Wednesday, 10 December 2014
News.................
NO, REALLY, I'M SERIOUS: RNC Braintrust Actually Believes Jeb Bush is a Viable Presidential Candidate
Police Chief Asks City Residents To Allow Their Homes To Be Searched For Guns
Senator ridicules Obama for not signing amnesty order
Al Sharpton's Tax Woes Continue
Obama pal Whitaker ruled 'hostile witness'-suggests racial bias
MoveOn.org announces bid to draft Warren
Racism Isn't the Reason Southern Whites Have Abandoned Democrats
Raping and Beheading the Faithful
You Won’t Believe it But There are Actually Rules About How to Beat Your Wife in Islam
V-22 Osprey Could Get Some Serious Firepower
WH: Enhanced Interrogation Not Worth it Even if it Got Bin Laden
China’s Maritime Machinations: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
'Opec is finished - the oil crash will continue'
Robert Mugabe sacks his deputy in Zimbabwe cabinet purge
The Truth about the Vietnam War..................
Did the United States win or lose the Vietnam War? We are taught that it was a resounding loss for America, one that proves that intervening in the affairs of other nations is usually misguided. The truth is that our military won the war, but our politicians lost it. The Communists in North Vietnam actually signed a peace treaty, effectively surrendering. But the U.S. Congress didn't hold up its end of the bargain. In just five minutes, learn the truth about who really lost the Vietnam War.
H/T Shelly
When Honor is Hated - Wild Bill
Its time to stand up against government abuse of our military. Stand with Special Operations Speaks as they fight for our veterans
The Other Side of Ferguson.......................from Dan Friedman
[Everyday, police across America face situations like this before they go home and rejoin their families. Whatever, I doubt Sharpton (or Mayor de Blasio) will show up to “protest” this fatal confrontation. df]
Then read that:
A young rabbinic student was stabbed early Tuesday in Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Please pray for the recovery of Levi Yitzchok ben Raizel.
Been wrong so long.....................from Rico
The FED has been wrong for so long, it's hard to believe anyone can believe they are right abut anything.
Credibility?
The FED's projections have been consistently wrong year in, year out.
This chart clearly says the FED has absolutely NO clue what it is doing....or if they actually do, then they are knowingly lying to everyone.
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Tuesday, 9 December 2014
A photo of good versus evil?...from TPC
The photo in this article could be one of the classic examples of good versus evil.
A darker side of falling oil prices!...from TPC
Without a doubt falling oil prices is putting more money into the pockets of consumers, particularly welcome during the Christmas shopping season!
But there are some potential downside risks from the steep decline as well from Russia, derivatives and the high yield debt market.
Read the story at LI here.
Zo: Stop Saying Kennedy was a Conservative...................
Conservatives acknowledge that the political parties didn't switch sides, and yet claim that Kennedy would be a Republican by today's standards. Really?!?
NYT: Muslims Will Be Like Reform Jews...................from Dan Friedman
[There is already more than enough garbage orbiting the Internet. That's one reason I seldom pivot off the NYT, and rarer still that I go after their village idiot and "foreign policy expert." But today I decided to make an exception since St. Thomas has written a naïve, self-incriminating rant about the evil influence ISIS is having on the regular Ismails of the "religion of peace."
Above anything Thomas Friedman wants to be “trendy.” He may not have invented the Internet, but he sure can tell us in advance the cool ways it will be used in the future. No wonder he sells himself as a big thinker who can spot the emerging trends in the Middle East before anyone else. Sunday, Friedman tripped over himself again. He says barbaric ISIS is setting a poor example and driving right-thinking Muslims away from Islam – and sparking a healthy debate on "social media" and the Internet in the process. (Oddly enough, he eagerly cites a long quote from an Islamist who has converted to Christianity, but Friedman can’t understand it torpedoes his entire premise.) You’d be forgiven if this all sounds like the euphoria emitted by the MSM after Morsi drove out Mubarak during a revolution supposedly led by tech-savvy young Egyptians, or at least the ones with a Facebook page. We know how long that lasted.
So this one goes out to the dwindling few who still take T. Friedman seriously. Or anyone else who could use a good laugh. df]
New York Times, DEC. 6, 2014
Thomas L. Friedman
Banking can apparently be hazardous to your health!...from TPC
Unlike the episode of Seinfeld where Kramer lamented the fact that he could never be a banker, for many bankers there is some unknown reason for why actually being a banker can be hazardous to your health.
