Update
Excerpt: Our nation is getting ready to enter the Memorial
Day weekend. For some it's an opportunity for a quick mini-vacation out of
town, a trip to Disneyland , a back yard
barbecue or maybe just a beer fest and watching the car races. For far too
many, loved ones of those who've given their lives for this nation, Memorial
Day is a day to honor the fallen. Flowers and miniature flags will adorn the
graves in a thousand cemeteries across our land. Families will stand or kneel
by these graves and recall the moment when that military chaplain walked up to
their door wearing a sad and forlorn face. They will recall the wracking sobs
they thought would never end as they contemplated living their remaining years
without someone who occupied such a large place in their lives. And they, above
all, will know the depth of sacrifice offered for the love of country.
Casualty Call
The doorbell rang while she was baking bread.
She glimpsed them through the window by her door,
And slid down weeping to the foyer floor;
Until she let them in he was not dead.
Her husband came to answer it instead.
"Are you okay?" He knew. He'd been to war.
"Mother, are you okay?" he asked once more.
"I'll never be okay again," she said.
Their son was buried two weeks to the day.
The rifles fired, a bugle sounded taps.
She was clear-eyed, her husband wept. Perhaps
He knew the price that they had yet to pay.
They grieved their son for years, then cancer came,
And as he died, he called the dead boy's name.
Robert A. Hall
General News and Comment
Ya Think? Newly Released Emails Cast Doubt on Hillary
Clinton’s Benghazi
Excerpt: Newly reported emails indicate Hillary Clinton was
personally made aware of security dangers in the months leading up to the Sept.
11, 2012, terrorist attacks on U.S.
compounds in Benghazi , Libya Clinton in 2011 and 2012 before the attacks.
(Not for me; I never believed her, Obama or Rice in the first place. I have
always thought that they didn't send help because they feared a firefight in
which Muslim civilians would die, the Muslim world would explode, and Obama's
reelection prospects hurt. Then they looked for someone to blame, and put a
film maker in jail to cover it up. ~Bob)
Hillary Clinton's
scandals piling up faster than flakes in a snowstorm
Excerpt: Wading through the daily deluge of Hillary Clinton
news, I feel like I’m reading the police blotter. The litany of her shameful
shenanigans resembles the litany of neighborhood crimes recorded by cops. There
are simply too many to stomach.
Worth Reading : The Rise of House Clinton
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418794/rise-house-clinton-jonah-goldberg
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418794/rise-house-clinton-jonah-goldberg
Excerpt: At the outset of the
1990s, liberals had worked themselves into a moral panic about sexual
harassment. If anything, it was a bigger obsession than the campus-rape panic
we’ve been witnessing over the last few years (no doubt in part because there
was more factual basis to the problem). Male politicians — Bob Packwood, John Tower
Maureen Reagan for Hillary?
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office
women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.
Political Correctness
Has Destroyed The Army’s Readiness And Morale. By Ray Sarmann
Excerpt: The U.S. Army is facing its greatest danger as an
institution since the 1970’s. Stricken with morale and readiness problems, it
is also under attack from leftist social engineers who are determined to remake
the Army, even if they have to destroy it. In the 1980’s, men who carried the
burden of terrible lessons learned in Vietnam rebuilt the U.S. Army. They
created a spectacularly professional force that annihilated Saddam’s legions in
a defeat not seen since Agincourt . That Army
is nearly extinct.
Ireland has voted to
legalize gay marriage, both sides say
Excerpt: Irish voters have resoundingly backed amending the
constitution to legalize gay marriage, leaders on both sides of the Irish
referendum declared Saturday after the world’s first national vote on the
issue. As the official ballot counting continued, the only question appeared to
be how large the “yes” margin of victory from Friday’s vote would be. Analysts
said the “yes” support was likely to exceed 60 percent nationally when official
results are announced later Saturday.
Excerpt: Why do our “best and brightest” fail when faced
with a man like Putin? Or with charismatic fanatics? Or Iranian negotiators?
Why do they misread our enemies so consistently, from Hitler and Stalin to Abu
Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliph?
The answer is straightforward: Social insularity: Our leaders
know fellow insiders around the world; our enemies know everyone else. The
mandarin’s distaste for physicality: We are led through blood-smeared times by
those who’ve never suffered a bloody nose. And last but not least, bad
educations in our very best schools: Our leadership has been educated in chaste
political theory, while our enemies know, firsthand, the stuff of life.
