Sunday, November 9, 2014

Harry Reid’s Desk

Bokbluster

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"A year ago President Obama said, “If you don’t like a particular policy, if you don’t like a particular president, go out there and argue your position, win an election.”
 
"And so it came to pass.
 
"Now that his party has lost the Senate, Obama says he’s willing to listen to Republican ideas – if they have any. Whether he is or they do remains to be seen. But they have had some ideas in the past. Those ideas were packaged into about 350 House Resolutions and passed on to the Senate where they sit in Harry Reid’s desk.
 
"The way Mitch McConnell sees it Reid protected the president from legislation he didn’t like by not bringing bills to his desk.
 
"The New York Times, in January, called Harry a brute."
Politifact, however, says some of those bills are simply caught up in committee. Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post says it’s not at all unusual for Harry Reid to have 300 bills to be stuffed in his drawers.

The UK Reports:Jacksonville Jaguars 17-31 Dallas Cowboys: Tony Romo leads Dallas to Wembley victory as Cowboys knock the spots off Jaguars

UK Daily Mail
  • Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo and team-mates get first win in three games against the Jacksonville Jaguars
  • The Cowboys dominated the Jaguars throughout the game held at Wembley Stadium on Sunday evening 
  • Romo threw for 246 yards and three touchdowns against a Jacksonville team who have won just once this season
The Jaguars squad emerges from the tunnel ready for battle in front of an electrified crowd at the sold out Wembley Stadium 













The Jaguars squad emerges from the tunnel ready for battle in front of an electrified crowd at the sold out
 Wembley Stadium.

The armed forces lead the way in observing a minute's silence in front of a capacity crowd at Wembley Stadium on Sunday evening
The armed forces lead the way in observing a minute's silence in front of a capacity crowd at Wembley Stadium on Sunday evening

 More pictures in the article here.

Defying Soviets, Then Pulling Hungary to Putin 25 Years After Fall of the Berlin Wall

NY Times  ... "Viktor Orban was 26 then and a longhaired law graduate. In June 1989, five months before the Berlin Wall came down, he lit up a commemoration of the failed 1956 revolt against Moscow with a bold call for free elections and a demand that 80,000 Soviet troops go home.
 
"Now, as the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is commemorated Sunday, Hungary is a member of NATO and the European Union and Mr. Orban is in his third term as prime minister. But what was once a journey that might have embodied the triumph of democratic capitalism has evolved into a much more complex tale of a country and a leader who in the time since have come to question Western values, foment nationalism and look more openly at Russia as a model."...

From Hungary Today, we see that Mr. Obama has had ongoing issues with the nation.

Looks like Obama gives Hungary the same headaches he gives America for some of the same reasons:  PM Orbán: US Weighs Pressure On Hungary
... "Washington weighs great pressure on Hungary due to its objections to the South Stream pipeline and the upgrade of the nuclear power plant in Paks, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán told at the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Munich. " ...

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Our delusional and dangerous president

Political Cartoons by Lisa Benson

American Thinker  "Remember when just last year Obama arrogantly said:
“You don’t like a particular policy or a particular president, then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election.”
"Well, now that we won an election (massively, I might add), Obama has a new take on things.  Gee, what a surprise.  Per the Washington Examiner, it goes something like this:
...
"A megalomaniac who hates America is running the country.  And as we know all too well, with no elections left to win, over the coming weeks, months, and, yes, unfortunately, years, he’s going to let ‘er rip.
 
"However politically active we were leading up to Election Day, we need to double our efforts now, because we are entering a very dangerous time as Obama goes off the rails."

Political Cartoons by Dana Summers

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... "Speaking at a press conference to give his unique, and quite possibly psychotic, perspective on the Republican electoral blowout on Tuesday, Obama said "To everyone who voted, I want you to know that I hear you. To the TWO THIRDS of voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, I hear you too.' " ...
 

Harry Reid not a worthy Mormon? LDS Church, Dems cry foul

The Salt Lake Tribune

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) takes time in his office in the Capitol to show the Mormon scriptures he keeps in his desk. Sen. Reid keeps extra copies of the Book of Mormon in the same same drawer to give away to guests that visit his office.
"In the aftermath of this week’s elections, an LDS bishop in Los Angeles set off political fireworks by asserting in a blog that Mormon Sen. Harry Reid was not worthy to enter one of the faith’s temples for his support of Democratic Party stances.

