Excerpt: Did you know that the incidence of cancer in the United States
has been declining for nearly 20 years? That the spread of pornography
correlates with a decline in rape? That average IQs are going up substantially
all around the world? These are just some of the truths that are well-known to
the scholars who study those subjects but generally come as a surprise to even
the best-educated among us. … About half of Americans two generations ago would
have been diagnosed as mentally retarded based on today’s IQ tests.
For
Love of Our Great Country, and Good Hot Dogs! By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
Now, as for the commentator, I could easily, as many have already drawn
suppositions, offer hasty analysis (by means of my behavioral psychology
background and decades of experience leading Marines) of them. Ever
the gentleman - even when slightly peeved - restraint is in order so we'll just
let those suppositions and that hasty analysis simmer, but not as fact. One
fool is plenty.
House subpoenas
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew for IRS documents
Excerpt: House Republicans on
Friday accused Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew of obstructing their investigation into
the IRS’s targeting of tea party and conservative
groups, and issued subpoenas for more agency documents.
Groups go
door-to-door to encourage enrollment in Obamacare
Excerpt: For the law to succeed, groups such as Enroll America,
whose officials include several veterans of Obama campaigns, will need to
cajole millions of Americans, including many healthy ones, to enter the
insurance market. It could be a tough sell.
Obamacare supporters,
detractors prepare for PR campaigns before health-care law milestone
Excerpt: The public relations war over Obamacare is set to
intensify this month, with groups on both sides planning major campaigns
designed to shape opinions just weeks before the law is to hit a critical
milestone.
Look out below! Work
more, get less in Obamacare 'cliff'
Excerpt: Working more could ultimately mean thousands of
dollars less for you under a quirk in the new health-care law going into effect
this fall. This could prompt some people to cut back on their hours to avoid
losing money.
Obamacare hurts
parents of special-needs children
Excerpt: President Obama’s Affordable Care Act,
known as “Obamacare,” will make it more difficult for parents of special-needs
children to pay for tuition at special schools and to purchase medical
equipment, according to a new report.
IRS Chief: I Want to
Keep My Health Care Plan, Not Switch to Obamacare
Excerpt: "Mr. Werfel, last week your employees who are
a member of the National Treasury Employee's Union
sent a form letter for union members to send in to ask they be exempt from the
exchanges," a congressman asked. "Why are your employees trying to
exempt themselves from the very law that you're tasked to enforce?"
Unintended Consequences.
By Burt Prelutsky
http://www.burtprelutsky.com/2013/08/unintended-consequences.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burtprelutsky%2FSQlQ+%28BurtPrelutsky.com%29
http://www.burtprelutsky.com/2013/08/unintended-consequences.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+burtprelutsky%2FSQlQ+%28BurtPrelutsky.com%29
Excerpt: Frankly, I can’t help taking some satisfaction in
seeing some of its most passionate supporters belatedly coming to their senses.
First it was the Catholic Church that thought the bill was hunky dory until the
hierarchy discovered that coverage for contraception was mandated for Church
employees. The unions also helped Obama shove this monstrosity down our
throats. But imagine their surprise when they found out that employers were not
only firing workers, but cutting hours in order to avoid the more onerous
aspects of the law.
Excerpt: For the past few months,
members of Congress and their staffs have been discussing behind closed doors
the worrying proposition that they will be forced off their popular health
insurance program and onto the federal insurance exchanges set up under
Obamacare. Those concerns reached a fevered pitch this
week as President Obama, while making a rare
visit to Capitol Hill, assured lawmakers that they and their staffs
wouldn’t be foisted onto the same health exchange as millions of Americans.
VIDEO:
France
is considering declaring Marseille, its second-largest city, a no-go zone due
primarily to rampant Muslim violence. Bare Naked Islam
Excerpt:
But France’s Interior
Minister Manuel Valls refuses to place the whole city of Marseille in a Priority Security
Zone. For the Interior Minister Valls, to comply with the request of the
socialist president of the urban community of Marseilles, Eugene Caselli, to
place the entire City of Marseille in a Priority Security Zone (Zone de
Sécurité Prioritaire), would
not make sense.
