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Response to Advice
for my Granddaughter: For When I'm Gone
https://www.createspace.com/3792897
This book is a true delight..... My son is 11, and as I was reading I was thinking about him, and how I could implement some of your advise to him. I have to admit that I shed a tear or two, while reading a poem to your granddaughter. It's just so beautiful, and speaks volumes. I can tell that Britnye is very loved by her Grandfather, (and Grandmother), it made me a little sad, that my children will never experience that kind of love, since my father passed away. Even when he was alive he wasn't much of a father. I can honestly say' I didn't know him... I am really enjoying the book, and in a way learning from it myself Thank You. --Lucy
This book is a true delight..... My son is 11, and as I was reading I was thinking about him, and how I could implement some of your advise to him. I have to admit that I shed a tear or two, while reading a poem to your granddaughter. It's just so beautiful, and speaks volumes. I can tell that Britnye is very loved by her Grandfather, (and Grandmother), it made me a little sad, that my children will never experience that kind of love, since my father passed away. Even when he was alive he wasn't much of a father. I can honestly say' I didn't know him... I am really enjoying the book, and in a way learning from it myself Thank You. --Lucy
U.S. lawmakers
question military aid to Egypt, citing concerns about Israel
Excerpt: Concerned about Egypt ’s
political instability and the U.S.
budget crunch, a growing number of American lawmakers are challenging the
wisdom of providing $1.3 billion a year in military aid to Cairo Washington ’s
largess, which includes large fleets of M1A1 tanks and F-16 fighter jets, could
backfire, given the unpredictability of Egypt ’s
Islamist-led government and its fraught relationship with Israel Israel
Keystone XL pipeline
would have little impact on climate change, State Department analysis says
Excerpt: The State Department released
a draft
environmental impact assessment of the controversial Keystone XL
pipeline Friday, suggesting that the project would have little
impact on climate change. Canada ’s
oil sands will be developed even if President Obama denies a permit to the
pipeline connecting the region to Gulf
Coast U.S.
Excerpt: "They have to know that they are a minority
and adjust to smaller things, and not rise to the
greatest heights," he told the private broadcaster TVN during a discussion
of gay rights. "A
minority should not impose itself on the majority." Walesa , Poland
2013:
The Year So Far in Corruption: The Grand Leftist Delusion. Taki's Magazine
Excerpt: Lord Acton’s famous maxim
that “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” is such a
nakedly accurate observation of human nature that one might assume no one ever
needed to articulate it, much less keep reminding anyone about it. But a
cornerstone of the Grand Leftist Delusion is the notion that when you give
human beings the power to legally extort a significant chunk of other human
beings’ productive income, this will bring out their best behavior rather than
their worst. And yet, as luck and magic would have it, wherever there is
government on Earth, there is corruption.
Excerpt The Taliban's most vaunted commander in Nuristan and
Kunar provinces, Sheikh Dost Mohammed, has been
killed along with three other Taliban figures in a US Nuristan province for several years,
and his insurgent network maintains deep ties to regional Salafist movements
and al Qaeda.
Obama to the American
People: ‘My Will, Not Yours!’
http://lastresistance.com/1517/obama-to-the-american-people-my-will-not-yours/
http://lastresistance.com/1517/obama-to-the-american-people-my-will-not-yours/
Excerpt: In 2009, over 70% of the American people said they did not want
Obamacare, but did Obama listen to the American people? No! He pushed it
through against the will of the American people and now we are all paying for
it, literally. Obamacare is already costing most Americans thousands of dollars
more for healthcare, when we were promised it would keep costs down. It’s
also costing thousands of Americans their jobs as employers lay people off
because of their increased costs. Millions of Americans are losing their
employer provided healthcare benefits because of the increased costs to
employers.
….If A Conservative Said That? By Leona Salazar
Excerpt: I’m old enough to know better by now, but I’m still amazed how
Democrats and liberals can get away with saying a whole lot of stuff while, if
said by a Republican or conservative, they’re ignored or ridiculed by the
mainstream media. One of the latest comments is from New Jersey Democrat Sen.
Bob Menendez who’s now...
Police chief may have
been killed with one of Obama's Fast and Furious weapons
Excerpt: On February 19, the head of the state police in
Nuevo Leon, Mexico, was shot to death in front of his house. The shot came from
a field approximately 60 meters away, with a sniper rifle.
High School Student
Disarms Gunman…Gets Suspended?
Excerpt: A Florida Fort
Myers , Fla.
Beat the press Reporters reveal how the Obama administration
threatens and controls the media. By Maureen Callahan http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/beat_the_press_96lFrUNync5zuBZTiZ6aUL
Excerpt: As coverage of last week’s flare-up between Bob
Woodward and the White House devolved into the granular parsing of words and
implications and extrapolations and possible intent, the larger point was
roundly missed: the increasing pressure that White House correspondents feel
when dealing with the Obama administration — to follow their narrative, to be
properly deferential (!), to react to push-back by politely sitting down and
shutting up. “The whole Woodward thing doesn’t surprise me at all,” says David
Brody, chief political correspondent for CBN News. “I can tell you
categorically that there’s always been, right from the get-go of this
administration, an overzealous sensitivity to any push-back from any media
outlet.”
