ICYMI: Compassion for Immigrants. By Robert A. Hall
Guest Post: Why
Advisors Can Be Important
Private donations
give edge to Islamists in Syria,
officials say
Excerpt: The stream of U.S. weapons heading to moderate
rebel groups in Syria is
being offset by a fresh torrent of cash for Islamist extremists, much of it
from small networks of Arab donors who see the Syrian conflict as a step toward
a broader Islamist uprising across the region, U.S. and Middle Eastern officials
say. (There, a moderate is someone who won’t kill you and other infidels such
as the local Christians and Alawites
himself, but will cheer and than Allah when the extremists do. ~Bob
Lower Health
Insurance Premiums to Come at Cost of Fewer Choices
Excerpt: Federal officials often say that health insurance
will cost consumers less than expected under President Obama’s
health care law. But they rarely mention one big
reason: many insurers are significantly limiting the choices of doctors and
hospitals available to consumers. (New York Times: Wait, Obamacare Has a Big Downside We Forgot to Mention. --
Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt)
Excerpt: Imagine an idealized model of the health insurance
marketplace in which there are only three sets of variables: Premiums, Covered
benefits, Access to providers. In this simple world, these are the only
choices insurers have. They cannot tell providers how to practice medicine.
They don’t negotiate special discounts. Once they decide what fee to pay,
providers can join or not join their networks. In what follows, I will assume
that higher fees attract more doctors and hospitals to a network and that means
greater access to care. Lower fees have the opposite effect. Now, you could
conceivably have market competition for all three sets of variables. You could
also have government regulate all three. But if you want robust competition,*
you can only regulate one of them.
The Cost of Global
Warming Policies
Excerpt: Maybe we should try to alter this scenario. We
should accept that there is global warming. But we should also accept that
current policies are costly and have little upside.
The European Union will pay $250 billion for its current
climate policies each and every year for 87 years. For almost $20 trillion,
temperatures by the end of the century will be reduced by a negligible 0.05
degrees Celsius. The current green energy technologies still cost far too much
and produce far too little to replace existing energy sources. (Well, liberal
the carbon policies have this upside: they make Progressives feel good about
being for the environment. There is no price they will not make you—and the
poor—pay to get that warm and fuzzy green feeling. ~Bob.)
Hillary Clinton’s Foundation Problem:
“Transactionalism” at the Clinton Global
Initiative, the New Republic reports. But
who got favors from Bill, Doug, and Teneo? By Ben Smith
Excerpt: Hillary Clinton’s announcement in May that she
would be joining her husband’s foundation seemed, to outsiders, like the most
natural thing in the world: A high-minded, charitable base for whatever the
former Secretary of State might choose to do. But inside Clinton’s
circle, the decision provoked a frisson of worry: Clinton was giving up, some thought, the
(genuinely) plausible deniability that could protect her from a charitable
venture that had always had, up close, a seedy side. (The Clintons? A seedy side? Show me your shocked
face. ~Bob. But you know their
response. Come on. Say it with me: "What
difference, at this point, does it make?" --Jim
Geraghty, Morning Jolt)
Excerpt: Newark mayor Cory
Booker, who hopes to be New Jersey’s
next senator, claims to have “released” 15 years’ worth of his tax returns in
what his campaign trumpeted as a “historic gesture of transparency.” Perhaps
the mayor should consult T-Bone or another of his possibly imaginary felonious
friends about the definition of “release.” The mayor’s tax returns remain
locked up, though they were allowed a conjugal visit with the press: Nine
reporters, all hand-picked by the Booker campaign, were permitted three
hours with the documents in a hotel ballroom in Newark — no photographs, no
copies, no removing documents from the room, resulting in what one of the
reporters present described as a mad scramble to record information as the
clock ticked to zero. (In the past weeks, and with great emphasis this
weekend, our Eliana Johnson and the New York Post's Michael Gartland prove that Cory
Booker is a pathological liar when it comes to his own life story. He and a
largely compliant New Jersey
and New York-area media painted Booker as a heroic mayor who's doing his best
in a troubled city. The truth is that he's a mediocre mayor in city that is
basically in the same shape as when he started, with his personal legend
largely based upon exaggerations and over-dramatizations. His single greatest
skill is self-promotion. Are you paying attention, all of you national media
correspondents, preparing for the "rising star" profile pieces after
Booker's near-certain win October 16? Are you paying attention, New Jersey voters? If
you find voting for Steve Lonegan unthinkable, you are allowed to stay home on
Election Day. --Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt)
UN: Over 800 People
Killed In Iraq
In August
Excerpt: More than 800 people were killed in Iraq
in violence throughout August, the UN said Sunday. That was down somewhat
from July, but still one of the highest monthly tolls in recent years. (5,000
have been killed since the start of 2013. Al Qaeda did most of this and
our government wants to support them in Syria. Without our intervention,
would this be happening? Neocons insist we 'won' in Iraq. Maybe so, but the Iraqis
clearly lost! --Don Hank)
India's War On Intellectual Property Rights May
Bring With It A Body Count. By Sally Pipes
Excerpt: Why should Americans care about patent fights
halfway around the world? Because India’s war on intellectual
property rights harms the patients, workers, and investors of today — and will
undermine research into the innovative cures of tomorrow.
LSU’s Jeremy Hill
plays the Knockout Game. By Colin Flaherty
http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-lsus-jeremy-hill-plays-the-knockout-game/
http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-lsus-jeremy-hill-plays-the-knockout-game/
Excerpt: Jeremy Hill of LSU Tigers formally charged in bar
fight – ESPN
Excerpt: Accountability Review Board member Admiral Mike
Mullen admitted Thursday that a “hold in place” order
was given during the assault on a U.S. State Department facility in Benghazi on
September 11, 2012. Mullen made the admission while testifying that no “stand
down” order was given…. Also on Thursday, parents of two of the four
Americans killed in the attack testified that the president and several other
senior administration officials lied to them about the origins of the attack.
Bird charity
to install wind turbine, despite millions of bird deaths
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/19/bird-charity-to-install-wind-turbine-despite-millions-of-bird-deaths/#ixzz2fi5D8aX1
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/19/bird-charity-to-install-wind-turbine-despite-millions-of-bird-deaths/#ixzz2fi5D8aX1
Excerpt: Although millions of birds are killed by
wind turbines each year, the UK’s
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds wants to install a wind turbine on its
headquarters to reduce the group’s carbon footprint.