VIDEO: Teacher
Decided to Stomp on the American Flag, But the Locals Came Out in Full Force
Excerpt: An anti-American teacher at an Illinois high school ignited a firestorm of
controversy when he decided that during class, he would use
an American flag as a pointing tool to teach that day’s lesson. But
after one student bravely
and correctly pointed out that using Old Glory for a pointing device
was disrespectful, the immature teacher became angry for being called out and
proceeded to drop the flag on the ground and stomp on it like a toddler
throwing a fit for being denied a cookie.
Dad Who Died in the
Line of Duty Couldn’t Be at the Big Game, So Here’s Who Showed Up Instead
Excerpt: A Houston
police officer who was protecting innocent citizens was tragically killed
in the line of duty Monday, just one day before he would have watched
his son pitch in a little league baseball game the following night.
... Martin’s 11-year-old son decided to go ahead and pitch for his baseball
team, the Texas Hawks, Tuesday night in
honor of his heroic father — but as he began pitching, he noticed in
the stands that he wasn’t alone, as dozens of Houston police officers showed up
in uniform to show their respect for their fallen colleague and cheer the young
pitcher.
http://pjmedia.com/blog/u-s-preparation-lagging-to-battle-potentially-devastating-emp/#ixzz3avYZ1rqt
Excerpt: A warning bell is being sounded urging the federal
government to take the steps necessary to prepare for an electromagnetic pulse
that could cause massive blackouts and damage the nation’s electric grid. Experts
maintain an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) resulting from a high-altitude
detonation of a nuclear weapon high above the jet stream — perhaps by a rogue
state — or a geomagnetic “super storm” caused by the sun could conceivably lead
to a blackout lasting months or even years. A 2008 report by the congressional
Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from
Electromagnetic Pulse found that up to nine out of 10 Americans could die from
a long-term blackout as a result of starvation and societal collapse. (Still
citing a 7-year-old report? No newer info? Keep seeing those subliminal
National Ad propaganda pieces to "get a disaster plan" but to what
point? Bend over and kiss your....goodbye. Sun has been unusually
quiet....They'll have to blame it on something else....Barb. We don't need an
EMP for collapse. Debt and unfunded liabilities, perhaps $300T, will produce
fiscal, economic, political and social collapse soon enough. Every day, it gets
more painful to fix, but long term the pain will be unbelievable. ~Bob)
Air Force Decides Not
To Court-Martial General Who Mentioned God
Excerpt: The Air Force disagrees. According to a spokesman
for the service, Lt. Col. Pete Hughes, Olson did not breach Instruction 1-1
dealing with the exercise of religion....Commenting on the National Day of
Prayer controversy, Rev. Franklin Graham, a prominent evangelical Christian
leader, said in a Facebook post that “this group would’ve
tried to court martial George Washington when he prayed at Valley Forge!
A government of thieves: Truck owner wants DEA to pay
up after botched sting
Excerpt: Commandeered by one of his drivers, who was
secretly working with federal agents, the truck had been hauling marijuana from
the border as part of an undercover operation. And without Patty's knowledge,
the Drug Enforcement Administration was paying his driver, Lawrence Chapa, to use
the truck to bust traffickers. At least 17 hours before that early morning
phone call, Chapa was shot dead in front of more than a dozen law enforcement
officers - all of them taken by surprise by hijackers trying to steal the red
Kenworth T600 truck and its load of pot. ... But eight months later, Patty
still can't get recompense from the U.S. government's decision to use
his truck and employee without his permission.
Quote
Thus, a people may prefer a free government, but if, from
indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are
unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it; if they will not fight
for it when it is directly attacked; if they can be deluded by the artifices
used to cheat them out of it; if by momentary discouragement, or temporary
panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay
their liberties at the feet even of a great man, or trust him with powers which
enable him to subvert their institutions; in all these cases they are more or
less unfit for liberty: and though it may be for their good to have had it even
for a short time, they are unlikely long to enjoy it. --John Stuart Mill
Funny, from the left: Rush to Judgment. By Gail
Collins
Excerpt: Time flies when you’re having fun. Memorial Day
weekend, the Fourth of July and then, the next thing you know, it will be Aug.
