Update
Just slammed for time. Have a 100 unread emails, but am
posting what I have as I'm out of pocket until Sunday afternoon. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Excerpt: The world is changing and becoming even more
dangerous – in a way we’ve seen before. In the decade before World War I, the
near-hundred-year European peace that had followed the fall of Napoleon was
taken for granted. Yet it abruptly imploded in 1914. Prior little wars in the Balkans
had seemed to predict a much larger one on the horizon – and were ignored.
White House stumbles
explaining soap opera producer as ambassador. By Sara Fischer, CNN
Excerpt: It's not every day that White House has to defend
its decision to nominate a soap opera producer to represent the country on one
of the highest diplomatic levels. But it was that kind of Tuesday. Asked at the
daily press briefing what makes "The Bold and The Beautiful" producer
Colleen Bell qualified to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary , White
House spokesman Josh Earnest didn't exactly have an explanation. (It's surely
not because Bell
helped Barack Obama raise millions of dollars for his campaigns because she
retained the confidence to suck money from political donors for Obama.
Fortunately, Hungary should
be a safe choice -- it's not like it's in Eastern Europe, right in the front
yard of Russia
or anything. --The Patriot Post)
Excerpt: Brad McQueen, a fifth grade teacher in the Tanque
Verde school district near Tucson who
has been in the field for eleven years, has been a very vocal critic of the
controversial education standards. In addition to writing newspaper columns and
making appearances on talk radio, McQueen has also has self-published a book —
titled “The Cult of Common Core” — attacking the standards in detail. McQueen
has been especially critical of the PARCC standardized tests Arizona is
scheduled to begin using this year, which are aligned with Common Core. McQueen
argues that the tests create a major danger of student data being taken and
exploited.
3D portraits of Obama
go on display at Smithsonian
Excerpt: The first portraits
created from 3D scans of a sitting president are going on display at the Smithsonian.
Digital imaging specialists at the Smithsonian created
a 3D printed bust and life mask of President Barack Obama this
year. The portraits were first shown at the White House during a gathering of
inventors, entrepreneurs and students. (Saw this overnight on a network
show...showing Obama sitting in a light array, grinning ear to ear, all focused
on him. All pictured for posterity in 3D--Me, Myself and I.....Barb)
Thirteen Ethnic
Montagnards From Vietnam
Seek Refugee Status in Cambodia
Excerpt: More than a dozen ethnic
Montagnards are hiding in the jungles of northeastern Cambodia after fleeing alleged religious
persecution across the border in Vietnam , a member of a hill tribe
living in the area said Monday. The 13 Christian Montagnards, who crossed into
Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province from Vietnam’s neighboring Gia Lai province, are
seeking protection from the United Nations’ refugee agency to resettle in a
third country, the ethnic Charai tribe member told RFA’s Khmer Service on
condition of anonymity. (It seems our Montagnard friends are still getting the
shaft. They deserve better. SF, --Jim. They mostly stood with us--and we
abandoned them. ~Bob)
Thousands on New Haven
http://www.nhregister.com/social-affairs/20141203/thousands-on-new-haven-green-rally-for-bold-swift-action-on-schools?source=most_viewed
http://www.nhregister.com/social-affairs/20141203/thousands-on-new-haven-green-rally-for-bold-swift-action-on-schools?source=most_viewed
Excerpt: With 40,000 children in Connecticut attending “failing schools,”
thousands of students, teachers and parents rallied on the
Green Wednesday in favor of an excellent education “for every child.”
Organizers claimed attendance of as many as 6,000 demonstrators from New Haven , Bridgeport , Hartford and even Bronx ,
New York
Feds Balk at
Releasing Docs Showing IRS Sharing Tax Returns with White House. By Paul
Bedard.
Excerpt: Less than a week after ’fessing up that it found
some 2,500 documents potentially showing that the IRS shared taxpayer returns
with the White House, the Obama administration has reversed course and won’t
release the trove to a group suing for access. (The most transparent
administration in history. Ha. ~Bob)
While You Were Sleeping - Another Rough American Man Died. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt: Please
pass along today's commentary - Help make Staff Sergeant Matthew R. Ammerman,
as representative of all who have died while in service to us, a household
name. Thank you!
Gun News
It's up to you to
have a plan. By Martha Salomaa, CNN Gun Project
Excerpt: Criminals will get guns regardless of the law.
They plan their attacks just like Adam Lanza planned to kill those precious
children. Unfortunately, it is often the law-abiding citizen who fails to plan.
My attacker had a plan…His mistake was that he chose a family who had a plan as
well. (The principle element of any plan by bad actors is surprise. Visualizing
ahead of time how to respond can be the difference between survival and
victimhood. --Steve)
Race Card News
Worth Reading : Ferguson
Excerpt: Is it relevant that St. Louis ,
near Ferguson , recently had the third-highest
per capita murder rate of any large city (with 250,000 or more residents) in America , ranking behind New
Orleans and Detroit ?