Excerpt: In the 5th Century B.C. King Leonidas of Sparta, at the beginning
of the Battle of Thermopylae, was met on the battlefield by an overwhelming
Persian force led by Field Commander Xerxes. When Xerxes demanded a Spartan
surrender, King Leonidas messaged back "Come and get it"...meaning
come and take our weapons. The undermanned Spartans would lose that battle and
die on the field of battle. But they didn't make it easy for the Persians. The
battle lasted three days and the undermanned Spartans killed an awful lot of
Persians before it was all over. And, as the Persians licked their many wounds,
the people of Athens
were able to evacuate that city and spared the Greeks a blood bath. As Obama
and his liberal cohorts have tried to restrict the 2nd Amendment rights of
Americans, making every effort to confiscate our guns, our citizens have
adopted that ancient Greek phrase Molon Labe.. "come and get it"...
Foot-draggers: U.S. and Russia
slow to destroy own chemical weapons amid Syria smackdown
Excerpt: As the Obama administration presses the United Nations this week to rid Syria of
its chemical weapons, it faces the stark reality that the United States has
failed to meet a 2012 deadline to destroy its remaining arsenal and has never
pressured its closest Middle East ally, Israel,
to sign the treaty banning such weapons. (It was not a treaty that kept Germany from
using Sarin in WWII. It was that the allies had it too, and would retaliate.
~Bob)
Palin: Hillary Unfit
For Presidency Because Of Benghazi
Scandal
Excerpt: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Hillary Clinton
is unfit to be president
Palin said that Clinton
should "never be considered as Commander-in-Chief " because she
helped "throw away 200 years of military ethos" and left "our
men behind to be murdered in Benghazi." Clinton had initially
claimed last year that the four Americans who were killed by terrorists died
because of a YouTube parody video of Muhammad. (If only that was the only
reason. ~Bob.)
Jihad in Kenya.
By Robert Spencer
Excerpt: However, Hakim said, “Then an Indian man came
forward and they said, ‘What is the name of Muhammad’s mother?’ When he
couldn’t answer they just shot him.” Non-Muslims who wish to prepare for the
future of the United States and other non-Muslim nations may wish to commit to
memory the factoid that Muhammad’s mother was Amina bint Wahb; however, the
most noteworthy aspect of these jihadists’ selection process was that it forced
the mainstream media, which generally ignores, denies, and/or obfuscates the
Islamic identity and motives of jihad murderers, to report about the jihadists’
desire to kill only non-Muslims, not Muslims.
Must read: In the Name of
Islam. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: “I don’t understand why you would shoot a
five-year-old child,” one of the survivors said. But the five-year-old was not
a Muslim. Moments like these put the Clash of Civilizations into bloody
context. This isn’t abstract politics. It’s not about economics, the
environment or foreign policy. It’s about a worldview in which a five-year-old
who can’t recite the Islamic confession of faith deserves to be killed. The
crime is not being a Muslim.
Somali jihadists say
that three U.S. Muslims are
among Kenya
mall jihad mass murderers
Excerpt: Of course, to investigate Muslim communities in Minneapolis and Kansas
City would be "Islamophobic." Better jihad
mass murder than that.
Israeli forces enter Nairobi mall to end
carnage: Report
Excerpt: Israeli forces have joined Kenyan efforts to
end a deadly siege by Somali militants at a Nairobi shopping mall, a security source told
AFP Sunday. (Israel
did what Obama and Europe would not do but
could have done. (See below) The slain poet comes from the Ewe tribe, a non
Muslim people. President Kenyatta, who swears to bring the evildoers to
justice, is a non-Muslim of the Kikuyu tribe, a rival of the mostly-Muslim
Luo tribe, Obama's ancestral family. Raila Odinga, of the Luo tribe, is Obama's
uncle-in-law and had once received campaign support from then Senator Obama. (http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/01/atlas-sighting.html)
While Obama was quick to threaten an attack against pro-Christian Assad in Syria
over an unconfirmed suspicion of chemical weapons use by the latter, he had
nothing to say about the recent terror attacks in Nairobi. The terrorists are Muslims and
sympathetic to uncle Raila Odinga. Obama could not intervene because
his sympathies are with the Luo tribe, whose candidate recently lost the
presidential election to Kenyatta. Not only was uncle Odinga a former Muslim,
he was also a far leftist, like nephew Obama. It is dangerously naive to
believe the myth that American intervention in Syria (where the CIA is supplying
arms to Al Qaeda linked terrorists) is 'humanitarian' and anything but tribal
and religious in nature. Since Obama's tribe is Muslim, then he MUST support,
in Nairobi, the
radical Muslims against the terror victims. His support is often in the form of
inaction. Obama may occasionally talk tough about terror, but his actions and,
for example, in Nairobi and Benghazi, his inactions, demonstrate that he
has no intention of ever sincerely fighting Islamic terrorists. This is nothing
short of criminal on the part of Barack Obama. Thank God for the Israeli
commandos. --Don Hank)
Pakistan church blast kills dozens
Excerpt: A twin-suicide bombing outside a church in Peshawar in Pakistan has killed at least 75
people, in one of the worst attacks on Christians
in the country.
Obama's independent
spying review team is closely tied to White House
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/22/obama-independent-spying-review-team-is-closely-tied-to-white-house/?intcmp=latestnews#ixzz2fhhXZtdC
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/22/obama-independent-spying-review-team-is-closely-tied-to-white-house/?intcmp=latestnews#ixzz2fhhXZtdC
Stung by public unease about new details of spying by the
National Security Agency, President Barack Obama selected a panel of advisers
he described as independent experts to scrutinize the NSA's surveillance
programs to be sure they weren't violating civil liberties and to restore
Americans' trust. But with just weeks remaining before its first deadline to
report back to the White House, the review panel has effectively been operating
as an arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which
oversees the NSA and all other U.S. spy efforts.
