Update
Political Calls
Most political calls now are recorded robo calls. I hang up,
regardless of who they support. I don't talk to machines. I never did any
"vote-for-Bob" calls in my five successful senate campaigns. I think
they turn off a lot of folks. But if you get a call from a live volunteer for a
candidate you don't like, say, "Oh, yes, I've been wanting to know more
about Pollyanna Progressive's political policies. Hold on while I turn the
stove off." Then lay the phone down. You can come back in 15 minutes and
hang up the dead line.
Product Endorsements
Readers are used to me bitching about things that don't
work. But some things are winners. So I have to say when they are.
Land-O-Lakes Light Butter. We discovered this over a
year ago, and have used nothing else since. Half canola oil, it tastes as good
as regular butter, but has only half the calories, half the fat, 1/6th the
cholesterol, and no trans-fats. It also spreads easily. I use it in all my
baking. I recommend it.
Ambrosia Apples. I discovered these about two years
ago, and get them whenever I can. I eat about an apple a day, I like them and
they are good for my diet. Ambrosias are an accidental cross breed from British Columbia , which
was discovered in the 1990s. Best flavor of any apple I've tried, though
Pacific Rose apples--rarer--are a close second.
Norelco Electric Shaver. I've used a safety razor and
shaving cream all my life. No place to plug one in at, say, Khe Sanh. But when
I went back in the hospital my wife bought me one. Had to take it back three
times as the heads came off and I couldn't get back on. So I bought a Norelco,
with the three round blades.
Ocean Spray Lite Cran- Lemonade and Lite Cran-Mango.
Wonderful flavors, low calories, salt and sugar.
Full Disclosure. I get no fees from these companies,
who don't even know I'm plugging them. My $10,000 monthly blog stipend from the
Evil Koch Brothers is enough to make me very comfortable. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Busted: White House
Caught Attempting To Cover Up Something Obama Let Slip About His Past
http://www.westernjournalism.com/white-house-caught-editing-telling-phrase-recent-obama-speech/
http://www.westernjournalism.com/white-house-caught-editing-telling-phrase-recent-obama-speech/
Excerpt: A pool reporter, however, recorded the sentence
somewhat differently. In addition to the newspapers he apparently left on his Chicago desk, Obama
reportedly also left “some unpaid bills,” the reporter noted. (I've always been
compulsive about things like bills, but was especially so as a senator. I
didn't want the idea that being elected had made me arrogant to circulate. And
in my entire life, I've had one bounced check--when the bank put my deposit in
the wrong account. I had them write the guy and say it was their error. ~Bob)
Tweet from Pete Kaliner @PeteKaliner
It appears @KayHagan
treats debates like she treats ISIS
intelligence briefings. She skips them.
Liberal Rachel Maddow Trashes Hagan For Skipping
Debate
Worth reading: Liberal Activists in Colorado
Excerpt: Work Progress Director Meredith Hicks, who has
dedicated a number of resources to Democrat Mark Udall's U.S. Senate campaign,
was caught on video by O'Keefe justifying the illegal use of discarded and
blank ballots. "That's not even lying and stealing, if someone throws out
the ballot, if you want to fill it out you should," Hicks is shown saying.
Greenpeace activist Christen Topping, also a Udall supporter, is caught on film
suggesting Veritas investigators visit "ghetto" areas of
the city and African-American neighborhoods to find discarded ballots in trash
cans to take, fill out and mail-in. She also said filling out discarded ballots
is "putting the votes to good use" and is "really truly like...awesome.
Do Gun Bans Work? – A
Canadian Story
http://louderwithcrowder.com/gun-bans-work-canadian-storystudy/
http://louderwithcrowder.com/gun-bans-work-canadian-storystudy/
Excerpt: All three occurred in “gun free” zones. So when
people say that Canada ’s
restrictive gun laws are a success, I have to scoff. Why? I’ve lived it. I was
alive when these atrocities were committed. Many Canadians will tell you the
same. It’s for those same reasons that despite politicians pushing legislation,
ninety percent of Canadians do not want more restrictive gun laws.
Just Guess What Ferguson
Police Found on Missouri
Excerpt: Missouri
state Senator Jamilah Nasheed, a Democrat who has sponsored several “anti-gun”
bills in her state, was arrested Monday night during a protest outside of the
Ferguson Police Department. However, it’s what police officers found on her
that is raising eyebrows. Nasheed was carrying a loaded 9mm handgun and extra
rounds of ammunition, according to Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson. She also
refused to take a breathalyzer test after officers determined she “smelled strongly
of intoxicants,” sources told KMOV-TV.
