Twelve years since we were attacked, and America is
weaker than ever, still losing. But both Carlos Danger and Client Number 9 lost
in NYC, and the gun grabbers lost in CO, so some good news. Big news day
today—I couldn’t use everything I was sent, it’s too long already. I know you
can’t read everything, just scroll through and pick those that interest you. Syria articles
grouped at the end. ~Bob
Good
Column: One On Nine-Eleven Twelve Years Ago.
By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
Last year on the anniversary four Americans (our ambassador among them), on
duty to country, were murdered in Benghazi,
Libya, by al
Qaeda. Why was our guard down? There have been no arrests. No one has been held
accountable. Our President, and subordinates, not only lied about the attack
but he now refers to it as a phony scandal.
9/11: Twelve Years Later. By Bruce Bawer
Excerpt: 9/11 was a moment of utter moral clarity that has
been succeeded by twelve years of moral chaos. Twelve years of duplicity,
flim-flam, double-dealing, humbug. Twelve years of timorousness, incompetence,
impotence.
Col. Allen West: Remembering 9/11: Today, think
of those who died, those who attacked us, and those who wish to deceive us
regarding why.
Excerpt: Today we remember the 12th anniversary of the
horrific attacks of 9/11. We also remember the four Americans who were murdered
in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11,
2012. I knew on that day we would be called upon by our country to avenge
this attack — the Pearl Harbor
of our time.
Excerpt: The next morning, September 11, 2001, Mohammed Atta
slashed Tom McGuinness’ throat in the cockpit of Flight 11 and piloted the
plane into the the World Trade Center.…Steve, a pilot and pastor of a church
plant in Maine, was originally scheduled to fly American Airlines flight 11 to
Los Angeles that day but was bumped the night before by Tom McGuinness, who
ultimately ended up in the cockpit on that cloudless Tuesday morning.
Megan tells their story in her book, In My Seat: A Pilot’s True Story from September 10th-11th.
Excerpt: America
awakened that sunny September morning to azure blue skies and with an innocence
that would dissolve in the shadows of that very same evening. But that was
later. The day began with an unfolding of America's joyous embracing of
life...and of carrying out the business of being who we are.
Voting in Mexico
Colorado Senate
President John Morse, state Sen. Angela Giron ousted
Excerpt: An epic national debate over gun rights in Colorado
on Tuesday saw two Democratic state senators ousted for their support for
stricter laws, a "ready, aim, fired" message intended to stop other
politicians for pushing for firearms restrictions.
A Famous Victory in Colorado: A grassroots
effort delivered an unprecedented blow to gun-control advocates. By Charles C. W. Cooke
Excerpt: Nevertheless, by the end of the process, so anxious
were the opponents of the recall that they felt compelled to rely heavily on
Michael Bloomberg, who sent $350,000 to Colorado to fight the threat; members
of Obama’s ground team were brought in to boost turnout, and even former
president Bill Clinton was wheeled
in at the last minute to try to tip the scales. None of it
worked.
Tweet from Dana Loesch @DLoesch
Only Democrats, after losing an election in which they
outspent EVERYONE 6:1, claim the Koch Bros and NRA lost it for them.
Benghazi office of Libya Foreign Ministry hit by
bomb on anniversary of Sept. 11 attack on U.S. Consulate
ExcerptL: A powerful car bomb exploded Wednesday near Libya's Foreign Ministry building in the heart
of the eastern coastal city of Benghazi,
security officials said, exactly one year after an attack there killed the U.S. ambassador
and three other Americans. (I wonder what YouTube video the Obama
administration will blame this time. --Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt)
10 Ways Obamacare Isn’t Working. By Chris Jacobs
Excerpt: Obamacare is an unworkable law. It’s obvious
because the Administration keeps trying to “fix” it—to no avail. It has delayed
parts of the law, ignored others, and carved out exemptions for its political
allies. (Nice summary of the various glitches in the ACA that mean we don't
know yet its full impact, although we do know for sure that it is not going to
give more care to more people for less money. And we know for sure that a
lot of people who are responsible for the Act are making damn sure it doesn't
apply to them. Nice, very nice. --Del)
The Last 24 Notes:
Tom Day and the volunteer buglers who play 'Taps' at veterans' funerals
across the country. By Matt Labash
Excerpt: But to Tom Day, “duty . . .
honor . . . sacrifice” aren’t just
Memorial Day buzzwords that trigger the Pavlovian anticipation of picnic foods
and mattress-outlet sales. They are words that actually require something
of him, the dwindling resource you can’t buy more of: time. For the 73-year-old
former Marine serves those who serve.
Australia: Camp of the Ain'ts. By Jim Goad
Excerpt: “What,” you might ask, “is the difference between
these new boat people and the nearly one million Vietnamese boat people who
relocated to the USA in the
1970s and the 125,000 or so Cubans who paddled to Florida in 1980?” “The difference,” I would
answer, “is that Australia
is turning these new boat people away.”
