Don’t Miss: Kickstart Campaign to fund WWIII
Very funny satire from Second City Network in Chicago. ~Bob
Quatrains for
inspiration
Excerpt: Former White House economic adviser and Treasury
secretary Lawrence H. Summers has withdrawn his name as a candidate for Federal
Reserve chairman, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Oklahoma House Speaker T.W. Shannon making name for
himself
Excerpt: As the Legislature moves toward the climax of its
annual session, competition for time on The Truth Sofa is rising. Lots of
people want a few minutes alone with Shannon, arguably the most powerful man
inside the state Capitol. (Black republican. I heard him on TV this morning
while dressing. Someone to watch. ~Bob.)
What is the Happiness
Lobby? Growing Body of Questionable Research Lends Support to Paternalistic
Policies. By Iain Murray and Blake Taylor
Excerpt: In recent years, there has been an explosion in
published research into the causes and implications of happiness. The field of
happiness research has grown enormously since the 1974 publication of a study
by University of Southern
California economist Richard Easterlin that found that higher
income in the United States
between 1946 and 1970 was not accompanied by greater happiness among the
population. For years, happiness research remained an academic field.
Betrayed: Pensioners
and Taxpayers
Excerpt: Comprehensive research into the funded status of
state-level defined benefit public pension plans reveals that public employee
retirement promises are underfunded by $4.1 trillion. Combined, state public
pension plans are just 39 percent funded, says Cory Eucalitto, an editor and
author at State Budget Solutions. States facing a particularly large unfunded
liability at a per capita level and as a percentage of their annual gross state
product include Illinois, Ohio, New Jersey, Oregon, Connecticut, Nevada, New
Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska.
Top policewoman who
was shot in southern Afghanistan
has died
Excerpt: A top policewoman in southern Afghanistan
died early Monday after being shot by unknown attackers, months after her
predecessor was also slain. Her death, one of the latest in a string of attacks
on prominent Afghan women, could make it even harder to recruit female officers
in a deeply conservative nation where just 1 percent of the police are women.
Almost everything you
think you know about the Matthew Shepard narrative is false.
Excerpt: As gay journalist Aaron Hicklin, writing in The Advocate asks, “How do people sold
on one version of history react to being told that the facts are slippery ---
that thinking of Shepard’s murder as a hate crime does not mean it was a hate
crime? And how does it color our
understanding of such a crime if the perpetrator and victim not only knew each
other but also had sex together, bought drugs from one another, and partied
together?”
Putin Bashing. By Donald Hank
Excerpt: These articles, their web sites and outlets and
their authors have always in some way, subtle or overt, supported US military
actions wholeheartedly and many of them support a strike on Syria, despite the
fact that the 'rebels' are heavily infiltrated with
Al Qaeda and reports coming out of Syria, such as those by Italian
correspondents Piccin and Quirico, are exposing the 'opposition' as riddled
with foreign fighters and ruthless anti-American and anti-Christian murderers. They also have been found by
the Turks, by UN observer Carla De Ponte and
by AP reporter Dale Gavlak to possess chemical weapons. Reporters and
most ordinary citizens are afraid to even mention these facts. Here in the Land
of the Free.
U.S. releases illegal immigrants who are sex
offenders: Report says many are freed without supervision or speedy deportation
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/15/us-releases-illegals-who-are-sex-offenders/#ixzz2f4HmLSrY
Excerpt: The news last week that federal authorities had to release 2,837 convicted sex offenders back onto the streets has renewed focus on a Supreme Court case that requires the government to release immigrants whose home countries won’t take them back.
Excerpt: The news last week that federal authorities had to release 2,837 convicted sex offenders back onto the streets has renewed focus on a Supreme Court case that requires the government to release immigrants whose home countries won’t take them back.
Lady Liberty’s Torch
Is Already Tainted
Nor can terrorists take from our government the
responsibility to protect our borders, and yet, in the name of eternal power
and the intent to fundamentally change America, our government refuses to
do that very thing. Gun running, drug running, importing votes, importing
terrorists, refusing to protect its people – Lady Liberty’s torch is already
tainted. How long until it drags thru streets of blood as the consequence of
our government not doing its duty?