6, the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima
and the date of the first Republican presidential debate. ... Fox News, which
is hosting the debate, doesn’t want more than 10 people on stage, and that’s a
challenge because the number of Republican hopefuls is somewhere between 15 and
2,376. There are two ways to think about this. One is that having 10 debaters
is still ridiculous. It’ll be like a playground fight conducted entirely by
middle-aged people in suits. (Personally, I think they should skip the debates
until the field gets down to four or five after the first primaries. ~Bob)
Puerto Rico's Massive
Anti-Austerity Protests Ignored By U.S.
Excerpt: Students in Puerto Rico launched mass protests this
week against the governor's attempt to slash some $166
million from the University
of Puerto Rico San Juan
on Wednesday, where they were met by a police presence that included
a SWAT team. A video posted to Facebook by one of the activists appeared to
show a police officer striking a protester with a baton. ... Tensions flared
even higher on Wednesday after reports that an explosive had detonated near the
governor’s mansion, La Fortaleza. No one was hurt by it, and police later
described it as a small, improvised “chemical bomb” made
of a soda bottle filled with acid and a piece of aluminum, according to
Puerto Rican daily El Nuevo Día. Police said they did not know whether the
explosion was directly related to the protests.
Rising Dragon News
US warns China not to
challenge military flights over South China Sea
Excerpt: The U.S.
warned China Thursday
against confronting U.S.
aerial patrols over the South China Sea days
after a verbal dispute between a Chinese military dispatcher and a U.S. Navy
surveillance aircraft. The Los Angeles Times reported that the Navy released two
videos and an audio recording of the confrontation, which took place on
Wednesday when the Chinese dispatcher demanded eight times that the Navy P8-A
Poseidon leave the area as it flew over Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Island
chain, where China has conducted extensive reclamation work. (And if they shoot
down one of our planes, what will we do? Stop borrowing from them to feed the
deficit? ~Bob)
Excerpt: China
declared victory on Friday over an encounter with a US
surveillance aircraft overflying the contested South China
Sea , saying its military "drove away" the intruder with
radio warnings. Beijing is in the throes of a
rapid land-reclamation programme in the area, building artificial islands and
facilities including an airstrip -- raising tensions with Washington and the risk of a standoff on the
high seas.
Excerpt: A Chinese scheme to build an east-west railway
across South America, cutting across parts of the Amazon rain forest, has moved
a step closer after Peru
agreed to study the proposal.
The scheme would link Peru 's
Pacific coast with Brazil 's
Atlantic shores. The decision came after talks between the Chinese Prime
Minister Li Keqiang, and Peruvian President Ollanta Humala.
Hewlett-Packard sells
China
Excerpt: US
tech giant Hewlett-Packard is selling a 51% stake in its Chinese server
business for $2.3bn (£1.4bn) to Tsinghua Holdings. The deal brings together HP
with the investment arm of China 's
Tsinghua University China for
computer servers, storage and technology services.
Race Card News
Shocking statistics about black slavery liberals will NEVER
admit. By Allen West
Excerpt: When we look at the failures in the black community
today, there seem to be lots of “activists” who want to tell us the problem
lies in poor police relations — militant policing and presence. About two weeks
ago I was on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show. The issue was about the black community and
the other guests ranted on about everything other than what the real problem is
— the decimation of the black family. Now, I must apologize because I’ve been sharing
that the illegitimacy rate in the black community was 72 percent. I was wrong.
It’s now 75 percent.
Do #BlackLivesMatter? 17 shot—2 fatally—in bloody
start to Memorial Day weekend
Excerpt: Two men were killed and at least 15 other
people—including a 4-year-old girl—have been wounded in shootings across Chicago so far this
Memorial Day weekend, police said. ... The girl was shot in the head and taken
to Comer Children's Hospital, where she was in critical condition, authorities
said. The teen was shot in the chest and grazed by a bullet in the neck. He was
in serious condition at Christ Medical Center
in Oak Lawn . (Only if shot by a white cop.