New York City Bus Passenger Attacked for being White.
Excerpt: The War on Whites — which was escalated
dramatically by the Obama Administration and its mainstream media friends by
distorting and hyping the Trayvon Martin shooting — has claimed another victim in New York City:
'An attacker pummeled a bus passenger so hard he smashed the bones in his face
after calling the victim a “cracker” in Manhattan – marking the second time in
two days [in NYC] that people appeared to be randomly targeted in racial
tirades against white people, authorities said.' [I was attacked for
being white in NYC in 1970. Three black girls and a black boy followed my
friend and I into our office building after we'd had lunch and cornered us in
the elevator. The boy punched me in the stomach and I doubled over. There was
an older woman from our office in the elevator while this was happening. She
said, "What did you bring them in here for?" Kate]
Map and History of
the United States...
Don't Miss
This is a simple, short, yet elegant presentation. It will
make your grandkids better understand the history of their country ( and maybe
some of the older generation, too ). This is a “moving” map of the country,
showing it from the beginning of the 13 states and going through the present.
It includes the acquisitions from England
and Spain, the Slave states,
the Free states,
a segment on the Civil war. It includes some mentions of Central and South America, etc.Click on each State for further
info. Turn on your sound, as the narration is a significant portion of the
presentation. When
it opens, do not click on Go at the bottom
..... click on Play at the top.
Google loses appeal
in Street View snooping case. By Martha Mendoza
Excerpt: Attorneys suing Google for enabling its camera-carrying
vehicles to collect emails and Internet passwords while photographing
neighborhoods for the search giant's popular "Street View" maps look
forward to resuming their case now that a federal appeals court has ruled in
their favor.
Eternally optimistic
Guardian reader finally admits Obama is dreadful. By The Daily Mash
Excerpt: A GUARDIAN reader who has worshipped Barack Obama
for five years without interruption has finally admitted he is just awful.
Martin Bishop, who until last week was still insisting Obama was a mixture of
Martin Luther King and John F Kennedy, has now realised that America’s first
black president is basically just that. Bishop said: “I read in the Guardian
this morning that he’s now saying there would be no attack on Syria if Assad
gives up his chemical weapons. I just thought – ‘he’s an arse’.
Choosing God Over
Government Cheese
Excerpt: Combine this with Obama’s war on Christianity, and the following story should
come as no surprise: 'A Florida ministry that feeds the poor said a state
agriculture department official told them they would not be allowed to receive
USDA food unless they removed portraits of Christ, the
Ten Commandments, a banner that read “Jesus is Lord” and stopping giving Bibles
to the needy. “They told us they could no longer allow us to have any religious
information where the USDA food is going to be,” said Kay Daly, executive
director of the Christian Service
Center.'
Does Poverty Lead to
Poor Decision Making?
Excerpt: Poverty and the worry that goes with it uses up so
much mental energy that the poor have little room in their brains for anything
else. As a result, people of limited means are more likely to make mistakes and
bad decisions that may be amplified by, and perpetuate, their financial woes.
Watch Out Higher
Education, Obama's Coming
Excerpt: President Obama has identified yet another sector
of the economy in dire need of government help: higher education. And it seems
he wants to use ObamaCare as the model for improving education quality and
lowering cost. The one problem is that ObamaCare will do neither, says
Merrill Matthews, a resident scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation. …
But as Vedder points out, the high cost and diminishing returns of college are
largely results of federal government involvement, not the lack of it. And now
the president wants to double-down on the government's role. To paraphrase
humorist P.J. O'Rourke, you think college is expensive now, wait until Obama
tries to make it affordable.
Obamacare Premiums
Will Vary Widely By State And City: Report
Excerpt: The premiums for coverage available on the health
insurance exchanges created by President Barack
Obama's health care reform law will vary widely from state to state, according
to a new Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
analysis of data published by 17 states and the District of Columbia.
MS-13 member
convicted of shooting teen mom and her toddler
http://www.examiner.com/article/ms-13-member-convicted-of-shooting-teen-mom-and-her-toddler
Excerpt: The convicted murderer, Adalberto Ariel Guzman, also known as “Gringo,” is facing a sentence of life in prison as a result of his conviction, since the federal prosecutors did not seek the death penalty in the case, according to a New York police veteran who closely monitored the case.
Excerpt: The convicted murderer, Adalberto Ariel Guzman, also known as “Gringo,” is facing a sentence of life in prison as a result of his conviction, since the federal prosecutors did not seek the death penalty in the case, according to a New York police veteran who closely monitored the case.
"We already have
a permit" 'Justice for Benghazi'
Organizers Invite '2 Million Bikers' to Join them on Capitol Hill.
Excerpt: Today the Justice for Benghazi Rally Organizers,
Patriots4America and Special Operations Speaks invite the 2 Million Bikers to
ride into the Capitol as ‘Bikers for the Benghazi 4’ and join their approved
and permitted rally on the Capitol West Lawn at 12:30-6:00 pm on September
11, 2013.