Obama says Republicans blocking his efforts to fight economic
inequality
http://thehill.com/video/sunday-shows/322311-obama-says-he-has-power-to-fight-economic-inequality-but-gop-blocking-efforts-#ixzz2f18WQiED
http://thehill.com/video/sunday-shows/322311-obama-says-he-has-power-to-fight-economic-inequality-but-gop-blocking-efforts-#ixzz2f18WQiED
Excerpt: The
president has powers to fight income inequality, President Obama argued in an
interview broadcast Sunday, adding that Republicans in Congress have
hobbled his efforts to do it. Appearing on ABC's "This Week" program,
Obama acknowledged that the wealthiest Americans have benefited
disproportionately from the economic recovery of recent years. (The WH favors Kobe
beef, Maine lobster, champagne, multiple vacations and all those golf fees (to
make First Family cost US taxpayers more than Royals cost Brits) while
dismantling the Blue Angels, WH tours by the public, US military
readiness….Must be nice to fiddle while Rome burns and charge the Romans to
listen to the propaganda…oh, and tell them to get used to eating less and drink
water. Since when does POTUS have the power to “equalize income”? This is not
the USSR—and frankly—even there, the Party people were the 1% “in crowd” with
“the mark” and they had the cars, caviar, vodka, furs…not the peasants, who
were still peasants, listening to overlords in uniforms taking away their God
and religion, their sense of community and fun by asking them to spy on one
another, pushing fear to the point that those that could save for a bottle of
vodka from the foreign tourist shop—the State tried to export it versus have it
for domestic overconsumption—found relief from their living nightmare in a back
alley with a bottle. Radio Free Europe was a medium that showed—like the
internet has tried—what the rest of the world IS. There were those that
listened, hoped and came here for refuge…to degenerate into this? Many realize
that if the US collapses,
the Illuminati have global domination and nowhere is safe. Have a nice week.
–Barb)
http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/middle-east-north-africa/322333-house-panel-accuses-state-of-obstructionism-in-benghazi-investigation-#ixzz2f17lsc8Y
Excerpt: The State Department willfully obstructed a congressional investigation of the deadly attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi last year, according to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. State Department officials routinely refused requests for documents on its investigation into the September, 2012, attack, including interview transcripts and summaries of eyewitnesses to the attack, according to a committee report obtained by The Hill.
Obamacare exchange leaks data of 2,400
unsuspecting customers
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/14/obamacare-exchange-leaks-data-of-2400-unsuspecting-customers/#ixzz2f0zIGGIJ
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/14/obamacare-exchange-leaks-data-of-2400-unsuspecting-customers/#ixzz2f0zIGGIJ
Excerpt: An employee of Minnesota’s
Obamacare exchange, MNsure, sent an unencrypted file to the wrong person and
left 2,400 people’s private information at the mercy of a nearby insurance
agent. … “The gorilla in
the room is that they sent me something that’s not even encrypted. It’s unsecured,
on an Excel spreadsheet,” Koester told reporters.
What Conservative Foreign Policy Looks Like. Neither John
McCain nor Rand Paul get it right. By Andrew C. McCarthy
Excerpt: A conservative foreign policy would set itself
firmly against Iran
and Assad, as well as against al-Qaeda, the Brotherhood, and their state
sponsors. It would not choose sides between them in their Syrian free-for-all.
It would make the defeat of all of them — of Islamic supremacism — its
strategic objective. It would tactically use the opportunities afforded by our
diplomatic, economic, intelligence, military, and leadership capabilities to
make it happen. (One of the very best analysis of Islam vs Western civilization
I've ever read; it may be too difficult for politicians and some news pundits
to comprehend it all so the following is an excellent summation of
"workability" without leading with military strikes on foreign
nations, regardless that such strikes under the Obama would be
"pinpricks" and "infinitesimally small" (Aviators: Think
use of practice bombs with shotgun shell nose fuse. Do not discount the
effectiveness of being hit by one of those 10 lb cast iron bombs traveling at
500 mph!) –JP)
Did
you shoot the gun, Honey?
From
AOL/HuffPo--of all possible places!--here is a video report of a 12-year-old
girl's self-saving by proper use of a firearm. Only a few minutes long, it
clearly demonstrates what self defense advocates have been pointing out all
along. Ron P.