Sen. Coburn's "Wastebook 2014": $10,000 Spent on
"Watching Grass Grow" & Other Crazy Things. By Daniel Doherty
Excerpt: It’s 2014 and that means since last year billions
more taxpayer dollars have been flushed down the toilet on projects and studies
that have zero redeeming value. Every year, Sen. Coburn (R-OK) and his
staffers release
a report showing the truly astonishing ways bureaucrats and
politicians in Washington
spend your money. This year was no different, of course. Some highlights:
Senate Democratic
Officials Start Lashing Out at White House
Excerpt: The relationship between the White House and Senate
Democrats hit a new low Tuesday evening after the administration's press office
released a transcript of first lady Michelle Obama's appearance in Iowa on behalf of
Democratic Senate candidate Bruce Braley. The problem: The subject line of the e-mail
referred to Braley as the "Democratic candidate for governor." ...
"The ineptitude of the White House political operation has sunk from
annoying to embarrassing," one senior Senate Democratic aide
told National Journal. Another Senate official told the Washington Post that Obama's
comments were "not devised with any input from Senate leadership."
‘Calibration error’
changes GOP votes to Dem in Illinois
Excerpt: Early voting in Illinois got off to a rocky start Monday, as
votes being cast for Republican candidates were transformed into votes for
Democrats. (Interesting how no reports are from the Democrats...complaining
their vote went to Republicans. --Laura. It's the Chicago way. ~Bob)
Obama Ties His Boat
Anchor to Democrats. From The Patriot
Post
CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett
highlights a serious problem for Democrats: “President Obama is not on the
ballot this December, but to the dismay of some Democrats he’s talking like he
is.” Of incumbent Democrats in tight races, Obama said, "These are all
folks who vote with me -- they have supported my agenda in Congress." That
was days after he declared, "Make no mistake: '[My] policies are on the
ballot." Then again, CBS's Scott Pelley noted that Obama has been
conspicuously "absent from the campaign trail" because Democrats
"want him for the fundraisers but not on the stump." Obama is toxic
for Democrats right now, but, as The Weekly Standard's Steve Hayes observed,
"He's such a narcissist that even when it would be advantageous for him to
not have it be all about him, he has to make it all about him because that's
the way that he is." Indeed, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told
Democrats that if they don't like Obama's comments there's more where that came
from: “The success of many of these Democratic candidates will depend on their
own success in motivating voters that strongly supported the president in
2012." Here's a boat anchor necklace -- hope you like it.
No Surprise: Fiscal Policy
Report Card on America
Excerpt: The recession of 2007–2009 knocked the wind out of
state government budgets, but revenues and spending have grown steadily in
recent years. As revenues have risen, some governors have pursued reforms to
reduce tax burdens on families and make their states more competitive. Other
governors have used rising revenues to expand programs. ... Four governors were
awarded an “A” on this report card: Pat McCrory of North
Carolina , Sam Brownback of Kansas ,
Paul LePage of Maine ,
and Mike Pence of Indiana. Eight governors were awarded an “F”: Mark Dayton of Minnesota , John Kitzhaber of Oregon ,
Jack Markell of Delaware , Jay Inslee of
Washington, Pat Quinn of Illinois , Deval
Patrick of Massachusetts , John Hickenlooper of
Colorado , and Jerry Brown of California .
VILE: Little Girls
Used To Drop F-Bombs in Pro-Feminism Video. by Josh Feldman, Mediaite
Excerpt: You know how elderly white people trying to rap is
off-putting? Well, multiply that by 100 and you’ll understand how jarring it is
to hear little girls in a new ad repeatedly dropping f-bombs in the name of
feminism. Yeah, in this video by FCKH8.com, little girls dressed up as
princesses explain how unfair the world is to women with a crapload of words
far worse than crapload. (when they are adults, they'll complain that men don't
respect them. ~Bob)
Convicted murderer
sues Connecticut
Excerpt: A convicted murderer sentenced to more than a
half-century behind bars is suing the state of Connecticut , saying its ban on pornography
in prison violates his constitutional rights. (Put him in a cell with Big Bad
Bubba. And a jar of Vaseline laced with Super Glue. ~Bob)
Excerpt: This new
poll from the Associated Press is about as dire a poll as Democrats
could imagine two weeks before Election Day. Democrats are more trusted than
the GOP on just two of nine top issues, the poll showed. The economy remains
the top issue for likely voters — 91 percent call it “extremely” or “very”
important. And the GOP has increased its advantage as the party more trusted to
handle the issue to a margin of 39 percent to 31 percent. (For most Democrats,
"The Economy" means welfare, government jobs and government spending.
