Sunday, August 17, 2014

29 Shot in Spate of Weekend Chicago Violence

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/29-Shot-in-Spate-of-Weekend-Chicago-Vio
lence-271586021.html


Five people have been killed and at least 24 others wounded in weekend shootings across Chicago.

Police said a 16-year-old boy was found with a gunshot wound to the head around 1:15 a.m. Sunday in the city's Humboldt Park neighborhood.

The Presidency is Breaking Obama Even As Obama Has Broken the Nation


One of the nation’s best radio talk show hosts, Hugh Hewitt, interviewed Joe Scarborough, the host of one of the best political shows on television. According to Mr. Scarborough
This is a president that does go out of his way to show that he’s not paying attention to what anybody says. He’s going to do exactly what he wants to do, and he’s going to be stubborn about it. He is politically, he is either politically tone deaf or he just doesn’t give a damn. And I tend to believe based on everything I’ve heard from people who work inside the White House, and we’ve got a lot of friends there, and based on my friends who are senior Democratic senators, this president has checked out… He wants to be the next, I hear it time and time again from his close political allies. This man wants to be an ex-president.
So the president — with crises breaking out across the globe, the economy still staggering, and unrest and despair in America rising — seems to have grown bored with the job. This is on one level an astonishing thing; on the other, it has the ring of truth. I say that in part because Mr. Scarborough is speaking to Democrats, not simply Republicans, on this matter. His sources are excellent. Yet one also sees Obama’s indifference in how he conducts himself, as well asstories leaked by the White House about his “restlessness.”
What could possibility explain this attitude? It may be that Mr. Obama was drawn to the job not for the right reasons but because he viewed the presidency as a new mountain to climb, a prize to win, as a way to feed his unusually large ego (even for a politician). It may also be that Mr. Obama, with his presidency crumbling, is like a petulant child who wants to pick up his marbles and leave. He was fine serving as president when he was adored and well liked; now that things are going south he appears to have emotionally “checked out,” to use Scarborough’s phrase.
The problem with this is that Mr. Obama is disengaging (a) after having done extraordinary damage to America and (b) at a moment when the world is convulsing because of the void left by Obama’s (and therefore America’s) diffidence and passivity. An increasingly insouciant commander-in-chief is not what’s needed at this particular time, given the multiplying threats and increasing disorder in the world.
It’s very much beginning to look at if Barack Obama saw the presidency as primarily a way to satisfy his narcissism. What’s happened instead is the presidency is breaking him, even as he is breaking the nation.

Surveillance Video: Michael Brown Caught On Tape Robbing Store (Plus Other Pictures)

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-picture-they-didnt-show-you-michae
l-brown-goes-gangsta_08152014

Ukraine says troops entered rebel-held city

http://news.msn.com/world/ukraine-says-troops-entered-rebel-held-city

"KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Army troops have penetrated deep inside arebel-controlled city in eastern Ukraine in what could prove a breakthroughdevelopment in the four-month-long conflict, the Ukrainian government saidSunday.
However, the military acknowledged that another one of its fighter planeswas shot down by the separatists, who have been bullish about their abilityto continue the battle and have bragged about receiving support from Russia.An Associated Press reporter spotted a column of several dozen heavyvehicles, including tanks and at least one rocket launcher, rolling throughrebel-held territory on Sunday.
Ukraine's national security council said government forces captured adistrict police station in Luhansk on Saturday after bitter clashes in theVelika Vergunka neighborhood."


By Epictetus

A Witness Conversation Unknowingly Captured at the Scene of the Ferguson Shooting is a Game-Changer

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/08/168698-eyewitness-recalls-important-detail-b
ackground-video-mins-ferguson-shooting/


A corroborating eye-witness account that Michael Brown turned and charged the policeman who was pursuing him after the policeman shouted at him to "freeze". Kind of discredits the "he had his hands up when he was
shot" narrative. Couple this with the store security video showing Brown perpetrating a strong arm robbery of a 49 dollar box of cigars and shoving aside the store clerk who tried to stop him and one gets a very different
picture from the "gentle giant" story.

By Epictetus

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Bump while on phone leads to stabbing in heart Toronto Cops say


Street crime in Canada.

By Epictetus

Biden Goes on 3rd Vacation This Month. No One Notices

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/biden-goes-on-3rd-vacation-this
-month-no-one-notices/


"Is Joe Biden technically ever not on vacation? His administration dutiesconsist of visiting places Obama doesn't want to go. Occasionally he'sdragged out to deliver a speech attacking Republicans over green jobs orbirth control. Or green birth control."
"And then he goes back on vacation..."

