Some articles and graphics that may interest, inform or entertain you

Some articles and graphics that may interest, inform or entertain you.

VA

Had my 3-month evaluation at the VA on Tuesday, 8/4. Blood work, PFT, 6-minute walk, three meetings with Transplant Pharmacist, Transplant Coordinator and Transplant Pulmonologist. They are pleased with all the numbers. The doc said that I may just stay at this level, not show much improvement. I'm tired a lot and short of breath sometimes, especially after a coughing bout, but I'm alive and enjoying life, so much to be grateful for. Also checked on my new glasses to deal with the double vision and had to reorder, it had not gone in. ~Bob

Book Recommendation: there is no goat. By Jennifer Dunham 

http://www.amazon.com/there-no-goat-Jennifer-Dunham/dp/1492738905/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2_pap?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438551977&sr=1-1&keywords=There+is+no+Goat

I would have missed this one, except it turned up on an email feed of free Kindle books I get. Dunham is a former Army Intel Officer with service in Iraq who volunteered for a civilian contract in Afghanistan. Though confined to base, her job was to interview local Afghan men to vet them for jobs with the coalition forces. Her insights into how they think, their ignorance and backwardness and the oppression of women in their society are excellent. She has bought into the party line, that the extremist have nothing to do with Islam, going so far as to suggest that Shari'a Law is an un-Islamic creation of the Taliban. But her accounts give the lie to this meme and are well worth reading. She favorably contrasts the Iraqis she met with the Afghans. Reading it, one thinks it is hopeless to advance such a society, the best we can hope for it to contain it so it does not threaten us.

Bill Clinton called Trump ahead of his 2016 launch

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bill-clinton-called-donald-trump-ahead-of-republicans-2016-launch/2015/08/05/e2b30bb8-3ae3-11e5-b3ac-8a79bc44e5e2_story.html?wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1

I'm sure Bill had the best interests of the Republican Party at heart in pushing Trump to run. ~Bob

The Mindlessness of Donald Trump—and What It Reveals About the GOP

http://reason.com/blog/2015/08/04/the-mindlessness-of-donald-trumpand-what?utm_source=jolt&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Jolt&utm_campaign=Jolt08062015B

Donald Trump’s Odd Fixation on Seizing Middle Eastern Oil Fields
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421825/donald-trump-foreign-policy-middle-east-oil?utm_source=jolt&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Jolt&utm_campaign=Jolt08062015B

Obama's Iran Nuke Treaty 
https://prayfor.us/150730_36822_p4us_pp_Obama_Iran_Nuke_Theft/

The link below will take you to the site where the full discussion is, plus you could download the text of the Treaty there, but I've attached it for anyone who really wants to get into it.  It's a lot of pages, but that bit where they can sign up, get their 150 billion bucks back, and then drop out, laughing all the way, is there.  Why anyone would have let that part get in is a complete mystery, but it again tells us that Obama and Kerry wanted a deal no matter what.  And this is why the ayatollahs have made speech after speech to their people saying they have given up nothing. Trust them?  Really? --Del

Vietnam's Unending Oppression. By Michael Benge

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/08/vietnams_unending_oppression.html

Vietnam

Navy responds to reports sailor will be charged for returning fire against Chattanooga gunman

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/08/navy_denies_reports_sailor_wil.html

REJECTED AND IGNORED FOR NO "WO" IN "INFANTRYMEN"

http://acoloneloftruth.blogspot.com/2015/08/rejected-and-ignored-for-no-wo-in.html

Worth Reading: Progressive Paradise Lost. By Salim Furth

http://dailysignal.com/2015/07/01/progressive-paradise-lost/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRogvanIZKXonjHpfsX56e0vWK%2BzlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4IScRrI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D

Memphis police officer killed; suspect identified

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/02/us/memphis-officer-killed-traffic-stop/

Memphis police identified 29-year-old Tremaine Wilburn as the suspect in a weekend shooting of an officer. (Brother Marine. ~Bob)

Worth Reading: A Nation of Takers

http://justcommonsense-lostinamerica.blogspot.com/2015/08/a-nation-of-takers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMoXTa+%28Lost+in+America%29

American Voters Oppose Iran Deal 2-1, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds;

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2265&utm_source=jolt&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Jolt&utm_campaign=Jolt08032015#.Vb9M4M7gMgI.twitter

But since went do Democrats care what the majority thinks?