"The response to the piece, "Good Riddance to Harry Reid, the Mormon Senate leader," from many Latter-day Saints on social media — and even the Utah-based faith’s public-affairs arm — was immediate and critical.

" 'Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are, of course, entitled to express their own political opinions," spokesman Dale Jones said in a statement. "However, publishing such views while using a title of a church officer, even if only as a leader of a local congregation as in this case, is entirely inappropriate."...

Fact check; Medicare changes at age 76


A False Claim of a Medicare Change   "Perhaps you’ve heard this one about a change in Medicare affecting seniors over 75:
Chain email : Your hospital Medicare admittance has just changed under ObamaCare. You must be admitted by your primary physician in order for Medicare to pay for it! If you are admitted by an emergency room doctor it is treated as outpatient care where hospital costs are not covered.
Q: Does the Affordable Care Act require Medicare beneficiaries over age 75 to be admitted to the hospital by their primary care physician?
A. No. There is no such requirement in the law.

FULL QUESTION   Can this possibly be true?
Subject: MEDICARE AT AGE 76
Hope all of you who count of Medicare to take care of you into your golden years have a back-up plan.
If you don’t read this, and do nothing about it, don’t complain when it affects you or your loved ones!!!!!
This is the second Judge to have read the Obama Care document and made comments. More highlights of Nancy’s “pass it and then find out what’s in the bill”!!!!!!
Show this to everyone nearing the ripe old age of 76. These are just a few of the things that we Seniors are going to have to deal with starting in 2014. Even far left Democrats will not like these.
MEDICARE AT AGE 76, IMPORTANT PLEASE READ – ANYONE WHO DOUBTS THIS IS TRUE CAN DOWNLOAD THE NEW OBAMACARE AND LOOK UP THE PAGES MENTIONED. THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING …………………. PLEASE PASS THIS OUTRAGE TO EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST!!!
THIS should be read by everyone, especially important to those over 75 ……. If you are younger, then it may apply to your parents….
Your hospital Medicare admittance has just changed under Obama Care. You must be admitted by your primary Physician in order for Medicare to pay for it! If you are admitted by an emergency room doctor it is treated as outpatient care where hospital costs are not covered. This is only the tip of the iceberg for Obama Care. Just wait to see what happens in this year and 2014!
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  Full article with source links here.
Snopes on Medicare at Age 76: FALSE  "Origins:   This alarmist warning claims a provision of the Affordable Care Act [ACA] (commonly known as "Obamacare") supposedly requires that a primary care physician must admit patients of age 76 and older to a hospital in order for those


patients' hospital costs to be covered by Medicare. It originally turned up as a piece tacked onto to the widely-circulated — and largely erroneous — "Judge Kithil" criticism of pending health care legislation and now makes the Internet rounds as a separate, stand-alone piece.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/medicare76.asp#63mvmG4v8kWrJqAl.99

Also rated "FALSE" by Snopes:  Claim: "Obamacare" mandates that no one over 75 will be given major medical procedures unless approved by an ethics panel.  ... "No such denial is necessary to debunk this item, however. The simple fact is that, repeated spurious claims to the contrary notwithstanding, no provision of the "Obamacare" health care legislation mandates or authorizes the creation of "ethics panels" to determine which patients should or should not receive various medical treatments, based on their age or any other criteria. "
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/over75.asp#fYMcGDHfxGHLqyfs.99

 

How Obama sold his soul to the devil.

Putting the O in BravO
Jonah Goldberg ... "The producer retorts, “You? Now c’mon baby, don’t get caught up on an ego trip. I mean who cares how you sound? We’re after the sound.

"If you don’t care about my sound, what do you need me for? Greg asks.

“'Because you fit the suit,” another producer responds.

"Forgive me for committing the error of defining my meaning. But Barack Obama fits the suit.

"In my USA Today column this week, I argued that Barack Obama is indisputably good at one thing: Getting elected president of the United States.