Special Ops group
invites bikers to join 'permit approved' rally. By Janeen Capizola
Excerpt: What could have been a one or two hour ride through
will now likely be an all-day event,” the bikers’ organizers wrote on Facebook.
“We will be obeying all laws. We will be stopping at all stoplights, stop
signs, and yielding to all pedestrians.” With everyone on the
gas Wednesday, the thunder will be unmistakable as these American patriots
ride past the Capitol, the national memorials, and the Muslims marching on DC with
their approved permit to rally in the “Million Americans Against Fear”
demonstration.
DC Grants 9/11 Permit
to Anti-American Muslims, Denies it to Patriotic Bikers. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: The countdown to Sept. 11 commemoration
demonstrations by patriotic bikers versus a fringe Muslim “truther” group is
taking shape.
Denied a permit by the nation’s capital for a special
“non-stop” ride through town with a waiver for red lights, stop signs and other
traffic controls, organizers of the “2 Million Bikers to DC” ride to remember
9/11 are undeterred.
A September Evening.
By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Islam is the bitter beggar forever looking to steal
what it cannot have, worrying over the imaginary history of its own greatness
and cursing the upstarts in the streets of a foreign city for taking the glory
was rightfully theirs. The American who shares his good fortune with the rest
of the world cannot understand that there are some people who would rather
steal than accept a gift, who would rather destroy than build and who would
rather drown the world in darkness than accept someone else's light. With some
difficulty he might accept the existence of a small number of people who think
this way, but an entire civilization built in this mold is too obscene an idea.
Libyan government
commemorates September 11 by refusing to arrest Benghazi killers. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: No it’s actually very simple. 1. The Libyan
government has no enforcement abilities 2. Neither apparently do we.
Marines on alert, moved near Libya ahead of Sept. 11 anniversary
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/10/marines-on-alert-moved-near-libya-ahead-sept-11-anniversary/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/10/marines-on-alert-moved-near-libya-ahead-sept-11-anniversary/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29
Excerpt: The military is ramping up its ability to respond to
a potential attack on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Benghazi terror attack that left four Americans
dead…. One year ago Wednesday, the U.S. consulate
and CIA outpost in Benghazi came under a prolonged attack that
lasted almost eight hours. The fact that no armed military support beyond
a small team of Marines from Tripoli was
ever sent to Benghazi later
became an enormous point of scrutiny for White House and Pentagon leadership. (A little late. –Barb. We usually have a MAU [Marine
Amphibious Unit] on float in the Med. That’s an infantry battalion with attached
units like an artillery battery, tanks sometimes, choppers, etc. Makes sense to
have them close to potential trouble. ~Bob)
Ex-FBI lawyer linked
to surveillance abuses poised for federal judge post
Excerpt: A former senior FBI official implicated
in surveillance abuses
is poised to become a federal judge in one of theUS's most important courts for
terrorism cases. Valerie Caproni, the FBI's top lawyer from 2003 to 2011, is scheduled to receive a
vote on Monday in the Senate for a seat on the southern
district court of New York.
Caproni has come under bipartisan criticism over the years for enabling
widespread surveillance later found to be inappropriate or illegal.
Car bombs hit army
site in Egypt's
Sinai
Excerpt: At least six soldiers have been killed and 17
others injured in car bomb explosions at an intelligence facility in Rafah on Egypt's border
with the Gaza Strip, state TV reported. Two cars driven by suicide attackers
drove into the outside gates of the military intelligence service building in
the Imam Ali area in Rafah on Wednesday. (Muslims killing Muslims for
Allah. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Since Barack Obama took office almost 10 million
people have dropped out of the labor force. More than half a million dropped
out in the last month alone. Today, a record 90 million people — almost one
third of the entire population — are not working and not even looking for a
job. “How did that happen?” Krugman asks. One answer is supplied by University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan — one
of the top labor market economists in the country and a regular contributor to
The New York Times economics blog. In a new book, Mulligan estimates that
roughly half of the excess unemployment we have been experiencing is due to
the lure of entitlement benefits — food stamps, unemployment compensation,
disability benefits, etc. In other words, we are paying people not to work. In
a separate analysis, Mulligan
estimates that much of the remaining unemployment may be due to other Obama
administration policies, especially the Affordable Care Act. So what does
Krugman have to say about Mulligan’s study? Nothing. Nothing? Not a thing.
Jeb Bush keeps
distance in awarding Hillary Clinton the Liberty
Medal
Excerpt: Clinton was
honored with the center's Liberty Medal for her public service and ongoing
advocacy efforts on behalf of women. "We are drawn here today by a common
purpose," Bush said, going on to extol the values of the Constitution.