Assailant in Garland, Texas, attack bought gun in 2010 under Fast and Furious operation

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-garland-gun-20150801-story.html?utm_source=jolt&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Jolt&utm_campaign=Jolt08032015#page=1

Israel’s Choice: Conventional War Now, or Nuclear War Later

http://www.columbiatribune.com/opinion/oped/israel-s-choice-conventional-war-now-or-nuclear-war-later/article_21cee223-ace1-5ff8-be0e-5ef0b6a5be55.html

Here's Why States Must Resist The Temptation To Expand Medicaid

http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2015/07/27/heres-why-states-must-resist-the-temptation-to-expand-medicaid/?utm_source=followingweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20150803

Obama’s $500 million 50-man “moderate” army: half already dead, captured, out of action

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/08/obamas-500-million-50-man-moderate-army-half-already-dead-captured-out-of-action

What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/30/world/asia/what-china-has-been-building-in-the-south-china-sea.html?mabReward=A5&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0

How Obama Shrank the Military

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-obama-shrank-the-military-1438551147

HANDS, WARES, AND CARDS - CARSON, FIORINA, AND TRUMP, EACH HOLDS THE HAT TRICK

http://acoloneloftruth.blogspot.com/2015/08/hands-wares-and-cards-carson-fiorina.html

22 Ways to be a Good Democrat

http://www.political-humor.org/ways-to-be-a-good-democrat.shtml

Islamic State Circulates Sex Slave Price List

http://pamelageller.com/2015/08/islamic-state-circulates-sex-slave-price-list.html/

What Society Says When Children are Murdered

http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/5646/what-society-says-when-children-are-murdered

Netherlands abandoning multiculturalism

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/08/netherlands_abandoning_multiculturalism.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Norway Deported 824 Muslims And The Immediate Impact Is Something That Every American Needs To Know About It

http://www.usherald.com/norway-deported-824-muslims-and-the-immediate-impact-was-so-overwhelming-positive-that-every-american-needs-to-know-about-it/

Ahead of summer fests, Scotland’s new pro-Israel network stands guard

http://www.timesofisrael.com/ahead-of-summer-fests-scotlands-new-pro-israel-network-stands-guard/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=4b7e4e1740-2015_08_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-4b7e4e1740-54603393

GEORGE WILL - WORDY WUSSY

http://acoloneloftruth.blogspot.com/2015/08/george-will-wordy-wussy.html

SNAP To It: Restoring Work Requirements Will Help Solve the Food Stamp Crisis

http://thefga.org/research/snap-to-it-restoring-work-requirements-will-help-solve-the-food-stamp-crisis/?utm_source=jolt&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Jolt&utm_campaign=Jolt08052015

ISIS or Al Qaeda? American Officials Split Over Top Terror Threat

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/world/middleeast/isis-or-al-qaeda-american-officials-split-over-biggest-threat.html?emc=edit_th_20150805&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=59336975&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&_r=0

How can they be threats? ISIS is the JV team and Al Qaeda is on the run. Obama told us so. ~Bob

Afghanistan: sharp rise in women and children casualties in first half of 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/05/afghanistan-sharp-rise-women-children-casualties-2015-taliban?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign

In 2008, Obama called Afghanistan the necessary war, the war we must win. Now he has cut and run--with this result. ~Bob

Muslim cleric: Jews paid doctors to “create and spread diseases"

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/08/muslim-cleric-jews-paid-doctors-to-create-and-spread-diseases

Senator Catches Obama Red-Handed Violating the Law He JUST Signed
http://joemiller.us/2015/08/senator-catches-obama-red-handed-violating-the-law-he-just-signed/#ixzz3i3rdXstc

Libyan force was lesson in limits of U.S. power

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-security-force-for-libya-becomes-a-lesson-in-failure/2015/08/05/70a3ba90-1b76-11e5-bd7f-4611a60dd8e5_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1

20 Top Liberal Cities in the USA: Can You Guess What They Are?

http://thestir.cafemom.com/politics_views/188222/20_top_liberal_cities_in?utm_medium=sm&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=thestir_fanpage&&utm_campaign=fbpaid&Dmpg2=m_1899

Very Funny Satire: I Will Always Remember Where I Was When Cecil The Lion Was Killed
http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/08/will-always-remember-cecil-lion-killed/#ixzz3hwd51VPj

The Future of Transportation

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/D4uSWtazRCM?rel=0

The Osprey Car? I want one! Though it is doubtful this would work. ~Bob