Report: Holder Coached Black Ministers on
Avoiding IRS Scrutiny
http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/holder-black-ministers-irs/2013/09/14/id/525676?promo_code=EE9E-1&utm_source=jpost&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1
http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/holder-black-ministers-irs/2013/09/14/id/525676?promo_code=EE9E-1&utm_source=jpost&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1
Excerpt: Attorney
General Eric Holder and IRS officials reportedly coached black ministers on how
to engage in political activity without jeopardizing their tax-exempt status
during the 2012 election.
Social Security
Overpays $1.3 Billion in Benefits
Unfortunately, not to me. ~Bob.
Excerpt: A new GAO report says
the federal government may have paid $1.29 billion in social security
disability benefits to 36,000 people who don’t even qualify for the program.
They make too much income to qualify!!!
British College
Caves To Muslim Demands To Drop Ban On Face
Veils
http://clashdaily.com/2013/09/british-college-caves-muslim-demands-drop-ban-face-veils/
http://clashdaily.com/2013/09/british-college-caves-muslim-demands-drop-ban-face-veils/
Excerpt: One of Britain’s biggest colleges on
Friday dropped a ban on Muslim face veils after thousands of people signed
a petition against the rule.( When will people grow some seeds and stop giving
up our country? --JB)
Massachusetts School Reads Muslim Foot Washing Poem on 9/11 –
Ignores Pledge of Allegiance
Excerpt: Concord Carlisle High School
in Concord, Massachusetts
is the site of this travesty; Concord,
the site of the first military engagements of the American Revolution. On the
twelfth anniversary of 9/11 Principal Peter Badalament allowed the reading of a
Muslim foot washing poem, about a Muslim woman washing her feet at a Sears
Department Store prior to engaging in her Muslim prayers, over the Pledge of
Allegiance. (How much more until we lose our country altogether? --JB)
Boston High School Teacher Trades Pledge of Allegiance for
Muslim Anti-American Poem. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Poor Muslims. Mean intolerant Americans are always
so bigoted toward them. Instead of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance or any unsettling
images from the mass murder of 3,000 Americans in the name of Islamic
Supremacism, Principal Peter Badalament chose to read Mohja Kahf’s poem, “My
Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears” in which her
Syrian grandmother argues with American women who don’t want her following the
Islamic ritual of washing her feet in a sink where people wash their hands.
Rand Paul Criticizes
Evangelical Christians Claiming They
Want To Go To War For Israel
Excerpt: Pandering to his dad’s
base. Via Weekly Standard: In an interview with Buzzfeed’s McKay
Coppins, Kentucky senator Rand Paul criticized
“some” Christians who support Israel and the
Jews and those Christians’
“overeagerness” to go to war. Adding to sentiments he expressed in a speech
earlier this year, Paul told Buzzfeed:
Massachusetts store
owner pleads guilty to Food Stamp Fraud, gets 2/12 years.
Excerpt: Authorities say the 49-year-old [Pat] Lu exchanged
food stamp benefits for cash, with Lu entering fraudulent information on an EBT
and paying cash to the customer for half of what he charged for their purchase.
He also allowed customers to use EBT cards to buy cigarettes, which is illegal.
Prosecutors say the store processed $800,000 in fraudulent EBT transactions.
Raleigh Police Make Arrest in Food Stamps for
Tattoos Fraud. By Caroline May
Excerpt: Police say a Raleigh,
North Carolina tattoo parlor accepted food
stamps as payment for tattoo work, according to the Carolina’s WNCN. Raleigh
police arrested Clifford Craig Tittle, the owner of Ink Addiction Tattooz, this
week and charged him with buying and distribution of food stamps and conspiracy
to obtain property under false pretenses.
VIDEO: David Brooks
warns of 'the rise of Ted Cruz-ism,'takeover of the Republican Party. By Jeff
Poor
Excerpt: On PBS’s “NewsHour” on Friday night, New York Times columnist
David Brooks warned that Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and similar
legislators’ rise to prominence threatens the traditional Republican Party.
Brooks insists the motives of Cruz are less about legislation and policy and
more about the politics of undermining the Republican establishment.
American
Ineffectualism: Every American ally is cringing with
embarrassment at the amateurishness of the last month. By Mark Steyn
Excerpt: All this the average Times reader would
find entirely unexceptional. Indeed, it’s the sort of thing a young Senator
Obama would have been writing himself a mere five years ago. Putin even
appropriated the 2008 Obama’s core platitude: “We must work together to keep
this hope alive.”