Religious Favoritism,
the result of religious supremacism?
Excerpt: Recently, an acquaintance said he had heard that
during Ramadan in Dearbornistan, Michigan, Fordson
High School does
their football practice from 11:00 p.m. until 4:00 a.m. because the
Muslim players can’t eat or drink anything during the daylight. I said,
“In other words, the Muslims are imposing their practices on non-Muslims.” I
said it with a face that clearly displayed disapproval. He was casually
dismissive. “Well, other religions do crazy stuff too,” he said.
Third time unlucky:
Recession in 2014?
George Bush is at it again…~Bob
Cleaner Air May Have
Brought More Storms
Excerpt: The Clean Air Act, which has benefited breathing in
many American cities over the last few decades, may have worsened the weather
in some places. New climate simulations suggest that reducing the level of
atmospheric aerosol particles produced by human activity might have been the
main cause of a recent increase in tropical storm frequency in the North Atlantic, says Science News.
Threat prompts U.S. to
temporarily close embassies in Muslim world
Excerpt: The United
States is shuttering its embassies and
consulates throughout the Muslim world on Sunday after receiving an unspecified
threat, officials said. (Remember when Obama said the War on Terror was over?
Good times. When I was with the Combined Action Company in Khe Sanh Ville in
1967, all the NVA had to do was whisper in the village that they were going to
hit us that night. We go on alert when we picked it up, lose a night’s sleep
and eventually degrade our watchfulness. They lost nothing. ~Bob.)
Us Issues Global
Travel Alert
Excerpt: State Department issues worldwide travel alert to U.S. citizens over an unspecified Al Qaeda
terror threat, following word U.S.
embassies and consulates throughout the Muslim world will be closed this
Sunday over security concerns. (Well this can't possibly be! I'm pretty sure I heard President Obama
say, in a speech on one of his endless propaganda tours, that he had single
handedly killed Osama Bin laden and had beaten al-Qaida. I guess our
horse-faced Secretary of State didn't get the memo. And apparently, al-Qaida
didn't either. – LLW)
Israel's fast evolving demography.
By Paul Morland
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Israels-fast-evolving-demography-320574
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Israels-fast-evolving-demography-320574
Excerpt: In the first 12 years of the current century the
number of Arab births in Israel
has almost completely flatlined at around 40,000 per annum. This despite the
growing size of the Arab population, which means that the Arab birth rate –
births relative to population size – has fallen. Over the same period, Jewish
births have risen from 95,000 to 130,000. In the first four months of 2013, the
most recent period for which data is available, Jewish births were up 38
percent during the same period for 2001, and Arab births down 6%. (Good news
that surprised me. ~Bob.)
English
Defence League: Good Numbers at Birmingham
Demo.
Excerpt:
As many as 4,000 EDL supporters took to the street on Saturday,
July 20th to protest against
radical Islam in Birmingham.
A message was sent to Islamists in England’s second city that
terrorism and Muslim expansionism will not be tolerated.
Victims
of Denial: The ideology behind child-grooming. http://englishdefenceleague.org/edl-news-2/1983-victims-of-denial-the-ideology-behind-child-grooming
Excerpt:
There no longer seems to be much of an argument that we face a ‘particular
problem’ with the sexual abuse of young girls by what the media can always be
relied upon to call “Asian gangs”. With a
spate of recent convictions, and many more cases of ‘grooming gangs’ under
investigation, this is a serious issue of epidemic proportions. Of the 43
police forces in England and
Wales
only 27 have disclosed the number of investigations they currently have
running, and the figure has already reached 54.
When Will The Economy
Collapse?