Critics were aghast that Bush would celebrate Clinton,
particularly with controversy still raw over the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on
the U.S. consulate
in Benghazi, Libya. (HC had been shown
getting off plane wearing black/red colors; at awards chose black/white. –Barb)
Official: 19
Firefighters Possibly Saved Had Air Tankers Responded
Excerpt: The incident highlights an increasingly critical
shortage of large air tankers used to fight wildfires across the country. An
ABC News investigation found that the federal fleet of the planes has shrunk
over the last decade from 44 to 11. In the case of the deadly Yarnell blaze,
air tankers had been hitting the fire, but none were on site when it took a
sudden, vicious turn. (They asked for 6; none came. 19 died in AZ. The head of
Forest Service could only repeat a Regime campaign slogan some umpteen times,
“We’re moving forward.” His eyes looked glazed over. He could not say why no
replenishment of fleet, which dates back to Korean aircraft. Just kept mumbling
“Moving forward.” Nyet. –Barb)
U.S. officials
identify extremist groups in Benghazi attack
Excerpt: But on the first anniversary of the attack, there
is not “anyone in custody who can tell us” specifics, including when, where and
by whom the plot was hatched, and whether the Sept. 11 date was selected in
advance or was a last-minute choice of opportunity, a counterterrorism official
said. “That is a huge gap,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to discuss the investigation. “What we lack is a source of
information that puts us where we need to be.” (Just as they blocked the 9/11
Commission….Barb)
US consulate
attack in Benghazi:
a challenge to official version of events
Excerpt: The attack on the US consulate
in Benghazi was
striking for a number of reasons: the date, 11 September, the toll – four
diplomats killed, including an ambassador – and the knock-on effects on the
careers of senior American politicians. But what is perhaps most striking is
the inconsistencies: the US version
of events compared with those of witnesses and the facts on the ground. The two
do not tally. (It’s called coverup…just as before, same old, same old. “What’s
it matter?” Where are the witnesses? Oh, we’re having a crisis and emergently
closing embassies….Where are the witnesses? Oh, they’re using gas
inSyria and we KNOW it is Assad, even though he was winning. He decided to
do the one thing that would bring in the consternation of the world to his
civil war….the CIA funneling weapons to rebels? Naw, they wouldn’t use it to
bring down Assad and open the doors for all the saber-rattling US
corporations….backed by all those politicians with all that war-machine
conglomerate money in their pockets. Look! Wall Street went back UP. –Barb)
More Former Guantanamo
Bay Detainees Return To
Terrorism
Excerpt: Of the 603 former detainees tracked by
US intelligence services, a total of 100 have now been confirmed as
reengaging in "terrorism" or "insurgent" activities, while
another 74 are suspected of reengaging. This brings the total rate of
recidivism to nearly 29 percent, up from 28 percent as of the last report six
months ago.
Excerpt: The administration what wants America to trust it on Syria is continuing its cover-up of Benghazi. CBS reporter
Sharyl Attkisson posted this on Facebook this afternoon. Secretary of
State John Kerry has told House Oversight Committee he will not comply with
Republican requests to make Benghazi survivors
available for interviews by Congress. Chairman Issa R-CA says if Kerry doesn’t
change his mind, there could be subpoenas.
The Princess and the Brotherhood: For
nine decades, Egypt has
fled modernity.
Excerpt: In February, the government advised the people to
eat less and cut back the food subsidy to about 400 calories a day — which even
Nanny Bloomberg might balk at. Amidst all the good news of the Morsi era — the
collapse of Western tourism, the ethnic cleansing of Copts, the attacks on the
Israeli embassy, sexual assaults on uncovered women, death for apostasy, etc. —
amidst all these Morsi-era success stories, even a Muslim Brother has to eat
occasionally. Egyptians learned the hard way that, whatever their cultural
preferences, full-strength Islam comes at a price.
The Million Muslim
March on 9/11
Excerpt: So, naturally, a group called the American Muslim
Political Action Committee (AMPAC) has been granted permission to hold a
"Million Muslim March" in Washington,
D.C. on September 11th. AMPAC
claims that Muslims have been "victimized by being made the villains"
and "to this day every media outlet and anti-Islamic organization has
committed slanderous and libel statements against us as Muslims and our
religion of Islam." On August 20th, the Center for Security Policy,
using data published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, published
"Religious Bias Crimes 2000-2009, Muslim, Jewish and Christian Victims: Debunking the Myth of a Growing
Trend in Muslim Victimization." (Bet Al-Jazeera America covers
it. –Barb)
Washington Post shocked that gun companies were
serious about leaving anti-gun states
Excerpt: Someone please inform the
Washington Post that their order of schadenfreude is ready. Gun companies were not kidding when
they said they’d leave if states passed anti-gun laws that outlawed their products. Apparently, the concept of companies being honest
is alien to those poor souls trapped inside the Beltway:
Herman Cain Mocks
Obama and Kerry
Excerpt: Herman Cain mocks Obama - often. This week he and
his PR team add Secretary of State John Kerry to his list too. It's attacks
like this one that have kept Cain in the Republican spotlight since his
ill-fated Presidential nomination run in 2012.
