I sent my friend Seamus the George Will article below. He is a brother Marine and combat vet of Vietnam, who loves Scotland and Ireland, is a piper, into Celtic music and far more knowledgeable on Scottish and Irish history than I am. He wrote a long response, below with great history lessons on ScotlandI thought was worth sharing. ~Bob

Scotland

’s epic vote on independence from the United Kingdom. By George Will

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-scotlands-epic-vote-on-independence-from-the-united-kingdom/2014/09/12/b459a85a-39e3-11e4-8601-97ba88884ffd_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opnsat&wpmm=1

Excerpt: Tucking into a dish of Scottish haggis is not a task for the fainthearted. There are various haggis recipes, but basically it is sheep’s pluck — the heart, lungs and liver — cooked together, then mixed with suet and oatmeal and boiled in a sheep’s stomach, then served, sometimes drenched with Scotch. People who pour whisky on oatmeal are not shrinking violets. Remember this on Thursday when Scotland votes on independence from the United Kingdom. There are economic reasons for and (mostly) against Scotlanddisassociating from the queen’s realm. This issue, however, touches chords of memory more interesting than money.

Hi Bob.

Though I suspect Mr. Will (not a writer I often agree with) may be somewhat sympathetic, and seems to be trying to be fairly objective (unlike his usual essays), he, like most Americans and even many Britons is obviously completely unaware of a great many facets of Scottish history and their national character. I suspect that Mr. Will (as usual) started out with a conclusion he wanted to make, but didn't bother doing the home-work, research, or other tasks necessary to make a valid argument.

For example, he starts out with the common "Scotch and haggis" gambit in an attempt to delineate Scotland, which is, and always has been, a nation which is composed of far more and greater qualities and traits than a few traditional folk-menu items. (This is rather akin to the equally egregious "tartan, kilt and bagpipes" approach to defining Scotland.)

Mr. Will then goes on to quote Mr. Reynolds and state that Scotland is "an ethnic nation" which he defines as “a community of shared descent, rooted in language, ethnicity, and culture.” In fact, Scotland is made of many ethnic, linguistic, and cultural strands woven in over the centuries, and has a complex cultural and linguistic history.

In the 9th century, Scotland had almost half a dozen different overlapping cultures speaking as many different languages, such as Cumbric Brythonic in the South-West, Pictish in the North-East, Irish (Gaelic) in the Hebrides and West coast, later followed by Vikings in Orkney and Shetland, and in the Hebrides and West Highlands, who blended with the Gaels and older inhabitants, some of whose language became incorporated in what was becoming Scots Gaelic, and of course the Angles in the South-East, especially from the time of Malcolm "Cean-mor" and his successors, speaking the dialect of English which would eventually become the language that has been called "the guid Scots tongue" (aka "Doric,""Broad Scots" or increasingly in recent years, "Lallans").

And let's not forget the Normans introduced by David I and his Normanophile successors, or the Flemish introduced into Scotland, first by David I and later migrations, including that authorized by James VI prior to his becoming King of England.

There have of course been many others in more modern times, but this historic over-view shows how wrong Mr. Will is about the Scots and their supposedly homogeneous origins. While most of these cultures have assimilated (as they did elsewhere, including in the US), their marks were left on the language and culture.

Likewise, the Highlandand Lowland cultures have historically differed greatly from one another, leading to many a war and feud. So much for "ethnic unity."

As to Wallace, far from becoming an icon only in the late 19th century, as Mr. Will and / or Mr. Reynolds imply, Sir William Wallace (like his contemporary, King Robert the Bruce) has been an iconic figure in Scotland since his campaigns in 1297-98, followed by his brutal and horrendous judicial murder by Edward I on the 23rd of August, 1305.

Wallace is referred to by Scottish poets and historians from John Barbour (c.1320 – 13 March 1395) in his work "The Brus" and Abbot Walter Bower (ca. 1385 – 24 December 1449), and especially by the great Scottish "makar" Blind Harry (c. 1440 – 1492), whose "The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace" (aka "The Wallace") set forth most of what we now know about Wallace.

These histories, stories and references continue on all the way up through Burns (himself a "cult figure" almost from his death in the early 19th century), who certainly knew (and indeed used some of) Blind Harry's lines in his own famous nationalist paean to Bruce and Wallace, "Scots Wha' Ha'e" and on to Walter Scott and his successors. Therefore, 550 years of history refutes Mr. Will's contention that Wallace became a "cult figure" only in the late 19th century.

As to the "continued vitality of their national sentiments testifies to the ability of differences to resist homogenization by the commercial and cultural forces of modernity" -- that is ludicrous. While they have indeed resisted "homogenization" to some respect, the Scots for all intents and purposes invented the modern world -- as Arthur Herman has pointed out in his book on that topic. (Mind you, Herman has a number of deficiencies too, but he is essentially right in that it was the Scots who quite literally invented the modern world -- not only with their technological inventions and improvements, but with their philosophical and political contributions as well.

Examine the Founders and Framers of the AmericanRepublicand what do you find? Scots and Scotch-Irish, who are invariably the driving forces behind the Revolution.

In Pennsylvania, Virginia, and most of the Carolinas, support for the revolution was "practically unanimous." Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, with its large Scotch-Irish population, was to make the first declaration for independence from Britainin the Mecklenburg Declaration of 1775.

The Scotch-Irish "Overmountain Men" of Virginia and North Carolina formed a militia which won the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780, resulting in the British abandonment of the southern campaign, which some historians believe marked "the turning point of the American Revolution."

A British major general testified to the House of Commons that "half the rebel Continental Army were from Ireland" and one Hessian officer during the Revolution said, "Call this war by whatever name you may, only call it not an American rebellion; it is nothing more or less than a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian rebellion."

Alexander Hamilton was the son of a Scottish laird, and a great many other Revolutionaries had Scots or Scotch-Irish antecedents, such as the Reverend Dr. John Witherspoon, a native Scot who became a patriot, signer of the Declaration, and first Moderator of the US Presbyterian Church, as well as a principal educator of Madison and others who became Revolutionaries (who, despite his own activity, thought that ministers and religion should have no active part in government.)

Their philosophies and beliefs (many of which were molded by Enlightenment and Age of Reason philosophers) had a huge effect on the course of events that led to the American Revolution, and all the subsequent events that sprang from it.

One third of our Presidents have been of Scots or Scotch-Irish heritage either directly or indirectly. The more obvious ones are those recognizable by their names, such as; Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Grant, Arthur, Cleveland, Benjamin and William Henry Harrison, and McKinley, while Theodore Roosevelt's mother had Ulster Scots ancestors who emigrated from CountyAntrim. Woodrow Wilson was of Ulster-Scots descent on both sides of the family, and Truman, Clinton, and Obama also have Scots-Irish lineage, while LBJ and Nixon were both descended from Border families. ( George MacDonald Fraser once waggishly remarked about a picture of LBJ, Nixon and Billy Graham standing together that it would not take much imagination to see them scowling grimly out from under the "steel bonnets" of their rapacious Borderer ancestors. I had to agree. )

And of course, many other notable Americans including; Neil Armstrong and James Irwin, John C. Calhoun, Kit Carson, Davy Crockett, Jefferson Davis, John Dunlap (Revolutionary politician) Admiral David Farragut, Nathan Bedford Forrest, William Gamble (Union general), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Ulysses Simpson Grant, Sam Houston Thomas J. ("Stonewall") Jackson, Naval Aviator and Senator John McCain, George B. McClellan, John P. McCown (Confederate general), Benjamin McCulloch (Confederate general), George S. Patton, VP Adlai Stevenson I, Gov. (IL) Adlai Stevenson II, Sen. Adlai Stevenson III, J.E.B. Stuart, Charles Thomson (Revolutionary politician), and James H. Webb (Marine, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, Secretary of the Navy, and U.S. Senator).

The Scots and Scotch-Irish have made innumerable contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics that have formed the modern Western world.

John Knox and the Church of Scotland broke the strangling power of first the Catholic, and later the Anglican Church, while the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution. Thousands of Scottish and Scotch-Irish soldiers and immigrants helped conquer and settled the American and Canadian frontiers, and later, Australia, New Zealand, and the growing British Empire.

Inventors like James Watt, philosophers like Adam Smith, financiers and industrialists like Mellon and Carnegie, writers including Burns, Scott, Stevenson, Doyle, and Barrie, and hundreds of other Scots have shaped our modern world.

Thomas Newcomen's bicycle, the macadamisation (not to be confused with tarmac or tarmacadam) of roads, based on the work of Telford and McAdam, Europe's first passenger steamboat, Fairbairn's tubular steel and iron ship's hulls, the telephone of Alexander Graham Bell, John Logie Baird's invention of television, Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin, and the discoveries of electro-magnetics, radar, and insulin and many other technologies, techniques, and instruments.

Richard Feynman once said, "the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics"

As Victorian historian John Anthony Froude wrote, “No people so few in number have scored so deep a mark in the world’s history as the Scots have done.” (Though I'd be inclined to add the Irish.)

Our contemporary technology, capitalism, and democracy was largely shaped or influenced by the Scots and Scotch-Irish. The names I've included are only the tip of the Scots and Scotch-Irish iceberg. (If you want a MUCH bigger and more complete listing, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_inventions_and_discoveries )

So I'm afraid I'd have to disagree with Mr. Will. Scotland is a LOT more than a little back-water of haggis, whiskey, and Celtic Twilight, unable to function w/o its "parent" state, England. If anything, I'd say the shoe is on the other foot, and it is England who will become the net loser.

That said, and as much as I've wanted to see an independent Scotland (and N. Ireland joining the Republic), the tendency toward Balkanization of countries and peoples in many parts of the world is worrisome, as it seems a step backward from what eventually needs to happen -- i.e., an effective world governing body, with a charter based on our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Without such a body, there is little doubt humanity will soon extinguish itself, either through war or other means.

OTOH, attempts at world organizations have so far proven ineffective or even disastrous. (e.g., the UN has done little better than the League of Nations, and the EU has serious problems.)

Oh well! Not a lot to be done either way, I fear.

Anyway, tnx. for the link, and hope you are continuing to improve!

SF,

"Seamus"

Update

From a blog reader and contributor

Hi Robert! My son in law did the GoRUK challenge yesterday and he and his buddies raised money for wounded Marines. I donated in your honor. Be well my friend! --Gail S. (the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund forwarded this to me.~Bob)

General News and Comment

Scotland

’s epic vote on independence from the United Kingdom. By George Will

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-scotlands-epic-vote-on-independence-from-the-united-kingdom/2014/09/12/b459a85a-39e3-11e4-8601-97ba88884ffd_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opnsat&wpmm=1

Scottish History Lesson: Scotland's Independence--A Response to George Will

http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2014/09/scotlands-independence-response-to.html

I sent my friend Seamus the George will article above. He is a brother Marine and combat vet of Vietnam, who loves Scotland and Ireland, is a piper, into Celtic music and far more knowledgeable on Scottish and Irish history than I am. He wrote a long response, below with great history lessons on ScotlandI thought was worth sharing. ~Bob

The Assault Weapon Myth. By Lois Beckett, New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/sunday-review/the-assault-weapon-myth.html?_r=1

Excerpt: But in the 10 years since the previous ban lapsed, even gun control advocates acknowledge a larger truth: The law that barred the sale of assault weapons from 1994 to 2004 made little difference. It turns out that big, scary military rifles don’t kill the vast majority of the 11,000 Americans murdered with guns each year. Little handguns do.

Pelosi: "Civilization As We Know It Would Be In Jeopardy If Republicans Win The Senate"

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/09/12/pelosi_civilization_as_we_know_it_would_be_in_jeopardy_if_republicans_win_the_senate.html

Excerpt: MAHER: This and ISISare threatening civilization. Oh, no. PELOSI: Yeah, it is really important. (She says that like it would be a bad thing! I suppose it could cut into the massive government debt and unfunded liabilities that will create fiscal collapse, the culture of violence and dependency that plague the under-classes, the ever-growing government with an unappeased hunger to develop bureaucracies that control every aspect of our lives--but I doubt it. ~Bob)

Watch the Video: City seeks favorable ruling in SWAT incident lawsuit; police video shows what happened

http://www.courierpress.com/news/local-news/crime/city-seeks-favorable-ruling-in-swat-incident-lawsuit-police-video-shows-what-happened_21314982

Excerpt: The city of Evansvilleis seeking a favorable judgment in a lawsuit brought by a local woman alleging the Evansville Police Department violated her constitutional rights when its SWAT team tossed flash grenades into her home and forced their way inside to serve a search warrant more than two years ago. ... In the video, Stephanie Milan, then 18 years old, can be heard yelling, “Don’t hurt me!” at the officers. Only she and her then 68-year-old adoptive mother Louise Milan were in the house when police shattered a glass door and burst in after throwing the flash grenades inside. (Looked a bit over-blown to me. ~Bob)

Victim files complaint against AG candidate over sexual assault case

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/274866181.html

Excerpt: Happ -- the Democratic candidate for attorney general -- came under fire after her office gave a deferred prosecution agreement to Daniel J. Reynolds, who had been charged with felony counts of first-degree and second-degree sexual assaults of a child. Under the deal, Reynolds' offense would be reduced to a disorderly conduct violation if he stays out of trouble for 12 months and completes other requirements. Records show Happ and her husband sold a piece of property to Reynolds under a $180,000 land contract that was executed in 2009 and paid off three years later. (As Obama said about his golfing after the Foley murder, she "should have considered the optics." ~Bob)

Minnesota Vikings RB Adrian Peterson indicted on charge of felony child abuse

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/minnesota-vikings-rb-adrian-peterson-indicted-on-child-abuse-charges/2014/09/12/2adf5c02-3adb-11e4-8601-97ba88884ffd_story.html?wpisrc=nl-headlines&wpmm=1

Excerpt: Peterson, a six-time Pro Bowler, is alleged to have beaten his 4-year-old son with a thin, whip-like tree branch, or “switch,” causing numerous injuries. Minnesotahas deactivated him for Sunday’s game against the New England Patriots. (If sexual assaults of a child draw a disorderly conduct plea, Peterson should get by with an overtime parking ticket. ~Bob)

Federal appeals court reinstates voter ID law

http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/federal-appeals-court-reinstates-voter-id-law/article_95547ce4-2dac-53e7-b729-6dd02a895db5.html

Excerpt: In a stunningly fast decision, a federal appeals court in Chicago reinstated Wisconsin’s voter photo identification law on Friday — just hours after three Republican-appointed judges heard arguments on reactivating the hotly debated law in time for the November election.

Obamacare, Cost Curves, the Ever-Worsening Entitlement Crisis, and the Case for Spending Restraint. By Daniel J. Mitchell

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/danieljmitchell/2014/09/13/obamacare-cost-curves-the-everworsening-entitlement-crisis-and-the-case-for-spending-restraint-n1891192?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Excerpt: I’m very worried about the burden of government spending. Moreover, I’m quite concerned that poorly designed entitlement programs will lead to fiscal disaster. And I’m especially irked that Obama made the problem worse by ramming through yet another misguided and costly health care entitlement.

"Palin-Tology"

http://justcommonsense-lostinamerica.blogspot.com/2014/09/palin-tology.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMoXTa+%28Lost+in+America%29

Excerpt: The Democrats are in an orgasmic frenzy over news from Wasilla, Alaska. Seems the entire Palin clan showed up for a party in honor of Todd's 50th birthday and things got out of hand. It appears words were exchanged between son Track, the Iraqwar veteran and an old boyfriend of his sister Willow. Words got heated so the combatants were kind enough to take the fight out to the front yard where it got physical. Reportedly, while the men folks were basically just beating their chests, the women got into some real fisticuffs. Sarah got in her share of licks but witnesses said it was daughter Bristolwho displayed a deadly left hook that did some serious damage. Eventually the cops came but the alcohol had worn off a bit and none of the combatants wanted to press charges against each other...just your normal Momma Bear-Soccer mom weekend.

Former Md.governor Ehrlich pays visit to N.H.; you know what that might mean. By Robert Costa

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/09/13/former-md-governor-ehrlich-pays-visit-to-n-h-and-you-know-what-that-might-mean/

Excerpt: Ehrlich, 56, a former congressman who served one term as Maryland’s governor, said in a phone interview that he is, for the moment, simply looking to reenter the national political fray after keeping a low profile in recent years as he has practiced law and hosted a talk-radio program. ... Ehrlich said his still-evolving pitch is mostly “pragmatic” and about the need for “problem-solvers,” rather than ideological hardliners, to rise in the GOP so that the party could draw increased support from women and blue-state skeptics.

Authorities ID Pennsylvania state trooper killed in ambush; say suspect is at large

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/09/13/pennsylvania-police-barracks-shooting/

Excerpt: The gunman who ambushed two Pennsylvania state troopers late Friday night, killing one and injuring the other, is on the loose and dangerous, authorities said at a Saturday afternoon press conference. The two troopers were ambushed outside a state police barracks in northeastern Pennsylvania during a late-night shift change. (How large will the White House delegation to the funeral be? At least the three BO send to Michael Brown's funeral, yes? ~Bob)

FiveThirtyEight’s Senate Forecast

http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/senate-forecast/

Excerpt: Republicans have a 58.0% chance of winning a majority.

Is he doing it out of spite? Another beheading, another Obama golf game. Even Piers Morgan weighs in. By Joe Saunders

http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/09/14/is-he-doing-it-out-of-spite-another-beheading-another-obama-golf-game-even-piers-morgan-weighs-in-145748?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Excerpt: It’s Sunday afternoon, do you know where your president is? Of course you do. Closing in on Round 200 of his two-term administration, President Obama hit the links yet again on Sunday, squeezing out the last days of golfable weather in the Northeast by going to the greens. (To update Kipling, " If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you" --then it must be time to hit the links! ~Bob)

Tweet from Kathleen ‏@katnandu

Behind 3 women together today at the store. They used an EBT card and I saw them in the parking lot loading the groceries into their Audi. (At Walgreens, saw a healthy guy, 20s, try to buy an energy drink with an EBT card. Wouldn't take, so he paid with A $100 bill. Clerk said to me, "Our money." ~Bob)

Obamacare/Government Healthcare News

Harkin: Hillary Clinton’s “Fingerprints Are All Over” Obamacare. By Andrew Kaczynski

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/harkin-hillary-clintons-fingerprints-are-all-over-obamacare?bftw=pol#3t101qc

Excerpt: IowaDemocratic Sen. Tom Harkin said Sunday Hillary Clinton’s “fingerprints are all over” Obamacare. The Iowa senator was introducing Clintonto speak at his 37th annual Steak Fry. “One of the things she always worked on was advancing this concept, this idea that health care should be a right and not a privilege in this country,” Harkin said. (It's a major problem that liberals don't understand the difference between a "right" and a "good." I get as much freedom of speech, religion and the press as Warren Buffet or Bill Gates. You and I will never get as much healthcare, food, housing, etc as they do--it can't be done. If they are "rights," we should all get the same amount of those rights. ~Bob

Glitch in health care law allows employers to offer substandard insurance. By Jay Hancock

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/glitch-in-health-care-law-allows-employers-to-offer-substandard-insurance/2014/09/12/27af2a24-39f7-11e4-bdfb-de4104544a37_story.html?wpisrc=nl-headlines&wpmm=1

Excerpt: A flaw in the federal calculator for certifying that insurance meets the health-care law’s toughest standard is leading dozens of large employers to offer plans that lack basic benefits, such as hospitalization coverage, according to brokers and consultants. (A flaw in Obamacare? How can that be? Guess they should have read the bill. ~Bob)

Worth Reading: Is ObamaCare Working? By John C. Goodman, PhD.

http://townhall.com/columnists/johncgoodman/2014/09/13/is-obamacare-working-n1891034?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Excerpt: Sarah Kliff, another ObamaCare supporter, estimates that health reform has enabled about 5 million people to become newly insured. But that’s only about 10 percent of the uninsured. What happened to the mandate that required that everyone have health insurance this year or face a fine? Turns out that the mandate doesn’t actually apply to millions of people. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that 90 percent of the uninsured are exempt from the mandate.

Worth Reading: Doctoring in the Age of ObamaCare: Endlessly entering data or calling for permission to prescribe or trying to avoid Medicare penalties—when should I see patients?

http://online.wsj.com/articles/mark-sklar-doctoring-in-the-age-of-obamacare-1410478521

Google the title if you hit a pay wall. ~Bob. Excerpt: It has been four years since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, so I thought it may be useful to provide the perspective of a physician providing daily medical care. I am an endocrinologist in Washington, D.C., and have been in solo private practice for 17 years after seven years at an academic institution. Since 1990, the practice of medicine has changed significantly, seldom for the better.

"You're Greener than Gore" News

Tie-Dyed Tyranny

http://conservativevideos.com/tie-dyed-tyranny/

Excerpt: Back in the Bad Old Days, tyrants bent others to their will with machine guns and death camps. But what fig leaf can modern, touchy-feely, petty tyrants use to make sure other people remain “in compliance?” How about Saving the Planet?

Religion of Peace News

Must Read: The Covert Origins of ISIS

http://scgnews.com/the-covert-origins-of-isis

Excerpt: Would it interest you to know who helped these psychopaths rise to power? Would it interest you to know who armed them, funded them and trained them? Would it interest you to know why? This story makes more sense if we start in the middle, so we'll begin with the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. (Foreign policy incompetence and cover-up! Now, there is no obvious solution since NATO and Middle Eastern allies refuse to support an unwilling and leaderless Obama. GBH, MajGen, USMC (Ret). "Must Read" doesn't mean I verify it as true--I don't have the Intel access to do that. ~Bob)

ISIS Beheads British Aid Worker, Releases Video – Cameron Tweets ‘Pure Evil’
http://patdollard.com/2014/09/breaking-isis-beheads-british-aid-worker-releases-video/

Excerpt: Islamic State militants have released a video claiming to show the beheading of British aid worker David Haines.

PC Idiot: Susan Rice: It’s Not a War Because We Don’t Have Combat Boots on the Ground
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/12/Susan-Rice-It-s-Not-A-War-Because-We-Don-t-Have-Combat-Boots-On-The-Ground

Excerpt: “We’ll not have American combat forces on the ground fighting as we did in Iraqand Afghanistan, which is what I think the American people think of when they think of a war, so I think this is very different from that.” (As others have noted, Japan didn't have boots on the ground at Pearl Harbor. I supposed if we nuked every Muslim country, no one would call it war? PC Idiots, if you'll pardon the redundancy. ~Bob)

PC Idiot: Used Koran Salesman Obama: “The Islamic State Is Not Islamic”

http://clashdaily.com/2014/09/used-koran-salesman-obama-islamic-state-islamic/

Excerpt: “No religion condones the killing of innocents,” Obama lied, pretending that The Koran’s numerous commands and exhortations for worshippers of Allah to terrorize, slaughter, and behead “infidels,” as the way to advance the Muslim ideology and earn one’s way into paradise, did not exist.

Islamic Imam Refutes Obama: Terrorizing the Enemy is Part of Islam & Islamic State is "Pro-Life." By Tim Brown

http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/09/uk-islamic-imam-refutes-obama-terrorizing-enemy-part-islam-islamic-state-pro-life/

Excerpt: London Islamic cleric Anjem Choudary, a long-time controversial Islamist in the UK, finally came out and admitted what all of us who don't have our heads in the sand have been saying. The same imam that encouraged Islamists to get on welfare in order to engage in jihad told Russia Today, "Terrorizing the enemy is, in fact, part of Islam."

Obama's legally dubious Isis campaign is just a way to continue perpetual war: The question isn’t whether this is war. It is. The question is how long until we’re clamouring for ground troops in Iraq again

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/13/obamas-legally-dubious-isis-campaign-perpetual-war

Excerpt: The president also announced that he wouldn’t be needing congressional approval for prolonged airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, ignoring both their constitutional obligations and his … and that we’d be funneling more weapons to a group of “moderate” fighters that hardly anyone believes is moderate nor particularly good at fighting, including Obama. Legal scholars on the left and the right denounced the president’s unconstitutional decision to bypass Congress and authorize military action unilaterally by pinning it to the 13 year-old Authorization for Use of Military Force against al-Qaida – which expelled Isis months ago. The justice department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which already has an egregious habit of declaring their legal interpretations of public laws classified, may not have even bothered to put this particular tortured legal interpretation in writing. (The Guardian is considered left wing in the UK. ~Bob)

Obama's Pals: Remember Those 'Moderate' Syrian Rebels? They Sold Sotloff to ISIL. By Robby Soave

http://reason.com/blog/2014/09/09/remember-those-moderate-syrian-rebels-th?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reason%2FHitandRun+%28Reason+Online+-+Hit+%26+Run+Blog%29

Excerpt: A spokesperson for the family of Steven Sotloff—the journalist gruesomely murdered by ISIL last week—accused "so-called moderate Syrian rebels" of helping the Islamic terrorist group to capture Sotloff in exchange for a cash payment. (These are the folks Obama, Reid, Boehner et al want to send arms to. Again: THERE ARE NO GOOD GUYS IN SYRIA. ~Bob)

Interesting: Just War Theory and ISIS. By Steve Deace

http://townhall.com/columnists/stevedeace/2014/09/13/just-war-theory-and-isis-n1889814?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Excerpt: This natural law requires military action to be morally justified given the human toll at stake. Dating all the way back to Augustine's City of God, this is what's more commonly known today as "just war theory." There are seven components to Just War Theory. Let's take a look at each and see if military action against ISIS applies.

2 al Qaeda commanders reported killed in US airstrike in eastern Afghanistan

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/09/2_al_qaeda_commander.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29

Excerpt: Two al Qaeda commanders are reported to have been killed in a US airstrike in the eastern Afghan province of Paktika. The deaths of the jihadist leaders, who are members of an al Qaeda company known as the Badr Mansoor Group, have not been confirmed. The two were identified by Dawn as Aqalzadin and Ikramullah, who were among seven jihadists reported to have been killed in "a US drone strike" that targeted "a compound near Komal village of Paktikaprovince." The area is near Pakistan's tribal agency of South Waziristan, which is a hub for al Qaeda and other Pakistani jihadist groups.

Four Men in Two Cities Killed in Acts of Islamic Jihad; Media, Obama, and Holder Silent

http://www.tpnn.com/2014/09/12/four-men-in-two-cities-killed-in-acts-of-islamic-jihad-media-obama-and-holder-silent/

Excerpt: Ali Muhammad Brown, 29, was charged with the murder of 19-year old Brendan Tevlin on June 18th. Brown also confessed to killing two people, Ahmed Said and Dwone Anderson-Young, in Seattleon June 1. In addition, he was also charged with shooting another man, Leroy Henderson, in the Skyway area of Seattlein April. All of the men were killed with a 9 mm handgun. There is consistency in Brown’s statement to police in both KingCounty in Seattle, and Essex County, N.J. He told authorities that he was doing his small part as vengeance for U.S.actions in the Middle East.

LAME: ChristianWebsite Yanks A Column Condemning Islam. By Doug Giles

http://clashdaily.com/2014/09/christian-website-yanks-column-condemning-islam/

Excerpt: Last week, Gary Cass, who drives defendchristians.org, contacted me asking if ClashDaily.com would run his piece titled, “I’m Islamaphobic, Are You?” I gave it a read and quickly said, “Heck yeah”, because Cass, like Clash, believes Militant Islam is implacable and must be stomped on like a narc at a biker party. In his sensible screed Garygave three powerful points on how we must deal with violent Muslim mayhem. Check it out:

Everything I Need to Know, I Learned in Bootcamp

By Robert A. Hall

Once a SSgt, Always a Marine

Robert Fulghum’s inspirational essay, “Everything I Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten,” is one of the most read and reprinted articles of our time. Though I admire Fulghum’s insights, I must have been a late bloomer. Everything I’ve needed to know, I learned at Parris Island, from three leather-tough Marine drill instructors.

The lessons taught by Sergeants William Harris, Michael Martin and Ezekiel Owens, while training Platoon 273 in the summer of 1964, have carried me through the rough times, and led to what success I can claim in life. In college, in my earlier political career and in my current job as an association manager, my DIs were always with me, guiding me, helping me, urging me on—and kicking my tail when I need it. I may not think about them daily, but for over 35 years their training and spirit has been an inseparable part of my life. Schools, colleges and even the other services educate the brain. Marine training burns deep in the heart and the bone.

In light of the trying times facing our country, I’d like to share the lessons they gave me:

• Challenge yourself—you can always do more than you think you can.

• Make your bed every morning.

• Real friends will do the push-ups, even though you were the guy who screwed up. They

know you’ll do it for them.

• It’s easier to stay organized, than to get organized later on.

• Balance physical and mental activity. You need both to succeed.

• Individual effort is important, but teamwork wins battles.

• It’s not a person’s size, looks, background, color or gender that counts. When the fight is fierce, and the situation desperate, it’s what’s inside that makes the difference.

• Study your notes.

• Courage isn’t the absence of fear—courage is being afraid and still doing what needs to be

done.

• Stand up straight—your bearing reflects your confidence.

• Every situation, every day, is a learning experience.

• A light touch brings the best shine.

• Find friends you can count on, and stand by them.

• Carry the load for slower teammates—it’s vital the team get there together.

• Neatness does count.

• A vigorous attack is usually more effective—and safer—than a plodding approach.

• Repetition teaches.

• It’s what you do when you just can’t do anymore that determines the outcome.

• Keep your equipment clean—a dirty rifle is just a bad club.

• Look out for the welfare of your subordinates first.

• Learn to laugh at discomfort and trouble—it makes misfortune lighter, and annoys your

enemies.

• Write home often.

• The great creations of the human race aren’t buildings or machines, but the concepts of duty,

honor, loyalty, teamwork, and freedom.

• Never, never give up.

• Close counts with hand grenades, too.

• Everybody’s scared of something, everybody’s scared sometimes.

• It takes two shelter halves to make a tent—work together or get wet.

• It’s surprising what you’ll eat if you’re really hungry.

• Better to have a small group you can count on, than an army of wafflers.

• Conserve your water and your ammunition.

• You don’t have to like people to respect them.

• Change your socks every chance you get.

• Generals don’t know everything—listen to the troops at the bottom too.

• The people around you are entitled to your best. So are you.

• Properly motivated, even the weakest will make a contribution.

• Get in step.

• Sure, you have to salute officers—but they have to salute back.

• Help the people on your team whenever you can—you’re going to need their help real soon.

• Always give more than you expect to get.

• Without pride, you don’t have anything.

• If you’re going down, go down fighting. It sets a good example, and your memory will be

honored.

• A clean, neat appearance improves confidence and performance—but you can get the job

done while covered with mud.

• Respect has to be earned.

• Honor those who went before and set a standard for you.

• If advancing and retreating look equally risky—advance!

• Sometimes it’s better not to stand out.

• Make your mom proud.

• Shoot straight and tell the truth.

• Real discipline comes from within.

• Concealment hides you, cover protects you—cover is better.

• Aim carefully—hits count, not shots.

• Leadership requires the leader to set the example. Lead from the front.

• Getting shot at focuses your attention.

• Too much beer can lead to unsightly tattoos—or worse.

• When in doubt, do something. Inaction is almost always wrong.

• It’s better to out-smart ’em, than to out-slug ’em.

• You’re never so tired or so safe that digging-in to protect yourself isn’t necessary.

• When you let the team down, you let yourself down.

• There are wolves in the world. It’s your job to face them.

• And when you go out in the world, it’s good to have Marines at your side.

Semper Fi, Marines. Thanks for a great life. I’m proud to be one of you.

Published in Old Jarhead Poems: The Heart of a Marine. 2011.

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Update

In case you missed this:

Everything I Need to Know, I Learned in Bootcamp

By Robert A. Hall. Once a SSgt, Always a Marine

http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2014/09/everything-i-need-to-know-i-learned-in.html

Published in Old Jarhead Poems: The Heart of a Marine. 2011.

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General News and Comment

Scary: U.S.' Nuclear Weapons Policy Puts Country At Great Risk. By Robert R. Monroe

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/091214-717265-us-nuclear-weapons-policy-leaves-america-vulnerable.htm

Excerpt: At the dawn of the nuclear era, when America created its nuclear weapons laboratories (Los Alamos, Livermore and Sandia), one of their primary missions was to avoid technological surprise. The labs were charged to conduct advanced nuclear weapons research, development and testing of all types so that no adversary could ever take us unawares by producing some new and dangerous types of nuclear weapons. ... But since 1992, the U.S. government — executive branch and Congress — has actively prevented the labs from doing work of this type. ... Monroe is a retired Navy Vice Admiral and former director of the Defense Nuclear Agency. (This is totally UNSAT, and even frightening, to say the least. I, for one, hadn’t realized we had gone so far (backwards) in such a short time. --Don Myers, Col, USMC, Ret)

Barack Obama Now Controls the Court of Appeals and the Republic

http://www.independentsentinel.com/barack-obama-now-controls-the-court-of-appeals-and-the-republic/?utm_content=buffer9e5e0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Excerpt: As he has done by ignoring Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States, Obama is eliminating voices not his own...This is part of Mr. Obama’s fundamental transformation. We are becoming a dictatorship.

One Foot in the Grave

https://www.facebook.com/MarineCorpsLife/photos/pb.194899910691438.-2207520000.1410803816./320642294783865/?type=1&theater

Great Marine picture. ~Bob

Obama push to hire veterans into federal jobs spurs resentment

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-push-to-hire-veterans-into-federal-jobs-spurs-resentment/2014/09/14/c576e592-2edc-11e4-bb9b-997ae96fad33_story.html?wpisrc=nl_politics&wpmm=1

Excerpt: President Obama’s push to hire military veterans for jobs across the government is fueling resentment in federal offices, as longtime civil servants and former troops on the other side of the cubicle increasingly question each other’s competence and qualifications. With veterans moving to the head of the hiring queue in the biggest numbers in a generation, there’s growing bitterness on both sides, according to dozens of interviews with federal employees. (When I was a State Senator, a feminist lobbyist told me that veteran's preference (5 points I think it was) in c\the Commonwealth's Civil Service Law discriminated against women. I told her that because I was a vet, I started college at 22, the age most of the discriminated women graduated at and started their careers. "Only women who tried to join and were rejected due to gender can claim thing," I said. ~Bob

Army is worried too many white men lead combat units

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/11/army-concerned-with-number-of-white-men-leading-co/

Excerpt: U.S. Army sociologists are worried that a lack of black officers leading its combat troops will have detrimental effect on minorities and lead to fewer black officers in top leadership posts. (If your son is in the military, be he black, white or other, do you want his leader to have the right skin color or to be the most competent to bring him home alive? ~Bob)

What can we do? By Col. Donald J. Myers USMC (Ret)

http://www.the-chesapeake.com/2014/09/08/guest-commentary-can/

Excerpt: What can we do is a phrase that one hears from people who do not intend to do anything or are afraid to do something that goes against the current tide. It is amazing what one person can achieve if one really ignores the nay Sayers.

Benghazi Bombshell: Clinton State Department Official Reveals Details of Alleged Document Review. By Sharyl Attkisson

http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/15/benghazi-bombshell-clinton-state-department-official-reveals-alleged-details-document-review/

Excerpt: As the House Select Committee on Benghazi prepares for its first hearing this week, a former State Department diplomat is coming forward with a startling allegation: Hillary Clinton confidants were part of an operation to “separate” damaging documents before they were turned over to the Accountability Review Board investigating security lapses surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya. (Another important report passed on by the SOS guys, still doing a great job staying on top of the Benghazimess. I saw two of the security agents who were at the main building in Benghazi get interviewed on Fox, and they left no question whatsoever about being told to "stand down", and waiting 25 minutes before they finally ignored the crap orders and went out to save Americans from the attackers. There is a book out about this, which I hope hits the best seller list. There can be no doubt of the horrific mishandling of everything in that debacle, and the rush to try to cover it up afterwards. --Del)

Then they came for the squeaky fresh cheese curds

http://nblo.gs/ZWTDy

Excerpt: According to The Gazette, a cheese factory that specializes in cheese curds is shutting down. They’re not being shut down for a specific health violation or anything like that — they make good cheese. They’re closing up shot because compliance with new federal regulations will require more cash than they have to spend: ... A group of Amish and Mennonite farmers established the operation as co-op in 1946, according to the website.

The Dems Need a Kick From the Left. By Zephyr Teachout and Tim Wu

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/democrats-need-a-kick-from-the-left-110979.html#.VBh1t_ldW8M

Excerpt: We went into our Democratic primary race against New York’s incumbent governor, Andrew Cuomo, and his running mate, Kathy Hochul, this summer with an idea of the challenges we faced: ... We saw how the governor had too often abandoned and betrayed core Democratic principles, and seemed to do so with impunity. Outside party politics, he had also been accused of breaking core ethics rules, becoming part of a corrupt system he had promised to fix. (The bigger problem for the Left is that their preferred president and their preferred governors and legislators, enacting their preferred policies, have not generated their preferred results. --Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt)

Panera Gun Free Request Draws Huge Negative Reactions. By Dave Jolly

http://godfatherpolitics.com/17075/panera-gun-free-request-draws-huge-negative-reactions/

Excerpt: Secondly, they have created a more dangerous environment for their customers and especially for their employees as would be armed robbers will be more likely to target a Panera shop knowing no one will be armed. ... Evidently, a number of other people agree with me. CNBC, one of the leading liberal media outlets have a poll questioning people’s reactions to the Panera gun free announcement. At the time I’m writing this, here are the results of their poll:

Hillary Clinton’s big Iowa motorcade must be part of her ‘mass movement’ on climate change. By Doug Powers

http://michellemalkin.com/2014/09/14/hillary-clintons-big-iowa-motorcade-must-be-part-of-her-mass-movement-on-climate-change/

Excerpt: Hillary Clinton more or less launched another bid for the Dem nomination in 2016 at the Harkin Steak Fry in Iowa. The meat is actually grilled, not fried, and per one of Hillary’s contract riders the steaks this year were cooked over select incinerating Benghazi documents and four more copies of Leaves of Grass she found in Bill’s duffel bag.

Liberaltopia turns to hell on Earth. By Tammy Bruce

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0914/bruce091514.php3

Excerpt: Watch out. When liberals control paradise, welcome to Paradise Lost. Case in point: Hawaii, the deep-blue home state of President Obama. The City Council for Honolulu, on Hawaii's most populous island of Oahu, has decided to send its homeless population to another island, just outside of HonoluluHarbor. An official state park, SandIsland, as it's now known, used to be called QuarantineIsland in the 19th century as it served as the waypoint for ships carrying passengers whom were thought to carry contagion. Then, during World War II, it was the home to Japanese, German and Italian internment camps.

The War on Poverty Has Been a Colossal Flop. Robert Rector

http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/16/war-poverty-colossal-flop/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonvKTNZKXonjHpfsX56e0vWK%2BzlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DT8ZrI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D

Excerpt: Since its beginning, U.S. taxpayers have spent $22 trillion on Johnson’s War on Poverty (in constant 2012 dollars). Adjusting for inflation, that’s three times more than was spent on all military wars since the American Revolution. The federal government currently runs more than 80 means-tested welfare programs. These programs provide cash, food, housing and medical care to low-income Americans. Federal and state spending on these programs last year was $943 billion. (These figures do not include Social Security, Medicare, or Unemployment Insurance.) (Dr. Thomas Sowell points out that poverty had declined in the decades before the War on Poverty was launched, but has gone up ever since. Of course, our poor have more consumer goods and disposable income than much of the middle class in the Third World. ~Bob)

Two Vietnam Vets Receive Medal of Honor

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/danieldoherty/2014/09/15/two-vietnam-vets-receive-medal-of-honor-n1892069?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Worth Reading: What Would Braveheart Do? By Pat Buchanan

http://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2014/09/16/what-would-braveheart-do-n1892117/page/full

Excerpt: No matter how the vote turns out on Thursday in Scotland, either for independence or continued union with Britain, the disintegration of the Old Continent appears almost inevitable. .. The decomposition of the nations of Old Europe is the triumph of tribalism over transnationalism. The heart has reasons that the mind knows not, said Pascal. And the wild heart is winning.

Race Card News

Quote From The Patriot Post

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"Libertyis not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent." --Fisher Ames, Essay on Equality, 1801

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Obamacare/Government Healthcare News

Obamacare's Device Tax Grows More Devious. By Sally Pipes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2014/09/08/obamacares-device-tax-grows-more-devious/?utm_source=followingweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20140915

Excerpt: Implementing the tax has proven nightmarish. Administrative errors, overpayments, and erroneous penalties have grown common. And these snafus are nothing compared to the havoc the device tax is beginning to wreak on the economy and the job market. So the tax is raising less money than Team Obama promised — and causing more destruction.

Democrats Wage War on Women, Blame Republicans. From The Patriot Post

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Republicans are waging a "war on women," and part of their strategy is to deny basic reproductive health care. At least that's what Democrats want women voters to believe. So when Republicans like Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal propose expanding access to birth control by making more of it available over the counter, Democrats are thankful, right? Wrong. Democrats need women to think Republicans are evil, which in this case means preserving the access myth about birth control. Another big factor in the opposition is Planned Parenthood, for which a significant portion of business revolves around birth control. More demented still, however, is that Planned Parenthood is the nation's single largest abortion provider, and if women use more contraceptives, it means fewer babies to abort. Planned Parenthood is denouncing expansion proposals because women have to pay for all their birth control. All $9 per month. The horror!

New Questions Over Abortion Coverage In Health Law

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/new-questions-over-abortion-coverage-health-law

Excerpt: The Government Accountability Office said in a report released late Monday that only 1 of 18 insurers it reviewed was separately itemizing a charge for coverage of elective abortions on enrollees' bills. That detail is important because the original compromise that President Barack Obama sealed with anti-abortion Democrats stipulated that no federal funds would be used to pay for elective abortions. Instead, private health plans covering the procedure would collect a separate premium, which would be segregated from federal subsidies for other medical services. (You mean Obama lied about Obamacare? I'm shocked! ~Bob)

Why Are Doctors So Unhappy? By John C. Goodman

http://patriotpost.us/opinion/29139

Excerpt: Only 6 percent of doctors are happy with their jobs, according to one survey. They commit suicide at twice the rate of the general population. Over half are unsure they would recommend the practice of medicine to young people. So what’s going on? These are a few things you will discover in Sandeep Jauhar’s new memoir Doctored. ... Further, I think concierge medicine is not for the elite few. We all could have a concierge doctor if we freed doctors and patients to relate the way other professionals and their clients relate.

Undocumented Democrat News

What Exactly Is Comprehensive Immigration Reform? Comprehensive immigration reform — rarely has a catchphrase been so widely invoked and yet so little defined. Why?

http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/immigration-reform/?singlepage=true

Excerpt: If proponents of so-called reform detailed exactly what they wanted, American voters would never support their self-interested agendas. Most Americans insist that existing federal immigration laws be enforced. They are adamant that the border be shut tight to all unlawful entry. And they prefer legal immigration to reflect merit, diversity and ethnically blind criteria. (A heck of a question. Have we seen a nice, clear, concise answer to it anywhere? Well.... no. What is of concern now is not a logical system for allowing workers to come in from south of the border under controlled conditions, to work here, have half their wages safely collected for them, to be given to them as they return home. It's not about making sure that the people coming in are checked to eliminate criminals, gang members, pedophiles, etc, and that the immigrants speak good English and have some level of saleable skills. What it's about right now is the politics of letting something like 11 million people who broke the law to come here get something close to a free pass on that. That the great bulk of Latino voters vote Democrat is of course an unrelated detail, certainly couldn't have anything to do with the enthusiasm that Democrat politicians have for an amnesty or a policy of a different name that is the same thing. Even Nancy Pelosi says that an Executive Order to make this happen will be challenged right up to the Supreme Court, but betting is that Mr. Obama will not let that stop him. So we all stand by to see what he does after November 6th. --Del)

By a Democrat: Why Illegal Aliens Are Hard on Americaand Why an Amnesty Will Not Help. By David North

http://www.cis.org/north/why-illegal-aliens-are-hard-america-and-why-amnesty-will-not-help

Excerpt: A Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives — one of the few that might actually capture a GOP seat — phoned the other day to talk about immigration policy. Having once been in his shoes (long ago I was the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in a GOP district), we talked for a while, and I told him I would expand on my views in writing. Hence this letter: Dear Candidate: Too many of us in the Democratic Party appear to be deaf to the feelings of the multitude of non-elite Americans on the question of immigration control. Too many of us have been soaked in the atmosphere of the Establishment, whose views of immigration policy are often dominant in policymaking, but whose views do not mesh with the silent majority, including probably a majority of those voting in your district. (Nice, simple discussion of illegals and reality and why an amnesty won't help. Actually, not only will it not help, it'll just make a bigger mess as of course the remaining millions of very poor in Mexico and points south will see that sneaking in here is really likely to work out well for them in the long run. --Del)

"You're Greener than Gore" News

Sorry, Steve Running, Wildfires Are Decreasing with Global Warming. By James M. Taylor, managing editor of Environment & Climate News

http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2014/09/15/sorry-steve-running-wildfires-are-decreasing-global-warming

Excerpt: A Billings Gazette article last week quoted University of Montana global warming activist Steve Running claiming major wildfires have quadrupled since 1986, but the facts show wildfires are actually declining.

Record Ice Coverage More Proof that Weather Still Exists Despite Obama's Attempt to Ban It. By John Ransom

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2014/09/16/record-ice-coverage-more-proof-that-weather-still-exists-despite-obamas-attempt-to-ban-it-n1892024?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Excerpt: No matter the circumstances, every weather event is blamed on global warming in an attempt to cover up Obama's nefarious plot failure. Cold temperature? Global warming. Hot temperatures? Global warming? Snow? Global warming. Drought? Global warming. Hurricanes, tornadoes or the lack thereof? Global warming. There was even an attempt by a ditzy news anchor on CNN—is there any other kind on CNN?-- to blame a meteorite on global warming.

Religion of Peace News

Obama's Strategy on ISIS: "Hey! Look Over there. Ebola! ~Bob

U.S.

Hits ISIS Position Near Baghdadin New Phase of Strikes: Official

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/u-s-hits-isis-position-near-baghdad-new-phase-strikes-n203886

Excerpt: The U.S.carried out an airstrike near Baghdad on Monday in what a defense official described to NBC News as the beginning of intensified action against ISIS militants in Iraq. U.S.attack aircraft hit an ISIS fighting position southwest of the capital in support of the Iraqi security forces, defense officials said. There was also at least one airstrike near MountSinjarin northwestern Iraq, the officials said.

Must Read: Islam’s Nightclub Brawl Jihadis from Britainare acting out a brutality learned at home. By Theodore Dalrymple (British Psychiatrist Anthony Daniels)

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/387953/islams-nightclub-brawl-theodore-dalrymple

Excerpt: Youth, as everyone knows who has passed through it some time ago, is the age not of idealism but of self-importance, uncertainty masked by certitude and moral grandiosity untouched by experience of life — or, of course, the age of total insouciance. It is not surprising that ideology makes young men dangerous, for it is in the nature of ideology to answer all the difficult questions of human existence while giving believers the illusion of special understanding and destiny not available to others.

Exactly!ISISIs Not a Threat. By Andy Weddington

http://acoloneloftruth.blogspot.com/2014/09/isis-is-not-threat.html

Excerpt: Visit Hawaii; Alaska; California; Minnesota; Texas; North Carolina; and domains abroad, Mr. President. Mark our territory. Intruders beware! Death awaits.

Response from a blog reader

When we finally engage ISISon the ground, what do you think the rules of engagement will be? I bet they will not be in our favor, or will devolve to such when confronted with a human shield or mosque. --George

Worth Reading: Talk is still just talk. By Col. Donald J. Myers USMC (Ret)

http://www.the-chesapeake.com/2014/09/14/talk-still-just-talk/

Excerpt: On Wednesday night President Obama gave a national speech during prime time concerning his upcoming actions in dealing with the terrorist group ISIS. We will use additional air strikes in the area to include Syria. We also will send additional troops to train the Iraqi forces and the rebels fighting in Syria, but there will be no United Statescombat troops. I have enough combat experience and the study of war to know that air strikes will not defeat an enemy. World War II, Korea, and Vietnam support that premise. In addition, air strikes are most effective when they are controlled from the ground by troops in the area. Look what a handful of specially trained Americans did in Afghanistan when they decimated large enemy forces.

Great Column: The President Pushes Back: President Obama’s critics seem to be getting under his skin with their criticisms. But it appears the President doesn’t fully grasp the substance of his critics’ complaints about his leadership. By Walter Russell Mead

http://www.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2014/09/14/the-president-pushes-back/

Excerpt: Most substantively, President Obama appears to be warning Syria’s Assad in no uncertain terms that if Syriafires on U.S. warplanes conducting strikes, the United States will crush his air defenses and leave him so weakened that his overthrow will be certain. That is a big deal; the legal position may be a bit dicey, but Obama is asserting the right of U.S. warplanes to conduct any and all operations they wish anywhere over Syrian territory. That is an ultimatum Dick Cheney could love, but it is also another red line drawn in the sands of the Middle East. As with all red lines, it gives the other side power; it is up to Assad rather than Obama now whether the war in Syriagets much bigger than originally planned. ... It is probably true that a lower profile by ISIS would have made it more difficult to win support for airstrikes in the United Statesand around the world, but that’s hardly the point. ISISis a master of the pornography of politics and the pornography of perverted religion: slave girls, heads on spikes, executions uploaded to the internet, naked defiance in the face of its enemies.

