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Thursday, December 12, 2013

Short Post Today

For the people who keep tagging or poking me on Facebook or endorsing me on Linked In, sorry, I don't have time to do either. On Facebook to use it to log into sites for my blog, on Linked In to link to people who ask. May have to delete both to cut the e-mail flow.

Short today, as tied up with rehab and my transplant buddy John. Other news pushed the Obamacare Train Wreck off the top, but it goes on. ~Bob

House passes 2-year bipartisan budget deal
Excerpt: The House overwhelmingly passed a 2-year bipartisan budget deal Thursday evening, possibly signaling a truce in the spending showdowns that have paralyzed Washington for the past three years. In their final action of the year, the House approved the budget 332 to 94, with 169 Republicans and 163 Democrats voting in favor, and 62 Republicans and 32 Democrats voting against. (So BO won't get the shut down he needs to have the media take the focus off Obamacare! ~Bob)

Nuclear Gangbangers: Hostile countries with nuclear capabilities have the upper hand on the global police. By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: The gangster state of North Korea became a nuclear power in 2006–07, despite lots of foreign aid aimed at precluding just such proliferation — help usually not otherwise accorded such a loony dictatorship. Apparently the civilized world rightly suspected that, if nuclear, Pyongyang would either export nuclear material and expertise to other unstable countries, or bully its successful but non-nuclear neighbors — or both. (Kipling told us why this doesn't work. "Danegeld." http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/dane_geld.html. ~Bob.)

Ex-FBI agent who disappeared in Iran was on rogue mission for CIA
Excerpt: An American man who disappeared in Iran more than six years ago had been working for the CIA in what U.S. intelligence officials describe as a rogue operation that led to a major shake-up in the spy agency.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Spins Latest Report
Excerpt: What does it mean, exactly, to have 95 percent confidence in a selective analysis of a vast body of literature that is too abstruse for even the authors of the reports to understand entirely? The reality of the IPCC's certainty is that it's really just a best guess, a self-assessment by authors with a vested interest in having their work believed by policymakers. Dutifully, the mainstream media carries the findings of the report at face value, simply accepting that the IPCC is playing it straight with what they know and what they understand about the climate system and manmade climate change. 

Excerpt: Hnour slayings” in the Palestinian territories more than doubled in 2013, according to a new Thomson Reuters report, with 27 women being slain this year, according to rights groups. is number, which is more than double the previous year’s totals, is causing deep concern about the rights and safety of women in the Palestinian areas.

Teacher of the year gets 38 years: Sex with 12-year-old puts teacher behind bars
Apparently I had a deprived childhood. ~Bob

Corruption, USA: Creeping Obamacare And Our Dangerously Uncontrolled Home-Based Piano Teachers. By Stella Paul
Excerpt: Meanwhile, the U.S. also got some “good news,” namely that we rank as less corrupt than Qatar and Burkina Faso. On the other hand, the U.S. lags Iceland and Luxembourg, and merely tied with Uruguay for a mediocre 19th place. Come on, guys, is this really the best we can do? Shouldn’t the U.S.A. be number one, the least corrupt nation on earth?

The rich do not pay the most taxes, they pay ALL the taxes. By: Jane Wells
Excerpt: Buried inside a Congressional Budget Office report this week was this nugget: when it comes to individual income taxes, the top 40 percent of wage earners in America pay 106 percent of the taxes. The bottom 40 percent...pay negative 9 percent.

Media urge Syrian rebels to stop journalist kidnappings
Excerpt: Major international news organisations have urged armed Syrian rebel groups to stop kidnapping journalists, and to free those who are currently held. The 13 organisations, including the BBC, have signed a letter to the rebels warning that the abductions threaten the coverage of the Syrian conflict. (Wait, aren't these the allies Obama is arming? ~Bob.)

The Lobotomy Files
Forgotten Soldiers

Excerpt: Little Claudia would have been about ten years old when the Justice system began dealing with Alex Andrew Madrid, age 31, about the time little Claudia would have learned the truth about Santa Claus. Between 2009 and 2012 Madrid had 11 felony convictions under his belt, including car theft, burglary, assault, domestic violence and sexual assault on other women. Even during his prison time he was sending threatening letters to his previous victims. Several of Madrid's case assessments said he was a high risk probation candidate and would likely commit similar offenses.

Al Qaeda weapons expert says U.S. ambassador to Libya killed by lethal injection
Excerpt: An al Qaeda terrorist stated in a recent online posting that U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens was killed by lethal injection after plans to kidnap him during the Sept. 11, 2012 terror attack in Benghazi went bad. The veracity of the claim made by Abdallah Dhu-al-Bajadin, who was identified by U.S. officials as a known weapons experts for al Qaeda, could not be determined. However, U.S. officials have not dismissed the terrorist’s assertion. (Note “Kidnap.” Still believe stand down orders given to play into kidnap plan; Stevens to be traded for Blind Sheik’s release which WH and Holder had been on record working toward; even had Morsi in WH demanding same; DOS, SS, all granted visas and waved restrictions. “Demonstration” in Cairo was demanding BS’s release. Would’ve tied into getting Stevens released in an exchange….What could Americans say…especially in throes of an election? The Seals and AQ didn’t play along. Hence, the fictitious talking points, the “Video” assertions—the poor stooge is still in jail with 1st amendment rights violated by regime—and HC and O conducting “business” as usual along with Rice.--Barb)

Obamacare
Excerpt: Operation Scapegoat Search is about to begin:

Almost No One Is Buying Private Insurance Through ObamaCare Exchanges

Excerpt: At least 5 million people have lost coverage due to policies being cancelled thanks to ObamaCare. So that 365,000 number is insignificant compared to that. There will no doubt be more uninsured on January 1 than there were on October 1. Don't let them get away with pretending "1.2 million people who didn't have insurance have it now!".

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Old Jarhead's Political SitRep for March 25, 2013


Old Jarhead's Political SitRep for March 25, 2013
Robert A. Hall
Your one-stop-shop for political news and opinion. Please forward to friends who need to be informed. This SitRep (Military for “Situation Report”) is created by many readers who send me items for inclusion, which I would have likely missed or skipped. And I can only spend at most three hours a night pulling stuff, plus the healthcare or economic stuff that crosses my desk at work. As always, I—and you—owe them thanks and appreciation. I post articles because I think they are of interest and will stimulate thought and discussion. Doing so doesn’t mean that I necessarily agree (or disagree) with every—or any—opinion in the posted article, or that I was able to verify the information presented, which is the responsibility of the author. I try not to post things that are false, or too far a stretch, regardless of the view point, but I don’t always succeed. As always on the Net, or in the legacy media, you must read critically and with skepticism.