ObamaCare: 258
Employers Cut Work Hours, Jobs So Far
http://news.investors.com/politics-obamacare/090413-669682-obamacare-employer-mandate-spurs-work-hours-job-cuts.htm
http://news.investors.com/politics-obamacare/090413-669682-obamacare-employer-mandate-spurs-work-hours-job-cuts.htm
Excerpt: But the anecdotes are piling high enough that they
now constitute a body of data that can help gauge the impact of the Affordable
Care Act's employer mandate.
Excuses, excuses: Nashville school officials
blame budget woes on city’s high-performing charters
Excerpt: At the heart of the budget controversy are two
competing schools of thought – one represented by reformers who believe
performance and accountability should guide education decisions in the Music City,
the other by education bureaucrats who want to prop up failing government-run
schools and preserve their top-heavy administration.
3 important things we
still don't know about Benghazi
Excerpt: So what are these unanswered questions? Here are three.
(Gee, it’s almost like the administration doesn’t want answers. ~Bob)
Tweet from John Groves @jfgroves
September 11...also a day of remembrance for American
journalism, which passed away after a long illness 1 year ago today. #Benghazi
Economists line up
behind Yellen for Fed chief
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/economy/321599-economists-line-up-behind-yellen
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/economy/321599-economists-line-up-behind-yellen
Excerpt: The letter makes no mention of Yellen's top
competitor for the job, Larry Summers, although several of the points addressed
in the letter appear to highlight perceived concerns about how Summers would
lead the central bank. (BO will have to ask Putin first. ~Bob)
Trader Joe's To Drop
Health Coverage For Part-Time Workers Under Obamacare
“If you like your plan, you can keep it.” Right. ~Bob
Tweet from Pam Besteder @pambesteder
The Left called Bush the "Cowboy President"
because he acted tough. We call Obama the "Coward President" because
he's weak & incompetent. (Black conservative I follow. ~Bob)
‘2 Million Bikers'
Roar Over Muslims In D.C.
Excerpt: Mark Segraves of the NBC affiliate in
Washington reported that only “about 25 people,” including
activist Cornel West, were at the Muslim march as of 12:30 p.m…. At
approximately 1 p.m., “2 Million Bikers to DC” Facebook page
co-founder Belinda Bee posted that police have counted nearly one million
bikers are on the streets of Washington.
(The bikers were denied permits but have come from across America and Canada. –Barb)
Monday Map: Top
Marginal Tax Rates on Sole Proprietorships and S-corporations
Great map. –Bard Thor.
N.
Korea may have
restarted nuclear reactor at Yongbyon: sources
Because, you know, Obama’s strong and scary. ~Bob
Excerpt: A new Reason-Rupe
poll finds President Obama's standing on foreign policy "has
taken such a hit" that 64% of Americans -- including 68% of independents
and 41% of Democrats -- believe his handling of foreign policy is worse than,
or the same as, former President George W. Bush's handling of foreign policy.
Pence and The
Revolution: Five reasons he might be the 2016 dark horse to watch
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/10/pence-and-the-revolution-five-reasons-he-might-be-the-2016-dark-horse-to-watch/
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/10/pence-and-the-revolution-five-reasons-he-might-be-the-2016-dark-horse-to-watch/
Excerpt: He’s more charismatic than Scott Walker, more
conservative than Chris Christie and, unlike so many of the top-tier 2016
Republicans, he has actually run a state.
So why isn’t Indiana Gov. Mike Pence generating the kind of
buzz worthy of a top-tier candidate?
9/11 Fireboat That
Could
Excerpt: In the panic of Sept. 11, 2001, as tens of
thousands of people tried to leave the island of Manhattan,
an aging boat once headed for the scrap heap became a hero of sorts. …Firemen
battling blazes at the World Trade Center had no water because the twin towers
had fallen on the water lines….For three days, the Harvey joined three
active-duty fireboats to provide the only water there was to keep the 9/11
fires from getting worse. (Built in 1931, the owners are now trying to raise
funds for its preservation. –Barb)
Study: Wind farms killed 67 eagles in 5
years
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/11/study-wind-farms-killed-67-eagles-in-5-years/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29#ixzz2ec50kmUf
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/11/study-wind-farms-killed-67-eagles-in-5-years/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29#ixzz2ec50kmUf
Excerpt: Wind
energy facilities have killed at least 67 golden and bald eagles in the last
five years, but the figure could be much higher, according to a new scientific
study by government biologists. The research represents one of the first
tallies of eagle deaths attributed to the nation's growing wind energy
industry, which has been a pillar of President Barack Obama's plans to reduce
the pollution blamed for global warming. (Most of the deaths from 2008-2012.
Obama’s legacy. The USSR realized
that Command economic systems ruled by top-down dictates do not function
productively; cause and effect; demand/supply, capitalism had to be instilled
for growth. If the demand goes away, maybe Siemens will quit building and
advertising shipping these death machines around the world in the name of
“greenness.” Kill the birds, grow the bugs, grow the bugs, get the pestilence. Think.