Joke
"Hey, can you tell I've lost some weight? I'm on that
new Obama diet. Every day I let Vladimir Putin eat my lunch. That's how it
works." –Jay Leno
Ice, Ice, Baby. By Joe Bastardi
Excerpt: Remember this
quote from Senator John Kerry in 2009? “[T]he Arctic
will be ice-free in the summer of 2013.” … Is ice coverage below normal? Yes,
but it's much higher than last year and at the highest level in several years.
Certainly not gone. Lost in all this is the Southern Hemisphere ice cap which
grew to record levels in July. It's closer to the top of the heap now than the
Arctic ice cap is to the bottom.
5 People Who Were Murdered For Being White in America.
By John Hawkins
Excerpt: Not only are there a lot of decent black Americans
who give up on having a good life because they're falsely convinced that the
deck is stacked against them, but there are even people who die because the
Left has embraced crying racism as a political tactic. The more the Left
screams that everyone who opposes Obama is racist, that Republicans want to put
black Americans back in chains, that conservatives want to lynch black
Americans, that it's Birmingham, Alabama all over again, the more people on the
fringes take liberals seriously and act out violently as a result.
California lawmakers approve measure to allow
driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants
Israel's twenty year nightmare. By Caroline Glick
Excerpt: Twenty years ago today, Israel's so-called peace process
with the PLO was officially ushered in at the White House Rose Garden. A
year or so later, when the death toll of Israeli victims of the massive terror
offensive that the PLO organized shortly afterwards reached what then seemed
unbearable heights, a popular call went out to "Put the Oslo Criminals on
Trial." Needless to say, with Shimon Peres, the architect and
godfather of the so-called peace process now serving as the President of
Israel, nothing ever came of the call.
Rise of the Thought
Police: Bullying Your Children into Forsaking Their Values: Proposed
'anti-bullying' legislation creates a powerful new bureaucracy to police
students' values and remediate politically incorrect beliefs. By Walter Hudson
Excerpt: The bill would repeal existing anti-bullying
statutes which have proven effective. It would create an invasive, overbearing,
and unfunded new state bureaucracy to impose politically correct values upon
students, teachers, parents, staff, and anyone serving in or around the
educational system. It would affect both public and private schools.
Use Found for Jerry
Brown's California.
Excerpt: "A new lawsuit filed by the city
of San Francisco on behalf of the state of California alleges that
over the past five years, the state of Nevada has dumped 1,500 mental patients
onto other states by putting them on Greyhound busses and sending them over
state lines with no prior arrangements with families or other mental hospitals
once they arrive." By “other states” they mean primarily the erstwhile Golden State.
PHOTO: 7-11 Marketing
It's Pizza to Food Stamp Recipients
Excerpt: This will make your blood pressure skyrocket.
Heritage Foundation
Gets Tough: Think tank puts punch behind its conservative ideas. By Tim Mak
Excerpt: The Heritage Foundation, formed in 1973, is among a
quartet of large, established think tanks that have long dominated the ideas
industry in Washington, along with the left-leaning Brookings Institution, the
libertarian Cato
Institute and the right-leaning but less combative American Enterprise
Institute. Heritage Action was created in 2010 “to make politicians feel the
heat of accountability on conservative issues,” [Heritage Foundation leader ]
Jim DeMint said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.
Shakespeare's
Merchant of Venice is a greater incitement to
anti-Semitism than the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. By Daniel Hannan
Excerpt: Most Christians
find the [court] scene uncomfortable; most Jews find it excruciating. Some
years ago, the lawyer Anthony Julius argued that the archetype created by Shylock was the
basis of an English anti-Semitism that, while not as destructive as the
European versions, was the worse for being rooted in high culture.
Sexy lesbian vampire
chic: how Europe disguises its fascist demons
with bourgeois elegance. By Tim Stanley
Excerpt: Having delivered the standard Nuremberg defence for casual slaughter, she
enters a sexual reverie as she recalls how she "plucked out the
nipples" of her victims. Bathory is a psychopathic fascist and the viewer
only thinks twice about loathing her because she happens to look good in Gucci.