And, according to an analysis of 2011 FBI crime stats, St. Louis had the second-highest overall crime
rate among large cities. Is it relevant that the state of Missouri ranks second among states in per
capita black homicide victimization rate? (Black writer. ~Bob)
Charles Barkley: We
never talk about race until something bad happens
Excerpt: The basketball analyst for Turner Sports and former
NBA great isn't backing away from comments he made on the radio recently that
people who torched buildings in Ferguson
are "scumbags" and some blacks degrade successful African-Americans
too often as not black enough.
Reputed Bloods member
convicted of six drug-related murders in Brooklyn
Excerpt: Reputed Bloods gang member Christian John was
convicted Wednesday of six drug-related murders in Brooklyn
— including those involving three victims who were brutally tortured. ... The
victim’s entire head was wrapped in duct tape and his corpse was set on fire in
the basement of a Bedford-Stuyvesant brownstone in 2006. ... U.S. Attorney
General Eric Holder ordered prosecutors not to seek the death penalty against
them on the eve of their trial in Brooklyn Federal Court. (Eric Holder is just
a softie. Yep, he decided that murdering six people, even torturing three of
them horribly, just doesn't measure up to be worth the needle. Who'd a thunk
it? Of course, there is the detail that since the killers were among "his
people", maybe that influenced his thinking? But that can't be, it would
be ..... racism? --Del )
Black People the Media Hate (And Rand Paul Isn't Wild
About). By Ann Coulter
Excerpt: Now that the Ferguson
grand jury documents have been made public, even MSNBC has had to quietly drop
its fantasy of Michael Brown being gunned down like a dog in the street by
Officer Darren Wilson. Instead, MSNBC is defending the looters. .. Instead of
exquisite sensitivity to the feelings of black thugs, how about considering the
feelings of black citizens who want to live in safe neighborhoods? There’s a
reason so many black people supported Officer Wilson’s account and that a black
woman walked into a burning convenience store in the middle of the riot to
extinguish the fire with gallons of milk.
Charlie Rangel wants
Whites to Pay Reparations for Slavery
Excerpt: I don’t owe anybody anything except what I’ve
contracted to pay over time. I’ve never owned a slave. I’ve never denied a
black person a job. Who is Charlie Rangel to demand reparations from me?
Trillions of dollars have been paid out to poor people for more nearly 50
years. It’s only made many of them poorer and slaves to the State. (Dr. Thomas
Sowell reports that during the period when 500,000 African slaves were brought
to North America , 1,000,000 white Europeans
were kidnapped into slavery in Muslim North Africa. When do they pay us
reparations? ~Bob)
It Doesn't Mean What
You Think
Excerpt: Barack Obama has interjected himself into several
racially charged events- certain kinds of racially charged events:
Henry Gates, Trayvon Martin, Donald Sterling and Michael Brown. Curiously, Obama
has never inserted himself into the deaths of Steve Utash, Christopher Lane, Zemir Begic, John Sanderson, James Whitehead, Gilbert Collar (the mirror image of the Michael Brown
shooting) or the particularly heinous murders of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom. It doesn’t mean what
you think. ....Or does it? (Not to mention Chris Cervini. http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/what_if_trayvon_had_been_white_and_the_shooter_black.html#ixzz1qBLNnX9L
~Bob)
White Christmas Song
Is ‘Racist': Black Singer Slammed by Liberal Xenophobes for Singing Christmas
Song
Excerpt; I joked the other day via Facebook that White
Christmas would soon be considered a racist song. Well … here it is. Check it
out you creepy ass crackers! TPNN – These Christmas bashing progressives have taken
their hate-filled paranoia to a new level with their attacks against country
singer Darius Rucker, who happens to be black. What did Rucker do that drew the
hate of the liberals? He sang White Christmas at Rockefeller
Center in New York City .
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Harkin Regrets Making
ObamaCare So Complicated
Excerpt: And regrets? He’s got a few. Namely that ObamaCare
was probably too complicated because of efforts to placate various “centrist”
Democrats (many of whom are gone now) and constituent groups. “We had the power
to do it in a way that would have simplified health care, made it more
efficient and made it less costly and we didn’t do it,” Harkin said. “So I look
back and say we should have either done it the correct way or not done anything
at all. What we did is we muddle through and we got a system that is complex,
convoluted, needs probably some corrections and still rewards the insurance
companies extensively.” That’s a pretty good summation, though he hasn’t
exactly seen the light.
Is Obamacare Destroying the Democratic Party? Thomas B. Edsall
Excerpt: It’s not often that a politician provokes conflict
within the ranks of his party’s core supporters. Schumer did just that in
a National
Press Club speech on Nov. 25, three weeks after devastating
Democratic losses in Senate, House, gubernatorial and state
legislative elections. According to Schumer, President Obama and his party
suffered defeat last month in large part because of the strategic decision to
press for enactment of the Affordable Care Act soon after Obama won the
presidency.