–Barb)
Palestinian Authority
Denounces Women Protesting Against Honor Killings, Urges them to Kill Jews
Instead
Public Policy Polling
Withheld Poll They Did Not Like
Excerpt: On Wednesday, the left-leaning polling firm Public
Policy Polling revealed that
they purposefully suppressed their polls about one of the races because they
did not believe the results.
Syria
Syria crisis: Obama leans to diplomacy on
chemical weapons impasse
Excerpt: The US
president said that although he had suspended a congressional vote to authorise
force against Syria,
he had ordered the military to "maintain their current posture to keep the
pressure on Assad and to be in a position to respond if diplomacy fails".
(I didn’t listen to him, or, being bi-partisan, to Rand Paul either. With my
health, bedtime comes early if I’m to get up at 6:00 for work, but I would have
skipped anyway. I didn’t use to listen to Bush either. Set piece speeches are
spin for the bobble heads. I do read the commentary and the key points of these
things. That seems to keep me in the loop. ~Bob.)
Krauthammer: ‘One of
the most odd presidential speeches ever delivered’
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/11/krauthammer-one-of-the-most-odd-presidential-speeches-ever-delivered/
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/11/krauthammer-one-of-the-most-odd-presidential-speeches-ever-delivered/
Excerpt: “That’s what makes this one of the most odd presidential
speeches ever delivered,” Krauthammer said. “Here is a president who urgently
addresses the nation on all channels to call for a pause in assuming that the
nation does not want to do in the first place. This is, you know, almost
unbelievable. And the fact that he puts so much weight on the Russian proposal,
which is a farce.”
Obama submits to
Putin’s Syrian strategy [VIDEO]
Excerpt: This new focus on diplomacy is
a stunning retreat from Obama’s much-touted and very unpopular
promise to punish Syria
for an August nerve gas attack on rebel-held neighborhoods.
Obama’s Speech and Syria
I have to give him credit, he did one smooth move last
night. Totally defused the situation of the upcoming negative vote with a super
reasonable idea that puts the onus on Russia to fix the situation. We are
still the good guy, because it was his threat of maybe military action that got
Russia
and Assad to come up with this lovely decoy. And it is a decoy. To actually set
up a force of inspectors to go into a country with a war going on is very close
to impossible in the first place, and they will be going to where Assad sends
them in the second place. It will take months to even start to set this up, and
many months more to try to make it work. In the meantime, if one of the many
rebel groups has access to any of the chemical weapons, they just need to set up
an incident where it can be blamed on Assad and the whole thing gets super
messy again. But no matter what, it has Obama off the hot seat he had built for
himself, at least for the near future. And it has let him play the concerned
humanitarian, but eager to avoid getting the US into the mess at the same time. Excellent
posturing. This does put Assad in the business of avoiding any use of the
gases, since that would then be a bright green light for the US to go ahead
and bomb the crap out of his resources. Meanwhile, all the rest of the killing
can go on without a hitch, and who knows, Assad's forces may yet turn things
around and really start taking back territory. Certainly by now the local Christians and other non-Muslims will welcome them. So
we don't have to worry about peace breaking out anywhere in Syria for now.
--Del
Obama Rescues Assad:
The President lets Putin outmaneuver him on Syrian chemical arms
Excerpt: What could be worse for America's standing in the world
than a Congress refusing to support a President's proposal for military action
against a rogue regime that used WMD? Here's one idea: A U.S. President letting
that rogue be rescued from military punishment by the country that has
protected the rogue all along. (Well, Obama's supporters will continue to see
his speech as wonderful, and perhaps too many other Americans will buy into the
deal, like people outside the restaurant smelling the steak and hearing the
sizzle. But with time that old question "Where's The Beef?" is going
to come up, and I wonder how things will shake out for Mr. Obama's status both
here and abroad then. The good news is that we have plenty of time now before
the 2014 elections for the Syrian debacle to develop further, which may serve
to finally disillusion a large chunk of the Independent voters, and bring down
disaster on the Democrats. Watching Syria may almost be fun (aside from
the detail of actual human murders and suffering that will continue) as the
plan to pick up all the bad chemicals unravels. What kind of scrambling will
the White House get into then? --Del)
Guest Post: When a
Faux Pas Becomes a Potential Outcome
Fifteen Minutes of Foreign Policy Malfeasance. By Bruce Thornton
Excerpt: On the eve of the 12thanniversary of the terrorist
strikes on 9/11, President Obama last night addressed the nation and reprised
every delusional and bankrupt internationalist idea that contributed to that
disaster. The current Syrian crisis––merely the latest Middle Eastern example
of Obama’s incompetence––exemplifies more thoroughly than the rest just how
politicized, incoherent, hypocritical, and dangerous to this country’s security
and interests Obama’s foreign policy has been.