Navy Yard shooting:
Swat team awaits answers
Days after the shooting, none of the officers has been
questioned by officials or investigators from a special panel that was
convened on Wednesday. Members of the Containment and Emergency Response
Team (Cert) are typically debriefed "right away, at the very least the
following day" after an incident, a Capitol Police source said….On
Thursday, members of the tactical unit, which has several dozen members, were
told that it had a new leader, a Capitol Police source said.
Union rep: Cutbacks
cost lives in Navy Yard shooting
Excerpt: Anthony Meely, chairman of the Fraternal Order of
Police Naval District Labor Committee, says a minimum of 11 Navy police
officers were supposed to be working at the Navy Yard on Monday, but only
seven were at the site. Because six had to continue manning gates, only one
could immediately respond to the attack at Building 197, Meely said….Meely says
once additional officers were able to respond, they had to run on foot because
police cruisers had been dropped in recent years. (Oh, yeah, “someone” knew
this…..and when the SWAT Team showed up to foil their plans, they were ordered
to stand down and go away and let the killing continue…..Barb)
Report: Swat Team
Told To 'Stand Down' At Navy Yard Massacre
First, just as a "minor detail" of the event,
check out this link. Then we can all try to figure out why in hell a well
equipped SWAT team, trying to get into the Navy Yard to hunt down the shooter,
was told to stand down. This type of bureaucratic insanity needs to be
investigated right into the ground, and the responsible individuals located,
and soon thereafter "retired with prejudice", as in fired and get the
hell out of here now. Bad decisions that cost lives need to bring on dire
consequences to the decision makers. --Del
American Banana Republic: The
decay of a free society doesn’t happen overnight, but we’re getting
there. By Mark Steyn
Excerpt: As Obama explained in another of his recent
speeches, “Raising the debt ceiling, which has been done over a hundred times,
does not increase our debt.” I won’t even pretend to know what he and his
speechwriters meant by that one, but the fact that raising the debt ceiling
“has been done over a hundred times” does suggest that spending more than it
takes in is now a permanent feature of American government. And no one has
plans to do anything about it.
History of the Muslim Brotherhood Penetration of the U.S. Government
Excerpt: Given the
long history of Muslim Brotherhood activity in this country, its declared
objective to "destroy the Western civilization from within," and the
extensive evidence of successful influence operations at the highest levels of
the U.S. government,
it is urgent that we recognize this clear and present danger that threatens not
only our Republic but the values of Western civilization. … Jihad
is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest aspiration."--
Motto of the Muslim Brotherhood
Hillary Clinton running for president in 2016, friends say —
and Huma Abedin will have tough choice
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/hillary-clinton-weighing-2016-run-hurry-decision-article-1.1463823#ixzz2fhP5baGG
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/hillary-clinton-weighing-2016-run-hurry-decision-article-1.1463823#ixzz2fhP5baGG
Excerpt: Hillary Clinton has
decided to run for president in 2016, close friends say — and that would force
long-time aide Huma Abedin into making a tough decision of her own, between her
career and her disgraced husband, Anthony Weiner. Several Clinton
confidants tell New York magazine that
that the former secretary of state will jump into the 2016 presidential race.
Excerpt: Sorry to interrupt the Best Enabler of a Sociopath
Award ceremony but, to recap, Ms. Abedin worked for
many years at a journal that promotes
Islamic-supremacist ideology that was founded by a top al-Qaeda financier,
Abdullah Omar Naseef. ….Ms. Abedin and Naseef overlapped at the Journal of
Muslim Minority Affairs (JMMA) for at least seven years. Throughout that time
(1996–2003), Ms. Abdein worked for Hillary Clinton in various capacities.”
Revealed: US Nearly
Dropped Nuclear Bomb on North
Carolina
Excerpt: The report, written by Parker F. Jones eight years
after the incident, revealed that two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs were accidentally
dropped over Goldsboro, North Carolina, when a B-52 bomber plane
broke apart in midair. The fall set off mechanisms in one of the bomb that were
designed for an attack scenario: the bomb’s parachute opened and its trigger
mechanisms engaged. Three of the four safety mechanisms meant to prevent
unintended detonation failed to operate.
Chris Christie Inducted Into CAIR’s ‘Best List’ For
Fighting ‘Islamophobia’
Excerpt: The Council on the American Islamic Relations
(CAIR) excoriated many of its critics in their "Islamophobia" report,
but the group also had a "Best List Inductees" which included New
Jersey Governor Chris Christie. CAIR says the list was compiled as a way
to recognize those who "deserve recognition for their outstanding
contributions to pushing back against Islamophobic trends in 2011 and
2012." The report says Christie
is receiving the accolade primarily for his nomination of a Muslim judge and
statements in the ensuing controversy:
Feds Praise 'Islam's Work For Women's Rights'
Excerpt: “The National Park Service earlier this year
prepared for sequestration budget cuts by closing visitor centers and
furloughing park police – but still managed to produce videos promotion the
virtues of Islam’s respect for women’s rights,” the publication said. …But “in
videos on the park’s website, children in an Islamic school … ‘discuss their
experiences and challenges with negative Muslim stereotypes and assumptions.’”
The publication noted that the claim to Islam’s creation of women’s rights
“appears to contradict the ’10 reasons we hate women’s rights’ which the Muslim
Brotherhood presented to the United Nations in March.”
(Your tax dollars at work. Any doubt who is running the government? Not
those who used to be citizens….welcome to the New World Order and your Shadow
Regime. –Barb.
Because allowing men to have four wives and unlimited concubines, to have sex
with slave girls, to marry nine-year-olds, to stone teen rape
victims for adultery and to prohibit women for going out alone or without a
burka is so feminist. ~Bob.)
Islamic Feminism: 1/3 of Gaza Hamas marriages involved underage girls.
By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Who knew that setting up a
region controlled by Islamists would lead to repression of women and child
abuse? "In 2012, of about 17,000 marriages were registered in
the courts of the Gaza Strip, 35% were cases in which the brides were under 17 years
old. These marriages are concluded without the courts knowing the girls’ real
ages."
Political Correctness
and Stupid Policies (possibly redundant? --JB)
Excerpt: Is anyone else ticked that we’ve all been forced to
know the now-dead-and-in-hell piece of shiitake named Aaron Alexis? However
livid we may be, I’m sure it can’t compare to the rage the family members and
friends of the ones he mowed down must feel. For those who only watch MTV and
have no clue who Aaron Alexis is, well, he’s the dude that shot and killed
twelve innocent people at the Navy Yard military base in D.C. last
Monday.