In 2014 36 bankers around the world have died under unusual circumstances leading to the question of whether there is more to the story than mere coincidence?
Read at HAS here.
Free Fire Zone- Torturing the CIA
Obama is releasing a biased report about the CIA Enhanced Interrogation program. This will endanger US citizens and accomplish nothing but moral preening and political posturing
Welfare Blood - Wild Bill
Welfare benefits may be exacerbating the violence in Ferguson MO. Bill has an idea
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Monday, 8 December 2014
Protesting Law and Order
By Alan Caruba
I doubt there was ever a time in
America, pre-Revolution and since, that race was not an issue. It was for the
framers of the Constitution who, in order to get the southern colonies to accept
it, included in Article Two that, for the purpose of taxation, slaves were to be
identified as only “three-fifths” of being a person. In Section 9, it was agreed
that the issue of slavery was not to be addressed until 1808, but “a tax or duty
may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.”
Protesting something, anything, is as
American as the flag. After fighting a Revolution for six years to rid
themselves of a British monarch and his control of the colonies, Americans
embraced the right to protest as part of their definition of liberty and
freedom. By 1861 the protests against slavery had so divided the nation a Civil
War had to be fought. In 1870, the 15th Amendment enfranchised former slaves
with the right to vote, but Congress would wait until 1920 to extend the same
right to women!
Having lived through the Civil Rights
movement in the 1960s, the assassinations of President Kennedy, his brother
Robert who was the Attorney General, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I concluded
that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 had “solved” the issues that had afflicted
blacks in America. I was wrong.
The protests that occurred in the wake
of grand jury decisions not to indict a police officer who shot Michael Brown in
Ferguson, Missouri, or another group of police officers whose arrest of Eric
Garner led to his death in Staten Island, New York are different only because
they swiftly went from local to national. The initial Ferguson protests
immediately descended into looting and arson. The Garner protests attracted
large crowds that disrupted traffic and interfered with consumers in some
shopping outlets. It seems to have gone unnoticed that large numbers of those in
the latter protests were white.
The protests were magnified by the
involvement of the President and the Attorney General who, while urging that
violence be avoided, told the protesters to “stay the course.” Had either
Michael Brown or Eric Garner obeyed the law, they would be alive. Brown had
committed a robbery just prior to his attack on Officer Darren Wilson and Garner
had a long history of arrests and was engaged in a minor offense of selling
cigarettes.
With the exception of those who joined
the protests, white America is deeply at odds with black America. There are
serious differences that include issues involving crime rates, school dropout
rates, numbers of illegitimate or aborted children, single parent families, and
other comparable social differences between the two racial groups.
As the protests continued, Rasmussen
Reports noted that “Many had high hopes that the election of the nation’s
first black President would help heal our racial wounds, but just eight percent
(8%) think race relations in America are better since Barack Obama become
President in 2009. That’s something that blacks, whites, and other minority
Americans agree on.” Put another way, ninety-two (92%) agree there has been no
improvement in race relations.
The division between the way white and
black Americans view the nation is quite dramatic. Rasmussen found that “while
54% of whites think the U.S. justice system is fair to blacks, 84% of black
voters consider the justice system unfair to them.” The protests are no doubt
rooted in the finding that “eighty-two percent (82%) of black voters think most
black Americans receive unfair treatment from the police. White voters by a 56%
to 30% margin don’t believe that’s true.”
Need it be said that Rasmussen found
that “Black voters also continue to overwhelmingly approve of the job Obama is
doing as President, while most whites disapprove.” The irony of this is reflected in the numbers
of blacks who are school dropouts, unemployed or in our nation’s prisons.
Obama’s six years in office have not demonstrated much improvement in the lives
of many black Americans.
The results of the midterm elections
are testimony that voters want “change” that is very different from Obama’s
promised “transformation” of America. They have run out of the “hope” he
promised when elected.
Rasmussen reports that “Nearly half of
voters want Congress to stop the President’s new plan to protect up to five
million illegal immigrants from deportation. Americans rate their citizenship
highly and aren’t keen on putting many of those here illegally on the path to
citizenship” and “many voters expect the new Republican Congress to repeal
Obamacare.”
I don’t expect race relations in
America to improve much so long as black Americans who comprise 13% of the
population continue to demand something different from “equal justice” when
decisions are rendered with which they disagree. Marching for “justice” ignores
the fact that we have a very good justice and law enforcement system in America.