Excerpt: In short, while posing—as he habitually does—as the
only adult in the room scolding critics of his Syria policy on both the right
and the left, his contradictions and weakness made their critiques look smart.
It’s not just that his claim that diplomacy will succeed because of a “credible
threat” of U.S.
force that we all know was not credible is a flat-out lie. Having already
demonstrated incompetence on a historic scale in flubbing this crisis, no
speech could have retrieved the situation and restored Obama’s
credibility.
Excerpt: Sixty percent of those questioned said it was not
in the national interests of the U.S. to be involved in the bloody
two year old Syrian civil war, and more than half said the speech did not
change their confidence in the president's leadership on military and
international issues.
Victor Davis Hanson
On The President’s “Mini-Munich” Speech and America’s Looming Challenge
Excerpt: I was underwhelmed. I’d like to think everybody
was. He wants to use force, but he doesn’t quite want to use force. It’s going
to be substantial, but not very substantial. He really thinks it’s important to
consult Congress, but he wasn’t going to do it. But then when he got in
trouble, he was going to do it, and then when they were going to vote no
against him, he postponed it. He really believes you always have to do it, but
of course, he didn’t do it in Libya.
Good Analysis: The Long-Term Prospects of the Syria Deal. By Max Boot
Excerpt: How this works, in practice, is almost impossible
to imagine. Western intelligence agencies do not even know where all of Assad’s
chemical-weapons stockpiles are located. Remember how much trouble UN
inspectors had in verifying Saddam Hussein’s compliance with UN resolutions in
the 1990s? The difficulties will increase ten-fold in Syria where the
chemical-weapons arsenal is scattered across a large, dangerous battlefield.
Obama faces pressure
from Putin, Hill to back off Syrai strike ahead of speech.
Excerpt: But one of his top congressional allies, as well as
Putin himself, are now calling for Congress to back off the strike
vote. Putin reportedly said Tuesday that the only way the
diplomatic option can work is if "we hear that the American side and all
those who support the United
States in this sense reject the use of
force." The comment came as Syria's foreign minister embraced
the proposal to turn over chemical weapons. (The ruskies are runnin' the
country. Better Putin than no president at all. --Kate)
Putin: Syria chem arms handover will only work if U.S.
calls off strike
Excerpt: President Putin’s comments came shortly after the
Syrian government said it would agree to place its chemical weapons arsenal
under international control. On Tuesday, Britain,
France and the US said they
would table a resolution on Syrian chemical weapons to the UN Security Council
later in the day. An emergency closed-door meeting at the Security Council
is scheduled to take place at 4:00pm EST (20:00 GMT), the UN press
office said.
Syria, chemical weapons, and the worst day in Western
diplomatic history. By Charles Crawford
Excerpt: Chemical weapons are relatively easy to make and
store (and fire), but much harder to dismantle safely. The chemicals themselves
are fiendishly dangerous and need to be destroyed with specialist equipment
without creating environmental hazards. Plus the explosive part of the delivery
shell needs careful handling. Destroying CW stocks is therefore a complex and
expensive operation, even under calm conditions. Both the United States and Russia have both heavily failed to
meet internationally agreed deadlines for destroying their massive Cold War
legacy chemical weapons stocks. There is no precedent for attempting anything
like this in a country wracked by civil war. It just can’t happen. No Syrian
chemical weapons will be destroyed or "handed over" quickly.
Good Column: A Bare-Chested Machiavelli. By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: Without much effort, his Alice-in-Wonderland
proposal of collecting WMD from Assad, in the midst of a civil war no less
(does this mean a mandatory 24-hour time-out so that U.N. inspectors can rush
in with clipboards and audit the ten warring sides?), all at once seems to have
kept his Mediterranean coastal client Bashar Assad not just alive, but with the
upper hand in the war just by — in theory, though unlikely in fact —
eliminating 1 percent of the combined killing capacity so far demonstrated in
the fighting.
High Degree of
Confidence
Sadly true. ~Bob
Good Column: Making Sense of Syria. By Peggy Noonan
Excerpt: The president’s problem with his own base was
probably startling to him, and sobering. He knows he was going to lose
Congress, not only the House but very possibly—likely, I’d say—the Senate. The
momentum was all against him. … And only in part because this White House is
full of people who know nothing—really nothing—about history. They’ve only seen
movies.
Rand Paul tells White
House to call off war vote. By John Hudson
Excerpt: While Paul was skeptical that Moscow would carry through on its proposal,
he encouraged the president to pursue the potential breakthrough energetically.
"We have to trust but verify whether they're going to be sincere," he
said, echoing the statement by Obama on Monday night. "All of us
are concerned about Syria's
chemical weapons. No one wants them used on civilians or our soldiers."
Russian Parliament
Gloats As Putin Checkmates Obama Over Syria
Excerpt: Monday morning,
Secretary of State John Kerry made what an administration official called a
"major goof"
with a never-going-to-happen hypothetical that
suggested Syria could
avoid American airstrikes by surrendering their chemical weapons. Even the
State Department walked Kerry's statement back.