~Bob)
White House: Racism,
Hatred And Violence 'All Too Common On The Internet'
During the White House press briefing yesterday, a New York
Times reporter questioned Press Secretary Josh Earnest about President Obama’s
new @POTUS Twitter handle, pointing out that many “hateful,” “overtly racist,”
comments as well as “violent” and “disturbing” images had been directed at him
from other Twitter users. “Has there been any discussion among him and his
advisors or here at the White House about whether these kinds of conversations
should be tolerated, if these people should be blocked?” the reporter asked. “Unfortunately,
those kinds of images and that kind of language is (sic) all too common on the
Internet,” Josh Earnest admitted, adding that reporters might be familiar with
unsavory material in their own Twitter feeds. (Mr. Earnest, like many in
the US ,
needs remedial grammar class. "Images AND ... language" (2 things)
ARE, not is.... FWIW. I know, hateful. --Barb)
DOJ Official: Slavery
to Blame for Riots in Ferguson and Baltimore
http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2015/05/19/doj-official-slavery-to-blame-for-riots-in-ferguson-and-baltimore/#ixzz3avUddhf6
http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2015/05/19/doj-official-slavery-to-blame-for-riots-in-ferguson-and-baltimore/#ixzz3avUddhf6
Excerpt: Vanita Gupta, head of the Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division, has told a lawyers group in Colorado that
slavery and Jim Crow helped fuel the Ferguson and
Baltimore riots.
The last few days have seen a number of fanciful stories with the Obama administration
seemingly questioning the authority of local police. I’ve long maintained that
the administration is nakedly seeking to federalize policing standards — but
get rid of local police? (During the period when 500000 black slaves were
brought to North America , a million white
slaves and perhaps as many black ones were taken to Muslim North Africa. I want
reparations or I'll loot the local CVS! ~Bob)
Undocumented Democrat News
Democrats Call For
'Flood' Of Muslims To U.S.
Excerpt: A group of 14 Democrat senators has written a letter to President Obama urging him to “dramatically
increase” the number of Syrian refugees being resettled into American cities
and towns. They say the U.S. needs
to take in at least 65,000 Syrians as permanent refugees over the next
year-and-a-half. “While the United States is the largest
donor of humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees, we must also dramatically
increase the number of Syrian refugees that we accept for resettlement,” says
the four-page letter to Obama, copied to Secretary of State John Kerry and
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. (Report indicates 90% will be Muslim. Remember
the hard time they gave the Christian nun who had been persecuted? They were
afraid she would lie and not return to be beheaded and/or raped. But heh,
Muslim, carte blanche step to the head of the line. Those signing purportedly
include Durbin, Feinstein....--Barb. What % will be Islamic Supremacists, ready
to "slay and be slain for Allah"? ~Bob)
Religion of Peace News
Excerpt: But some of the most compelling details in those
emails regarding Clinton ’s conduct were in
regards to the deadly 2012 attack on a U.S.
diplomatic outpost in Benghazi .
The emails that the White House regarded Clinton
as the “public face of the U.S.
effort in Libya ”
in 2012. “She was instrumental in security the authorization, building the
coalition, and tightening the noose around Qadhafi and his regime.” The White
House noted that Clinton had been a “critical
voice on Libya ,”
working closely with the president, NATO, and a number of contact groups both
during the coalition intervention and in its aftermath. And when officials
received a presidential briefing three days after the September 11, 2012 attack
that took the life of a U.S.
ambassador and three other Americans, Hillary Clinton was asleep.
7 Best Political
Cartoons That Show the White House’s ISIS
Strategy is a Total Joke
Islamic State: Saddam
Hussein’s Nephew Killed Fighting for Us
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/05/21/isis-saddam-husseins-nephew-killed-fighting-with-isis/
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/05/21/isis-saddam-husseins-nephew-killed-fighting-with-isis/
Excerpt: The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) claims Saddam
Hussein’s nephew Ibrahim al-Sabawi died near Baiji fighting for the terrorist
group. The militants hope to capture a key oil refinery in the town.
Michelle Obama Gets Chilling Mention in Islamic State
Magazine Article, ‘Slave-Girls or Prostitutes?’ By Dave Urbanski
Excerpt: The lengthy piece — from the section “From Our
Sisters” — lays out the Islamic State’s justification for taking girls as
slaves and having sex with them, arguing that it’s much better than
prostitution. “Are slave-girls we took by Allah’s command better, or
prostitutes — an evil you do not denounce — who are grabbed by the quasi men in
the lands of kufr where you live?” It then decries the notion that taking girls
as slaves is a violation of human rights and that “copulation with her” is
equal to rape. Finally, after declaring that slave markets will be
“established against the will of the politically ‘correct,’” the authors bring
the first lady into the picture: ”And who knows? Maybe Michelle Obama’s
price wont even exceed a third of a dinar, and a third of a dinar is too much
for her!”