~Bob)
Public Believes
Government Wastes 51 Cents of Every Dollar
Excerpt: American government is growing at leaps and bounds,
and with that growth has come massive amounts of wasteful spending on programs
that are duplicative, unnecessary, inefficient and outdated. Indeed, the
American public is not unaware of this reality; according to a 2014 Gallup poll, Americans
believe that the federal government wastes 51 cents of every dollar that it
spends. Gallup
has been conducting the poll since 1979, and the 2014 result is tied for the
highest since the poll began. (Why I vote Republican. with a GOP Congress, we
only waste $.48 of every dollar. ~Bob)
Excerpt: In 2011, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed
into law a bill known as Act 10. The bill made union membership optional,
resulting in a major change in union enrollment in the state. ... What's
happened? Union membership has fallen in the teaching sector. The Wisconsin
Education Association Council (WEAC) had almost 100,000 teacher members in June
2011; today, that figure has fallen by one-third. And AFT-Wisconsin, a smaller
teacher's union, has seen its 16,000-member peak cut in half. Teachers told Fox
News why they left: Teacher Amy Rosno said, "As soon as I was given the
choice, I left." After attending her first WEAC meeting as a
representative, she said, "I realized that it was all political and not
about teaching." Many teachers were concerned that their dues were being
spent on political causes. Michelle Uetz, a special education teacher, said,
"We shouldn't be pigeon-holed into contributing to politics we don't
believe in."
The Military vs
Marlboro. By Rich Lowery
Excerpt: We are losing a war in Iraq
and Syria ,
the military is shrinking dangerously as global threats are growing, and yet the
Pentagon is mustering its forces against tobacco products. The Department of
Defense is studying a ban on the sale of cigarettes, cigars, and chewing
tobacco on bases and ships. ... So, we can’t figure out how to degrade and
destroy the Islamic State, as repeatedly promised by the commander-in-chief,
but just maybe we can figure out how to defeat Marlboro and Copenhagen .
Excerpt: In response to subpoenas issued by the city of
Houston to pastors who spoke out on same-sex marriage, a faith-based
organization launched a petition demanding that the city end its “bullying.” (I
have no problem with gay marriage. The real threat to America is
straights having kids and NOT getting married. But I'm strongly for freedom of
speech and freedom of religion. Any pastor has the right to condemn the
behavior of anyone--even of an upright and righteous person like myself! ~Bob)
Excerpt: It turns out that there's a law in economics known
as the first fundamental law of demand, to which there are no known real-world
exceptions. The law states that the higher the price of something the less
people will take of it and vice versa. Another way of stating this very simple
law is: There exists a price whereby people can be induced to take more of
something, and there exists a price whereby people will take less of something.
... There are economists, most notably Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul
Krugman, who suggest that the law of demand applies to everything except labor
prices (wages) of low-skilled workers.
Ebola and Enterovirus News
Scientists: Ebola Can
Spread By Air In Cold Weather
http://www.infowars.com/scientists-ebola-can-spread-by-air-in-cold-weather/
http://www.infowars.com/scientists-ebola-can-spread-by-air-in-cold-weather/
Excerpt: Ebola can spread by air in cold, dry weather common
to the U.S. but not West Africa , presenting a “possible, serious threat” to
the public, according to two studies by U.S. Army scientists. After
successfully exposing monkeys to airborne Ebola, which “caused a rapidly fatal
disease in 4-5 days,” scientists with the U.S. Army Medical Research
Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) concluded Ebola can spread
through air but likely hasn’t in Equatorial Africa because the region is too
warm, with temperatures rarely dropping below 65°F.
Obama Appointee Who Told WH A Financially Doomed Solar
Panels Firm "Looks...OK To Me" IS U.S.
Excerpt: This was a high-level job for a prominent,
experienced take-charge, medical expert with both administrative and executive
credentials. But the president chose Ron Klain, a loyal Democratic operative
whose background has been in legal work and party politics. He played major
role in one of Obama's worst spending scandals: The waste-ridden "green
investments" program that poured hundreds of millions of tax dollars into
dubious energy companies that went bankrupt. More on this in a moment.
