At the
VA, we talked to a fellow who flew in B-24s in WWII. He sad his CO was a guy
named Jimmy Stewart. Very cool. ~Bob
Guest Post:
Proselytizing Professors
Good Column: Who Shut Down
the Government? By Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: As for the House of Representatives' right to grant
or withhold money, that is not a matter of opinion either. You can check the
Constitution of the United
States
Excerpt: And while they had heard the World War II Memorial
might be closed because of the partial government shutdown, for men who had
stormed the beaches at Normandy Del
Excerpt: Sixty Nine years before they had stormed Omaha Beach
and Utah Beach Iowa
and one from Mississippi
Who Locked Little
Johnny out of Yellowstone? It’s the Democrats who voted down
the reopening of substantial parts of the government. By Charles
Krauthammer
Excerpt: The Obamacare/shutdown battle has spawned myriad myths.
The most egregious concern the substance of the fight, the identity of the
perpetrators, and the origins of the current eruption.
The Budget Fight
and Obama’s Vindictive Streak: The president thinks negotiating with
his “ideological” opponents on the budget is beneath him. By Jonah Goldberg
Excerpt: Shutting down the government in an effort to use a
budget fight to get rid of Obamacare is not the strategy I would have
recommended for the GOP. And while Republicans can be blamed for starting the
shutdown, it’s increasingly apparent that President Obama and the Democrats
deserve the lion’s share of blame for not only prolonging it but also making it
as painful as possible.
Good Analysis: Government
Shutdowns: A History: The refusal of Democrats to negotiate is
what makes this one stand out. By Charles C. W.
Cooke
Excerpt: Still, popular or not, the abject folly of making
“majority rule” arguments in a system of equally ranked branches should be
self-evident. This truly is painfully simple: Republicans are the majority in
the House, and the House’s assent is necessary to a legal budget. Indeed, if
any of the players in the budgetary game is superior, it is the House. Not only
is it wholly wrong to pretend that the House is expected to acquiesce to the
fiscal and legislative demands of the president simply because he won the last
election, but it is dangerous — just one more step on the road to the imperial
polity that the American system of separated powers was contrived to prevent.
Excerpt: More than 661 Park Service police, a fifth of the
3,266 employees nationwide deemed essential, are
currently on duty in Washington ,
D.C.
Andrews Air Force
Bases 3 Golf Courses
From a friend of mine who was with me on some ops during the
war. --Del. Grand
Canyon is closed because of the Govt shutdown ALL THREE Golf
Courses at Andrews Air Force Base are Open-----the Logo for the golf courses is
the Presidential Seal and the Motto is "Where the President Plays." God
Bless America
The Old Media and the New Sheriffs. By L. Brent Bozell
III
Excerpt: Once again, we've reached a government shutdown
over irresponsible government spending. Once more, the media are proclaiming
the world is coming to an end and blaming conservative Republicans for
everything. They are working hand in glove with the Never Enough Government
lobby that dominates Washington Del
Keep up the skeer!: D.C. Stalemate Imperils Social
Security Payments.
Excerpt: The reduction in spending caused by the federal
government shutdown may not have a major effect on the U.S.
Freebies to
furloughed workers ease shutdown pain
Excerpt: A slew of Washington, D.C.-area businesses hit hard
by the government shutdown have concocted an ultra-savvy way to generate lots
of needed PR and lots of love from federal employees: freebies for the
furloughed. These business -- both inside and outside the Beltway -- are trying
to lure customers and media attention by offering everything from free cups of
coffee to freebie sandwiches and free oil changes.
Marines Use Nerf Guns
In Video To Lampoon Government Shutdown
http://www.businessinsider.com/marine-nerf-gun-exemplifies-government-shutdown-2013-10
http://www.businessinsider.com/marine-nerf-gun-exemplifies-government-shutdown-2013-10
Excerpt: While most U.S. schools struggled to reach even an
average score on a key international exam for 15 year olds in 2012, BASIS
Tucson North, an economically modest, ethnically diverse charter school in
Arizona, outperformed every country in the world, including Shanghai, China's
academic gem, says June Kronholz, a former Wall Street Journal foreign
correspondent, bureau chief and education reporter.
Rats, there goes my plan to get new lungs. ~Bob. Excerpt: A
crowd burnt two Europeans to death on a tourist island in Madagascar
Youths burn church,
riot in Kenya 's Mombasa
Excerpt: Young Muslims set fire to a church, burned tires
and clashed with police in Kenya 's
main port city of Mombasa Nairobi
John McAfee on
Obamacare: ‘This is a hacker’s wet dream’
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/03/john-mcafee-on-obamacare-this-is-a-hackers-wet-dream-video/#ixzz2glR16jVt
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/03/john-mcafee-on-obamacare-this-is-a-hackers-wet-dream-video/#ixzz2glR16jVt
Excerpt: On Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto” on
Wednesday, computer programmer and founder of McAfee, Inc. John McAfee said the
online component of Obamacare “is a hacker’s wet dream” that will cause
“the loss of income for the millions of Americans who are going to lose their
identities."