The horror movies of this period are full of such Nazi metaphors; there was no
need to spell things out because the audience understood exactly what they were
watching.
Germany's
Bismarck temptation and secret pacts with Russia.
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Excerpt: Germany's
euro break-up party – Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) – has
unveiled its foreign policy. It is pure Bismarck.
"Germany and Europe
have no interest in a further weakening of Russia," said Alexander
Gauland, AfD's foreign affairs chief.
Senate committee
passes shield law defining "journalist". By Ed Morrissey
Excerpt: Dianne Feinstein wants that to be a rather exclusive club: 'Journalists and bloggers who
report news to the public will be protected from being forced to testify about
their work under a media shield bill passed by a Senate
committee Thursday. But the new legal protections will not extend to the
controversial online website Wikileaks and others whose principal work involves
disclosing “primary-source documents … without authorization.”
Senate Judiciary
Committee Approves Media Shield Law (Free Flow of Information Act)
Excerpt: Some blogs and new reports have erroneously stated
that the FFIA would only cover “credentialed” or salaried journalists who work
for mainstream media. The legislation, in fact, provides strong protection for
new-media journalists, including bloggers.
Media Shield Law is
Armor for the Autocrats: Don't fall for this Trojan Horse legislation;
Centralization is the objective. By Doug Hagmann
Excerpt: It is an integral plank of the Progressives
and Globalists who have been advancing the Communist agenda for decades, using
it to ultimately seek control under global governance. The bill, should it
become law, will have a chilling effect on free speech, especially any negative
discourse against the people in power, their policies and plans. Everyone needs
to pay very close attention to this bill and take a stand to assure its defeat.
Kuwait Funding Muslim Brotherhood Growth in
Western Mosques. By Abigail R. Esman
Excerpt: The completion of a new mosque in Amsterdam is doing more than opening the
doors of worship to Dutch Muslims; it is opening new windows into unexpected
avenues of terrorist financing and funding for the growth of radical Islam in
the West.
At least (now 13)
people killed in shooting at Navy building in Washington
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/16/active-shooter-at-washington-navy-yard/
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/16/active-shooter-at-washington-navy-yard/
Excerpt: Many who managed to escape in the early minutes of
the episode told of panic and fear after a shooter — described as a tall,
African-American man with an AR-15 — opened fire. … But she said there are
"potentially two other shooters" who remain at large. One was
described as a white male, last seen at 8:35 a.m. with handgun and wearing a
short-sleeve khaki shirt and a beret-style hat that may have been
military-issued. (Unusual. Most mass murders are white, even though blacks
commit a majority of the murders in the USA. ~Bob.)
Aaron Alexis
Identified As Washington
Navy Yard Shooting Suspect
'Professional' media
identify wrong man as Navy shooter. By Ed Morrissey
Excerpt: That would be CBS and NBC, who offered the name
Rollie Chance as the dead suspect in the Washington Navy Yard, responsible for
six deaths and a number of wounded. The only
problem? Rollie Chance is still alive and had nothing to do with the
shooting, apparently.
CNN Anchor: Whoever heard
of a gunman rampaging across a U.S.
military facility?
Excerpt: Probably 80 percent of the public, I’d guess,
thought of Nidal Hasan when they heard the news this morning. I’m one of them;
it occurred to me that maybe this was revenge from a sympathizer for the death
sentence he got a few weeks ago. Here’s the very latest as I’m writing this at
a little past noon ET, though:
Russian Diplomat on
Navy Yard Shooting: "A clear case of American Exceptionalism"
Excerpt: Awkward, but imagine how much more awkward it’ll be if the
shooter — or shooters — turns out to be a pro-Assad fanatic angry at
American threats against the regime. (It’s naval assets, after all, that are
expected to lead a potential U.S.
attack against Syria.)
If you’re going to gloat over a mass murder that’s been committed against your
new “partner in peace” while it’s in progress, at least wait until
you know for sure that you’re not allied with the perpetrator. [This is an
attitude I saw frequently during my 8-term incarceration at Los Angeles City
College. One day as our
teacher was lecturing in our Algebra 2 class, a person from a certain part
of the globe looked down her nose and said, "Gee-oonier High School,"
by which she meant she'd learned all this way back when she was thirteen. The
day came when we had the test on this material that was so far
beneath her exalted-ness. When we got our grades a day or two later I
said, "So you must have done really well?" She said she hadn't.