Tweet from Josh Jordan‏@NumbersMuncher

Shorter Obama: If I were advising ISIS, I'd tell them not to execute Americans on video so I can keep pretending they aren't a threat to us.

Tweet from David Burge‏@iowahawkblog

Obama: if I was advising ISIS, I'd have them pin notes on hostages instead of beheading. Me: if you were advising ISIS, they'd be bankrupt.

Tweet from John Hawkins ‏@johnhawkinsrwn

So when do the liberal anti-war protests against Obama crank up now that he's going to war in IraqAND Syria?

Great Column: Obama’s Sort-of War: In his view, the current debacle has nothing to do with his own errors and omissions. By Victor Davis Hanson

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388045/obamas-sort-war-victor-davis-hanson

Excerpt: At times the secretary of defense seems at odds with the secretary of state. The administration seems not to be reacting to its own intelligence information about the Islamic State. Nor is it heeding the professional advice of the Joint Chiefs or top-ranking military officers in the field. Instead, in the run-up to the midterm elections, Obama appears to be guided largely by a stubborn adherence to his own past political truisms, and that explains the current inability to articulate a strategy or craft a coalition.

The Genocide of Mideastern Christians: Americans haven't suddenly turned interventionist. They're moved by the Islamic State's particular evil. By Peggy Noonan

http://patriotpost.us/opinion/29068

Excerpt: President Obama would have been rocked the past few months by five things. One is the building criticism from left and right about his high need for relaxation – playing golf while the world burns. Another is that he misread the significance and public power of the beheadings of American journalists. Third, he has been way out of sync with American public opinion on Islamic State, which must be all the more galling because he thought he knew where Americans stood on the use of military force. Fourth, with his poll numbers declining (32% approval for his handling of foreign policy, according to The Wall Street Journal and NBC), it has probably occurred to him that he is damaging not only his own but his party’s brand in foreign affairs. (Yes, George W. Bush did the same to his party, but Mr. Obama was supposed to reverse, not follow, that trend.) Fifth, he surely expects he is about to take a pounding from the antiwar left.

ISIS Strikes Deal With Moderate Syrian Rebels

http://floppingaces.net/most_wanted/isis-strikes-deal-with-moderate-syrian-rebels/

According to Agence France-Presse, ISIS and a number of moderate and hard-line rebel groups have agreed not to fight each other so that they can focus on taking down the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. .... Moreover, the leader of the Free Syrian Army said Saturday that the group would not take part in U.S. plans for destroying the Islamic State until it got assurances on toppling Assad. The deal between ISIS and the moderate Syrian groups casts doubt over President Barack Obama’s freshly announced strategy to arm and train the groups against ISIS. (And once Assad is down, the FSA will get the chop from ISIS. Hard to feel sorry for them. Remember how the Chinese Communists and Nationalist agreed not to fight until Japanwas defeated? The Communists built their strength, did little fighting against the Japanese and after Japanwas defeated, so were the Nationalists. ~Bob)

Obama’s Coalition of the Uncertain. By Daniel Greenfield

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obamas-coalition-of-the-uncertain/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=d830dd5f91-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-d830dd5f91-156414477

Excerpt: Unfortunately Franceis also about the only country in Obama’s coalition against ISIS. At least Franceappears to be the only country willing to commit militarily. Possibly the UK will join it, but after parliament turned down Cameron’s air strikes on Syria the last time around, that may be unlikely.

Islamic State Attracts Female Jihadis from USHeartland
http://jewishworldreview.com/0914/american_heartland_islamic_state.php3

Excerpt: At least three Somali families in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area have female relatives who have gone missing in the past six weeks and may have tried to join Islamic State, said community leader Abdirizak Bihi. ... While foreign women who join Islamic State often envision aiding a holy war or at least playing an active role in establishing a purist Islamic nation, the reality can be more mundane. Monitoring of extremists' social media accounts and other writings shows that male jihadis regard women counterparts as little more than mating partners, said Mia Bloom, from the Center for Terrorism and Security Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Lebanese Christians Take Up Arms for Stand Against ISIS as Refugees Flood Across Border
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/09/lebanese-christians-take-arms-stand-isis-refugees-flood-across-border-2/

Excerpt: As the militant Islamists of ISIS make their way across Iraq, Syria and the Levant, Lebanese Christians are preparing to take a stand against them.

“You cannot imagine the pleasure you get from cutting off a baby’s head.” By Robert Spencer

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/you-cannot-imagine-the-pleasure-you-get-from-cutting-off-a-babys-head?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=489fcdadb2-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-489fcdadb2-97564174

Excerpt: “Do you know what happens when I go into a Shi’ite home?” Henin recalled Nemmouche asking him one day. “First, there’s the grandmother — I only use one bullet on her, she’s not worth more — then the wife. First, I rape her, then I cut her throat.” According to Henin — who was held for some time with James Foley, an American journalist murdered by Islamic State — Nemmouche continued: “Then I come to the baby. Ah, a baby! You cannot imagine the pleasure you get from cutting off a baby’s head.”

Turkey

fails to cut Islamic State oil revenue despite US pressure
http://www.smh.com.au/world/turkey-fails-to-cut-islamic-state-oil-revenue-despite-us-pressure-20140914-10gpaq.html

Our moderate Muslim NATO ally. ~Bob

Obama Diplomacy:Iranwon’t join U.S.in Islamic State fight

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/iran-wont-team-with-us-against-islamic-state/2014/09/15/92ea7648-3cd8-11e4-a430-b82a3e67b762_story.html?wpisrc=nl-eve&wpmm=1

Excerpt: Iranon Monday spurned an American request for cooperation in the fight against Islamic State militants, but the United Statessaid the door remains open to a rare opportunity to make common cause with its principal adversary in the Middle East. Iran’s rebuff came as world powers meeting in the French capital agreed to use “any means necessary” to combat the militant force surging in Iraq and Syria. (just because we delayed their getting nukes, they won't play. and I doubt the Europeans really mean "any means necessary." ~Bob)

Iran

Commander: White House Is ISIL Headquarters

http://thelastgreatstand.com/lgs/2014/09/15/iran-commander-white-house-is-isil-headquarters/

Excerpt: An Iranian military official says the United States has created the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group in line with its plots to sow discord in the Middle East. Commander of Iran’s Basij volunteer force Mohammad Reza Naqdi said on Saturday, “The White House is the headquarters of the ISIL.” Washingtonitself created the “cancerous tumor and devious current” of ISIL in the region, the Iranian official said. (Wouldn't it be nice if the administration was that competent? ~Bob)

Ignorant College Students Do The Unthinkable…Sign Petition to Support ISIS

http://conservativevideos.com/ignorant-college-students-unthinkable-sign-petition-support-isis/

Excerpt: MRCTV’s Dan Joseph went to a Virginiacollege campus to see if college students would sign a petition to support ISIS. The results….

Interesting Video: Former CIA Director Michael Hayden: Air War Really Is Exactly Like Casual Sex
http://patdollard.com/2014/09/former-cia-director-michael-hayden-air-war-really-is-exactly-like-casual-sex/

Tweet from Patrick Dollard ‏@PatDollard

Quran (8:12) – “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads”

I'd bet this quote is bogus, as it sounds too current to me, though it appears on many websites, such as the "Quotes of Non Muslim Thinkers" below. It does not appear in the next piece, which seems well researched, and I don't find it on the various legit quote sites. ~Bob

Quotes of Non Muslim Thinkers on Islam/Religion

http://www.islamreview.com/articles/QUOTES_OF_NON_MUSLIM_THINKERS.shtml

Worth Reading: Was Marco Polo an 'Islamophobe'? A Study in Continuity. By Raymond Ibrahim

http://www.meforum.org/2637/marco-polo-islamophobe

Excerpt: This is the question I often ask myself whenever I read pre-modern writings on Islam. Take that elementary schoolbook hero, Marco Polo and his famous memoirs, for example. By today's standards, the 13th century Venetian merchant would be denounced as a rabid "Islamophobe." For me, however, his writings contain a far more important lesson — one in continuity — and deserve closer scrutiny.

Obama vs. the generals. By Marc A. Thiessen

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/marc-thiessen-obama-overrules-his-generals-in-fight-against-islamic-state/2014/09/15/0cff59a0-3ce1-11e4-9587-5dafd96295f0_story.html?wpisrc=nl-pmopns&wpmm=1

Excerpt: Pity poor Gen. Lloyd Austin, top commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East. Rarely has a U.S.general given his commander in chief better military advice, only to see it repeatedly rejected. In 2010, Gen. Austin advised President Obama against withdrawing all U.S. forces from Iraq, recommending that the president instead leave 24,000 U.S. troops (down from 45,000) to secure the military gains made in the surge and prevent a terrorist resurgence. Had Obama listened to Austin’s counsel, the rise of the Islamic State could have been stopped.

Worth Reading: A Million Steps with Marines: What lessons can we learn from the 3rd Platoon’s experience in Afghanistan?

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/387471/million-steps-marines-interview/page/0/2?splash

Excerpt: Sangin symbolizes Afghanistan: brave troops pursuing a bad strategy. We lost more British and American troops in Sangin than in any other district. I embedded with 3rd Platoon, where each Marine patrolled three miles a day, taking a total of 1 million steps across minefields during their six-month tour. Half of them didn’t make it. What was the purpose? For ten years, the goal in Sangin was to open the road for installing a new turbine at a hydroelectric dam. That never happened. Our top command insisted the Marines conduct a “nation building” strategy while conceding to the enemy a vast sanctuary in nearby Pakistan. Hardened jihadists kept flowing in from Pakistan to kill the Marines. (Bing West has written another classic book on Marines at war. But this interview is great, he lays out the truth about war and where we are today and what we need to be doing. A good read and very thought provoking. Maybe Bing should be running for office somewhere. --Del)

Confident From Syria, Hizballah Considering Attacking Israel

http://www.investigativeproject.org/4570/confident-from-syria-hizballah-considering

Excerpt: Hizballah plans to dispatch scores of terrorists into Israelwhile striking civilian communities with missiles in a future war that could last months, a senior Israeli source told reporters. The terrorist organization's confidence grew, based on experience gained from its military intervention in Syria on behalf of dictator Bashar al-Assad. That, the Israeli military official believes, has the group considering going on the offensive. A pre-emptive Israeli ground operation could prevent such incursions.

PHOTOS: NYC Muslim Day Parade 2014 Pro-Terror March

http://pamelageller.com/2014/09/photos-nyc-muslim-day-parade-2014-pro-terror-march.html/

Excerpt: Today was the annual Muslim day parade, where Muslims take over Madison Avenue and convert it to an outdoor mosque. It is always scheduled near the anniversary day of September 11 — takbir! These marches are always controversial (more here). The theme of the parade was advertised as Islam and America’s shared common values. But it was anything but. It was a political parade in support of terrorists in Egyptand Gaza. There was a lot of anti-Jewish propaganda — the flags of annihilation coupled with outrageous pro-terror Muslim Brotherhood propaganda.

How the Left Gave U.K. Girls to Muslim Rape Gangs

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/how-the-left-gave-u-k-girls-to-muslim-rape-gangs/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=684927f7e9-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-684927f7e9-156414477

Excerpt: Below is a video of a Select Committee hearing that unveils the shocking details of how police sacrificed 1,400 girls’ lives in Rotherham on the altar of political correctness. The video shows the Police Commissioner being questioned about why, among many things, the UK police found a 11-year-girl being sexually abused by Muslim men and charged the girl for being drunk under age and did nothing to the Muslim men.

“Boko Haram Now Control Swath of Land as Large as Ireland.” By AWR Hawkins

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/12/Boko-Haram-Now-Control-Swath-Of-Land-As-Large-As-Ireland

Excerpt: Boko Haram has control of a swath of land the size of Ireland and the group's leader, Abubakar Shekau, says he will rule the land as a caliphate in a fashion similar to ISIS's Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Confusion over "Jihad." By Burak Bekdil

http://www.meforum.org/4818/confusion-over-jihad

Excerpt: Although it is a common male name in Turkish (Cihat), the Turks, and apparently many others too, have a confused mind about the Arabic word "jihad." Most Turks have felt contempt for "the jihadist terrorists" of al-Qaeda. They feel the same for the "jihadist/Salafist" Islamic State that captured large swathes of Syrian and Iraqi territory this summer, and took hostage 49 Turks, including the consul general, at their consulate compound in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on June 11. At the same time, thousands of Turks identified themselves as "jihadists," just like the IS's men, when they took to the streets to protest Palestinian casualties and attack Israeli diplomatic missions in July and August.

Obama Sending Aid To Islamic Schools: Studies identified as 'recitation and memorization' of Quran

http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/obama-sending-aid-to-islamic-schools/#dz6GCUHHEceShppQ.99

Excerpt: A portion of the $120 million the Obama administration is infusing into Nigerian education programs fund Islamic schools that exclusively teach students “the recitation and memorization” of the Quran, government documents reveal.

Brendan Tevlin's murder evidence that 'domestic terrorism is already here,' says radio host

http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2014/09/radio_host_livingston_teens_murder_evidence_that_domestic_terrorism_is_already_here.html

Excerpt: A New York radio personality is calling for increased attention to the June murder of a 19-year-old Livingston man, calling it evidence that “domestic terrorism is already here.” Todd Pettengill, host of WPLJ’s “The Todd Show”, discussed the death of Brendan Tevlin for more than eight minutes this morning, asking why the case has not received more attention despite the alleged murderer’s admissions that he killed Tevlin as an act of vengeance for U.S. military actions in the Middle East. (Kid was a piper. ~Bob)

British-Iranian woman imprisoned for trying to watch men's volleyball game in Tehran

http://www.humanrightsvoices.org/victims/voices/?p=2677&y=2014

Excerpt: A British woman has been in an Iranian prison for more than two months for trying to watch a men's volleyball match. Ghoncheh Ghavami, 25, was arrested along with more than a dozen women as they tried to enter a stadium where the Iranian national men's team was playing Italy on 20 June.

Un Responsible For Civilian Deaths In Gaza. Refused To Help Move Civilians Out Of Harms Way.

http://www.humanrightsvoices.org/site/articles/?a=8143

Excerpt: The UN directly contributed to the death of Palestinian civilians during the Gazawar. Arutz Sheva reports that a UN official admitted Israel sought the UN's help in clearing neighborhoods of civilians in advance of imminent Israeli operations directed at military targets embedded in those civilian neighborhoods - and the UN refused.

Women’s rights activist speaks out at Yale against Muslim ‘indoctrination’

http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20140915/activist-ayaan-hirsi-ali-speaks-out-at-yale-against-muslim-indoctrination

Excerpt: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, known worldwide for her crusade on behalf of women’s rights in Muslim regions, brought her message to YaleUniversity Monday night and received a standing ovation at the end of her talk. (The charm of this piece is watching Beach poorly negotiate the politically correct path between two perceived victim groups...women and Muslims, and in this case a woman oppressed by Islam and speaking out against it. This is the shot across the bow of the looming multiculturalist train wreck we are all waiting to watch. George)

Controversial DHS Adviser Let Go Amid Allegations of Cover Up: Elibiary let go after extremist rhetoric, claims he improperly used classified docs. By Adam Kredo

http://freebeacon.com/issues/controversial-dhs-adviser-let-go-amid-allegations-of-cover-up/

Excerpt: Media outlets have raised questions about the circumstances surrounding his departure, speculating that his provocative comments about the “inevitable” return of the Muslim “caliphate” may have played a role. New documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon indicate that Elibiary had no choice in the matter, and that he may have been let go by DHS in order to minimize the fallout from an investigation into allegations that he improperly accessed and used classified materials obtained with his security clearance.

Update

Posting again today, as too many good and current items to hold.

Scotlandvotes tomorrow on independence. It will be interesting for them, the UK, the US and the world however it urns out. I wouldn't bet either way. I think my head and heart are on opposite sides. But I've help my tongue with Scots friends--it's their country, not mine. Despite my kilts, dancing, whisky drinking and haggis making.

Two VA lung transplant guys we are friends with are having it tough. Both went home and were doing well, better than me at the time they left. (If I didn't live in Madison, Bonnie and I would have been in the hotel here since last October 3!) Brian, a former paratrooper, was in the VA hospital for three weeks, and is back on oxygen, as I was. Joe had worse news. He developed pancreatic and liver cancer. He was just told it is stage four, and he has only 2-3 months to live. They tell me that with infection and rejection, the other big killer of lung transplant patients is tumors. If there is an small cancer sitting there, suppressing the immune system lets it run wild. Prayers for both. ~Bob

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General News and Comment

In my last blog post, I wrote:Obama's Strategy on ISIS: "Hey! Look Over there. Ebola! And sure enough this pops up a few hours later. ~Bob

Obama To Send 3,000 Military Forces To Fight Ebola In West Africa

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/16/obama-military-ebola-africa_n_5826864.html

Excerpt: Calling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a threat to world security, President Barack Obama on Tuesday broadly expanded the U.S. response by ordering thousands of troops to the region along with an aggressive effort to train health care workers and build treatment centers.

Tweet from James Taranto ‏@jamestaranto

Obama is tougher than we give him credit for. Nixon never deployed troops in the war on cancer.

General: Sending Military To Fight Ebola 'Misuse' Of Soldiers. Ex-Delta Force commander stresses 'great risk' of infection
http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/boykin-sending-military-to-fight-ebola-misuse-of-soldiers/

Excerpt: Sending American troops to combat Ebola in Liberia is “an absolute misuse of the U.S. military,” contends retired Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin. “The health mission in Liberia would be better accomplished by private-sector NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations), including the French organization Médecins San Frontières, Doctors without Borders, among others, or by some other U.S. government agency such as the Department of Health and Human Services,” he stressed.

Must Read: The Great Unraveling. By Roger Cohen New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/opinion/roger-cohen-the-great-unraveling.html?_r=0

Excerpt: It was the time of unraveling. Long afterward, in the ruins, people asked: How could it happen? (A truly gritty view of things going on in the world, and he still left out the scariness of expansionist China, the failures of socialism in Venezuela and elsewhere, the porous US border with tens of thousands of children crossing it, the expanding flow of Africans crossing the Mediterranean to get into Europe, the failed states like Somalia, and a few other things that I just don't even want to go on listing. We do indeed live in "interesting times", and the lack of real, focused, effective leadership in this country is the part that concerns me the most. --Del)

Benghazi Whistleblower: We Were Ordered to Withhold Documents from Review Board. By Guy Benson

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/09/16/benghazi-whistleblower-we-withheld-damaging-documents-from-review-board-n1891929?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Excerpt: Ahead of the House Select Committee on Benghazi's first public hearing tomorrow, former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson is out with a significant new report centered around new claims from a former State Department official. Raymond Maxwell -- whom you may recall as one of the lower-level employees disciplined, then reinstated, in the wake of the Benghazi firestorm -- says he was ordered to cull damaging documents from a file of evidence being handed over to the State Department's 'independent' Accountability Review Board (ARB):

DA: No charges in SwataraTownship fatal shooting

http://www.abc27.com/story/26528432/da-no-charges-in-swatara-township-fatal-shooting

Excerpt: DauphinCounty prosecutors will not file charges in a fatal shooting Sunday morning in SwataraTownship. District Attorney Ed Marsico said 23-year-old Craig Everette II had a right to defend others when he shot and killed 60-year-old Todd Eugene Taylor. ... Authorities said he is a combat veteran and a Purple Heart recipient who has no criminal record. (Bad guy dead, two lives saved by gun owner. ~Bob)

Angry Mob Tosses Ukrainian Politician Into the Trash

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/angry-mob-tosses-ukrainian-politician-trash-n204456

This could catch on. ~Bob

Teachers Hope to Erase Union Dues That Deny Free Speech. By Kevin Mooney

http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/17/teachers-hope-erase-union-dues-deny-free-speech/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonvKXLZKXonjHpfsX56e0vWK%2BzlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DT8VgI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D

Excerpt: Why would she pay to advance policy positions she opposes? Because, as a teacher in a big union state that doesn’t revere the “right to work,” she must. Friedrichs used to belong to the California Teachers Association, the state affiliate of the powerful National Education Association. She volunteered for the teachers union in her school and attended CTA’s state conferences. But she left when their disagreements began to pile up.

Worth Reading: Multiculturalism Is a Failure. By Walter E. Williams

http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2014/09/17/multiculturalism-is-a-failure-n1891941?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Excerpt: Multiculturalists argue that different cultural values are morally equivalent. That's nonsense. Western culture and values are superior. For those who'd accuse me of Eurocentrism, I'd ask: Is forcible female genital mutilation, as practiced in nearly 30 sub-Saharan African and Middle Eastern countries, a morally equivalent cultural value? Slavery is practiced in Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan; is it morally equivalent? In most of the Middle East, there are numerous limits placed on women, such as prohibitions on driving, employment and education. Under Islamic law, in some countries, female adulterers face death by stoning, and thieves face the punishment of having their hand severed. In some countries, homosexuality is a crime punishable by death. Are these cultural values morally equivalent, superior or inferior to Western values?

"Harry's War"

http://justcommonsense-lostinamerica.blogspot.com/2014/09/harrys-war.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMoXTa+%28Lost+in+America%29

Well, Harry Reid, in another attempt to recruit more women in defense of the Republicans'"war on women" again trotted out the Paycheck Fairness Act this week. If you have an IQ below 70 stop reading now. You see, the Paycheck Fairness Act is just a ruse...it has nothing to do with raising the salaries of women. Instead it is the Debbie "Wasserman Test" Schultz equivalent of "republicans grabbing women by the hair and jerking them back to the 1950's. I read the proposed bill. You should too. Go to Senate.gov and read what it was REALLY about.

Jewish group brands Biden's Shylock comment 'offensive.' By Olivier Knox

http://news.yahoo.com/jewish-group-brands-biden--shylocks--comment--offensive-214958002.html

Excerpt: Vice President Joe Biden drew fire from a prominent Jewish group on Tuesday after he described unscrupulous bankers who prey on servicemen and servicewomen deployed overseas as “Shylocks” — a term frequently condemned as an anti-Semitic caricature.

Obamanomics Victimizes President's Biggest Supporters Most. By Stephen Moore

http://patriotpost.us/opinion/29181

Excerpt: Politics is often filled with paradoxes, and here is one that nearly defies explanation. The demographic groups that voted most heavily for Barack Obama in 2012 have suffered the most from this president’s economic policies. Maybe the people in these demographic groups – blacks, Hispanics, single women and young people – are economically uninformed, or maybe for these groups, when it comes to voting, it’s not the economy, stupid. Whatever the explanation, the facts speak for themselves: Obama voters have not benefited from his policies.

Missouri, Alabama schools drop Michelle O’s lunch program

http://eagnews.org/michelle-os-healthy-school-lunches-waste-plummeting-lunch-sales-grip-schools-across-the-country/

New federal school food regulations promoted by First Lady Michelle Obama are becoming a massive headache for many schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program. ....Those schools and numerous others across the country are ditching the federal regulations and the funding that comes with them to save their cafeteria programs, which have experienced a nose-dive in sales and skyrocketing waste since the new rules were implemented in 2012...Notre Dame’s lunch participation had dropped to about half of its 565 students and 65 faculty members under the federal guidelines, but jumped drastically to about 75 percent once officials did away with the tight restrictions on calories, fat, sodium, whole grains, and numerous other aspects of school meals.

A Plea For Constitutional Literacy On Constitution Day. Ben Carson: 'Government was never intended to intrude on every aspect of our lives

http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/a-plea-for-constitutional-literacy-on-constitution-day/

Excerpt: Earlier this summer, I managed to perplex, perhaps even offend, a famous TV interviewer when I declared I want a federal government that follows the U.S. Constitution. Seemingly aghast, the interviewer went so far as to suggest my position was a “highly charged thing to say.” Imagine that. A journalist – who, owing to the Constitution, has the right to report and speak freely – being uncomfortable with a fellow American’s allegiance to the Constitution and to the Founding Fathers’ vision of a limited central government. (But the gov gives phones, Food Stamps/cards, and that disability $$ for the crack, pot, meth and beer.....Mother's milk to the masses to stay stoned and ignore the country going down the toilet. To suggest the gov get out of their lives? Scary to some. --Barb)

Not safe to display American flag in American high school — denial of rehearing en banc. By Eugene Volokh

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/09/17/not-safe-to-display-american-flag-in-american-high-school-denial-of-rehearing-en-banc/

Excerpt: This is a classic “heckler’s veto” — thugs threatening to attack the speaker, and government officials suppressing the speech to prevent such violence. “Heckler’s vetoes” are generally not allowed under First Amendment law; the government should generally protect the speaker and threaten to arrest the thugs, not suppress the speaker’s speech. But under Tinker‘s “forecast substantial disruption” test, such a heckler’s veto is indeed allowed. ((This is a bad, bad, bad idea. --Del

Air Force removes ‘so help me God’ requirement from enlistment oath

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/17/air-force-removes-so-help-me-god-requirement-from-/#ixzz3DciTw5ku

excerpt: Members of the U.S. Air Force will no longer be required to say “so help me God” during their enlistment oath. A legal review of rules that required the phrase occurred after the American Humanist Association threatened to sue on behalf of an atheist airman. The unnamed airman at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada was denied re-enlistment Aug. 25 after crossing the phrase out of the oath. (And Americaturned from God....Barb)

Bombshell Emails: White House Coordinated With Department of Labor to Hide Illegal Obama Fundraiser Hilda Solis’ Schedule

http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/14/bombshell-emails-white-house-coordinated-with-department-of-labor-to-hide-illegal-obama-fundraiser-hilda-solis-schedule/

Excerpt: The Department of Labor coordinated with the White House on whether or not to release hidden portions of former Labor Secretary Hilda Solis’ schedule as Solis battled an FBI investigation into her illegal fundraising for President Obama. New emails provided to The Daily Caller from the nonprofit legal research firm Cause of Action show the White House thanking the Department of Labor for “flagging” a public information request for “withheld” portions of Solis’ schedule. (SEE THE EMAIL CHAIN). The White House then asked for the name of the conservative group making the request — information that Labor officials were eager to give up. (Regime takes hatched to Hatch Act as well as Constitution....Barb)

Race Card News

Obamacare/Government Healthcare News

Insurance Company with Lowest Rates, Most Customers Pulls Out of MNsure. By Jennie Olson

http://kstp.com/news/stories/s3562806.shtml

Excerpt: It’s a major blow to the MNsure health insurance exchange – the insurance company with the lowest rates and the most customers signed up through MNsure will not be back in 2015.

CBO: Cost of Obamacare Subsidy Will Increase 8-Fold in 10 Years

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/cbo-cost-obamacare-subsidy-will-increase-8-fold-10-years

Excerpt: The cost of the Obamacare subsidy that the U.S. Treasury will pay on behalf of people who earn under 400 percent of the federal poverty level and who buy a government-approved health-care plan on a government-run health-insurance exchange will increase by approximately 8-fold in its first ten years of operation, according to the latest budget estimate from the Congressional Budget Office. Medicaid spending will double in the first ten years of full implementation of Obamacare, according to the CBO estimates. (Check this over carefully, and note the final paragraph. ObamaCare will cost as much as national defense in a few more years. What will this mean to the overall national budget? It will of course mean running FURTHER INTO THE RED. How long can the nation actually keep doing that on the grand scale that Mr. Obama has made normal somehow? The truth is that this is not going to work out well at all, and we can only hope that in 2016 someone gets elected who will start to disassemble ObamaCare for something a lot more workable, with less bureaucratic overhead, and less "wealth redistribution". --Del. Have I mentioned I think the country is going to collapse? The Coming Collapse of the AmericanRepublic: And what you can do to prevent it.By Robert A. Hall: http://tiny.cc/g02s4I did? Sorry to bother you; back to American Idol. ~Bob)

Paying the Health-Care Piper: Obamacare’s mandates are coming due for millions of Americans. By Michael Tanner

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388135/paying-health-care-piper-michael-tanner

Excerpt: Last week roughly 250,000 Virginians began receiving notices that their health insurance was being canceled because it failed to meet all the mandates and other regulatory requirements of Obamacare. They are likely to be just the first in a new wave of Americans who are being thrown off their current insurance plan — even if they like it, to recall President Obama’s now inoperative promise.

Shumlin’s single-payer health care agenda ‘down for maintenance.’ By Bruce Parker

http://watchdog.org/171114/vermont-single-payer/

Excerpt: Gov. Peter Shumlin said Tuesday that Vermont Health Connect, the Internet backbone of his Green Mountain Care single-payer scheme, is indefinitely down for maintenance.

"You're Greener than Gore" News

Obama’s Lonely Climate Summit– world leaders are staying home. By Anthony Watts

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/09/16/obamas-lonely-climate-summit-world-leaders-are-staying-home/

Excerpt: Eric Worrall writes: The imminent climate summit in New York is rapidly turning into an utter embarrassment for President Obama and UN Secretary General Bank Ki-Moon, in addition to becoming a bit of a punishment round for national deputy leaders. Aussie PM Tony Abbott today defended his decision not to hop on an earlier flight to America, so he could attend the UN climate conference in New York, because he has more important matters to attend to, such as running the country.

Fracking Didn’t Contaminate Pa., Texas Water. By Kevin D. Williamson

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/388085/fracking-didnt-contaminate-pa-texas-water-kevin-d-williamson

Excerpt: The debate over fracking is a pretty low-quality one, driven by emotion, invented evidence, gross distortion of the facts, and general intellectual dishonesty. This is a shame for many reasons: Inflicting unnecessary stupidity on the world is a sin, for one thing. For another, it is important that we actually understand the fairly thorny environmental problems presented not only by fracking but by other methods of drilling for natural gas. A paper published Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences presents very strong evidence that the contamination of drinking water in wells in Texas and Pennsylvania was not the result of fracking. But the wells were nonetheless contaminated.

Worth Reading: Bobby Jindal Explains Why Democrats Are the True Science Deniers. By Conn Carroll

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/conncarroll/2014/09/17/bobby-jindal-explains-why-democrats-are-the-true-science-deniers-n1893023?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Excerpt: "We now face an administration that is composed of science deniers when it comes to energy and the environment," Jindal said at a lunch with reporters at The Heritage Foundation. "You are looking at an administration that is holding our economy hostage to their radical views. It really is an article of religious faith amongst this administration the way they approach these questions of policy." Pressed after his presentation to identify what specific science the White House was denying, Jindal rattled off a lengthy list: ... "When it was scarce and expensive they loved natural gas. When it was $13 they loved natural gas. As soon as it was affordable, all of a sudden they decided they didn't like it so much. I think that if they are honest, they want energy to be scarce and expensive because it allows the federal government to be more involved in our lives and it allows them to decide what kind of cars you drive, what kind of homes you live in, how we live our lives."

Religion of Peace News

Congress poised to approve Obama’s Iraq-Syria military strategy amid skepticism

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress-poised-to-approve-obamas-iraq-syria-military-strategy-amid-skepticism/2014/09/17/c2494df2-3e85-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html?wpisrc=nl-eve&wpmm=1

Excerpt: The House on Wednesday approved President Obama’s plan to train and equip moderate Syrian rebels to counter the growing threat of the Islamic State terrorist organization even though lawmakers in both parties remain deeply skeptical about its chances for success.

That was then...

December 20, 2007 Obama: "The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. As Commander-in-Chief, the President does have a duty to protect and defend the United States. In instances of self-defense, the President would be within his constitutional authority to act before advising Congress or seeking its consent."

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/CandidateQA/ObamaQA/

Worth Reading: If You Liked Vietnam, You’ll Love the War With the Islamic State. By Gary Anderson

http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/if-you-liked-vietnam-you%E2%80%99ll-love-the-war-with-the-islamic-state

Excerpt: President Obama is repeating three key strategic mistakes that President Johnson made in Vietnam. First, he has embarked on an open ended commitment; there was no measurable end state. In a similar manner, President Obama throws around the words degrade, defeat, and destroy as if they are interchangeable. Degradation and defeat are things that have to be accomplished before an enemy is destroyed. In some cases, the aim of a conflict is only to defeat the enemy as it was in ejecting Saddam Hussein from Kuwait in DESERT STORM. Degrade is something you do to his command and control along the way to defeating him.

Worth Reading: The “No Boots On The Ground” Mantra Is Strategic Foolishness. By Richard L. Russell

http://warontherocks.com/2014/09/the-no-boots-on-the-ground-mantra-is-strategic-foolishness/#_

Excerpt: President Barack Obama is fond of publicly declaring that there will be “no boots on the ground” when commenting on the Syria, Iraq, and Islamic State crises. Key national security lieutenants in his administration have loyally followed suit. Vice President Joe Biden has opined that the Islamic State, “can be routed by local forces without U.S. boots on the ground.” And Secretary of State John Kerry remarked at the NATO summit in Walesin regard to Iraqthat “I think that’s a red line for everybody here: no boots on the ground.” One would have thought that given the administration’s strategic blunder in not enforcing its “red line” over the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons, officials would be gun-shy about publicly using the term.

Dempsey: If Coalition Fails, We'll Need U.S. Boots on Ground Against ISIS. By Katie Pavlich

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/09/16/dempsey-well-probably-need-boots-on-ground-against-isis-n1892519?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Excerpt: Testifying on Capitol Hill Tuesday in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey said that although "we're not there yet," the United States may eventually need to deploy U.S. ground troops to fight ISISif a coalition and airstrikes fail to get the job done against the terror army. (Not "If" but "When." Nothing will happen with "boots" until after the election. Saddle up, boys, moving out. ~Bob)

Stubborn opposition to Obama's Syriaplan

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/stubborn-opposition-to-obamas-syria-plan-111029.html

Excerpt: After years of tepid relations with Congress, Obama is asking lawmakers to quickly authorize a mission to arm and train Syrian rebels to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Obama has been feverishly lobbying Capitol Hill to run up the vote count, but the White House is running into stubborn opposition from an unusual cross section of lawmakers in both parties. The opponents of Obama’s Syria plan do not appear to have the support needed to derail the legislation, but the amount of opposition from Republicans and Democrats has startled both the White House and congressional leaders. (At the risk of being boringly repetitious, I'll say it again. THERE ARE NO GOOD GUYS IN SYRIA. Weapons given them will eventually be used to kill Americans, Israelis and other infidels. I wish I knew the date I first said this. It was when giving the "moderate" opposition weapons was first proposed, a couple of years ago. ~Bob)

Sen. Lindsey Graham — and less responsible politicians. By Jennifer Rubin

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/09/17/sen-lindsey-graham-and-less-responsible-politicians/

Excerpt: “This is not a strategy designed by the military. It is a strategy imposed on the military, designed to protect the president’s political promises,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) tells Right Turn regarding the administration’s plan for to “degrade” and “destroy” the Islamic State. And sure enough, today the president declared at MacDill Air Force Base, “As your commander in chief, I will not commit you and the rest of our armed forces to fighting another ground war in Iraq.”Plainly the president is trapped by his own rhetoric and pride, unwilling to allow that his anti-Bush iterations over the years have been unrealistic or even dangerous.

ISIS releases "Coming Soon" video.

http://patdollard.com/2014/09/isis-releases-coming-soon-propaganda-movie-for-battle-with-u-s-youtube-bans-video/

Excerpt: Islamic State militants have threatened to target the White House and kill US troops in a new slickly made video response to Barack Obama’s campaign to “degrade and destroy” the organisation. The video, in the style of a blockbuster movie trailer for what is “coming soon”, purports to show a masked man apparently about to shoot kneeling prisoners in the head. Towards the end of the clip there is shaky footage of the White House filmed from a moving vehicle, suggesting the building is being scoped out for attack.

Think Iraq and Syria are Bad? Wait for Libya and the Sinai to Blow Up. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt

http://www.nationalreview.com/newsletters

Last night in the Fox News green room, Senator Lindsey Graham pointed out that Libya remains a mess — approaching the status of a failed state — and that if the U.S. really makes life miserable for ISIS in Iraq (and Syria?), ISIS could withdraw their leaders to Libya and reestablish themselves there. Oh, and here’s one major complication for one of the region’s traditional Arab powers, Egypt, if they wanted to take a bigger role against the Islamic State: Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula are getting more aggressive: "Six policemen were killed Tuesday when a bomb blast tore through their armored vehicle in the Sinai Peninsula, security officials said. It was the second such deadly attack this month. Egyptian security forces have recently stepped up their offensive against armed Islamist groups in the Sinai, raiding hideouts and targeting militant leaders. The insurgents have fought back with powerful roadside bombs." Senator Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat, makes the not-easy-to-dispute argument that way too often, U.S. arms and training provided to non-state groups ends up getting used against Americans. The U.S. spent billions and years training the Iraqi army . . . and then they fell apart in their first real fight against the Islamic State. (Even some Democrats have figured it out. I remind you that an email subscription to Morning Jolt is free. ~Bob)

Worth Reading: War against ISIS Headed for Failure. By Tarek Fatah

http://www.meforum.org/4821/war-against-isis-headed-for-failure

Excerpt: When U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sat down in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on the 13th anniversary of 9/11, surrounded by the leaders of 10 Arab states, to build a coalition against Islamic State (ISIS), the scene dripped with irony. For decades, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, along with Arab billionaires in Gulf Arab states, have financed the breeding grounds of Islamic extremism in the tens of thousands of madrassas spread around the world, from Philippines to Philadelphia.

Syrian Brotherhood Stands Nearer to ISIS Than to U.S.By Ravi Kumar

http://www.investigativeproject.org/4571/syrian-brotherhood-stands-nearer-to-isis-than-to

Excerpt: While the United States tries to build a coalition of Arab allies to join the fight against the terrorist group ISIS, now known as the Islamic State, one group which stands to benefit directly is coming out against Western intervention and expressing unity with other radical jihadists. A Syrian Muslim Brotherhood spokesman says attacks on the Islamic State by the United Statesand its allies are not the answer.

Muslim Brotherhood cleric declares his support for the Islamic State. Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.org

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/muslim-brotherhood-cleric-declares-his-support-for-the-islamic-state?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=ffa7463d1b-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-ffa7463d1b-97564174

Excerpt: Wagdy Ghoneim, just expelled from Qatar along with other Muslim Brotherhood leaders, used to live in the United States. He served as imam at the Islamic Institute of Orange County, Californiain the early 2000’s, and raised funds for Hamas-linked Muslim charity KindHearts. How many people are still in the United States today who learned about Islam from Wagdy Ghoneim? And why doesn’t this Muslim cleric, who has dedicated his life to understanding and teaching the Qur’an and Sunnah, see what Barack Obama and David Cameron and Tony Abbott and so many other non-Muslims see so clearly, that the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam? (Wait, hasn't Obama supportedthe Muslim Brotherhood in Egyptand elsewhere during the Arab Spring? ~Bob)

Unbelievable: Chelsea Manning breaks silence to criticise Obama's Isis strategy: Intelligence analyst arrested for passing cache of documents to WikiLeaks writes personal view on how best to defeat Isis

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/16/chelsea-manning-criticises-obama-isis-strategy

Excerpt: Chelsea Manning, the USarmy soldier who worked as an intelligence analyst in Iraq before being arrested for passing state secrets to WikiLeaks, says the only way to defeat Isis is to allow the group to set up its own contained “failed ‘state’” where over time its fire would “die out on its own”. Writing in the Guardian, Manning says her experience as an all-source analyst near Baghdad in 2009-10 leads her to doubt the strategy being followed by the Obama administration. (Weakling traitor criticizes weakling president. That's the pot calling, er, never mind. [Don't want to give the left an excuse to play the race card]. If there's one person I'd take Obama's advice over, it is Manning. If they decide to shoot him/her, I volunteer, and will bring my own rifle and ammo. ~Bob)

Barack Obama’s Biggest Lie

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2014/09/14/barack-obamas-biggest-lie/

Excerpt: The man who could assure the American public with a straight face over thirty times that they could keep their doctor under his health plan, when he knew that to be completely false, is one hellluva fibber. But execrable as that serial prevarication may have been, it doesn’t hold a proverbial candle to his most recent whopper — that the Islamic State is not Islamic — not to mention its corollary, or perhaps subsidiary lie, that real religions do not indulge in murder.

Jihadist says he joined Islamic State because “they’re fighting for Islam.” By Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.org

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/jihadist-says-he-joined-islamic-state-because-theyre-fighting-for-islam?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=ffa7463d1b-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-ffa7463d1b-97564174

Excerpt: Surely Obama, Kerry, Cameron, Abbott, and the rest are on their way over to Syriato find this chap and explain to him how he is misunderstanding Islam.

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson Says Beheadings Do Not Justify Strikes

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/Rep-Eddie-Bernice-Johnson-Says-Beheadings-Do-Not-Justify-Strikes-274786351.html

Excerpt: U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Dallas) argued the beheading of two American journalists by ISIS does not justify U.S. airstrikes into Syria Thursday. During an interview on Capitol Hill, Johnson said the slayings of James Foley and Steven Sotloff should not lead to bombing ISIS forces in Syria. (you'd think this kind of thing would hurt her, but as with Maxine Waters and others, her constituents seem to like it. ~Bob)

Obama’s Reluctant Rush to War: Why should any American trust Washington to get its ISISstrategy right in a hurry? By Jonah Goldberg

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388120/obamas-reluctant-rush-war-jonah-goldberg

Excerpt: President Obama is rushing into a war he doesn’t want to fight. He can barely bring himself to call it a war. Obama didn’t merely ignore the threat of the Islamic State for the better part of a year, he ridiculed the notion the terror group was anything but a “jayvee team.” Now suddenly, he wants to go to war. Sort of. The administration has struggled with the W-word. (Tweet from Tim Groseclose ‏@Tim_Groseclose Liberals call everything a war ("on poverty,""on women"). Not so w/ air strikes coordinated with allies.)

WSJ Reporter: Islamic State Militants Allegedly Use Chemical Weapons in Iraq

http://en.ria.ru/world/20140916/192982479/WSJ-Reporter-Islamic-State-Militants-Allegedly-Use-Chemical.html

Excerpt: “Hearing reports that Islamic State used chlorine gas in an assault on Iraqsecurity forces this afternoon in Dhuluyia… There are now 12 people afflicted with chlorine gas poisoning in Dhuluyia, Iraq, following Islamic State attack on Iraqi security forces,” Matt Bradley wrote on his Twitter page, noting that he cannot verify the information as he is not in Dhuluyia.

House Republican leaders pitch Syria aid with checks on Obama

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/217744-house-to-limits-obama-aid-to-syria

Excerpt: But the bill would not prohibit people with links to terrorist groups from actually participating in the program, the aide said. ....The aide said this language is intended to provide congressional oversight without hindering the mission. “We’re not asking for something that makes this mission impossible,” the aide said. (Oh, but Congress voting to fund $$ for folks in black turbans to slit your throats, you Bible-toting, gun-loving, yokels. Fund and train terrorists? Hey, Harry Reid says, "DO IT!" --Barb)

Islamic State creates jihad video game to inspire and train jihadis; characters scream “Allahu Akbar” and behead opponents. by Raymond Ibrahim

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/islamic-state-creates-jihad-video-game-to-inspire-and-train-jihadis-characters-scream-allahu-akbar-and-behead-opponents?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=ffa7463d1b-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-ffa7463d1b-97564174

Excerpt: The characters in the game highlight aspects central to the Islamic State, such as jihad and “the willingness to sacrifice,” presumably a reference to “martyrdom” tactics. During moments of victory, the characters shout out Islamic slogans such as “Allahu Akbar!” and behead and slaughter their victims—true to the Islamic State’s modus operandi.

Hello, Kurdistan. By Daniel Pipes

http://www.meforum.org/4820/hello-kurdistan

Excerpt: Before welcoming the emerging state of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, I confess to having opposed its independence in the past. In 1991, after the Kuwait War had ended and as Saddam Hussein attacked Iraq's six million Kurds, I made three arguments against American intervention on their behalf, arguments still commonly heard today: (1) Kurdish independence would spell the end of Iraq as a state, (2) it would embolden Kurdish agitation for independence in Syria, Turkey, and Iran, leading to destabilization and border conflicts, and (3) it would invite the persecution of non-Kurds, causing "large and bloody exchanges of population." All three expectations proved flat-out wrong.

Al Qaeda operations chief, propagandist reported killed in airstrikes

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LongWarJournalSiteWide/~3/5Rbndb96SG4/al_qaeda_operations.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Excerpt: Jihadists on Twitter who are thought to be connected to al Qaeda's senior leadership have reported that the group's paramilitary commander in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region as well as a propagandist were killed in airstrikes earlier this year. The two slain al Qaeda operatives were identified as Sufyan al Maghribi, a Moroccan who served as al Qaeda's military chief in Afghanistanand Pakistan, and Umar al Talib, a propagandist who narrated videos for As Sahab.

North Carolina Bans Islamic “Sharia Law” in the State… Muslims Are Freaking Out

http://conservativetribune.com/outlaw-sharia-now/

Excerpt: The state of North Carolina has taken a step that many other states have taken to ensure that the US Constitution and the constitution of the state are the laws that are applied in courts, not the laws of any foreign cultures. ... The NC bill’s authors hope to have avoided that problem by making the language of the bill so that it applies to any foreign laws, not specifically mentioning Sharia.

What’s Behind Germany’s New Anti-Semitism. By Jochen Bittner

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/opinion/jochen-bittner-whats-behind-germanys-new-anti-semitism.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region&region=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=2

Excerpt: Europe is living through a new wave of anti-Semitism. The president of Germany’s Central Council of Jews calls it the worst the Continent has seen since World War II. ... The new anti-Semitism does not originate solely with the typical white-supremacist neo-Nazi; instead, the ugly truth that many in Europedon’t want to confront is that much of the anti-Jewish animus originates with European people of Muslim background.

Muslim Jihadist Murders American Here in US and Obama Ignores It
http://godfatherpolitics.com/17089/muslim-jihadist-murders-american-us-obama-ignores/

Excerpt: Tevlin was martyred here in the United Statesin the name of jihad, but for obvious reasons the liberal mainstream media have ignored it. WashingtonDC is not outraged as they should be. ... One June 25, 2014, at age 19, Tevlin was driving his jeep in West Orange, New Jersey. He stopped at a red light when Ali Muhammad Brown pulled up next him and shot him eight times. Brown didn’t know Tevlin but chose him at random. Several days later, seventy-five bagpipes played at the funeral of the young man who used to play for others.

The Spread of Rocky Mountain Jihad. By Michelle Malkin

http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2014/09/17/the-spread-of-rocky-mountain-jihad/?subscriber=1

Excerpt: Something's fouling Colorado's crisp air -- and I'm not talking about the pot smoke.

In my adopted home state, the toxic fumes of Islamic jihad have penetrated the most unlikely hamlets and hinterlands. Obama administration officials are vehemently denying plots by ISISoperatives to cross our borders. But the lesson here is clear: Thanks to laptop recruitment, reckless visa policies and homegrown treachery, the U.S.-based jihad export-import business is and has been thriving.( And it spreads from one weak mind to another in this country, with the infection aided by on-line fanatics. The idea of western women converting to Islam, where they become property with almost no rights, seems insane, but some of these women go for it. Which strikes me as prima facie evidence of a very weak mind! But the point is that this virus does get spread through various means including everyone's laptop or tablet. We do need the FBI and Homeland Security watching out for this very, very carefully. --Del)

Scotland

referendum: Scots reject independence in historic vote

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/09/19/scotland-independence-referendum-837898067/

Excerpt: The decision prevented a rupture of a 307-year union with England, bringing a huge sigh of relief to the British political establishment. Scots voted 55 percent to 45 percent against independence in a vote that saw an unprecedented turnout ("We fight not for glory, nor for riches, nor for honour, but only and alone for Freedom, which no good man lays down but with his life." --Declaration of Arbroath, Scotland, 1320. [Various translations as the original was in Latin to the Pope.] This will still mean more independence for Scotlandwithin the UK. Robert the Bruce would have voted "Yes," but he wasn't running a huge liberal welfare state he had to fund, with many on the dole and everyone on the NHS. Nor did he have to create an army, currency and much else from Scratch. They voted their heads and not their hearts. Too man ramifications to know or understand, for Scots, Britains, us and the world. If you were born in Scotlandbut have lived 40 years in England, which are you? Gave the English a scare--closest Scotland has

Update

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Scottish Independence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YkLPxQp_y0

This is too funny! Before the "No" vote, of course, but he hits everyone, including himself. ~Bob

I've been including some interesting graphics with web addresses, on the theory that they want me to direct traffic to their websites. If they are too small to read, click on the picture. Please check out the websites. Site owners are welcome to correct me if they don't want the publicity and traffic. ~Bob

General News and Comment

Important: Scotland referendum: Scots reject independence in historic vote

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/09/19/scotland-independence-referendum-837898067/

. Robert the Bruce would have voted "Yes," but he wasn't running a huge liberal welfare state he had to fund, with many on the dole and everyone on the NHS. Nor did he have to create an army, currency and much else from scratch. They voted their benefits and not their hearts. Even more than the US, a large number of Scots depend on government support, disability, the dole, old age pensions, the NHS, etc. I think they were concerned that an independent Scotlandcouldn't fund them. There were too many ramifications to know or understand, for Scots, Britains, us and the world. If you were born in Scotlandbut have lived 40 years in England, which are you? Gave the English a scare--closest Scotland has come to independence since the Scots Parliament was bribed to vote for union in 1707. ~Bob. "I call upon all the people of Scotlandto accept the democratic vote of the people of Scotland." --Alex Salmon, Scottish First Minister and SNP Leader.)