...Poor Joe. He's just a working class joe. Who takes three vacations a month. Like the rest of us."

Actually the more time our President and Vice-President spend on vacation the better off we all are.

By Epictetus

Obama's one achievement - outgolfing Tiger Woods

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/13/curl-obamas-one-achievement-
outgolfing-tiger-woods/


"As Barack "Eldrick" Obama approaches his 200th round of golf since hiselection as president, here's a fact to put that into perspective: SinceJanuary 2009, Tiger Woods has played 269 rounds of golf.
And Tiger, beleaguered by injury, is almost certainly done for the year. Sothat means the president, if he keeps up with his pace of play during his15-day vacation in Martha's Vineyard (a round a day) and his normal weeklyround, will pass Tiger sometime next spring.
Think about that for a minute. The president of the U.S., juggling theAmerican economy and the entire world's problems - Iraq is in full meltdown,the Middle East is a powder keg, Russia is moving on Ukraine - has playedgolf nearly as much as a guy whose day job is playing golf."

Massachusetts governor signs law tightening state gun rules

http://news.msn.com/us/massachusetts-governor-signs-law-tightening-state-gun
-rules


Of course the police in Boston are going to decide that people living in the city don't need to own rifle and shotguns. What?...Are you going to go hunting on Boston Commons? In fact they have already expressed this sentiment:

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2014/07/ma-but-nobody-wants-to-take-your-guns.h
tml


By Epictetus

Robin Williams' rep knocks down reports of money troubles

http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=882208

This just makes his suicide all the more incomprehensible. Well the medical
community always did say that Clinical Depression, a mood disorder, is the
leading cause of suicide. Which means to say there frequently is no rational
reason for it. So I guess being rich, famous and loved by all just became
too much of a burden to bear.

By Epictetus

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Sheriff David Clarke Defeats Bloomberg's Anti-Gun Money, Wins Milwaukee County Primary

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/08/13/sheriff-david-clarke-de
feats-bloombergs-antigun-money-wins-milwaulkee-county-primary-n1878229?utm_s
ource=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm


You can tell the Good Guy...he wears the white hat.

By Epictetus

Meet the New Squeegee Men-de Blasio's New York is coming unwound


Looks like the aggressive beggars and petty street extortionists who were the bane of everyone’s existence in New York City back in the ‘70’s,  ‘80’s and early ‘90’s are coming back again.


By Epictetus

SecDef Hagel: 130-member team to assess Iraq's 'squandered opportunity'

http://www.armytimes.com/article/20140812/NEWS05/308120077/SecDef-Hagel-130-
member-team-assess-Iraq-s-squandered-opportunity-


So it looks like we're going to give the Iraqi government more advice that they won't follow. Heck, the Iraqi's don't want advice, they want "Mr. Reese" show up and kick ass, to rescue them from the mess they got themselves into. They didn't realize that President Obama is a different kind of president, one who doesn't feel obligated to keep promises made by past administrations. Promises to have the Iraqis' back. Promises he feels should not have been made in the first place. He's no "Harold Finch" for certain.

By Epictetus

Robin Williams 'very drawn and thin' day before he hanged himself

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2723126/EXCLUSIVE-He-shell-Robin-Wil
liams-drawn-just-one-day-hanged-California-mansion-no-note.html


Well there you go...it was divorce that drove him to suicide...there ought
to be a law against it.

By Epictetus

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Python caught in Florida is chief suspect in mystery of missing cats

http://news.msn.com/offbeat/python-caught-in-florida-is-chief-suspect-in-mys
tery-of-missing-cats


All pythons are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of
law...whatcha gonna do when they come for you?...

By Epictetus

U.S. could announce more troops to Iraq

http://news.msn.com/us/us-could-announce-more-troops-to-iraq-officials

Back to Iraq for the last time again. Operation Token Effort expands.



By Epictetus

Why Doesn't the Democratic Party Have a Problem With Chris Moews' Special Interest Money?

http://www.newstalk1130.com/onair/common-sense-central-37717/why-doesnt-the-
democratic-party-have-12659211


The Democrat Party position on "special interest money" is similar to former
Chinese Communist ruler Mao Ze Dong's position on war: "All
counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just."

So by the same token to the Democrats all money that supports Democrat
candidates is good and all money the supports Republican Candidates is bad
and must be done away with.

"We shall support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy
supports." Mao Ze Dong.