Excerpt: Most astute observers and analysts understand that
the world is on the brink of a widespread economic
collapse. Our debt, the expansion of the U.S. police state, the
militarization of governments, and geo-political posturing are all pointing to
an end to life as we have come to know it in the modern world. (WW III would be
the last decision ever made by the power grabbers who want to rule the planet.
The same people who gave us the bank bailouts and bailins, QE1, 2 etc, the
corporatists who killed capitalism, the US military support for the
terrorists who slash Christians in
Syria, the people who stole our freedom and are ushering in a police and
surveillance state. I think we can stop it. We can't stop the economic crash,
but we don't have to support the war that could kill the planet. Remember the
translation I sent you about the Dongfeng missile and its potential to overcome
our AM with its MIRVs. Russia
has a similar missile called the Satan. I haven't had the time to start that
translation yet, but you can find enough information on that to tell you this
is serious. A few people are still bamboozled into thinking we have a way of
stopping a hundred missiles all coming in from different directions at once. I
don't think so. We are in the same state of decay, and of military un-readiness
that the Roman Empire was in toward the end.
The rest of the world doesn't want this war. Only the Western elites are insane
enough to start it. It's not our war. It's theirs. Let them
send their sons this time. This time: JUST SAY NO. For God's sake.
For the kids' sake. --Don Hank)
Five Lessons from Egypt and the Arab Spring. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: 1. Don’t Believe Anything You Hear. Egyptian
liberals allied with the Muslim Brotherhood to overthrow Mubarak and challenge
the military. In those heady Tahrir
Square days, they ridiculed the idea that
Mubarak’s overthrow would benefit the Muslim Brotherhood.
Tune Changes: Kerry: Morsi ouster restored democracy
Excerpt: Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday tacitly
endorsed the Egyptian army's overthrow of freely elected President Mohamed
Morsi, breaking with the Obama administration's position of not taking sides.
“In effect, they were restoring democracy,” Kerry told Pakistan's Geo
News television station. “The military did not take over, to the best of our
judgment — so far, so far – to run the country. There's a civilian government.”
(Change in tune from this: Despite Obama
Administration’s Entreaties, Egyptian Military Deposes Morsi. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/03/despite-obama-administration-s-entreaties-egyptian-military-deposes-morsi.html
So Obama didn’t want the military to “restore democracy”? ~Bob)
CIA polygraphing
operatives to keep Benghazi
secrets
Excerpt: The CIA has been routinely subjecting its
operatives to polygraph tests in order to keep secrets from the Benghazi terrorist attack
from becoming public, CNN host Jake Tapper’s program claimed Thursday.
2011 article, worth remembering now. ~Bob
Ramadan observance in
Iraq: Sunnis, Shi'ites hit each others' mosques, murdering 26
Excerpt: The AP headline is "Drive-by shootings,
bombings kill 26 in Iraq."
Once again, we see the curious displacement of agency that is so common in such
stories. Actually, it was Islamic jihadis who killed 26 in Iraq.
Yale’s Declaration On Rape Proves Why Collegiate Females
Should Be Allowed To Carry. By Dana
Loesch
Excerpt: It’s like progressive women are just now
discovering the brutally high college rape statistics.
Freshman Democrats
defy Nancy Pelosi on key votes
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/freshmen-democrats-nancy-pelosi-dan-maffei-key-votes-95103.html
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/freshmen-democrats-nancy-pelosi-dan-maffei-key-votes-95103.html
Excerpt: Fourteen Democratic freshmen joined with dozens of
their veteran Democratic colleagues and Republicans in calling for a one-year
delay in both the employer and individual mandates. These defections came
despite repeated — and sometimes emotional — lobbying by Pelosi, who accused
these Democrats of “undermining” her and Obamacare, said several lawmakers and
aides.