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Guest Post: Is There A Difference Between Being Weak And Weak Willed?

Outdoor Channel pulls out of Colorado over Guns
Letter from the Executive Producer to a Colorado State Senator. ~Bob. God Bless them for standing up for all of us. Shame on Colorado politicians for being so ignorant. --Red Woman. In the past several months, two very liberal Democrat friends have revealed to me that they own handguns. Both of them have serious “personal defense” type, high capacity 9mm or .40 cal pieces. One Glock, and one Springfield Armory. The guy with two pistols (a 9mm and a .40), also owns a BUSHMASTER .223/5.56 NATO ASSAULT RIFLE, ala Newtown, CT. He specifically said that when the financial system collapses, he doesn’t want to be the only one that doesn’t have a gun. He bought the 9mm because the .40 was too much for his teen-aged daughter to handle well. He also gas a 12 ga. pump shotgun. He even agreed with Wayne LaPierre that the only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. The other guy is black, and has an old 16 ga. Browning Auto-5 shotgun his father gave him, as well as the 9mm Glock. We have a beer session planning to discuss the gun ownership issue. I’ll let you know what comes of that discussion. Rather than call them out as hypocrites. I simply said, “You’re the last person I would have expected to own a gun”. Then there’s the fellow I’ve been shooting with for 20 years. He’s died-in-the-wool Democrat, and will defend every Democrat position like a parrot. Yet, he collects guns, modern and antique. He has a Curio and Relic license from the BATFE so he ship old guns direct, and receive them WITHOUT filing any paperwork (Form 4473 from BATFE). Obviously, there are still lots of Democrats who are NRA members, and lots of Democrats that shoot. This is not strictly a partisan issue. A recent radio program on NPR discussed how it breaks more on regional lines, rather than Party. Signs like the one below are not going to help convince them to listen to reason on this issue, or any of the underlying assumptions that Democrats use on other issues. Just another example of how Democrats consistently press for how they want other people to behave, but refuse to apply it to themselves. Meanwhile, with Homeland Security (another government agency with an oxymoron for a name), is buying up all this ammo we’re reading about. What you may not know is that this has apparently diverted production away from consumer-oriented ammunition and reloading components. I have been reloading rifle, pistol, and shotgun ammunition since I was a teenager. Powder, primers, bullets, and other necessities have never been as hard to find as they are right now. Every outlet is backordered. Even .22 rimfire ammo is scarce and expensive. Another black shooter friend of mine calls it “gun control without legislation.” Small wonder that people are hoarding. I am not in any position to buy up a lot of stuff like that, but the situation probably won’t change unless the Regime does. --Steve

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Worth Reading: Some federal grants are just monkey business. Amid the sequester, a senator crusades against government waste: $227,000 to look at old National Geographics? By John Kass
May need to use the free log=in. ~Bob. Excerpt: Would you turn down a job paying $227,000 if all you had to do was look at animal photos in the National Geographic magazine? Of course not. And if you did, you'd be a certified moron. There can't be much stress in staring at animal photos, even of baboons with red behinds.

Massachusetts lawmaker 'took pictures of his genitals and put them on a female coworker's computer'
Excerpt: A state representative in Massachusetts is being investigated after allegedly sending pictures of his genitals to a government computer. The investigation is ongoing and the committee has not formally reprimanded the individual in charge, but it is being widely reported that Democratic State Representative John Fresolo is the one behind the scandal. (He was probably stung by criticism that Democrats have no cojones, wanted to disprove the slander. ~Bob.)

Amarillo Gun Show From a Marine Buddy
From Thomas: A friend of mine went to the Gun Show at Amarillo, TX Civic Center. It was an all-day show with lots of guns and high prices. It looked like people were buying mostly hand guns – and a lot were just looking. Thousands of people there and hundreds signing up and joining the NRA! The best sign he saw there was at a booth that read: If You Voted For Obama, We Do Not Want Your Business. You're Too Stupid To Have A Firearm!"

Michael Moore's rant at Harry Reid for dropping the ban on so-called "assault rifles."
During a CNN interview, Michael Moore ripped into Harry Reid, saying, "If a man with an assault weapon goes into the school where Harry Reid's grandchildren [attend] and kills his grandchildren, would he stand in front of that microphone … and say, '…my grandchildren just got killed today but, you know, we can't get it passed because we don't have the votes.' Would he do that really? I don't think so." My response to Michael Moore would be: In a sane world, if a man with an assault weapon goes into a school that my grandchildren attended, that man would DRT (Dead Right There). Shot by the armed security guard at the school's entrance. Of course, with a Marxist president having a democrat majority in the senate, it's not a sane world.- LLW

[You'd last about five minutes]: The Selfishness of Virtue. Jim Goad
Excerpt: But the only thing that could make me change my mind would be if [multimillionaire leftist] Katrina vanden Heuvel were to actually give all of her immense wealth to the poor and go live in a Harlem housing project amid roaches and crackheads and welfare queens. For once in your life go and get your hands dirty trying to uplift your imaginary comrades. You’d last about five minutes. (This is so right. It is the leftists' wealth we attack when we point out the disastrous effects their policies have had on our lives. That's why they become so indignant and start shouting. People do get angry when you even hint at threatening their source of income. How lovely to live in a nice house, and look out upon a pretty garden, and even better, to follow a routine during the day, a routine that will not be interrupted by even one single lunatic. These well-off leftists themselves, rather than one whacko after another, get to decide what to do with their own time, resources and energy, and they get to do that all day, every day. We almost never get to do that. These wealthy leftists can cook breakfast in the kitchen without an aged lesbian rubbing her breasts up against them, without a guy straight out of rehab putting his hands all over them. They sleep through the nights because there aren't any illegals next door shouting all night long or firing pistols into their ceilings. These leftists can hear themselves think any time they like, due to the fact that they are not immersed in incessant noise. They have never once in their life been stalked. Not even once. They have plenty of places to go where they will never be harassed for sex, for money or food or their clothing or their homework or anything else. When we point out the every day facts of our miserable lives to them, that's when their shouting starts, because they don't want to know. They cannot imagine what we have to endure, and they do not care to imagine, because that threatens the wealth that sustains the cozy, gentle, placid, peaceful, quiet, neat and (cleaned by someone else) bubble in which they live. What they wanted out of life was to go into denial about their lack of marketable skills and to live very pleasantly indeed, and to feel good about themselves at the same time. In that they have succeeded. Too bad about people like me, people like us, who pay for the leftists' overweening self-satisfaction in the currency of sleep deprivation, sexual harassment, sexual molestation, sexual assault, thefts, the utter lack of privacy, unceasing noise, stalkers, the inability to find even a tiny little job that could lift us out of this situation if only the leftists hadn't closed so many businesses and handed so much money over to people who don't deserve it. Nowhere to go, nowhere to go to get away from it, no house on the hill for us. --Kate.)

