Obama is taking Ebola seriously: pic.twitter.com/wXsvU8GONS
— CounterMoonbat (@CounterMoonbat) October 2, 2014In all seriousness, what possible reason could the president have for refusing to ban travel from Ebola-ravaged countries?
Obama is taking Ebola seriously: pic.twitter.com/wXsvU8GONS
— CounterMoonbat (@CounterMoonbat) October 2, 2014QOTD: "“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” — Barack Obama, October 30, 2008
“We are going to have to change our conversation; we’re going to have to change our traditions, our history; we’re going to have to move into a different place as a nation.” — Michelle Obama, May 14, 2008" --via Victor Davis Hanson
i don't care what anyone writes about all of this. it is all nonsense, unless you recognize one singular fact... the north korean general who is in charge of the north korean military, sat as a table with south korean political and no doubt intelligence people across from him, and smiled.
he smiled.
i am 66 years old. in my entire life, i have never seen a north korean military officer and/or official smile.
you can read a lot of things about all of this. none of it will talk about anything as significant as that smile. that smile sent chills up and down the spines of rooskie and chinese officials, everywhere: they know what it means.
The New York Times has mapped out college football fandom in the U.S. based on Facebook likes, and the result is outstanding.
This map seems to be more scientific in its procedure than Reddit’s “hate maps,” and also gives us a seemingly accurate, legitimate glimpse into college football fandom across the country. You can also search fandom by zip code.
QOTD: "...despite the heat of the battle around Kobane the United States and its Gulf allies did nothing to strike at Islamic State forces besieging the Kurds. It would be as if Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared that the United States would enter the war against Japan, and then proceeded to bomb Argentina. Given that President Obama has insisted that he approve every strike inside Syria, the only logical conclusion is that Obama does not want to protect Kobane, perhaps out of deference to Turkey, which is suspicious of any Kurdish entity.
This is shortsighted: Syrian Kurds may not be perfect, but they are largely secular, moderate, and tolerant. And despite their links to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which once waged an insurgency inside Turkey, those days are over: The Turks and PKK have been in peace talks and have abided by a ceasefire for over 18 months.
As the Islamic State advanced on the Iraqi Kurdish capital of Erbil, Obama scrambled to utilize airpower to stop the terrorist advance. That he will not do so in an analogous case inside Syria shows the complete lack of strategic coherence to U.S. actions. If military action is going to be effective, it should occur where the fighting is: not dozens of miles away." --Michael Rubin
From the famous "latte salute" to the Marine holding the presidential umbrella, President Obama's respect for our men in uniform has been open to question. Unless, of course, they desert their post in Afghanistan to try to join the Taliban, like Bowe Bergdahl. Then you have the parents to the White House and trade the Taliban general staff to obtain their release. After all, we leave no one behind.
Except, maybe, for Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi.
Jill Tahmooressi, Andrew's mother, has never been invited to stand by the president on the White House lawn. Nor has she ever received a phone call from President Obama, as she testified Wednesday before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee. Presidential calls of support are reserved for basketball players like Jason Collins, whom Obama called to say "he was impressed by his courage," according to a White House spokesperson, for announcing that he was gay.
For our part, we are impressed by the courage of Sgt. Tahmooressi, who served two tours of duty fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, and his mother. Her son fought the enemy instead of trying to join them. And for making a wrong turn into Mexico while carrying legal American firearms in his trunk as he journeyed to San Diego for treatment of his PTSD, he now sits in a Mexican jail ignored by the country he risked his life for.
Is this a thing now? (h/t @MichaelRWarren) pic.twitter.com/B6WkXRp100
— Andrew Stiles (@AndrewStilesUSA) October 3, 2014Robin Bartlett Frazier's story personifies the threats we face nationwide by the corrupting influence of public employee unions. For the last four years Robin has been District 1 Commissioner in Carroll County, MD. You may have seen her on the Megyn Kelly show when she was interviewed after saying in a public meeting that she would be arrested if necessary but would not stop praying before meetings and invoking the name of Jesus Christ. The video is posted here.
She and fellow Commissioner Richard Rothschild were pretty much the only voices on the five member board for spending restraint, cutting taxes, reducing government, protecting property rights and protecting freedom. The power of their arguments often won the day despite the fact that two of the other three commissioners were hardcore RINOs and the third went whichever way the wind was blowing.She and Commissioner Rothschild spearheaded the effort that turned Carroll County into the first “Second Amendment Sanctuary County” following the state legislature passing Governor O’Malley’s unconstitutional gun control bill last year. There is a stunning video on her website where a full house cheers wildly when she talks about it. Really inspiring talk. The three hapless RINOs on the Board saw the writing on the wall and fell in behind, so it was a unanimous decision in favor of the 2nd Amendment. Her leadership has also prevented the County planning board from adopting many regulations that threaten private property.