Robert Burns - Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7ncizeO2jk

What the "Yes" votes in Scotland are singing today. ~Bob

Your 'To Do' List to Save America. By Ann Coulter

http://patriotpost.us/opinion/29221

Excerpt: The most important words printed in The New York Times since “REAGAN EASILY BEATS CARTER” were from a front-page article last Sunday about how, after six years of Obama, the federal judiciary is now dominated by Democratic appointees. Edward Whelan, head of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, responded to this by saying: “The best way for conservative voters to prevent further damage to the courts is to swing the Senate to Republican control in the elections this November.” He’s absolutely right. Turn that into a mnemonic, sew it on needlepoint pillows, include it in your wedding vows, right-wingers.

Delta Honor Guard

http://www.youtube.com/embed/c_VGxfmDmEo

"Grilling" Hillary

http://justcommonsense-lostinamerica.blogspot.com/2014/09/grilling-hillary.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FMoXTa+%28Lost+in+America%29

Excerpt: Last weekend Hillary Clinton flew down to Iowa to attend Senator Tom Harkin's 37th annual steak fry. Just as at tax time you pay five times what your government is worth, old Tom hawks steaks and charges five times their worth for the privilege of sitting with the latest "liberal darling" with an eye on the White House. So Hillary, though she says she's not running, was there. All eyes were on her as she gnawed on a steak bone and chewed a bit on her chances of winning the Presidency in 2016.

Bogeyman Beat Down: Three UF Female Students Beat the Snot out of Sexual Predator

http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/bogeyman-beat-three-uf-female-students-beat-snot-sexual-predator/

Excerpt: “The female victims fought, they yelled and they defended themselves and they stopped their assaults,” she said. “For that, we are all grateful.”

‘CATALIST’: Obama’s Database for Fundamentally Transforming America

http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/

Excerpt: You have your own individual voter file in Catalist. Everyone does. Under that file might be a massive amount of information about you — more than probably exists in any other database in the world. Whom you work for, what car you might drive, donations you have made, assumptions based on your neighborhood, anything in a public government database about you, consumer preferences, partisan preferences, what licenses you have, what you might have said to pollsters on the phone, memberships, how you treated the young left-wing activist knocking on your door a few years ago, and on and on and on. (Still think there was voter fraud in the past election with 150% turnout in some places reported.....and not a single vote for Romney. Right. Don't forget the Black Panthers with the clubs out front, either. --Barb)

V.A. Official Acknowledges Link Between Delays and Patient Deaths

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/us/va-officials-acknowledge-link-between-delays-and-patient-deaths.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSum&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Excerpt: In a contentious hearing before Congress, a senior official from the Department of Veterans Affairs’ watchdog agency acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that delays in care had contributed to the deaths of patients at the department’s medical center in Phoenix. The disclosure by an official from the department’s inspector general’s office, coming after more than two hours of tough, sometimes confrontational exchanges with members of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, was a significant development in what has become a heated dispute over the quality of care at the Phoenix hospital, where revelations of secret waiting lists and other schemes to disguise long delays in care.

High School Students Revolt After Principal Removes Flags From Their Trucks

http://madworldnews.com/school-students-flags-trucks/

Excerpt: When four South Carolina high school students showed up to school on the recent anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with American flags flying from their trucks, they were in for a big surprise — the flags were confiscated by the school’s principal.

Satire: Obama Learns of Pearl Harbor

http://www.dailydem.com/opinion/article_dead7854-70bd-5ead-964e-abdc8cf24065.html

Wisconsin Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Blames Campaign Consultant For Large Portions Of Copied Jobs Plan

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/wisconsin-democratic-gubernatorial-candidate-plagiarized-lar?utm_term=aqszuk#3t101qc

Excerpt: Large portions of WisconsinDemocratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke’s jobs plan for Wisconsin appear to be copied directly from the plans of three Democratic candidates who ran for governor in previous election cycles.

Obama Golf--Too Funny

http://www.sbisvcs.com/Obama_Golf%20%281%29.mp3

Race Card News

Obamacare/Government Healthcare News

Replacing Obamacare Saves a Lot of Money: Republicans have multiple plans to offer basically the same health-care at lower cost. By James C. Capretta

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388386/replacing-obamacare-saves-lot-money-james-c-capretta

Excerpt: Supporters of the Obama administration like to create the impression that there is no viable alternative to the Affordable Care Act — i.e., Obamacare. But that is demonstrably not true. Republican senators Richard Burr, Tom Coburn, and Orrin Hatch introduced a plan earlier this year that would cover just as many people with insurance as Obamacare at a fraction of the cost.

Obamacare’s Second Open Enrollment Starts in Two Months — and It Is Going to be Awful

By John R. Graham

http://healthblog.ncpa.org/obamacares-second-open-enrolment-starts-in-two-months-and-it-is-going-to-be-awful/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HA#more-39024

Excerp6t: If there is one thing that the Administration and Democratic candidates have in their favor going into the mid-term elections, it is that election day is November 4, and Obamacare’s second open enrollment begins on November 15. If the dates were flipped, there is little doubt that voters affected by Obamacare would wreak havoc on the politicians who imposed the Rube Goldberg contraption of exchanges on them. Despite having just tossed another $60 million out the window “to help consumers navigate their health care coverage options in the Health Insurance Marketplace,” the Administration will likely face an even more bemused and disgruntled population of Obamacare “consumers” than it did the first time around.

Important: Study: Pre-Obamacare Health Insurance Was Better Quality Than Exchange Plans

http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/15/study-pre-obamacare-health-insurance-was-better-quality-than-exchange-plans/

Excerpt: Individual health insurance policies were of higher quality in 2013, before Obamacare regulations hit, than the offerings on health-care exchanges this year, according to a study released Monday. The NationalCenter for Public Policy Research examined the health insurance plans available before the health care law took effect in ten major cities and found that for 27 year-olds and 57 year-old couples, the individual market used to provide more comprehensive coverage than the exchanges. As is typically the case with Obamacare, young adults were the hardest hit. (Well, 27-year-olds voted for him. Elections have consequences. ~Bob)

Individuals Failing to Verify Legal Status Will See Insurance Cancelled

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24866&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: The New York Times reports that 115,000 people will see their health insurance cancelled on October 1. Why? Those enrollees have not proved that they are American citizens or legal immigrants actually eligible for Obamacare health coverage.

"You're Greener than Gore" News

Climategate: Hide The Decline - the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv6hPtNMXHg

Prof Bob Carter warns of unpreparedness for Global Cooling

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/09/13/prof-bob-carter-warns-of-unpreparedness-for-global-cooling/

Excerpt: Professor Bob Carter, writing in today’s edition of The Australian, a major Aussie daily newspaper, warns that the world is unprepared for imminent global cooling, because of the obsession of policy makers with global warming. (Warming has some winners in increased agriculture. Cooling none. Ask the Norse who built settlement in Greenlandduring the medieval warm period, when it was warmer than now, but died out when the world cooled again. ~Bob)

Another benefit of climate change and increased CO2 – trees continue to grow at a faster rate. By Anthony Watts

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/09/17/another-benefit-of-climate-change-and-increased-co2-trees-continue-to-grow-at-a-faster-rate/

Excerpt: Study highlights forest growth trends from 1870 to the present- Global change: Trees continue to grow at a faster rate: “…scientists are putting the growth acceleration down to rising temperatures and the extended growing season. Carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen are other factors contributing to the faster growth.”

SHOCKER! Climate Alarmist Musical Finally Runs Out of Taxpayer Money, Quickly Closes. By Jim Lakely

http://blog.heartland.org/2014/09/shocker-climate-alarmist-musical-finally-runs-out-of-taxpayer-money-quickly-closes/

Excerpt: The asinine ambitions of our know-it-all federal bureaucrats know no bounds. Really. No. Bounds. A collection of bureaucrats at the National Science Foundation (NSF) used $700,000 of taxpayer money this spring to play out their Broadway fantasies by funding what they surely thought was a sure-fire-hit play.

Religion of Peace News

Exactly: Drag the Miserable SOB Before a Firing Squad. By Andy Weddington

http://acoloneloftruth.blogspot.com/2014/09/drag-miserable-sob-before-firing-squad.html

Excerpt: Brendan Tevlin was murdered by Ali Muhammad Brown - June 25th of this year in New Jersey. (I always offer to bring my own rifle and ammo, but they never take me up on it. ~Bob)

Worth Reading: The Jihadi Logic: Lure the U.S. into the fight that Obama will quit, as in Iraq, Libya, and (soon) Afghanistan. By Charles Krauthammer

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388384/jihadi-logic-charles-krauthammer

Excerpt: The second theory is that they were fully aware of the inevitable consequence of their broadcast beheadings — and they intended the outcome. It was an easily sprung trap to provoke America into entering the Mesopotamian war. Why? Because they’re sure we will lose.

They will regret this: House approves Obama’s Iraq-Syria military strategy amid skepticism

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress-poised-to-approve-obamas-iraq-syria-military-strategy-amid-skepticism/2014/09/17/c2494df2-3e85-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html?wpisrc=nl_politics&wpmm=1

Excerpt: The vote placed Congress one step closer to authorizing the third significant U.S. military operation in Iraq in the past quarter century, and it put lawmakers on record approving U.S. engagement in the years-long Syrian civil war. It delivered Obama much-needed domestic political support as he seeks an international coalition to combat the growing threat of Islamist terrorism in the Middle East. But the tally — 273 to 156 — also revealed widespread misgivings in both parties about the plan’s chances of success, even among lawmakers who voted in favor of it.

James Clapper: We underestimated the Islamic State’s ‘will to fight.’ By David Ignatius

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/david-ignatius-we-underestimated-the-islamic-state-james-clapper-says/2014/09/18/f0f17072-3f6f-11e4-9587-5dafd96295f0_story.html?hpid=z2

Excerpt: The United Stateshas made the same mistake in evaluating fighters from the Islamic State that it did in Vietnam— underestimating the enemy’s will, according to James Clapper, the director of national intelligence.

No surprise: Rift widens between Obama, U.S. military over strategy to fight Islamic State. By Craig Whitlock

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/rift-widens-between-obama-us-military-over-strategy-to-fight-islamic-state/2014/09/18/ebdb422e-3f5c-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html

Excerpt: Flashes of disagreement over how to fight the Islamic State are mounting between President Obama and U.S. military leaders, the latest sign of strain in what often has been an awkward and uneasy relationship. Even as the administration has received congressional backing for its strategy, with the Senate voting Thursday to approve a plan to arm and train Syrian rebels, a series of military leaders have criticized the president’s approach against the Islamic State militant group. (Sure, they may be well trained and combat experienced generals, but how many of these "leaders" ever won a Nobel Peace Prize immediately on taking office? Published an autobiography, never mind two, at a young age? Got in 200 rounds of golf in under six years? Organized a community? And they think they know it all! ~Bob)

Saving Private Kerry. By Daniel Greenfield

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/saving-private-kerry/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=b0c61d472b-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-b0c61d472b-156414477

Excerpt: Secretary of State John Kerry didn’t appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to lay out an offensive strategy for defeating ISIS. Instead his real mission was a defensive strategy to protect Obama from critics on the right and the left.

France launches first airstrike against ISIS in Iraq, Hollande's office says

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/09/19/france-isis-strike/

Excerpt: Joining U.S.forces acting in Iraqi skies, Franceconducted its first airstrike Friday against the militant Islamic State group, destroying a logistics depot that it controlled, the French presidency said. Rafale fighter jets involved in the mission struck the depot in northeastern Iraq on Friday morning, and the target was "entirely destroyed," President Francois Hollande's office said in a statement.

VERY Graphic: In the name of Allah!

http://www.prochan.com/embed?f=ab8_1406696952

From the email: This is VERY VERY VERY graphic. Warning !!! Don’t look if you have a weak heart! The new Nazis in the name of Allah !!

Good Morning, Vietnam! Obama Plans to Tightly Control Strikes on Syria

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/obama-plans-to-tightly-control-strikes-on-syria-2014-09-17

Excerpt: The U.S. military campaign against Islamist militants in Syria is being designed to allow President Barack Obama to exert a high degree of personal control, going so far as to require that the military obtain presidential sign-off for strikes in Syrian territory, officials said.

The requirements for strikes in Syriaagainst the extremist group Islamic State will be far more stringent than those targeting it in Iraq, at least at first. U.S.officials say it’s an attempt to limit the threat the U.S. could be dragged more deeply into the Syrian civil war. (BO channels LBJ; "Interference from Washingtonseriously hampered the campaign. President Johnson allegedly basted that 'they can't bomb an outhouse without my approval.'Washington's timidity was an outgrowth of the advice of well-intentioned but naive officials, and its effect on a President so politically oriented that he tried to please everybody rather than bite the bullet and make the hard decisions..." From American Generalship by Edgar Puryear. [Thanks to Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt] ~Bob)

Senators cleverly avoid real vote on war. By Greg Sargent

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/09/18/senators-cleverly-avoid-real-vote-on-war/

Excerpt: Today, the Senate is expected to authorize the funding and arming of the Syrian rebels, and then leave town without holding any vote on the broader American escalation — a striking abdication of Congressional responsibility.

Tweet From Wayne Dupree ★彡 @WayneDupreeShow

Would someone please stand up and yell at the top of their lungs arming these rebels is arming the killers of Christians in Syria!!!! (I have been. But my lungs are not that great. ~Bob)

Where have all the allies gone? By Victor Davis Hanson
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0914/hanson091814.php3

Excerpt: The so-called Islamic State has left destruction everywhere that it has gained ground. But as in the case of the tribal Scythians, Vandals, Huns or Mongols of the past, sowing chaos in its wake does not mean that the Islamic State won't continue to seek new targets for its devastation. If unchecked, the Islamic State will turn what is left of the nations of the Middle East into a huge Mogadishu-like tribal wasteland, from the Syrian Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. And they will happily call the resulting mess a caliphate.

Video: Andrew Klavan: Is ISISIslamic?

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/truthrevolt-org/andrew-klavan-is-isis-islamic/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=8fa23f6ee0-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-8fa23f6ee0-156414477

Kerry is Wrong, Selling Girls as Sex Slaves is Islam. By Daniel Greenfield

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/kerry-is-wrong-selling-girls-as-sex-slaves-is-islam/#.VBuNtY7g3ew.twitter

Excerpt: Kerry has never read the Koran, but he knows that Islam couldn’t possibly be that mean. ... 1. Mohammed practiced slavery. 2. The Islamic campaigns were carried out for loot. Including the human kind. Many of Mohammed’s first Muslims were out for slaves. Including female slaves. 3. Mohammed enslaved and raped women These are all facts that are not seriously in dispute. The apologists for Islam may quibble over the rape part. That’s about it.

Is this the "real Islam" John Kerry wants to put out there?

Islamic State assaults city in Syrian Kurdistan

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/09/islamic_state_in_ass.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29

Excerpt: The northern Syrian city of Kobane, or Ayn al Arab, is under heavy siege by Islamic State militants for the third consecutive day. The Islamic State is reported to have taken control of 21 villages outside of Kobane.

It began with the red line. By Jennifer Rubin

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/09/18/it-began-with-the-red-line/

Excerpt: When you want to understand how we got from “ending” wars to debating whether we can avoid “boots on the ground” in a new one, you will find no more significant event than President Obama’s decision not to bomb Syria after Bashar al-Assad repeatedly used chemical weapons. That decision — and our foot-dragging in sending meaningful lethal aid to the Free Syrian Army — allowed Assad to escape any real consequences for his actions, to solidify his position, to demoralize the FSA and to give the Islamic State another year to grow and take root in Syria.

Australia

raids foil reported ISIS beheading plots

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/09/18/australia-terror-raid-prompted-by-isis-plans-for-public-killing-pm-says/

Excerpt: Australian counterterrorism forces detained 15 people Thursday in a series of suburban raids after receiving intelligence that the Islamic State militant group was planning public beheadings in two Australian cities to demonstrate its reach. (I think they should go ahead with the beheadings...of the 15 ISIS terrorists. ~Bob. Listening to "Coast to Coast" the other night, when the guest host wanted folks to call in with any conspiracies they might have seen. A vet phoned in to say he had been trained by the Israelis to spot insurgents and had, before 9/11, actually seen Mohamed Atta sitting on a beach in S FL surrounded by a group of men and "you could feel the power emanating from him." He said similarly, he recently saw several men walking in SFL (I think Miami Beach area) with "similar-colored head sets and back packs" and that they were spaced even distances on the blocks and moving toward 2 rental trucks. He phoned local police, who commented they had noted "the trucks should not be parked there" and had asked them to move. Staging? Who knows? The host tended to question aggressively and belittle those who called in, saying it was to "increase comments." I thought the vet was serious and possibly onto something and the guest host full of himself. --Barb)

Tweet from Angels of Heaven @PeacefulChrist

O my God Deliver me from enemies that rise against me & from workers of iniquity & save me from bloody men. Psalms 59:1-2

Worth Reading: 10 Questions for Secretary of State John Kerry. By Steve Deace

http://stevedeace.com/news/10-questions-secretary-state-john-kerry/

Excerpt: During a roundtable with the media this week, Secretary of State (say that without shuddering) John Kerry said the following: “(The U.S.) has to start major efforts to delegitimize ISIS’s claim to some religious foundation for what its doing and begin to put real Islam out there and draw lines throughout the region. ... Instead of perpetuating this post-9/11, politically-correct charade that Islam is “a peaceful religion hijacked by a few extremists,” it’s good to see our chief diplomat has decided to pursue a conversation about “real Islam.” Since I’m almost not-at-all positive Secretary Kerry actually thoroughly vetted and researched this subject matter before spouting off about it, I have a few questions for our newest theologian.

AQIS claims plot to strike US warships was executed by Pakistani Navy officers

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/09/aqis_claims_failed_p.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29

Excerpt: Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) claimed that Pakistani Navy officers were involved in the failed attempt to hijack a Pakistani warship and launch missiles at US Navy vessels in the Indian Ocean. AQIS' spokesman, Usama Mahmoud, made the claim today in a statement released on his Twitter account. Mahmoud's statement was obtained by the SITE Intelligence Group.

U.N. to dump flood of Muslim refugees on U.S.'Several thousand in the pipeline, and that number will go up.' By Leo Hohmann

http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/u-n-to-dump-flood-of-muslim-refugees-on-u-s/

Excerpt: Displaced Syrians will likely make up the next big wave of Muslim refugees coming to America. Since the early 1990s, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees has selected 200,000 to 250,000 refugees from Islamic countries to be resettled in the United States. Most of them have come from Somaliaand Iraq. Syriacould soon be added to the mix in the midst of that country’s brutal civil war. The Obama administration has been greasing the skids for the Syrian refugees for months, WND has learned, and the refugees will soon be dumped on American cities throughout the U.S.

Eight dead following attack on Ebola team in Guinea

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/09/18/missing-health-workers-in-guinea-were-educating-villagers-about-ebola-when-they-were-attacked/

Excerpt: The bodies of eight people, including several health workers and three journalists, have been found days after they were attacked while distributing information about Ebola in a Guinean village near the city of Nzerekore, according to Reuters. "The eight bodies were found in the village latrine," Albert Damantang Camara, a spokesman for Guinea's government, told Reuters on Thursday. "Three of them had their throats slit." (The story doesn't mention it, of course, but Guinea is a predominantly Islamic country, with Muslims representing 85 percent of the population. ~Bob)

MUSLIM HUMOR: Lebanese man threatens to behead three terrified little Syrian refugee children

http://www.barenakedislam.com/2014/09/15/muslim-humor-lebanese-man-threatens-to-behead-three-terrified-little-syrian-refugee-children/

Excerpt: The video shows the three children sobbing as a man standing behind a camera waves a knife and asks: “Whom do we behead first?” “Put your hand here or else I will sever your head,” he tells one of the terrified boys, who are crying throughout the video.

Boko Haram: Nigeria teacher training college attacked

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29244107?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief%209.18.14

Excerpt: Gunmen have attacked a teacher training college in the Nigerian city of Kano, with officials saying at least 15 people have been killed. The attackers exchanged fire with police outside the college before running inside. Another 34 people were injured.

Law enforcement bulletin warned of ISIS urging jihad attacks on US soil

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/09/17/law-enforcement-bulletin-warned-isis-urging-jihad-attacks-on-us-soil/

Excerpt: There will be “a continued call - by Western fighters in Syria and terrorist organizations - for lone offender attacks against U.S. military facilities and personnel,” warned a July law enforcement intelligence bulletin from the Central Florida Intelligence Exchange, a state-run agency that gathers, assesses and shares threat information and works with the Department of Homeland Security. “These threats will most likely increase should the U.S. or its allies attack the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) in Syria or Iraq.” In one example cited in the bulletin, a British jihadist encouraged radicals still living in the West to use Facebook and LinkedIn to find and target soldiers. "You could literally search for soldiers, find their town, photos of them, look for address in Yellowbook or something," the tweet read. "Then show up and slaughter them.” (Just think how many Christians they can find by registering on the Christian dating sites....A good reason to be antisocial. --Barb. Just hang around churches Sunday morning and follow them home. ~Bob)

Iranian Leverage over Turkey?

http://defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/merve-tahiroglu-iranian-leverage-over-turkey/

Excerpt: The Turkish daily Taraf published a blockbuster article Tuesday alleging that Iran has been blackmailing Turkey. Turkey has been pressuring Iran, one of its major sources of oil and natural gas, to lower its export prices for natural gas. According to Taraf, Iranis now using potentially damaging documents that allege Turkish corruption and financial crimes to blackmail Turkey’s leadership to drop its demands.

UK Muslim leader Maajid Nawaz: “ISIS-style slavery, beheading, lashing, amputation…are in the Quran” and must be rejected. By Robert Spencer

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/uk-muslim-leader-maajid-nawaz-isis-style-slavery-beheading-lashing-amputation-are-in-the-quran-and-must-be-rejected?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=1cbde197fa-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-1cbde197fa-97564174

Excerpt: All that said, however, Maajid Nawaz in this Facebook post (thanks to PK) calls for exactly what is needed, and what I have been saying is needed for many years now: a rejection of Qur’anic literalism, and a reinterpretation of its problematic passages so as to remove their capacity to incite believers to hatred and violence.

Update

On Sunday, 9/21, we took the granddaughter, Britnye (14) and grandson, Dale (2.5) to the bi-annual Green Country Cheese Days Parade in Monroe. (On the way there, I had a usual coughing spell as the new lung cleared mucus, and the little guy asked, "You OK, Am-Pa?") Monroe is the county seat, a small city, with a square, courthouse and Civil war monument in the center of an agricultural, cows and cheese making area. Nice to be someplace where most folks stood when the flag went by. There were many excellent, large high school bands. (When we lived in South Jersey, 97-02, my high school, 8 miles from Philly, which had a great band when I was a student, was fielding about nine kids.) Outside Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin is Americalike it used to be.

With Sunday at the parade and Saturday at a flea market, I didn't pull as much for the blog from my email and news feeds as usual, but there is some good stuff here. ~Bob

Britnye holding Dale at the parade

General News and Comment

Hillary's "Plumbers" Hid BenghaziDocs

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/091514-717463-state-department-official-reveals-benghazi-document-review.htm?ven=rss

Excerpt: : Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised "unfettered access" to the Benghazi Accountability Review Board. But it turns out that promise may be as much a lie as the inflammatory video story. We were not impressed by the methods or findings of the Accountability Review Board (ARB) after the terrorist attack on our Benghazi diplomatic mission on Sept. 11, 2012, starting with not interviewing the person where the buck was supposed to stop, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. (When the Watergate debacle began, Nixon and his people were not very good at all in getting it covered up, and the investigation inevitably uncovered the truth. Not so the case with Benghazi, where the misdirection, obfuscation, and outright lies worked well enough to keep the public from ever getting really involved and angry. Of course, in Nixon's case the media were on him like white on rice, while for Hillary and Obama, the media were totally friendly and are still not exactly eager to report objectively on something that should be a huge story, the death of an American Ambassador. --Del)

Mayor: New high school won't be named after President Obama

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-mayor-new-selective-enrollment-high-school-wont-be-named-after-president-obama-20140918-story.html#page=1

Excerpt: Mayor Rahm Emanuel backed off Thursday from naming a new elite high school after President Barack Obama amid ongoing criticism from African-Americans who felt the honor inappropriate for a school slated for a wealthy, predominantly white part of the Near North Side. (The debating team would have needed teleprompters, but the golf team would have been unbeatable. ~Bob)

55-year-old Willmar man masquerading as an Army hero may trade uniform for prison garb

http://www.startribune.com/local/275689391.html

Excerpt: He cut an impressive figure in his Army dress blues and his high and tight haircut. His uniform bore the medals and awards of a war hero: Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, the Combat Infantryman’s Badge, a Ranger Tab, Master Jump Wings. Telling folks he was a command sergeant major in the Army, he made his way around various VFWs and American Legion posts in west-central Minnesota.

Rapist Who Can't Bear Prison to Be Euthanized. Belgian killer didn't want parole but couldn't bear prison. By Rob Quinn

http://www.newser.com/story/195931/sex-offender-granted-right-to-die.html

Excerpt: Frank Van Den Bleeken, a Belgian man in prison for multiple rapes and a rape-murder, has decided he wants to die and authorities have decided they can grant that request. Van Den Bleeken, 50, has been in prison for nearly 30 years and has declined to seek parole because he believes his uncontrollable urges make him a danger to society, but he says he can no longer bear prison conditions and his own "unbearable psychic suffering," AFP reports. (Wow, I hadn't realized that they were mercy killing so many people in Belgium. And not just people suffering with terminal conditions, you can just decide to opt out if you believe your life is just not worth living, and in fact is somehow unbearable. I am shocked, but I guess this is part of what comes with secularization of a society. --Del)

Doctors: ‘Irresponsible’ to send troops to ‘combat’ Ebola

http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/doctors-irresponsible-to-send-troops-to-combat-ebola/

Excerpt: “You can see that these doctors, who are highly trained people, got themselves infected,” said Dr. Lee Hieb, former president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. “So sending troops into an area, if they’re dealing one-on-one with a patient, they’re not going to be able to protect themselves very well. It’s not easy to [prevent transmission], because you get tired and you get careless and you make some simple mistakes. All it takes is one virus particle.”

Worth Reading: U.S. Officials In Meltdown On Obama's Ebola Mission. Joseph R. John, USNA ‘62

Capt USN(Ret), Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC

http://www.combatveteransforcongress.org/story/us-officials-meltdown-obamas-ebola-mission

Excerpt: In the Middle East, for the past 3 years, Obama has avoided exercising traditional US leadership in the world community to mobilize support for the prevention of the continued slaughter of Christians (by his inaction, by taking no action, he has signaled ISIL that it is safe to continue slaughtering Christians. Obama continues to state almost daily, that there will be no boots on the ground in the Middle East; ISI has become emboldened by his telling them what he will not do. Instead of inserting boots on the ground with small Special Operations units in the Levant of what used to be Iraq, to coordinate command & control, US air operations & strikes, and gathering of actionable intelligence, and instead of putting 3000 military boots on the ground along the southern border to stem the massive influx of Illegal Immigrants, drug smugglers, human smugglers, and terrorist flooding across the southern border, Obama is executing a very dangerous plan to deploy 3000 US military personnel to the Ebola infected jungles of Liberia. Obama has placed the 3000 military personnel under the command of the State Department not the Defense Department. (Check out www.combatveteransforcongress.org. ~Bob)

Mary Burke's jobs plan copied portions from other Democratic candidates
http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/mary-burke-s-jobs-plan-copied-portions-from-other-democratic/article_060be455-2b20-5b48-9584-95cbef897c5c.html

Excerpt: Portions of gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke’s jobs plan were copied from previous proposals of other Democratic candidates, and her campaign has cut ties with the consultant responsible, the campaign acknowledged Friday. (To be accurate, they should call it "Mary Burke's Ex-Consultant's Plagiarized Jobs Plan." ~Bob)

Could be Photo-shopped--who knows now days?

Who would have guessed? Weed-Smoking Teens 60 Percent Less Likely to FinishHigh School, Study Says

http://www.newsweek.com/weed-smoking-teens-60-less-likely-finish-high-school-study-says-269647

Excerpt: According to a new set of studies published in a paper in the British journal The Lancet Psychiatry, teenagers who smoke pot daily are 60 percent less likely than nonusers to finish high school. The studies of adolescent cannabis use also show that daily users under age 17 were 60 percent less likely to finish college than teens who didn’t smoke at all, seven times more likely to attempt suicide and eight times more likely to use illegal drugs at some point in their lives.

Gun Ban Group Memorializes Violent Felon

http://www.ammoland.com/2014/09/gun-ban-group-memorializes-violent-felon/#ixzz3DrlknShQ%20

Excerpt: On Friday, the 19th of September 2014, anti-self-defense group North Carolinians Against Gun Violence will hosted a “Memorial Service” for Nigel Scarlett, who was killed by gunfire on December 11th of 2011. ... Conspicuously absent will be any mention of the fact that Nigel Scarlett was a convicted felon. Previously convicted of Assault with a Deadly Weapon Inflicting Serious Injury, plus a wide assortment of misdemeanors including illegally carrying a concealed firearm, Mr. Scarlett is sadly typical of homicide victims.

New JerseyCity Bans Toy Guns

http://lastresistance.com/7352/new-jersey-city-bans-toy-guns/

Excerpt: Some people are actually saying that this will save lives. That’s always the excuse they use when they want to ban something. It’s for the children

Obamacare/Government Healthcare News

Is Obamacare Collapsing In Minnesota? By John Hinderaker

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/09/is-obamacare-collapsing-in-minnesota.php

Excerpt: Obamacare in Minnesotais called MNSure. The state had the usual problems (worse, I believe, than in most states) getting its system and its web site up and running. Once the enrollment period got underway, the dominant insurer turned out to be PreferredOne. Reportedly offering the lowest premiums in the nation, PreferredOne signed up nearly 60% of all MNSure participants. So it was a bombshell when PreferredOne announced earlier this week that it will no longer participate in the state’s exchange, saying that “continuing to provide this coverage through MNsure is not sustainable.” It seems a foregone conclusion that this will lead to higher premiums, at a minimum. PreferredOne’s decision also calls into question the economic viability of the Obamacare model. (Someone else has noticed what is going on in MN. --Del)

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel to Me and Others: Don’t Live Past 75!

http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2014/09/19/dr-ezekiel-emanuel-to-me-and-others-dont-live-past-75/

Excerpt: Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel has just announced that he plans on dying at age 75 and implies that the rest of us should work toward achieving this too. Dr. Emanuel, brother of Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago, is a major advocate of universal health care and was a key advisor to the president on formulating the Affordable Care Act, or as we know it, Obamacare. Indeed, a few years ago, Emanuel was accused by Betsy McCaughey and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, among others, of favoring euthanasia and death panels for individuals. (Over 75? You are considered "advanced age" these days. Slightly demented? Just be a DNR and get it over with and quit wasting $$. Used to be the gov provided extra precautions for the feeble minded and handicapped. Remember that pile of prostheses at Auschwitz? --Barb)

Undocumented Democrat News

474 Illegals From Terrorism-Linked Countries Apprehended In 2014 Alone

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/18/474-Aliens-From-Terrorism-Linked-Countries-Apprehended-in-2014-Alone

Excerpt: U.S.Border Patrol agents have apprehended at least 474 aliens from terrorism-linked countries attempting to sneak into the country illegally this year alone, according to a leaked document obtained by Breitbart Texas. (Just hard working people seeking [to take a] better life. ~Bob)

"You're Greener than Gore" News

Helle Tryggedson's home taken over by 200 bats, authorities powerless due to protected status of the flying rodents.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2014/09/11/200-bats-invade-Danish-womans-home/3251410450014/

Excerpt: Tryggedson said local officials told her they couldn't remove the bats because they are a protected species in Denmark, so she sought the help of Lars Bruun Hansen with the Danish Nature Agency. (In the worldwide contest to see which country's environmentalists are the most wacko, Denmarkhas to be a contender. ~Bob)

Religion of Peace News

Former head of Marine Corps: ‘Not a snowball’s chance In hell’ Obama’s plan succeeds

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/20/former-head-marine-corps-not-snowballs-chance-hell/

Excerpt: A former Marine Corps Commandant told an audience that President Obama’s strategy to defeat Islamic State militants doesn’t have a “snowball’s chance in hell” of succeeding Speaking at a conference in Washington, General James Conway, who served as the 34th Commandant of the Marine Crops at the end of the Bush administration and beginning of the Obama administration, said that he was skeptical that the U.S. had reliable ground forces in Iraq, the Daily Caller reported Friday. (Of course the general didn't say things like this when he was CMC, but then his immediate superior was SecNav, whose immediate superior was Mr. Obama, so it would have been inappropriate (or suicidal) to really contradict the President. Now he is free to do what's right. --Del)

Mark Levin: ‘You Actually Have A Revolt Going On With The Top Generals And Obama’ [VIDEO]

http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/18/mark-levin-you-actually-have-a-revolt-going-on-with-the-top-generals-and-obama-video/

Excerpt: Obama does not view this as a military action. .... For him, the truth is it’s about politics. It’s about containing this issue politically for him so he can focus on fundamentally transforming America.” (Remember that flexibility on the hot microphone; cutting our military, decreasing our protective missiles, and now overflights and strafing runs by the Russians on USairspace x2. You figure it out, sheeple. The voices in the wilderness are wailing like prophets from the Bible so detested now. See how well the Evil One protects you after his gifts/bribes disappear and turn into empty ash and he has your soul. --Bob)

Mark Steyn: Obama Has ‘No Interest In Driving A Stake’ Through ISIS

http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/19/mark-steyn-obama-has-no-interest-in-driving-a-stake-through-isis/

Excerpt: He wants to neutralize them as an issue in November,” said the bestselling author. “He wants to seen to be appearing to do just enough to make ISIS go off the front pages.”... “It would have been fascinating if they were doing D-Day now, and no Democrats showed up at the beaches of Normandy because they were all at some fundraiser.”

U.S.

boots are already on the ground against the Islamic State. By David Ignatius

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/david-ignatius-us-boots-are-already-on-the-ground-in-iraq-and-syria/2014/09/16/4fd35ace-3de5-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html

Excerpt: Here’s a national-security riddle: How can President Obama provide limited military support on the ground to help “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State without formally violating his pledge not to send U.S. combat troops? The answer may lie in the legal alchemy known as “Title 50.” Title 50 of the U.S. Code regulates the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Pretending we're not at war: Presidents no longer ask Congress to declare war when ordering the military into action. That suits most Americans just fine. By William Falk

http://theweek.com/article/index/268371/pretending-were-not-at-war

Excerpt: When is a war not a war? U.S.fighter planes are attacking ISIS forces in Iraqand will soon do so in Syria, which meets the common-sense criteria for war. But the U.S. Constitution and the War Powers Resolution of 1973 both require specific congressional authorization for war, and President Obama isn't asking Congress for permission.

Islamic State murders Christian children who refuse submission to Islam

http://www.speroforum.com/a/NBCHNITIPV18/75221-Islamic-State-murders-Christian-children-who-refuse-submission-to-Islam#.VB4DvvldW8M

Excerpt: A message from Anglican Mainstream to supporters on September 18 said that in a town captured by the Islamic State, Muslim militants are going house to house and asking the children to denounce Jesus. According to Anglican Mainstream, a missionary wrote to say that so far no children have apostasized. However, all of them were killed by the Muslims for their witness, even while their parents were left unharmed. (Unverified--but sounds like them. ~Bob)

49 Turkish hostages held by ISIS freed, prime minister says

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/09/20/turkish-hostages-held-by-isis/

Excerpt: Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Saturday that 49 hostages who were seized by Islamic militants in Iraq have been freed and safely returned to Turkey, ending Turkey's most serious hostage crisis. ... Their release contrasts with the recent beheadings of two U.S. journalists and a British aid worker by the Islamic State group, but it wasn't immediately clear what Turkey had done to secure the safe release of the hostages. (Not clear? Turkey refused to join Obama's anti-ISIS coalition...and was rewarded. ~Bob)

Christianity in Iraqis finished. By DanielWilliams

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/christianity-in-iraq-is-finished/2014/09/19/21feaa7c-3f2f-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opnsat&wpmm=1

Excerpt: In the part of his Sept. 10 speech on confronting the Islamic State that probably drew the least attention, President Obama mentioned the need to help Christians and other minorities, expelled from cities and villages in northern Iraq, return from where they came. “We cannot allow these communities to be driven from their ancient homeland,” he said. Obama got that wrong. Christians, of whom around 120,000 have taken refuge in Iraqi Kurdistan, will not be going home even if their tormentors suddenly disappear.

White House Hosts Syrian Activist Who Sees AQ-Tied Rebels as Moderate. By RaviKumar

http://www.investigativeproject.org/4578/white-house-hosts-syrian-activist-who-sees-aq

Excerpt: Fresh from congressional approval to arm and train Syrian rebel groups fighting the vicious Islamic State terrorist group, the White House met this week with Syrian American advocates to discuss how to proceed. But one of the people consulted is on record defending and sympathizing with Syrian rebels tied to al-Qaida.

More Israeli female soldiers fought in Gazathan in past wars, but some say not enough

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/more-israeli-female-soldiers-fought-in-gaza-than-in-past-wars-but-some-say-not-enough/2014/09/19/54cef25c-3e9b-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html?wpisrc=nl-headlines&wpmm=1

Excerpt: About 50 Israeli women served inside Gaza, the highest number yet during an Israeli conflict. But their prominence has renewed debate about the position of women in the nation’s army, with critics saying the percentage of combat roles filled by women — about 3.3 — is too low for a military that prides itself on being one of the world’s only with mandatory service for men and women. (I'd bet those demanding more are not demanding that their own daughters go. ~Bob. Israeli society is, by our standards, liberal, and demands equality between the genders. So there are those who want to see women right up front with the men in combat. The Army resists this, because people who have been in close combat know there will be special problems then. And no one wants to think of what will happen to any woman Israeli soldier captured by the maniacs. So there are women up towards the front, according to this, 3.3% of the combat roles are filled by women, and none of those are in infantry units, they are in other combat units, maybe tanks or artillery. So now the activists are pushing harder for women to be more in combat. How far this will go, I can't say. Maybe until there are women up front and the bloody price gets paid, or one is captured and found raped to death with her nose and breasts cut off, as happened way back when Israelwas founded. If I were an Israeli I would be happy to see women serving, but I would never want my daughter to be in the infantry or any other unit that is involved in close combat. --Del)

Pakistani Taliban commander killed during fighting in North Waziristan

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/09/pakistani_taliban_co_4.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29

Excerpt: The Pakistani military killed a senior commander for the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistanduring recent fighting in North Waziristan. The commander had been released from a prison in Afghanistan, according to a statement from the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, which announced his death.

Off to see the Virgins

http://barracudabrigade.blogspot.com/2014/08/off-to-see-virgins-9-syrian-jihadist.html?utm_content=buffer467e6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Forgets to throw grenade.

4 Possible Terrorists May Have Tried to Enter US Through Texas-Mexico Border, Says House National Security Subcommittee Chairman

http://www.christianpost.com/news/4-possible-terrorists-may-have-tried-to-enter-us-through-texas-mexico-border-says-house-national-security-subcommittee-chairman-126696/

Sketchy. ~Bob. Excerpt: The chairman of the House subcommittee on National Security said that he had heard reports that four individuals connected to Middle Eastterrorists groups have tried to cross the southern border and have been apprehended.

Iranians sentenced to 91 lashes for Pharrell 'Happy' video

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/11103542/Iranians-sentenced-to-91-lashes-for-Pharrell-Happy-video.html

Excerpt: The six Iranian singers who were arrested for appearing in a viral video dancing to Pharrell Williams’ song “Happy” have been sentenced to six months in prison and 91 lashes. (Apparently, Allah is a prick. How could you worship such a God? ~Bob)

Pakistani academic accused of blasphemy shot dead in Karachi

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/pakistani-academic-accused-of-blasphemy-shot-dead-in-karachi-9744154.html

Except: A Pakistani academic known for promoting liberal views on Islam has been shot dead by gunmen – two years after being accused of committing blasphemy in a speech he made in the US. Dr Muhammad Shakil Auj, Dean of the faculty of Islamic Studies at the University of Karachi, was attacked by two gunmen on a motorbike as he was making his way in his car to a function at the city’s Iranian cultural centre. (Here is yet another example of why we don’t see more genuine Muslim reformers. Shakil Auj’s crime was saying that non-Muslim men should be able to marry Muslim women — a challenge to the supremacist Islamic law that endeavors to ensure that Muslim communities will always be growing and non-Muslim communities will always be in decline. For that, he is dead. And if he had lived in the U.S., of course, he would long ago have been dismissed as a “hatemonger” and a “bigot.” --Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.org.)

The Case for a Unified Kurdistan. By Daniel Pipes

http://www.meforum.org/4825/the-case-for-a-unified-kurdistan

Excerpt: Is a united and independent Kurdistan a prospect we should welcome, or a dangerous idea that would create more problems in the Middle East than it would solve? Philip Jenkins, a distinguished professor of history at BaylorUniversity, sees the prospect of a grand Kurdistan, with Iraqi, Syrian, Turkish, and Iranian components, as "actively terrifying." I'd like to assure him that it also has the potential to be benign.

Dem Rep: 40 American ISIL Fighters Have Already Returned to the United States. These individuals under surveillance, 'being tracked' by the FBI. By Adam Kredo
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/dem-rep-40-american-isil-fighters-have-already-returned-to-the-united-states/

Excerpt: Rep. Tim Bishop (D., N.Y.) warned during a recent speech that up to 40 radicalized U.S.citizens who have fought alongside the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL or ISIS) have already returned to the United States, where they could pose a terrorist threat. (Tracked? I'd feel better with "rounded up and shot." ~Bob)

Obama’s Go-To ‘Moderate Islamist.’ His appointment to a Department of Homeland Security council has been dropped. By Andrew C. McCarthy

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388150/obamas-go-moderate-islamist-andrew-c-mccarthy

Excerpt: On Monday, I had a follow-up to last week's column on why members of the Obama administration and other transnational progressives deny that the Islamic State is Islamic — viz., because they want to ally with what they call “moderate Islamists.” If Americans grasp that “moderate Islamists” and violent jihadists share the same basic ideology, such an alliance becomes politically untenable. Case in point: The curious tale of Mohamed Elibiary, the Obama administration’s go-to “moderate Islamist” for counterterrorism advice.

The Wit and Wisdom of Democrats

Robert A. Hall

In addition to the lies and endless broken promises (every Obama promise comes with an expiration date), there are many comments by the self-proclaimed intelligentsia that are just amusing. Below are some of them.

May 8, 2007. Senator Barack Obama:"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18564159/ns/politics-decision_08/

Actually 12 people died, not 10,000.

August 7, 2007. Senator Barack Obama: "I would immediately call the president of Mexico, the president of Canada, to try to amend NAFTA….”

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2007/08/another-President Barack Obama: -g.html

Canada has a Prime Minister, not a President.

May 9, 2008. Senator Barack Obama:"I have now been in 57 states, with one left to go."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws

There are only 50 states.

May 13, 2008. Senator Barack Obama:"We only have a certain number of them (translators) and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/05/President Barack Obama: -gaffes-on.html

They speak different languages in Iraq and Afghanistan, making it hard to use the same translator in both places.

June 5, 2008.Senator Barack Obama: Thinks treatment for asthma is a breathalyzer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsJLdE9DELs

June 28, 2008.Senator Barack Obama:“My father served in World War II”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv4jnlkxOaw

His father and step father were around ten when the war ended.

September, 2008.Senator Joe Biden: Asks a Gentleman in a Wheelchair to Stand Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRV5Y1JCGRI

September 22, 2008. Senator Joe Biden:“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed,” Biden told Couric. “He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’”

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/23/biden-on-fdrs-management-of-the-1929-crash/

When the market crashed in 1929, homes didn't have TVs, and Roosevelt wasn't President.

February 24, 2009.President Barack Obama:“And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.”

http://foolocracy.com/2009/02/President Barack Obama: -the-nation-that-invented-the-automobileoops-that-was-germany/

The first functioning automobile is credited to Karl Benz of Germany in 1885-6.

March 3, 2009.President Barack Obama:“On the other hand, what you’re now seeing is profit and earning ratios are starting to get to the point where buying stocks is a potentially good deal if you’ve got a long-term perspective on it.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/7771/does-president-know-what-p-e-ratio-stands

Business 101: Price to Earnings Ratios.

March 19, 2009. President Barack Obama: My bowling is “"like the Special Olympics or something."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/03/president-ob-15.html

At least one Special Olympian who has bowled three perfect games offered to take him on.

http://forum.saiga-12.com/index.php?/topic/37588-President Barack Obama: -gets-challenged-by-special-olympian/

April 4, 2009.President Barack Obama:“I don’t know what the term is in Austrian.”

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/President Barack Obama: _on_that_awful_austrian_language/

There is no “Austrian” language. They speak German. A guy named Hitler was an Austrian.

April 14, 2009.President Barack Obama: says he is “resolved to halt the rise of privacy”

http://www.ihatethemedia.com/president-President Barack Obama: -is-resolved-to-halt-the-rise-of-privacy

NSA: mission accomplished.

May 26, 2009.President Barack Obama:"They (Supreme Court Justices) are charged with the vital task of applying principles put to paper more than twenty centuries ago."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiRhHqlzaG4

The Constitution the judges interpret was written just over two centuries ago. Unless he thinks they are supposed to apply principles from the Bible to their rulings?

July 20, 2009.President Barack Obama: Says His Health Care Plan Will Bring More "Inefficiencies" to the System

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z16iVri3Kzk

For once speaking the truth.

July 23, 2009: President Barack Obama:"I'm always worried about using the word 'victory,' because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/23/President Barack Obama: -victory-necessarily-goal-afghanistan/

As anyone who took a course in American history knows, Emperor Hirohito did not surrender to MacArthur. Other representatives of the Japanese military and government signed the surrender.

August, 2009.Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi:"I believe in Natural Gas as a cheap, clean alternative Fossil Fuels."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8At2Lch-m5c

Natural gas is, of course, a fossil fuel. She said this more than once.

August 12, 2009.President Barack Obama:“But if that same diabetic ends up getting their (sic) foot amputated, that's 30,000, 40,000, 50,000 dollars immediately the surgeon is reimbursed.”

http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/237492/topic/WS_HLM2_PHY/President Barack Obama: -Missteps-on-Foot-Amputation-Pay-to-Surgeons.html

Medicare pays a surgeon between $740 and $1,140 for a leg amputation.

January 28, 2010. President Barack Obama: (the Constitutional Law "Professor"): "We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal...."

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/01/does_President Barack Obama: _know_the_difference.html

It is the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution, which says: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."

February 4, 2010.President Barack Obama: Reads Word "Corpsman" as "Corpse Man" Twice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlKIfzoC8D0

President Barack Obama: was speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast and was telling about a Navy Corpsman who assisted the suffering people of Haiti. But as his head bobbed back and forth between his two teleprompters, he read the word "Corpsman" and pronounced it "Corpse Man" twice. As anyone at all familiar with the military knows, it is pronounced “Core Man”. Unless I served in the US Marine Corpse.

March 25, 2010:Congressman Hank Johnson: Says he fears Guam will tip over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7XXVLKWd3Q

July, 2010?Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee:"Today we have two Vietnam, side by side, North and South."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK3rTUgoQD4

April 19, 2011. President Barack Obama: Claims Air Pollution from Coal ‘Creating Asthma for Kids Nearby’

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/President Barack Obama: -claims-air-pollution-coal-creating

President Barack Obama claimed that coal could create "the kinds of air pollution" that is "creating asthma for kids," in speaking at a town hall event in Annandale, Va., on Tuesday. However, the National Institutes of Health says that “the exact cause of asthma isn’t known” and that “asthma is different for each person.”

May 24, 2011. President Barack Obama: doesn’t know what year it is.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/05/president_President Barack Obama: _has_no_idea_wh.html

Excerpt: This is how President Barack Obama signed the guestbook at Westminster Abbey earlier today, where he got a tour from the Very Reverend Dr. John Hall and laid a wreath on the Grave of the Unknown Warrior. “It is a great privilege to commemorate our common heritage, and common sacrifice. Barack President Barack Obama: 24 May 2008”

June 23, 2011. President Barack Obama: I had the great honor of seeing some of you because a comrade of yours, Jared Monti, was the first person who I was able to award the Medal of Honor to who actually came back and wasn’t receiving it posthumously.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/President Barack Obama: -flubs-speech-to-troops-by-claiming-dead-soldier-is-alive/

Jared Monti died in service in Afghanistan, and did in fact receive the medal posthumously.

September 8, 2011. President Barack Obama:“We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party."

http://www.lvrj.com/blogs/sherm/President Barack Obama: _doesnt_know_jack_about_Lincoln.html

Lincoln, a Whig at the time the GOP was founded, wasn’t even the GOP’s first Presidential nominee; the first Republican nominee was John C. Fremont in 1856.

September 23, 2011. President Barack Obama: hails America's historic building of 'the Intercontinental Railroad'

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/09/President Barack Obama: -gaffe-jobs-act-speech-brent-spence-bridge-ohio.html

Was that the railroad to France or to China? Even a dumb Texan would know we built the Transcontinental Railroad.