Worth Reading
Excerpt: To the eyes of many in the region, the real
strategic loss behind the IS seizure of two Sunni cities in Iraq and Syria in a week is the evaporation
of any Sunni alternative to the jihadis. Although many leaders dismissed IS as
vainglorious when it declared its cross-border caliphate in eastern Syria and western Iraq
last summer, in its cohesion and purpose it is now seen by some – particularly Iraq ’s minority
Sunnis – as more of a state than the Iraqi government it is fighting.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: The seizure of Infidel girls and their use as sex
slaves is sanctioned in the Qur’an. According to Islamic law, Muslim men can
take “captives of the right hand” (Qur’an 4:3, 4:24, 33:50). The Qur’an says:
“O Prophet! Lo! We have made lawful unto thee thy wives unto whom thou hast
paid their dowries, and those whom thy right hand possesseth of those whom
Allah hath given thee as spoils of war” (33:50). 4:3 and 4:24 extend this
privilege to Muslim men in general. The Qur’an says that a man may have sex
with his wives and with these slave girls: “The believers must (eventually) win
through, those who humble themselves in their prayers; who avoid vain talk; who
are active in deeds of charity; who abstain from sex, except with those joined
to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess,
for (in their case) they are free from blame.” (Qur’an 23:1-6) The rape of
captive women is also sanctioned in Islamic tradition:
Excerpt: When this murder initially happened, I received
this Tweet from a certain Jawad Rasul. It said: Thank You @pamelageller and
@jihadwatchRS, If you have any humanity, you might ponder over this!
nyp.st/phBJuX via @newyorkpost. The link went to a story about a murder in New Jersey . Why were
Pamela Geller and I being blamed for a murder when we obviously had nothing to
do with it or any other murder? The answer was obvious: Islamic supremacists
never miss a chance to position Muslims as victims so as to deflect attention
away from jihad terror and try to place Islam and the Muslim community beyond
reasonable scrutiny.
The Hour Is Later
than We Think. Compassion for migrants must not overrule national survival.
http://pjmedia.com/blog/later-than-we-think/#ixzz3avSxxagu
http://pjmedia.com/blog/later-than-we-think/#ixzz3avSxxagu
Excerpt: The migratory invasion of Europe, uncannily but
presciently foreseen in Jean Raspail’s much
derided 1973 novel The Camp of the Saints, is now taking place with
near-irresistible force on the shores of that beleaguered continent.
As National Post columnist Matthew Fisher reports, “Europe is in a deep quandary over how to respond
to a huge and growing influx of desperate migrants crossing the Mediterranean
Sea from North Africa .”... At the same
time, one must also remember that the overwhelming majority of asylum seekers
form part of a vast transfer of Muslim populations to Europe ,
and that Christians in their midst have been thrown overboard. (And radical Muslims noted to sit
separately but be mixing in with the tide, not carefully scrutinized by EU, Italy , etc.
--Barb)
Obama’s Big Brass
Clanging Tablets on Display at D.C. Synagogue
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/05/22/obamas-big-brass-clanging-tablets-on-display-at-d-c-synagogue/#ixzz3avU5wzDT
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/05/22/obamas-big-brass-clanging-tablets-on-display-at-d-c-synagogue/#ixzz3avU5wzDT
Excerpt: Let’s make one thing perfectly clear: This
Friday, hours before Shabbat is set to begin and one day before the holiday of
Shavuot starts, President Obama walked into a D.C. synagogue and proceeded to tell Jews
that their religious texts and traditions compel them to give away Israeli land
for the creation of a Palestinian state....Do we give the impression of
being such pushovers that we turn our pulpits over to world leaders who crap on
our identity and manipulate our covenant with God to suit their own personal
political agendas?
*****
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://www.amazon.com/Coming-Collapse-American-Republic-prevent/dp/1461122538/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304815980&sr=1-5
For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s
eleven books are listed here:
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html.
His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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