From the left: The Incredibly Shrinking American
Middle Class
Excerpt: A typical American
household made about $51,017 in 2012, according to new figures out from the Census
Bureau this week. That number may sound familiar to anyone who remembers George
H. W. Bush’s first year as president or Michael Jackson in his prime. That’s
because household income in 2012 is similar to what it was in 1989 (but back
then it was actually higher: you had an extra $600 or so to spend compared to
today). There are three reasons for this. First, as Dr. Thomas Sowell points
out, household size has also been shrinking, so there are fewer wage earners in
a household, thus individual income is a better indicator. Second, the collapse
of the culture under left wing 60’s values has resulted in spiking non-marital
birth rates, and single parent homes are highly correlated with poverty. Third,
in the Obama economy, more people have given up looking for work and many had
to take part time work[or unemployment would be above 14%] and the workforce
participation level is at it’s lowest level in 35 years. People not working
reduces household income. ~Bob)
Excerpt: "Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like
heroes when they vote to cut food stamps. Some of these same members travel to
foreign countries under the guise of official business. They dine at lavish
restaurants, eating steak, vodka and even caviar. They receive money to do
this. That’s right, they don’t pay out of pocket for these meals." (This
is a fair hit. Republicans who feed at the trough cannot fairly claim to be
fiscal conservatives and are part of the problem. In five terms as a state
senator, I took one “junket” at taxpayer expense, when I attend a hearing of
one of my committees in the “luxury vacation paradise” of Springfield, Massachusetts.
I didn’t allow lobbyists to take me out to lunch or dinner, when that was
common practice on both sides of the aisle. ~Bob)
Make Food Stamps Make
Sense: Modest work requirements are reasonable.
Excerpt: Representative [Eric] Cantor [R-Virginia] is at
most a trimmer [not a slasher], not that you would know it from recent
headlines raising the alarm over his plan to “slash” food-stamp spending. He
has just helped shepherd through the House a bill that would reduce food-stamp
spending by approximately 5 percent, impose some modest work/job-training
requirements on able-bodied adults without children, tighten eligibility
standards, and delegate some responsibility for the program from the federal
government to the states.
House Republicans
Pass Deep Cuts ($40 Billion) From Food Stamps
Program.
Excerpt: The bill passed narrowly despite efforts by
the House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, who spoke at a news conference on
Thursday. The vote set up what promised to be a major clash with the Senate and
dashed hopes for passage this year of a new five-year farm bill. The vote was
217 to 210, largely along party lines. [About time, considering the amount of
free food there is to haul away. Kate. Kate, a high school classmate of mind
was a liberal—then she went to college in LA…~Bob]
Rollie Chance is
alive--and wants some media accountability. By Ed Morrisey
Excerpt: When the FBI greets you by saying,
“I didn’t have a good day because you are the first shooter who came back to
life,” you know you’re not going to have a good day, either. Veteran and Navy
contractor Rollie Chance and his family endured a few hours of shock,
embarrassment, and fear after two major network broadcasters published his name
as the Navy Yard shooter in Monday’s massacre. Now Chance wants to see some accountability for
the error: (Well, the people in hell want ice water and they aren’t going to
get it either. ~bob.)
Americans Are Right
To Oppose ObamaCare
Excerpt: Everybody who dislikes ObamaCare is being duped by
GOP propaganda, says President Obama. That must include all those unions
calling it a disaster, and all those who've lost jobs and pay because of the
law. Telemundo, the only news outlet that appears willing to ask Obama a tough
question, pressed him this week about polls showing most Americans oppose
ObamaCare. "Is everybody wrong?" the host asked. "Yes, they
are," Obama responded. (Alternatives are now going on the table in
Congress, at long last. I'll be interested to see what that package is, but
what's just as important is that there have been a whole host of problems with
ACA already, assorted delays and complications, and of course Congress
exempting its members and their staffs (the very definition of chutzpah), while
a long list of unions are getting or trying to get exemptions as well. Even
some Democrats are now backing away from this, while opposition among the
public keeps rising. I said this would get interesting, and it sure looks like
that now. –Del Actually, Congressman Tom Price, MD has had an alternative for
years, as has the NCPA and others. Ignored by the media so they can say, “No
alternatives have been offered. ~Bob.)
VIDEO: Jihadi FAIL of
the day.
Excerpt: Crappy Chinese weaponry at its finest.
27 Survivors Of
Sexual Assault Quoting The People Who Attacked Them
http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/2013/09/27-survivors-sexual-assault-quoting-people-attacked/
http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/2013/09/27-survivors-sexual-assault-quoting-people-attacked/
White House Staffers
call president "Obam-Me".
Excerpt: "Because it's all about him and his big
thoughts," [Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy] Noonan writes in a
column. "I guess the second-term team is not quite as adoring as the
first."
A Budget Deal Isn't Possible If Obama Won't Negotiate.
By Lawrence Kudlow
Excerpt: One of the biggest mistakes President Obama is
making in the current debate over the threat of a government shutdown and the
failure to raise the debt ceiling is his repeated and stubborn refusal to
negotiate. (It's supposed to be the GOP guys, but actually, that's not the only
way to look at it. There's the guy on the other side, who has taken the rigid
stance and refuses to even discuss anything else. But if you listen to the
major media, that concept will never even come up. –Del. He’s counting on the media to convince
low-info voters it is the Republicans’ fault for not giving in to him. Likely,
he’s right. ~Bob.)
20 Of the Most Obnoxious Quotes From College Professors. By
John
Hawkins
Excerpt: College classrooms are supposed to be politically
neutral, not indoctrination centers for liberalism. Yet, we have conservative
parents who save money for decades to send their children to universities that
teach everything conservatives believe is wrong. We have Republican state
legislatures that fund colleges whose first goal is to teach college kids to
vote Republicans out of office. We have colleges that claim to care deeply
about diversity; yet they work overtime to keep conservative professors and
conservative speakers off campus.