"That’s it. He’s not good at being president of the United States. He’s not good at being the head of his party. He’s not good at diplomacy or public policy or managing large bureaucracies. He has no new ideas. But man did he fit the suit, metaphorically speaking." ...

Allah in the Classroom — the ABC’s of Forced Conversion

Noisy Room

 
"... Between such programs as Common Core, Connect All Schools and CSCOPE, CAIR has been ensuring that the textbooks that teach our children go out of their way to teach Islamic history and to have the children indoctrinated into Islam. CAIR has even gotten textbooks in private schools, charter schools and home schooling programs to include their revisionist history."
 
..."Across America, in over 100 schools now, in Social Studies and World History classes, the proselytizing for Islam is being pushed and hard. It does not include the 1,400 year history of Jihadi wars, land appropriations, cultural genocide and enslavement, not to mention the extermination of the entire Jewish Banu Qurayza tribe of Arabia, as Pamela Geller puts it. What it does include, and what I find infuriating beyond words, is the Shahada and the Five Pillars of Islam. ..."

Friday, November 7, 2014

Two by Caroline Glick on the nature of radical Islam

 Caroline Glick gives us the view of an Israeli Journalist and former soldier in the IDF.

Terror Decentral

A Driver Rams His Car Into Pedestrians In Suspected East Jerusalem Terror Attack
A Driver Rams His Car Into Pedestrians In Suspected East Jerusalem Terror Attack
 
"In the postmortems of the terrorist car attacks in Jerusalem, it is easy to see the writing on the wall.
 
"Ibrahim al-Akary, the terrorist who on Wednesday ran over crowds of people waiting to cross the street and catch the Jerusalem Light Rail, was the brother of one of the terrorist murderers freed in exchange for IDF hostage Gilad Schalit. He had placed the photograph on his Facebook page of Moataz Hejazi, the terrorist killed by police after shooting Yehuda Glick outside the Begin Heritage Center last Wednesday.
 
"A few days before Abdur Rahman Slodi got into his car and mowed down three-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun and a dozen other pedestrians two weeks ago, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas exhorted the Palestinians to prevent Jews from visiting the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, by all means possible.

"Slodi had served time in prison for terrorist offenses and was active on social media where he expressed murderous hatred for Jews and a desire to kill them." Full article

Islamic Republic hanging
Islamic Republic hanging
 
... "Despite the glaring contradiction between divinity and monstrosity, the fact is that IS justifies every single one of its atrocities with verses from the Koran.

"IS referred to its sex slave market in Raqqah for instance as the “Booty Market… for what your right hands possess.”

"The phrase “what your right hands possess” is a Koranic verse (4:3) that permits the sexual enslavement of women and girls by Muslim men.

"Whether it is mainstream Islamic jurisprudence or not to embrace the enslavement of women and girls as concubines is not a question that Obama – or any US leader for that matter – is equipped to answer. And yet, Obama spoke with absolute certainty when he claimed that IS is not Islamic." ...Full article... 
 
 
Linda gangraped by Negroes
 
" ... they were assaulted, raped and beaten half to death by four Somali immigrants. Sweden’s largest newspaper has presented the perpetrators as “two men from Sweden, one from Finland and one from Somalia”, a testimony as to how bad the informal censorship is in stories related to immigration in Sweden. "  They were named Sven, Ole, Nils and Hans.

"I am going to squeeze every last little bit of opportunity to help make this world a better place over these last two years."

Political Cartoons by Steve Kelley

Althouse  ... "And he really didn't even answer that question. He turned it into the question: What are you going to do with the rest of your time?

"The other part of the question, the first part, was: "your party rejected you in these midterms...  they did not want you out on the campaign trail in these key battleground states. How do you account for that?" Obama blabbed so long on the reframed second part of the question that, I guess, he hoped we wouldn't notice that he never got around to that. But what would he have said? Those loser Democrats have their loss to themselves, so don't smear their loserhood onto me. I am the one the American people embraced heartily twice. They love me." ... 