"I thought you'd said you'd done all this in Junior High
School?" Looking down her nose, she said, "Well,
dee test iss dee-frent." --Kate]
Mass Killings Stopped
by Armed Citizens
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2012/12/mass-killings-stopped-by-armed-citizens.html
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2012/12/mass-killings-stopped-by-armed-citizens.html
Excerpt: There are several documented cases where armed
citizens have stopped mass attacks by gunmen. Let me list a few: The Pearl,
Mississippi school shooting was stopped by the vice principal Joel Myrick with
a Colt .45, The Appalachian School shooting was stopped by two students with
handguns. Both of the above incidents were stopped by the armed citizens
threatening the shooter without firing.
Rep. Tom Graves' plan
both delays and defunds Obamacare. By John Hayward
Excerpt: Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA) made his bid to stop the ObamaCare
train wreck by introducing the Stability, Security, and Fairness Resolution,
which essentially funds every part of the government except ObamaCare
for the coming year. The gigantic federal government is now funded by an
endless string of emergency spending resolutions, a stack of fiscal Band-Aids
high enough to reach the Moon.
The Egyptian Pyramid Scheme. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Deserts are funny things. A big wide open space in
which nothing moves can play tricks on the mind. Spend enough time looking at a
desert and you will see things moving in it because your mind needs to believe
that there is life in it. Look hard enough and you will see democracy, progress
and change.
Collaborators in the
War against the Jews: Ian Lustick – by Steven Plaut
Excerpt: Three years ago, the tenured left at DePaul was attempting to force the university into
granting tenure to the anti-Semitic embarrassment Norman Finkelstein,
who has no bona fide academic publications, and is well known as a collaborator with the Hezb’Allah terrorists. To
manipulate the tenure system, these leftists needed to recruit letters
of recommendation from people at other schools who could be counted upon to
endorse and support Finkelstein out of a sense of political solidarity with his
propaganda.
Insurers limiting
doctors, hospitals in health insurance market: Insurers in California's new health insurance exchange
are holding down premiums by limiting choices, raising concerns that patients
will struggle to get care.
Bawny throws Barry
under the bus
Excerpt: Former Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Barney
Frank threw cold water on this meme on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday correctly informing
viewers that the auto bailout lost money for the federal government. By
contrast, we made money from George W. Bush’s 2008 bank bailout (video follows
with transcript and commentary):
Excerpt: ‘Are you sexually active? If so, with one partner,
multiple partners or same-sex partners?” Be ready to answer those questions and
more the next time you go to the doctor, whether it’s the dermatologist or the
cardiologist and no matter if the questions are unrelated to why you’re seeking
medical help. And you can thank the Obama health law.
Syria
Excerpt: Secretary of State John F. Kerry insisted on Monday
that a deal to rid Syria
of chemical weapons will be enforced by the United Nations. The United States, Britain
and France
agree that “we will not tolerate avoidance or anything less than full
compliance,” Kerry said. (It will take years, even if they mean it. US still
hasn’t destroyed all ours and we are not in a civil war. Meanwhile, Assad stays
in power, despite Obama’s statement that he must go, Russia
becomes the major player there and keeps its Syrian ally, as does Iran.
And what will the US, Britain & France do if thy get less than full
compliance? ~Bob.)
Excerpt: Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Saturday that
the first international inspection of Syrian chemical weapons will take place
by November, with destruction to begin next year. (I think, to be sure, Kerry
should personally lead the inspection team. ~Bob.)
Hey, Relax, Everybody!
Obama, Kerry, Putin, and Assad Say Syria's Fixed! By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Excerpt: Today and in the coming days, we'll see President
Obama and his surrogates insisting that the deal on Syria represents one of the
greatest foreign-policy accomplishments of his presidency. And they're right —
but not in the way that they think. In terms of policy, it's a disaster. Assad
is left unpunished, other than turning over weapons he wasn't supposed to be
able to have anyway. His cooperation is not guaranteed, and is in fact
unlikely. Assad has gone from Hitler's successor a few days ago to the only guy
who can ensure the chemical weapons get turned over. But the American people —
left, right, and center — spoke clearly on Syria:
We don't care what happens over there, just don't get us sucked into another
war in the Middle East. And by acquiescing to
a Russian plan designed to fail, Obama avoided war. So politically — really,
the only measurement that matters to this administration — he wins. Considering
how disastrous the military option appeared, maybe that really is the better
choice.