House GOP Renews
Efforts of Hispanic Outreach. By Amanda Munoz
Excerpt: Progress on immigration reform may be stalled on
Capitol Hill, but House Republicans have not forgotten about the Hispanic
community. The Republican Conference kick-started National Hispanic Heritage Month this week,
which began September 15th, with a “GOP Meetup” in the U.S. Capitol Building
that brought together Hispanic businessmen, pastors, political activists, and
other community leaders from across the country with several representatives
who are taking the lead in engaging minority audiences. (When is, oh, Latvian
Heritage Month? Don’t those citizens deserve equal treatment? ~Bob)
Excerpt: Barack Hussein Obama sadly lacks the skills of a
quality actor. Oh sure, he acts...but it is so superficial that most folks who
abstain from drinking the liberal Kool-Aid see right through it. Obama seems
never to have grown past the stage where Tommy and Tammy go up in the attic,
don Daddy and Mommy's oversize clothes and play "grownup". Now, when
Obama, in shoes far too big to fill, played "lawyer", he wasn't bad;
he stood arrogantly, was careful with his words, spit out talking points as if
he were making the closing argument before a trial jury. However, when Obama
tries to stand up as our nation's leader the little whiny boy-child comes out.
Nobody Escapes the
Progressive Inquisition. By Nicholas James Pell
Excerpt: The tempest in a teapot began when [Pax] Dickinson was not
sufficiently enthusiastic about denouncing a fictional app called Titstare that
made its debut at the annual TechCrunch Disrupt startup conference.
Institutional feminism has as of late descended upon the tech industry, widely
known as a bastion of unabashed authoritarianism and (clutch the pearls)
unbridled masculinity (no, really), demanding (what else?) equality of
outcomes. The app, which doesn’t actually exist, supposedly lets you take
selfies, as the kids say, while you stare at a luscious pair of mams.
[Submitted to The Old Jarhead by Kate, a girl.]
London: Signs of a city on the edge of a nervous
breakdown. By Ali Hope
Excerpt: Central London’s value is now worth more than all
of Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland combined. Just the
rise in value since 2007 could buy the northeast of England. That’s not healthy; it’s
also not stable.
Of Hacks and Hatchet
Jobs. By Taki Theodoracopulos
Excerpt: To choose the sweaty hellhole of Qatar [to host the
2022 Soccer World Cup] over bids by Australia, the US, Japan, and South Korea
is like choosing Hillary Clinton over Keira Knightley—one would do it only for
the money. Although Qatar
promised air-conditioned stadiums and other such chimeras, it has yet to
deliver the few million it promised the concentration camp of Gaza.
Fortunately, there is always a funny side to such matters,
like Greg Dyke (head of the English Football Association) announcing that England can win
the World Cup in 2022.
Muslim Brotherhood
sabotaging Israeli aid to Syrians. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: The Muslim Brotherhood’s role in Syria is often
little mentioned. But aid is a political weapon that allows the Brotherhood to
control people. And that is why funneling aid through Muslim Brotherhood front
groups, even humanitarian aid, is a terrible idea.
Who are the
occupiers? Hezbollah and Palestinians now killing each other. By Daniel
Greenfield
Excerpt: While you might think that this is part of the
Syrian Civil War between Sunnis and Shiites as most Palestinian Muslims are
Sunnis and Hezbollah is a Shiite Islamist terror group, the truth appears to be even more
ironic. "A Palestinian was killed and five others wounded in a
clash between Hezbollah members and Palestinians in Burj al-Barajneh, south of
the capital Beirut,
the Al Jadeed TV reported."
Tom Delay: 'I Can Get
My Concealed Weapon License Back' By Todd Beamon
Excerpt: "Because I'm walking with the Lord, I had
no burden," he said at the news conference. "He's had the burden. He
carried it." DeLay's immediate plans? A book about constitutional revival
in the federal government. The working title, according to the Morning News:
"Shut Her Down."
Excerpt: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula killed more than
50 Yemeni soldiers and policemen in a coordinated attack against military
installations in southern Yemen
today. Yemeni officials said that 56 soldiers and policemen were killed and an
undisclosed number were captured during attacks against military camps in
Shabwa province, a known haven and stronghold for AQAP. Eight AQAP fighters are
said to have been killed in the attacks. (You may want to subscribe to The Long War Journal. ~Bob. http://www.longwarjournal.org/)
Sincerely, George
Orwell. By Elizabeth Powers
Excerpt: In the 1946 essay “Why I Write,” Orwell spelled out
his goal: “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been
written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism
and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.” It was in pursuit
of this goal that Orwell worked under appalling (to us moderns) conditions.
Running water, bathrooms, electrical lighting—he seems not to have given much
thought to them, as long as there was high tea at the end of the afternoon or
“his ration of gin” in the evening. (Unfortunately for his dreams, “Democratic
Socialism” is a contradiction, because socialists always have to use increasing
forms of coercion—totalitarianism—to force people to do things “for their own
good” as defined by the elitist socialists—who always seem to live quite well,
thank you. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: : Another explosive passage indicates both that
former U.S. Attorney and current Tulane Dean Jim Letten 1) may have engaged in
unethical conduct subjecting him to a bar complaint, and 2) that higher
DOJ officials were informed about what was going on but did not act, and
further, that they covered up the outrageous conduct in the trial: …
A current dean at Tulane Law, former United States Attorney Jim
Letten, knew for months that lawyers in his office were secretly blogging at
the Times Picayune website to influence the outcome of a criminal
case. Yet Letten never instructed his lawyers to inform United States
District Judge Kurt Englehardt about their shenanigans, and never did so
himself for months.
Excerpt: Wolf was referring to the FBI’s violation of the
ban on cooperation with the unindicted co-conspirator terrorist organization CAIR
(Council on American-Islamic Relations), according to a just-released DOJ Inspector General report. CAIR was
determined to be related to the web of terrorist financing during the Holy
Land Foundation trials in Dallas,
a trial which resulted in guilty verdicts. Afterwards, the FBI issued a blanket
policy: no cooperation in the field with CAIR.
Excerpt: If anyone in the situation committed assault, it
was the rent-a-cop. Mr. Small wasn’t doing anything wrong or illegal. He was
doing what every parent should do, in being involved in his children’s
education.