Huff Post: Obamacare Glitch Could Make Coverage
Unaffordable For Low-Wage Workers
Excerpt: It's called the Affordable Care Act, but President
Barack Obama's health care law may turn out to be unaffordable for many
low-wage workers, including employees at big chain restaurants, retail stores
and hotels.
Excerpt: Maricopa
County , Arizona
Obama
Waives Ban on Sending Military Aid to Countries With Child Soldiers
Excerpt:
Ask any policymaker in the White House or Congress, what’s more important than
human rights? Their response: “Our government, of course.” The Obama
administration yesterday issued blanket waivers exempting three countries from
a federal law banning U.S.
Excerpt: Italy
Important: Too big to stop
Excerpt: Mortgage fraud is a lie about things such as
income, assets or a job that helps create a homeowner out of someone who
otherwise wouldn’t be. This was central to the 2008 financial crisis because,
according to the volume of settlements, it happened a lot. The fraudulent
mortgages were sold from bank to bank until they wound up being packaged into
investments that were sold around the world.
Improving Child
Poverty Measures
Excerpt: Internationally, a relative poverty measure could
mean very different living standards, depending on the country. For instance, a
yearly income of $35,000 in a country where essential goods and services, such
as health care and child care, are free (or heavily subsidized) implies a much
different standard of living than in a country where these items must be paid
for at market prices. The lack of accuracy with relative measures of poverty,
and reliability with surveyed deprivation statistics, challenges the belief
that the United States
Computer glitches
prevent health-insurance enrollment for D.C. family
Excerpt: Goni took the day off from his work as a pizza
cook, prepared to fill out applications and navigate bureaucracy at the
federally funded health center with his wife, Razia, and their 10-month-old and
21-month-old children in tow. ... And then the technical problems started. (In
my experience, all government websites are are-hostile. ~Bob)
Russian Embassy in Libya
Excerpt: Russia 's
embassy in the Libyan capital of Tripoli
Excerpt: Last week, former Columbus Police Chief Angelo Vega
admitted in federal court to running background checks and license plates, as
well as purchasing thousands of dollars worth of law enforcement gear,
including body armor and bullet-proof vests for the Juarez Cartel. (This may
just be the tip of the iceberg. How many federal officials are also on the
cartel's payroll? --Don Hank)
Excerpt: It indicates that due to the nutritional labeling
requirements under Obamacare, they will now be serving pre-packaged bulk-made fry
sauce instead of the sauce they previously made in the restaurant.
Additionally, they are discontinuing their Habanero sauce and Buffalo
John Kerry’s Jobs Program for Would-Be Jihadists. By Robert Spencer
Excerpt: It will do this essentially by giving potential
jihad terrorists money and jobs – an initiative that proceeds from the false
and oft-disproven assumption that poverty causes terrorism.
Muslim population
growth faster than global rate: 70% of global population growth over the next
30 years will be in Muslim countries
Throw gays off a
mountain imams to speak at London
Excerpt: An iman who says gays should be thrown off
mountains and stabbed in the gums by Muslim dentists is to be a lead speaker at
a conference in London
Excerpt: The man said to be responsible for bringing al
Qaeda to Afghanistan
Border Patrol Union
VP Says Feds 'Cooking Books' on Illegal Immigration
Excerpt: "The politically-appointed class within the
U.S. Border Patrol and in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency are
cooking the books to make it appear that illegal immigration is decreasing,”
Moran claimed. (This is a blockbuster bit of whistle blowing. So now we
have federal employees cooking books to make things look a lot better than they
really are? Great. But why be surprised? This is the "Chicago Way Del
Excerpt: The president of Venezuela on
Wednesday cast suspicion on an American law enforcement agency saying his
nation is probing the American drug enforcement officers to learn whether or
not they are involved in narcotics trafficking in his country...( The morning
paper in Panama (Panama America) reported that Venezuela also kicked out the US
ambassador for something she allegedly did to undermine President Maduro. It's
getting interesting. Now, what do you think? Would Obama's handpicked higher
DEA officials get involved in smuggling drugs? Aren't they a bunch of Boy
Scouts? Chicago
When The Arab Spring Died. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: The Arab Spring was born in Tunisia Tunisia
'Game changers.' By
Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: In 2008, presidential candidate Barack
Obama on two occasions went out of his way to warn the Iranians that the
development of a nuclear weapon "would be a game-changing situation, not
just in the Middle East , but around the
world." Obama later added, "It is unacceptable for Iran
Climate of
Uncertainty: A U.N. report can't explain the hiatus in global warming.