Joe Biden runs up bill of $585,000 for just ONE NIGHT in five-star Paris hotel (and taxpayers will pick up the tab). By Meghan Keneally
Excerpt: Paris may be known as the City of Light, but that title certainly doesn’t mean that visitors are light on spending as Vice President Joe Biden’s one day trip cost taxpayers more than half a million dollars. When Mr Biden and his hefty entourage stayed in Paris for an evening in early February and it cost $585,000.50 for that single night. The Vice President likely rented out more than 100 rooms in the Hotel Intercontinental Paris Le Grand, though they must not have gotten a group discount rate. (OK, what's crazy here is this- it was 136 rooms. If the rooms each cost $1000 for the night (seems pretty damn generous, unless there were girls in some of them), that would mean a bill of $136,000. But the bill was just about $460K, more than three times higher. Rooms for $3000+ per night for everyone? How in hell is that possible? --Del. PS- of course... it was the Room Service that did it! But even with a Security detail I have to wonder why 135 other sets of people (remember, you can have more than one in a room) had to accompany the VP. I'm not picking on Joe in particular, I'm wondering what in hell goes on with our government and trips these days. It seems like every trip involves incredible numbers of people traveling. Maybe it was like this with Bush's trips for all I know, but no matter who was traveling, why does it take an army to go with them now? And why can't they get a group rate or find places remotely reasonable in cost? Well, this would be an outrage to the media, OWS and the Progressives if it was some rich member of the One Percent were spending money he earned himself by meeting consumer needs. But a Progressive Government Official spending tax money to live large? Not so much. ~Bob.)

BRITISH expats living across Europe were warned last night to take their money out of foreign banks in the wake of the Cyprus financial crisis.
Excerpt: Ukip leader Nigel Farage told the party’s spring conference that savings held in countries where the euro is the currency are no longer safe. His warning came as Cyprus last night gave in to EU and International Monetary Fund demands for a 20 per cent levy on deposits over 100,000 euros at the Bank of Cyprus and a four per cent levy on deposits of the same amount at other banks. (Hell, I'm not sure they are safe here. It's not like they would tell us before they strike our savings and retirement funds. ~Bob.)

A Marine remembers his time in Iraq. By Will Cole
Excerpt: Ten years ago this week, the Iraq war started. I remember picking up our light-armored vehicles from Port Doha in Kuwait as the war kicked off. Our company of Marines unloaded the “pigs” — as we called them — and packed them up as fast as possible so we could catch up to our command unit, the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion. Our company was about 24 hours behind 1st LAR, but we caught up quickly. For the next seven months, however, we fought and we endured boredom. (A well written piece by a combat veteran of recent times. But we of older times know whereof he speaks. --Del)

James Burnham's Suicide Of The West
Excerpt: Burnham's thesis is straightforward. ".Liberalism," he writes, "is the ideology of western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism-the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of its enchantment, its practical record, its future-falls into place. Implicitly, all of this book is merely an amplification of this sentence." That is not to say, Burnham adds, that liberalism is "'the cause'" of the contraction and probable death of Western civilization. ("The cause or causes have something to do, I think, with the decay of religion and with an excess of material luxury; and, I suppose, with getting tired, and worn out, as all things temporal do.") Rather, "liberalism has come to be the typical verbal systematization of the process of Western contraction and withdrawal; .liberalism motivates and justifies the contraction, and reconciles us to it." Liberalism's hold, furthermore, on public opinion and policy makes it extremely difficult for the Western nations to invent-and even to imagine-a strategy equal to the challenge to its existence by which the West is presently confronted. (Interesting that a book written nearly 50 years ago has so much to say about current events in the West. The link below takes you to a detailed discussion of the book, but the paragraph below is one I found most interesting. In it Burnham is saying that Liberalism is not simply the cause of the suicide of the West, but discusses what may be and how things work. Very interesting all in itself. --Del)

Top Ten Obamacare Horror Stories The Media Are Covering Up
Excerpt: Because the mainstream media lobbied every bit as hard as Obama to win passage of ObamaCare, they are every bit as invested in doing whatever is necessary to see that it is perceived as a success. Unfortunately for Americans who expect truth from their media, this means the media are having to manufacture a false reality that says ObamaCare is, to steal a phrase, "doing fine." ... So with that in mind, I present to you (with big hat tips to Drudge and Investors Business Daily) the top ten ObamaCare horror stories the media is willfully covering up. (Almost all of these have been covered in the four previous articles I've circulated on all the juicy items about the reality of Obamacare that are now being revealed. But I thought it worthwhile to pass this on as well, with its useful links to more information. And of course we're all still waiting for the next set of revelations about its actual cost, complexity, and limitations. --Del)

Woman Defends Herself From Intruders: Best Part… She Wasn’t Arrested for Doing So
Excerpt: The homeowner, a female of an unknown age, was hiding in the closet when 18-year-old Christopher Devonte Joseph approached her. The local ABC news report stated that’s when the owner fired her gun and shot the 18-year-old. (If she had just relaxed and enjoyed her rape, as Progressives prefer, this horrible violence would have been avoided. ~Bob.)

Excerpt: Perhaps the worst of the current economy is not what is happening now, but what is to come. When one looks at the value of the American dollar, at first blush it appears we're not doing that badly. But that's only because the rest of the world's currencies are so much worse. We just have a little more rouge on the corpse. In fact, the Fed's orgasmic printing of dollars and the huge amount of American I.O.U's they've issued, and the staggering interest we are currently paying on nearly $17 trillion dollars of national debt, it leaves the American monetary system tighter than the tightest rubber band. Eventually the tension has to be relieved, and every time that tension goes we begin to experience sky high interest rates and runaway inflation, just as we experienced during the Carter years. 

Sharia in action in the mainstream media: Muslim gang-rapes across Europe underreported in press
Excerpt: The Qur'an allows for the owning of sex slaves: If you fear that you will not act justly towards the orphans, marry such women as seem good to you, two, three, four; but if you fear you will not be equitable, then only one, or what your right hands own; so it is likelier you will not be partial. (Qur'an 4:3)

Obama: Israelis have true peace partner in Abbas. Abbas: We have the same policies as Hamas. Hamas: Killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah.
Excerpt: "Of course, Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with anyone who is dedicated to its destruction. But while I know you have had differences with the Palestinian Authority, I believe that you do have a true partner in President Abbas..." --Barack Obama, March 21, 2013

‘Quarantine her!’ Top Tunisian Islamist says topless girl needs stoning
Excerpt: A Tunisian Salafi preacher has called for a 19-year old girl who posted her topless pictures on Facebook to be “quarantined” and stoned to death before she starts “an epidemic.” (I'm going to hide this poor girl, but for her safety, I'll tell no one. Not even my wife. Can't be too careful. ~Bob.)