Socialism in Action: Venezuelan
Government Takes Over Toilet Paper Factory: An acute shortage of TP
demands desperate measures — even if they're the wrong ones.
Excerpt: There is a crisis in Venezuela —
an acute shortage of toilet paper. President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist
government has hit upon a brilliant solution: take over the largest factory in
the country making toilet paper to “ensure a sufficient supply.” Your what
hurts? (My first trip abroad was a study abroad summer to Austria and USSR. I collected TP everywhere. Some
of it looked like the stuff you get to clean your windshield at the gas
station. Some of it was crinkled like crepe paper streamers. And in the Soviet
Union, where there was a command economy with the Regime dictating how much of
what would be made and by which satellite country of the USSR, there were 2”
shreds of the Moscow Times, if you were lucky. Yes, the all-powerful, supreme
commanders could not predict the demand for TP. There is something to be said
for a free market economy with the law of supply and demand….Too bad Americans
could not appreciate what they had. –Barb)
Tennessee school ends mosque, temple field trips after parent
outrage
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/22/tennessee-school-ends-mosque-temple-field-trips-after-parent-outrage/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fnational+%28Internal+-+US+Latest+-+Text%29#ixzz2ff4iqeGO
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/22/tennessee-school-ends-mosque-temple-field-trips-after-parent-outrage/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fnational+%28Internal+-+US+Latest+-+Text%29#ixzz2ff4iqeGO
Excerpt: Connor’s stepchild reportedly opted out of the Sept. 4 field
trip, and was instead asked to pen a paper comparing and contrasting the
religious teachings of Jesus, Gandhi and Muhammad. …The Tennessean reports the
material Connor’s stepchild was given as part of that alternative assignment
included a single page of Bible verses, two-thirds of a page about Gandhi and
five pages about Muhammad. The student subsequently cried foul and was
initially told she would receive a zero on the assignment, the newspaper
reported.
LYONS: The Islamic cloud over Brennan and Hagel:
National security may not be a first priority
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/19/the-islamic-cloud-over-brennan-and-hagel/#ixzz2ff2twcQD
Excerpt: The report stated that Mr. Brennan was converted to Islam while CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia from 1996 to ‘99…. However, according to Mr. Guandolo — a former SWAT team leader at the FBI, counterterrorism and Muslim Brotherhood specialist and Marine platoon commander — what should be an issue was the Saudis’ targeted recruitment of Mr. Brennan to the ideology of Islam while he was serving as the CIA station chief in Riyadh. This was not just a conversion but a political act by a foreign intelligence service. (National security? It’s called completing the coup d’état, only the folks haven’t figured it out….Barb)
Excerpt: The report stated that Mr. Brennan was converted to Islam while CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia from 1996 to ‘99…. However, according to Mr. Guandolo — a former SWAT team leader at the FBI, counterterrorism and Muslim Brotherhood specialist and Marine platoon commander — what should be an issue was the Saudis’ targeted recruitment of Mr. Brennan to the ideology of Islam while he was serving as the CIA station chief in Riyadh. This was not just a conversion but a political act by a foreign intelligence service. (National security? It’s called completing the coup d’état, only the folks haven’t figured it out….Barb)
Capitol Hill Ten
Commandments Monument Toppled by Vandals—News Conference to be Held at Site
Excerpt: The only Ten Commandments monument visible on
Capitol Hill has been toppled face-down to the ground by vandals (photo). The
850-pound steel reinforced sculpture sits in the front garden of the Honorable
William J. OstrowksiHouse on Capitol Hill, the headquarters for Faith and
Action, a Christian outreach
ministry to top-level government officials in Washington, DC.
Texas Fertilizer Plant Disaster: Little
Coverage, Much of It Wrong
HK: The company lied to EPA when they said that there
is no risk of fire or explosion at the facility, but at the same time they told
EPA that, they were honest with the state because they know the state wouldn’t
do anything in saying that they had 270 tons of fire and explosive material,
the ammonium nitrate. So they were honest with the state because they knew the
state wasn’t going to do anything, but to the federal government and the Obama
administration, they lied. And of course, the local fire department — not
equipped to handle the type of emergency that that entailed — they didn’t have
any respirators, they didn’t have any training how to handle that type of fire.
(Main media concern at same time—Boston bombing—which
Feds should have known about per Russians. –Barb)
Obama
Signs Disaster Declaration Months After Explosion Devastates West, Texas
Excerpt: (The explosion) dug a crater 93 feet wide and 10
feet deep, officials have said, flattened a school and tore apart the West Rest
Haven nursing home, where rescuers braved the wreckage to help extract more
than 130 people. The Federal Emergency
Management Agency in June denied additional money to the town. (West,
TX explosion occurred 04/17/13. Obama denied federal aid requested by Gov
Perry. Reversed himself in August. All political. –Barb)
A presidency on the verge of a nervous breakdown: 5 key reasons why Barack Obama’s future looks increasingly bleak
Excerpt: Forget the myth of an Obama recovery.
The past week has been disastrous for the White House and America’s increasingly
disillusioned Left. …Here are five reasons why the Obama presidency’s outlook
is getting significantly worse, not better:
(Anybody seen POTUS playing golf this
weekend? Oh, look for another national disaster to bring us together (read
false flag) in November. –Barb)
Fifty Shades of the Common Core: how much porn is too much
for high schoolers?
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/12/fifty-shades-of-the-common-core-how-much-porn-is-too-much-for-high-schoolers/#ixzz2feaIxqMz
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/12/fifty-shades-of-the-common-core-how-much-porn-is-too-much-for-high-schoolers/#ixzz2feaIxqMz
Mother complained
about her 10th grader’s
reading assignment. –Barb. Back in my day, we had to find or own porn. ~Bob
Campus cop stops
student from handing out Constitutions … ON CONSTITUTION DAY
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/19/campus-cop-stops-student-from-handing-out-constitutions-on-constitution-day/#ixzz2feYtwk9L
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/19/campus-cop-stops-student-from-handing-out-constitutions-on-constitution-day/#ixzz2feYtwk9L
Excerpt: The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
lambasted the college’s callous and Orwellian behavior, asserting that Van
Tuinen did indeed have the right to distribute copies of the Constitution
wherever he pleased. “Passing out flyers outdoors is one of the most
Constitutionally-protected activities there is,” said FIRE Senior Vice
President told The Daily Caller. “Every single person enforcing this should
have realized something was wrong.” 9well, at least he wasn’t guillotined, as
college students Hans and Sophie Scholl were for handing out anti Nazi
pamphlets at their college in, if memory serves, 1943. Hasn’t come to that.