Race Card News
Excerpt: Democrats are losing -- and they know it -- so
things are getting awfully ugly out there. A New York Times story
over the weekend previewed
the onslaught of overt political race-baiting that has begun
to sweep across the country. Entitled, "Black Vote Seen as Last Hope for
Democrats to Hold Senate," the piece describes the party's desperate
measures:
Picture of the Day: Dem Party tells blacks ‘vote or watch
your children gunned down in the street by police.’ By Howard Portnoy
http://libertyunyielding.com/2014/10/22/picture-day-vote-blacks-will-gunned-street-police/
http://libertyunyielding.com/2014/10/22/picture-day-vote-blacks-will-gunned-street-police/
Excerpt: It’s like a greeting card, except that the message
inside is appalling. It is a flyer sent out the Georgia Democratic
Party urging blacks to vote in the midterm election. That part is
fine. What is not fine is the implication that unless this voting bloc
make its voices heard in the polls in two weeks, innocent blacks will be
shot to death in the street by police execution-style much in the manner
of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.
GAME OVER?
Official Autopsy Suggests Michael Brown Was Not Surrendering, Attempted to Take
Officer’s Gun. By Bob Owens
Excerpt: It appears that the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” chant
of the local protestors, outside agitators, and violent rioters that have
plagued Ferguson, Missouri, since early August is based on fiction, according
to experts who have reviewed Michael Brown’s official autopsy.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch report this morning
that the official autopsy of Michael Brown supports the version of events told
by Ferguson
police officer Darren Wilson, and flatly contradicts the claims of many of the
eyewitnesses.
Two SWAT Raids. Two
Officers Dead. One Defendant Is Black, One White. Guess What Happened. By
Mother Jones
http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/texas-no-knock-swat-raid
Actually more than a single difference between the two. Yes, one is black and the other is white, but one did prison time for violent crimes while the other had non-violent offenses. And there's no mention of the registration status of one of the guns. So the story is not just black and white. --George
Actually more than a single difference between the two. Yes, one is black and the other is white, but one did prison time for violent crimes while the other had non-violent offenses. And there's no mention of the registration status of one of the guns. So the story is not just black and white. --George
White Family Beaten
After Black Bus Driver Arranges Attack
Excerpt: We’ve heard so much about the shooting of black
teens by white cops in Ferguson , Dayton and St.
Louis , but have you heard anything about the black
city bus driver who helped organize a black mob attack of white family? Didn’t
think you had.
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
71% of Obamacare Signups Traced to Government’s Expansion
of Medicaid. By Melissa Quinn
Excerpt: The Obama administration has boasted that the
Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, would allow those previously
uninsured to purchase quality, affordable health care." The inescapable
conclusion is that, when it comes to covering the uninsured, Obamacare so far
is an expansion of Medicaid,” Heritage Foundation health policy experts Edmund F.
Haislmaier and Drew
Gonshorowski write in a research paper scheduled for release today.
Excerpt: A handful of recent reports indicate that capital,
overall, is seeking to exit the health care industries burdened by Obamacare’s
excise taxes and annual
fees. With one outstanding exception — digital health — much of health care
is seeing consolidation through mergers and acquisitions (M&A). As for
fresh capital, venture funding has shriveled from its 2007 high.
Shaheen: Obamacare is "Absolutely" an
Accomplishment For Me. By Daniel Doherty
Excerpt: She said she was (ahem) “absolutely”
proud of voting for Obamacare and essentially
admitted she voted with the president nearly 100 percent of the time:
Undocumented Democrat News
Ineligible DACA
Beneficiaries (Illegal Immigrants) Discovered On NC Voting Rolls
Excerpt: With the North Carolina U.S. Senate race in a dead
heat, state election officials say they have discovered 145 names on the voting
rolls who are ineligible to vote because they are illegal immigrants who have
been granted President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
status.
Scott Brown Nails
Shaheen on Immigration: 'I Want to
Fight for Jobs for New Hampshire
Excerpt: "I voted to secure the border on two
occasions. I voted to send troops to the border. We need to absolutely secure
the border. The president through his executive order what he’s proposing to do
is actively expand the definition of refugee to somebody who’s here [illegally]
to work.”
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Salon Readies Polar Vortex Excuse in Case of Unusually Cold
Winter. By P.J. Gladnick
Excerpt: Case in point is the polar vortex which was used by
that crowd to explain away the unusually cold temperatures this past winter.
And just in case this coming winter turns out to be very cold again, the same
polar vortex excuse is being readied over at Salon. Of course, that excuse will
only be used if the temperatures are quite low. However, if it turns out to be
a mild temperature that will be cited as a result of...global warming. So let
us see Salon give us the polar vortex as a result of global warming excuse
again which will be inoperative if the winter weather is mild and also explained
away as due to global warming:
The Good News About Offshore Oil Rigs. By Jonah Goldberg
Excerpt: Never let it be said that Mother Nature doesn't
appreciate irony. A new study led by researchers at Occidental
College and the University
of California at Santa
Barbara has found that the oil platforms dotting the California coast are
fantastic for sea life. In a 15-year study, researchers found that the
ecosystems that build up around artificial rigs host 1,000 percent more fish
and other sea life than natural habitats such as reefs and estuaries.