But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov immediately seized upon Kerry's
flub, and now a member of the Russian parliament is gloating over Putin's
checkmate of Obama.
Obama's Syrian Rebels
at Play. (Moderates! ~Bob)
Excerpt: Catholic nun Mother Agnes Marium el-Salib reports: 'A
total of twelve Alawite villages were subjected to this horrendous attack. That
was a true slaughterhouse. People were mutilated and beheaded. There is even
a video that shows a girl being dismembered alive — alive! — by a
frame saw.
World War III in
Pictures
Excerpt: Obama has worked his way out onto a cracked limb.
He can fall off on either of two sides. Either he can admit that
Putin has played him like a balalaika and back down, or he can blunder forward
into a senseless war that could quickly escalate into Armageddon.
Op-Ed: Germany is the Supplier of WMD Technology
to Syria
Excerpt: Recent chemical warfare developments in Syria bring
to mind the study, authored by a US investigator, Kenneth Timmerman (who
in 2012 made an unsuccessful run for a Maryland congressional seat) entitled "Weapons
of Mass Destruction: The Cases of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Libya," which was
hand delivered to our agency in Jerusalem in late February 1991, at the end of
the Gulf War by Tilman Zulch, head of a German organization known as THE
SOCIETY FOR THREATENED PEOPLES. This study, later published in full by
the Simon Wiesenthal Center, in August 1992, documents how WMD technology
for these four nations emanated from more than 80 German firms, all of whom
exported such lethal substances through subsidiary companies outside
of Germany, since German law
forbids their direct export from Germany itself. … (Have
seen articles in UK saying Britain sent
substances as well…Barb)
What an attack on Syria will mean for US-Iran
relations. A strike on Assad would abort the recent "testing of the
waters" between US and Iran
since Rouhani's election. By Geneive Abdo
Excerpt: If President Barack Obama does indeed attack Syria, with or without congressional approval,
he will forfeit an opportunity to make headway with Iran
over its nuclear programme and risk allowing Tehran
once again to reap the greatest benefit from Washington's
military excesses in the Middle East.
(Consider the source. ~Bob.)
Obama’s Psychotic
Syrian Rebels Dismember Precious Little Girl While She Was Still Alive
Excerpt: Should the United States be allied with
radical Islamic jihadists that dismember little girls while they are still
alive? That question sounds ridiculously absurd, but that is precisely what
Barack Obama is proposing.
Humiliating: Kerry’s Syria
‘Expert’ Fired for Claiming to Have a Ph.D.
Excerpt: The Institute for the Study of War has learned and
confirmed that, contrary to her representations, Ms. Elizabeth O’Bagy does not
in fact have a Ph.D. degree from Georgetown
University.
Americans 12 Times
More Interested In Miley Cyrus Than Syria Debate
Any of you wonder how BO got elected? ~Bob
Attention Saturday Night
Live writers: This is how you satirize President Barack Obama.
Excerpt: The Second City
Network takes both the president and his glassy-eyed followers
to task in a biting new video about Obama's heated Syria rhetoric. Help Kickstart World War III is a
faux crowd funding pitch aimed at Obama worshipers who will nod their heads at
any decision the president makes.
Who funds Syrian rebel advocate O’Bagy and the Syrian
Emergency Task Force? You do
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/09/who-funds-syrian-rebel-advocate-obagy-and-the-syrian-emergency-task-force-you-do/#ixzz2ec2mx7GQ
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/09/who-funds-syrian-rebel-advocate-obagy-and-the-syrian-emergency-task-force-you-do/#ixzz2ec2mx7GQ
Excerpt: In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller
earlier last week, O’Bagy explained how she got paid. O’Bagy has been roundly
condemned for working for a pro-Syrian lobbying group at the same time she was casting
the Syrian rebels in a positive light. She works as an analyst at the
neoconservative think tank, the Institute for the Study of War.
Syrian rebels, Assad
forces continue battle for Maaloula
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/09/11/Syrian-rebels-Assad-forces-continue-battle-for-Maaloula/UPI-95731378879626/#ixzz2ec9uTF00
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/09/11/Syrian-rebels-Assad-forces-continue-battle-for-Maaloula/UPI-95731378879626/#ixzz2ec9uTF00
Excerpt: The panel said both sides had committed offenses
such as torture, rape and indiscriminate attacks on civilians on a large scale,
The New York Times reported. (We are going to bomb only in behalf of moderate
rapists. ~Bob)
Obama lifted his Syria speech from Bush. By Marc A. Thiessen, Washington Post
Excerpt: If Bush was so bad, then why did Obama lift so much
of his speech making the case for military action in Syria
from Bush’s speech making the case for military action in Iraq? (Don’t
blame Obama—the teleprompter did it! ~Bob)
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