Yet. ~Bob.)
America-hating Obama
a Threat to World Freedom
Excerpt: The impassable roadblock now facing civilized
society can be summed up in a single sentence: While radical Islam becomes
increasingly intolerant of all others, the West has become hopelessly hooked on
‘Tolerance Overkill’. The U.S. is
tolerating a president whose life’s passion is a poisonous hatred of America.
Obama
accuses gun control opponents of fighting to allow ‘dangerous people’ to own
guns
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/22/obama-accuses-gun-control-opponents-of-fighting-to-allow-dangerous-people-to-own-guns/#ixzz2feXYTaL8
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/22/obama-accuses-gun-control-opponents-of-fighting-to-allow-dangerous-people-to-own-guns/#ixzz2feXYTaL8
Excerpt: President Barack Obama
accused opponents of gun control of fighting to allow “dangerous people” to own
guns in a speech on Saturday to activists
at Congressional Black Caucus, promising he would revive his failed gun control
efforts following recent urban shootings in Chicago and Washington D.C.’s Navy Yard. (All guns are
dangerous—just ask Brian Terry or the 500+ Mexicans killed by the guns Obama
gave the drug cartels. But so are hammers, or hands and fists. They both kill
more people in murders every year than all types of rifles. Ban them first.
~Bob.)
CAIR
collects millions from foreign donors thanks to non-profit shell game
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/21/cair-collects-millions-from-foreign-donors-thanks-to-non-profit-shell-game/#ixzz2feWkHkVQ
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/21/cair-collects-millions-from-foreign-donors-thanks-to-non-profit-shell-game/#ixzz2feWkHkVQ
Excerpt: In June
2013, CAIR changed its name to the
nondescriptly named Washington Trust Foundation, Inc. (WTF). “Plentiful legal evidence, acquired in the course of a
lawsuit—plus CAIR’s own official filing documents to the Department of Consumer
and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) and IRS—make clear that CAIR has engaged in a
thinly-disguised money laundering operation,” David Reaboi, vice president for
strategic communications at the Center for Security Policy, told The Daily
Caller. (They’ve got more flexibility with folks to show them the ropes of fed
schemes to use the system against the infidels. –Barb)
ACORN’s former chief
calls for more immigration to boost black power
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/20/acorns-former-chief-calls-for-more-immigration-to-boost-black-power/#ixzz2feVp8sqO
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/20/acorns-former-chief-calls-for-more-immigration-to-boost-black-power/#ixzz2feVp8sqO
Excerpt: ACORN’s former CEO Bertha Lewis urged
Africans-Americans to support increased immigration as a strategy to gain
political power. “We got some Latino cousins, we got some Asian cousins, we got
some Native-American cousins, we got all kind of cousins,” said Lewis, who
spoke Thursday at the annual political conference of the
Congressional Black Caucus. “Cousins need to get together because if we’re
going to be [part of the non-white] majority, it makes sense for black people
in this country to get down with immigration reform,” said Lewis, whose
ACORN group was formally disbanded in 2010 after a series of scandals. (How
much you want to bet this is related to what the leftist college is doing with
their no-whites-allowed race talks? –Barb)
Trustafarian rich-kid college brings back separate-but-equal
race segregation
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/21/trustafarian-rich-kid-college-brings-back-separate-but-equal-race-segregation/#ixzz2feVQ3Lc0
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/21/trustafarian-rich-kid-college-brings-back-separate-but-equal-race-segregation/#ixzz2feVQ3Lc0
Excerpt: This conversation allows people of color to
come together and examine how we may have accepted racist attitudes toward
other racial groups and our own racial/ethnic communities, and move towards
healing and mutual respect. In order to create a safe
space, this program is open to people of color only. A similar conversation for
white students, faculty and staff is planned for the spring semester.
French diplomat hits
soldier who prevented ‘humanitarian aid’ shipment to illegal Bedouin
encampment.
Excerpt: Tensions between Israel
and the European Union over the EU boycott of Israelis living in Judea and Samaria (Shomron) may be
exacerbated by a new incident in which a French diplomat struck an IDF soldier.
(The EU is at the vanguard of the One-World Government movement. They are
convinced that they and they alone have the moral authority to tell other
countries how to run their affairs. The Obama government is part of that
movement as well and so are most Western officials. Recently, the local
Panamanian papers carried a story you may not have seen. It seems the EU is not
happy about a local law stipulating that 75% of all investments in certain
things such as logistics and infrastructure, incl items relating to the Canal,
must be Panamanian. This law is based in part on past experiences with foreign
owned companies that failed in their duty to properly maintain structures, such
as the Mexican-built bypasses to the north and south of Panama City.
Corruption was suspected in the reporting of tolls collected--which affects the
date when the bypasses will become the property of the Panamanian government.
But the EU, our Big Brother located 6,000 miles away in Brussels, knows what is best for everyone
everywhere in the world. The have told Panama that it must revoke this law
or face trade consequences. Free trade is not the goal but rather world
domination by a few radical Fabian socialists. The article below shows that the
EU also thinks it knows what is best in terms of internal policies of Israel. In a
nutshell, the philosophy behind all of this meddling is that sovereignty should
be abandoned everywhere in favor of a centralized world oligarchy. Soon,
however, the EU will face the judgment for all of its meddling, as the
euro takes a tumble. The upcoming elections in Germany could threaten the EU's
grip on German pocketbooks. Some day soon it may no longer be possible to
overcome German sovereignty to the extent of forcing hard working Germans
to keep shoveling money into the bottomless pit that is Greece. That
would be the beginning of the end of the grand projet. --Don Hank)
Man Uses Spear to
Save Girlfriend from Mountain Lion
Expect a demand from PETA to ban Assault Spears. ~Bob
Good article: Syria Postmortem. By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: I think the so-called Syrian crisis is working out
as most anticipated: 1) In about a year or so Assad and Putin will announce
that they “think” they might have in theory rounded up a lot of the WMD, and
will soon make plans to turn it over to “authorities,” subject to further
negotiations. 2) John Kerry will periodically announce that “his” plan has
worked and that Assad still cannot kill with WMD any of those he kills by other
means, as Obama adds that Putin still “owns” the crisis and that the U.S. keeps all
options on the table.
