Reading list about what's going on around us

Here's ISIS' Plan To Destroy American Apache Helicopters  ... "A US-led coalition of western and regional players has been bombing ISIS targets for weeks in an effort to check the militant group's lightning expansion. The American-led campaign has been almost entirely waged from the air, and the ISIS guide goes into fairly technical detail on how to shoot down enemy aircraft with a shoulder-fired man-portable air-defense system, or MANPADS*." ...   Read more:
* MANPADS were taken from the defeated Iraqi military

Six years later: the clear connection between Barack Obama and the Weathermen    "Just before the election of Barack Obama in 2008, it was quite shocking to see that a forty-year old, seemingly forgotten radical group called the "Weathermen" was getting so much attention. Of course, Obama denied any connection to old Weathermen. Here's a quick history of the "Weathermen" and why it's relevant to a president whose entire campaign relied on a call for an undefined "change." Now, six years later, the change is coming much clearer into view. And it seems we now know which way the wind blows."
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"Still, what is the Obama connection to these dedicated revolutionaries? It's perhaps ironic that all four former Weathermen terrorists today worked through an organization called "Movement for a Democratic Society." That organization was the parent to another one called "Progressives for Obama." They raised funds for Obama, promoted his candidacy, and helped to recruit activists to support him."  Now we see what the country is like when they are in charge.

CNN poll: Voters are angry

  "Nearly 7 in 10 Americans are angry at the direction the country is headed and 53% of Americans disapprove of President Barack Obama's job performance, two troubling signs for Democrats one week before the midterm elections, a new CNN/ORC International Poll shows."

 The Volokh Conspiracy:  Gross incompetence at the State Department?
Someone left State Department spokesman Jen Psaki grossly unprepared for a press briefing today ..., and she wound up disagreeing with the notion that a teenage Palestinian Hamas supporter with American citizenship throwing molotov cocktails at cars on an Israeli highway was “essentially a terrorist” whom the State Department was a bit too quick too mourn.

 

Victor Davis Hanson asks, Crimes of Exactly What?

PJ Media  ... "If we were to embrace the abjectly racist worldview of Eric Holder or Al Sharpton, where would the racialization of crime end? Who would decide which interracial crimes illustrated premeditated racial hatred — or criminal laxity on the part of the state — and deserved national attention? Which adjudicator could or would declare that one interracial incident was idiosyncratic without transcendent significance, but the other typical and thus representative of collective pathology?

"What exactly has this country stooped to, when our officials and public figures traffic in politicizing the end of human lives? We are becoming not just a sick country, but an amoral one as well. What Ferguson wrought will not end well."   Via Lucianne

Canada gunman prepared video confirming it was planned jihad attack

Canadian Parliament Sergeant at Arms Kevin Vickers got a five minute standing ovation from the House after he killed the Islamic terrorist who tried to shoot up the Chamber. He killed the guy with one shot. It'll be years before he has to shout twice for the House to come to order.   (Argus Hamilton)

Jihad Watch  ... "A gunman who shot and killed a soldier at Canada’s national war memorial and then stormed Parliament before he was gunned down had prepared a video recording of himself that reveals his ideological and political motives, police claim.

"The footage of Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, which is yet to be released, is said to confirm investigators’ fears that this was a meticulously planned terrorist attack.

"Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Bob Paulson said in a statement they have ‘persuasive evidence that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau’s attack was driven by ideological and political motives.’

"A detailed analysis of the video was being conducted and Paulson said they cannot release the video at this time."


ISIS 'See You In New York' Warning Fulfilled  ... "The Islamic State is perhaps the world's largest collection of nut jobs*. How sane can someone be, taking joy in sawing off the heads of infidels like Steven Sotloff and James Foley, or delighting in kidnapping and gang-raping the Yazidi women of Iraq because they worship a different god? How sane can young women be who leave the West to journey to Syria in the hopes of being incubators for future jihadis?"   Read More At Investor's Business Daily:

 

* Nut jobs who will torture and behead you, that is.

So where DO jobs come from?

http://terrellaftermath.com/

 

The presumptive Democrat nominee for 2016.   ... "She went on to state that businesses and corporations are not the job creators of America. “Don’t let anybody tell you that it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs,” the former Secretary of State said."

 

So Who Does Create Jobs?  ... "Well, maybe she should look to Texas.  Where, as this AEI report shows:

 1.32 million new jobs [have been] added since the start of the Great Recession, compared to a net deficit of almost one million jobs for the other 49 states combined … The country, the president, and all of us individually owe a huge debt of gratitude to the state of Texas and to the oil and gas industry for helping support the US economy during and after the Great Recession. Without the energy-driven economic stimulus from the fracking revolution, and without the gusher of jobs in the state of Texas, there’s no question that the Great Recession would have been much worse and lasted much longer, and the jobs picture today would be much bleaker

The Tunnel Wall covered this last week, using this video:

Honey, You Didn't Build That  

Ferguson Protesters Assault White Motorist, Threaten To Rape Cop’s Wife. Where is Al Sharpton?

The Stubborn Facts in Ferguson:  The perpetual protesters are outraged that grand-jury leaks appear to back Officer Wilson’s account. ..."Ferguson has become the latest nesting zone for America’s itinerant protesters. Unburdened by jobs or other responsibilities, these people are free to drift from city to city and cause to cause, occupying Wall Street and decrying capitalism in New York City one day, lamenting global warming in Chicago on another day, and now marching against police brutality in St. Louis today. These people’s raison d’être is to march and express their outrage; the target of that outrage is whatever is most convenient at the time."

Protesters in Ferguson block traffic; Video shows assault of white motorist

 

 

 

Downtrend   ... "I mean you got an entire city of no-values-having animals running around, blocking traffic, threatening cops and beating up motorists. Yet the liberal mainstream media refuses to bat an eyelash. Meanwhile, all the evidence backs Officer Darren Wilson’s side of the story.
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"The only good news out of this whole fiasco is the renewed push for arming every single police officer in the nation with a body camera – something I vehemently support! Other than that, it appears that the whole Ferguson fiasco – as perpetrated by the liberal mainstream media – did nothing but divide Americans even further, all while pushing the actual truth deeper and deeper into the abyss."

From 2013:  Al Sharpton: A Lucrative Career Built on Hate and Racial Conflagration Speaking about the Tawana Brawley incident:

Sharpton acknowledged to me early on that “The Brawley story do (sic) sound like bull****, but it don’t matter. We’re building a movement. This is the perfect issue. Because you’ve got whites on blacks. That’s an easy way to stir up all the deprived people, who would want to believe and who would believe — and all [you’ve] got to do is convince them — that all white people are bad. Then you’ve got a movement.... It don’t matter whether any whites did it or not. Something happened to her ... even if Tawana don’t (sic) it to herself." 

 

 

Mychal Massie asks why society should pay for acts of the 'ungodly, stiff-necked'

... "Even more egregious is the fact that they are encouraged and given emotional sanctuary for their condemnable actions by those who benefit from their animus. These blacks, those like them and those who sympathize with them, are equivalent to toxic allergens making blacks allergic to civilized behavior."