Religion of Peace News
Excerpt: The Afghan Taliban took control of three districts,
one in the province of Wardak which is just south of Kabul ,
and the other two in the northern province of
Kunduz, that were heavily contested during the US troop surge that began in 2010
and ended in 2011. One of the districts was the scene of the Taliban's shoot
down of a US
helicopter that resulted in the deaths of 31 special operations personnel,
including 17 US Navy SEALs.
Excerpt: "The Palestinian cause" is a unique charm
that brings together Turks from different ideologies. Turkish Islamists view it
as an indispensable part of "jihad;" the conservatives feel attached
to it because it has a religious connotation; for the leftists it is part of an
"anti-imperialist" struggle; the nationalists embrace it just because
most Turks embrace it. In the 1970s, when a dozen Turks a day on average were
killed in street violence, the "Palestinian cause" was the only issue
that otherwise warring fractions of the Turkish left, right and Islamists could
agree on. (Well, that and oppressing/killing Armenians and Kurds of course.
~Bob)
Baby Killed When
Suspected Terrorist Slams Car into Jerusalem
Excerpt: A car driven by a suspected Hamas member crashed into a crowd at a light-rail station in Jerusalem Wednesday,
killing a three month-old girl and injuring eight others.
'Radicalized'
Canadian Runs Down 2 Soldiers: Deadly attack may be linked to ISIS
Excerpt: Canada 's
first ISIS casualty? A man described by
authorities as a "radicalized" convert to Islam and possible recruit
to the militant group ran down two soldiers in Quebec on Monday, killing one. Martin
Couture-Rouleau, 25, who had apparently waited for hours near a strip mall used
by service members, was shot dead by police after a high-speed chase, reports
the Toronto Star. Friends and relatives say he developed
extreme views after converting around a year ago, but there was no sign that an
attack was imminent. (Just another example of the same tragic mental illness,
the virus of extreme jihadism got into his fevered brain and of course that
means he had to kill the infidel soldiers. There are no extremist Buddhists or
Christian Scientists or Mormons or Catholics that in their extremism decide
they have to kill others because their religion says to do so. That tiny few
who went to the extreme of violence against abortion clinics and doctors were
all instantly condemned by all the authorities of their own religion, but this
hasn't happened in Islam in general. And that's what is needed, but we haven't
seen it and we won't see it, because of the words that are easy to find in the
Quran and Sharia, etc. Only a tiny few Muslim leaders have every given a
blanket condemnation to the jihadists, even though suicide and the murder of
innocents are forbidden in the Quran, and across the world a large fraction of
Muslims say that suicide bombing is actually OK "in some
circumstances". While such beliefs are widespread there will be no end to
the indoctrination and recruiting of fervent young Muslim men for jihad against
everything Western, such as the idea of having girls go to school. --Del )
Afghan Poppy Cultivation at ‘All-Time High.’ By Adam Kredo
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/afghan-poppy-cultivation-at-all-time-high/
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/afghan-poppy-cultivation-at-all-time-high/
Excerpt: Cultivation of the illegal poppy plant in Afghanistan has reached an “all time high”
following a $7.6 billion counternarcotics campaign paid for by the United States ,
according to government oversight investigators. (Heroin Deals coming soon to a
street corner near you--don't get caught in the crossfire. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Stoning adulterers is not “extremist”; it is
Islamic law. The caliph Umar, one of Muhammad’s closest companions, even
maintained that it was originally in the Qur’an: (Oh, for a clear shot with my
M1 Garand. ~Bob)
Viral video
showing NYPD cop profiling Muslims is a hoax intended to smear police and
stymie counter-terror efforts. By Robert Spencer,
JihadWatch.org
Excerpt: I watched this last night when Hussam Ayloush of
Hamas-linked CAIR tweeted it out, and immediately thought that the whole thing
had a stagy feel. And now it is confirmed: this is just another Muslim
victimhood hoax — one of many. Hamas-linked CAIR and other
Muslims have not hesitated
to stoop even to fabricating “hate crimes,” including attacks on
mosques. (Also here is you have trouble with the link: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/NYPD-racial-profiling-hoax-video-675432.
~Bob)
*****
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
http://tiny.cc/g02s4 For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com.
Hall’s eleven books are listed here: http://tinyurl.com/o4nu65u.
His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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