Excerpt: Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against foreign interference in the affairs of other nations during a speech in Moscow on Saturday, sending a signal to the West and echoing a message often repeated by Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

Police arrest 2 teens in Ga. baby killing!
Excerpt: A pair of teenagers was arrested Friday and accused of fatally shooting a 13-month-old baby in the face and wounding his mother during their morning stroll through a leafy, historic neighborhood. Sherry West had just been to the post office a few blocks from her apartment Thursday morning and was pushing her son, Antonio, in his stroller while they walked past gnarled oak trees and blooming azaleas in the coastal city of Brunswick. (For God's sake, people, let's stop pussy footing here! OBAMA is the reason for these unmotivated black on white attacks. It all started when he declared Trayvon Martin (actually a young thug) could have been his son--implying that white people hate blacks only because they are black, not because too many of them steal and misbehave. Can't people figure this out? Obama is promoting black on white violence. He is responsible for these senseless killings! Obama may as well have killed that innocent baby himself! Barack Hussein Obama is a merciless white hating monster! --Don Hank. Well, further than I would go. I think he is just indifferent to and death or suffering if he is getting support pandering to the base. A liberal trait, regardless of color. ~Bob. Mother shot in thigh and ear (missed her head), baby in stroller shot in face and killed. Mother and baby white. Teens with guns to take from whitey—black. I know, they look like you-know-who’s sons. One 17, one 14. --Barb. They didn't identify the fourteen year old because he was a juvenile. Isn't that sensitive of them? He may be a juvenile, but he isn't a human being. Don't insult the rest of us by describing these two as human beings. They are not. And don't insult the animal world by describing them as animals, either. They, and those like them are in a classification all their own. They need to forego the trial and just go out back and beat these worthless turds to death with a hammer. Can you imagine what that woman is going through now? --LLW)

Confronting Sharia Law in Belgium. By Soeren Kern
Excerpt: Islamic Sharia law is "incompatible with the fundamental principles of democracy." — European Court of Human Rights. After members of the newly established Islam Party vowed to implement Islamic Sharia law in Belgium, Members of Parliament introduced a bill that would limit the power of Muslim extremists who win elected office at the local or national levels and isolate themselves from the political mainstream. (Things are developing in parts of Europe to the point where there are now official pronouncements by courts about Sharia Law, and politicians are starting to pass defensive measures against Islamic extremism. This article from Belgium, a definitely liberal European nation, reveals a good deal about what is going on and why. -Del)

Excerpt: Forget Cyprus. A much bigger story in the coming weeks and months will be in Japan, where one of the greatest economic experiments in the modern era is about to begin. A country where government debt even dwarfs those of Europe's crisis-ridden nations, Japan will attempt to inflate its way out of a 23-year deflationary spiral.

University Apologizes for “Stomping Jesus”
Excerpt: Florida Atlantic University has issued an apology for a classroom assignment that involving students writing the name “Jesus” on a sheet of paper and then stomping on the paper. The university also said the lesson will never again be used….The university initially defended the Christ-bashing lesson which is included textbook titled, “Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach, 5th Edition.” (Next week, "Stomping Mohammad." Wanna bet? ~Bob.)

Despite sequester, Obama to designate five national monuments
Excerpt: The new monuments will be: the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico; the San Juan Islands National Monument in Washington State; the First State National Monument in Delaware and Pennsylvania; the Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument in Ohio and a monument commemorating Harriet Tubman and her role in helping black slaves reach freedom through the Underground Railway in Maryland.

IRS blasted over 'frivolous' parody video of 'Star Trek,' agency admits mistake
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/22/irs-calls-tar-trek-parody-video-mistake/#ixzz2ONwDd44b
Excerpt: While taxpayers may be getting used to seeing federal agencies fritter away their money, there's something ironic about the IRS doing it. The tax-collecting agency is under fire over a training video from a 2010 conference that parodied "Star Trek" -- and cost tens of thousands of dollars to make. … The agency says the six-minute video, along with a training video that parodied the TV show "Gilligan's Island," cost about $60,000. 

Texas woman's home burned down by snake she set on fire
Excerpt: Bowie County Sheriff's Capt. David Grable says she poured gasoline on the snake to try to kill it. Her son then dropped a lit match on the snake. The engulfed snake slithered into some brush nearby the home. Grable says the brush ignited and started a fire that destroyed the home and damaged one next door.

Rotten Tomatoes for a Billion-Dollar Farm Payout. Calling all women and Hispanics who once thought about applying for a loan. By James Bovard
Excerpt: Are you a woman or a Hispanic who planted a backyard garden between 1981 and 2000? Did you ever dream of asking for a loan for help growing more? If so, you might be a victim of discrimination and entitled to a $50,000 payout from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But hurry—the deadline for submitting your claim is March 25. (The giveaway program for allegedly discriminated Black farmers gave out many millions of dollars to over 90,000 claimants, when there were no more than 33,000 Black farmers working in the years described. It was one of the all-time super ripoffs of taxpayer dollars in the name of Politically Correct scheming. Now they've invited something like that again, from women and Hispanics. But at least this time they want just a tad of information about their actual farming experience- which has brought on the predictable cries of "discrimination" and "unfairness". Time to get the politics out of this whole farm subsidy mess. --Del)

The Salvation Army, Captain Peacock and the Lefty mega-bores who hate Michael Gove. Damian Thompson
Excerpt: This so-called “workfare” scheme means [benefit recipients] help the [Salvation Army] for a maximum of four weeks – and some of them are so impressed by its Christian witness that they stay on as volunteers while they find real jobs. In the eyes of Boycott Workfare, however, the Salvation Army is “collaborating” in a Tory conspiracy to exploit benefit claimants. Hence their charming old-lady decoy trick, which enabled a bunch of scumbag protesters to push past the reception staff, manhandling them.

Many Unitarians would prefer that their polyamory activists keep quiet
Excerpt: But within the ranks of the UUA over the past few years, there has been some quiet unrest concerning a small but activist group that vociferously supports polyamory. That is to say “the practice of loving and relating intimately to more than one other person at a time,” according to a mission statement by Unitarian Universalists for Polyamory Awareness (UUPA). The UUPA “encourages spiritual wholeness regarding polyamory,” including the right of polyamorous people to have their unions blessed by a minister. (where were they when I was 30? Kind of late now. ~Bob.)