September 24, 2011 President Barack Obama: A billionaire should pay the same tax rate as a Jew.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTveeRIg2wo&feature=player_embedded&noredirect=1

Slip of the tongue. Again, if Bush did this, you’d never hear the end of it.

February, 2013. Congresswoman Maine Waters: “If sequestration takes place, that’s going to be a great setback. We don’t need to be having something like sequestration that’s going to cause these job losses — over 170 million jobs that could be lost."

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/28/maxine-waters-warns-170-million-jobs-could-be-lost-due-to-sequestration-cuts-but-theres-a-huge-problem-with-her-estimate/

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are only 134 million people working in the United States.

March, 2014. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee: The Constitution is 400 Years Old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PtOTwXQ8KE

Came with the Pilgrims. in the 1990s, she also reportedly asked NASA if the Mars Rover landed near where Neil Armstrong planted the flag, but I can't find a source.

*****

Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic. http://tiny.cc/g02s4 For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s eleven books are listed here: http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html. his blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.Permission to forward, post or reprint this piece with credit to the author and without changes is granted. Suggested additions should be sent to Bob at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com.

Update

My granddaughter, Britnye wasn't happy with the picture of Dale and her that I posted. "Grandma took it just as I sneezed," she said. This one of the three of us is better.

General News and Comment

Must See: Great Ad--This should be shared! ~Bob

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNwCDIGuMK4

In 2008, I fell in love. His online profile made him seem so perfect. Smart, handsome, charming, articulate – all the right values. I trusted him. But by 2012, our relationship was in trouble. But I stuck with him, because he promised he would be better. He's great at promises. He told me we would be safe. Have you looked at the news? He's in my e-mails, and text messages, spying on me, but ignoring real threats. He said we'd finally get on our feet financially. I'll never pay down what he spent. He thinks the only thing I care about is free birth control. But he won't even let me keep my own doctor. I know I'm stuck with Barack for two more years. I get that. But I'm not stuck with his friends. I'm looking for someone who gets that this isn't about him. It's about us.

The Wit and Wisdom of Democrats. Robert A. Hall

http://www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-wit-and-wisdom-of-democrats.html

Excerpt: In addition to the lies and endless broken promises (every Obama promise comes with an expiration date), there are many comments by the self-proclaimed intelligentsia that are just amusing. Below are some of them.

Senator Diane Feinstein's Home--not how the 99% live!

Obama Declines Invitation to Attend Memorial Dedication for Disabled Veterans. By Debra Heine

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-declines-to-attend-memorial-dedication-for-disabled-veterans/

Excerpt: For some unexplained reason, the president has declined an invitation to attend a dedication ceremony in October for a new memorial honoring American veterans who have been disabled fighting for their country in wars. According to the Washington Free Beacon, the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial (AVDLM) is the first memorial of its kind, and is set to be dedicated during a ceremony on Oct. 5 near the National Mall in downtown Washington, D.C. The memorial’s organizers say “the memorial will serve as a constant reminder of the cost of human conflict.” The Free Beacon reports "according to a source close to the situation" Obama declined the invitation, making him the first president in recent history not to formally accept a new national memorial. (Now the White House won't confirm that the Prez will not attend, but that's basically a form of stonewalling. They won't say he said NO, they just won't say anything. But it sure doesn't look like he'll be there, does it? And gee, I'm shocked, shocked once more! --Del. Begs the question, Why would they want him? But if they do, they should get a black veterans group to invite him. He'll then "consider the optics." )

A Marxist Mistake? AFL-CIO Pushes Get Out The Vote For Mid-Terms Under Soviet-Style Symbol

http://www.redstate.com/2014/09/22/afl-cio-runs-soviet-style-logo/

Excerpt: In 1997, shortly after current AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, along with then-president John Sweeney, took over the AFL-CIO, America’s oldest labor federation lifted the ban on Communists. Nearly two decades later, as Republicans, Democrats and Independents gear up for this fall’s mid-term elections, the special interest group—indirectly funded by union members’ dues—has launched a “get out the vote” page with a symbol that is eerily reminiscent of the Soviet-era hammer and sickle. (I'd say a stretch, but when one of Obama's cabinet members says that Mao--communist murderer of 60M people--is her favorite philosopher, who knows. ~Bob)

Cops Falsify Speeding Tickets to Cash in on Overtime
http://lastresistance.com/7375/cops-falsify-speeding-tickets-to-cash-in-on-overtime/

Excerpt: One of the four Houston, Texascops involved actually killed himself when the scandal broke that cops falsify speeding tickets. The other three are under investigation, but the police union to which they belong have reminded everyone that they are innocent until proven guilty. Which is true, but it wasn’t difficult to prove their guilt. KHOU reported: (As with the VA, when you create perverse incentives, you get perverse results. ~Bob)

Here We Go Again: Students Prohibited From Passing Out Constitutions on Constitution Day

http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/19/go-students-prohibited-passing-constitutions-constitution-day/

Excerpt: Once again, university officials have shown how progressive and tolerant they are by forcing Young Americans for Freedom at Pennsylvania State University to remove its table from a so-called “free speech zone.” The YAF activists’ crime? Handing out copies of the Constitution on Constitution Day, Sept. 17. (Hey, Penn state, the Constitution makes the entire county a "free speech zone." ~Bob)

Venezuela

's Maduro launches civilian disarmament plan

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29308509?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief-%20LKY%20PROMO.9.22.2014

Excerpt: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced he is expanding a plan to disarm civilians. Speaking on the International Day of Peace, Mr Maduro said his government would invest $47m (£29m) and create 60 new disarmament centres. (Tyrants seeking absolute power always want the population disarmed. ~Bob)

Why Wisconsin won't become Illinois

http://washingtonexaminer.com/why-wisconsin-wont-become-illinois/article/2553740?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20-%2009/22/14&utm_medium=email

Excerpt: But of course, this is the issue. His now-famous union bargaining reforms of 2011 have incurred the wrath of America's big labor unions, which are now eager to defeat him. But anyone who doubts the wisdom of Walker's reforms — and the self-interested short-sightedness of the public union bosses — need only look southward to neighboring Illinois.

Why The Mary Burke “Plagiarism” Story Matters: Be Careful What You Brag About. By Dan McLaughlin

http://www.redstate.com/2014/09/19/mary-burke-plagiarism-story-matters/

Excerpt: But here’s the thing: Mary Burke really, really wanted voters to think her “jobs plan” was an important reason to distinguish her from her opponent, Scott Walker, and she ought to pay a price for that. Here’s the tune Burke was singing back in March: Democratic Gubernatorial challenger, Mary Burke released her 5 point plan today to create jobs….“I brought Gov. Walker’s plan from 2010. This is 4 pages. I’ve seen 8th grade term papers that had more work put into them,” Burke told an audience at MarquetteUniversity. (when I was student teaching, I gave a junior an "F" for plagiarizing on a history paper. Offered her the chance to redo it; she said no. ~Bob)

Hillary’s $100 Million Hollywood Makeover. By Daniel Greenfield

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/hillarys-100-million-hollywood-makeover/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9dde7bfd14-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-9dde7bfd14-156414477

Excerpt: The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia described the reforms which resulted in the Prague Spring as “socialism with a human face.” The New York Times calls Madam Secretary, CBS’s extremely expensive prime time contribution to the Hillary campaign, “Hillary with a human face.”

Quote From The Patriot Post

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"[W]e still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791

El Reno woman says she shot would-be home intruder in backside. Cathy Kouba says intruder left blood trail for police

http://www.koco.com/news/el-reno-woman-says-she-shot-wouldbe-home-intruder-in-backside/28160854#ixzz3E3JZwRBn

Excerpt: “I have a daughter that’s handicapped and she was asleep on the bottom floor,” Kouba said. “And so for the fear of her being hurt, motherly instincts kick in and, you know, I worked hard for what I’ve got. And you’re not going to come and take it away from me.” ... Kouba called her gun the best Mother’s Day present she’s ever received.

Actually, a great success: The War on Poverty: 50 Years of Failure

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24881&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

The WOP put billions of tax dollars in the pockets of Democrat-voting do-gooders and bureaucrats, just as intended. ~Bob. Excerpt: This year marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of the War on Poverty. Since President Johnson proclaimed his unconditional war on poverty, taxpayers have spent roughly $22 trillion dollars, which, adjusted for inflation, is three times the cost of all military wars since the American Revolution! Last year, the government spent $943 billion providing cash, food, housing, and medical care to poor and low-income Americans. More than 100 million people, or one-third of the population, receive some type of welfare at an average cost of $9,000 per recipient. Yet, as of 2013, 14.5 percent of Americans were poor, the same rate of poverty as in 1967. The definition of poor, as defined by the Census Bureau, is interesting. It counts a family poor if income falls below a certain level. Yet it ignores the effect of welfare spending, making the figures of poor very misleading. For example, 80 percent of poor households have air conditioning' two-thirds have cable or satellite television; half have a personal computer; and 40 percent have high-definition televisions. In fact, less than 2 percent of poor are homeless and only 10 percent live in trailer homes.

Fence-jumper: Another victim of 'psych crisis' at FortHood?
http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/key-fact-about-white-house-fence-jumper-revealed/

Excerpt: Only five months after a senior neuropsychologist in charge of FortHood’s outpatient psychiatry clinic revealed to WND a crisis in psychological testing and treatment at the U.S. Army post, a decorated war veteran who sought therapy at the installation is now in federal custody for jumping the White House fence and bursting through the executive mansion doors. On Sept. 19, Omar J. Gonzalez, a 42-year-old Army veteran who had deployed to Iraq three times and was injured by a homemade bomb, jumped over the north fence, sprinted across the lawn and was stopped only after he entered the White House doors.

Race Card News

Gangsters who fatally shot Chicagoboy, 9, thought he was trying to warn rivals: cops

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/gangsters-shot-chicago-boy-9-thought-warn-rivals-cops-article-1.1947274

Excerpt: Gang members in Chicago's South Side shot a 9-year-old boy out walking in his neighborhood last month because they thought he was trying to warn rival gangbangers about their whereabouts, police said. The four men — Jabari Williams, 22, Michael D. Baker, Paris Denard and Derrick Allmon, all 19 — were out looking to shoot rival gangsters on Aug. 20 when they encountered 9-year-old Antonio Smith Jr. in a yard near his Grand Crossing home, police said, according to the Chicago Tribune. (Didn't hear much about this one. When blacks murder whites, or as is far more likely, fellow blacks, hardly news, because the race baiters can't use it to get power and money and it doesn't fit the media narrative. But the far less frequent cases of whites killing blacks get endless coverage, and the race money machine goes into over drive. They will be talking about Trayvon long after Antonio is forgotten by all but his grieving family. ~Bob)

Disenfranchisement! Photo ID required for entrance to DOJ’s Ferguson town hall

http://michellemalkin.com/2014/09/22/disenfranchisement-photo-id-required-for-entrance-to-dojs-ferguson-town-hall/

Excerpt: Photos from one of the events, however, showed Ferguson police checking IDs at the door. ... Put another way, nearly 70 percent of the residents of Ferguson, Missouri are black and yet Holder’s DOJ isn’t concerned that requiring photo ID will prevent any of them from attending an “important” town hall meeting? However, make that a requirement to cast a ballot and it’s suddenly a massive “depress the vote” effort.

Obamacare/Government Healthcare News

Medicaid Spending Will Be More Than Advertised. By John R. Graham

http://healthblog.ncpa.org/medicaid-spending-will-be-more-than-advertised/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HA#more-39053

Excerpt: According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, spending on Medicaid, the jointly funded state-federal welfare program that provides health benefits to low-income people, increased 6.7 percent in 2013 to $449.5 billion. And it will keep growing at a fast rate: "Total Medicaid spending is projected to grow 12.8 percent in 2014 due to increased enrollment of nearly 8 million beneficiaries. Primarily driving the increase in enrollment are states that chose to expand coverage to adults up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. As some states are expected to expand their Medicaid programs after 2014, an additional 8.5 million people are expected to enroll in the program by 2016. Medicaid spending is expected to grow by 6.7 percent in 2015, and 8.6 percent in 2016. For 2016 to 2023, Medicaid spending growth is projected to be 6.8 percent per year on average." This comprises a massive increase in welfare dependency. I think it’s a low-ball estimate.

Government Watchdog: HealthCare.gov Full of Security Risks

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24874&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: The Government Accountability Office is set to address Congress this week to discuss the federal health insurance website and cybersecurity. The site -- into which millions of Americans have plugged in their personal information in order to enroll in health insurance plans -- contains a number of security risks that must be addressed, according to the GAO's director of information security issues Gregory Wilshusen. Residents in more than 30 states have shopped for insurance on HealthCare.gov. In order to enroll in plans, as well as apply for federal tax credits to subsidize the cost of their insurance, people must enter several pieces of personal information, including income data and their family members' Social Security numbers. Even states that run their own exchanges use the federal site for certain purposes.

Panel Urges Overhauling Health Care at End of Life

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24879&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: The country's system for handling end-of-life care is largely broken and should be overhauled at almost every level, a national panel concluded in a report released on Wednesday, according to the New York Times. According to some, the system is geared toward towards simply doing more toward the end of life which can be costly and not consistent with what the patients actually want. A report by a nonpartisan committee that was appointed by the Institute of Medicine has some recommendations for dealing with end of life care: First, Reimburse health care providers for conversations on advanced care planning. Restructuring Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care delivery programs. Eliminate perverse financial incentives that encourage expensive hospital procedures when low-tech services like pain management and home health care are available. Finally, accredited medical schools and groups as well as health providers should greatly increase training in palliative care.

Undocumented Democrat News

Vitter: Obama Admin ‘Bending Over Backwards To Give Obamacare To Illegal Immigrants’

http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/22/vitter-obama-admin-bending-over-backwards-to-give-obamacare-to-illegal-immigrants/

Excerpt: “The Obama Administration is bending over backwards to give Obamacare to illegal immigrants — but won’t protect hard working American citizens who are losing their health care coverage,” Vitter said. “The Obama administration has been granting deadline extensions, making excuses, and turning a blind eye to falsified documents by illegal immigrants.”

"You're Greener than Gore" News

The Crumbling Climate-Change Consensus: Extremists’ rhetoric heats up as their case falls apart. By John Fund

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388535/crumbling-climate-change-consensus-john-fund

Excerpt: Naomi Klein, author of a new book on the “crisis,” This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, said, “I have seen the future, and it looks like New Orleansafter Hurricane Katrina.” In her new book she demands that North America and Europe pay reparations to poorer countries to compensate for the climate change they cause. She calls her plan a “Marshall Plan for the Earth” and acknowledges that it would cost “hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars.” But she has an easy solution on how to pay for it: “Need more money? Print some!” What’s a little hyperinflation compared to “saving the planet”? (They are of course economically ignorant. ~Bob)

Coal must be part of America's energy future. By Peter Roff

http://washingtonexaminer.com/coal-must-be-part-of-americas-energy-future/article/2553637?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20-%2009/22/14&utm_medium=email

Excerpt: Along with oil and natural gas, coal is an essential part of the energy tripod that keeps the American economy the largest in the world. In fact, coal is still America’s most abundant energy resource. As recently as 2009, it accounted for almost 25 percent of total U.S. energy consumption and was the origin of more than half the electricity produced in this country.

Obama's energy policy is not science -- it's an ideological crusade, By Sen. Mitch Mcconnell

http://washingtonexaminer.com/obamas-energy-policy-is-not-science-its-an-ideological-crusade/article/2553631?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20-%2009/22/14&utm_medium=email

Excerpt: There's a right way and a wrong way to go about protecting the environment, and anyone familiar with the Obama administration’s record has had a front-row seat on how not to go about this vital but delicate task. Not unlike its approach to Obamacare, the administration has used a regulatory sledgehammer when a mere scalpel would have done the job. Here’s why: For those in the Obama administration, it is less about balancing environmental concerns with economic growth than it is about crushing forms of energy they don’t like — like coal.

Memo to Leonardo DiCaprio: Climate Change ‘Reforms’ Would Hurt People. By Scott Blakeman

http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/23/memo-leonardo-dicaprio-climate-change-reforms-hurt-people/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRons6vIZKXonjHpfsX56ukoUaawlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DScRqI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D

Excerpt: The truth is the dire predictions that were once made by climate change alarmists haven’t come to fruition. Data simply does not show that the climate has been getting warmer, wetter or wilder at the accelerating pace some predicted it would. All the climate summits in the world and all the marches and rallies may ironically increase the collective carbon footprint, but they won’t change reality. However, drastic measures taken to combat climate change could harm economic growth. Increased environmental regulations, carbon taxes and cap-and-trade schemes all harm the economy. (What does DiCaprio care? He's so rich that while doubling energy costs may mean the poor go without heat and food, it won't bother him in the least. ~Bob)

No surprise: Climate Marchers Leave Trail of Trash EVERYWHERE. Check Out the Top Tweets…

http://www.tpnn.com/2014/09/21/climate-marchers-leave-trail-of-trash-everywhere-check-out-the-top-tweets/

Excerpt: Hundreds-of-thousands marched in New York on Sunday as they got together to “raise awareness” over the need for global government intervention on the issue of “climate change.” A-listers like Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo joined the crowd and marched. When the self-congratulations died down, however, what was left was a gigantic pile of trash that, inarguably, is far from “green.” (the only recent demonstrations I've seen where they picked up after themselves were the Tea Party rallies. The left expects the government to come clean up the mess they make. ~Bob)

Religion of Peace News

Must Read: The Once & Future Christendom: From death of the West—to knights of the West. By James P. Pinkerton

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-once-future-christendom/

Excerpt: With apologies to the frankenfood-fearers and polar bear-sentimentalizers, the biggest danger we face is the Clash of Civilizations, especially as we rub against the “bloody borders” of Islam. What if, in the coming century, we lose that clash—and the source of our civilization? What if Muslims take over Europe? What if “Eurabia” indeed comes to pass? Would Islamic invaders demolish the Vatican, as the Taliban dynamited Afghanistan’s Buddhas of Bamyan in 2001? Or would they settle merely for stripping the great cathedrals of Europe of all their Christian adornment, rendering them into mosques? And what if the surviving non-Muslim population of Europe is reduced to subservient “dhimmitude”?

Worth Reading: Who Wants War? By Thomas Sowell

http://patriotpost.us/opinion/29338

Excerpt: In all my 84 years, I cannot recall a time when most Americans wanted war. That is something we should be proud of. But wars are not always optional. ... But all this make-believe has come back to haunt him, as make-believe often does. Make no mistake about it, make-believe wins elections – and winning elections is Obama’s thing. The big problem is that the things that win elections are not the things that win wars.

Worth Reading: Confederacy of Dunces? From the president on down, they are in resolute denial about radical Islam. By Victor Davis Hanson

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388577/confederacy-dunces-victor-davis-hanson

Excerpt: The overriding belief of the Obama administration is that there is not really a radical Islamic movement that seeks to destroy the present nation-state order in the Middle East, form some sort of caliphate out of the mess, and then marshal the region’s population and resources to attack the West.

Obama’s war advisers not instilling confidence on Islamic State strategy

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-once-future-christendom/

Excerpt: President Obama’s war Cabinet is not instilling confidence in the public about his “no boots on the ground” strategy to defeat the Islamic State now anchored in two countries and in more than a dozen towns. In congressional testimony last week, officials’ predictions for how the mission would succeed one day repeatedly were couched in big “ifs.”

Islamic State attack on Iraqi base leaves hundreds missing, shows army weaknesses

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/islamic-state-attack-on-iraqi-base-leaves-hundreds-missing-shows-army-weaknesses/2014/09/22/9a8b9e4d-0fea-4650-8816-5e720dbffd04_story.html

Excerpt: The army base in Iraq’s western Anbar province had been under siege by Islamic State militants for a week, so when a convoy of armored Humvees rolled up at the gate, the Iraqi soldiers at CampSaqlawiyah believed saviors had arrived.

But this was no rescue attempt. The vehicles were driven by militants on suicide missions, and within seconds on Sunday the base had become a bloody scene of multiple bombings.

Let the Bombing in Syria Commence. From The Patriot Post

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The U.S.began bombing ISIL targets in Syriayesterday. The New York Times reports, "The latest campaign opened with multiple strikes before dawn that focused on the Islamic State’s de facto capital, the city of Raqqa, and on its bases in the surrounding countryside. Other strikes hit in the provinces of Deir al-Zour and Hasaka, whose oil wells [ISIL has] exploited to finance its operations." And ABC News notes, "American airstrikes in Syria have taken out members of a shadowy al Qaeda unit known as the Khorasan Group who were planning 'imminent' attacks against targets including the U.S." After bombing a seventh Islamic nation (mostly without congressional approval), our Nobel Peace Prize-winning commander in chief will address the nation today, and he'll take his case to the UN later this week. Joe Biden warned us if we voted for Mitt Romney, we'd end up at war in Syria. He was right. (This just handed to me: The Islamic State morning staff meeting at the municipal building in Raqaa, Syria, is postponed indefinitely. --Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt)

Islamic State: “We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women, by the permission of Allah.” By Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.org

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/islamic-state-we-will-conquer-your-rome-break-your-crosses-and-enslave-your-women-by-the-permission-of-allah?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=a1ee61425a-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-a1ee61425a-97564174

Excerpt: This message, full of threats and murder, boasting and Qur’an quotations (all the citations in this piece are from the Qur’an),has just been released. Even just a cursory reading shows the absurdity of blandly asserting that the Islamic State’s ideology has nothing to do with Islam. Tony Blair is right: the free world does need to confront this ideology.

This could be the next target of the Islamic State. By Claude Salhani

http://thecrux.com/controversial-post-this-could-be-the-real-goal-of-isis/

Excerpt: For the terrorist group known as the Islamic State, Syria and Iraq were a good place to start their campaign, but in order to survive and prosper it knew from the outset that it had no choice but to set its sights on the ultimate prize: the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. It is in that direction that the battle for control of the world’s largest oil fields is currently heading.

The Guns of August. By Jonathan Spyer

http://www.meforum.org/4827/the-guns-of-august

Erbil has changed a lot since I was there last. In early 2013, on my way into Syrian Kurdistan, I had stopped off in the city for a few days to make preparations. Then, the city had the feel of a boom town – shopping malls springing up across the skyline, brand new SUVs on the road, Exxon Mobil and Total were coming to town. It was the safest part of Iraq, an official of the Kurdish Regional Government had told me proudly over dinner in a garden restaurant. A new kind of Middle Eastcity.

The elusive figure U.S. officials fear as much as the Islamic State. By Terrence McCoy, Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/09/22/the-elusive-figure-u-s-officials-fear-as-much-as-the-islamic-state/

Excerpt: Only Osama bin Laden and several top commanders knew the truth. Now, more than 13 years later, one of those commanders is back and perhaps more dangerous than ever. On Sept. 11, 2001, Muhsin al-Fadhli had been barely more than a boy, aged 19. But today the steely-eyed 33-year-old operative is in Syria, leading a group of clandestine al-Qaeda operatives called “Khorasan,” which some American officials said may be more dangerous in some respects than the Islamic State.

Casualties in bomb blast near Egypt's foreign ministry

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29300205?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief-%20LKY%20PROMO.9.22.2014

Excerpt: Initial reports said at least four people - two policemen and two civilians - were killed. ... The Islamist violence at first targeted mostly police and the army in the Sinai peninsula, but has recently spread to other regions including the capital. The militants say they are taking revenge for the hundreds of Islamists killed and thousands detained in a crackdown on the Brotherhood.

Yea! Israelkills Palestinians suspected of teenagers' murders

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29323163?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief-%20LKY%20PROMO%2009%2023%2014%20D

Excerpt: Two Palestinians suspected of the abduction and murder of three Israeli teenagers in June have been killed by Israeli forces, Israel's military says. A spokesman said troops searching for Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Aisha surrounded a building in the West Bank city of Hebron where they were hiding. (One of the teens was an American citizen. But Obama doesn't care. ~Bob)

At least 36 killed in shootout with Islamists in northeast Nigerian town

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/20/us-nigeria-violence-idUSKBN0HF0H220140920?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief-%20LKY%20PROMO.9.22.2014

Excerpt: Fighters from Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram stormed the northeastern town of Mainokon Friday, sparking a gun battle that killed at least 36 people and continued into Saturday, two security sources said.

N.Y. Jury Finds Arab Bank Liable for Terror Financing

http://www.investigativeproject.org/4580/ny-jury-finds-arab-bank-liable-for-terror

Excerpt: A New York federal jury on Monday found Arab Bank liable for enabling terrorist attacks by Hamas by routing money to the players involved. It's a landmark decision – in the first trial of its kind against a financial institution under the Anti-Terrorism Act– which advocates already are hoping will have a deterrent effect.

Update

Fifty years ago at this time, I was in Platoon 273, 2nd Recruit Training Bn., MCRD Parris Island, SC, working to earn the title "Marine." Here I am today, still getting up at Zero-dark-thirty, now to get my medical stuff done, and get to PT Rehab for my appointment. The self-discipline that my three DIs, Sgt. Owens, Sgt. Martin and Sgt. Harris gave me was a priceless gift, that enabled me to have a very successful career, and now to do the necessary to get through this lung transplant process. Not that I love getting up before the sun, but the sunrise Wednesday morning was great, pink and blue in all directions. See below.

The local VA hospital where I get my care has been getting flak for wait times. So they held a Town Hall meeting Tuesday evening. I went to put my positive experiences on the record. Given that these things attract those with a grievance, I was pleased that there were as many positive comments as negative. There was a Marine sitting behind me who had a double lung transplant 17 years ago; Like me, he credits the VA with keeping him alive. He's now my role model. Even the transsexual vet had good things to say. Her only complaint was that sometimes staff members call her "mister." There were a lot of complaints about wait times to see a primary care doc. The VA leadership team said that when Obamacare went into effect in January, the Madison VA expected no impact. But new patient intakes rose from 140 a month to 350! (Apparently, more vets are going to the VA because of the private insurance changes.) At the same time, they lost 25% of their Primary Care docs, due to retirements, illness and docs taking other jobs--so they get it and are working on it, have made new hires. All within the budget Washingtongives them, of course. A Primary Care doc has over 1,000 patients at the VA.

One WWII vet said they should hire more docs with combat experience. Huh. A bit hard to find. Plus I want they best docs they can get, regardless if they have been shot at or not!

Thursday morning I was standing at the kitchen sink, starting my NetiPot (which keeps me from getting colds), when a fellow tooled past on the sidewalk in a motorized wheel chair, complete with a head support system. God often has a not-too-subtle way of keeping me from feeling sorry for myself. ~Bob

General News and Comment

This calls for a whisky: Holder resigning as attorney general, officials say

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/25/holder-stepping-down-from-obama-administration-official-says/

Excerpt: Attorney General Eric Holder plans to announce Thursday that he is resigning from the Obama administration, officials confirmed to Fox News. The decision would cap a tumultuous six-year term for the nation's top law enforcement official. 9No we have to worry who is next--and does Obama put him on the Supreme Court. ~Bob)

Worth Reading: U. S. Navy - A Marine's Take. By Andy Weddington

http://acoloneloftruth.blogspot.com/2014/09/u-s-navy-marines-take.html

Excerpt: Sailors (and Marines and Soldiers and Airmen and Coast Guardsmen) know of these ceremonies - they know the tradition, the pomp and circumstance, and the importance. They know the hardships and sacrifices and the thrills and rewards and sometimes disappointments and sadness that comes with service.

Wisconsin’s Dilettante: Is gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke ready to settle on a career? By Eliana Johnson

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388803/wisconsins-dilettante-eliana-johnson

Excerpt: The daughter of Trek Bicycle founder Richard Burke, the woman gunning for Scott Walker’s job, is the scion of a prominent Wisconsin family who’s had the wealth to flit from one career to another. In an election being litigated primarily on economic issues, Mary Burke has touted her business experience. But it’s the sort of business experience only an heiress could afford: a couple of years spent toiling at a failed start-up company and two stints working for her father.

Quote From The Patriot Post

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"[I]nstituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good ... would be also a power to do whatever evil they please. ... [The Constitution] was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect." --Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on a National Bank, 1791

Federal court lifts injunction against investigation into Scott Walker, conservative groups

http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/federal-court-lifts-injunction-against-investigation-into-scott-walker-conservative/article_3b123f48-7d0a-5b8f-bac3-97a5f50ff1db.html

Excerpt: Gov. Scott Walker was dealt a major blow Wednesday when a federal appeals court overturned a lower court's ruling that had stopped a probe into Walker's campaign and more than two dozen Republican and conservative groups for alleged illegal campaign activity.

President Obama plays the campaign calendar blues. By Edward-Isaac Dovere , Politico

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/obama-campaign-calendar-elections-111276.html

Excerpt: In just the past few weeks, the list of expected stops has shrunk, with several campaigns that were requesting the president as recently as late August now pulling back those requests. ... Responding to months of pleas from Democrats urging the White House to provide more help, the president and first lady will be going to places where there are competitive races — though only those in clearly Democratic territory, focusing on locations where the president’s approval remains strong even as it’s dropped pretty much everywhere else. As expected, and as requested by the campaigns themselves, that will mean the president will avoid all but one Senate race — in Michigan— while the first lady will appear in Iowa on behalf of Bruce Braley. (What's really interesting is what's missing from the list: No Colorado. No Virginia. No stop in Ohiofor Ed Fitzgerald's gubernatorial bid. And despite that earlier paragraph: Obama's also not currently planning on going to New Hampshirefor Shaheen, whose recent polls show a clear Obama drag. --Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt)

Why Jim Webb can beat Hillary. By Jennifer Rubin

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2014/09/24/why-jim-webb-can-beat-hillary/

Excerpt: Former Virginiasenator Jim Webb says he is mulling a run for the presidency. There are reasons to doubt his viability — although he was an effective campaigner in 2006. Here are a dozen reasons he should run:

Former senator Jim Webb: 'Taking a hard look' at Democratic presidential bid. By Catalina Camia
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/article/20140923/NEWS/309230065?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Former senator Jim Webb laid out in stark terms the economic and military challenges facing America, saying he is “seriously looking” at a 2016 presidential campaign as a Democrat.

Webb, an ex-Navy secretary under Ronald Reagan who served one term as a senator representing Virginia, outlined in remarks at the National Press Club the federal government’s role as the middle class gets squeezed and the U.S. fights to protect national interests abroad. He shared what he called his “governing principles” in his speech and on Twitter. “The very character of America is being called into question,” Webb said Tuesday. “Who are we as a people? What is it that unites us, rather than divides us? Where is our common ground when the centrifugal forces of social cohesion are spinning so out of control that the people at the very top exist in a distant outer orbit?” (This is unbelievable. I don’t know what democratic party he is referring to. Our president claimed that we are responsible for global warming at his speech before the un today. It seems that he believes that we are responsible for all the bad things in the world. --Don)

Surprise: Dems Fret About Money In Politics While Vastly Outspending GOP. By Guy Benson

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/09/24/democrats-fret-about-money-in-politics-while-vastly-outspending-republicans-n1895746

Excerpt: Just a few weeks ago, Senate Democrats held show votes on an constitutional amendment designed to curtail political speech, ostensibly for the purpose of abating the scourge of money in politics. But Democrats love money in politics, so long as it's their own. Their showboating, therefore, is all about hypocritically claiming the moral high ground (while casting Republicans as defenders of "dark money" or whatever), and milking more dollars out of their credulous base.

Worth Reading: Do Statistical Disparities Mean Injustice? By Walter E. Williams

http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2014/09/24/do-statistical-disparities-mean-injustice-n1894929?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Excerpt: Before we jump to conclusions about what disparities mean and whether they are indicators of injustice, we might examine some other disparities to see what we can make of them. According to a recent study conducted by BondUniversity in Australia, sharks are nine times as likely to attack and kill men than they are women. If sinister motivation is attributed for this disparity, as is done in the cases of sex and racial disparities, we can only conclude that sharks are sexist. Another sex disparity is despite the fact that men are 50 percent of the population and so are women, men are struck by lightning six times as often as women. I wonder what whoever is in charge of lightning has against men. (when the hell is the government going to do something about the NBA's and the NFL's blatant discrimination against old, short, out-of-shape, uncoordinated white guys like me? ~Bob)

Tempest over Obama's tea cup salute: Commander-in-chief sparks anger by saluting US Marines with drink in his hand

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2767220/AWKWARD-Obama-creates-tempest-saluting-US-Marines-styrofoam-tea-cup-hand.html

Excerpt: President was exiting his Marine One helicopter after landing in New York Cityfor speeches about global warming and fighting ISIS in Syria Commander-in-chief is a military title that entitles Obama to a salute, and he's expected to return the gesture. On Tuesday he saluted two uniformed US Marines while holding a cup in his hand, a breach that won't win him fans among veterans or servicemen. ( I'm sure there is no one on his staff who would know that you either salute properly or you don't salute. Saluting back the Marine guards with his coffee cup in his hand is just one more lovely demonstration of how this man knows NOTHING of the military, courtesies, or anything else. Heaven help us. --Del. Well, I'm neither outraged nor surprised. It's the kind of thing I expect of this guy. ~Bob)

Obama uses coffee cup to salute Marines. By Neil Munro

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/23/obama-uses-coffee-cup-to-salute-marines/

Excerpt: President Barack Obama returned a formal military salute with a one-handed coffee-cup salute Tuesday, only a few hours after he dispatched the nation’s military on their attack mission into northern Syria. White House aides posted the sloppy salute video on Instagram.

18 Piping Hot Twitter Reactions to President Obama’s ‘Latte Salute’ Gaffe

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/09/180790-18-best-reactions-president-obamas-latte-gaffe/?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%7BCAMPAIGN_ID%7D

He can wear the shirt, but he could never be a Marine.

Excerpts: Scott Brown To Lay Out Vision For Strong AmericaPost-Shaheen In Foreign Policy Speech

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/23/Excerpts-Scott-Brown-To-Lay-Out-Vision-For-Strong-America-Post-Shaheen-In-Foreign-Policy-Speech?utm_source=e_breitbart_com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Breitbart+News+Roundup%2C+September+24%2C+2014&utm_campaign=20140924_m122295369_Breitbart+News+Roundup%2C+September+24%2C+2014&utm_term=More

Excerpt: Former Sen. Scott Brown, who’s running against incumbent Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) to be New Hampshire’s next U.S. Senator, will deliver a foreign policy speech here midday Wednesday during which he’ll hammer Shaheen and President Barack Obama for weakening America's standing in the world.

Careful About What You Say: The Speech Police Are Listening. By Bernard Goldberg

http://www.bernardgoldberg.com/careful-say-speech-police-listening/?utm_source=BernardGoldberg.com+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d895f9ee4b-NEWSLETTER&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c1903183b6-d895f9ee4b-284965241

Excerpt: You may have heard about the radio play-by-play man for the San Francisco49ers who got into trouble for saying things you’re apparently not allowed to say. The broadcaster, Ted Robinson, was a guest on a radio show and uttered these words about football player Ray Rice’s then fiancée (and now wife), who by now the whole world knows was knocked out by Rice in an elevator at an Atlantic City casino: “How does she marry him after that? How does she go in front of [NFL Commissioner] Goodell [and make a case for Ray Rice]? That’s pathetic to me.”

The Hillary Letters

http://freebeacon.com/politics/the-hillary-letters/

Excerpt: Previously unpublished correspondence between Hillary Clinton and the late left-wing organizer Saul Alinsky reveals new details about her relationship with the controversial Chicagoactivist and shed light on her early ideological development.

Worth Reading: Politico Needs You To Know That Lois Lerner Has Suffered Enough Already

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/352023.php

Excerpt: Here's a specific criticism I have in the Politico piece: It reports, almost immediately, that Lerner has received derogatory emails, including one quoted by Politico calling her a "dirty Jew." Now, this kind of journalism -- the parade of horribles from Internet Nasties -- has the inevitable effect of creating sympathy for the person receiving the email, and, more importantly, discrediting all critics opposed to the recipient, even though very few people critical of Lerner (apparently just the one guy) was so filled with rage and so lacking in self-control or discretion that he wrote an anti-semitic Email Nasty to her. In a court of law this would not be permitted, as it is irrelevant to the main story (Lerner's actual guilt or innocence) and is also unduly prejudicial.

Washington Post announces cuts to employees’ retirement benefits

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/washington-post-announces-cuts-to-employees-retirement-benefits/2014/09/23/f485981a-436d-11e4-b437-1a7368204804_story.html?wpisrc=nl_politics&wpmm=1

Excerpt: The Washington Post announced large cuts in retirement benefits on Tuesday, declaring that it would eliminate future retirement medical benefitsand freeze defined-benefit pensions for nonunion employees. The company also said that in negotiations that started Tuesday, it will seek to impose the same conditions on employees covered by the union — one of the first indications of how The Post’s new owner, Amazon.com founder Jeffrey P. Bezos, will manage relations with the staff of the news organization.

To keep up with 21st century threats, the military needs to modernize its hiring. By Renee J. Squier

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/to-keep-up-with-21st-century-threats-the-military-needs-to-modernize-its-hiring/2014/09/23/4db6222a-41a1-11e4-9a15-137aa0153527_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opin&wpmm=1

Excerpt: The writer is head of diversity, inclusion and women’s policy for the U.S. Navy. The views expressed here are her own. If the United States were attacked again, the way it was at Pearl Harbor or on Sept. 11, would you step forward to serve in the military? If you’ve climbed any distance up the career ladder, the answer is probably no, because the military hires people almost exclusively at entry level, and signing up could severely diminish your pay and status. (Say, Mr. CEO, how'd you like to be an Admiral? I wonder what rank they'd offer a retired Association Executive? Though when I was in the USMC reserves, a National Guard officer told me that as a Senator with a BA, working on a Masters, the Guard would make me at least a Captain. I said, "With all due respect, sir, I'd rather be a corporal of Marines." He got tight jaws, but what was he going to do? Tell my Colonel? I gather from other links the writer of this piece is a Navy Captain. ~Bob)

The IRS targeted organizations teaching the Constitution and Bill of Rights. By Michael Barone

http://washingtonexaminer.com/the-irs-targeted-organizations-teaching-the-constitution-and-bill-of-rights/article/2553864?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20-%2009/24/14&utm_medium=email

Excerpt: For those of you who thought the Internal Revenue Service was only interested in squelching the free speech rights of organizations supporting conservatives, here’s something even more disturbing. Over at the Volokh Conspiracy blog, Georgetown law professor Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz reports that on Jan. 20, 2012, the IRS revised its BOLO ("Be On the Lookout") list to include "political action type organizations involved in . . . educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights." He notes that the targeted organizations included Linchpins of Liberty in Tennessee, the Spirit of Freedom Institute in Wyoming and the Constitutional Organization of Liberty in Pennsylvania.

Hilarious: Young Woman Lists The Top 10 Reasons Why She’s NOT A Democrat

http://conservativevideos.com/hilarious-young-woman-lists-top-10-reasons-shes-democrat/

Excerpt: By George, I think she’s got it — check out this hilarious video of a recovering liberal, now conservative, stating her Top Ten Reasons why she’s no longer a Democrat. One thing is for certain, the younger generation in Americais starting to realize that hopey changey thing ain’t working for them and their future. I guarantee you’ll bust a laugh with this one. Hat tip to @ellysa_maye and her exceptional use of social media to make her point

Texans Created Over A Thousand Local Businesses After Texas Eased Restrictions On Selling Food Made At Home. By Nick Sibilla

http://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2014/09/22/texans-created-over-a-thousand-local-businesses-after-texas-eased-restrictions-on-selling-food-made-at-home/

Excerpt: Come and bake it. Texas is enjoying a burst of entrepreneurship after enacting laws that let anyone turn a home kitchen into a business incubator. Under “cottage food” laws, people can sell food baked or cooked at home, like cookies, cakes and jams, if it’s deemed to have a very low chance of causing foodborne illnesses. Crucially, cottage food laws exempt home bakers from having to rent commercial kitchen space.

Proof Joe Biden is Wrong on Just About Everything

http://eaglerising.com/8915/proof-joe-biden-wrong-just-everything/

Excerpt: Remember When Biden Laughed at Romney for Suggesting We’d Bomb Syria? Wow. Just wow. This may be the most amazing piece of video that Joe Biden has ever produced… and he has made a lot of heart-stoppingly funny videos. Just watch it and then we’ll talk a little about it.

Journalists Come Forward: Obama is Much “Worse” Than Bush On Major Issue

http://conservativetribune.com/journalists-obama-worse-than-bush/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=936184&utm_campaign=Nightly_%272014-09-25%2001%3a30%3a00%27

Excerpt: According to a number of leading journalists, the Obama administration has been less transparent than that of his predecessor. Despite campaign pledges and later claims to the contrary, they say Bush was less secretive than President Barack Obama, according to a report from COSP. “Bush was bad,” said Associated Press Editor Kathleen Carroll at a joint convention of the American Society of News Editors and Associated Press Media Editors in Chicago recently. “Obama’s worse.”

Race Card News

Ferguson from my St. Louis contact

More riots, looting, burning stores and shooting at the police last night in Ferguson. The reason: The police say a candle fell over and caught the little Mike Brown memorial on fire. Mourners had built the memorial at the location of the poor boy's death. The rioters said that they were looting because the police set the fire and burned the memorial. The police say that's not true. --BW.

Armed robber shouts ‘This is for Michael Brown’ as he holds up three couples outside St Louis restaurant
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2766463/Armed-robber-shouts-This-Michael-Brown-holds-three-couples-outside-St-Louis-restaurant.html

Excerpt: One of the men brandished a silver gun. Police said both men were black and in their early 20s. The first man was described as being of thin build and wore a white tank-top and blue jeans. He had medium length twisted braids and had a small sliver handgun. (If two white guys robber black couples shouting, "This is for Dillon Taylor," how would the media react? http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder082814.php3

~Bob)

Illinois is the worst Midweststate for black men to find work

http://politics.suntimes.com/article/springfield/illinois-worst-midwest-state-black-men-find-work/wed-09242014-1220pm

Excerpt: As Bruce Rauner and Pat Quinn duke it out in commercials over wine, nursing homes, and wife beaters on the street, here’s a troubling statistic that you probably won't hear about this election cycle: Fewer than 48 percent of civilian, non-institutionalized African-American men in Illinois are employed. That makes the employment rate for black men in Illinoisthe lowest in the Midwest.

Daniele Watts and the Allure of Racial Victimhood. by Jack Dunphy

http://pjmedia.com/blog/daniele-watts-and-the-allure-of-racial-victimhood/

Excerpt: Failing to heed this cautionary tale was one Daniele Watts, an actress whose name was familiar to almost no one until she, too, surrendered to the allure of victimhood. On the afternoon of Sept. 11, as Wattswould tell it, she and her boyfriend, Brian Lucas, were set upon and harassed without cause by officers from the Los Angeles Police Department. We must insert at this point the information that Wattsis black and Lucas is white, facts that in an ideal world would be meaningless but in the present case are relevant. (I was really blown away to read that a Black actress had been harassed by a LA cop for kissing her White husband in public. This came out over the weekend. First I thought "Damn, do we have another crazy, overzealous cop here?", but then I thought, "maybe more will come out about this". Well, a LOT more has come out about this. The big thing is not that the man is actually a boyfriend, not a husband, after all, you could still kiss your boyfriend in public. No, it turns out the big thing is that it wasn't exactly kissing, not even torrid French kissing. It was flat-out sex on a car seat, partially out of the car, and far enough out, close enough to a building, that people in the building took lovely pictures and gave or sold them to the media. Not much question that this was hot sex, enough to make many people envious. And when people in the building complain to the police department that sex is going on in plain sight, the cops are supposed to respond, in case it's prostitution, which is where much of the public sex in LA comes from. Which gives the responding officer "probable cause" which means the officer gets to see your ID. The young lady flipped out on him, played the race card, then told him she has a publicist, then broke down in hysterics and used some nasty language. How do we know this? Because he's a smart cop and recorded everything. This is what gets people tired, the instant charge of profiling and racism, when in fact the facts show the cop doing exactly what he was supposed to do, and getting massive attitude back. What's sad about it too is that it makes it harder to get support when maybe there was racism involved, as we know there sometimes is. The article gives you links to the pictures and the recording too. --Del)

Obamacare/Government Healthcare News

Worth reading: Old and in the way? By Victor Davis Hanson
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0914/hanson092514.php3

Excerpt: Normally, no one would care that in a recent Atlantic essay -- "Why I hope to die at 75"-- 57-year-old Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel argued that living to be 75 years old was long enough for anyone. ... But Emanuel is no garden-variety crackpot. ... Unfortunately, he was one of the chief architects of the troubled Affordable Care Act and a key medical advisor to the Obama administration. (I wish I was half the writer, half as productive or half as knowledgeable at 68 as Dr. Thomas Sowell is at 84. ~Bob)

Feds Lack the Data to Determine How Well Key Obamacare Provisions Are Working

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24886&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: Federal health insurance officials can't tell Congress how much the government has spent since 2010 selling Obamacare to a key segment of the market, according to the Government Accountability Office. The accounting system used by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid, which manages Obamacare, doesn't track "expenditure totals for CCIIO-related polling, focus groups, or advertising and other public relations activities," GAO said in a report made public Monday. (And if they did track it, it would be lost when their hard drives all crashed at once. ~Bob)

The Return of Death Panels? Government-Funded End-of-Life Counseling is Morally QuestionableBy John R. Graham

http://healthblog.ncpa.org/the-return-of-death-panels-government-funded-end-of-life-counselling-is-morally-questionable/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HA#more-39096

Excerpt: For patients, however, it is risky to allow the government to pay physicians to counsel us on end-of-life issues. There is another approach, but it is so emotionally challenging that it may be impossible to implement. End-of-life planning is back on the radar screen because of a very thorough report just released by the Institute of Medicine (IoM). It comprises a wealth of information on the state of end-of-life planning in America today. Unfortunately, it contains a dangerous recommendation: Government-funded counseling.

The Great Healthcare Cashout: Top Cardin aide to the hospital lobby. By Timothy P. Carney

http://washingtonexaminer.com/the-great-healthcare-cashout-top-cardin-aide-to-the-hospital-lobby/article/2553911?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20-%2009/25/14&utm_medium=email

Excerpt: The lawmakers, federal appointees and congressional staffers who crafted Obamacare continue to get rich by going to work for the companies subsidized and regulated by the law.

Two weeks ago, Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., a member of the Finance Committee's health care subcommittee, bid adieu on the Senate floor to a longtime staffer, Priscilla Ross, with a truly impressive record of public service. ... Ross, this week, began as "senior associate director for federal relations" at the American Hospital Association. In other words, she will help run the hospital industry's main lobbying shop.

Undocumented Democrat News

Harvard Gives Student Full Ride After He Tells Them He's Illegal Immigrant

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/25/Harvard-Gives-Student-Full-Ride-After-He-Tells-Them-He-s-Illegal-Immigrant?utm_source=e_breitbart_com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Breitbart+News+Roundup%2C+September+25%2C+2014&utm_campaign=20140925_m122312121_Breitbart+News+Roundup%2C+September+25%2C+2014&utm_term=More

Excerpt: When Dario Guerrero, an illegal immigrant who found out about his status in high school, told Harvard that he was in the country illegally, the school encouraged him to apply--and gave him a full scholarship after he was accepted.

"You're Greener than Gore" News

Climate Science Is Not Settled. By Steven E. Koonin

http://online.wsj.com/articles/climate-science-is-not-settled-1411143565?mod=trending_now_1

Excerpt: The idea that "Climate science is settled" runs through today's popular and policy discussions. Unfortunately, that claim is misguided. It has not only distorted our public and policy debates on issues related to energy, greenhouse-gas emissions and the environment. But it also has inhibited the scientific and policy discussions that we need to have about our climate future. My training as a computational physicist—together with a 40-year career of scientific research, advising and management in academia, government and the private sector—has afforded me an extended, up-close perspective on climate science. (Another one who's not giving in to the tremendous pressure to go along with the "it's SETTLED" program. Good for him. --Del)

Obama fires up Air Force One, Marine One, huge motorcade to deliver climate change warning at UN. By Doug Powers

http://michellemalkin.com/2014/09/23/obama-fires-up-air-force-one-marine-one-huge-motorcade-to-deliver-climate-change-warning-at-un/

He's always been a "Do as I say, not as I do" politician. Typical of the left, Gore especially. ~Bob

Hypocrites: Speakers Fly More Than 1 Million Miles to Attend Climate Change Summit. By Leah Barkoukis
http://joemiller.us/2014/09/hypocrites-speakers-fly-1-million-miles-attend-climate-change-summit/?utm_source=JoeMiller.US+List&utm_campaign=d568dbc5b7-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_065b6c381c-d568dbc5b7-230980933

'You can either make history or be vilified by it': Leo DiCaprio lectures UN on climate change (but no mention of his four homes, private jets and renting the FIFTH biggest yacht in the world from an OIL billionaire)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2766871/Leonardo-DiCaprio-s-climate-change-hypocrisy-As-Hollywood-star-lectures-U-N-MailOnline-reveals-jetset-lifestyle-includes-19-flights-world-year-borrowing-mega-yacht-owned-oil-billionaire.html

Excerpt: But the 39-year-old Hollywoodstar's own jetset lifestyle reveals a double-standard on the issue of climate change. ... MailOnline can report that DiCaprio took at least 20 trips across the nation and around the world this year alone - including numerous flights from New York to Los Angeles and back, a ski vacation to the French Alps, another vacation to the French Riviera, flights to London and Tokyo to promote his film Wolf of Wall Street, two trips to Miami and trip to Brazil to watch the World Cup.