"Leftists think that utopia can be coerced into existence -- so no
dishonesty or brutality is beyond them in pursuit of that "noble" goal"

John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) Brisbane, Australia, Dissecting Leftism BlogSpot

By Epictetus

The US says it finally busted the gang behind the most convincing counterfeit dollars in the world

http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/the-us-says-it-finally-busted-the-gang-beh
ind-the-most-convincing-counterfeit-dollars-in-the-world-1


Keep in mind that in spite of this development counterfeiting was much worse
in times past. For example, it is estimated that in 1860 half the currency
in circulation in the USA was counterfeit. That's why the Treasury
Department found it necessary to create the Secret Service.

By Epictetus

Ban Flights From West Africa To Fight Ebola

http://www.dickmorris.com/ban-flights-west-africa-fight-ebola-dick-morris-tv -lunch-alert/?utm_source=dmreports&utm_medium=dmreports&utm_campaign=dmreports

It will never happen though because it makes too much sense. A central tenant of Political Correctness is that you can never do anything to directly protect America's interests. It would be considered "imperialistic" for our government to promote the safety  and survival of American citizens and institutions over  those of other countries or peoples. Therefore America must be left exposed to terrorist attack, financial loss and disease epidemic. The only exceptions are during elections, when elected leaders must pretend to pander to the concerns and values of the common people (who for some reason refuse to accept their punishment and expect the government to protect the country and its citizens from dangerous foreign incursions of any and every sort) and when making an exaggerated show of protecting the country will actually serve to further harm its interests and to vex and inconvenience its citizens.

By Epictetus

Iraq mission puts USS George H.W. Bush 'at tip of the spear'

http://www.stripes.com/iraq-mission-puts-uss-george-h-w-bush-at-tip-of-the-s
pear-1.297880


It's Bush's fault.

By Epictetus

Vatican to Muslim Leaders: Condemn 'Barbaric' Islamic State or Lose All Credibility

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/12/vatican-to-muslim-leaders-condemn
-barbaric-islamic-state-or-lose-all-credibility/


Pope Francis is right: if the mainstream Muslim leaders do not denounce the
persecution of Christians and other non-Muslims in Iraq and elsewhere they
will lose their credibility. Meaning that people should no longer imagine
that even mainstream "moderate" Muslims anywhere do not support Islamist
Terrorism or can be trusted to bargain in good faith. Have the scales
dropped from the Pope's eyes?

It's a pleasant  surprise that the Pope/Vatican would make such a statement
condemning the persecution of Christians in Muslim countries. It has been
evident in recent years that the leadership of the major Christian churches
have been motivated by secular Politically Correct concerns and values at
least much as by Christian doctrine and values. Thus Christians were always
regarded as the imperialist oppressors and Muslims as the oppressed, so it
was un-PC to ever take the part of Christians over Muslims lest you be
denounced as racist and imperialist.


"Forgive your enemies, but never forget who they are."

                                 President John Fitzgerald Kennedy

By Epictetus

After Family Asks for Privacy Following Death of Robin Williams, ABC News Bannered This on Their Website

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/11/after-family-asks-for-privacy-fol
lowing-death-of-robin-williams-abc-news-bannered-this-on-their-website/


Well obviously ABC thought the request for privacy applied only to the Fans.
The News Media on the other hand has  right to know, everything. They
especially want to know if he went out like David Carradine, since the cause
of death was vaguely described by the authorities as "asphyxia". Did the
family imagine that Robin Williams would be treated differently because he
was a Liberal? Apparently they did.

By Epictetus

Army unveils new PT uniforms

http://www.armytimes.com/article/20140811/NEWS07/308110022/Army-unveils-new-
PT-uniforms


And you thought Starfleet Command went through a lot of uniform changes.

The Army has unveiled sweeping changes to its physical fitness uniform.

That includes: swapping the iconic black-on-gray "Army" T-shirt with a
gold-on-black version to match Army colors; the use of lighter,
moisture-wicking fabrics; and a better fit for men and women.

"It is a new icon," said Sergeant Major of the Army Raymond Chandler, the
service's top enlisted official

Navy removes Bibles from guest rooms

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/08/11/navy-removes-bibles-from-guest-roo
ms/

James O'Keefe as Osama bin Laden crosses border from Mexico to US

The Country of the Blind

http://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/2014/08/10/the-country-of-the-blind/?singlep
age=true


"I think that the country could survive four more years of Obama. But I don't believe the country can survive in a country full of people who would re-elect him." 
-Rush Limbaugh

"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
-Attributed toErasmus.

"No, I don't think Obama can be held wholly responsible for the nightmare darkness descending on the world in the absence of American leadership. He won the election fair and square. But he won it in the country of the blind."
-Andrew Klavan