Excerpt: Between 1998 and 2012 the global economy more than
doubled in size—to some $71 trillion in GDP from $30 trillion. That's the good
news. Over the same period the world pumped more than 100 billion tons of
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That is supposedly the bad news. Yet global
surface temperatures have remained essentially flat. That's the mystery: If
emitting CO2 into the atmosphere causes global warming, why hasn't the globe
been warming? (And the steady supply of valid criticisms of the whole AGW myth
goes on. --Del
Al-Qaida-linked
Rebels Desecrate Churches in Syrian
Town
Excerpt: Al-Qaida-linked Syrian rebels from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant sacked a Melkite Greek-Catholic Church
Quote
"The difference between a welfare state and a
totalitarian state is a matter of time." --Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
Jihad Tourism. By
Anat Berko
Excerpt: For 20 years I studied and interviewed
Islamistmujahedeen (jihad fighters) imprisoned in Israeli jails, examining
their inner worlds and discovering the obsessive thoughts leading them to carry
out terrorist attacks. They were addicted to fantasizing about an alternative
reality, describing their compulsions in metaphors similar to those used by
obsessive gamblers and drug addicts. They likened them to "worms"
(duda in Arabic) burrowing into their brains and driving them to seek not
another game of cards or a fix, but dead Israelis, Americans, Europeans, or
anyone else they considered infidels.
Obama Prohibits Practice of Catholicism in U.S.
Excerpt: Beginning now, with the opening of government-run health-insurance
exchanges, President Barack Obama will be prohibiting American Catholics from
practicing their faith in the way they live their daily lives. This is an act
of tyranny. Yet, many Americans in positions of public authority and influence
have greeted it with silence and inaction. (This has been coming down the pike
to run over the religious principles of Catholics and a number of other
religious groups, despite very frequent, emphatic responses against it for the
past few years. Mr. Obama has paid no attention whatsoever to these protests,
which is hardly what a responsible Chief Executive should do. Now the bishops
are entering a war with the Administration, there will be lawsuits appealing
all the way to the Supreme Court. Where, hopefully, the Justices will come out
clearly against this as a violation of religious freedom. In the meantime, I
hope the bishops will get ready to shut down all Catholic hospitals in protest
of this assault on religious freedom. Since that is the largest hospital system
in the country, there would be an enormous and instant effect, which would
bring Congress into it within a couple of days. Then they would pass the rule
exempting all religious organizations and also others which are owned by
strongly religious families or individuals. It would be a well deserved slap in
the face to Obama and show that the people can fight the government when it
goes into excesses in its use of power. --Del
Belgian helped to die
after three sex change operations
Excerpt: A transsexual has been helped to die by doctors in Belgium Brussels
59% Believe Voter ID
Laws Do Not Discriminate
Excerpt: The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone
survey shows that 70% of Likely U.S. Voters believe all voters should be
required to prove their identity before being allowed to vote. Only 25% oppose
such a requirement. (If only we lived in a democracy. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Whew! It is early evening and, after scouring all
the various online exchange information, I think I have a much better grasp of
this Obamacare thing. Thanks to the above organization chart, provided to me by
a friend on Facebook, I can now clearly see how Obamacare is going to run like
a fine Swiss watch. I now realize that I was being silly to worry that tens of
thousands of those bureaucratic nubs might present the smallest of chances
that, somehow, they might not sync with each other, thus causing me
frustrations such as my medical records being exposed, my identity info
threatened by hackers, a doctor, nurse, medical tech, clinic or hospital not
communicating effectively, and taking off my left leg instead of the right one.
Or that some illegal alien would steal my social security number and charge a
heart transplant or two to my medical account.
Five Game-Changing Questions on ObamaCare. By Tom Thurlow
Excerpt: Maybe this is why President Obama has allowed so
few questions following his recent statements concerning ObamaCare. This is an
unpopular law that is being promoted with empty slogans and outright lies. But
tough questions must be asked. Here are five of my suggestions:
20 Obama Quotes About Islam Contrasted With 20 Obama Quotes
About Christianity. By Michael Snyder
Excerpt: You are about to read some of the
most shocking quotes that Barack Obama has ever uttered in
public. A few of these have been widely circulated, but most of them are very
obscure.
Car Thief’s Horrible
Miscalculation Turns Out to Be Deadly After He Targeted Armed Former Marine –
Who Was Just as Heroic as You’d Expect
Excerpt: In an instant, guns were drawn and bullets were
flying through the air. The former Marine was deadly accurate, hitting the male
suspect several times before he could hide behind the truck. He was pronounced
dead on the scene.
4 More Female Marines
Fall Short at Infantry Officer Course
Excerpt: Women began reporting to IOC on a voluntary basis
last year. Counting the latest class, 10 women have attempted IOC, and none has
passed. Nine failed to make it through the combat endurance test. The tenth
passed the initial test last fall but was dropped a little more than a week
into training due to stress fractures in her foot, Marine officials said. Two
women were among the last class of 79 Marines who attempted it in July;
both failed the CET. (My opinion - General Amos will be ordered to graduate a
female from the IOC before his tenure as CMC is over next October even if it
means lowering the standards. General Dempsey is already on record with his
quote at a press conference when the exclusion of women in combat roles was
announced...“If we do decide that a particular standard is so high that a woman
couldn’t make it, the burden is now on the service to come back and explain to
the secretary: Why is it that high? Does it really have to be that high?” That
quote screams to me that if necessary to integrate women into ground combat
roles, standards will be adjusted. And when they do, good soldiers and Marines
will die. --MasterGuns)
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