with the CIA. ~Bob)
Filipino Bomb Maker,
Sought by U.S.
Excerpt: Abdul Basit Usman, a Filipino bomb-making expert
wanted by the United States ,
was killed in a gun battle with rebels, the Philippine military said on Monday.
“He’s dead,” Brig. Gen. Joselito Kakilala said. “There was infighting among his
men that resulted in Usman and five others being killed.” The United States had offered a $1 million reward
for Mr. Usman, who was accused of carrying out multiple bombings in the
southern Philippines
beginning in 2002. In 2014, he appeared in a video pledging allegiance to the
Islamic State, also known as ISIS or
ISIL.
*****
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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