The power grid as we
know it is destined to fail, if you believe the authorities. Who will be there
to pick up the pieces and patch it back together?
Excerpt: Outgoing Homeland
Security chief Janet Napolitano issued an ‘open letter’ to her successor warning
that a cyber or physical event that knocks out the power
grid will occur – and it is not a question of “if” but “when.”
Notoriously known as “Big Sis” for her role at the Orwellian mega-agency,
she claims the supposed ‘imminent’ event will pose challenges to all aspects of
life, and make powering homes, providing food and facilitating transportation
difficult. Napolitano seems so sure, one wonders how she knows that such a catastrophe
is not only possible, but sure to happen, as she prepares to officially leave
office September 6th. (Per Coast to Coast caller this evening, “They ran drills
during 09/11/01, Benghazi, Boston, Oklahoma City, London, and they have a drill
set for grid down 11/13/13 and 11/14/13, timed to “coincide” with comet
fly by sun so “there is an excuse” but it will be done deliberately by the
Regime. So where are the 1% with the mark hiding? –Barb)
Excerpt: My mouth dropped open. Was I really reading this
right? My older brother and I had done lawn work from a young age growing up in
Colorado.
He’d mow the grass and I’d weed.
The Representatives
who walked out of the Benghazi
Hearings
Here is the list of the names of the Representatives who
walked out of the Benghazi Hearings before the parents of Sean Smith and Tyrone
Woods testified. As someone said, "Why does this surprise you? . . . Obama
walked out on them during the 11 hour gun fight!" Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)
Danny Davis (D-IL) Gerald Connolly (D-VA) Jim Cooper (D-TN) John Tierney (D-MA)
Mark Pocan (D-WI) Matt Cartwright (D-PA) Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM) Peter
Welch (D-VT) Stephen Lynch (D-MA) Steven Horsford (D-NV) Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)
Tony Cardenas (D-CA) William Lacy Clay (D-MO) Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
--LLW
Restrained Urgency
for Liquified Natural Gas Exports. By Walter Russell Mead
Excerpt: America
is slowly getting the ball rolling on the issue: the White House approved a fourth LNG [liquified natural gas] export
facility late last week. Caution here is understandable, as exports are likely
to drive up domestic natural gas prices and weaken a key competitive advantage
American industry has been enjoying these recent years. But let’s not kid
ourselves thinking that we’re the only ones itching to sell LNG to Europe and Asia.
Swedish Minister
Looks Forward to Europe Turning Into Africa.
By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: At least Swedish Finance Minister Anders
Borg is honest about what he wants and what his government is
doing. It doesn’t seem to occur to him that turning Sweden into Nigeria, a
country forever on the verge of a civil war between Christians
and Muslims, whose only saving grace is its oil industry, and which is best
known for its internet scammers, is going to do more than bring colorful
clothing to Oslo streets.
San Antonio Discriminates Against Christians
Excerpt: The city of San Antonio,
Texas is a
beautiful and interesting place to visit. There are plenty of touristy things
to do in the city, and a lot of great amusement to be found. However, Christians in this city may soon find themselves
living as second class citizens.
Old but interesting: Class(room) Warriors. By John Leo Posted 10/16/05
The cultural left has a new tool for enforcing political
conformity in schools of education. It is called dispositions theory, and it
was set forth five years ago by the National Council for Accreditation of
Teacher Education: Future teachers should be judged by their "knowledge,
skills, and dispositions." What are "dispositions"? NCATE's
prose made clear that they are the beliefs and attitudes that guide a teacher
toward a moral stance. That sounds harmless enough, but it opened a door to
reject teaching candidates on the basis of thoughts and beliefs.
Old but interesting: Professors: Just As Liberal, Or
More Moderate? By John Leo
Excerpt: Liberals outnumber conservatives by 11-1 among
social scientists and 13-1 among humanities professors. 25.5 percent of those
who teach sociology identify themselves as Marxist. Self-identified radicals
accounted for 19 percent of humanities professors and 24 percent of social
scientists.
Being a Christian carries a death sentence now. By Christina Odone
Excerpt: In Pakistan, suicide bombers in Peshawar killed 60 Christians in
their local church. In Nairobi, gunmen shot 69 (and counting)
shoppers at a mall — but freed the ones who could name the Prophet's mother.
What these two tragedies have in common is that the killers were Muslim and the
victims, Christian.
Robert A. Hallwww.tartanmarine.blogspot.com
Books by Robert A. Hall: http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html
"I
have only two men out of my company and 20 out of some other company.
We need support, but it is almost suicide to try to get it here as we
are swept by machine gun fire and a constant barrage is on us. I have no
one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." --1st. Lt.
Clifton B. Cates, Navy Cross, 2 Distinguished Service Crosses, (later
Commandant), USMC, July 19, 1918 commanding 96 Company, 6th Marines,
near the French town of Soissons.
"Casualties: many, Percentage of dead: not known, Combat efficiency: we are winning." --Colonel David M. Shoup, USMC, MOH, (later Commandant) Tarawa, 21 November 1943.
Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share. --Captain J.E. "Ned" Dolan, USMC (Ret.) Platoon Leader E/2/7, Korean War
"Casualties: many, Percentage of dead: not known, Combat efficiency: we are winning." --Colonel David M. Shoup, USMC, MOH, (later Commandant) Tarawa, 21 November 1943.
Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share. --Captain J.E. "Ned" Dolan, USMC (Ret.) Platoon Leader E/2/7, Korean War
We
fight not for glory, nor for riches, nor for honour, but only and alone
for Freedom, which no good man lays down but with his life.
--Declaration of Arbroath, Scotland, 1320
In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free. —Edward Gibbon
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free. —Edward Gibbon
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
"I have been made victorious through terror" (Bukhari 4.52.220) --Mohammad.
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