I worry that too many Americans fail
to respect the police who put their lives on the line to protect them. They are
not the enemy. The criminals are.
Being black or a member of any
minority comes with the option to regard oneself as a victim, but those who stay
in school, get a job, work hard, get married, and raise a family are not
victims. They are proof that the American dream is real and can be
achieved.
© Alan Caruba, 2014
Dudette You're Half Naked And Screwed!
Heather LaCroix ventures out and tries to survive in a bikini top and shorts over night in the cold weather of December! Will she make it?
A predictable liberal mantra...from TPC
This article contains a poster detailing the mantra for liberals along with a list of 20 ways that progressives and progressivism is destroying American society and the American Dream!
Do 'moral victories' exist?...from TPC
If you are in business, politics or worse a New York sports fan, the answer can unfortunately sometimes be very obvious and it's critical to be able to recognize the difference between the two!
Read at LinkedIn here.
The Left’s False Narrative of Racism is an Act of Desperation
Race relations in America have
gotten worse since Barack Obama took office, according to 53 percent of the
respondents in a recent Bloomberg
Politics Poll, and frankly I am surprised the number is that low. The
election of America’s first black President was something that should have
illustrated the vast improvements we have seen in race relations over the past
50 years rather than initiating the beginning of a downward spiral. In choosing
Barack Obama to be America’s first black President, his supporters forgot Dr.
King’s dream of “a day when people will not be judged by the color of their
skin, but by the content of their character.” (continue reading)
1952 MG TD Hot Rod - Jay Leno's Garage
Jay takes a spin in his 1952 MG TD Hot Rod with the car's former owner and the man who built it, David Stenmark
News.............................
Fat Class Warfare
Three bombs explode near homes of Shiite rebel leaders in Sanaa
Britain heads back to the Gulf
Bigger than Apophis: Dangerous 300+ meter asteroid to cross Earth orbit every 3 years
Rise of the drones: Host of near misses with airplanes increase fears of catastrophic incident
Exclusive: House GOP Leaders Trick 216 House Republicans into Accidentally Supporting Obama's Executive Amnesty
Racism...........................from Rico
When Barry says "racism is 'deeply rooted' in USA" what he betrays is his 'projection' that "racism is 'deeply rooted' in Barry."
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Sunday, 7 December 2014
The Sunday Best.................
The 32 Dumbest Things That Happened In 2014
Britain Unveils World's "Toughest" Counter-Terrorism Law
Sony saved thousands of passwords in a folder named 'Password'
Lethal Robots and the Conduct of Warfare
Failed Yemen raid highlights difficulty of military rescue operations
Billions won’t satisfy warmists
Grumpy cat makes owner £64 million
Protests erupt over British decision to open military base in Bahrain
Fun today, gun tomorrow: How toy drones could lead to Terminator-style hunting machines
Mid-East sources: Israel’s air strikes hit Russian top-line air defense missiles sent to Syria & Hizballah
and finally............
Truthiness and gullibility
Flash Mob: The U.S. Air Force Band at the Smithsonian..................
Starting with a single cellist on the floor of the National Air and Space Museum's "Milestones of Flight" gallery, and swelling to 120 musicians, The U.S. Air Force Band exhilarated museum visitors with its first-ever flash mob. The four-minute performance featured an original arrangement of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring/Joy to the World," led by the band's commander and conductor, Col. Larry H. Lang. Unsuspecting museum visitors including tourists and school groups were astonished as instrumentalists streamed into the gallery from behind airplanes and space capsules, and vocalists burst into song from the Museum's second floor balcony
H/T Dick B
The Twofer...................from Rico
Barry is a historic "twofer."
- Not just a sh*tty pResident, but also a sh*tty golfer.
And here you thought I was going somewhere else with this.
- Not this time, but next time
WW2 veterans letter to Barack Obama...from TPC
The letter (confirmed by Snopes) to the President in this article was written in 2009 by Harold Estes, a 95-year old surviving veteran of WW2 who at that time took issue with the way in which Barack Obama was serving our country as President and Commander-in-Chief. It’s only gotten worse since then.
On December 7th, the anniversary of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, every American should read and understand this letter and remember the members of the Greatest Generation.
Most importantly Barack Obama, the First Lady, Democrats in Congress in and liberals who blindly follow the lead of these three should read this letter!
But of course they won’t!
Read at The Political Commentator here.
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