Alaska's Lessons for the Keystone XL Pipeline

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24891&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: Earlier this year the Obama administration again delayed a decision about the Keystone XL pipeline. The 1,200 mile, $5.2 billion pipeline could increase North American energy security and create more than 15,000 jobs, according to Stephen Moore and Joel Griffith of the Heritage Foundation. The unwillingness to approve the pipeline can be found in the insistence by many environmental groups like the Sierra Club that are vehemently opposed. Yet there is a lesson to be learned about whether to proceed with the Keystone XL Pipeline from the debates that occurred during the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline (TAPS) in which environmentalists also opposed the pipeline's construction. Since its completion in 1977, TAPS has flowed more than 17 billion barrels of oil worth more than $1.5 trillion today. However, the Pipeline was almost not built thanks to the propaganda campaign launched by many environmental groups, like the Wilderness Group. Court injunctions, fierce congressional debate, lobbying by environmental groups all delayed the construction of the pipeline. Since then, the pipeline has not been involved with any environmental catastrophes.

Weather Chief: Obama ‘Prostituting’ Climate Science. By Greg Corombos

http://joemiller.us/2014/09/weather-chief-obama-prostituting-climate-science/?utm_source=JoeMiller.US+List&utm_campaign=ac3afac90c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_065b6c381c-ac3afac90c-230980933

Excerpt: As President Obama tries to rally the world to embrace his agenda to curb carbon emissions, Weatherbell Chief Forecaster Joe Bastardi is condemning the “prostituting” of climate science by Obama and others to further what he considers a political agenda.

Religion of Peace News

Tweet from Bret Baier @BretBaier

Confirmed: 1st Female pilot for UAE was their team leader in the Syriastrikes Monday night -Major Mariam Al Mansouri

Tweet from NotANinja ‏@ladykayaker

Oi. UAE women can fly an attack jet but Saudi women can't drive a car. :boggle:

Islamic State jihadis advance in Syria despite US strikes. By Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.Org

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/islamic-state-jihadis-advance-in-syria-despite-us-strikes?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=b2a7d6fb74-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-b2a7d6fb74-97564174

Excerpt: The airstrikes are meant to save Obama’s poll ratings, and the Democrats’ prospects in November. They are not meant to do any serious damage to the Islamic State, and they are not doing any.

Worth Reading: Lack of reliable partners in Syriaposes daunting challenge to U.S.By Patrick J. Mcdonnell

http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-islamic-state-challenges-20140924-story.html

Excerpt: But six weeks of bombardment in Iraq, including almost 200 airstrikes, have resulted in relatively few territorial gains against Islamic State. ... It's not yet clear whether Washington's purported allies in Syriaare completely on board with the U.S. offensive against Islamic State. One of the administration's favored moderate rebel factions, Harakat Hazm, part of the Free Syrian Army alliance and a recipient of U.S. missiles and training, issued a statement Tuesday denouncing the "external intervention"— that is, the U.S.-led bombing campaign in Syria — as "an attack on the revolution."

Iraqi PM: Plot to attack US, ParisSubways

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/iraqi-pm-plot-attack-york-paris-subways-25754366

Excerpt: Iraq's prime minister said Thursday that captured Islamic State militants have told Iraqi intelligence agents of an alleged plot to attack subways in the United States and Paris, but French and American officials said they had no such information.

U.S.

strikes in Syriaagainst al-Qaeda’s Khorasan group kill one of its leaders

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-strikes-in-syria-against-al-qaedas-khorasan-group-kill-one-of-its-leaders/2014/09/24/3049aa80-442c-11e4-b47c-f5889e061e5f_story.html?wpisrc=nl-headlines&wpmm=1

Excerpt: U.S.missile strikes against an obscure al-Qaeda cell in Syriakilled at least one of the group’s leaders, delivering what U.S. officials described as a significant but not decisive blow to a terrorist group accused of plotting attacks against Europe and the United States.

Obama Tells UN How Great He Is While Tweaking America. From The Patriot Post

www.patriotpost.us/subscribe/

Last year, Barack Obama took a victory lap at the UN, announcing, "Today, all of our troops have left Iraq. Next year, an international coalition will end its war in Afghanistan, having achieved its mission of dismantling the core of al-Qaida that attacked us on 9/11." This year, as the U.S.conducts airstrikes in Iraqand Syria, Obama told the same body, "I have made it clear that America will not base our entire foreign policy on reacting to terrorism. Instead we have waged a focused campaign on al-Qaida and its associated forces." On the subject of Islam he stated, "And when it comes to America and Islam, there is no us and them, there is only us -- because millions of Muslim Americans are part of the fabric of our country." Astoundingly, Obama said he understands why other nations criticize America for calling them out on violence because of violence within our own borders. He said, "In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri -- where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So, yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions." Does anyone besides Obama believe that the shooting of a violent black man in Ferguson (currently the subject of a DoJ investigation), is tantamount to the violence being committed by ISIL? This president is an embarrassment to his country.

Obama Praises Muslim Cleric Who Backed Fatwa on Killing of U.S. Soldiers. By Adam Kredo.

http://joemiller.us/2014/09/obama-praises-muslim-cleric-backed-fatwa-killing-u-s-soldiers/?utm_source=JoeMiller.US+List&utm_campaign=ac3afac90c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_065b6c381c-ac3afac90c-230980933

Excerpt: President Barack Obama favorably quoted and praised on Wednesday in his speech before the United Nations a controversial Muslim cleric whose organization has reportedly endorsed the terror group Hamas and supported a fatwa condoning the murder of U.S.soldiers in Iraq.

Senior al Qaeda strategist part of so-called 'Khorasan group'

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/09/senior_al_qaeda_stra.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29

Excerpt: Al Qaeda's so-called "Khorasan group," which was struck in the US-led bombing campaign earlier this week, is run by senior jihadists dispatched to Syriaby Ayman al Zawahiri.

One member of the group, a veteran al Qaeda operative named Muhsin al Fadhli, has been publicly identified.

Flashback: Obama: 'Global War on Terror' Is Over

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/05/23/obama-global-war-on-terror-is-over

The left is okay with blowing people to bits a long as it's not war. Unfortunately, they forgot to tell the terrorists. see below. ~Bob

If Obama Had Followed His Own Advice From 2007, We Might Not Be Fighting ISISToday

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/09/180788-obama-followed-advice-2007-might-fighting-isis-today/?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%7BCAMPAIGN_ID%7D

Excerpt: In 2007, then-senator Barack Obama appeared on CBS’ Face the Nation and was asked by host Bob Schieffer to explain his plan for the eventual withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

“One of the things I strongly disagree with Senator McCain is, this notion that we have future catastrophe to look forward to if we start phasing down troops. Those of us who object to what I consider to be a disastrous policy on the part of the Bush Administration have in fact put forward a different approach. ..."

Turkey

: What Ally? By Burak Bekdil

http://www.meforum.org/4829/turkey-what-ally

Excerpt: Last week, the U.S.Secretaries of State and Defense, John Kerry and Chuck Hagel, were in the Turkish capital, one after the other, to ask for Turkey's contribution to a coalition of allies in a U.S.-led war on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria[ISIS, aka The Islamic State]. Not only will Ankaratake no military action, it will also forbid the U.S.from using a critical U.S.air base in southern Turkeyto conduct strikes against the jihadist terrorists, the Turks told Messrs. Kerry and Hagel.

Islamic State, Shabaab leaders added to US terrorism list

http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2014/09/islamic_state_shabaab_leaders.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29

State Department adds Chechen, Moroccan-led jihadist groups to terrorist list

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/148a95533291e89d

In Syria, Obama stretches legal and policy constraints he created for counterterrorism

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-syria-obama-stretches-legal-and-policy-constraints-he-created-for-counterterrorism/2014/09/23/79fdaf44-4339-11e4-9a15-137aa0153527_story.html?wpisrc=nl-headlines&wpmm=1

Excerpt: After spending nearly six years of his presidency installing a series of constraints on U.S.counterterrorism operations, President Obama has launched a broad military offensive against Islamist groups in Syria that stretches the limits of those legal and policy enclosures. The barrage of airstrikes was aimed mainly at a militant group, the Islamic State, that is no longer among the al-Qaeda “associates” envisioned by the military authorization passed after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

ISIS-Offshoot Beheads Another Hostage...in Algeria. By Katie Pavlich

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/09/24/beheading-n1896125?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Excerpt: According to SITE Intelligence Group, an ISIS offshoot organization operating in the north African country of Algeriahas beheaded a French hostage.

Surprise: U.S.weapons for Free Syrian Army ended up with ISIS

http://conservativebyte.com/2014/09/u-s-weapons-free-syrian-army-ended-isis/

Excerpt: This is what always happens when we give Muslims weapons. Will we ever learn?
Check it out: A claim by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., that some of the 600 tons of weapons the U.S. gave Syrian rebels last year ended up in the hands of ISISis based on the Free Syrian Army’s initial cooperation with a Syrian-backed coalition of Islamic Front fighters. (Gee, who could have predicted this? Okay I did as did everyone who thought about it who had better cognitive ability than a turnip, but who else? ~Bob)

Important: Al Qaeda group in Syria plotted attack against U.S. with explosive clothes

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/22/world/meast/al-qaeda-syria-khorasan/index.html

Excerpt: The strikes targeted "training camps, an explosives and munitions production facility, a communication building and command and control facilities," the military said in a statement.

The group was actively plotting against a U.S. homeland target and Western targets, a senior U.S. official told CNN on Tuesday. The United States hoped to surprise the group by mixing strikes against it with strikes against ISIStargets. (I can only imagine how that discussion went. "Look, our bombers are going to be in the neighborhood anyway. Why not swing by and drop a few big ones on the hideout on the way home?" --Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt.)

In Case You Lost Count, This Map Shows the Countries Our Peace-Prize Winning President Has Bombed

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/09/180774-take-look-map-peace-prize-winning-obama-bombed/?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%7BCAMPAIGN_ID%7D

ISIS Destroys ArmenianGenocideMemorialChurch in Der Zor

http://www.armenianweekly.com/2014/09/21/der-zor/

Excerpt: The Islamic State (also known as ISIS) destroyed the ArmenianGenocideMemorialChurchin Der Zor, Syria—considered the Auschwitz of the Armenian Genocide—news agencies in the Middle East reported.

Obama Forbids FBI to Use Religion in Identifying Terror Threats, as ISIS Recruits Openly in U.S.Mosques. By Karin McQuillan

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/09/obama_forbids_fbi_to...

Excerpt: AT had a chance to catch up with Steven Emerson, head of The Investigative Project on Terrorism, and hear his assessment of the ISIS threat here on American soil. Emerson runs the country's top data center on Islamic terror groups in the United States, working like a man possessed, and accomplishing the work of thousands on sheer guts and determination to protect our country. Wherever the bad guys have been caught and prosecuted successfully, you will find Emerson working quietly behind the scenes as an invaluable ally of the FBI and Homeland Security. Because he accepts no money from the government, Emerson has been free of the diktats of the Obama administration that have forbidden the FBI to train their sights on Muslim terrorists.

KISS OUR GRITS: Muslims Demand AMERICAN Food Stamps Meet Islamic Standards

http://clashdaily.com/2014/09/kiss-grits-muslims-demand-american-food-stamps-meet-islamic-standards/

Excerpt: It is one thing to come to migrate to this country and begin to use the welfare system, it’s totally another thing to demand that our country now accommodate it to you. Let’s see what the government will do about this – will they bend to the Muslims demanding Halal customized food shelves? (Or wipe them down with bacon grease? And some politicians will do anything to get votes. ~JB)

Erdoğan's Flying Carpet Unravels. By David P. Goldman

http://www.meforum.org/4828/erdogan-flying-carpet-unravels

Excerpt: Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has a growing list of enemies. "Among his targets" at a recent address to a Turkish business group "were The New York Times, the Gezi events of 2013, credit rating agencies, the Hizmet movement, the Koc family and high interest rates," Zaman reported September 18. Erdoğan earlier had threatened to expel rating agencies Moody's and Fitch from Turkey if they persisted in making negative comments about Turkey's credit. Turkey's financial position is one of the world's great financial mysteries, in fact, a uniquely opaque puzzle: the country has by far the biggest foreign financing requirement relative to GDP among all the world's large economies, yet the sources of its financing are impossible to trace.

Norway: Muslims planned to enter random family’s house, cut their throats and post the video on the Internet. By Nicolai Sennels

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/norway-muslims-planned-to-enter-random-familys-house-cut-their-throats-and-post-the-video-on-the-internet?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=3345a0ef50-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-3345a0ef50-97564174

Excerpt: Translated from Fyens: Centrally placed sources told the Norwegian television and radio station NRK that militants who probably sympathize with the Islamic State this summer planned to kill a whole family with knives, film it and publish it as a warning….

Islamic Extremists Kill at Least 10 Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria

http://morningstarnews.org/2014/09/islamic-extremists-kill-at-least-10-christians-in-plateau-state-nigeria/

Excerpt: Ethnic Fulani gunmen shouting the jihadist chant “Allahu Akbar” attacked three villages in Nigeria’s Plateau state this month, burning down a church building and killing at least 10 Christians, sources said.

Philippine Islamist militants threaten to kill German captives

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/25/us-philippines-militants-idUSKCN0HJ0NQ20140925?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief-%20LKY%20PROMO%209.25.14

Excerpt: Al-Qaeda linked militants in the southern Philippines have threatened to kill two Germans hostages they have been holding since April unless Germany stops supporting U.S.action against Islamic State militants, the SITE monitoring service said.

British man in court charged with plotting to kill coalition soldiers in Iraq

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/25/british-man-court-plotting-kill-coalition-soldiers-iraq?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief-%20LKY%20PROMO%209.25.14

Excerpt: A 37-year-old British man has appeared in court accused of plotting to murder coalition forces in Iraq with a roadside bomb in 2007. Anis Abid Sardar was arrested by counter-terrorism police at his home in Wembley, north-west London, on Tuesday. He is alleged to have been involved in the manufacture of a number of improvised explosive devices recovered from Al Anbar province of Iraq

Boko Haram fighters 'surrender' as alleged chief killed

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29352927?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief-%20LKY%20PROMO%209.25.14

Excerpt: More than 260 Islamist militants have surrendered in north-eastern Nigeria, the military has said. Soldiers had also killed a man who featured in Boko Haram's propaganda videos pretending to be the group's leader Abubakar Shekau, it added.

Britain

arrests nine in operation against Islamist militants

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/25/us-britain-security-arrests-idUSKCN0HK0PF20140925?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief-%20LKY%20PROMO%209.25.14

Excerpt: British police arrested nine men as part of an operation into Islamist-related militancy on Thursday, with media reporting the country's most high-profile radical Muslim preacher was among those held.

Video: Muslim Day Parade in NYC with Hanged and Caged Women!

http://eaglerising.com/8919/muslim-day-parade-nyc-hanged-caged-women/

Some Clear Examples for John Kerry of "The Real Islam"

Robert A. Hall

Secretary of State John Kerry says that to counter ISIS, we need to put "The Real Islam" out there to show the world what it really is. Especially, the Muslim world, which doesn't seem to have the clarity about their faith that Kerry has. I couldn't agree more. To help him out, I took a couple of hours to pull these examples of "The Real Islam" from around the Muslim world, which he can use in educating both Muslims and non-Muslims. I have not included any from ISIS, which Imam John says is "not Islamic." They are in no particular order. A good researcher with a couple of days to spare could find ten times as many.

And if you tell me this is only, "A tiny minority of extremists," my answer is, "Sure are a lot of them in that tiny minority."

We'll start with two perfect examples of Muslims who has added to the rich fabric of American life:

New York TV exec gets 25 years to life for wife's beheading

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/03/09/new.york.beheading/

Excerpt: After an hour of deliberation, an upstate New York jury convicted Muzzammil "Mo" Hassan of second-degree murder last month after a three-week trial. ... In February 2009, Hassan, who founded a TV network aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes, went to a police station in the Buffalo, New York, suburb of OrchardParkand told officers his wife was dead, police have said. (What do you have to do to get First Degree murder? ~Bob)

FBI probing suspect's recent conversion to Islam in Oklahomabeheading

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/09/26/woman-beheaded-at-oklahoma-food-distribution-center-police-say/

Iranians sentenced to 91 lashes for Pharrell 'Happy' video

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/11103542/Iranians-sentenced-to-91-lashes-for-Pharrell-Happy-video.html

Canadian convert to Islam: Christians must convert or “face the sword.”

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/canadian-convert-to-islam-christians-must-convert-or-face-the-sword?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=cea6a46f72-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-cea6a46f72-97564174

Pakistani academic accused of blasphemy shot dead in Karachi

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/pakistani-academic-accused-of-blasphemy-shot-dead-in-karachi-9744154.html

Gays would be executed in ideal world, says UKIslamic leader

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/gays-would-be-executed-ideal-world-says-uk-islamic-leader141013

Palestinian teen: I was used as a human shield in Gaza

http://972mag.com/palestinian-teen-i-was-used-as-a-human-shield-in-gaza/95800/

FortHood shooter says he want to become 'citizen' of Islamic State caliphate

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/28/fort-hood-shooter-says-want-to-become-citizen-islamic-state-caliphate/?cmpid=cmty_twitter_fn

Women stoned to death in Syriafor adultery

http://news.yahoo.com/women-stoned-death-syria-adultery-174549066.html

Norway: Muslims planned to enter random family’s house, cut their throats and post the video on the Internet. By Nicolai Sennels

2005 Indonesian beheadings of Christian girls

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Indonesian_beheadings_of_Christian_girls

North Dakota: Three Muslims charged with terrorizing soccer players, chased with knife, hammers, shears

http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/north-dakota-three-muslims-charged-with-terrorizing-soccer-players-chased-with-knife-hammers-shears/

Groomed for suicide: how Taliban recruits children for mass murder

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/17/groomed-suicide-taliban-recruits-afghan-children-murder

Prevalence of FGM among young Egyptian girls

http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/topics/fgm/fgm_prevalence_egypt/en/

Another study by the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population in 2003 reported that over 94% of married women had been exposed to genital cutting and 69% of those women agreed to the procedure being carried out on their daughters.

CNN Calls Islamic Child Marriage an "Inhumane and Cruel Tradition," Condemns Muhammad and Allah

http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2014/04/cnn-calls-islamic-child-marriage.html

Islamic Extremists Kill at Least 10 Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria

http://morningstarnews.org/2014/09/islamic-extremists-kill-at-least-10-christians-in-plateau-state-nigeria/

Why is no one protecting Saudi Arabia's child brides?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/nov/08/saudi-arabia-child-brides-marriage

Britain

arrests nine in operation against Islamist militants

Ansar Jerusalem beheads 4 Egyptians accused of being Israeli 'spies'

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LongWarJournalSiteWide/~3/848f735Qxo8/ansar_jerusalem_behe.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Afghanistan

Taliban 'using human shields'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8519507.stm

Iran: We are proud of 'stoning', regime's human rights chief declares

http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2014/08/iran-we-are-proud-of-stoning-regimes.html

Child marriage is tragic consequence of Syrian conflict

http://tooyoungtowed.org/blog/child-marriage-is-tragic-consequence-of-syrian-conflict/

Philippine Islamist militants threaten to kill German captives

Brunei

: ‘Stone the gays’ law to be phased in from tomorrow

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/04/30/brunei-stone-the-gays-law-to-be-phased-in-from-tomorrow/

Ohio Man Threatens to Murder Children Due to Israel-Hamas Conflict

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/man-threatens-to-murder-children-due-to-israel-hamas-conflict/

Afghanistan

: Police rescue woman convicted to public stoning by Taliban

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/12/afghanistan-police-rescue-woman-convicted-to-public-stoning-by-taliban.html

Video: Muslim Day Parade in NYC with Hanged and Caged Women!

http://eaglerising.com/8919/muslim-day-parade-nyc-hanged-caged-women/

Spanish Cleric: 'Allah Destroy the Jews, Spare None of Them'

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184484#.U_6xM_ldVXY

Jerusalem: 4 Arabs Arrested for Stoning Jewish Baby
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/4-arabs-arrested-for-stoning-jewish-baby/2013/11/29/

Arizona'Honor Killing': Iraqi Immigrant Sentenced To 34 1/2 Years In Prison For Running Over, Killing Daughter

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/15/arizona-honor-killing-iraqi-immigrant-sentenced_n_849999.html

Casualties in bomb blast near Egypt's foreign ministry

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29300205?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief-%20LKY%20PROMO.9.22.2014

Muslim clerics resist Pakistan’s efforts to end child marriage

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/muslim-clerics-resist-pakistans-efforts-to-end-child-marriage/2014/05/16/c48f9c04-dd25-11e3-a837-8835df6c12c4_story.html

Afghanistan

'plans to reintroduce public stoning as punishment for adultery.'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/10472518/Afghanistan-plans-to-reintroduce-public-stoning-as-punishment-for-adultery.html

British man in court charged with plotting to kill coalition soldiers in Iraq

Woman in YemenBurned to Death for Her Faith

http://morningstarnews.org/2014/08/woman-in-yemen-burned-to-death-for-her-faith/

Six-year-old Afghan girl saved from marriage to cover father's debt

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/08/world/asia/afghanistan-child-bride/

‘Moderate’ Muslims at Norway ‘peace conference’ endorse stoning for gays and adulterers.

http://freethinker.co.uk/2013/10/31/moderate-muslims-at-norway-peace-conference-endorse-stoning-for-gays-and-adulterers/

At least 36 killed in shootout with Islamists in northeast Nigerian town

Muslim Man Rapes Child Bride Until She Dies

http://www.religiousfreedomcoalition.org/2013/09/20/muslim-man-rapes-child-bride-until-she-dies/

Texas dad wanted in possible ‘honor killing’ of daughters may be hiding in New York City as taxi driver: private investigator

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-dad-wanted-honor-killing-daughters-hiding-new-york-city-taxi-driver-private-investigator-article-1.1087425

Muslims Behead an Apostate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyWldmhg00I

Stoning Returns as Punishment. By Firoozeh Matin

http://www.roozonline.com/english/news3/newsitem/archive/2013/april/30/article/stoning-returns-as-punishment.html

Muslim Extremist Arrested for Murder of Gays in Seattle

http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/muslim-extremist-arrested-murder-gays-seattle

Beheadings in Saudi Arabia, at least 19 die: Authorities are coming down hard on drug smugglers and ‘sorcery,’ says Human Rights Watch.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/beheadings-saudi-arabia-top-19-dead-article-1.1914284

AQIS claims plot to strike US warships was executed by Pakistani Navy officers

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/09/aqis_claims_failed_p.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29

‘Quarantine her!’ Top Tunisian Islamist says topless girl needs stoning

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/2013/03/23/-Quarantine-her-Top-Tunisian-Islamist-says-topless-girl-needs-stoning.html

Denmark

: Pro-Hamas demonstration erupts in violence

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/11/denmark-pro-hamas-demonstration-erupts-in-violence.html

Contemporary Pedophilic Islamic Marriages

http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Contemporary_Pedophilic_Islamic_Marriages

Bodies of Four Women Stoned to Death Show Marks of Torture

http://www.mohabatnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5688:bodies-of-four-women-stoned-to-death-show-marks-of-torture&catid=35:inside-iran&Itemid=278

Eight dead following attack on Ebola team in Guinea

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/09/18/missing-health-workers-in-guinea-were-educating-villagers-about-ebola-when-they-were-attacked/

Rape victim used as sex slave is disowned by family

http://www.asianimage.co.uk/news/11420337.Rape_victim_used_as_sex_slave_is_disowned_by_family/?ref=mr

Bangladeshi clergies recommend stoning for Hina-Bilawal

http://www.weeklyblitz.net/2614/bangladeshi-clergies-recommend-stoning-for-hina

Muslim Eid riots in Denmark: Shootings, stoning the police, 60 club-wielding Muslims attack hospital

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/08/muslim-eid-riots-in-denmark-shootings-stoning-the-police-60-club-wielding-muslims-attack-hospital.html

Will Saudi Arabia end child marriage?

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/27/will-saudi-arabia-end-child-marriage/

Sudan

: Woman Is Sentenced to Death by Stoning for Adultery

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/world/africa/sudan-woman-is-sentenced-to-death-by-stoning-for-adultery.html?_r=1&ref=africa

Egyptian police killed in Sinai bomb attack

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29029726?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief%2009%2002%2014

Boko Haram: Nigeriateacher training college attacked

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29244107?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief%209.18.14

Young woman sentenced to death by stoning in Sudan

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/31/us-sudan-stoning-idUSBRE84U10Y20120531

Call for Probe After Malaysia Girl Bride Is Hospitalized

http://www.newser.com/story/83265/call-for-probe-after-malaysia-girl-bride-is-hospitalized.html

The E.U. calls stoning of Jews a Muslim human right.

http://www.yourjewishnews.com/Pages/20226.aspx

Libyan Militias Seize Control of Capital as Chaos Rises

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/02/world/africa/militias-seize-control-of-libyan-capital.html?ref=africa&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief%2009%2002%2014

An Examination of Muhammad’s Relationship with a Nine-Year-Old Girl

http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Wood/pedophile.htm

Iranian woman convicted of adultery to be executed by stoning or hanging, official says

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/iranian-woman-executed-stoning-hanging-adultery-152919906.html

Iran

joins UN's global body on the status of women

http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Iran+joins+global+body+status+women/4389157/story.html?tr=y&auid=7888435

Muhammad And The Female Captives

http://www.answering-islam.org/Silas/femalecaptives.htm

New moderate Iran executes two gay men and hands down death sentence for “insulting the prophet”

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/new-moderate-iran-executes-two-gay-men-and-hands-down-death-sentence-for-insulting-the-prophet

UK Muslim leader Maajid Nawaz: “ISIS-style slavery, beheading, lashing, amputation…are in the Quran” and must be rejected.

Boko Haram beheaded six-year-old Christian boy, group reports

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/boko.haram.beheaded.six.year.old.christian.boy/40066.htm

Caucasus: Stoning is not just stoning, it's Allah's revenge

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/07/stoning-is-not-just-stoning-its-allahs-revenge.html

Pakistanis agitating for banning the Bible call it "pornographic" and "blasphemous"

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/06/among-objectionable-verses-in-pakistani-call-to-ban-bible-jesus-stopping-a-stoning.html

Slavery in Mauritania Is Alive and Well, Thanks In No Small Part to Islamic Apologists:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/09/17/slavery-in-mauritania-is-alive-and-well-thanks-in-no-small-part-to-islamic-apologists/#ixzz3EAeE8iT1

Poll shows Egyptians in favor of democracy and stoning for adultery

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/02/poll-shows-egyptians-in-favor-of-democracy-and-stoning-for-adultery.html

Muslims Sexually Enslaving Children: A Global Phenomenon. By Raymond Ibrahim

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/raymond-ibrahim/muslims-sexually-enslaving-children-a-global-phenomenon/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dc0908281b-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-dc0908281b-156414477

"Anyone who knows about Islam knows that stoning is Islamic law. There are people who call it inhuman, but in doing so, they insult the prophet"

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/01/anyone-who-knows-about-islam-knows-that-stoning-is-islamic-law-there-are-people-who-call-it-inhuman.html

Stoned to death with her lover: Horrific video of execution of girl, 19, killed by Afghan Taliban for running away from arranged marriage

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350945/Horrific-video-emerges-Taliban-fighters-stoning-couple-death-adultery.html

Muslim Jihadist Murders American Here in US and Obama Ignores It
http://godfatherpolitics.com/17089/muslim-jihadist-murders-american-us-obama-ignores/

Saudi woman beheaded for 'witchcraft and sorcery'

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/13/world/meast/saudi-arabia-beheading/

British pupils taught how to carry out Sharia punishments at Islamic schools

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/british-pupils-taught-how-to-carry-out-sharia-punishments-at-islamic-schools/story-e6frg6so-1225958519673

UN censures Iran for human rights abuses, Iran's "top human rights official" defends stoning

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/11/un-censures-iran-for-human-rights-abuses-irans-top-human-rights-official-defends-stoning.html

: Muslim university students teaching death penalty for apostasy, stoning of adulterers

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/10/uk-muslim-university-students-teaching-death-penalty-for-apostasy-stoning-of-adulterers.html

Muslim Man Massacres 186 Christian Children, And Then Says, “I Don’t Feel Guilty”

http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/09/muslim-man-massacres-186-christian-children-says-dont-feel-guilty/

Iran

Infuriated By Film of Woman's Stoning

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Article/201010115758315

Indonesian women caned for selling food during Muslim festival of Ramadan

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/indonesia/8037264/Indonesian-women-caned-for-selling-food-during-Muslim-festival-of-Ramadan.html

Lawyer: Iranwoman could be stoned to death soon

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100906/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_stoning

Iran

TV airs 'confession' from woman facing stoning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10949629

How Does Stoning Work in Iran?

From the size of the stones to who gets first throw.

http://www.slate.com/id/2262540/

Iranian woman facing death by stoning: "Many nights, before sleeping, I think to myself how can anybody be prepared to throw stones at me; to aim at my face and hands? Why?"

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/07/iranian-woman-facing-death-by-stoning-many-nights-before-sleeping-i-think-to-myself-how-can-anybody.html

Iran stoning case woman fainted on hearing sentence, says cellmate

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/27/iran-stoning-case-woman-cellmate

WAF outraged at jirga’s judgment of stoning to death

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\07\09\story_9-7-2010_pg7_17

Mother of two set to be stoned to death for adultery in Iran

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/06/sharia-alert-mother-of-two-set-to-be-stoned-to-death-for-adultery-in-iran.html

“You cannot imagine the pleasure you get from cutting off a baby’s head.”http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/you-cannot-imagine-the-pleasure-you-get-from-cutting-off-a-babys-head?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=489fcdadb2-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-489fcdadb2-97564174

Toronto mosque again caught advocating stonings and amputations, persecution of non-Muslims

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/06/toronto-mosque-again-caught-advocating-for-stonings-and-amputations-persecution-of-non-muslims.html

78% of Pakistanis favor killing apostates, 83% want adulterers stoned

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/027228.php

Somali woman stoned for adultery

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8366197.stm

N.Y. Jury Finds Arab Bank Liable for Terror Financing

http://www.investigativeproject.org/4580/ny-jury-finds-arab-bank-liable-for-terror

Saudi man executed for 'witchcraft and sorcery'

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-18503550

British woman 'arrested in Dubaiafter being raped'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/dubai/6949008/British-woman-arrested-in-Dubai-after-being-raped.html

Christians flee violence by Islamic extremists in Faisalabad
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Christians-flee-violence-by-Islamic-extremists-in-Faisalabad-18958.html

'Nigerian Muslim Convert' Held by Police After North LondonBeheading

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/09/05/Nigerian-Muslim-Convert-Suspect-Edmonton?utm_source=e_breitbart_com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Breitbart+News+Roundup%2C+September+5%2C+2014&utm_campaign=20140905_m122022899_Breitbart+News+Roundup%2C+September+5%2C+2014&utm_term=More

3 Hindu Girls raped and brutally tortured by Jihadis in West Bengal

http://haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=11599&SKIN=C

Iran

Pastor Facing Execution

http://www.bosnewslife.com/13355-breaking-news-iran-pastor-facing-execution-church-official

Four Men in Two Cities Killed in Acts of Islamic Jihad; Media, Obama, and Holder Silent

http://www.tpnn.com/2014/09/12/four-men-in-two-cities-killed-in-acts-of-islamic-jihad-media-obama-and-holder-silent/

How the Left Gave U.K.Girls to Muslim Rape Gangs

Iran

TV airs 'confession' from woman facing stoning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10949629

Taliban 'kill adulterous Afghan couple'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10983494

Somalia

: Stoning victim 'begged for mercy'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7708169.stm

Excerpt: "Don't kill me, don't kill me," she said, according to the man who wanted to remain anonymous. A few minutes later, more than 50 men threw stones. ... However, Amnesty said it had learned she was 13, and that her father had said she was raped by three men. When the family tried to report the rape, the girl was accused of adultery and detained, Amnesty said.

Iraq

: Teenage girl was stoned to death for loving the wrong boy

http://www.siotw.org/news_english.item.759/teenage-girl-was-stoned-to-death-for-loving-the-wrong-boy.html

Sudan

: Sharia in Action: Pregnant Gang-Rape Victim Charged with Adultery, faces stoning

http://pamelageller.com/2014/02/sharia-action-pregnant-gang-rape-victim-charged-adultery-faces-stoning.html/

U.S.

Muslims ask Obama to block counter-terror training

http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/u-s-muslims-ask-obama-to-block-counter-terror-training/

Nigeria

: Boko Haram stone & buried Chibok Girls to Death clickafrican.com "how barbaric" (Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMrJrF5Irww

British-Iranian woman imprisoned for trying to watch men's volleyball game in Tehran

http://www.humanrightsvoices.org/victims/voices/?p=2677&y=2014

In Pakistan, 1,000 women die in ‘honor killings’ annually.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/05/28/in-pakistan-honor-killings-claim-1000-womens-lives-annually-why-is-this-still-happening/

Libya

new terror hub. The Daily Star, Lebanon.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Editorial/2014/Aug-27/268596-libya-new-terror-hub.ashx#axzz3Cl27jdph

*****

Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic. http://tiny.cc/g02s4 For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s eleven books are listed here: http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html. His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.Permission to forward, post or reprint this piece with credit to the author and without changes is granted.

Update

On the lighter side

https://www.youtube.com/embed/JrsnrirxRNE?rel=0

Military Bloopers--too funny.

General News and Comment

Book Recommendation: Pride and Discipline: The Hallmarks of a United States Marine. By Colonel Donald J. Myers USMC (Ret)

http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Discipline-Donald-J-Myers/dp/1490736360/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411848941&sr=1-2&keywords=Pride+discipline+Myers

This terrific book will be of great interest to Marines and to anyone interested in the military. But it should also be read by anyone who leads (manages) people, as the lessons are valuable in any setting. Col. Myers (who often contributes items for this blog), commanded the Recruit Training Regiment at Marine Corps Boot Camp, Parris Island, SC from 1982 to 1984. He presents the lessons learned, and details the changes in recruit training that took place on his watch. Many are common sense--which is all too uncommon in large organizations, military or civilian. Under his direction, the recruit attrition rate increased, while DI burnout and the number of DIs relieved for abuse went down. There is no question that PI produced higher quality Marines under his tenure than when I graduated from PI on election day, November 3, 1964. (With one possible exception!) Most would say that the DIs are better too, though it's hard for me to imagine betters DIs than Sgt. Owens, Sgt. Martin and Sgt. Harris, who have shaped my life for 50 years, and who are in my thoughts daily. I hope the CMC makes this book required reading for Officers, NCO and especially DIs at both Parris Island and MCRD, San Diego.

Doyle Looked to Replace Burke before She Resigned. By Nathan Schacht

http://mediatrackers.org/wisconsin/2014/09/25/doyle-looked-replace-burke-resigned

Excerpt: An email between then-Gov. Jim Doyle and his chief of staff, Susan Goodwin, show Doyle was looking to replace Mary Burke as commerce secretary a full month before Burke announced she would leave the job. The chain of events that followed Burke’s resignation leaves questions about whether Burke was ready to leave the position of her own accord.

How Sen. Kay Hagan’s husband won stimulus cash

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/kay-hagan-husband-stimulus-cash-111339.html

Excerpt: When Kay Hagan voted for President Barack Obama’s 2009 economic stimulus package, the Democratic senator hailed it as “the best way forward for working families across North Carolina.” One of the families that later benefited is her own. JDC Manufacturing, a company co-owned by the Democratic senator’s husband, Chip, received nearly $390,000 in federal grants for energy projects and tax credits created by the 2009 stimulus law, according to public records and information provided by the company.

Worth Reading: The injustice of Eric Holder. By John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/16/fund-von-spakovsky-the-injustice-of-eric-holder/

Excerpt: Even we were shocked when we researched our new book, “Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department,” at the extent to which Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has politicized the Justice Department and put the interests of left-wing ideology and his political party ahead of the fair and impartial administration of justice. However, there is no doubt that the American public has also recognized just how politically corrupt Mr. Holder is, given this month’s very embarrassing poll conducted by Hart Research for NBC News and The Wall Street Journal.

Watch: Eric Holder Scandal Montage. Sarah Jean Seman

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/sarahjeanseman/2014/09/26/watch-eric-holder-scandal-montage-n1896835?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Excerpt: From Fast & Furious to the IRS scandal, Eric Holder's time as Attorney General of the Department of Justice has been littered with lies.

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Poll: President Obama hits bottom in New York
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/poll-obama-new-york-111292.html

Excerpt: The MaristCollege poll found that 39 percent of the largely Democratic state’s residents think the president is doing an “excellent” or “good” job, the lowest percentage since Obama took office in 2009.

Worth Reading: What ‘War on Women’? By any objective measure, things have been going great for women for a long time. By Jonah Goldberg

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388706/what-war-women-jonah-goldberg

Excerpt: Last Friday, the White House announced its “It’s On Us” initiative aimed at combating sexual assaults on college campuses. I’m all in favor of combating sexual assault, but the first priority in combating a problem is understanding it. That’s not the White House’s first priority. Roughly six weeks before Election Day, its chief concern is to translate an exciting social-media campaign into a get-out-the-vote operation. Accurate statistics are of limited use in that regard because rape and sexual assault have been declining for decades. (The response from feminists — including any number of men who clearly put too much starch in their “This is what a feminist looks like” T-shirts — has been less than adulatory. I wish I could say the criticisms surprised me. Over and over again women dismissed the very idea that there isn’t a war on women because, in the words of one, I am a “white dude.” Now anyone misfortunate enough to have wasted time better spent making replicas of Devil’s Tower out of their mashed potatoes reading left-wing academic gobbledygook knows that this response stands on a huge pile of identity-politics asininity. --Jonah Goldberg, Morning Jolthttp://www.nationalreview.com/newsletters)

Why Do the People Abuse Themselves by over Empowering Government? By Ron Lipsman

http://ronlipsman.com/2014/08/25/why-do-the-people-abuse-themselves-by-over-empowering-government/

There is nothing in the Constitution that grants the federal government the authority to regulate the health care industry, much less the right to actually administer any portion of it. Of course, the same statement can be made about education, disability, retirement, insurance, employment, housing and so many other key aspects of our society and the US economy. That hasn’t stopped the feds from assuming control of these enterprises – sometimes partial, increasingly total. Moreover, all three branches of the government have colluded in the lawlessly unconstitutional usurpation of the people’s rights in these matters.

Good Essay: Equal, Not Identical. By Mike Konrad

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/09/equal_not_identical.html#.VCVuN_t6nQI.mailto

Excerpt: It may be necessary for those who think clearly to be precise in their definitions, particularly when comes to the politically contentious definition of equality. May I suggest that what is being pushed is not equality, but identicality? Let start with a non-human example. Four quarters equals one dollar, but four quarters is not identical to one dollar. One can melt four quarters. A dollar will burn. What our founding fathers, and the founders of Western civilization, referred to when they invoked equality was equality in overall worth, not identicality without distinction. Yet the political discourse extant today conflates the one with the other for demagogic manipulation.

Girl, 11, shoots man attacking mother in southeast Oklahoma City

http://newsok.com/girl-11-shoots-man-attacking-mother-in-southeast-oklahoma-city/article/5345087

Excerpt: Police said Henry broke into the house and began to attack Morenountil her daughter, Jayda Milsap, 11, shot Henry twice with a handgun. Henry tried to flee from the home after being shot and was found down the street, police said.

Critical Minerals: Rare Earths and the U.S.Economy

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24894&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: Rare earths are 17 elements in the Earth's crust used in a variety of applications, from hybrid cars and x-ray units to cell phones and wind turbines. Unfortunately, the United States is largely dependent on Chinafor these critical minerals, posing a serious threat to the American economy, write Ann Norman, senior research fellow, Xinyuan Zou, research associate and Joe Barnett, director of policy research at the NationalCenterfor Policy Analysis.

The Recovery That Left Out Almost Everybody

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24896&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: Total employment has risen every month for more than four years. According to the Current Population Survey, more than eight million jobs have been created since the trough, while the number of unemployed has been cut by nearly six million, according to the Wall Street Journal. And despite the fact that the unemployment rate has fallen by almost 4 percent, average Americans continue to remain gloomy about the current economy and anxious about the future. According to a recent Pew Research report, only 21 percent rate current conditions as excellent or good. 79 percent view conditions as fair or poor. 33 percent agree that jobs are readily available, yet only 26 percent believe that good jobs are available. Even though the recession ended five years ago, only 21 percent of people believe that the recession ended, according to the Public Religion Institute.

Experts Slam D'Souza Sentence: 'Never Should Have Been Prosecuted'

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/DSouza-prosecution-senseless-campaign/20
14/09/23/id/596487/?ns_mail_uid=54869447&ns_mail_job=1587294_09242014&s=a
l&dkt_nbr=uztepry6

The full details are a ridiculous set of requirements, including five full years of therapy. Murderers don't get that, the ACORN vote fraud people didn't get that, what the hell was this judge thinking? But no hard time in jail, which would have been truly insane for what even Liberals see as a very minor transgression. It'll waste the man's time for the next five years in various ways, but that's better than jail time. The judge must be one arrogant SOB to decide he can read D'Souza's mind and figure out that it must be so twisted it needs five years of therapy. But being a Conservative means if you make a mistake, any mistake, you are going to pay for it big time. The other guys, not so much. Read the article if you want all the sordid details. --Del

Woman Who Shot Stalker in the Chest Posts Chilling Account Online

http://gunssavelives.net/self-defense-follow-up/follow-up-woman-who-shot-stalker-in-the-chest-posts-chilling-account-online/?utm_source=Guns+Save+Lives+Daily+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=3834003694-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_eaeaa815c4-3834003694-65796561

Excerpt: I awoke around 115 am to the sound of the door giving way after one kick followed by the sounds of my stalker struggling to dislodge the chair while forcing his way inside. I jumped up and grabbed the gun I’ve learned to do everything even shower with. I stood at the top of my stairs and fired twice. Hitting him in the chest, I hear his scream, his disbelief that I’d stood up for myself.. 0 to 100 in milliseconds.

Left’s Pre-emptive Hits on Walker, Christie, & Perry. By Matt Batzel

http://townhall.com/columnists/mattbatzel/2014/09/27/lefts-preemptive-hits-on-walker-christie--perry-n1897410?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Excerpt: Just this week, two seemingly unrelated events unfolded, but they actually reveal a new liberal tactic. The Hillary Clinton Front-Group, AmericanBridge, filed a bogus federal complaint against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and then a federal probe into New Jersey Governor Chris Christie found no evidence linking Christie to “Bridge-Gate.” Meanwhile, Texas Governor Rick Perry was indicted last month. Make no mistake, these events are related. (We need to reply in kind, but we need to have substance to any charges. The media will tout all left wing charges as true, will try hard to debunk and from conservatives. ~Bob)

Man with implanted horns to jury that convicted him of murder: I'll see you all in hell

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/09/26/man-with-implanted-horns-to-jury-that-convicted-him-murder-ill-see-all-in-hell/

Excerpt: A man who has bumps resembling horns implanted in his forehead has been found guilty of murder and other charges for his role in the kidnapping and slaying of three Massachusettsmen in 2011.

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Race Card News

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As I said on Fox today, about Holder, "he was preoccupied with the color of the criminal, rather than the content on the crime."

Black Genocide And The Black Leaders Who Support It. By Ryan Bomberger

http://townhall.com/columnists/ryanbomberger/2014/09/26/black-genocide-and-the-black-leaders-who-support-it-n1897154?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Excerpt: We have more access to birth control than ever before. Yet the national unintended pregnancy rate hasn’t lowered in decades. It was 49 percent in 1995 and is currently 51 percent according to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute.New York City, the home of Planned Parenthood, is a shining example of what Planned Parenthood has done for black women. The city has epidemic levels of STDs, rampant fatherlessness (72.3 percent), and black babies are aborted at five times the rate of the majority population. In fact, more black babies are aborted than born alive.

Georgia

Rappers Rape Female, Set Her on Fire after Losing Freestyle Battle to Her

http://atlantadailyworld.com/2014/09/22/atlanta-rappers-rape-female-set-her-on-fire-after-losing-rap-battle-to-her/

Excerpt: The three degenerate Columbus, Ga. men — Ketorie Glover, 23, Joey Betrail Garron, 28, and Robert Carl Johnson, 23 — decided to avenge their humiliation for losing to a female by deciding to kidnap her, gang rape her, sodomize her, shoot her and set the victim on fire and leave her for dead. At a house party in Columbus, Ga., about a two-hour drive south of Atlanta, the trio of so-called male rappers met their match in a 36-year-old black female lyricist. During the freestyle battle, she out performed them all. After the third one was defeated by this cocky female rapper, the three men decided to get revenge. (Black on black crime--no big deal to the media. ~Bob)

Ferguson’s $155-an-hour PR man fired after it’s publicized that he’s a convicted killer

http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/09/27/fergusons-155-an-hour-pr-man-fired-after-its-publicized-that-hes-a-convicted-killer-148524?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Excerpt: The man brought in to improve public relations for the city of Ferguson, Mo., has been fired after it was publicized that he is a convicted killer. Devin James was hired at $155-an-hour to handle media requests and help restore public trust after the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

Undocumented Democrat News

Important: Another Massive Tax Loophole!

http://videos2view.net/tax-fraud.htm

This is cute. If you're an illegal, but did work in the system and paid taxes, you get to file a tax report. On it, you get to claim deductions for all the kids you say you are supporting back in the old country. Maybe like a dozen of them, nieces, nephews, whatever. Then you get a return based on that, and if you are poor enough by our legal standards, you get the special tax refund for those kids. Whom nobody in the US can really check on, and besides, why are we helping you take care of your nieces and nephews? Serious ripoff, and something you'd think the IRS would have taken steps to stop. Watch the video. --Del.Remember in November. ~Bob

70% of families from the immigration surge never showed up for follow-up appointments

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/09/26/official-70-families-from-immigration-surge-never-showed-up-for-follow-up/

Show me your shocked face. ~Bob. Excerpt: Tens of thousands of young families caught crossing the border illegally earlier this year subsequently failed to meet with federal immigration agents, as they were instructed, the Homeland Security Department has acknowledged privately. An official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement revealed that about 70 percent of immigrant families the Obama administration had released into the U.S.never showed up weeks later for follow up appointments.

The Military Will Allow Illegals To Serve

http://clashdaily.com/2014/09/screwed-military-will-allow-illegals-serve/

Excerpt: I thought Obama was cutting back on our military personnel and getting picky who could serve? A small number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S.will have an opportunity to join the military for the first time in decades under a new Department of Defense policy unveiled Thursday. (Maybe serving the country is one of those "jobs Americans won't do"? ~Bob)

"You're Greener than Gore" News

The Collection of Evidence for a Lower Climate Sensitivity Continues to Grow – now up to 14 papers lower than IPCC. By Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/09/25/the-collection-of-evidence-for-a-lower-climate-sensitivity-continues-to-grow-now-up-to-14-papers-lower-than-ipcc/

Excerpt: Nic Lewis and Judith Curry just published a blockbuster paper that pegs the earth’s equilibrium climate sensitivity—how much the earth’s average surface temperature is expected to rise in association with a doubling of the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide concentration—at 1.64°C (1.05°C to 4.05°C, 90% range), a value that is nearly half of the number underpinning all of President Obama’s executive actions under his Climate Action Plan. This finding will not stop the President and the EPA from imposing more limits on greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil fuels. A wealth of similar findings have appeared in the scientific literature beginning in 2011 (see below) and they, too, have failed to dissuade him from his legacy mission.

August 2014 Brings Lowest U.S. Tornado Count Since the 1960s

http://www.weather.com/news/tornado-central/august-2014-tornadoes-least-decades-20140829

We owe thanks to the Global Warming Alarmists. They predicted more tornadoes and more hurricanes from global warming--and they are always wrong. ~Bob

Religion of Peace News

Some Clear Examples for John Kerry of "The Real Islam." Compiled by Robert A. Hall

http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2014/09/some-clear-examples-for-john-kerry-of.html

Defanging the Left: Why liberals are staying silent on Obama’s war. By Howard Kurtz

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/26/defanging-left-why-liberals-are-staying-silent-on-obamas-war/

Excerpt: Are liberals giving President Obama a pass for waging the kind of war they would instinctively oppose? In other words, are they opposed to bombing only when the missions are ordered by Republicans? There is anecdotal evidence, at least, that some on the left have lost their antiwar passion now that George W. Bush has decamped to Texas. Which means they’re more about partisanship than principle. (Funeral Services for the Anti-War Movement Will Be Held Next Week. Howard Kurtz writes the obituary of the anti-war movement. Born in 2003, the movement experienced sudden difficulties in January 2009, struggled and limped along for the past few years, and finally collapsed on the street in front of the White House last week: --Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolthttp://www.nationalreview.com/newsletters)

Thank You for Bombing

http://defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/gartenstein-ross-daveed-thank-you-for-bombing/

Excerpt: Washington says its air war on the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Syriais part of a strategy to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the organization. It may have another effect: swelling al Qaeda's ranks and giving the jihadist group that Osama bin Laden founded a new lease on life.