Sickening: Me and My Obamaphones: Not on welfare or
below the poverty line? Never mind — here’s your free phone. By Jillian Kay Melchior
Excerpt: Confession: You’re paying my phone bill. In the
past month, I have received three shiny new cell phones, courtesy of American
taxpayers, that should never have fallen into my hands. … And out of respect
for the law and my journalistic integrity, I did not lie to obtain a phone.
Corporate Welfare for
IBM, Accenture at Heart of Senate Amnesty Bill
Excerpt: The Senate’s immigration bill contains a tech
industry handout for some companies like IBM and Accenture. It would virtually
eliminate competitors in the market for highly-skilled immigrant labor.
Editor fired over
'shove it' Obama headline
http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/editor-fired-over-shove-it-obama-headline/
http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/editor-fired-over-shove-it-obama-headline/
Excerpt: The Chattanooga Times Free Press editorial page
editor who criticized President Obama’s jobs plan by telling the president in
black and white to “shove it” is now out of a job.
Spending by Wisconsin unions on lobbyists plummets, records show
Excerpt: The figures show the Wisconsin Education
Association Council, the state's largest teacher union, spent nearly $2.1
million in the first six months of 2011 and $1 million in the first half of
2009, but a mere $84,000 in the first six months of this year. (Scott Walker
for President. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: Apparently it’s OK for politicians to use racial
slurs, as long as it describes white people.
Tweet from RB @RBPundit
Someone tell @CBRangel
that the Tea Party is more racially diverse than the Congressional Black
Caucus. He seems confused.
IRS Doles Out Billions of Taxpayer Dollars in ID Fraud.
By Kemberlee Kaye
Excerpt: Embroiled itn what appears to be the makings of yet
another scandal, the IRS will be the subject of a hearing held by
the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government
Operations this coming Friday morning. Over the past five years, the cases of
identity theft related to tax fraud has increased by a staggering 413% and
these are only reported cases. (Gee, yet another “phony IRS scandal.” ~Bob.)
Spain to Tax Sunlight.
By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: It’s only fair. Obama insists on taxing the carbon
in the air. Maryland’s
Dem governor is taxing the rain. Someone has to go tax the sunlight and
considering Spain’s
economy, it needs all the tax revenue that it can get.
Tweet from David Burge @iowahawkblog
Al Qaeda's on the run... to their free American RPG gift
bags!
Hysterical Weiner for
Mayor “Interns Wanted” flyers spotted around NYC
Excerpt: Are you looking for a fall internship? Are you
organized? Discreet? Not a snitch? Not a slutbag? Then the Anthony Weiner
campaign wants YOU to be a Weiner for Mayor intern, according to flyers
reportedly spotted around New York
City this week.
Governments pay
welfare to dead people
Excerpt: The federal government sends an awful lot of cash
to people who are six feet underground. That is the key finding of
a Government Accountability Office report released this week that
revealed the U.S. Department of Agriculture sent more than $36
million in taxpayer cash to farmers who, because they lack of a pulse, can’t
actually farm or participate in federal conservation programs.
Tweet from David Burge @iowahawkblog
First Nobel Peace Prize winner to smuggle arms to Al Qaeda.
WH on new jobs
report: ‘…continue to dig our way out.’ They’ve got the ‘digging’ part right,
anyway.
Excerpt: Here’s the workforce participation rate over the
last 20 years. This number hasn’t improved at all, and that’s what’s holding
down the unemployment rate, because these folks are no longer unemployed.
Tweet from Charles Sykes @SykesCharlie
Flashback: White House Projected Stimulus Bill Would Return
Unemployment to 5% in July 2013
WaPo Fact Checker: Harry Reid’s claim that the
sequester has ‘already cut 1.6 million jobs’
Excerpt: While the dust has not settled on the impact of the
sequester on employment this year, the available evidence shows that Reid’s
claim that 1.6 million jobs already have been cut this year appears wildly off
course. Four Pinocchios
Kenyan lawyer suing
Israel for killing Jesus
Excerpt: Kenyan lawyer Dola Indidis has taken on the ‘case
for Christ’ as he is suing the State
of Israel, the Republic
of Italy and a whole slew
of New Testament characters on behalf of the “Friends of Jesus.”