Obama Sues Companies for Complying with Obamacare. By Michael Schaus
Excerpt: What’s the easiest way to avoid getting sued by the
Obama Administration? Well… If you come up with an answer, let the rest of us
know. A company that has supported the President and his Affordable Care Act,
is currently being sued by Obama for following the law. ... Honeywell
International Inc., and two smaller firms, are being sued for taking advantage
of a specific provision in the ACA that allows them to lower their
out-of-pocket medical expenses.
Undocumented Democrat News
Quote from the
founder of the Democrat Party. From The
Patriot Post
"Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and
should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their
meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make
anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure." --Thomas Jefferson,
letter to William Johnson, 1823. (The
Patriot Post e-newsletter is worth subscribing to. ~Bob)
House rebukes Obama
over immigration actions, spending fight looms
Excerpt: House Republicans voted Thursday to block President
Obama's immigration executive actions, though it was unclear whether the
largely symbolic step would be enough to prevent a risky budget stand-off next
week. The House voted 219-197 for the bill, by Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., that
declares Obama's actions "null and void and without legal effect."
The Secret Behind
Obama's 'Order.' President accused of 'sleight of hand' to protect self from
impeachment
Excerpt: The White House appears to have engaged in
administrative sleight of hand, changing U.S. immigration law not by
executive order but by a memorandum “exercising prosecutorial discretion”
Johnson signed the day of Obama’s Nov. 20 nationwide address that so far has
not been filed in the Federal Register. Tom Fitton, president of
Washington-based watchdog institution Judicial Watch, told WND in an interview
the legal status of Johnson’s memo is a serious constitutional question that
deserves to be adjudicated. “The entire implementing authority involves a
memorandum published by DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson that changes the immigration
law, directing federal money to be spent that has not been appropriated by
Congress,” he said.
Excerpt: I rarely suggest America follow international trends
but this is one area where we could take a cue from others around the world. A
recent study of 194
countries shows that only 30 grant a form of birthright citizenship. No
European countries allow it – the United Kingdom
ended the practice in 1983 and Ireland
in 2004. Among advanced economies, the U.S.
and Canada
are the only two countries that still allow it.
Obama Administration
Official Admits that He Lied to Congress about Deporting Illegals
http://eaglerising.com/12227/obama-administration-official-admits-lied-congress-deporting-illegals/
http://eaglerising.com/12227/obama-administration-official-admits-lied-congress-deporting-illegals/
Excerpt: Needless to say, Chaffetz has become quite good at
making Democrat cronies of President Obama look foolish… though men like
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson don’t need much help looking foolish.
On Tuesday Chaffetz and Johnson went head to head over a promise that
Johnson had previously made to make sure that four men caught crossing our
southern border illegally, and who belong to a terrorist organization, would be
deported. Well, surprise, surprise… guess what? Not only have those four men
NOT been deported… we have no idea where two of those men have gone.
Religion of Peace News
About Time: Fort Hood shooting victims will soon be
eligible to receive Purple Heart
Excerpt: Victims of the Fort Hood U.S. is
fighting overseas. For years, the families’ congressional allies had butted
heads with the Obama
administration, which balked at designating part of the U.S. the
equivalent of a battlefield. (But is the creep still eligible for his former
salary? --Barb. What Obama can't seem to understand is that home-grown Muslim
terrorists, at Ft. Hood , NY ,
Boston and elsewhere, supported by Islamists
overseas, have "designated part of the US as a battlefield." You are
on it. Be prepared and be alert. ~Bob))
Death of an American 'Infidel' in Abu Dhabi
Excerpt: On December 1st, a figure in a black burqa, armed
with an eight-inch knife, entered the upscale Boutik shopping mall located in Reem Island ,
the neighborhood where most of Abu
Dhabi 's 40,000 expatriates live. The black burqa'ed figure waited for more than an hour
in a woman's toilet—then stabbed the first white blonde infidel American woman
who came in to use the facilities six times until she was dead.
White House Statement
Ignores Brotherhood's Continuing Hamas Support
Excerpt: The White House this week statement explaining why
it does not view the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group. It was in
response to an online petition which attracted more than 213,000
signatures in support of designating the Egyptian-based group. The statement
emphasizes a lack of "credible evidence that the Muslim Brotherhood has
renounced its decades-long commitment to non-violence." The Brotherhood
has another decades-long commitment, however, one that clearly endorses and
supports terrorist attacks against Israel .
Breaking News:
Interpol Alert Seeks Arrest of MB's Qaradawi
Excerpt: Interpol issued a bulletin Friday seeking the arrest of
the Muslim Brotherhood's most influential cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi. The bulletin was sparse on details but
said that Egypt
wanted the 88-year-old Qaradawi "to serve a sentence" for crimes
including "incitement and assistance to commit intentional murder."
Court tells France
Excerpt: The European Court of Human Rights says France
violated the rights of Somali pirates who had attacked French ships and has
ordered compensation for them over judicial delays. The nine Somali pirates
should get thousands of euros because they were not immediately brought before
a French judge, the court ruled. (I hope the judge is on a ship taken by
pirates. ~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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