UAE’s first female fighter pilot likely dropping bombs on ISIS militants in Syria

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/uae-female-fighter-pilot-dropping-bombs-isis-article-1.1951052

Excerpt: The first female pilot in the United Arab Emirates' air force is reportedly taking part in the coalition air strikes against ISIS militants hiding in Syria. Maj. Mariam Al Mansouri, 35, is a squadron commander piloting an F-16 Block 60 fighter jet likely among those dropping munitions this week in coordinated attacks against Islamic State strongholds near Raqqa, Aleppo and Idlib.

Mariam Al Mansouri: Female Fighter Pilot Disowned By Family For Bombing ISIS Terrorists In Syria

http://www.inquisitr.com/1500649/mariam-al-mansouri-female-pilot-disowned-by-family-for-bombing-isis-terrorists-in-syria/

Excerpt: Mansouri led three other UAE F-16 pilots in the first airstrike and it’s said that when the “U.S. tanker pilots called in for air refueling and asked for the UAE mission and when they heard a female voice on the other side they paused for 20 seconds.” They then proceeded to drop bombs this week in coordinated attacks against Islamic State strongholds near Raqqa,Aleppo and Idlib. Unfortunately, an Arabic language news site called Wattan.TV is reporting that Mariam Al Mansouri’s family has disowned her for these actions. (Maybe our Air Force could find a place for her. ~Bob)

The Defense of Kobani. By Jonathan Spyer

http://www.meforum.org/4832/the-defense-of-kobani

Excerpt: This week witnessed the second determined attempt by Islamic State forces to destroy the Kurdish enclave around Kobani (Ayn al-Arab) city in northern Syria. Kobani is one of three autonomous enclaves maintained by the Kurds in Syria. As of now, it appears that after initial lightning advances, the progress of the jihadis has been halted; they have not moved forward in the last 24 hours. The arrival of Kurdish forces from across the Turkish border is the key element in freezing the advance.

The Interesting Fact About Some of the Missiles Being Used Against the Islamic State. By Fred Lucas

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/25/the-interesting-fact-about-some-of-the-missiles-being-used-against-the-islamic-state/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=ShareButtons#

Excerpt: The United Statesused Tomahawk cruise missiles to hit the Islamic State in the opening strikes in Syriathis week – a missile system that President Barack Obama’s budget proposal had slated for elimination by 2016. Further, nearly half of the Tomahawk missiles – or 47 percent of what the U.S.planned to buy next year – were already used this week in the strikes, according to Investor’s Business Daily. The administration also sought to eliminate or scale back the F-22 Raptors and the A-10 Warthog, also being used in the conflict with the Sunni militant group.

Top Two Weapons In ISIS Campaign Both Cancelled By Obama

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/25/Top-Two-Weapons-In-US-Campaign-Against-ISIS-Both-Cancelled-By-Obama

Excerpt: In the first night alone of air operations against Syrian based terror targets, the Pentagon fired off nearly half the number of missiles its pared back purchase program permits for all of next year. ... Obama’s cancellation of the cruise missile program baffles defense analysts; given the Administration’s 2012 decision to dramatically shrink the size of U.S. Armed Forces to well below that required to “conduct large-scale, prolonged stability operations.” The less capable the US military is to deal with multiple simultaneous and transglobal crisis, goes the accepted thinking of top brass, the more reliant need so-called “stand-off weapons” like the unmanned ship-fired Tomahawk cruise missile that can reach targets thousands of miles away, to make up for the gap in conventional forces. (Pull your pants down and bend over, we're screwed. --Barb)

Muslim adding to the "Rich Fabric" of America: FBI probing suspect's recent conversion to Islam in Oklahomabeheading

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/09/26/woman-beheaded-at-oklahoma-food-distribution-center-police-say/

Excerpt: FBI officials are investigating a beheading at an Oklahoma food distribution center after co-workers said the suspect tried to convert them to Islam after his recent conversion. The alleged suspect, Alton Nolen, 30, was recently fired from Vaughan Foods in Mooreprior to Thursday’s attack. (Liberals' worst fears...Muslim beheads a woman, shot by 'good guy with a gun'. Imagine that... Headline I want to see: Gun nut shoots man practicing his peaceful religion. --George. Madison paper led with "Workplace Violence." ~Bob. So the guy tries to convert his co-workers to Islam, nobody is buying, so he brings a big knife to work, takes the head off one woman, starts stabbing others, and gets shot, thank heavens, by a company officer who is an OklahomaCounty reserve deputy there who has his gun. [Wasn't that a fortunate thing?] This is the kind of thing that has become part of the landscape now, that we can have fanatic Muslims living here go crazy at any given point and decide it's their day to go full jihad and not worry about dying because the 72 virgins are waiting for them. Yes, it's one guy from maybe ten thousand, but we have several hundred thousand Muslims here now, which means there are always going to be dangers from that tiny fraction of total fanatics. Which is why I am in favor of a lot of FBI surveys of the Muslim population, instead of worrying about "disaffected veterans" as the most likely source of danger here. I would like to have undercover observers in every mosque, at least once in a while, to listen to the sermons and see if anyone is preaching fundamentalism and hatred of the West. That's what they did in Germany, and when they find a mosque that does that, it gets shut down. We didn't tolerate Nazis here once the war started, and we should not tolerate jihadist thinkers here, since that war started for sure on 9-11. This is only common sense, and the will to protect our people. Muslims who are going along living nice, non-fanatic lives, should never be bothered. Those who hate and despise our whole society need to be watched and for my money, sent back to whatever country from which they came. If they were born here, give them a choice of where they would like to go. Sound extremist? People having their heads cut off at work or being shot in their cars or massacred at their own Army base tends to bring out the survival instincts in me, for myself and for my fellow citizens. --Del)

Ex-Muslim Says Beheader’s Mosque in Oklahoma Taught Caliphate, Destruction of US & Israel. By Jim Hoft

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/09/ex-muslim-says-beheaders-mosque-in-oklahoma-taught-caliphate-destruction-of-us-israel/

Excerpt: An ex-Muslim says Imam Imad Enchassi at the Islamic Society mosque of Greater Oklahoma City taught hatred of the US and Israel and global domination by Islam.

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#MuslimOrganizations fear that the beheading will cause "Islamophobia" because of humans irrational fear of having their heads cut off

Mavi Marmara Veteran Killed in Syrian Strike

http://www.investigativeproject.org/4591/mavi-marmara-veteran-killed-in-syrian-strike

A Turkish man who was part of a flotilla that violently tried to break Israel's blockade on Gaza in 2010 has been killed in bombing raids targeting ISIS terrorists in Syria, media reports say. Yakup Bülent Alnıak was in Syria researching a book, a statement from a charity group called Iyilikder, said Jordan's JN News reported. But other reports in Turkish media indicate Alniak was fighting with a rival jihadist group, the al-Qaida tied Al Nusra Front.

Xinjiang unrest: China raises death toll to 50

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-29373158?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief-%20LKY%20PROMO.9.26.14

Excerpt: Fifty people died in violence on Sunday in Xinjiang, Chinese state media said, in what police called a "serious terrorist attack". (50 dead is "unrest"? ~Bob)

Crime and Non-Punishment in Sweden. By Bruce Bawer

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-bawer/crime-and-non-punishment-in-sweden/

Excerpt: It’s no secret that while rape has been on the upswing in recent years across Europe, the figures are higher in Sweden– which, not coincidentally, has Europe’s second highest percentage of Muslim inhabitants – than in an other country on the continent. Yet even as the incidence of rape has soared, Swedenhas continued to treat rapists more leniently than pretty much every other country in the Western world. (I was looking up statistics on rape in the world, and was still a bit surprised to find that Sweden was so badly off by this rating. I have known for years that they had an increasing problem, but didn't know how far it had gone. With young Muslim men at under 10% of the male population in Sweden, it turned out that when they last published statistics, they were committing the vast majority of the rapes. Often being unapologetic about it, because "the girls were asking for it" by the way they dressed. And it turns out that Swedish judges, a large fraction of whom are women by the way, are unbelievably merciful when it comes to sentencing rapists. (But if you say anything publicly that can be considered by any standard as racist, you will be in serious problem with the law posthaste.) To be fair, Swedish sentences for all kinds of crimes would make criminals in many other countries fall on the ground laughing, and the conditions of their prisons make me wonder if the way to nice retirement with full medical care is to go to Sweden and threaten a bank teller with a butter knife to get a few dozen Kroner in cash. I'm sure if at the same time I screamed out hateful things about gays, transgenders, Buddhists, or women, it could add up to at good ten years of not working. With access to a nice gym, TV, and maybe a DVD player. Seriously, you have to wonder how it is that intelligent people worry more about the criminals than the victims. Aggravated rape by several men at a time is the kind of thing that scars a woman for the rest of her life, it's a continuous, prolonged, deeply personal violation that gives you memories that don't fade all that much with time. And by these incredibly mild sentences the judges broadcast a message that even if you get caught, it just won't be that bad. Making people have some respect, even some fear, of the consequences of breaking laws is kind of important to a society. When a society stops discouraging criminal behavior, chances are fair it might just increase. How can those judges believe they are fulfilling their responsibilities to the victims with such sentences? Right now I can only wonder how those Swedish fathers feel about their daughters' experiences and how little it meant for the perpetrators. I don't know what to say about someone who rapes my daughter and walks away from it somehow ........ except that he will, I am certain, have the Great Wheel come around and find in his life reason to come to sincerely regret his earlier behavior. --Del. Now, now, rape of immodest infidel women is part of Muslim culture and according to the left we shouldn't judge because all cultures are equally valid. Except western culture, especially rural white culture in the US. ~Bob)

AQAP executes Yemeni intelligence director

http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2014/09/aqap_executes_yemeni_intellige.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29

Excerpt: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) announced yesterday that its members have executed an intelligence director in the central province of al Dale'. The intelligence director, identified as Mohammad Taher al Shami, was killed along with four of his associates in the city of Rada'. Some reports identify al Shami as a political security director in the province.

Denmark: Christians flee Muslim-dominated areas, “They tell me I ought to be stoned to death.” By Nicolai Sennels

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/denmark-christians-flee-muslim-dominated-areas-they-tell-me-i-ought-to-be-stoned-to-death?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=39f0756260-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-39f0756260-97564174

Excerpt: Jojo was born in Denmark of Lebanese parents. She lived in Gellerupparken (a major Muslim area) until she was eight. One day she sat in her car in Nørrebro (a Muslim-dominated area in Copenhagen). Seven young people with Arab background surrounded the car. One of them put his foot up on the hood and stared at her. “Do you think I’m looking at you, you fucking ugly whore. Try to see what clothes you wear, bitch,” he said to Jojo, who dresses as Danish women do: shorts and a t-shirt in the summer. Then he noticed the cross around her neck.

Taliban Behead 12 People in RemoteAfghanProvince

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/afghanistan-taliban-behead-12-civilians-25773716

Excerpt: The Taliban beheaded 12 Afghan civilians, mostly family members of local policemen, in an assault that was part of a week-long offensive that has so far killed 60 people and wounded scores in a remote province in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Friday.

Islamic State fight could breathe new life into the A-10

http://www.stripes.com/news/islamic-state-fight-could-breathe-new-life-into-the-a-10-1.305147

Excerpt: Months after staving off a trip to the boneyard, the embattled A-10 Thunderbolt II is headed to the Middle East where it could be used to fight Islamic militants in Iraqand Syria. An Indiana Air National Guard unit that flies the Cold War-era gunships, known as Warthogs, is planning to deploy about 300 airmen and an unknown number of its aircraft to the U.S. Central Command region early next month, says a Sept. 17 news release from the unit.

Update

Correction: In my review in my last post of Pride and Discipline, I misstated that recruit attrition had increased on Col. Myers' watch. I meant decreased. My bad. Bends and thrusts for me, many, many of them. Ready begin!

Haven't done a health update lately. Things on a steady keel. Slow progress. Had allergy attacks on Thursday--Friday, and missed rehab on Friday. But I went to the Y with Bonnie Saturday and made it all up. They dropped my FEV numbers with lots of mucus and coughing, but my O2 sats stayed very good. ~Bob

Letter to the Editor: Madison VA hospital care is good -- Robert A. Hall

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/opinion/mailbag/madison-va-hospital-care-is-good----robert/article_e6b8b018-1f20-5a45-94cd-0669d6102325.html

General News and Comment

Reminder: Remember when Holder said no president had been attacked like Obama has?

public pension gap at least $2 trillion: Moody's

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102035411

Excerpt: The U.S.public pension gap has tripled to at least $2 trillion in less than a decade, Moody's Investors Service said in a report on Thursday. Moody's measured the unfunded liabilities for the 25 biggest public retirement systems between 2004 and 2012. The total future shortfall is more than half the size of the $3.7 trillion municipal bond market, which comprises all the outstanding debt issued by U.S. states and cities. (One of the factors cited in The Coming Collapse of the AmericanRepublic: And what you can do to prevent it.By Robert A. Hall

http://tiny.cc/g02s4)

BridgeportState Rep. Christina Ayala arrested on 19 voting fraud charges

http://www.nhregister.com/government-and-politics/20140926/bridgeport-state-rep-christina-ayala-arrested-on-19-voting-fraud-charges

Excerpt: HARTFORD>> State Rep. Christina “Tita” Ayala, D-Bridgeport, was arrested Friday on 19 voting fraud charges. Ayala, 31, is accused of voting in local and state elections in districts she did not live, the ChiefState’s Attorney’s Office said in a press release. (Must be bogus. My liberal friends assure me that voter fraud is a GOP myth to keep minorities from voting. ~Bob)

Obama Compares His Actions to Washington, Lincoln, FDR

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/obama-compares-his-actions-washington-lincoln-fdr

Excerpt: “This is what happens at the end of wars,” President Barack Obama boasted Tuesday when he was asked about swapping American Army Sgt. Deserter for five vicious Taliban terrorists. "That was true for George Washington... That was true for Abraham Lincoln and that was true for FDR. That’s been true of every combat situation, that at some point, you make sure that you try to get your folks back... And that’s the right thing to do.” Really? That statement blatantly demonstrates that the most powerful man in the World and two term President of the United States lacks even a grade school level of knowledge of American History; specifically, history as it relates to three of our most famous Presidents ... (The article is a beautiful example of how ignorant our President, plus his entire corps of speechwriters and advisors, are. It's utterly depressing to realize this man and his team are in charge of our nation, and we elected him THE SECOND TIME. Some days I wonder if we are just doomed. --Del.Any day you don't wonder, Del, call me and I'll set you straight. ~Bob)

Unions, Internet Giants Plan To Revolutionize Voting. Want elections by smart phone 'just a click away.' By Aaron Klein

http://mobile.wnd.com/2014/09/unions-internet-giants-plan-to-revolutionize-voting/

Excerpt: The AFL-CIO union has teamed up with an online voter advocacy group funded by Internet giants and left-wing billionaire George Soros in a new online voter registration drive, WND has found. The People’s World, a news website associated with the Communist Party USA, reported last week that the “voter registration” plan is “just a click away.” Reports the magazine: “The AFL-CIO has teamed up with TurboVote to make voting easy for you and for your friends and family. Not only can you register or update your registration, but TurboVote will help you with absentee ballots, vote-by-mail information, finding your polling place and even sending reminders by email and text so you won’t forget to vote.” (I was a member of the Massachusetts' Legislatures election Laws Committee. The Dems figured I could do no harm as the reform bills I was pushing weren't going anywhere. My first election, every city and town used paper ballots. Of course, people can screw up anything--some wrote angry messages to the government on the ballot as though the volunteer counting them cared. I won the election by 9 votes, but the recount by 126, thankfully--or the senate might have tossed ten o my votes and seated the incumbent Dem. The Commonwealth was switching over to machines. The head of the states elections department, a man of decades of service making sure that elections were as fair and honest as possible, told me that he was opposed to machine voting. "There is no machine made that cannot be fixed. With paper, at least you have a record." Internet voting will make your vote as secure as your credit card at Target or your personal information at healthcare.gov. ~Bob)

Hong Kong: Protesters defiant amid stand-off

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-29405195?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief-%20LKY%20PROMO.9.29

Excerpt: Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters are blocking Hong Kong's streets, shutting down its business hub and ignoring appeals to leave. The demonstrations have spread to other areas including a shopping district and a residential area. Riot police withdrew on Monday after overnight clashes in which they used batons and fired volleys of tear gas to try to disperse the crowds.

A Turning Point in the Fight for Hong Kong. Beijing remains unlikely to cave to pro-democracy protesters' demands, but it is now losing hearts and minds. By Rachel Lu

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/09/28/the_fight_for_hong_kong_moves_to_a_new_battlefield?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief-%20LKY%20PROMO.9.29

Excerpt: Future generations may well commemorate Sept. 28, 2014 in the history of Hong Kong as the day when the famously apolitical city turned unmistakably political. Tens of thousands of protesters, callingfor "true democracy" -- that is, no Beijing-led nomination process in the planned 2017 election for the city's chief executive, its top government official -- confronted the police in the heart of Hong Kong.

Vote-Buying: Obamaphone use grew 100-fold in 3 years in Md. to twice the number eligible

http://washingtonexaminer.com/obamaphone-use-grew-100-fold-in-3-years-in-md.-to-twice-the-number-eligible/article/2554042?utm_campaign=Fox%20News&utm_source=foxnews.com&utm_medium=feed

Excerpt: Six-hundred-and-forty-five thousand Maryland residents had so-called Obamaphones in 2012 — one hundred times as many people as there were in 2009, and double the number in that state who are supposed to be eligible for the program based on their income. The program, officially called Lifeline, is run by the Federal Communications Commission and imposes hefty fees on every paying customer to give free phone service to low-income Americans. The profits to telecom companies from the free, government-provided phone service are so great that in Nebraska alone, 51 corporations, many of them who are not even traditional phone companies building infrastructure and attracting paying subscribers, fought for a piece of the pie.

Obama Bans Landmine Use Against Military Leaders’ Advice. Administration begins destroying stockpiles despite warnings. By Adam Kredo

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/25/obama-bans-landmine-use-against-military-leaders-a/

Excerpt: The Obama administration has banned the U.S. military from using anti-personnel landmines in a unilateral decision that goes against warnings from top military leaders and many in Congress. The administration stated in a series of announcements this week that landmines will no longer be used and that the Defense Department would begin destroying stockpiles of the devices, which have historically been used to protect U.S. forces from enemies in warzones. (Our enemies, of course, can still use them. Another PC decision that will kill American troops. ~Bob)

Race Card News

Al Sharpton Empowered. Eric Holder’s legacy: Enabling Sharpton’s “I have a scheme” civil-rights agenda By John Fund& Hans von Spakovsky

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/389033/al-sharpton-empowered-john-fund-hans-von-spakovsky

Excerpt: Even some of his supporters agree he’s been confrontational and polarizing. Juan Williams of Fox News rails against anti-Holder “scandalmongers” but then admits “the Justice Department has devolved into the heart of Washingtondarkness, the absolute pit of modern political polarization in my lifetime.” One reason for that polarization is that, thanks to direct support from Holder and President Obama himself, the Reverend Al Sharpton has now become the nation’s leading African-American civil-rights leader. ... Al Sharpton has never apologized to Steven Pagones, the assistant district attorney he falsely accused of raping Tawana Brawley, a black teenager, in 1987. (No white leader, without the media's conspiracy of silence, would have survived something as damming as Sharpton's Tawana Brawley scandal. ~Bob)

12 black thugs attack, beat up 6 month pregnant white woman – national media silent

http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2014/09/24/12-black-thugs-attack-beat-6-month-pregnant-white-woman-national-media-silent/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FireAndreaMitchell+%28Fire+Andrea+Mitchell%21+Exposing+Liberal+bias+cause+the+MSM+doesn%27t+have+to.%29

Excerpt: Remember Sanford, Florida? Ground Zero of the Trayvon Martin case? I bet you didn’t hear about 12 black thugs beating uptheir white neighbors, including Ashley Flournoy who was six months pregnant. (It's only a hate crime if the victims are black and the perps are white. ~Bob)

Shock: Black Babies Comprise 78% of Abortions in Mississippi

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/09/25/shock-black-babies-comprise-78-of-abortions-in-mississippi/

Excerpt: Recall that abortion disproportionately impacts the African American community. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that black Americans had a staggering 42% of all abortions in America in 2008 (the most recent year for which abortion data is available) yet according to the Census Bureau, African Americans composed only 12.6 percent of the total population. (If Planned Parenthood was a Republican organization, liberals would call this genocide. How about billboards: "Support Planned Parenthood: They keep the welfare rolls down! ~Bob)

Older but important: The Lie Behind the Lynch Mob. By John Perazzo

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/john-perazzo/lynch-mob-rage-based-on-a-lie/

Excerpt: Meanwhile, the trend for African Americans was moving in precisely the opposite direction: In 1978, black suspects were 49% of those killed by police. By 1988, that figure had fallen to 39%. And ten years after that, it stood at 35%. Most cases where police killed suspects during 1976-98 were same-race incidents: When W&H officers were the killers, the suspects were usually W&H (63%). And when black officers were the killers, the suspects were usually black (81%).

Tweet from DiDiCim ‏@Miss_Didi23

i condone police killings. bc Revolutions have always required casualties. #fergusonbust back young bucks

Interesting: Fergusonfrom a police perspective

http://www.hiphoprepublican.com/chris-ladd-ferguson-from-a-police-perspective/

Excerpt: As a former law enforcement officer with some executive as well as street experience involving shootings and civil unrest, I have been appalled by how this case has evolved. I have seen errors made before, but this is wrong from just about every direction possible. From experience I can pretty well assume how this thing started, but that would be unfair for me to interject my hunches without factual backup.

Obamacare/Government Healthcare News

The Bungling of Bundled Payments. By Sally Pipes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2014/09/22/the-bungling-of-bundled-payments/?utm_source=followingweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20140929

Excerpt: Obamacare’s two chief goals were to cut the number of uninsured and reduce the cost of healthcare. At least one of the law’s primary ways of fulfilling the latter goal appears to be failing. The RAND Corporation recently examineda pilot effort by several Californiahospitals to replace their conventional fee-for-service model with “bundled payments.” Rather than pay for all the individual components and procedures that go into a knee replacement, for example, insurers just remit one lump sum for the entire episode of care. The initiative started in 2010. Four years later, the results are not promising. Indeed, as the RAND researchers reported, “The pilot did not succeed.”

Undocumented Democrat News

Mexican Cartel Beat Texan To Death After Kidnapping And Torturing Him

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/09/25/American-Citizen-Beaten-To-Death-By-Cartel-Members-Another-Citizen-Injured

Excerpt: An American citizen was beaten to death by drug cartel members while another barely managed to survive the kidnapping and torture just south of the Texasborder.

Teens who crossed US-Mexico border alone entering schools

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/09/29/teens-who-crossed-us-mexico-border-alone-entering-schools/?intcmp=latestnews

Excerpt: Some can barely read or write in their native language. U.S. schools are now dealing with the fallout from the dramatic spike in the number of children and teenagers who crossed into the United Statesunaccompanied by family; the Supreme Court has ruled that they have an obligation to educate all students regardless of their immigration status.... Large numbers of these students have moved to metropolitan areas such as Washington, D.C., Miamiand Houston, but also to communities of all sizes in nearly every state, according to federal data. (Gee, I thought they weren't revealing where they dumped them....to be someone else's "legal" problem. That's ironic. --Barb)

"You're Greener than Gore" News

Tweet from jon gabriel ‏@exjon

Why do those screaming the loudest about rising ocean levels keep buying mansions on the "doomed" coastlines?

Coming to your electric bill: Germany's Coal Binge

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24900&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: The German shift to renewable power sources that started in 2000 has brought the green share of German electricity up to around 25%. But the rest of the energy mix has become more heavily concentrated on coal, which now accounts for some 45% of power generation and growing, according to the Wall Street Journal. Germany's feed-in tariff, which requires distributors to buy electricity from green generators at fixed prices before buying from other sources, was part of Germany's strategy to intervene in the market. Germans pay for market distortions, paying about $129 billion extra on electricity bills since 200. The government estimates that these market distortions could cost the taxpayer 1 trillion Euros by 2040. This intervention tried to generate more use of green energy, but ended up having the opposite effect. The tariff, for example, deprived generators of revenue and made it harder for them to forecast demand. The more attractive option was to favor cheap coal plants whenever renewables didn't deliver as promised.

Important: Earth-Friendly Energy Is Anything But

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24901&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: Environmentalists worship solar energy and wind power as Earth-friendly answers to their ecological prayers. Tortoises, bats, butterflies, and bald eagles beg to differ, says Deroy Murdock, media fellow with the Hoover Institution. Consider the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California's Mojave Desert. It features 300,000 mirrors that focus sunlight on three 40-story towers of power. Inside, 900-degree temperatures yield steam, propel turbines, and generate electricity for 140,000 homes. Ivanpah's environmental toll is stunning: BrightSource Energy, the project's owner, could have rehabilitated a brownfield, an abandoned commercial site, or a decommissioned military base. Instead, BrightSource developed 5.5 square miles of virgin desert. Tortoises native to that area became refugees once BrightSource relocated them en masse. Kit-fox dens were flattened during construction. Monarch butterflies and birds should avoid Ivanpah at all costs. Those who traverse its highly concentrated sunbeams often ignite. Center for Biological Diversity ecologist K. Shawn Smallwood told the California Energy Commission last July that Ivanpah will roast an estimated 28,380 birds annually. (When environmentalists sacrificed millions of third world kids to Malaria by banning DDT, birds were sacred. Now green energy is sacred, tough for the birds. ~Bob)

Religion of Peace News

Worth Reading: Where's "Patton"? By Andy Weddington

http://acoloneloftruth.blogspot.com/2014/09/wheres-patton.html

Excerpt: He was not crazy but a blunt-spoken realist warrior. And American gullibility soon substantiated.

Islamic Terror Attacks in the last 30 days

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=6c2735baf4&view=lg&msg=148b6aa5b6657d15

The list I forwarded was clipped. This the full list is her. ~Bob

Worth Reading: Why Obama Can’t Say His Spies Underestimated ISIS

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/28/why-obama-can-t-say-his-spies-underestimated-isis.html

Excerpt: Reached by The Daily Beast after Obama’s interview aired, one former senior Pentagon official who worked closely on the threat posed by Sunni jihadists in Syria and Iraq was flabbergasted. “Either the president doesn’t read the intelligence he’s getting or he’s bullshitting,” the former official said. ... Still, other senior intelligence officials have been warning about ISIS for months. In prepared testimony before the annual House and Senate intelligence committees’ threat hearings in January and February, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the recently departed director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said the group would likely make a grab for land before the end of the year. (Doesn't read the intel or BSing? Likely both. ~Bob. Would the United Statesand other free nations be better or worse off with terrorists like Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi running Iraq? And would the United States be more or less safe with Iraq ruled by extremists intent on its destruction? A precipitous withdrawal from Iraq would be a victory for the terrorists, an invitation to further the violence against free nations and a terrible blow to the future security of the United States of America. --Vice President Cheney, November 21, 2005:)

Obama: We underestimated Islamic State extremists

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2014/0928/Obama-We-underestimated-Islamic-State-extremists?cmpid=addthis_twitter

Excerpt: Asked if his administration had overestimated the Iraq army's ability to fight ISIS, Obama answered, "That's true. That's absolutely true.” (ISISterrorists are fighting for Allah. Iraq's troops are fighting for a pay check. ~Bob)

Obama Throws Intelligence Under the Bus. From The Patriot Post

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The U.S.intelligence community is now sporting the tread marks of the Obama-Mobile after the commander in chief said they "underestimated" the rise of the Islamic State. In a CBS "60 Minutes" interview, Barack Obama said it's "absolutely true" that U.S. intelligence "underestimated what had been taking place in Syria." He admitted al-Qaida in Iraq"went back underground" until chaos gave them a chance to "reconstitute themselves" -- and we missed it. This blame game is yet another pathetic political dodge by the president. He is the one who repeated the 2012 campaign fairytale that al-Qaida was "decimated," despite the large intelligence haul from the bin Laden raid indicating otherwise. He is the one essentially seeking a mulliganon his failed policy of fleeing Iraq. Yet the pathological narcissist in the Oval Office is telling us it's really the fault of U.S.intelligence. The buck stops, er, over there.

Official: White House aware of ISIS threat for over a year

http://video.foxnews.com/v/3811819975001/official-white-house-aware-of-isis-threat-for-over-a-year/#sp=show-clips

18 months he had info but GOLF more important than US security briefings. He WANTS this. Throwing US intelligence under the bus? You can keep your doctor, your insurance deductible is lower, butter is cheap at $5.28 a pound now, no inflation. If you believe anything out of this guy's mouth, you deserve what you don't get. --Barb.

Intel Chief Blasts Obama. By Stephen F. Hayes

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/intel-chief-blasts-obama_802242.html

Excerpt: As the world watches the strengthening of global jihadist movements – from ISIS to al Qaeda to dozens of affiliated and like-minded groups – one of those inside the U.S.government who was most vocal about the growing threats is leaving his position. General Michael Flynn served as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency from July 2012 until last week. Throughout his tenure he challenged the Obama administration’s hopeful and inaccurate narrative about the war against al Qaeda and jihadists – pushback that doubtless contributed to his early departure from the agency. Flynn isn’t leaving quietly.

Nuclear Power Play? Iran signals interest in trade-off for ISIS help

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/26/iran-hints-at-interest-in-nuclear-trade-off-for-isis-help/

Excerpt: The Iranian government appears to be steadily leveraging the Islamic State crisis by dangling the possibility of cooperation against the terror group in exchange for a favorable deal on its nuclear program -- despite the Obama administration's insistence that the issues are not linked. (They really think Obama is dumb. let's hope not this dumb. ~Bob)

Video: Will bankers not 'boots on the ground' beat ISIS?

http://video.foxnews.com/v/3809866703001/will-bankers-not-boots-on-the-ground-beat-isis/#sp=show-clips

A very interesting discussion about the finances of ISIS and whether that's a really important vulnerability. Personally, I'm with Ben Stein on this, yeah, do every bit on the banking thing you can, find out who's buying the pirated oil and come down on them, come down on every bank that is handling their money, all that is great. But yes, they have enough millions of bucks already to keep themselves going very nicely for a very long time, almost indefinitely. And we'll never stop the flow from Muslim "charities" to them, enough for them to buy bullets and RPGs and food for the troops. If things get rough on the people who live under their control, they won't care. So the main focus has to be how to really destroy them, and that means a lot more than cutting off a lot of their money. Ben Stein is just always both highly intelligent and highly practical. --Del

Free Syrian Army Brigade Armed w/Missiles by Obama Objects to Strikes on Al Qaeda. By Daniel Greenfield

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/free-syrian-army-brigade-armed-wmissiles-by-obama-objects-to-strikes-on-al-qaeda/#.VCdfyOxBH3A.twitter

Excerpt: Even rebels who supported the strikes on the Islamic State criticized the targeting of the Nusra Front, which they consider a loyal partner in the battle against Mr. Assad. “It is not the right time to target the Nusra Front,” said Lt. Col. Fares al-Bayyoush, whose rebel group has received support from the United Statesand its allies.

Military analyst: ISIS'will never be destroyed'

http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/military-analyst-isis-will-never-be-destroyed/

Excerpt: Retired U.S. Navy Capt. Chuck Nash says radical groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, can never be completely eradicated, and any meaningful degrading of the terrorist army will only come with competent ground forces working in tandem with powerful airstrikes like Americans saw Monday night. ... “It will never be destroyed. The violent element is in the DNA of Islam. It’s in their documents. Moderates and radicals read the same documents and draw their inspiration from the same religious texts. It will never disappear. It can only be degraded,” said Nash, who is also a military analyst for the Fox News Channel.

U.S. Bombing Campaign in Syria and Iraq: Strategic and Legal Ramifications. By Andrew C. McCarthy

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/388692/us-bombing-campaign-syria-and-iraq-strategic-and-legal-ramifications-andrew-c-mccarthy

Excerpt: 1. As significant as the strikes on IS/ISIS are the attacks against al-Qaeda franchises that have not broken away from original al-Qaeda. I’ve been arguing for a few weeks (e.g., here) that IS/ISIS is not even half of the equation — that al-Qaeda is also more powerful than it was prior to 9/11/01. Shortly after that, we got congressional from Obama’s national-security team and other administration statements to the effect that al-Qaeda could be a more imminent threat to attack the US (even if IS/ISIS is currently the more powerful of the two networks in Iraq/Syria). 2. If the administration is accurately stating that the al-Qaeda threat is imminent, the strategic importance of hitting al-Qaeda targets is obvious. But it is also worth considering the significant legal considerations.

Important: Libya Pleads for Help in Battling Terror Groups. By Mohammed Daraghmeh

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/libya-pleads-battling-terror-groups-25805967?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief-%20LKY%20PROMO.9.29

Excerpt: Libya pleaded with the international community on Saturday to help it stand up to Islamist-allied militias that have taken control of government buildings, saying the United Nations must impose sanctions or risk a terrorist expansion throughout North Africa. Ageila Saleh Eissa, president of the House of Representatives, addressed the annual U.N. General Assembly of world leaders after weeks of fighting among rival militias in Libyaforced nearly a quarter-million people to flee their homes. (Hey, Barack, how's that non-Congress-authorized, lead-from-behind war to bring Arab Spring Democracy to Libyaworking out for you? ~Bob)

Allen West: 'Islamist Sympathizer' Obama Blind To Radical Ideology Of Jihadists

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/29/Allen-West-Islamist-Sympathizer-Obama-Blind-to-Radical-Ideology-of-Jihadists

Excerpt: On Breitbart News Sunday, former Rep. Col. Allen West (R-FL) said last week's Oklahoma beheading was a "jihadist attack" and not an act of "workplace violence," and he warned that President Barack Obama's refusal to fully appreciate the dangers of radical Islam will make Americans less safe at home and abroad. Speaking to host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125, West said Obama refuses to acknowledge the "radical Islamist" threat, instead asserting that "ISIS is not Islamic" and insisting that "Islam teaches peace." West said it was insidious that administration officials have met with radical Islamists, and he stated that "the enemy is here."

Interesting picture of the "suspect.: Okla. beheading suspect arrested, linked to imam who raised money with al Qaeda leader

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/27/okla-beheading-suspect-linked-to-radical-imam-with/?cache1

Excerpt: An imam with known ties to former Al Qaeda mastermind Anwar al Awlakiappears to have influenced the life of Alton Nolen, the former Vaughan Foods employee accused of beheading a woman in Moore, Oklahomaon Thursday. FBI documents show that Suhaib Webb, who was once the leader of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, had ties to the radical American cleric al Awlaki, Breitbart reported Saturday. Al Awlakiwas killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemenin September, 2011.

Allah Made Me Do It. By Daniel Greenfield

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/allah-made-me-do-it-2/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=f9c19163dc-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-f9c19163dc-156414477

Excerpt: Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. A Muslim convert who recently became very religious beheads a woman while reportedly shouting Islamic phrases. The authorities rush to convince everyone in sight that it has nothing to do with Islam.

Second OklahomaISIS‘Lone Wolf’ Jihadi Threatens To Beheaded Christian Co-Worker
http://patdollard.com/2014/09/american-jihad-the-war-is-on-kill-or-be-killed-oklahoma-isis-lone-wolf-jihadi-threatens-to-beheaded-co-worker/

Excerpt: A fired Oklahoma City nursing home employee was arrested Friday after a co-worker reported he threatened to cut her head off. ... She said Muriithi identified himself as a Muslim and said he “represented ISIS and that ISIS kills Christians,” the detective told a judge in the affidavit. The two had not worked together before.

Village Forced to Raise Taxes After Muslim Refugee Family Consumes 1/3 of Budget. By Daniel Greenfield

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/village-forced-to-raise-taxes-after-muslim-refugee-family-consumes-13-of-budget/#.VCdfHcLJMHU.twitter

Excerpt: A village of just 1,000 residents in Switzerland has been forced to raise taxes because an African refugee and her seven children cost the local authority $65,000 in benefits every month. Hagenbuch, in the Swiss canton of Zurich, is understood to be spending close to a third of its total annual budget on the family after they arrived from Eritrea in East Africathree years ago.

'The Devil's Share': FGM In Mauritania and Senegal" FGM is widespread in Mauritania and Senegal, where it is believed to be "the devil’s share" of a woman’s body where the devil hides. (Warning graphic images)

http://m.clarionproject.org/news/devils-share-fgm-mauritania-and-senegal

Man shouts 'Jews, Jews, Jews,' fires on group walking near private school

http://www.abc2news.com/news/crime-checker/baltimore-county-crime/man-shouts-jews-jews-jews-fires-on-group-walking-near-private-school

Excerpt: “The weapon appeared to be some type of BB or air gun. The driver yelled ‘Jews, Jews, Jews’ at the victims and fired the weapon in their direction.” ... The suspect is described as a white male, brown hair, dark complexion, possibly of Middle Eastern descent.

Thanks To Islam & Political Correctness, Beheading Has Hit the Heartland. By Doug Giles

http://clashdaily.com/2014/09/thanks-islam-political-correctness-beheading-hit-heartland/

Excerpt: Last week I penned a column titled, “THANKS TO ISLAM: ‘Beheading’ Has Been Re-introduced Into Our Discussions”. In the column that I penned seven days ago I put forth this warning: “For those of us in the U.S. still skipping around the maypole with rose-colored glasses on, thinking beheadings will never happen in our neck of the woods — I’m sure that’s what the UK thought prior to Lee Rigby’s beheading last year.”

US killed 2 'Arabs' in first drone strike in South Waziristan in more than a year

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/09/us_killed_2_arabs_in.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29

Excerpt: Today the USlaunched its first drone strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan in more than a year. The CIA-operated remotely piloted Predators or Reapers struck a compound in the town of Wanain South Waziristan, Pakistani officials and Taliban fighters told Dawn. "Two Arab militants and two of their local allies" were killed in the airstrike, the officials and Taliban fighters said.

Worth Reading: The Islamic State . . . of Saudi Arabia. Between beheadings, they’ll help train the “moderate” Syrian rebels. By Andrew C. McCarthy

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388460/islamic-state-saudi-arabia-andrew-c-mccarthy

Excerpt: And let’s not kid ourselves: We know there will be more beheadings in the coming weeks, and on into the future. Apostates from Islam, homosexuals, and perceived blasphemers will face brutal persecution and death. Women will be treated as chattel and face institutionalized abuse. Islamic-supremacist ideology, with its incitements to jihad and conquest, with its virulent hostility toward the West, will spew from the mosques onto the streets. We will continue to be confronted by a country-sized breeding ground for anti-American terrorists. The Islamic State? Sorry, no. I was talking about . . . our “moderate Islamist” ally, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Irony Alert: AQAP Twitter-warrior killed in Friday drone strike

http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2014/09/aqap_twitter-warrior_killed_in.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29

Excerpt: Arabic media outlets and Twitter accounts linked to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) announcedthe death an AQAP leader named Abd al Aziz al Omari as result of a US drone strike in al Jawf on September 26. Al Omari, a Saudi who went by a variety of noms-de-guerreincluding Muslim al Azdi, Abu Omar al Kholani, and Abu Muslim al Kholani, is especially remembered for his role in running well-known Twitter accounts that are critical of the American drone program in Yemen.

Wheelchair-bound detective helped FBI catch Osama’s son-in-law. By Kirstan Conley

http://nypost.com/2014/09/23/this-detective-tracked-down-osamas-son-in-law-from-a-wheelchair/

Excerpt: Detective Terry McGhee tracked down the top terrorist brought to trial in the USsince 9/11 — and he did it from a wheelchair. “If it weren’t for this guy, Abu Ghaith never would have made it to American soil,” one law enforcement source said of McGhee, who was paralyzed in an accident six years ago but refused to retire. (The publicity could make him a target. ~Bob)

Interesting: Progressives’ Moral Equivalence. By Derek Hunter

http://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2014/09/28/progressives-moral-equivalence-n1897566?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Excerpt: You’ve seen this a lot in the last decade and a half: progressives asserting a moral equivalence between radial Islam and Christianity. The argument usually goes something like, “Yeah, sure, terrorists are bad, but they’re hardly the only people to kill in the name of their religion!” Then there’s the obligatory reference to the crusades. OK, sure, Christianity, like most religions, has had some less-than-flattering moments. But it’s history. If you can point me to the mass graves, severed heads or (destroyed) buildings for Christianity in our lifetime… no need to finish that sentence because there aren’t any. (The Crusades were a reaction to Islam's attempt to conquer Europe. Before the Crusades, they conquered Spain, and invaded France, were turned back by Charles Martel and his valiant warriors at the battle of Tours, 732. The Islamic attempts to conquer Europe continued for centuries, were defeated at Vienna in 1529 and 1683, at Lepanto in 1571, where 12,000 Christian galley slaves were freed from the Muslims. Where are Charles Martel and Don John of Austriawhen we need them? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto~Bob)

Battle of Lepanto

Baby-faced weapon: Boy, 9, heaps praise on ‘martyrs’ and ‘mujahideen’ engaged in bloody jihads throughout the Middle East

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/babyfaced-weapon-boy-9-heaps-praise-on-martyrs-and-mujahideen-engaged-in-bloody-jihads-throughout-the-middle-east/story-fni0cx12-1227072133905?nk=404377324df8c57dfd0f8f8f3bfbb610

Excerpt: All of nine years old, he stands at the front of a gathering in Sydney reciting passages from the Koran and lecturing followers on the importance of sacrifice in Islam. The little boy, who according to his father’s social media profile enjoys trips to McDonald’s and dinosaur exhibitions when he’s not giving sermons, heaps praise on “martyrs” and “mujahideen” engaged in bloody jihads throughout the Middle East.

KFC Customer Asks for Bacon, Muslim Employee Says “F*CK YOU B*TCH”

http://clashdaily.com/2014/09/kfc-customer-asks-bacon-muslim-employee-says-fck-btch/

Hard to tell the reason from the video, but he's mad! The customer may be Muslim too--you can only see the edges of a person there. ~Bob

Fears of More Radicalised Children as 'Trojan Horse 2' Scandal Emerges In London

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/09/28/New-Trojan-Horse-Scandal-As-East-London-Hit

Excerpt: A new wave of British schools are thought to have fallen victim to Islamist extremists trying to radicalise children, a report in today's Sunday Times suggests. Department for Education officials are said to have become increasingly concerned over a 'Trojan Horse 2' scandal which they believe could involve dozens of schools in East London, including in the Borough of Tower Hamlets, known for its Islamist-linked Mayor Lutfur Rahman.

Michael Harari, Israeli Agent Likened to James Bond, Dies at 87

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/world/middleeast/michael-harari-israeli-agent-likened-to-james-bond-dies-at-87.html?emc=eta1&_r=0

Excerpt: Michael Harari, an Israeli intelligence agent who led the hit squad that was sent to avenge the murders of 11 Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, died on Sept. 21 in Tel Aviv. He was 87.

Australia: Slain jihadi’s family stones media at funeral. By Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.org

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/09/australia-slain-jihadis-family-stones-media-at-funeral?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=e4fec6995c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-e4fec6995c-97564174

Excerpt: Numan Haider stabbed a police officer and a federal agent. He threatened to kill Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. He was shot dead in the midst of his jihad attack on the police. And apparently, from their actions at the funeral, his family blames the Australian media. Perhaps we should send them some of our large coterie of pro-jihad journalists, such as Christiane Amanpour, Niraj Warikoo, Jennifer Fermino and Bob Smietana. Then they would put down their stones and show us Islam’s peaceful and tolerant side.

Random Thoughts for October, 2014

Robert A. Hall

This is the natural law that liberals can't deal with: All civilization is based on war. Every people that founded a great civilization had to fight to do so. Every great civilization has had to fight to protect itself from those who would plunder, oppress or change it in their barbarian image. A civilization that won't fight, perishes. Yes, there are countries in the west, say Sweden, that have small militaries and haven't fought in a long time (though they had their day). But they are protected by us and stronger powers as part of western civilization. How long would they maintain their freedom and civilization if they were alone in the world and facing Russia, or political Islam?

If you think Congress is totally useless, remember they stopped Obama from bombing Assad's Syrian forces in support of the Islamic State, the major opposition group, and the terrorists that we are now bombing. As I kept saying at the time, "There are no good guys in Syria."

If Hillary is the Dem nominee in 2016, I think every time she speaks there should be a group of young women with GOP signs wearing blue dresses.

Sung by criticism that playing golf and laughing after the Foley murder by ISIS was insensitive, President Obama has announced a National Day of Mourning for those killed by overseas contingency operations workplace violence. All the flags on the pins on his golf course will be black, and he'll donate ten dollars from every hole where he doesn't make par to wounded vets.

Liberal are hard to understand. You can't waterboard terrorists to find out where, when and by who (whom?) the next slaughter of innocents is planned, but you can use a drone to turn them, their families and innocent bystanders with bad timing into red goo. Which is nice, but you get no intel. Obama killing innocent civilians during drone strikes on terrorists is unfortunate, but the fault of the terrorists. Israel killing innocent civilians during air strikes on terrorists is the worst crime since the holocaust.

I think there's a fair chance that there was racism in the Ferguson, MOPolice Department. Police deal with the lowlife underclass in our society, and in that location, there are likely to be black, though they exist in all areas and all ethnic heritages. Those who tend to simplistic explanations will attribute it to race (when in my view it's culture. And in Britain, the low life underclass are native white English folks.). But I'm sure there's a 100% chance that the DOJ investigation will find racism in the FPD, and it will very likely be over-sold. They have to find it or have egg on Holder's and Obama's faces. They won't allow that.

You can take a few minutes to vote in November. Or you can take several extra hours a week to work to make enough to pay the higher taxes, higher energy costs and higher prices if the big government statists win.

In 2012, Obama famously bragged that he had "Al Qaeda on the run." Looking at the world, it seems to me that in the past five years of Obama, the Islamist militants have civilization on the run.

It looks like The First Hope and Change Brigade, led by General Barack "No-Strategy" Obama, is all that stands between us and ISIS. Luckily, the brigade has a Heavy Twitter Sign Company, commanded by Capt. Michelle "Out-to-Lunch" Obama in case things get dicey.

The majority of Americans disagree with Obama on the Keystone pipeline, Amnesty for illegals, Obamacare, late term abortions and his foreign policy, among many other thing. But none of that matters to the Progressive Elites, who hold average Americans in contempt despite their talk of being for the little guy. The great unwashed are ignorant folks clinging to God and Guns. They must be educated in what to think by the liberal media and coerced to do those things and bear those policies that the Elites believe are good for the country (if not themselves). It is the argument of statists everywhere, from Stalin to Hitler to Mao to dictators, emperors and kings. It's funny how well the Progressive Elites do while helping the benighted common people.

Liberals went nuts over Burger King moving to Canadabecause the US Corporate Tax Rate is the highest in the world. They called it "unpatriotic." But they were silent when Al Gore tried to get his TV sale deal to fossil-fuel-rich Al Jazeera (AKA "The Terrorist Network") completed by for January 1, when higher taxes that he supported kicked in. Hypocrites.

They asked Obama when he was going to secure the border, and he said, "Moñana."

From my friend, George: "I saw a piece that said if you had privilege (i.e., white male) you should keep quiet about the habits and practices of the terminally poor. Except that I'm not asking you for help and perhaps my good practices keep me privileged...while your bad practices keep you poor. Maybe I'll keep my money and advice."

If people keep comparing Obama, Kerry and Hillary Clinton to the Three Stooges, I think the Stooges should sue.

The progressive European countries that bent over backwards to welcome Muslims and tolerate anti-social values by a large segment of them are going to pay a terrible price. Not that we will escape the costs.

I'm okay with limiting political speech to what is politically correct--as long as I get to decide what is politically correct for everyone. Why is anyone else's opinion on PC better than mine?

The more theories on modern education that have sprung from liberal academia to percolate through society, and the more money we have spent on schools over the last 50 years, the worse educated our kids have become.

What's happening in the world and in America is not the result of bad luck. It's the result of bad policy.

The great military science fiction writer, LtCol Tom Kratman, USA(Ret) is a reader of my blog. After I posted about my health improvement, he wrote, "You're going to outlive me, you know." I replied that I was trying to outlive everybody. He responded, "Good plan, but hard to implement." I think that's military history in a nut shell... See his Amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/Tom-Kratman/e/B001IXNZFA/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1410729290&sr=8-2-ent

In ten years, Obama's presidency will be described as "disappointing." By any liberals who survive the collapse.

Have you heard about iSIS? It's Apple's new device to keep track of your beheading, stoning, sex slaves and child-rape lists.

I think you could make a lot of money with this book: Is a nine-Year-Old Right For You? The Muslim's guide to taking a fourth wife that emulates Mohammad (PBUH).

Future historians--if there are any future historians in the hunter-gatherer-raider world I fear is coming-- will find the Obama scandals showed "not a smidgen" of integrity on the part of the administration.

If leaders were dominos, Obama would be the double blank. (Yes, I swiped the line from P. G. Wodehouse.)

In an effort to promote tolerance, they are making a movie about marriage in the Muslim World. Entitled Close Encounters of the Third Grade, it depicts Mohammad's marriage to his youngest wife when she was six (but not consummated until she was nine). This is from the strongest of the sacred Hadith. Since Mohammad is considered the perfect example of conduct for Muslims today, it explains child marriage.