Sunday, January 13, 2013


Old Jarhead's Political SitRep for January 14, 2013
Robert A. Hall

Guest Post Worth Reading: The Value of a thing

Reminder: Raising the Debt Limit is Unpatriotic and Irresponsible
Obama on raising the Debt Ceiling during his 2008 Campaign: In 2008 then-senator Obama said that "whipping out the credit card from China, and payable by our children” was irresponsible, and UNPATRIOTIC! He voted against raising the debt ceiling. Republican Senators today would do well to follow his principled leadership on this issue. ~Bob.

Excerpt: Suspected Islamist militants attacked an Egyptian police patrol near the Israeli border today. Egyptian security officials told the Associated Press that four police vehicles came under fire near a pipeline that has been attacked numerous times since the fall of Hosni Mubarak. Seven policemen were reportedly wounded during the attack, "including a high ranking officer."

Excerpt: Senate Democratic leaders have sent a letter to President Obama pledging their support if he raises the debt ceiling unilaterally in the face of Republican resistance. (Someone should tell them that what goes around, comes around. ~Bob.)

ZIMBABWE $100 $50 $20 $10 trillion DOLLARS CURRENCY SET UNC.
Why mint a $1 Trillion Coin, when you can buy a $100 trillion Zimbabwe note so cheap? This is what happens when a government can’t pay it’s debts and begins printing fiat money. ~Bob.

Worth Reading: Obamacare’s Other Shoe: The Pentagon and Chuck Hagel. By Mark Steyn
Excerpt: Senator Kerry having been reliably wrong on every foreign-policy issue of the last 40 years, it would seem likely that at this stage in his life he will be content merely to be in office, jetting hither and yon boring the pants off whichever presidents and prime ministers are foolish enough to grant him an audience. Beyond the photo-ops, the world will drift on toward the post-American era: Beijing will carry on gobbling up resources around the planet, Czar Putin will flex his moobs across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the Arab Spring “democracies” will see impressive growth in the critical clitoridectomy sector of the economy, Iran will go nuclear, and John Kerry will go to black-tie banquets in Europe. 

South Carolina teacher on leave for stomping on American flag in front of class
Excerpt: A high school teacher in South Carolina is under investigation and has been placed on long-term administrative leave after he allegedly threw an American flag on the floor and stomped on it in front of his students. Scott Compton, an English teacher at Chapin High School in Chapin, S.C., reprised the unpatriotic deed in three classes over the course of one day, reports local NBC affiliate WIS. ((Another "you can't make this stuff up". Hard to believe anyone with an IQ higher than room temperature would think that acting out total contempt for the nation's flag in front of a high school class is a valuable part of education. But that the man did so says a lot about his mindset, plus his arrogance and maybe blind stupidity. I would have challenged him to demonstrate how little he cares for just cloth with marks on it and just paper with letters on it by doing the same act with a Koran. --Del)

Conn. Lawmaker Pushes Barney Fife Law: Limits Guns To One Round. By Awr Hawkins
Excerpt: Connecticut Democrat state senator Edward Meyer has put forward a bill which limits civilian firearms to one round. Like Barney Fife in the old Andy Griffith series, you'll have one bullet with which to defend all that's valuable to you (including you).

The Battle of Athens
Been around, but worth watching. ~Bob. The Battle of Athens, actually happened in McMinn County Tennessee, August 1-2, 1946, and speaks to the very core of the issues that are at hand in this country right now, and it is why we need the second amendment to our constitution. It is not so you can hunt deer with your .270 Winchester rifle, or ducks with your Ithaca 12 gauge shotgun. Or so I can shoot paper targets and tin cans with my old Remington .22 rifle, although those are legitimate enough reasons. It is so we can protect ourselves, our families and our homes against criminals, and against a tyrannical government that would take away our constitutional rights. What the federal government is doing right now is not about gun control. It is about control. - LLW

Reported WH Gun-Control Plan ‘Way in the Extreme’
Excerpts: Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D., N.D.) called the reported White House plans for a massive gun control push to be “way in the extreme” in a Sunday interview with “This Week.” “I think you need to put everything on the table, but what I hear from the administration — and if the Washington Post is to be believed — that’s way — way in extreme of what I think is necessary or even should be talked about,” she said. “And it’s not gonna pass.” (Yep, the plans are being laid for another ambush on gun owners. Surprise! Never let a crisis or a tragedy go to waste, the eternal motto of this Administration. --Del)

Excerpt: Pratt maintained that the official police homicide numbers are cooked. “The data that you are using for the murder rate in England is a sham,” Pratt countered. “There’s a monumental miss-reporting of what constitutes murder. If three people are murdered, it’s likely to be counted as one event.” In fact, an article on crime statistics in England makes the same point: “there are the official police figures (which historically under-record the true level of crime).”

Executive gun ‘order’ easier said than done: Congress carefully guards its authority. By Seth McLaughlin
Excerpt: “The problem with gun control is that Congress has been extraordinarily explicit,” said John Hudak, a scholar on executive power at the Brookings Institution. “When gun-control legislation is passed, it is usually very detailed in what Congress intended and it is usually very detailed in the barriers it sets up for the executive branch. That limits presidential authority to use executive power because there is little discretion.” (Let's hope the control does stay with Congress, and no extreme highhanded order ever gets promulgated. --Del)

Ed Schultz Makes Bold Claim That U.S. Has ‘Never Had A Civilian Stop A Shooting’ — So We Prove Him Wrong
MSNBC personality and radio host Ed Schultz on Thursday made the bold claim that the U.S. has “never had a civilian stop a shooting” when arguing against having armed personnel in schools. (Amazing that he would be so stupid as to make a flat statement about historical facts that is easily proven to be false. Another case of just saying what you want to say to back up your attitude about something, utterly disregarding the truth. The extreme Leftists do this incessantly, and unfortunately the media let them get away with it. --Del. MSNBC can be fact free because their viewers are not looking for truth, but affirmation of their religious-like leftist creeds. ~Bob.)

Marine Denied the Medal of Honor by Obama Administration. By David L. Goetsch
Excerpt: In a final but fatal heroic act, an already wounded Sergeant Peralta used his body to cover a live grenade that would have killed or injured several members of his squad. As a result of this selfless act, Peralta was recommended for the Medal of Honor, a recommendation that has been turned down twice by the Obama administration in spite of support from a Congressman and the Secretary of the Navy.