Germany: Oil Under Brandenburg
"Could Deliver Billions"
Excerpt: Currently best known for not very much, the
north German state of Brandenburg could soon be catapulted into an economic
boom - a drilling firm reckons there are 92 million tonnes of oil there and
plans to start drilling in four years. (Glad the Nazis didn’t know this. ~Bob.)
New
bill aims to make 'smart meters' mandatory for entire nation. By Jonathan
Benson
Excerpt: Smart meters, as you may already be
aware, contain wireless communication components that are not only a serious
threat to human health, but also a monumental detriment to personal privacy.But
crafty politicians like Rep. McNerney and Rep. Cartwright are couching the
technology as a viable way to help save people money by lowering their
electricity bills. This explanation, of course, is meant to divert attention
away from the not-so-enticing fact that the technology is really nothing more
than a massive, interconnected government spying and control apparatus.
Bombshell:
CIA Using "Unprecedented" Polygraphing, "Pure Intimidation"
to Guard Benghazi
Secrets. By Guy Benson
Excerpt: The weapons-to-Syria theories are half out of the
bag already, so what are they still covering-up? It's possible that the
administration doesn't want the American people and our foreign allies to know
just how heavily involved we've been in arming squads of exceedingly dangerous
jihadi forces in two different countries, whose goals happen to align with our
fleeting strategic interests.
Seattle officials call for ban on 'potentially
offensive' language
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/02/seattle-officials-call-for-ban-on-potentially-offensive-language/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/02/seattle-officials-call-for-ban-on-potentially-offensive-language/
Excerpt: Government workers in the city of Seattle have been advised that the terms
"citizen" and "brown bag" are potentially offensive and may
no longer be used in official documents and discussions. (Breaking: White
Crackers still okay. ~Bob.)
Family Interrogated
By Police For Googling “Pressure Cooker” And “Backpack”
http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/08/family-interrogated-by-police-for-googling-pressure-cooker-and-backpack/
Excerpt: Everyone knows by this point that you have to be careful what you say on social media sites like Facebook. One bad joke taken out of context could land you in jail on “terrorism” charges. So, everyone should know by now that we live in a “see something, say something” society, and if you say something questionable in an online, public forum, you’re at risk of the authorities paying you a visit “just to ask you a few questions.”
http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/08/family-interrogated-by-police-for-googling-pressure-cooker-and-backpack/
Excerpt: Everyone knows by this point that you have to be careful what you say on social media sites like Facebook. One bad joke taken out of context could land you in jail on “terrorism” charges. So, everyone should know by now that we live in a “see something, say something” society, and if you say something questionable in an online, public forum, you’re at risk of the authorities paying you a visit “just to ask you a few questions.”
The
Attack in Bengazi: Worth Investigating After All: CNN reports that dozens of
CIA Agents were on the ground there--and that they're being pressured to keep
quiet. Why? By Conor Friedersdorf
Excerpt:
Suddenly it is imperative that Congress investigate details surrounding the
attack that killed Ambassador Chris
Stevens. I've never felt that way before. But Drew Griffin's scoop changed my
mind.
Obama Disaster: Of
953,000 Jobs Created In 2013 – 731,000 Are Part-Time
They got Obama phones and SNAP—what more do they want? ~Bob
Excerpt: European jihadists in Syria have been blamed by
some Syrians for ruining the purity of their revolution, held up by Bashar
al-Assad's regime as a sign of that the rebels are foreign-backed radicals, and
feared by Western security agencies as a potential terrorist threat. But
despite all the talk about them, they rarely speak with outsiders about their
beliefs and goals.
Tweet from stacyswimp @stacyswimp
Blacks in the 1930s called the National Recovery Act the
"Negro Removal Act" because it was meant to narrow the job
opportunities of Blacks
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