Letters to the Ayatollah: Obama’s ‘Keys to Paradise’

PJ Media
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... "I admit I didn’t much care for Barack Obama before the revelation that he had secretly written Khamenei to induce the Iranian supreme leader to sign a nuclear deal in return for U.S. help battling ISIS.  Now I despise our president.  He is contemptible.

"Ayatollah Khamenei is a man who has been leading the massive chants of “Death to Israel” (and the Jews)  literally every day since 1979.  Only a true anti-Semite could attempt to make a secret deal with such a person.  Indeed, someone who would want to make a deal with Khamenei has about as much respect for human rights in general as Torquemada.  That person would have to be an unmitigated liar and sociopath.

"And such a person is our president, so desperate for an Iran deal he will literally do or say anything, so desperate to find some salvation for his failing presidency he will put not only Israel but the whole world at risk. It’s almost like a re-upped version of Dr. Strangelove with Peter Sellers as the ayatollah — he would have been great — and Obama himself riding the bomb at the end like Slim Pickens.  Bon voyage, Mitch McConnell…. Arrivederci, John Boehner….Hasta la vista, Tea Party.

"Maybe Obama should go to Qom himself and anoint Khamenei’s feet at the well of Jamkaran. ...

"Does Obama know that Khamenei was a leader of the Iranian military in their war with Iraq, when the Iranians force-marched eleven-year-old boys — holding plastic “keys to paradise” — across fields to clear them of mines in advance of their troops, killing thousands of the unwitting boys in the process? Who knows? But if Obama makes this deal with the Iranians, he better give us all plastic keys.

"It’s hard to know what motivates this man, our president, but it’s not so hard to know what motivates the gaggle of Jewish Democratic politicians — you know who you are… Chuck Schumer, Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Richard Blumenthal, Al Franken, Jerrold Nadler, Adam Schiff, etc., etc., who let him get away with that behavior and make a deal with a country that wants to eradicate Israel and then move on from there to whatever else is in sight (Yemen, these days). They are pathetic lackeys and careerists of the most slimey sort who would fit in well, as I said elsewhere, in Berlin, 1937.  Not a single one of them, as far as I know, said word one when the White House branded the prime minister of Israel a “chickenshit.” That was okay with them, I guess, as long as they could keep their offices on the right floors of the Senate and House office buildings.

"Oh, yes. They’re liberals. So Ayatollah Khamenei must be a poor, exploited victim of Western imperialism. Tell that to the boys with plastic keys."
 

Obama's America -just another dhimmi country - is a supplicant to Iran.

 
... "Mr. Obama’s push for a deal faces renewed resistance after Tuesday’s elections gave Republicans control of the Senate and added power to thwart an agreement and to impose new sanctions on Iran. Sens. Mark Kirk...and Robert Menendez ...have introduced legislation to intensify sanctions."...

NRO: Obama’s reassuring letter to Khamenei is only whetting the appetites of Iran’s
hardliners.   "November 24, the deadline for a nuclear deal with Iran, approaches, and things aren’t looking good. With less than three weeks left, Iran is adopting a hardline negotiating position. And although there’s time left to reach a good deal, President Obama’s current strategy is problematic."

Source says reported letter from Obama to Ayatollah ‘f***s up everything'  ..."A senior congressional source told Fox News that there is not anything definitive as to whether the letter even exists. But the source indicated they don't doubt that it's true because "we've seen [the president] do it before, so there is [a] precedent.' "  Video.

Ayatollah Khamenei Doesn’t Want To Be Pen Pals With Obama  "Mr. Khamenei never directly responded to the overtures, according to U.S. officials.
"Why wouldn’t Obama keep reaching out to Khamenei? It’s not like the guy is a Republican."

Commentary Magazine: Desperation Not a Good Negotiating Position  "Kerry’s meeting [with Iran] comes against the backdrop of an extraordinary interview he gave to the press from Paris:

“I want to get this done,” Kerry said during a series of meetings in which the Iranian negotiations figured prominently. “And we are driving toward the finish with a view of trying to get it done.” Kerry said Iran is entitled to develop its nuclear program for civilian, not military, use. “They have a right to a peaceful program but not a track to a bomb,” Kerry said. “We believe it is pretty easy to prove to the world that a plan is peaceful.”