Journalists reject personal 'gun-free zone' signs
Excerpt: O’Keefe’s crew asked journalists working for CNN, MSNBC and others whether they would put a sign in their lawn that says “Citizens Against Senseless Violence. THIS HOME IS PROUDLY GUN FREE!” “No journalist wanted the sign,” he says. “Many journalists had armed guards.” (Would Piers Morgan proudly put up one of these signs? Who will ask him? Don Hank)

Malian army beats back Islamist rebels with French help
Excerpt: Malian government troops drove back Islamist rebels from a strategic central town after France intervened on Friday with air strikes to halt advances by the militants controlling the country's desert north.

Excerpt: Shabaab, al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, killed one French commando and captured another during a failed French attempt to rescue Denis Allex, an intelligence operative who has been in the terror group's custody since 2009.

How Muslims Created Islamophobia. By Tahir Gora, journalist, poet, translator
Excerpt: Is it all about challenging the self-created fear of Islamophobia? Perhaps.
What do I mean by "self-created fear of Islamophobia"? Do I dare to say that Islamophobia actually doesn't exist at all? Yep, it didn't exist but some of our Islamic centres created the term and spread it around through their actions.

Authorities Discover More Christians Killed Over Christmas Holiday in Nigeria
Excerpt: Thirty people were killed in two separate attacks carried out by armed men ahead of the New Year, in North-eastern Nigeria. 15 people were killed in a single attack which occurred on Sunday 30th, when armed men stormed a church service in Kyachi village, outside Chibok, near Maiduguri. According to Mohammed Kanar, the regional coordinator for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the victims were shot by the attackers. (30 dead Christians are not a big deal, as long as it doesn't make anyone Islamophobic. That would be a tragedy. ~Bob.)

15 kids and somebody needs to pay for all my children, somebody needs to be held accountable
Been around before. I'd chip in to have her tubes tied. ~Bob.

12 Incredible Examples of Government Waste

Freedom Lost. By Bill O'Reilly 
Excerpt: If you see Kris Kristofferson around, please tell him thanks for writing the line "freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" in his song "Me and Bobby McGee." That thought is sage and very appropriate for America in the year 2013. In California, Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law an astounding 876 new mandates.

Now even Pravda admits the 'global warming' jig is up. James Delingpole
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100197832/now-even-pravda-admits-the-global-warming-jig-is-up/
Excerpt: It's
Death of Little Nell time again in the field of climate "science." The New York Times – aka Pravda – has announced the closure of its Environment Desk. Rumours that the entire environment team, headed by Andy Revkin, have volunteered to be recycled into compost and spread on the lawn of the new billion dollar home Al Gore bought with the proceeds of his sale of Current TV to Middle Eastern oil interests are as yet unconfirmed.

Ron Arnold: Meet your new regulator: A Big Green law school
Excerpt: Big Green activists and former federal bureaucrats who just can't stop trying to regulate your life have become advisers at an ultraliberal law school that sues the government for not doing what its professors want. They are creating not the rule of law, but the rule of lawyers.

Homeland Security urges computer users to disable Java: Browsers using Java on all operating systems vulnerable to hackers, U.S. government says. By Jim Finkle, Reuters
Excerpt: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged computer users to disable Oracle Corp's Java software, amplifying security experts' prior warnings to hundreds of millions of consumers and businesses that use it to surf the Web. Hackers have figured out how to exploit Java to install malicious software enabling them to commit crimes ranging from identity theft to making an infected computer part of an ad-hoc network of computers that can be used to attack websites.

Obama: We Fell Short In Afghanistan
Excerpt: President Obama today in a joint presser with Afghan President Karzai: "Have we achieved everything that some might have imagined us achieving in the best of scenarios? Probably not. You know, there's a human enterprise, and you know, you fall short of the ideal.

Civil War's A-Brewin'. By Matt Barber 
Excerpt: Inside the car a man, asleep in the reclining passenger seat, was startled awake by the commotion. He rose and darted his head about, calmly assessing the situation. This only spurred the evil-bent goons. As they ramped-up efforts to run the car off the road, the man reached in the glove box, withdrew a military-grade, semi-automatic handgun – an “assault weapon,” if you will – and, with intentionality and great theatre, leaned across his young bride, pointing the gun out the open bay and directly between dirt bag’s booze-flushed eyes. (Maybe it's because my dad told stories of his own father's bravery and also showed bravery of his own. And maybe it's also because I love guns and grew up with them. I dunno, but I just love this story. Folks, this is what real men talk and think like. It was normal before we were brainwashed by slick metrosexual psychologists who assured us it is best to be a live sissy than a real man who may get himself hurt or killed doing the right thing to protect his family. America, man up, for gosh sake! This is no time for sissies. Or as Matt puts it, "candy-keistered liberal cream-puffs." Stop handing over your rights to the zombies in government and start standing up for yourself, your family and your country. --Don Hank)

Al Jazeera Celebrates Hagel Nomination
Excerpt: Why would Al-Jazeera be so delighted with Hagel’s nomination? See here, where Hagel agrees the U.S. is the world’s bully, here for a list of his anti-Israel positions, here, to see how he will not express open support for the Jewish state, and here, where he whitewashes Palestinian terror. Al-Jazeera loves Hagel. And well they should; he is one more knife in Israel’s back, brought to you by that lover of the Jewish state, Barack Obama.

Senate Must Ask Brennan About Bin Laden Film Leaks
Excerpt: Yet there is another reason that Brennan’s confirmation must not be rubber-stamped. According to documents uncovered by Judicial Watch, Brennan met with the filmmakers behind Zero Dark Thirty to discuss the Osama bin Laden raid. The interaction of senior administration officials, including intelligence and counter-terror officials, with director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal is now the target of a pending bipartisan investigation in the U.S. Senate. 

Lawrence O’Donnell: Get rid of the Bible on Inauguration Day [VIDEO]
http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/11/lawrence-odonnell-get-rid-of-bible-on-inauguration-day-video/#ixzz2Hij2lF3q
Excerpt: On his Thursday program, MSNBC’s “The Last Word” host Lawrence O’Donnell said the Bible shouldn’t have any role in the upcoming Inauguration Day ceremonies….O’Donnell offered an unlikely alternative to the Bible for the swearing-in ceremony: one of the president’s daughters. “Now, wouldn’t it be better if the president’s hand was on the shoulder of one of his daughters, suggesting that he was honoring the oath of office as much as he honors Sasha and Malia?” O’Donnell asked. (Obama will keep it. Good photo-op prop for the masses. ~Bob.)