New Syria
Agreement Is a Big Victory. For Assad. By Jeffrey Goldberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-15/everyone-wins-with-new-syria-agreement-except-syrians-.html
Excerpt: A couple of months ago, the Obama administration
was -- at least rhetorically -- targeting Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad for
removal. Today, the U.S.
has in a perverse way made Assad its partner. … By partnering with Russia and
the West on the disarmament process, a process that is meant to last into 2014
(and most likely won’t be finished for years, even if it is carried out in good
faith, which is a big “if”), Assad has made himself indispensable.
Why the Russians
Can't Be Trusted in Syria.
Moscow isn't
even complying with a commitment to destroy its own chemical weapons. By
Senator John Barrasso
Excerpt: Most experts on chemical weapons say the timetable
is unworkable. But ridding Syria
of chemical weapons is not the point. The Kerry-Lavrov agreement is simply a
Russian delaying tactic on behalf of its Syrian ally—a tactic we've seen
before.
Extremists in Syria
admit killing 30 Alawites
Excerpt: Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremists in Syria say they are targeting members of the
Alawite community in the country, adding that they massacred dozens of Alawites
in three Homs
villages last week. (Could have done better if the US weapons had come through to
them, I suppose. ~Bob)
Wagging the dog:
The tale of Elizabeth O'Bagy. By Jake Tapper
Excerpt: It's all part of the weird world of Washington – a
doctor who is not a doctor writes an op-ed testifying for the rebels, without
disclosing that she is paid for by a rebel advocacy group, and her words are
seized as evidence by experts – Kerry and McCain.
Syrian Jihadist Slits
Throat of Christian Man Refusing to
Deny Christ, Then Taunts Fiancée,
'Jesus Didn't Come to Save Him'
Our moderate allies. ~Bob
Excerpt: American weapons being supplied to Syria's rebels will likely fall
into the hands of terror groups fighting alongside opposition forces there,
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said Sunday. (Stupid is as
stupid does. Let’s touch the burner on high to see if it is hot…Barb)
US-Russia
deal lets Bashar Assad keep biological weapons
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/16/us-russia-deal-lets-bashar-assad-keep-biological-weapons/#ixzz2f4k5d6aw
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/16/us-russia-deal-lets-bashar-assad-keep-biological-weapons/#ixzz2f4k5d6aw
Syrian dictator Bashar Assad must
surrender his chemical weapons to
avoid a U.S. military
strike, but the U.S.-Russia framework on
his disarmament makes no mention of Assad handing over his biological weapons.
Obama’s ‘unbelievably small’ presidency. By Marc A. Thiessen, Washington Post
Excerpt: If you have any doubts that President Obama’s
handling of Syria
is an utter debacle, witness the embarrassing spectacle this morning as his top
aides scramble to place blame for it at their boss’s feet.
Obama's YouTube Wars.
By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: The best thing to believe about Syria is
nothing. Both sides are engaged in epic levels of fakery. And if we are going
to bomb Syria,
the least we can do is sort through real life evidence.
Into the Syrian
Bazaar: Even if Assad gives up his chemical weapons, he escapes unpunished for
using them.
Excerpt: Politicians on the right and left are praising
Saturday's U.S.-Russia "framework" to dismantle Syria's
chemical weapons as a step away from American intervention. That is true only
in the looking-glass world in which politicians are desperate to avoid voting
on a military strike. The reality is that the accord takes
President Obama and the U.S.
ever deeper into the Syrian diplomatic bazaar, with the President hostage to
Bashar Assad and Vladimir Putin as
the friendly local tour guides.
Excerpt: Since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in the
spring of 2011, the role of jihadi extremists in the rebel forces has been the
subject of much commentary and debate. What started ostensibly as a domestic
rebellion by pro-democracy activists against the Assad regime during the Arab spring
has evolved into a complex Middle Eastern proxy war with strong sectarian
currents. As in other Muslim countries affected by the Arab spring, Islamists
have taken an increasingly prominent role.
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