Some days just seem to evaporate.

I don't think Obama could lead the Vienna Boy's Choir in "Silent Night."

If God listens to some of the singing in church (for example, mine), I bet he tells Saint Peter, "Hide the harps when that one shows up."

Some professional writers who post stories for the world to see have either never heard of spell check or are too lazy to use it.

The last refuge of a scoundrel isn't patriotism. It's "He did it too," or "Everybody does it."

The 1960s are alive and well in Madison, WI. On my way to the VA for rehab recently, I was behind a car with a "Carter/Mondale" bumper sticker and an "Impeach Nixon" one. Nothing more recent. I pulled ahead so he could read my Marine and political bumper stickers.

It was nice of Al Rich-Off-Oil-Money Gore and the Global Warming Alarmists to warn us after Hurricane Katarina that because of global warming, we faced numerous increasingly-sever hurricanes in the coming years. Since all their predictions have been wrong so far, that pretty much guaranteed the mild hurricane seasons we have had since then.

It's a free country. You have complete freedom on birth control, healthcare, schools, energy, guns and many other thing to choose what the liberal elites permit you to choose.

From Marine Vet Dennis Payne: "It's amazing that someone can be an ass without any education--they just learn it on their own!"

The war correspondent or military historian who writes about war without respect and reverence for the common soldier is in the wrong profession.

I wonder if, when you die, you find all the socks lost in the dryer waiting for you on the other side?

Tweet from Eleni Becker @Eleni_Becker

This world is not going to make any progress until we stop perpetuating the belief that ''paper'' beats ''rock.'' (Wish I'd thought of this one. ~Bob)

I get the feeling that Obama should have called his second autobiography, The Rapacity of Dope.

Contrary to popular opinion, the "War on Poverty" has reduced poverty...among government bureaucrats and private agencies that provide services to the ""poor" on government contract.

It's true that hard work may not get you ahead--but it has a far better record than indolence.

The liberal PC police have noticed that the Army doesn't have black officers in proportion to blacks in the population. (Kind of like the shortage of whites, Asian and Hispanics in the NBA These are the same liberals who support black inner-city culture, brought up from the south where they acquired it from white rednecks, as equally valid and racist to question. You know, the culture that dismisses education as "acting white." Education, of course, is a pre-requisite for becoming an officer. So far.

Few things are as moving as being lectured on your desperate need to sacrifice to reduce your carbon footprint by a wealthy celebrity who flew in on his private jet for the occasion.

I surely hope that nothing happens to Michele. If Barack has a tee-time, they'd have to delay the funeral. Bad optics you know.

Obama has bombed or ordered drone strikes in seven countries. Would it be higher or lower if they had not given him the Nobel Peace Prize before he did anything?

Chelsea Clinton had a baby daughter. I wonder if one day she'll be a White House Intern?

Hope for the IRS. Matthew 21:31: Jesus said to them, “Amen, I say to you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.

We need to say it plainly. Bringing a child into the world that you cannot support is child abuse. Period.

Britnye's tuxedo cat, Tom, lives with us. He's a very sweet kitty who almost checked out when I had my lung transplant last December, and is worth the exorbitant vet bills. (He's on Obamacare now, so all good.) He loves cat treats and milk, so I tended to give him treats and a small dish when I went into the kitchen to do my morning or evening medial routines. He quickly caught on, and now sits waiting on the counter for me. Thus a gift becomes a "right."

Though I'm doing well, at 68 I know most of my life is over, even if I get by the lung transplant challenges. Death comes to all men. I hope that, whenever it finds me, it will find me on the firing parapet, still putting out rounds as best I can to defend the Republic against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I have friends who say, "Why bother--it's hopeless. Enjoy what we have and don't waste your last years trying to save the world." They may be right. But "quit" isn't on the curriculum at Parris Island. I don't know how.

What's worse than a progressive/socialist/communist/statist grubbing after power? One in power.

When someone says "The Constitution is a living document," they are saying, "The Constitution says just what I think it should say at any given time."

Get the collection!My “Random Thoughts” from 2008 through July, 2013 are now collected in this book: The Old Jarhead's Journal: Random Thoughts on Life, Liberty, and Leadershipby Robert A. Hall

http://www.amazon.com/Old-Jarheads-Journal-Thoughts-Leadership/dp/1490500162/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373907206&sr=1-1&keywords=Old+Jarhead%27s+Journal

The Old Jarhead’s Journal is a collection of Random Thoughts on politics and life and Conservative Political Essays, mostly published on the author’s blog, including the essay “I’m Tired” which went viral on the Internet in 2009, “The Hall Platform,” “This I Believe,” and “Why I’m a Republican.” While they will be of interest to conservative thinkers, they are collected here in book form as a service to readers who wish to give a copy to favorite liberals and watch their heads explode. All royalties are donated to the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund.

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Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic. http://tiny.cc/g02s4 For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s eleven books are listed here: http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html. His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.

Update

Random Thoughts for October, 2014. By Robert A. Hall

http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2014/09/random-thoughts-for-october-2014.html

I had to put these first, because Dr. Thomas Sowell's latest "Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene" column is linked below. And his are, sigh, always better. But I try. ~Bob

General News and Comment

Leaders--It's not to early to get your pal Barack a Christmas Gift!

Always Worth Reading: Random Thoughts. By Thomas Sowell

http://patriotpost.us/opinion/29535

Excerpt: What a non-judgmental society amounts to is that common decency is optional – which means that decency is likely to become less common. - The biggest issue in this fall’s election is whether the Obama administration will end when Barack Obama leaves the White House or whether it will continue on, by appointing federal judges with lifetime appointments who share President Obama’s contempt for the Constitution. Whether such judges will be confirmed by the Senate depends on whether the Senate continues to be controlled by Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Worth Reading: Who Are You Calling the Party of the Rich? By Mona Charen

http://patriotpost.us/opinion/29539

Excerpt: By 2012, the recession had been over for three-plus years, and yet the average American saw little improvement. Average net worth continued to drift downward. Long-term unemployment had reached record levels, and labor force participation declined. More Americans had joined the disability rolls than gotten work. Poverty was higher than at any time since the 1960s. Republicans expected the election to be a referendum on President Obama’s leadership. It wasn’t

The odds of Republicans winning the Senate are growing. By Chris Cillizza

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/09/29/the-odds-of-republicans-winning-the-senate-are-growing/

Excerpt: All three major election forecasting models saw an uptick in the likelihood of Republicans winning the six seats they need to retake the Senate majority over the past week, movement largely due to the party's strengthened chances in Alaska, Colorado and Iowa.

Morning Jolt by Jim Geraghty is a free e-newsletter. You should subscribe. ~Bob

http://www.nationalreview.com/newsletters

Bad News for Republicans. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt

http://www.nationalreview.com/newsletters

I am told by some campaign consultants that for much of the past two years, Republican donors have felt a malaise. You see it in both the individual-campaign fundraising numbers, the committee fundraising numbers, and the spending by outside groups. A lot of wealthy Republican donors — or even a not-so-wealthy Republican donors — are asking if it’s worth it. They dug deep to help out their favorite candidates in 2012, and watched their guys lose — Romney, of course, but also a slew of seemingly winnable Senate races. They’re not sure their donations do much good. They’re increasingly wondering if the American political system is a lost cause, if the electorate has become addicted to Democrats’ vote-buying spending programs, too tuned out to care about scandals, oblivious to serious problems and getting their political views shaped by Hollywoodand pop culture. This doesn’t even get into the issue of fearing an IRS audit or being publicly demonized like the Koch brothers. Of course, this depression, malaise, and hesitation can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Good news for Republicans. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt

http://www.nationalreview.com/newsletters

Anyway, on to the indisputable good news for Republicans: In just about every Senate race that matters, last week brought at least one highly-regarded poll showing exactly what a Republican wants to see. In Alaska, Dan Sullivan has led the past four polls. In Arkansas, Tom Cotton has led 11 of the past 13 polls. In Colorado, Quinnipiac put Cory Gardner ahead, 48 percent to 40 percent. In Iowa, the Des Moines Register poll put Joni Ernst ahead, 44 percent to 38 percent. NBC News Andrea Mitchell is openly calling Democrat Bruce Braley “a terrible candidate.” In Louisiana, a runoff between Democrat incumbent Mary Landrieu and RepublicanBill Cassidy is virtually assured. Cassidy led the last four polls of the runoff. Those five, just right there, along with the expected GOP wins in Montana, South Dakota, and West Virginia, would give the GOP an eight-seat pickup. Republicans could lose in Kansas and still keep the Senate. In Kansas, voters are still digesting the fact that the Democrat dropped out and getting to know “independent” Greg Orman. No one has polled this race in ten days, and the GOP is pulling out the stops to save Pat Roberts. And we’ve got more races to go . . .In New Hampshire, CNN had Scott Brown tied with Jeanne Shaheen. In Michigan, Republicans can be frustrated that Terri Lynn Land hasn’t led any poll recently. But Democrat Gary Peters’ share of the vote is actually declining from the mid-40s to the low 40s, with a lot of undecideds left out there. In North Carolina, Thom Tillis can’t quite get the lead over incumbent Kay Hagan, but she’s consistently in the mid-40s or even low 40s — a very precarious spot for an incumbent. Beyond Kansas, Democrats hopes for picking up a GOP seat are evaporating. In Georgia, David Purdue has led four of the past five polls. In Kentucky, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has led every poll since June. In the House, everybody’s expecting a small gain for Republicans. Larry Sabato: “We talked to senior Democrats and Republicans involved in the House contests to inform this report, as well as some of our fellow analysts and journalists (all were given anonymity so they could speak freely). We asked each source to give his or her best guess as to what the net change in House seats would be on Election Day. The guesses were generally in the range of a five-to-eight seat GOP net gain — the same as ours — with a low guess of Republicans adding two seats to a high guess of Republicans adding nine.” So 235 to 240, maybe 245 House Republicans? A nice total, probably pretty close to the natural ceiling for the GOP. We can go over the gubernatorial races tomorrow. But the bottom line is, the ingredients are coming together for not just GOP control, but potentially a big, big year for Republicans. But it requires everybody to get active and give 110 percent between now and Election Day.

Thinking of not voting? Put this sign on your mirror: "Supreme Court Justice Eric Holder." ~Bob

The Worst of Eric Holder

http://conservativevideos.com/worst-eric-holder/

Excerpt: Eric Holder’s tenure as Attorney General was fraught with controversy, race-baiting and snapping at Congress. Or, as President Obama put it, “a superb job.”

47% Think Holder More Interested in Politics Than in Justice

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/september_2014/47_think_holder_more_interested_in_politics_than_in_justice

Excerpt: Voters think Eric Holder played politics as U.S. attorney general and hope President Obama picks someone who’s not like him to be the nation’s next top law enforcement officer. But those who view the Constitution as “a living document” are much more appreciative of his efforts than those who favor a strict interpretation of that document. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters believe Holder was more interested in politics than in administering justice in a fair way. Just 28% disagree and think fair administration of justice was Holder’s chief interest.

Better than expected: Report: Obama Has Missed Over Half His Second-Term Daily Intel Briefings

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/29/Report-Obama-Has-Missed-Over-Half-His-Second-Term-Daily-Intel-Briefings

Excerpt: A new Government Accountability Institute (GAI)report reveals that President Barack Obama has attended only 42.1% of his daily intelligence briefings (known officially as the Presidential Daily Brief, or PDB) in the 2,079 days of his presidency through September 29, 2014.

Worth Reading: 6 Reasons I'm Happier Because I Went to War. By John Walters
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140925023742-84021053-6-reasons-i-m-happier-because-i-went-to-war

Excerpt: Eight years of my life was spent enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. I was deployed to Fallujah, Iraq and Helmand Province, Afghanistan. One of the most frequent questions I am asked about my service is, "Are you glad you did it?" It surprises most people when I respond with an enthusiastic YES. Naturally wartime and combat are associated with sadness and devastation. War affects millions of innocent people and PTSD afflicts service men and women with crippling effects. I'm not immune to all the negative fallout of being a Marine during wartime, but many lessons I learned as a Marine make me a happier person. Here are a few: (And this post has gone viral, according to an article in the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/09/29/why-6-reasons-im-happier-because-i-went-to-war-went-viral/It's all good stuff, and maybe it'll register with some people who don't understand. --Del)

Ray Rice, Roger Goodell, Hope Solo and Domestic Abuse: Hypocrisy and Hidden Agendas. By David L. Goetsch

http://patriotupdate.com/articles/ray-rice-roger-goodell-hope-solo-domestic-abuse-hypocrisy-hidden-agendas/

Excerpt: The sight of a professional football player knocking out his fiancée (now wife) in a hotel elevator has precipitated what is becoming the worst scandal in the history of the NFL. The abuse viewed on camera in that elevator is bad enough by itself, but what is making matters even worse are the hypocrisy and hidden agendas of those responding to it. Although I feel for Mrs. Rice, I am glad that her misfortune has finally brought the issue of domestic abuse out of the closet and into the daylight. Perhaps now that the NFL scandal has pulled back the curtain on domestic abuse, the issue will get the attention it has so long deserved.

The World is on Fire: Where is the U.S. Army? By Douglas Macgregor and Young Kim

http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/the-world-is-on-fire-where-is-the-us-army

Excerpt: Russia’s revitalized Army seizes Crimea and skillfully exerts control in Eastern Ukraine. The Islamic State, a collection of fanatical Sunni Muslim terrorists in pickup trucks crush the U.S. trained Iraqi Army and overrun territory from Aleppo to Baghdad. On the Anniversary of Japan’s defeat in WW II, China’s leaders pledge to expunge corruption from the PLA’s senior ranks and build a more powerful Chinese Army. What is the Army’s response to these challenges? The Army is blazing a path backward into the Cold War.

One-fifth of U.S. workers were laid off in past five (Obama) years, study says

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-layoffs-unemployment-jobs-economy-20140924-story.html

Excerpt: On e in five U.S. workers was laid off in the past five years and about 22% of those who lost their jobs still haven't found another one, according to a new survey that showed the extent Americans have struggled in the sluggish labor market since the Great Recession ended.

Tweet from Jonah Goldberg ‏@JonahNRO

Hey, I just noticed every time we spend 20 trillion on a war on poverty and it doesn't work, govt says they need more money.

New US Marine Corps Crisis Unit To Be Based in Kuwait
http://mobile.defensenews.com/article/309290020

The US Marine Corps is preparing to deploy about 2,100 grunts to be based out of Kuwaitin a new unit configuration designed to respond to crises in the region, according to Corps officials.

Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force (SPMAGTF) Central Command will be equipped to perform noncombat evacuation, humanitarian assistance, infrastructure support, tactical aircraft recovery, fixed-site security and theater sustainment missions, said Brig. Gen. John Love, assistant deputy commandant for plans, policies and operations. Plans to deploy the unit predate the conflict in Iraqand Syriawith the Islamic State.

Two Elderly Marines Walk 300 Miles to See Obama… He Refuses to See Them

http://conservativetribune.com/obama-refuses-elderly-marines/

Excerpt: President Barack Obama refused to see two former U.S. Marines who walked hundreds of miles to the White House to raise awareness of a fellow Marine jailed in Mexico.

Terry Sharpe and Allen Brown completed their walk on Sunday, arriving at the White House with a police escort and a number of others who support their efforts to secure the release of Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi. They were not invited inside the White House, nor did anyone from the Obama administration apparently greet them. (They should have jumped the fence. ~Bob)

White House fence-jumper made it far deeper into building than previously known

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-fence-jumper-made-it-far-deeper-into-building-than-previously-known/2014/09/29/02efd53e-47ea-11e4-a046-120a8a855cca_story.html

Excerpt: The man who jumped the White House fence this month and sprinted through the front door made it much farther into the building than previously known, overpowering one Secret Service officer and running through much of the main floor, according to three people familiar with the incident. ... The officer posted inside the front door appeared to be delayed in learning that the intruder, Omar Gonzalez, was about to burst through. (Since he was Hispanic, they were probably afraid to touch him for fear Obama would say he was just looking for a better life and they were racists. Nothing in DC works anymore. ~Bob)

Remember when the troops respected the CIC?

18 Stats That Prove That Government Dependence Has Reached Epidemic Levels. By Michael Snyder

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/18-stats-that-prove-that-government-dependence-has-reached-epidemic-levels

Excerpt: Did you know that the number of Americans getting benefits from the federal government each month exceeds the number of full-time workers in the private sector by more than 60 million? In other words, the number of people that are taking money out of the system is far greater than the number of people that are putting money into the system. And did you know that nearly 70 percent of all of the money that the federal government spends goes toward entitlement and welfare programs? When it comes to the transfer of wealth, nobody does it on a grander scale than the U.S. government.

UDALL LIED (AGAIN): Embattled Sen. Arrested for More Than Just Pot http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2014/09/29/udall-lied-embattled-sen-arrested-just-pot/

Excerpt: Pot is one thing, but three ounces is a lot for a casual user and is usually reserved for dealers. Wait…. You weren’t selling that weed were you, Mark? And, then, amphetamines? Really? It’s no secret in Colorado that Sen. Mark Udall has some problems telling the truth.

Figures: Obama's USDA To Spend 31.5 Million on 'Healthy" Food Stamp Program

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/29/Obama-s-USDA-to-Spend-31-5-Million-on-Healthy-Food-Stamp-Program

Excerpt: The number of food stamp recipients has seen a gargantuan increase since Obama became president in 2008. Late in 2012 the number of those on the SNAP program had exceeded the populations of 24 states and the District of Columbia. By 2014, enrollment in the program jumped to over 45 million Americans. Even with historic levels of Americans now dependent on welfare and the middle class poorer today than it was in 1984, Obama continues to claim that his economic policies have made things better. (Wonder if it will end up in the garbage can like the school lunches? --Barb. Actually, I like this. In fact, would limit all food stamps (SNAP or EBT cards) to healthy items. It would put a crimp in the style of the healthy looking, white, 20-something guy in line ahead of me at Walgreens. he tried to buy to energy drinks with his card. Didn't allow it, so he paid cash--with a $100 bill. After he left, the tired-looking 40-something clerk looked at me and said, Our money." People are going to reach the end of their tolerance. See the older piece: Craigslist makes turning food stamps into cash a SNAP http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/22/craigslist-makes-turning-food-stamps-into-cash-snap/~Bob)

Top VA Official Conspired With Her Married Boyfriend To Thwart Investigations

http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/30/top-va-official-conspired-with-her-married-boyfriend-to-thwart-investigations/

Excerpt: A recent investigation has uncovered a shocking tale of corruption and adultery at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Susan Taylor, a longtime federal employee and Deputy Chief Procurement Officer at the Veterans Health Administration since 2010, not only used her position to award government contracts to a former business partner, and worked with said company to hide the thousands and thousands of dollars it was making off the government, but conspired with her married boyfriend — who also had close personal ties to the company — to thwart investigations into her misconduct.

No surprise: WisconsinReporter Was Sent to Cover Michelle Obama’s Speech and What She Says an Aide Told Her Had Her ‘Creeped Out’

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/30/wisconsin-reporter-was-sent-to-cover-michelle-obamas-speech-and-what-an-aide-allegedly-told-her-had-her-creeped-out/

Excerpt: Meg Kissinger is a seasoned reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin’s well-known newspaper. She’s seen a lot in her days. But what she said happened at a speech by Michelle Obama in the state on Monday left her utterly “creeped out.” Kissinger took to her Facebook and Twitter page to describe what happened. In short, she said, aides for both the first lady and Wisconsin Democratic candidate for governor, Mary Burke, told her she was banned from talking to members of the crowd. (If the press is allowed to talk to the public, the Fuehrer might lose control! ~Bob)

The Gelded Age. The inequality bed-wetters are misleading you. By Kevin D. Williamson

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/389125/gelded-age-kevin-d-williamson

Excerpt: The inequality police are worried that we are living in a new Gilded Age. We should be so lucky: Between 1880 and 1890, the number of employed Americans increased by more than 13 percent, and wages increased by almost 50 percent. I am going to go out on a limb and predict that the Barack Obama years will not match that record; the number of employed Americans is lower today than it was when he took office, and household income is down. Grover Clevelandis looking like a genius in comparison.

Getting to Know the Chinese Navy. By Steve Cohen

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/getting-know-chinese-navy_804848.html#

Excerpt: The Obama administration very much wants a diplomatic success somewhere in the world. So when the president orders the head of the U.S. Navy to meet with his Chinese counterpart and find areas of cooperation, it is neither surprising nor inappropriate. But the possibility that the Chinese Navy will gain real insight into how our aircraft carriers operate is worrying our Pacific allies and could compromise our security.

The End of American Naval Supremacy? By Michael Rubin

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/09/16/the-end-of-american-naval-supremacy/

Excerpt: Four days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel spoke of how American forces would soon be at pre-World War II numbers. Sequestration will force a further retraction. Adm. James “Ace” Lyons, U.S. Navy (retired) has noted that he commanded more ships in the Pacific Ocean during the Carter administration than exist in the entire U.S. Navy today.

Navy sailors distrust commanders, fear crippling political correctness. Complain of zero-tolerance disciplinary environment, excessive political correctness

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/30/us-navy-sailors-harbor-widespread-distrust-of-seni/

Excerpt: Navy sailors harbor “widespread mistrust” in the admirals who command them, complaining of poor leadership and a disciplinary environment that tolerates absolutely no mistakes, says a survey of the fleet. The disgruntlement runs deepest in the officer corps, where scores of commanders have been relieved of duty in recent years. (Some say the Navy is the most political of the services, but I'm not sure of that, what about the Air Force? --Del)

Armed contractor with criminal record was on elevator with Obama in Atlanta

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/armed-former-convict-was-on-elevator-with-obama-in-atlanta/2014/09/30/76d7da24-48e3-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html?wpisrc=nl_politics&wpmm=1

Excerpt: A security contractor with a gun and three convictions for assault and battery was allowed on an elevator with President Obama during a Sept. 16 trip to Atlanta, violating Secret Service protocols, according to three people familiar with the incident.

CDC confirms first case of Ebola in US. By Jessica Mulvihill

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/09/30/cdc-confirms-first-case-ebola-in-us/?flv=1

Excerpt: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed on Tuesday that a patient being treated at a Dallas hospital has tested positive for Ebola, the first case diagnosed in the United States. (Ebola has been far down my list of worries. below, for example, my fear that Global warming hysteria will bankrupt the country and reduce our life styles to the Medieval level. This may move it up a notch. ~Bob. First case, someone returning from Liberiabrought it back. No details on the person, are they a health worker, a Liberian, an immigrant or what? Not that it matters I guess, and the authorities are 100% confident that this will be perfectly contained, they know (they think) everyone the person came in contact with, will be watching them, etc. And caught this early, the person should have an excellent chance of surviving. Let's see how this goes.....Del)

Public School Lets Boy Use Girls Bathroom and Locker Room

http://eaglerising.com/9205/public-school-lets-boy-use-girls-bathroom-locker-room/

Excerpt: A “transgender” teen – a teen who was born a boy but has decided that he is actually a girl – will be allowed to use the girl’s restrooms and locker room at AthertonHigh School in Jefferson County Kentucky. The county appeals board decided to uphold the school’s nondiscrimination policy, which says that the school MUST accept whatever gender their students decide they would like to be.

Friendly Reminder: The 'Independent' Senate Candidate in Kansas is an Obama Donor. By Guy Benson

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/10/01/friendly-reminder-the-independent-senate-candidate-in-kansas-is-a-democrat-n1898794?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Excerpt: The man who now stands as Roberts' only serious opposition is Greg Orman, a born-again "independent." According to polling, which is still unsettled in the wake of the ballot upheaval, Orman holds a single-digit lead over Roberts. Who is this guy? Put simply, he's a Democrat, despite his denials. He's donated thousands to Obama, Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid, but now he's playing games by declining to state which party he'd caucus with, if elected.

Stage production for 18-minute Obama speech cost $94,360. By Elizabeth Harrington

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/30/stage-production-for-18-minute-obama-speech-cost-4360/?intcmp=latestnews

Excerpt: “Elite Productions,” the go-to company for prominent Democratic politicians such as Bill and Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi, put on the set for Obama’s speech to troops at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., on Sept. 17. The company provided “stage, drapery, and audio/visual equipment,” according to a contract document made public by the Air Force last week. The government paid the company $94,360 for a speech that lasted from 12:04 p.m. to 12:22 p.m., at a cost of approximately $5,242.22 per minute. (Be interesting to know if they give Dems a break thanks to getting the government biz. ~Bob

Scientist calls for death to humanity

http://www.newsweekly.com.au/article.php?id=2439

Excerpt: An award-winning Texas scientist was given a standing ovation after he advocated the extermination of 90 per cent of the Earth's population by an airborne Ebola virus.

Race Card News

The Moral Failures of Eric Holder. By Victor Davis Hanson

http://victorhanson.com/wordpress/?p=7892

Excerpt: Eric Holder’s left many baleful legacies: being censured by the House of Representatives; withholding subpoenaed documents, proving untruthful about a failed gun-walking caper in Mexico; failing to enforce laws on the books, from immigration to the elements of the Affordable Care Act; illegally billing the government for his own private use of a government Gulfstream jet; snooping on Associated Press reporters; giving de facto exemptions to renegade IRS politicos; and trying to create civilian trials for terrorist killers like KSM, one of the architects of the 9/11 attacks. But he will be known mostly for re-teaching Americans to think of race as essential, not incidental, to our characters.

Good for her: Black Woman Says Black People Should "Speak Properly"
http://godfatherpolitics.com/17373/black-woman-says-black-people-speak-properly/

Excerpt: As difficult as blacks had it during the days of segregation, a distinctly black culture developed, even in the prevalence of racist attitudes and restrictive laws. We forget, or have never been told, that Washington, D.C., from 1920 to 1960, “was a financial, spiritual, and cultural stronghold. Because Washington was a segregated city, blacks simply created their own metropolis. . . . The first black bank, the Industrial Savings Bank, was started here.” While “the black population of New York’s Harlem inherited many of its buildings from previous white owners, . . . many of the buildings in Shaw were paid for by black businessmen and built by black hands.”[1] Families were intact, the divorce and unwed mother rates were no different from that of white communities. (The pathologies in our cities have nothing to do with race and everything to do with culture. In England, the underclass yobs are white English people. See Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple. ~Bob

Mumia Abu-Jamal to give college commencement speech

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Mumia_Abu-Jamal_to_give_college_commencement_speech.html#DSLqKz96SLwvX40Q.99

Excerpt: Convicted Philadelphiacop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal has been selected as the commencement speaker for a Vermont college. Goddard College announced that the infamous inmate will address its graduates at Sunday's ceremony. (An infamous convicted cop-killer has yet again been chose to give the commencement speech to college kids. The college president is really happy about this, because it shows that "this newest group of Goddard graduates expresses their freedom to engage and think radically and critically." Yes, that's what higher education certainly about, teaching young minds to value the inputs of a murderer, not a repentant killer with messages about sin and redemption, but a racist fanatic who stood over a policeman on the ground and pumped bullets into him. He is apparently a charismatic personality and impressive speaker, who became a cause célèbre for Liberals, and has been extolled as an example of White racism and injustice. Examination of the facts of the officer's death leaves no doubt at all as to his guilt, but somehow that makes no difference and he is the personification of noble suffering of injustice. And people keep buying this package. What he will say to the college kids I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it'll be along the lines of what he's written about forever, which is the horrors of White racism and the corruption of the whole system, and yadda-yadda-yadda. The kids who hear this and take him on as another hero like Che Guevara are just bound to be great citizens, ready to join all the others whose idea of their crusade will be to take apart this nation. Heaven help us. --Del)

Title: It's 2nd Base & "2nd Base" Season. By Andy Weddington

http://acoloneloftruth.blogspot.com/2014/10/its-2nd-base-2nd-base-season.html

Excerpt: Six and a half years ago breast cancer forever changed life for my wife. And for me. Our story shortly. Breast cancer awareness month begins today. Since diagnosis, pink, the disease's official color, is my wife's favorite hue. This month, once in a while, I'll wear a pink shirt. Year round a small metal pink ribbon is pinned to the side of my Marine ball cap.

Federal Spending Spree at End of Fiscal Year

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24910&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: Yesterday marked the end of the 2013-2014 fiscal year. And because agencies cannot carry their funds over from year to year, explains Brianna Ehley of the Fiscal Times, federal agencies tend to spend September 30th on a shopping spree, spending the rest of their funds before they lose them. In 2013, federal agencies spent $50 billion in the last week of the fiscal year -- the Department of Veterans Affairs purchased $562,000 worth of artwork, while the Department of Agriculture bought $144,000 in toner. The Department of Defense spent $5.5 billion on September 30, 2013, sending emails to employees telling them to spend the rest of their funds.

Obamacare/Government Healthcare News

Oklahoma Wins Affordable Care Act Lawsuit Challenging IRS Subsidies

http://www.ok.gov/triton/modules/newsroom/newsroom_article.php?id=258&article_id=14797Excerpt: Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt hailed the state’s victory in its lawsuit challenging the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. In September 2012, Oklahomawas the first to challenge the legality of an IRS rule that caused billions in illegal subsidies to be paid out, despite Congress having never authorized those payments. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Ronald White ruled in favor of the state’s lawsuit challenging that IRS rule. (Makes it likely the Supreme Court will have to hear the challenge. ~Bob)

LA Times: Doctor Shortages, Buyer's Remorse Plague CaliforniaObamacare

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/09/28/LA-Times-Doctor-Shortages-Buyer-s-Remorse-Plague-California-Obamacare

Excerpt: California's narrow Obamacare networks have many Obamacare customers experiencing buyer's remorse over health care plans that are turning out to include far fewer doctors than they were led to believe, reports the Los Angeles Times. "Where was the state in protecting people from these false promises?" California Obamacare customer Heidi Shurtleff, 53, told the Times. "I'm not getting what I paid for."

Obamacare 1 Year Report Card Scores a Big ‘F.’ By Dave Jolly

http://godfatherpolitics.com/17360/obamacare-1-year-report-card-scores-big-f/

Excerpt: The New York Post took a look at Obamacare and graded it like a school grades a student. The subjects to be graded are: The Uninsured, Your Plan, Premiums, Cost, Jobs and then Overall Grade.

Undocumented Democrat News

Video: Illegals Flooding Over the Border… But This AZ Farmer Was Prepared
http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/illegals-flooding-border-az-farmer-prepared/

According to the news video, the Illegal was carrying two SS cards and a fake visa. ~Bob. Check out the link. An illegal shows up with a gun at a farm near the border, and ends up in a shootout with the farmer. Who only has a shotgun and birdshot. Clearly not one of us! First box of ammo for the shotgun is the buckshot. But the other box of ammo most of us have is for the long gun, at least a 5.56mm, if not a 7.62 or 30-06, and that illegal with his pistol would have been starting to rot in the sunshine by the time the deputies arrived. But it is another example of why we need to get very serious about tightening up the border, and exporting illegals out of here on a rush basis. --Del

"You're Greener than Gore" News

America

Set to Lead World in Oil Production

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24912&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: According to the International Energy Agency, the United States is producing oil at the same level as Saudi Arabia, producing 11.5 million barrels per day. It is on track to surpass Saudi Arabia and become the world's largest oil producer, though, according to Saudi Arabia, the country has the capacity to increase its oil production further. The United Stateshas fracking to thank for its recent oil boom, a technique which has allowed producers to reach energy sources that would otherwise have been unrecoverable. Horizontal drilling has also contributed to the surge in energy production, as companies have drilled into oil shale to recover oil and natural gas. (We won't lead if Obama and the Green-reds can figure out a way to screw the poor and middle class by blocking it, thus keeping prices high. ~Bob)

California drought and climate warming: Studies find no clear link

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-climate-change-california-drought-20140929-story.html

Excerpt: Global warming contributed to extreme heat waves in many parts of the world last year, but cannot be definitively linked to the California drought, according to a report released Monday. (That won't stop the warming cultists from doing it, even though the warm trend stopped in 1995. Water diverted to save a minnow is a big part of it. Also the growth of Almond farming. Takes over a gallon for each almond--enough water goes to almonds to supply over 80% of Californiafamilies, I have read. ~Bob)

5 Policies That Would Make Gas Cheaper. By Nicolas Loris

http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/30/5-policies-make-gas-cheaper/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonsqrBZKXonjHpfsX56e0vWK%2BzlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DS8tnI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D

Excerpt: Sick of paying too much at the pump? If you are, there’s good news: There are policies Congress and the Obama administration could implement that likely would lead to lower prices. If you’re looking to lower gas prices, first look at crude oil prices.

Religion of Peace News

Worth Reading: Obama's Mixed Messages on War. By Jonah Goldberg

http://patriotpost.us/opinion/29564

Excerpt: It’s funny how President Obama is always talking about “I” and “me” whenever it makes him look good, but suddenly it’s “they” and “we” when mistakes are made. For instance, for years Obama boasted about how he ended the Iraqwar and how he withdrew American troops. “You know I say what I mean and I mean what I say,” he boasted on the campaign trail in 2012. “I said I’d end the war in Iraq. I ended it.” Then, over the summer, as one Iraqi city after another fell to Islamic State militants, and as critics insisted that Obama’s decision to pull all of our troops out of Iraq was partly to blame, he suddenly changed his tune, mocking the critics. “What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision [to withdraw U.S. troops].”

Worth Reading: Will the West Defend Itself? By Walter E. Williams

http://patriotpost.us/opinion/29569

Excerpt: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), sometimes called ISIS or IS, is a Sunni extremist group that follows al-Qaida’s anti-West ideology and sees a holy war against the West as a religious duty. With regard to nonbelievers, the Quran commands, “And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out.” The Quran contains many other verses that call for Muslim violence against nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule.

Contrast the words of the Quran with the statements of limp-wristed Western leaders such as this by President Barack Obama: “We have reaffirmed that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. Islam teaches peace.”

Syria and Iraq is Vietnam: Che Guevara vs Colonel and Congressman Scott Perry and Lessons from Vietnam

http://www.redstate.com/diary/hanoverhenry/2014/09/29/syria-iraq-today-vietnam/

Excerpt: Before I turn to Che Guevara and Colonel and Congressman, Scott Perry, this news. Great Britain will help in bombing the terrorists but only in Iraq, not at their home base in Syria, as now authorized by vote of their Parliament. They worry that they would violate the “sovereignty” of Syria, whose government, while privately welcoming help against any and all rebel factions, has publicly denounced any foreign country’s airpower being deployed within their border. Ahem. History lesson for the Brits and those Americans born after the Vietnam war or who listened to the biased media at that time instead of noting the facts. Journey back with me for a moment to the Vietnam War and the 1970 “incursion” into Cambodiaordered by then President Richard Nixon, which provoked hysterical and sometimes violent demonstrations across America by the radical left. (Wow, a congressman who can look ahead and act on clear thinking. I'm a hawk from way back, and I want ISIS smashed, wiped out to a man, but how can I support another set of half-measures by a President who doesn't want to be there at all and is doing whatever the least is he can get away with. Which is guaranteed to NOT solve the problem, but cost us big buck and maybe some blood. Same scene, same lines, slightly different cast, but it'll come out the same way- not well. --Del)

Yazidis haunted by cries for help as militants bury victims alive

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/18/uk-iraq-security-yazidis-idUKKBN0GI1QE20140818

Excerpt: Refugee Samo Ilyas Ali has nine children to feed but he can't focus on the future because the sounds of women and children crying out for help while being buried alive by Islamic State militants in northern Iraqoften consume his mind. ... "They tied the hands of one woman to the back of a car and her legs to another car and they split her into two," he said beside makeshift tents as women cried.

Our Double Standard on Civilian Casualties

http://www.investigativeproject.org/4595/our-double-standard-on-civilian-casualties

Excerpt: The Obama administration has acknowledged that its strict policy of preventing civilian deaths does not apply to American airstrikes in Syria and Iraq. The statement confirming the loosening of high standards pertaining to minimizing collateral damage comes amid reports that as many as a dozen civilians, including women and children, were killed by a U.S.strike of a Syrian village. U.S.officials believed that members of the Khorasan group, an al-Qaida splinter organization, were based in the village that was struck by the U.S. Air Force, resulting in civilian deaths. ... "The suspicion that militants are operating nearby does not justify strikes that put at risk the lives of so many innocent civilians," the Statement Department said after Israel shelled a United Nations school that was used as a Hamas terrorist base.

CNN exclusive: ISIS fighter says U.S.airstrikes aren't effective

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/29/world/meast/isis-fighter-and-defector-interviews/index.html

Excerpt: The United Statesmay be touting its strikes on ISIS targets in Syria, but one of the terror group's fighters says the hits are trivial at best. In an exclusive interview with CNN, a Syrian ISIS fighter using the pseudonym Abu Talha said the militant group has been preparing for such attacks.

Iraqi pilots mistakenly drop supplies — instead of bombs — on Islamic State terrorists

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/30/iraqi-pilots-dropped-food-water-and-ammunition-on-/

Excerpt: Members of Islamic State recently received an unexpected surprise from the Iraqi military’s inexperienced pilots: an airdrop of food, water and ammunition.

Employing Armor Against the Islamic State: The Inevitable Urban Combined Arms Fight. By Dennis A. Lowe

http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/employing-armor-against-the-islamic-state-the-inevitable-urban-combined-arms-fight

Excerpt: ISIL cannot be destroyed relying solely on airstrikes, guided missiles and special operations. The Russians made a critical mistake thinking artillery and airstrikes could bend the Chechen’s to their will in 1994 and 1999. Military options confined to these capabilities will hinder ISIL in the short term. Ultimately, they will adapt to survive the circumstances imposed by external actors operating without a significant and stable ground presence. As long as ISIL controls territory and shelters among civilian populations in easily fortified urban environments, a combined arms ground force will be required to root them out and establish alternative governance. Essential to a major combined arms effort is the enlightened employment of armor and the mobile, protected firepower it provides.

Netanyahu Goes All Out In UN Speech

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/29/netanyahu-un-speech_n_5901574.html?utm_hp_ref=email_share

Excerpt: In a blistering speech to the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Monday that Hamas and the Islamic State group are "branches of the same poisonous tree," both bent on world domination through terror, just as the Nazis were.

An Illusory Victory: Obama refuses to give up his foolhardy “mission accomplished” message. By Rich Lowry

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/389131/illusory-victory-rich-lowry

Excerpt: “Missionaccomplished” has been his essential message about al-Qaeda for years. The terror group, according to the president, is “decimated,” “on the run,” “on the path to defeat.” The president spiked the football so many times, his arm must have been about to give out. He gave every indication that al-Qaeda was all but eliminated, except for some mopping-up operations. And now here we are launching what is projected to be a years-long bombing campaign against an al-Qaeda offshoot, the Islamic State, which controls territory roughly equal to Great Britain, and we are hitting a faction of al-Qaeda in Syria, the so-called Khorasan Group, that represented an “imminent” threat to the West. It raises the question: What happened to al-Qaeda’s being on the verge of defeat?

Obama’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ moment. By Marc A. Thiessen

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/marc-thiessen-obamas-mission-accomplished-moment/2014/09/29/a07eb9f6-47df-11e4-b72e-d60a9229cc10_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opin&wpmm=1

Excerpt: No, I’m not talking about President George W. Bush’s May 1, 2003, speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. I’m talking about President Obama’s speech at the White House on Oct. 21, 2011, in which he boasted about his decision to withdraw all U.S.troops and bring “the long war in Iraq” to an end. It’s still on the White House Web site under the (now ironic) headline “Remarks by the President on Ending the War in Iraq.”“As a candidate for President, I pledged to bring the war in Iraqto a responsible end,” Obama solemnly declared, “[And] today, I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year. After nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraqwill be over.”

Obama Betrays the Kurds: The Kurds are fighting bravely, but they need arms, and they need air support. By Robert Zubrin

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/389096/obama-betrays-kurds-robert-zubrin

Excerpt: As these lines are being written, some 400,000 Kurds in and around the town of Kobane in northern Syria, on the Turkish border, are being besieged and assaulted by massed legions of Islamic State killers armed with scores of tanks, armored personnel carriers, and heavy artillery. Against these, the Kurdish defenders have only AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades. The Kurds have called on the U.S. to send in air strikes to take out the jihadist forces. (The Kurds are pro-American Muslims. Not the kind Obama favors. but he'll change their attitude; as in Egypt, all sides will hate us when he gets done. ~Bob)

Worth Reading: Iraq Was Then, Syria Is Now: Obama hasn’t a clue what he’s doing, but at least he isn’t George W. Bush. By Victor Davis Hanson

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/389094/iraq-was-then-syria-now-victor-davis-hanson

Excerpt: The October 2002 joint congressional authorization to go to war was not just about fears of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Other worries prompted broad bipartisan support for the resolution. A majority of Democratic senators (as evidenced by their passionate speeches from the Senate floor) cited many of the resolution’s 23 writs. The latter were mostly concerned with things other than WMD: harboring terrorists, offering bounties for suicide bombers, giving refuge to at least one of the 1993 WorldTradeCenter bombing suspects, committing genocide, attempting to kill a former U.S.president, and so on. Hillary Clinton should watch her own 2002 speech from the Senate floor.

Radical Sheik Who Called For Deaths of U.S.Troops Invited to Yale

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/09/30/radical-sheik-who-called-deaths-us-troops-invited-speak-yale

Excerpt: Sheikh Rachid al-Ghannouchi was invited to headline an event this afternoon, despite that he was a member of a group that endorsed the murder of U.S. troops, and he was banned from the U.S.for supporting Hamas. (And then the left and Muslims wonder why so many Americans blame all of Islam. ~Bob)

Syria

Blasts at School Kill 32, Including 10 Kids

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/10/01/world/middleeast/ap-ml-syria.html?ref=middleeast&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief-%20LKY%20PROMO100114&_r=0

Excerpt: Twin bombings near an elementary school in Syria killed at least 32 people on Wednesday, including at least 10 children, with the second blast going off as screaming parents frantically searched for their sons and daughters in a street littered with school bags and body parts. ... The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll in the twin attacks at 39, including 30 children under the age of 12. It said the second blast was caused by a suicide bomber. ... There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Wednesday's attack, but Syrian rebels fighting to oust Assad have carried out numerous bombings in government-held areas of Homs.

Taliban Suicide Bombers Kill 7 in Kabul, Wound 21

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/suicide-bomber-attacks-kabul-kill-wound-21-25879528?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief-%20LKY%20PROMO100114

Excerpt: Taliban suicide bombers struck two buses carrying Afghan soldiers in Kabulearly Wednesday, killing seven people and wounding 21, just a day after the signing of a key U.S.-Afghan security pact.

Turkey

? Antisemitic? Who, Me? By Burak Bekdil

http://www.meforum.org/4837/turkey-antisemitic-who-me

Excerpt: After protestors scolded him, he, with his bodyguards, went into a supermarket and, as video footage revealed, Erdogan grabbed one protestor, a Muslim, by the nape of the neck and yelled: "Why are you running away, you sperm of Israel!" After the incident the man also told the press that he was slapped by Erdogan; then, thinking better of it, the man testified that he had been beaten by Erdogan's bodyguards, not by the prime minister; and he finally apologized to Erdogan for "forcing the prime minister to insult him."

Hidden Terror in Europe. By Abigail R. Esman

http://www.investigativeproject.org/4596/guest-column-hidden-terror-in-europe

Excerpt: Europe is in trouble. Even as America and its European allies begin their war campaign against ISIS and its self-proclaimed Islamic State in Syriaand Iraq, European Muslims are increasingly showing their support for Islamic terror groups and their jihad. With the number of Muslims heading to Syria to join ISIS and Al Nusra (the Syrian branch of Al Qaida) on the rise, those who remain behind in countries like Belgium and the Netherlands are now working to raise funds to support their families, and to defend other European Muslims accused of plotting terrorist attacks at home. (If you sow the wind...~Bob)

KFC Bans Alcohol-Based Wet Wipes So Muslims Aren’t Offended

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/kfc-customer-refused-hand-wipe-4343915#ixzz3EkY9vRKS

Excerpt: A KFC customer was refused a hand-wipe in a halal-only branch of the fast food giant - because it contained alcohol. Graham Noakes was stunned when staff said they could not provide him with a wipe because they are soaked in alcohol - which is banned in Islam

Update

I always have a blue face mask with me, due to being immune-suppressed. I am required to wear it in the hospital, on airplanes and any place where there is likely to be large numbers of sick people. I usually have it pulled down to breath better in stores or restaurants, but if I'm in close contact with a lot of people, or someone near me is sneezing, up it goes. People often ask if I'm contagious. Now I can just tell them, "Oh, it's nothing...a little touch of Ebola..." ~Bob

Time to start Christmas, Hanukah or Winter Solstice Shopping

What better gift than a book by Robert A. Hall?:

http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html

Something here for everyone--and the royalties go to charity, not me. ~Bob

Radio Interview for Uncle Sam's Misguided Children blog

http://misguidedchildren.com/

This website has published "I'm tired." They have asked to interview me on their on air radio outlet Tuesday morning at 0900 CDT. The interview will be by radio host and USMC veteran, Rick Ferran "Tank." I have until then to overcome my natural shyness and humility...~Bob

General News and Comment

Scott Walker leads Mary Burke 50-45 among likely voters in latest Marquette poll

http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/scott-walker-leads-mary-burke---among-likely-voters/article_9e7140fc-5cc8-54bc-84ba-ef670f6fee48.html

Excerpt: Republican Gov. Scott Walker has pulled ahead of Democratic challenger Mary Burke five weeks before Election Day, according to the latest Marquette Law School Poll.

Days of Future Past. By Jonah Goldberg

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/388860/days-future-past-jonah-goldberg

Excerpt: We’ve heard a great deal lately about the “wrong side of history.” It is one of the president’s favorite ways to describe whatever side he isn’t on, and it’s been a phrase on the lips of progressives for quite a while. Among the myriad problems with the notion of a “wrong side of history,” as many critics (including me) have long argued, is that in the domestic sphere it is a call for one’s opponents to surrender to the inevitability of defeat, and in the international sphere it is deployed rhetorically to avoid deploying anything real. (Hitler was on the wrong side of history, but it was small consolation to the 40M dead of WWII. ~Bob)

Mission Accomplish, his career ruined, but: Tom Delay Found Not Guilty By State’s Highest Court

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/10/1/Tom-DeLay-Found-Not-Guilty-by-States-Highest-Court

Excerpt: Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was found not guilty today by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. This is the highest appellate court in Texasfor criminal cases and thus brings DeLay’s political persecution to an end.

A smidgeon of corruption? IRS Cover-Up: IG Report Exposes IRS Lying to American Public. By Matthew Clark

http://www.redstate.com/diary/matthewclark/2014/10/02/irs-cover-ig-report-exposes-irs-lying-american-public/

Excerpt: The cover-up is stunning. “The IRS concealed information it should have released in response to an estimated 336 requests in 2013, according to the report.”

In response to a report (from the same IG’s office) detailing the IRS targeting scandal, the American public demanded to know the truth. The American people sent in numerous FOIA requests, and the IRS concealed pertinent information at least 336 times.

'Man with the golden arm' saves 2million babies in half a century of donating rare type of blood
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1259627/Man-golden-arm-James-Harrison-saves-2million-babies-half-century-donating-rare-blood.html

Excerpt: An Australian man who has been donating his extremely rare kind of blood for 56 years has saved the lives of more than two million babies. James Harrison, 74, has an antibody in his plasma that stops babies dying from Rhesus disease, a form of severe anaemia.

California Passes Temporary Gun Confiscation Law

http://lastresistance.com/7625/california-passes-temporary-gun-confiscation-law/

Excerpt: Every gun owner hates the idea of a gun confiscation law. Not too long ago, we reported about Gabby Giffords’ “rational middle ground” ideas aimed at preventing “gun violence.” One of those ideas was to allow courts to issue Gun Violence Restraining Orders. These result in temporary gun confiscation(There is nothing so "permanent" as something "temporary". It looks like California Governor Jerry Brown took that idea to heart, as he just signed a law like it into effect. The law was spawned right after that kid killed six people on the UCSB campus.

Why Does the U.S.Refuse to Label GMOs?

http://www.liveinthenow.com/article/why-does-the-u-s-refuse-to-label-gmos

Excerpt: In what area of policy does the United States differ from every nation in Europe, as well as Australia, Japan, Russia, Indiaand China? Well, each of these countries requires the labeling of foods that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs), while the U.S.has refused to budge on this issue. In fact, the U.S. is becoming more and more isolated among industrialized nations in its stubborn insistence that GMOs are perfectly safe for human consumption. Would it surprise you that the companies that create GMOs are primarily U.S.corporations? It’s seemingly another case of special interests winning, and average citizens losing out. (Personally, I think that GMOs are a boon to mankind, with the potential to save lives, like Golden Rice. I think the anti GMP hysteria is another tin-foil-hat conspiracy theory, like the anti-vaccine and anti fluoride movements. ~Bob)

Obama Brushes Off Plight of U.S. Marine Jailed in Mexico

http://conservativebyte.com/2014/10/obama-brushes-plight-u-s-marine-jailed-mexico/

Excerpt: Obama will trade 5 terrorists for a deserter traitor, but ignores this patriot. Unreal. Check it out: It’s the State Department’s problem. On the same day Republican lawmakers urged President Obama to do something about an American war veteran languishing in a Mexican jail, a White House spokesman indicated it’s not going to happen.