A Damn Shame! Son Who
Killed His Mother Does What With Her Body? By Christina Coleman
Excerpt: On Tuesday of this week, a garbage bag full of body
parts was found in the Bronx, New
York McLean pulled out a cell phone
camera, posed in front of a bathroom mirror and snapped the gruesome photo of
himself smirking while holding his mother’s head under his arm like a trophy.
(If Obama had a son...~Bob.)
Excerpt: Yet another case of violence and abuse against
Coptic Christians. On 26 February, the Court of Bani Suef (Upper
Egypt ) dismissed the appeal of the families of the two children
Rzik Nagy, aged 10, and Mina Farag, 9, accused of desecrating the Koran. They
have been detained in a juvenile prison since April 2012. The case has
attracted a lot of criticism in the country. Many claim the trial was illegal
and devoid of any logic.
Spending isn't the
answer, but how do we explain that? By James Delingpole
Excerpt: Over at www.bogpaper.com, I’m inviting people to take part in a
prize competition, the winner being whoever can explain, in terms readily
comprehensible even to an audience brainwashed by the BBC’s crack team of
neo-Keynesian ideologues, why it is that government spending is not the
solution to our ills but the cause of them. It’s something Osborne should have
done long ago; indeed it was the sort of thing he used to talk about quite a
lot in those heady months before he found himself in government and decided to
wuss out.
Delingpole on Friday:
Bogpaper.com: getting you out of the **** since 2012
Excerpt: So that’s my challenge to you, Bogpaper readers.
Especially those of an economic bent. In no fewer than 200 words and no more
than 1000, whether through the medium of parable, reductio ad absurdum, learned
essay, or whatever your preferred mode, I invite you to nail once and for all
this dangerous lefty notion that governments can spend their way out of a
recession by stimulating demand.
Beppe Grillo: Italy
Excerpt: Now, less than four years after its foundation,
[Italian stand-up comedian Beppe Grillo's] movement is the largest single party
in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house, after it secured 26 per cent of
the poll at this week’s inconclusive Italian general elections. It is not,
insists this fascist of the forest, a party. It is a movement.
Sequestageddon: government -by-fake-disaster-movie seems
to be going swimmingly for Obama. By Mark Steyn
Excerpt: A few
weeks ago, Ann Coulter announced that she was bored of American politics and
was spending her days watching Turner Classic Movies. [That's exactly what I've
been doing. It's the zeitgeist. Kate.] I confess that, when it comes to Beltway
melodrama, I too am fighting vainly the old ennui, and minded to plump up the
pillows and settle back with a bucket of bonbons and a beribboned Shih-tzu for
an all-night Norma Shearer marathon. At least, unlike Washington
A school that teaches
wives to be mistresses: [Head teacher: TV Chef Gordon Ramsay's ex-mistress of
seven years]
Excerpt: "If more people treated their marriage as they
do their job, more marriages would last the lifetime they are supposed to.
" Her top tip? Do more in the bedroom than in the kitchen.
Taxpayers spent $1.4
billion on Obama family last year, perks questioned in new book
Excerpt: Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollars on
everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and
his family last year, according to the author of a new book on taxpayer-funded
presidential perks. In comparison, British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million
on the royal family. Author Robert Keith Gray writes in “Presidential Perks Gone Royal” that Obama isn’t the only
president to have taken advantage of the expensive trappings of his office.
Has Obama released
the next Ramon Hernandez?
Excerpt: They are powerful images. One is of an anguished
young mother lying in a hospital bed holding her lifeless baby. ... The child
was born by Caesarean section in a Santa Fe hospital
in an effort to save him, just hours after the Smiths were involved in a crash
with an alleged drunk driver on June 10 on Interstate 25 in San Miguel County
US to Provide $60M in
'Immediate' Aid to Syrian Rebels
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has announced the United States Rome
Op-Ed: Underestimating North Korea and Iran
Excerpt: ….Indeed, the Obama administration and the western
press both naively took at face value and parroted North Korea North
Korea North
Korea achieved a nuclear weapons capability during
the Clinton
Breaking
Bad and the collapsing taboo around hard drugs. By Damian Thompson
Excerpt: Crystal
Excerpt: The unusually frank public intervention from a
loyal senior Conservative minister is unlikely to be welcomed by Mr Osborne and
the Prime Minister because it lays bare deep divisions over future spending
decisions. There have been rumours of a “union of ministers” blocking
further cuts and Mr Hammond today indicates that this is the case. His comments
are also expected to add to tensions within the Coalition because the Liberal
Democrats are opposed to more welfare cuts.
All the President’s
unaccountable men. By Linda Chavez
Excerpt: When Bob Woodward, one of Washington
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) This verse is the basis for Islamic polygamy, allowing a
man to take as many as four wives, as long as he believes he is able to “deal
justly” with all of them ... The verse goes on to say that if a man cannot deal
justly with multiple wives, then he should marry only one, or resort to “what
your right hands own” – that is, slave girls.
German 'Google tax'
to force search engines to pay for showing news extracts.
Excerpt: A law has been passed in the German parliament that
will force search engines such as Google and other news aggregators to pay
royalties to publishers for showing extracts of their articles in search
results.
‘By
All Means, Leave’: The Amazingly Blunt Response One State Rep. Gave a Citizen
Who Wrote Him Opposing Concealed Carry in Schools
Excerpt: Get out of here. That was one Wyoming
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