Arrests of (Illegal)aliens from terror sponsor countries up since 2006
Excerpt: While in the Tucson sector, “there was little change in the percentage of estimated known illegal entrants apprehended by Border Patrol over the past 5 fiscal years” apprehensions “of aliens from countries determined to be at an increased risk of sponsoring terrorism increased from 239 in fiscal year 2006 to 309 in fiscal year 2010, but decreased to 253 in fiscal year 2011,” according to a the GAO, (U.S. General Accounting Office).

Treasury Department rules out trillion-dollar coin 
Excerpt: The Treasury Department said on Saturday that it will not mint a trillion-dollar platinum coin to side-step the debt ceiling.

Rockefeller to retire, giving GOP a prime pickup opportunity
Excerpt: Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) announced Friday that he will not run for reelection in 2014, giving Republicans a prime pickup opportunity in a state that's grown increasingly red in recent years.

Spain Arrests 2 Over Suspected Iran Nuclear Export
Excerpt: Spanish police have arrested two people and seized equipment made by a Spanish company that was to be illegally shipped to Iran for use in its nuclear program, officials said Friday.

Saudi executioner tells all
Excerpt: Saudi Arabia's leading executioner says he is "very proud to do God's work" and does not lose sleep over beheading several people in one day. In a rare interview, Muhammad Saad al-Beshi, 42, told the Saudi daily Arab News that he had executed numerous women, as well as men.

Deaf man stabbed when sign language mistaken for gang signs, police say.
Excerpt: A North Carolina deaf man using sign language was stabbed several times after another man mistook the gestures as gang signs, police say.

Wyoming lawmakers introduce bill to nullify federal gun control measures, jail federal agents
http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/12/wyoming-lawmakers-introduce-bill-to-nullify-federal-gun-control-measures-jail-federal-agents/#ixzz2HoAHpMy2
This week, Wyoming lawmakers introduced a bill banning the federal government from enforcing an assault weapons ban or a prohibition on high-capacity magazines in the state, calling the effort an attempt to “take the Second Amendment seriously.” The bill, which is sponsored by eight Wyoming state representatives and two state senators, calls for federal agents who attempt to enforce those measures to be imprisoned for at least one year and up to five years, and fined a maximum of $5,000…. Specifically, the bill mentions that bans or restrictions on the ownership of semi-automatic firearms and firearm magazines — as well as any requirement for the registration of firearms — are unenforceable in Wyoming.

Excerpt: But since that day, we’ve seen a couple more press conferences, a few more temper tantrums and a lot more of Mr. Christie. …..The Garden State governor expected relief, and so long as we live in a system where the federal government confiscates huge amounts of taxes to pay for huge amounts of local projects, his expectation was in line. But when the Congress considered a $60 billion relief bill, there was something amiss: As the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board pointed out, the bill contained “$150 million for Alaskan fisheries; $2 million for roof repair at the Smithsonian in Washington; and about $17 billion for liberal activists under the guise of ‘community development’ funds and so-called social service grants,” among a slew of other waste.

Obama Appoints Islam’s Apologists: The shared perspective of Hagel, Kerry, and Brennan.
Excerpt: All of these candidates are rabidly pro-Islam, pro-Arab, or both. All are apologists for those causes. All are strong proponents of Obama’s vision of the world, a diminished U. S. military, and a more sympathetic outreach to Islam.

Excerpt: The Defense Department has moved ahead with a reduction in healthcare coverage for veterans in select areas of the country. Starting Oct. 1, 2013, the Pentagon will reduce the number of Prime Service Areas (PSAs) where it offers the TRICARE Prime managed care option to retirees and their family members. This change will affect approximately 171,000 military retired beneficiaries in 41 states currently enrolled in TRICARE Prime, but not active duty service members and their families.

The Revenge of Obama. By Eileen F. Toplansky
Excerpt: With his officious bearing and his "revenge" moment, he is the "defier of the world" as he continues his transformation of this country. One could say that Obama is a very apt student of the propaganda techniques used by Hitler who stated that, "propaganda must not serve the truth especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent." Furthermore, the "crowd will finally succeed in remembering only the simplest concepts repeated a thousand times."

New Social Security Ponzi scheme, Work middle class to death, taking their life savings
http://www.ehsmanager.blogspot.com/2013/01/new-social-security-ponzi-scheme-work.html?m=1
About the tragic numbers below: We are not talking about societies freeloaders here, these numbers are based on the hardworking middleclass. Trust me, the freeloaders will live a long and meaningless life.

Around the World on $69 Million in Welfare Funds

Indicted businessman: Utah A.G. tied to alleged scheme
Excerpt: Embattled St. George businessman Jeremy Johnson says new Utah Attorney General John Swallow helped broker a deal in 2010 in which Johnson believed he was to pay Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid $600,000 to make a federal investigation into Johnson’s company go away. But when the federal government filed a lawsuit Johnson thought he had paid to quash, he demanded Swallow return some of the $250,000 initial payment. (Unlike this headline on The Blaze [Indicted Businessman Names Harry Reid As Alleged Recipient Of Massive Bribe], the article does not suggest Reid was involved or even knew about it. If we try to shade he truth, we help the other side. ~Bob.)

Ruger will write to your elected officials for you…
Dear (Recipient),
I am a law-abiding citizen and responsible gun owner. I am saddened by the tragic events in Newtown, Connecticut, but I believe that efforts to impose new restrictions on me and other lawful and responsible owners like me are misguided. Did you know that violent crime with firearms has declined since the Federal "assault weapons ban" expired in 2004? Your focus should be on strengthening mental health care and improving the quality of data supporting NICs checks (National Instant Criminal Background Check System). Do NOT pass more gun laws; instead, work to enforce the more than 20,000 gun laws already on the books. I am your constituent and I vote. Please represent me.
Sincerely, (Your Contact Information)

Gallipoli was not Churchill's great folly
Excerpt: Most remember Winston Churchill as foreseeing the Nazi threat, winning World War II and pronouncing the arrival of the Iron Curtain. Lesser known is his role in World War I where the Gallipoli campaign is regarded as the stain on an otherwise colossal record. The approaching centenary of World War I is a good time to set the record straight: Churchill was right to propose Gallipoli and right to oppose the withdrawal. (IMHO, It failed because of poor leadership. Any Marine NCO could lead a better amphibious operation. ~Bob)

Oracle Corp to fix Java security flaw "shortly"
Excerpt: "A fix will be available shortly," the company said in a statement released late on Friday.

Rebels overrun the Taftanaz airbase in northern Syria in a significant advance in the battles against the Assad regime.
Excerpt: "This is the largest airbase to be seized since the revolt began" nearly 22 months ago, Abdel Rahman told AFP….The Observatory said that the Taftanaz assault was led by terrorists from the Al-Nusra Front, Ahrar al-Sham and Islamic Vanguard battalions. This fact might be of concern to the West, since Al-Nusra is an affiliate of Al Qaeda, believing in the hope of reviving the Islamic Caliphate that will build a Muslim Empire to eventually rule the world.