248,000 Jobs Added in September. From The Patriot Post

www.patriotpost.us/subscribe/

The U.S.economy added 248,000 jobs in September, and the headline unemployment rate fell to 5.9%. The real story is that 315,000 people left the workforce, and labor force participation ticked down again to 62.7%, remaining at levels not seen since the Carter-era recession. That's why the unemployment rate is falling. The U-6 unemployment rate, a better measure, sits at 11.8%. That said, the report contains some good news: The August report was revised up from 142,000 jobs created to 180,000, and CNBC notes, "The job creation [in September] was tilted heavily towards full-time positions, which surged by 671,000. Part-time jobs actually fell by 384,000." Furthermore, writes National Review's Patrick Brennan, "248,000 jobs in September is still not as fast as we’d like a recovery to be, but it’s noticeably more jobs than need to be created to keep up with population growth, and the past eight months have been a faster average period of job creation than any comparable time during this recovery." The American economy is resilient enough even to face the headwinds of Barack Obama's "recovery."

Worth Reading: 28 words that Democrats really wish President Obama didn’t say today. By Chris Cillizza

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/10/02/28-words-that-democrats-really-wish-president-obama-didnt-say-today/

Excerpt: President Obama was at Northwestern University on Thursday to deliver an economic speech that, he and his team hoped, would lay out the case forwhy the public is better off today than they were six years ago -- even if they didn't feel it in their everyday lives. Instead, Obama just gave every Republican ad-maker in the country more fodder for negative ads linking Democratic candidates to him. Here are the four sentences that will draw all of the attention

Dem Who Backs Obama 99 Percent of the Time: I'm Totally a Thorn in His Side. By Guy Benson

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/10/02/senator-who-supports-wh-99-percent-of-the-time-im-a-thorn-in-obamas-side-n1899958?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Excerpt: Colorado's Mark Udall is the ultimate Obama rubber stamp. He's represented his purple state in a reflexively partisan, close-minded manner, backing President Obama 99 percent of the time. He's getting pilloried for his slavish loyalty to a president whose popularity has cratered in the state, and he knows its a serious vulnerability:

Ebola News (Again rates its own section, alas!)

First USEbola Patient Identified; Second Possible Ebola Patient Under Watch; School kids Monitored for Possible Infection

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/352189.php

Excerpt: Meanwhile, even Chris Matthews wants to know why President I Got This told the American public that it was "unlikely" that Ebola would reach America's shores. Allah disputes the "unlikelihood" of it -- all we're doing is checking people for fever. That's a symptom that might not present itself for days after the actual infection. So why would Obama say this? Because he says "Nothing to see here, folks, move on" to everything. He is worried how worries will affect him politically, so he does nothing but offer empty -- and often outright false -- assurances that he's on top of everything.

Scrutiny in Texas to Detect Whether Ebola Has Spread

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/us/after-ebola-case-in-dallas-health-officials-seek-those-who-had-contact-with-patient.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSum&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Excerpt: The man who has become the first Ebola patient to develop symptoms in the United States told officials at Texas Health PresbyterianHospital last Friday that he had just arrived from West Africa but was not admitted that day because that information was not passed along at the hospital, officials acknowledged Wednesday. ... Mr. Duncan came back to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Sunday and was admitted for treatment, but in those two days in between, his contacts with a number of people — including five schoolchildren and the medics who helped transport him to the hospital — potentially exposed them to Ebola, forcing officials to monitor and isolate them in their homes and to begin a thorough cleaning of the schools the students attended. (Does not include number of staff at ER at Triage on first visit, let alone those on second....Barb)

Tweet from Javonni Brustow ‏@VonniMediaMogul

President Obama said an Ebola case in America is unlikely but now that we have one, what is Obama doing? Fundraising of course!

Tweet from Lurabyss ‏@Lurabyss

#Ebolawill be blamed on Global Warming, it will be racist to limit travel from infected nations to protect USA

6 Ways The Feds Screwed Up the Ebola Response

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/02/Six-ways-feds-screwed-up-Ebola

Excerpt: Ebola is not easy to transmit. But the federal government is making it a hell of a lot easier for those who have contracted Ebola to transmit it here in the United States, if the case of Thomas Eric Duncan is any indicator. Here are the top six mistakes made by our government in dealing with the Ebola epidemic: Killing Quarantine Rules....

Obama's Pathetic Response To Ebola Isn't Reassuring

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/100214-720059-despite-assurance-government-has-failed-to-keep-ebola-outbreak-at-bay.htm#ixzz3F2lpfVum

Excerpt: Now that Ebola has arrived in the U.S., Americans should ask why. After all, our government knew that the outbreak in Africa was severe but has done little to keep the disease from reaching our shores. Sure, the medical professionals involved — doctors, nurses and epidemiologists — are working hard and bravely to contain an outbreak, which so far includes a Liberian man in Dallas and as many as 100 people he came in contact with. But the government's response, as is too often the case, has been far less than competent and remains so. (And the things that we actually do need a federal government for, they don't do very well. Like getting serious about keeping Ebola out of this country, cancelling all the flights, and checking anyone coming from the area. The guy who brought it here isn't even a UScitizen, he's a Liberian. The further we get into this, the crazier it gets. And there won't be any remotely large scale production of the vaccine that MAY be effective for quite a while. Great, just great. No, not time to panic, but I do hope that there gets to be enough interest in this for the government and perhaps the states to get totally serious about watching out for it. And maybe somebody can figure out how to speed up manufacture of that vaccine. --Del)

Dallas Paramedic: We Weren't Contact After Working In Ebola-Exposed Ambulance

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/10/2/Dallas-Paramedic-We-Werent-Contacted-After-Working-in-Ebola-Exposed-Ambulance

Excerpt: “Three days after the fact,” an exasperated Aklinski stated, “I had to demand exposure testing and they are reporting following up with all the people in the ambulance??? Bull crap!!! They haven’t even followed up with the ten firefighters that were on duty Sunday.

CDC quarantine regulations

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/03/president-ebola-in-2010-obama-administration-scrapped-cdc-quarantine/

Excerpt: In October 2014, the first patient on American soil infected with the Ebola virus sits in isolation in a Texas hospital, prompting calls for travel restrictions between the United States and Ebola-stricken countries. Meanwhile, four years ago, the administration of President Barack Obama moved with virtually no fanfare to abandon a comprehensive set of regulations which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had called essential to preventing international travelers from spreading deadly diseases inside the United States. The CDC had proposed the regulations in 2005 under the administration of George W. Bush, reported USA Today in 2010.

Doomsday warning: UN Ebola chief raises 'nightmare' prospect that virus could mutate and become airborne - making it much more infectious

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2778022/UN-Ebola-chief-raises-nightmare-prospect-virus-mutate-airborne.html

Excerpt: UN warns Ebola virus currently plaguing West Africa could become airborne. The longer it moves between human hosts the greater possibility of mutation. The risk grows the longer virus is living within the human 'melting pot.' NGOs have said the Ebola virus is currently infecting five people every hour.

If Ebola doesn't worry you: Chikungunya in the Americas

http://www.cdc.gov/chikungunya/geo/americas.html

Excerpt: Updates of chikungunya case counts are publicly released every Wednesday by 12 p.m. MT. As of September 26, 2014, local transmission had been identified in 34 countries or territories in the Caribbean, Central America, South America, or North America. A total of 737,084 suspected and 12,052 laboratory-confirmed chikungunya cases had been reported from these areas (Updated data from the Pan American Health Organization

alt="External Web Site Icon" class=externalImg title="External Web Site Icon" v:shapes="_x0000_i1025">). Chikungunya virus likely will continue to spread to new areas in the Americas(North America, Central America, and South America) through infected people and mosquitoes. The mosquitoes that transmit the virus are found throughout much of the Americas, including parts of the United States. Since chikungunya virus is new to the Americas, most people in the region are not immune. This means they can be infected and spread the virus to other mosquitoes. (Could be controlled by DDT, like Malaria, West Nile and Bedbugs, but we have to save the birds...so the green wind farms can chop them up. ~Bob)

Race Card News

Lawsuit: Wrong sperm delivered to lesbian couple

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-sperm-donor-lawsuit-met-20140930-story.html

Excerpt: A white Ohiowoman is suing a Downers Grove-based sperm bank, alleging that the company mistakenly gave her vials from an African-American donor, a fact that she said has made it difficult for her and her same-sex partner to raise their now 2-year-old daughter in an all-white community.

Why U.S. blacks are easy targets for radicalization. By Jesse Lee Peterson

http://www.wnd.com/2014/09/why-u-s-blacks-are-easy-targets-for-radicalization/print/

Excerpt: Extremist Muslims are recruiting willing American blacks for violent jihad against their own fellow citizens. .. Nolan reportedly attended a mosque headed by Suhaib Webb, an imam with ties to former al-Qaida mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki. Webb had been the leader of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City. Amazingly, Webb is head of the sister organization of the mosque attended by Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Why are blacks so susceptible to being radicalized?

Obamacare/Government Healthcare News

Wisconsin Employers and Workers Suffer under Obamacare

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24914&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD

Excerpt: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) raises the price of health insurance, affecting the labor market as employers attempt to deal with the rising costs of health benefits. Devon Herrick, senior fellow with the NationalCenterfor Policy Analysis, explains how the law is impacting the state of Wisconsin. Two-thirds of insured Americans have health coverage through their employers. Wisconsin employees are more likely to receive employer-sponsored health benefits than are employees in other states, though the percentage of residents receiving employer-sponsored health insurance has been declining in Wisconsinsince 2000: In 2000, 60 percent of Wisconsinemployers offered employee health plans, which fell to 50 percent in 2011. In 2000, 72 percent of Wisconsin workers employed in small firms were offered employer-sponsored coverage. That number had dropped to 51 percent by 2010. The ACA will only contribute to the drop in employer coverage, which has been most prominent among small firms, as costs rise.

As the courts turn: The continuing legal perils of Obamacare. By Thomas P. Miller

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/09/as-the-courts-turn-the-continuing-legal-perils-of-obamacare/

Excerpt: Legal challenges to various aspects of Obamacare (aka the Affordable Care Act) keep traveling on a rollercoaster. Today’s episode of the law’s continuing courtroom soap opera involves a ruling by a federal district court in Oklahoma, which overturned a 2012 IRS rule authorizing premium assistance tax credits in federal exchanges (since rebranded as “federally facilitated marketplaces”). The decision improves the likelihood that the Supreme Court ultimately will consider this issue on appeal; either in the spring of 2015 or during its next 2015-2016 term.

Undocumented Democrat News

And if Chikungunya doesn't worry you...The mainstream media ignores the elephant in the room

http://floppingaces.net/2014/10/02/the-mainstream-media-ignores-the-elephant-in-the-room/

Excerpt: The first case of the “mystery” virus affecting kids all over the country has been reported in Maine. The mainstream press has shown an astonishing lack of interest in the obvious. Over 900 cases of this illness have appeared, scattered throughout the country and they have only one thing in common. The introduction of illegal alien children. How has the press handled this? By ignoring it.

"You're Greener than Gore" News

Global Warming in Madison, WI

After the worst winter anyone here remembers, with temps as low as -23 degree F, we had a very cool summer. Only two days reached 90 degrees F. Tonight's forecast is for a low of 35 degrees and snow showers extending into Saturday morning. On October 3, early autumn. ~Bob

Huffpo Authors: Climate Change to Blame for Rise of ISIS

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/10/01/HuffPo-Authors-Climate-Change-to-Blame-for-Rise-of-ISIS

Excerpt: A read-it-to-believe-it column in the Huffington Post is demanding that each American do more to stop the looming threat of the Islamic State-- by recycling. Arguing a direct correlation between droughts in Syria and the rise of Islamist extremism, the authors blame climate change for the terrorist group's advance in the Middle East..... But they are related, the authors argue, because the desperation that grows when climate change triggers a severe shortage of food could snowball into an international terrorist movement: ... [M]any in the West remain unaware that climate played a significant role in the rise of Syria's extremists.

Religion of Peace News

Video purportedly shows ISIS beheading of British hostage Alan Henning

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/10/03/video-purports-to-show-islamic-state-beheading-british-hostage-alan-henning/

Excerpt: An Internet video released Friday purportedly shows an Islamic State fighter beheading captured British aid worker Alan Henning and threatening another American captive in the fourth such killing carried out by the extremist group, according to The Associated Press.

Obama

The new non-war prompted someone to ask me why Obama is like a banana. "Why?" I replied. "Because he came in green, turned yellow and has now gone rotten," was the answer. Good joke, but since he's a product of the Chicagoway machine, I think the rot was always there. ~Bob

Bomb, Occupy, or Neither? Blowing apart a problem for a while is different from ending it for good. By Victor Davis Hanson

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/389326/bomb-occupy-or-neither-victor-davis-hanson

Excerpt: Wars usually end only when the defeated aggressor believes it would be futile to resume the conflict. Lasting peace follows if the loser is then forced to change its political system into something other than what it was. Republican Rome learned that bitter lesson through three conflicts with Carthage before ensuring that there was not going to be a fourth Punic War.

FMR CIA Director: Obama Forced Out Intel Chief Who Warned About Weak Iraqi Army

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/10/02/Former-CIA-Director-Obama-Forced-Out-Intel-Chief-Who-Warned-About-Weak-Iraqi-Army

Excerpt: Wednesday on Newsmax TV's "The Steve Malzberg Show," President Bill Clinton's former director of the CIA James Woolsey said President Barack Obama's attempt to blame poor intelligence is getting "less and less true" as he pointed to the forced resignation of the Head of [Defense Intelligence Agency] Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn who was "making it very clear he was very worried about the stability of the Iraqi army."...And so I think that side of things really was not dealt with real squarely by the administration and I think it did, it did either, permitted or required Flynn to leave early, retire early, and he's the most brilliant intelligence officer this countries seen in the last couple decades." ...At the time there were reports he was challenging the Obama administration narrative that al Qaeda was on the run after the death of Osama bin Laden.

Obama Hit with ‘Double Standards’ Accusation over Iraq, Syria Civilian Casualties

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/10/01/obama-hit-with-double-standards-accusation-over-iraq-syria-civilian-casualties/

Excerpt: As President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, a storm is brewing over alleged double standards concerning civilian casualties incurred during the current US bombing campaign against the Islamic State terrorist organization in Iraq and Syria. Writing in the National Review, pundit David French observed that only a few months after the Obama Administration used terms like “appalled” and “disgraceful” in reacting to supposed civilian deaths during Israel’s recent war against Hamas in Gaza, the president has now loosened the restrictions imposed last year to prevent civilian deaths arising from American military operations.

War with ISIS: What does victory look like? By Andrew Liepman and Philip Mudd

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/25/opinion/liepman-mudd-isis/

Excerpt: We have too many reminders of the resilience of this particularly violent ideology to think that it can be eliminated. ... Despite these lessons, commentators across the political spectrum speak today about the defeat of an even larger, more geographically diverse, and more brutal adversary, in Syria and Iraq, as if somehow the lessons of the durability of al Qaeda ideology has proven brittle in other, equally complex, battlefields. It hasn't.

War without end: The U.S. may still be fighting in Syria in 2024, 2034, 2044 . . . By Jack Shafer

http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2014/09/24/war-without-end-the-u-s-may-still-be-fighting-in-syria-in-2024-2034-2044/

Excerpt: Americahas allies in Syria’s civil war, of course, including Harakat Hazm, part of the Free Syrian Army. Harakat Hazm is fighting Assad, but it has also fought alongside America’s enemy Jabhat al-Nusra, which has not disqualified it from receiving U.S. weapons and training. Harakat Hazm took exception to the American-led bombing of Syriain a statement, calling it an “external intervention” and “an attack on the revolution,” according to a Los Angeles Times report. So Harakat Hazm, America’s friend, which fought with America’s enemy against Syria—which is neither friend nor enemy—objects to the fact that Americabombed Syriain pursuit of the Islamic State, which is also Harakat Hazm’s enemy. Meanwhile, the militant Shiite group Hezbollah is drone-bombing Jabat al-Nusrat along the Lebanon-Syria border at the same time Israel is downing Syrian jets. Confused yet? You’ll have plenty of time to catch up.

Women and Children for Sale: A new U.N. report paints a terrifying picture of life under the Islamic State.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/10/02/women_and_children_for_sale?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Flashpoints&utm_campaign=2014_FlashPoints%2010%2F02RS

Excerpt: In early August, fighters from the Islamic State swept into the small Yazidi village of Maturat in Iraq's Sinjar district and took women to the Badush prison in Mosul. Hundreds more women and girls were herded into an ancient citadel in the town of Tal Afarin the northern province of Nineveh. From Tal Afar, a group of 150 unmarried girls and women, mostly from Christian or Yazidi families, were selected and reportedly sent to Syria "either to be given to ISIL fighters as a reward or to be sold as sex slaves," according to a report released on Thursday, Oct. 2, by the United Nations' human rights office in Iraq. (Just more information about how truly awful these maniacs are. --Del. According to the Holy Qur'an and the Sacred Hadith--the traditions of the prophet that Islamic scholars say are required to understand the Qur'an--Mohammad kept slaves and Allah allowed the rape of female slaves [that which your right hand possesses]. According to these texts, Mohammad is the perfect example of conduct for Muslims today. Thus slavery, like child-marriage for the same reason, is VERY Islamic. ~Bob )

Troops not eligible for campaign medal in fight against ISIS

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/219402-service-members-not-eligible-for-medals-in-isis-campaign

Excerpt: The troops President Obama has deployed to Iraq are not eligible for certain medals because the U.S.has not officially designated their efforts a military campaign. ... Veterans groups are upset over the exclusions, arguing the battle against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS or ISIL) should be treated as an extension of previous military campaigns.

Philippine Islamist Militants Threaten to Behead German on October 17

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/10/02/world/asia/02reuters-philippines-militants.html?ref=asia&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief-%20LKY%20PROMO%2010%2002%2014%20F&_r=0

Excerpt: Al-Qaeda linked Islamist militants in the Philippinessaid on Thursday they will kill one of two German captives on Oct. 17 unless their demands are met. ... The militants are demanding a 250 million pesos ($5.6 million) ransom and for Germanyto stop supporting U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria.

John Kerry's "The Real Islam."Iranexecutes man for heresy

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/29/iran-executes-man-heresy-mohsen-amir-aslani

Excerpt: A 37-year-old man has been executed in Iran after being found guilty of heresy and insulting prophet Jonah, according to human rights activists.

Mohsen Amir-Aslani was arrested nine years ago for his activities which the authorities deemed were heretical. He was engaged in psychotherapy but also led sessions reading and reciting the Qur’an and providing his own interpretations of the Islamic holy book, his family said

Oklahoma Beheading: Suspect's Jihadist Beliefs on Facebook

http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/oklahoma-beheading-suspects-jihadist-beliefs-facebook

Excerpt: A convert to Islam named Alton Nolen beheaded a co-worker at a food processing plant in Oklahoma City on September 25 after being fired by his employer. The Clarion Project immediately reviewed Nolen’s Facebook page and found photos indicating support for the Islamic State terrorist group, Osama Bin Laden and other violent jihadists.

Oklahoma beheading suspect transferred to jail; victim's friend remembers she was 'loved and liked by everyone'

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/okla-beheading-suspect-hospital-transferred-jail-article-1.1959814

Excerpt: In his first court appearance, Nolen requested a Muslim to be named as his court-appointed lawyer.(Beheadings have nothing to d with Islam, of course. Doubtless there are large numbers of Christians, Jews, Buddhists and Secular Humanists running round chopping off people's heads, just not reported by the media. ~Bob)

Islamic State Beheads Seven Men, Three Women in Syria: Human Rights Group

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/islamic-state-beheads-seven-men-three-women-in-syria-human-rights-group-600706?curl=1412170499

Excerpt: The head of the Syrian Observatory for Human, Rights Rami Abdulrahman, said five anti-Islamic State Kurdish fighters, including three women, and four Syrian Arab rebels were detained and beheaded on Tuesday 14 km (8 miles) west of Kobani, a Kurdish town besieged by Islamic State near the Turkish border. He said a Kurdish male civilian was also beheaded.

Libyan soldiers killed in Benghazibombings and clashes

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29464748?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief-%20LKY%20PROMO10.3.14

Excerpt: At least 29 Libyan soldiers have been killed in two car bombings and clashes in the eastern city of Benghazi. Some 60 troops were wounded in the violence near Benghaziairport, medics and military sources say. (The legacy of Obama's lead-from-behind, non-Congressionally-authorized war in Libya. ~Bob)

Nine U.N. Troops Killed in Worst Attack Yet on MaliForce

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/10/03/world/africa/03reuters-mali-un-peacekeepers.html?ref=africa&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief-%20LKY%20PROMO10.3.14&_r=0

Excerpt: Nine United Nations peacekeepers in Mali were killed when heavily armed gunmen on motorbikes ambushed their convoy on Friday, the deadliest attack yet on U.N. troops in the west African nation, the mission said. The attack on the peacekeepers from Nigertook place in the region of Gao and highlighted a sharp increase in strikes on foreign troops based in Malito prevent the return of al Qaeda-linked Islamists who seized its northern desert region in 2012.

Long but interesting: Sandstorm: The Middle East in chaos. By Reuel Marc Gerecht

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/sandstorm_808491.html?nopager=1

Excerpt: The concept of asabiyya is helpful in trying to understand the Middle East today, after the second Iraq war (2003-09) and the Arab Spring (2010-12) together unhinged a dying political order throughout the region. Today, no Muslim state in the Middle East has an asabiyya that peacefully and happily binds its citizens together. Unless new organizing ideas are embraced, we are likely to see the persistence of the Islamic militancy that has shaken the region. The prognosis isn’t good, in part because of highly counterproductive American actions. U.S.air raids against the Islamic State and other radical Islamic groups, which only stir the hornets but don’t destroy the nest, are unlikely to change the fundamental dynamic that keeps working against us.

With winter closing in, we decided to get out of the house on Saturday, October 4, despite clouds, temps in the 40s and blustery winds. We drove to Reedsburg, about 50 miles NW of Madison, for their Farm Art Tour. The art is on a loop west of the town, at about 40 farms. It was a bit funky and funny, but the countryside is lovely, and the fall colors, though not at peak, were pretty good, despite the limited sunshine.

Some pictures below.

From a Marine Vietnam Vet. He asked me not to use his name, but seems pretty knowledgeable about this. Take it for what it is worth. ~Bob

Chicago’s main Latino Street Gangs, the Latin Kings and Spanish Cobras are the back channel enforcers for the Sinaloa and Tijuana Cartels and all the hard drugs, young prostitutes and human contraband they ship from Mexicoto Chicago. “Champo” Guzman, recently captured by the Mexican Army and the head of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico had a lush condo on 26th streetand the LakeFrontin Chicago. Steps from McCormack Placeand a 5 minute bike ride to Soldier Field (Chicago Bears), U.S. Cellular Park (White Sox) and The United Center (Black Hawks and Chicago Bulls).

But I don’t think “Champo” was riding any bikes – usually his mode of transportation is bullet proof limo and five body guards, and a few hot looking babes.

Recently, Mark Potter, NBC News National reporter (and Expert on the Drug Business and Cartels), had a brief report on NBC Nightly News. It showed lines of people lined up at 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. on several street corners on Chicago’s West Side. Looking for work? Hell No. They were buying Heroin, Cocaine and pure refined Meth. We’ve had issues with Meth in Chicagobefore. But that Meth was coming from the ‘corn fields’ in Southwest Michigan. Local kids and laid-off white folks from the 3rd tier auto industry were cooking up the stuff in the middle of huge corn fields. That way if it blew up, their nearby shacks wouldn’t be destroyed. But the Mexican Cartels wanted to muscle in on that lucrative trade so slowly these white folks were ‘persuaded’ to look for other industry like mowing lawns. Thus the controlled ‘pure’ Meth now on the streets of the Midwest is managed by the Mexican cartels with local Latino ‘help’.

Oh yeah, Obama claims Chicagoas his home town.

This NBC News report was broadcast a Month ago. Nothing, repeat nothing has been done to shut this drug traffic down – filmed in broad daylight by NBC News.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/how-heroin-flows-over-border-suburbia-n196911

“Most of the heroin bound for Chicago crosses the border in the El Paso area, Riley said, and is then placed into the hands of local gang members for distribution. “In Chicago, we’ve got 100,000 documented street gang members who largely make their living putting Mexican cartel heroin on the street.”

So when Obama asks Latinos, especially in Chicago to ‘have my back’ – shit, - they’ve got his back, side, bottom, front, top – you name it.

AND OBAMA HAS THEIRS!

And these Latino Gang Bangers really help in getting out the Vote on Election Day, ensuring ‘Absentee Ballots” are collected and Contributions to the Coffers of the Cook County (Chicago) Regular Democratic Committee are HUGE and Often and in CASH … CASH BABY …. And That’s the Chicago Way.

Obama tells frustrated Latinos: ‘I’m going to need you to have my back’

http://fusion.net/story/19540/obama-tells-frustrated-latinos-im-going-to-need-you-to-have-my-back/

Update

http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2014/10/reedsburg-farm-art-tour.html

General News and Comment

Competence Not Required: Julia Pierson’s ouster is the exception that proves the rule: In Washington it is nearly impossible to get fired. By Stephen M. Walt

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/10/03/why_nobody_in_washington_ever_gets_fired_julia_pierson

Excerpt: Something unusual happened in Washington, D.C., this week: A federal official was fired ("resigned under pressure") for doing her job badly. I refer to former Secret Service chief Julia Pierson, who stepped down after a series of embarrassing revelations, most notably the recent incident during which an intruder managed to scale the fence, get across the grounds, and then get all the way inside the White House. And the Secret Service couldn't even get its version of events straight for several days. (Competence in government has been an endangered species for a long time. Some days it seems competence anywhere isn't that common. --Del)

2 Louisiana Teachers’ Threesome with HS Student Adds Up to Criminal Charges.

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/10/184138-two-louisiana-teachers-arrested-holding-school-trysts-student-one-teacher-daughter-local-judge/?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%7BCAMPAIGN_ID%7D

Excerpt: Two Louisianahigh school teachers have been arrested and suspended from their jobs for having sex — including a threesome with a student after a school football game. Shelley Dufresne, who’s a 33-year-old mother of three (left), and Rachel Respess, who is 23 years old (right), taught English at Destrehan High School in St. Charles Parish, but apparently their lesson plans included a bit more than the Common Core Curriculum requires. (Apparently I had a deprived childhood. this is like selling booze or pot to teens--you KNOW they will talk! ~Bob)

HUD Official Pleads Guilty To Stealing $843,000 In Taxpayer Funds

http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/03/hud-official-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-843000-in-taxpayer-funds/

Excerpt: Former Housing and Urban Development loan specialist Brian Thompson pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing $843,000 of taxpayer money in a wire fraud scheme. Thompson was responsible for selling properties acquired by the government after borrowers defaulted on their HUD-guaranteed mortgages.

Obama's plantation economy: Jobs vs. food stamps: Illinois last in the Midwest

http://www.illinoispolicy.org/jobs-vs-foods-stamps-illinois-last-in-the-midwest/

Excerpt: Since the Great Recession ended, Illinois’ food-stamp enrollment has outpaced job creation by a ratio of nearly 2-to-1. The jobs versus food stamps comparison is a strong indicator of economic hardship. And compared to the rest of the Midwest, Illinoisans are truly feeling the pain.

Despite law, Colorado doesn’t block welfare withdrawals at liquor stores, casinos

http://watchdog.org/174023/despite-law-colorado-doesnt-block-welfare-withdrawals-liquor-stores-casinos/

Excerpt: For nearly two decades, Colorado law has prohibited the use of welfare cards at casinos and liquor store ATMs, and in 2012 federal law also required states to have policies prohibiting the withdrawals. But in the past two years at least $489,000 in taxpayer money has been withdrawn in exactly those Coloradolocations, Watchdog.org found.

Son Kills One Of Three Home Invaders In Texas, Possibly Saving EIGHT Lives

http://bearingarms.com/son-kills-one-three-home-invaders-texas-possibly-saving-eight-lives/

Excerpt: Family members told deputies that their mother was in the kitchen cooking breakfast with three young granddaughters when the armed men broke in. The woman's adult son heard the commotion from his bedroom and grabbed his gun. "… and when he heard 'please don't hurt the girls,' that's when he took action," deputies said. The son wasted no time in shooting and killing one of the suspects. "They were basically at a standoff, and he discharged first," said Sgt. Felipe Rivera with the Harris County Sheriff's Office. "One of the suspects did fire inside the residence."

The Case for Panic: Column: Incompetent government + corrupt elite = disaster. By Matthew Continetti

http://freebeacon.com/columns/the-case-for-panic/

Excerpt: I have a second opinion. Not only do I disagree with the constant stream of soothing and complacent rhetoric from Dr. Zeke’s friends in government and media. I also believe it is entirely rational to fear the possibility of a major Ebola outbreak, of a threat to the president and his family, of jihadists crossing the border, of a large-scale European or Asian war, of nuclear proliferation, of terrorists detonating a weapon of mass destruction. These dangers are real, and pressing, and though the probability of their occurrence is not high, it is amplified by the staggering incompetence and failure and misplaced priorities of the U.S. government. It is not Ebola I am afraid of. It is our government’s ability to deal with Ebola.

How Heroin Flows Over the Border and Into Suburbia

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/how-heroin-flows-over-border-suburbia-n196911

Excerpt: Most of the heroin bound for Chicagocrosses the border in the El Pasoarea, Riley said, and is then placed into the hands of local gang members for distribution. “In Chicago, we’ve got 100,000 documented street gang members who largely make their living putting Mexican cartel heroin on the street.”

Obama tells frustrated Latinos: ‘I’m going to need you to have my back’ By Jordan Fabian

http://fusion.net/story/19540/obama-tells-frustrated-latinos-im-going-to-need-you-to-have-my-back/
Excerpt: President Obama on Thursday urged frustrated Latinos to stick by his side, fervently vowing to act on his own to slow deportations by the end of the year. But the growing disillusionment among Hispanic activists over the president’s decision to delay action was evident when a heckler interrupted him during his speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute gala in Washington.

Worth Reading: Inequality Explained. By John C. Goodman

http://townhall.com/columnists/johncgoodman/2014/10/04/inequality-explained-n1900510?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Excerpt: Why does the left care about income inequality? University of Chicago economist, John Cochrane asked that question the other day and could only settle on one answer: they like big government. But first things first. What do you think would be more helpful to people at the bottom of the income ladder: redistribution of income from the rich or getting a good education and acquiring the habits of self-discipline and self-control?

Tweet from Jason Siebold ‏@jfsbird32

my thirteen year old asked the "hot" boy "your not a democrat are you?"#ParentingDoneRight

Tweet from Janie Johnson ‏@jjauthor

It seems a bit hypocritical unions are against voter IDs in US presidential elections but require a picture ID to vote in a union election!

Judge: IRS watchdog not exempt from disclosure law in White House case. By Josh Hicks

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/10/03/judge-irs-watchdog-not-exempt-from-disclosure-law-in-white-house-case/

Excerpt: A federal court this week said the Internal Revenue Service’s inspector general is not exempt from disclosure rules as it investigates whether the White House received unauthorized access to protected taxpayer information. Judge Amy Jackson, with the U.S. District Court in Washington, ordered the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration to process a Freedom of Information Act request from a conservative legal group seeking documents related to the probe.

White House Can't Hide Look Into Koch Tax Data Misuse
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/100314-720274-court-rules-administration-cant-hide-goolsbee-investigation.htm#ixzz3FBRUbWM9

Excerpt: A court tells the White House to acknowledge the existence of a probe into whether one of its advisers used private tax records for political gain. Transparency is being forced on an administration that's anything but. In 2010, an attorney for industrialists and libertarian political donors Charles and David Koch told the Weekly Standard of a senior Obama aide telling reporters on background that the Kochs "do not pay corporate income tax" through their company, Koch Industries. How, the attorney justifiably wondered, did the White House get his clients' private information from the IRS? (Well, you have to give Obama and his people credit for being consistent. The IRS is a great tool for slamming or sliming your enemies, so once you start using it that way, you just keep on doing it. And there are enough "sympathetic" people working there, like Lois Lerner, that you can do so and not worry about any whistleblowers. But once in a while it does get noticed and people ask questions, and then.... it's time for stonewalling by all the other agencies you can control. Thank heaven for independent judges who won't let the charade go on, and demand actual openness of government records. Which is exactly what is owed to all of us, all the time. --Del)

Obama IS the only law: Holder defies federal court ruling and refuses to obey judge's order

http://www.examiner.com/article/breaking-holder-defies-federal-court-ruling-and-refuses-to-obey-judge-s-order

Excerpt: In an action not seen in the U.S. Department of Justice in recent history, outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday refused to comply with a court order to release a Vaughn Index of Operation Fast and Furious documents. Members of a House committee are requesting the federal judge in the case to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt of court for failing to comply with a deadline a judge set to turn over documents related to Operation Fast and Furious, according to a federal court motion on Thursday. As per a 1974 court ruling, a V aughn Index must: (1) identify each document withheld; (2) state the statutory exemption claimed; and (3) explain how disclosure would damage the interests protected by the claimed exemption.

Tweet from Pete Kaliner ‏@PeteKaliner

Sent her kids to private schools => MT @kayhagan: NC teachers deserve a champion who stands up for our schools.

Ebola News

Obama Quietly Dumped Bush-Era Quarantine Proposal That Would Prevent Travelers From Spreading Infectious Diseases
http://patdollard.com/2014/10/obama-quietly-dumped-bush-era-quarantine-proposal-that-would-prevent-travelers-from-spreading-infectious-diseases/

Excerpt: In 2010, the Obama administration quietly dumped Bush-era plans to enact quarantine regulations supported by the Centers for Disease Control that were designed to prevent travelers from spreading infectious diseases. Travelers would have been required to submit detailed personal information before boarding a flight or ship.

White House: No Ebola travel restrictions

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/219492-white-house-no-ebola-travel-restrictions

Excerpt: The White House said Wednesday it will not impose travel restrictions or introduce new airport screenings to prevent additional cases of Ebola from entering the United States. Spokesman Josh Earnest said that current anti-Ebola measures, which include screenings in West African airports and observation of passengers in the United States, will be sufficient to prevent the “wide spread” of the virus.

Tweet from Good Doobie‏@bayes46

Obama in IL Northwestern Univ, calls the Ebola, "eboli" If Sarah Palin said that, she'd be made fun of 24/7. Obama is probably sending "Corpsemen" to treat "Eboli." ~Bob)

Family moved from home where Ebola patient stayed

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/dallas-home-cleared-of-items-used-by-ebola-patient-who-arrived-from-liberia/2014/10/03/f4f3a184-4b42-11e4-a046-120a8a855cca_story.html?wpisrc=nl-headlines&wpmm=1

Excerpt: Three mattresses, linens, a suitcase and clothing used by Thomas Duncan, the man who contracted Ebola and flew from Liberia to the United States, were removed Friday from the apartment where they were left for five days.

Tweet from Melissa Clouthier ‏@MelissaTweets

Hey Californians... Can the #Ebola virus live on your mandated reusable grocery bags?!? Hmmmm.

Taste of Africa--poor timing!

Race Card News

Be satire, except true: What’s Racist, What’s Not (As of Friday, Oct. 3, 2014). Note: Will update as necessary. By Andrew Stiles

http://freebeacon.com/blog/whats-racist-whats-not-as-of-friday-oct-3-2014/

Excerpt: Liberals tend to devote a significant portion of their daily lives to proving how not racist they are. One particularly expedient way of doing this is to declare that something a conservative has said or done is totally racist, and then to place oneself in opposition to the thing that was racist: “See, I’m not a racist!” As result, the List of Things That Are Racist has grown incomprehensibly long.

Obamacare/Government Healthcare News

Reality Check: Is Obamacare 'Working Pretty Well in the Real World'? By Guy Benson

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/10/03/real-world-responds-to-presidents-obamacare-boast-n1900523?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Excerpt: In his speech at Northwestern yesterday (which happened to coincide with a pair of high-dollar Chicago fundraisers, with taxpayers paying for the trip), the President Obama stated unequivocally that his agenda is "on the ballot" this fall; voters will have the chance to endorse or reject "every single one" of his policies, he said.

Undocumented Democrat News

Obama and ChicagoHispanics

http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2014/10/obama-and-chicago-hispanics.html

From a Marine Vietnam Vet. He asked me not to use his name, but seems pretty knowledgeable about this. Take it for what it is worth. ~Bob

Mother watched in horror as 2 children hit at Wilson Co. school bus stop

http://www.wnem.com/story/26686150/2-rock-ridge-elem-students-hit-by-a-car-at-bus-stop

Excerpt: German Arroyo-Correa, 10, and Areli Arroyo-Correa, 5, are in serious condition after the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said they were hit by an Ford Explorer while trying to board their school bus Thursday morning. Both children have been transferred to UNC Hospitals for treatment of their injuries. Troopers said the bus was stopped on Rock Ridge Sims Roadwith its lights on when the SUV's driver, 27-year-old Marcos Santiaga Bautista, failed to yield to the extended stop arm, striking the two children and then driving away. (Website that linked this story claimed Bautista was an illegal, but the story doesn't say, so I don't know how they documented it, or if they just assumed. ~Bob)

Religion of Peace News

Interesting: Biden apologizes to Turkey’s Erdogan. By Liz Sly

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/biden-apologizes-to-turkeys-erdogan/2014/10/04/b3b5dc84-d97d-4381-ab7f-1754d495f84a_story.html?wpisrc=nl-headlines&wpmm=1

Excerpt: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not known as the kind of leader who readily admits mistakes, and Vice President Biden is well known for his capacity to make them.

So after Biden claimed that Erdogan had acknowledged fault in enabling the flow of foreign fighters across the Turkish border, it was inevitable that a firestorm would ensue. ... But this furor comes at a critical moment in the United States’ already fraught relationship with NATO ally Turkey. (Joe Biden--Obama's life insurance and anti-impeachment policy. ~Bob)

The Constitution and the War in Iraq and Syria. By Rich Nugent, Member of Congress

https://iqconnect.lmhostediq.com/iqextranet/view_newsletter.aspx?id=2143534&c=FL11_RN

Last month, President Obama sent Congress a letter, pursuant to the War Powers Act, officially notifying us that he had begun conducting airstrikes in Iraq. That letter (or more precisely the airstrikes themselves) started the sixty-day clock. One thing that’s important to note - in both the case of Libya a couple years ago and in the case of Syrian airstrikes now, the President never provided that official notification. I may be old-fashioned, but in the case of Libya, I did not feel that the President had proper authorization to proceed and I argued loudly that Congress should stand up for its constitutional rights and check him. In that case, hostilities ceased quickly and the issue pretty well subsided. But in the case of Syria, the airstrikes will almost certainly continue for some time. It’s time we have that discussion. Without getting into any classified details, it’s important to know from the start that Syrian air defenses are Russian-made systems. They are not old rinky-dink air defenses. They are sophisticated and they are dangerous to our pilots. These airstrikes are not without risk. Furthermore, no matter how much we may detest President Assad, Syria is a sovereign nation. Where I come from, launching missiles into somebody’s backyard constitutes an act of war. Therefore, I believe that the President has the constitutional responsibility to request proper authorization from Congress. He has started a war with ISIL and technically speaking – he has started a war with Syria. That’s a big deal and Congress has the constitutional responsibility to insist on a request for authorization by the President. It then has a responsibility to consider it. While many of us question the effectiveness of a long-term strategy relying on airstrikes in Syria, polls suggest the country is largely supportive of those strike. So, in other words, this isn’t just about the airstrikes themselves. Frankly, the President probably won’t have much trouble gaining the authorization once he requests it. But to treat the process of submitting a presidential request, debating it in Congress, and holding an up-or-down vote as an unnecessary formality is treating the Constitution itself as an unnecessary formality - no longer needed in a modern-day world. I think that is a complete and utter abdication of duty and Congress needs to step up to the plate. The simple fact that a military action is popular does not mean we should just shrug as a nation and fail to deliberate properly as our Constitution demands. If we don’t take that step, then future presidents can use this as a precedent to expand their war powers beyond what the Founders intended.

Al Gore made $500 million from jihad terror sponsor Qatar. By Robert Spencer

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/10/al-gore-made-500-million-from-jihad-terror-sponsor-qatar?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=bd50f95ad0-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-bd50f95ad0-97564174

Excerpt: Dear Mr. Albert Gore: This letter is being sent to you on behalf of the Qatar Awareness Campaign Coalition. The purpose is to inform you and the public of the activities of Qatar, the country which owns Al Jazeera America, the network which was established following your sale of CurrentTV to Al Jazeera for $500 million in 2013. ... We urge to you read the information below, which includes evidence that Qataris arguably the preeminent sponsor of terror in the world today. It is a benefactor of the genocidal armies of ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram; it is involved in Taliban narcotics trafficking through a relationship with the Pakistani National Logistics Cell; and profits from operating a virtual slave state. Qatar is involved in terror operations from Nigeriato Gaza to Syriato Iraq.

Child soldiers, mass executions, and jihadi slave markets where women are sold for sex for $10: UN report confirms ISIS’s atrocities across Iraq
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2777834/Mass-executions-1-500-time-girls-abducted-sex-slaves-children-used-soldiers-UN-report-confirms-ISIS-s-atrocities-Iraq.html

Excerpt: UN Investigators believe as many as 2,500 women and children have been captured, subjected to sex attacks and then sold for around $10 a head by extremist militants in Iraq.

The Origins of ISIS. Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMjXbuj7BPI&feature=youtu.be

Photo said to be of Female Kurdish Soldiers

Kurdish female fighter blows herself up on ISIS

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/10/05/Kurdish-woman-suicide-bomber-attacks-ISIS-monitor.html

Excerpt: A female Kurdish fighter carried out a suicide bomb attack against jihadists from the Islamic State group outside the embattled Syrian border town of Kobaneon Sunday, a monitor said.

‘So-called Khorasan Group’ Is Actually ‘Wolf Unit’ of al-Qaeda’s Syrian Franchise – Report. By Andrew C. McCarthy

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/389270/so-called-khorasan-group-actually-wolf-unit-al-qaedas-syrian-franchise-report-andrew-c

Excerpt: President Obama and his subordinates take pains not to mention al Qaeda, particularly in the context of continuing plots to mass-murder Americans, because the president repeatedly and falsely claimed during the 2012 campaign to have “decimated” the terror network and put it “on the path to defeat.” The administration miniaturizes the continuing threat by breaking al Qaeda down into its components and speaking about them as if they were independent actors rather than a global jihadist movement unified by virulently anti-American Islamic-supremacist ideology.

The Simple Math of an Iranian Nuclear Bomb. In an excerpt from ‘Nuclear Iran,’ calculating, with scientific precision, just how far Iran has come in its quest for the bomb By Jeremy Bernstein

http://tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/183851/nuclear-iran-bernstein?utm_source=tabletmagazinelist&utm_campaign=93c6d95d4f-Sunday_October_5_201410_5_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c308bf8edb-93c6d95d4f-207275445

Excerpt: No single threat to Israeli—and perhaps global—security has generated as much controversy in the last decade as Iran’s nuclear program. Iranian officials insist the program is peaceful. International observers, Israeli intelligence, and U.S. foreign-policy stewards are skeptical. But behind the diplomacy, spycraft, jockeying, and feinting lies the science of nuclear reactors and weapons: the specific engineering hurdles, the physics of fission, the “weaponization” of minerals required to produce as complex a device as a nuclear bomb. In this excerpt from Nuclear Iran, physicist Jeremy Bernstein unpacks what we know about the centrifuges at Natanz to take an informed guess at how likely Iran is to have enough weapons-grade uranium to make a nuclear warhead. (I think we are fairly likely to lose New York City or DC in the next ten years, destroying the economy and bringing on the fiscal, political and social collapse that is likely coming anyway, due to debt and others stresses on the Republic. ~Bob)

Fox’s Controversial Interview with a Muslim Insider from OklahomaBeheader’s Mosque

http://eaglerising.com/9368/foxs-controversial-interview-muslim-insider-oklahoma-beheaders-mosque/

Excerpt: On Tuesday night Fox News host Megyn Kelly interviewed a Muslim insider who has attended the same mosque as Alton Nolen, the man who beheaded a woman in Oklahoma. The man had been worried about repercussions from his interview, so he asked to have his identity concealed, which Fox agreed to. Here is the chilling interview.

Oklahoma beheader “wanted others to call him ‘Muhammad'”

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/10/oklahoma-beheader-wanted-others-to-call-him-muhammad?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=6e381a0d98-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-6e381a0d98-97564174

Excerpt: A Bill of Particulars was filed Thursday in Cleveland County District Court following an announcement Wednesday that the district attorney would seek the death penalty for murder suspect Alton Nolen. ... Nolen had several previous disagreements and arguments with employees in the past and several had overheard him say he beat Caucasians, the affidavit said. After recently converting to the Islam religion, he had been attempting to convince other employees to convert to the religion.

“Witnesses also advised that Nolen had become aggressive and belligerent to other employees and wanted others to call him ‘Muhammad’,” records show

Maher Schools Affleck On Islam

http://clashdaily.com/2014/10/will-fcking-kill-maher-schools-affleck-islam/

Excerpt: Maher’s about the only Lefty in Hollywood that both understands Islam is a death cult and does not hold back slamming them. Watch Bill educate Ben. Enjoy. Ben Affleck, Bill Maher, Nicholas Kristol, Michael Steele, and author Sam Harris got into what could only be described as a tumultuous continuation of Maher’s comments on Islam from last week, with Maher and Affleck tearing into each other over the influence of fundamentalists in the Muslim community. (Watch Ben brood like a spoiled child. --JB)

Worth Reading: The Godfather’s Guide to the Middle East: Everything you need to know about world turmoil today—from Obama to Assad to ISIS—is in the ethos of the Corleone family. By Lee Smith
http://tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/185394/godfather-middle-east

Excerpt: And that’s the point. What makes The Godfather movies central to American culture is not that they are so rich with rare jewels of wisdom and insight, but that they present a relatively accurate picture of the way the rest of the world still experiences reality. Or to put it another way, if most American males picture themselves as Michael, the talented, thoughtful yet ruthless former war hero, played by the brooding and beautiful 30-year-old Al Pacino, the world’s most dangerous spots are actually run by men much more like Santino, the eldest Corleone boy, whose stars are ruled only by murder, sex, and food.

Dutch military backs down from tweeted threats. By Timon Dias

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4760/dutch-military-uniform

Excerpt: By ordering Dutch soldiers to become "invisible" in The Netherlands, what message is the government sending to its enemies, let alone its own citizens? Dutch-Iranian law professor Afshin Ellian rightfully asks: if Dutch soldiers aren't safe anymore, than who is? Jihadists now know that a few tweets from a single Dutch jihadist can fundamentally alter Dutch defense policy. Dutch citizens now know that a few tweets from a single Dutch jihadist will send shivers down their government's spine and that -- instead of making sure all threats are neutralized -- it will order the personnel tasked with keeping them safe, to hide. The Dutch-Israeli psychotherapist and author Martin van Vliet voices his concern: "Are we supposed to be protected by a military that orders its soldiers to start wearing the invisibility cloak as soon as they find out combating Jihad is not a video game without risks? The Dutch would be right not to place their trust in their military." (The U.S.military also orders personnel not to wear the uniform in public except when going to or from duty. As I understand it, the uniform is not to be worn on commercial flights. It is sensible not to expose unarmed soldiers to terrorists, but it is a shameful sign of the times that jihadists are so brazen and are not the ones cowering in fear. Cordially, Larry Greenberg)

Qatar

’s friends-with-everyone approach rankles some of its Persian Gulf neighbors. By Rajiv Chandrasekaran

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/qatars-friends-with-everyone-approach-rankles-some-of-its-persian-gulf-neighbors/2014/10/04/b89977f8-4a7b-11e4-b72e-d60a9229cc10_story.html?wpisrc=nl-headlines&wpmm=1

Excerpt: The U.S. military orchestrates the air war over Iraq and Syria from a hulking command center on the vast al-Udeid Air Base, a Qatari-owned encampment that is home to 8,000 American military personnel and dozens of Air Force jets. Giant video screens inside the windowless, two-story structure allow troops to track every plane and observe live footage from every drone involved in operations against the Islamic State. Twenty miles to the northeast, in the heart of this opulent and fast-growing capital city, the even more gargantuan Grand Mosque has served as a key outpost for al-Qaeda-linked rebels fighting the Syrian regime.

Scotland's Independence--A Response to George Will

Shorter post today, but interesting news and comment

Everything I Need to Know, I Learned in Bootcamp

Many terrific items in today's news and comment

Posting again today, as lots of news and comment

Scotland Votes No.

Lots of not-to-be-missed news and comment today

Political News, Consvative Comment--and a Parade Today

The Wit and Wisdom of Democrats

Today's Political News and Conservative Comment

Holder Quits--and other important news today

Some Clear Examples for John Kerry of "The Real Islam"

British woman 'arrested in Dubaiafter being raped'

A lot not to be missed news today

Today's interesting news, comment and graphics

Random Thoughts for October, 2014

Too much important political news to hold for tomorrow

Today's Important Political News and Conservative Comment

Reedsburg Farm Art Tour

Obama and Chicago Hispanics

Today's Political News and Conservative Comment