One small Virginia town is the target of a racial discrimination complaint from a fair housing group and a shuttered college, the potential beneficiary of a plan to house minors who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.
Word broke this summer the federal government — at the original suggestion of Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources Bill Hazel and Secretary of Education Anne Holton — was pursuing a contract with the closed St. Paul’s College in Lawrenceville to house what could be hundreds of immigrants.Locals made it clear they had serious concerns, and about 1,000 people showed up at a June 19 town hall meeting in the Southern Virginia town of 1,300 to protest.
The federal government consequently backed down and looked elsewhere to house the teens and younger children.
Now, the private St. Paul’s College — which would have received a much-needed $160,000 a month to house the youth — and the fair-housing group Home Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia, are filing a housing discrimination complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development against the town of Lawrenceville, surrounding Brunswick County and Brunswick County’s elected Sheriff Brian Roberts.
HOME and St. Paul’s College allege the county, town and sheriff “orchestrated and implemented a plan to block the deal,” the complaint obtained by Watchdog.org reads. “Purported concerns by these individuals are grounded in false stereotypes about Latinos and reflect discrimination based on race, color, and/or national origin.”
The complaint argues that anyone in the country — not just legal residents — is protected by law.
QOTD: "BRIAN KILMEADE: About the president missing over 50% of his intelligence briefings. Why would he choose to do that in a time in the world when it is so full of terrorist activity?
JEN PSAKI, STATE DEPT: Well, I have no validation of those statistics. I have to say, I’ve worked for the president for 6 years, there’s a range of ways that you can get your intelligence briefings on the road, in the White House and I know that he receives those on a daily basis whenever he can." --RCP
President Obama was at Northwestern University on Thursday to deliver an economic speech that, he and his team hoped, would lay out the case for why the public is better off today than they were six years ago -- even if they didn't feel it in their everday lives. Instead, Obama just gave every Republican ad-maker in the country more fodder for negative ads linking Democratic candidates to him.
Here are the four sentences that will draw all of the attention (they come more than two thirds of the way through the speech): "I am not on the ballot this fall. Michelle’s pretty happy about that. But make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them." Boil those four sentences down even further and here's what you are left with: "Make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them."
You can imagine Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas or Sen. Kay Hagan in North Carolina or Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky grimacing when they heard those 28 words. That trio has spent much of the campaign insisting that this election is NOT about Barack Obama, that it is instead about a choice between themselves and their opponents.
QOTD: "A Colorado insider said Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper has done “everything you could possibly do wrong” in his campaign against his Republican challenger Bob Beauprez, MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt reported.
“He’s angered some Democrats over gun control; he’s also gotten into some trouble over the death penalty,” Hunt said. “He’s given a reprieve to a criminal out there, that’s gotten a lot of negative attention from Republicans.”
Hickenlooper and Beauprez squared off in a televised debate Wednesday night, during which Hickenlooper defended his reprieve of convicted murderer Nathan Dunlap, who shot and killed four people at an Aurora, Colo., Chuck E. Cheese’s in 1993." --Washington Free Beacon Staff
Climate Change: A startling claim has been made by the European Space Agency. It says that loss of ice in the West Antarctic has caused a shift in Earth's gravity. So are polar bears about to drown or fly off into space?
To the list of things caused by global warming, including rising seas, fiercer and more frequent storms, forest fires and widespread disease, we can now add a weakening of gravity due to melting ice.Based on measurements from a European Space Agency's satellite, researchers have said that so much ice loss has occurred in West Antarctica that there's been a decline in Earth's gravitational pull in the region.
Although the researchers assure us the gravity's loss from November 2009 to June 2012 is too small to actually cause things to levitate into space, it's cited as one more example of the impact of so-called man-made global warming.
Climate-change zealots seem obsessed with the West Antarctic ice sheet, which holds less than 10% of the continent's ice . The 2004 science fiction movie "The Day After Tomorrow" opened with a portion of the sheet shearing off as a prelude to planetary doom.
But on Sept. 25, 2013, the Washington Post reported that Antarctic sea ice had grown to a record extent for the second straight year — some 19.51 million square kilometers. In June of this year, the Post noted a possible new record ice extent is "part of a puzzling 33-year trend in increasing sea ice around Antarctica."
These briefings have provided a consistently accurate assessment of the situation in the Middle East, and of terrorist activity throughout the world. This information would have been used by a Commander In Chief worthy of the title to guide his decision process. Mr. Obama displays an unsettling lack of concern for the threat posed by Islamic extremists to this country. Instead, what passes for planning is guided by political expedience. "Al Qaeda is on the run"…"ISIS is a JV team"..These are not indicators that inform policy making, these are slogans intended to prevent his "base" from waking up.