Section 8 housing voucher distribution canceled after thousands waiting in line get out of control
This is dress rehearsal for when the government can no longer borrow money when the rating agencies like Fitch, S&P and Moody's effectively shut down US bond sales by rating our bonds junk. Folks, these are the things you need to watch. We are committing suicide as a nation with irresponsible spending. Watch the cities and states as they lose their battles with failing budgets and eventually bankruptcy will be a mirror image of what to expect on the federal level. Riots are happening now, but the feds can still borrow. What do you think will happen once they can't? I keep hearing from people in high income areas saying this will not affect them and they are immune. With all due respect, how is anyone immune to this spilling over into their communities? Barack is a community organizer. It's all he knows. If ACORN tells them to come and invade you, do you think they will stay home? And you want to give up guns now even as the bad guys acquire more and more of them? --Don Hank

Excerpt: An American pastor currently held in Iranian prison is facing a grim future after it was announced that his case was recently transferred to a judge accused of human rights violations and infamous for the number of people he has sentenced to death. 

Video: Arabs Gang Up on Hareidi Jews in Jerusalem
Excerpt: A disturbing video began circulating on Facebook Saturday evening. It shows a group of about 20 Arabs ganging up on two helpless hareidi-religious Jews, kicking one of them, hurling snowballs in their faces and humiliating them. At one point, one of the Jews falls to the ground, apparently slipping on the ice as he is chased up some steps.

Domestic violence campaign targets Scottish Muslims
Excerpt: Smina Akhtar, from Amina, said she had been shocked by the way people had manipulated the teachings of Islam. She said: "We have women coming in, phoning our helpline, time and time again and saying: 'My husband said it's okay, he told me the Koran says it's okay'. "We're quite surprised that Muslim women are often not educated, even in Islam, because Islam does not condone violence." (The infamous wife-beating verse: Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that God has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God's guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them. If they then obey you, look not for any way against them; God is All-high, All-great. Koran 4:34--Robert Spencer. Longer discussion here: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/01/wife-beating-my-husband-said-its-okay-he-told-me-the-koran-says-its-okay.html)

Major report warns climate change could raise temperatures by 10 degrees. By Ben Geman 
Excerpt: The third National Climate Assessment, released Friday, said there’s “unambiguous evidence” that earth is warming, and that climate change over the past 50 years is driven primarily by human activity, especially from burning fossil fuels. …. Sea level is rising, oceans are becoming more acidic, and glaciers and arctic sea ice are melting,” states the draft report developed by a federal advisory panel. (So what’s all that stuff they keep spraying in crisscrosses in the sky overhead? Trying to create a drought? I never knew flight patterns that looked like tic tac toe games…..and precipitate seems to be falling out of some of them….Sometimes a residue on car windshield… I know, it’s my imagination. --Barb)

Excerpt: Carson goes on to argue for a united nation based on the Founding Fathers' intentions, with the "right to change our national government through the power of the ballot." "But they did not provide a right to walk away from it. As President Abraham Lincoln explained in his first inaugural address in 1861, 'in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual,'" Carson writes. (Let me get this straight. The Regime is in the process of tearing the Constitution to shreds but uses it to argue against secession, to “unify” us? This from the great social-agitator dividers? Ooh, you’re not supposed to notice that they don’t like the Constitution or its Amendments. Too, too, inflexible, restrictive…. And they probably pay somebody a 6-figure salary to write this tripe. --Barb. Personally, I think the succession petitions are a huge waste of time and energy that helps Obama and the left by allowing their media water carriers to paint conservatives as nuts. Going nowhere, like the birther thing. The country will likely fall apart, but not by coherent succession of states. Just chaos, riots and a crumbling of the economy, finances and social control. ~Bob.)

Remember that perfect storm I told you is coming?
Unlimited immigration is one of the components of that perfect storm. Figure it out: The government has no money of its own left, ONLY borrowed money. Jobs are as scarce as ever. Yet the government wants to flood us with even MORE illegal aliens.
Wanna know what happens next? You need only look to Greece and Spain for that answer. Back when jobs were abundant, they were some of the most immigrant friendly nations in the world. Now? Both are essentially broke and coping with over 25% unemployment.
In Greece, immigrants are being mistreated. The increasingly popular fascist party Golden Dawn is demanding that ALL immigrants be deported. If Americans were truly kind, instead of just soft headed, they would demand a moratorium on all immigration during this economic crisis. If would-be immigrants were smart, they would not touch the US with a ten foot Pole or Czech right now. They are going to be so hammered when the SHTF. (See link below) --Don Hank

White Plains home on handgun permit database burglarized
Excerpt: A White Plains home that is listed on a publicized handgun permit database was burglarized last night. Officials say the target of the burglary was the homeowner's gun case.


In Second Look, Few Savings From Digital Health Records. By Reed Abelson AND Julie Creswell
Excerpt: The conversion to electronic health records has failed so far to produce the hoped-for savings in health care costs and has had mixed results, at best, in improving efficiency and patient care, according to a new analysis by the influential RAND Corporation. Optimistic predictions by RAND in 2005 helped drive explosive growth in the electronic records industry and encouraged the federal government to give billions of dollars in financial incentives to hospitals and doctors that put the systems in place.

"Rumblings of Dictatorship"

Criticizing Islam Considered National Security Threat: Spanish authorities threaten to deport Christian to certain death for speaking out
Excerpt: As tensions continue to surge over the expansion of Shariah law both in the Middle East and in Europe, a new speech rights case has emerged in Spain where an ex-Muslim Christian convert is threatened with deportation for speaking out against Islam. Imran Farasat, who was interviewed by WND, is a Pakistani Christian who converted from Islam in 2004, after, he said, “I realized that what I was following for 26 years of my life is not a religion but in reality is a political dictatorship which persecutes and teaches to persecute through the orders and teachings of a self-proclaimed prophet (Muhammad).”

Madeleine Albright Surfaces To Defend Chuck Hagel On Israel
Excerpt: Apparently, Albright missed the fact that CAIR praised Hagel for trying to undermine Israel's plan to strike Hezbollah in 2006. Maybe she missed the fact that Hagel was one of only four senators who refused to sign a letter in support of Israel in 2004 or that, in 2005, he was one of 27 senators who refused to ask the Palestinian Authority to bar terrorist groups from participating in national elections. Or maybe she missed Hagel's ongoing support for Iran.

This is what Obama is funding with US tax dollars...YOUR taxes, folks! --DH