tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post2099410860998744340..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: "It is inevitable and important that Iran and the U.S. repair and recover relations if ISIS is to be battled. America's other allies in the region do not possess the power to battle ISIS and it's sometimes ally Israel, if involved, would only stir up more trouble for America and Europe. It is high time for America and Iran to put the past to rest and move on.”Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83390341940537164702014-09-08T09:32:58.294-04:002014-09-08T09:32:58.294-04:00.
Yes.
..<br /><br />Yes.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21684566598128013292014-09-07T22:15:39.512-04:002014-09-07T22:15:39.512-04:002 Rivers<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/03/world/middleeast/syria-iraq-isis-rogue-state-along-two-rivers.html" rel="nofollow">2 Rivers</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-29306318196574413112014-09-07T22:13:27.849-04:002014-09-07T22:13:27.849-04:00Some Sunni tribal leaders are still bitter at the ...<i>Some Sunni tribal leaders are still bitter at the treatment under former Prime Minster Nuri Kamal Al-Maliki, a Shiite.<br /><br />“Even if they try we will not accept it,” said Sheik Ali Hatem Suleimani, a tribal leader in Anbar who now resides in Erbil. “In the past, we fought against Al Qaeda and we cleaned the area of them.<br /><br />But the Americans gave control of Iraq to Maliki, who started to arrest, kill, and exile most of the tribal commanders who led the fight against Al Qaeda.”</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-19623066854695602992014-09-07T21:56:22.312-04:002014-09-07T21:56:22.312-04:00It is high time for America and Iran to put the pa... It is high time for America and Iran to put the past to rest and move on.<br /><br /><br />So we toppled their government and they kidnapped took over our embassy.<br /><br />They fund, train and provide cover for the world's worst terror groups we export porn to the world.<br /><br />They have a national holiday celebrating "A Day without America" we have LBGT Month....<br /><br />They hang gays from construction cranes, we elect a gay to the Office of President...What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-55368721636808441302014-09-07T18:57:58.887-04:002014-09-07T18:57:58.887-04:00I have wondered why, as my Niece said, the Moslems...I have wondered why, as my Niece said, the Moslems in India 'aren't so bad'.<br /><br />Of course, they are being compared to the very worst.<br /><br />And, one would think after suffering around 100 million Hindu dead (the lowest estimate I have read is 80 million) her attitude might be not so forgiving.<br /><br />Perhaps the Moslems in India are subconsciously picking up on a society that is entirely different from their own, and are absorbing something of the Hindu attitude towards enemies, and non violence in general.<br /><br />It is an interesting question.<br /><br />out for the CdA Casino and the big car give away.....<br /><br />Cheers !Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47364142916713389882014-09-07T17:55:45.503-04:002014-09-07T17:55:45.503-04:00>>>>>>>>"The majority...<br />>>>>>>>>"The majority of them have no religious bent of mind," he said. "Some of them, less than 1 percent, of course are religious and radicalized and end up joining militant ranks. They are influenced by al Qaeda, Taliban, Islamic State."<br /><br />Islamic State is also trying to lure Muslims in mainland India, who make up the world's third-biggest Islamic population but who have largely stayed away from foreign battlefields despite repeated calls from al Qaeda<<<<<<<<<<br /><br />Just as my Niece said - 'the ones in India aren't so bad, it's the ones in the mid-east that are the worst'Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85565028327601827032014-09-07T17:52:28.830-04:002014-09-07T17:52:28.830-04:00RECRUITMENT IN INDIA
Signs of Islamic State's...RECRUITMENT IN INDIA<br /><br />Signs of Islamic State's influence are also being seen in Kashmir, the region claimed by both India and Pakistan and the scene of a decades-long battle by militants against Indian rule. Security officials in Indian-held Kashmir say they have been trying to find out the level of support for the Arab group after IS flags and banners appeared in the summer.<br /><br />Intelligence and police sources in New Delhi and Kashmir said the flags were first seen on June 27 in a part of the state capital Srinagar, and then in July when India's only Muslim-majority region was marking Islam's most holy day, Eid al-Fitr.<br /><br />Some IS graffiti also appeared on walls of buildings in Srinagar. A police officer said youngsters carrying Islamic State flags at anti-India rallies had been identified but no arrests had been made. <br /><br />Another officer who questions people detained in protests against Indian rule, many of them teenagers, said most were only focused on winning independence from India.<br /><br />"The majority of them have no religious bent of mind," he said. "Some of them, less than 1 percent, of course are religious and radicalized and end up joining militant ranks. They are influenced by al Qaeda, Taliban, Islamic State."<br /><br />Islamic State is also trying to lure Muslims in mainland India, who make up the world's third-biggest Islamic population but who have largely stayed away from foreign battlefields despite repeated calls from al Qaeda.<br /><br />In mid-July, an IS recruitment video surfaced online with subtitles in the Indian languages of Hindi, Tamil and Urdu in which a self-declared Canadian fighter, dressed in war fatigues and flanked by a gun and a black flag, urged Muslims to enlist in global jihad. <br /><br />That came out just weeks after four families in a Mumbai suburb reported to the police that their sons had gone missing, with one leaving behind a note about fighting to defend Islam. It soon turned out that the men had joined a pilgrimage to Baghdad.<br /><br />They later broke off from the tour group and never returned. Indian intelligence believe the men ended up in Mosul, the Iraqi city captured by Islamic State in June, and that one of them may have died in a bomb blast.<br /><br />Last week, the Times of India newspaper said four young men, including two engineering college students, were arrested in the eastern city of Calcutta as they tried to make their way to neighboring Bangladesh to join a recruiter for Islamic State based there.<br /><br />"It's not just these four, but our investigations have found that there could be more youngsters who are in touch with IS handlers and this is a bit of a scary proportion," the newspaper quoted a senior officer as saying. <br /><br />A top official at India's Intelligence Bureau in New Delhi told Reuters: "The problem is we know so little about this network or who is acting on their behalf here. <br /><br />"We know roughly where the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Indian Mujahideen (organizations backed by Pakistan) support groups are, where they make contacts. But this is a different challenge. Youth getting radicalized in their homes on the Internet, in chatrooms and through Facebook are not easy to track."<br /><br /><br />(Reporting by Asim Tanveer, Hameed Ullah, Saud Mehsud and Maria Golovnina,; Additional reporting by Fayaz Bukhari in SRINAGAR, Writing and additional reporting by Sanjeev Miglani in KABUL and NEW DELHI; Editing by Maria Golovnina and Raju <br /><br /><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/07/us-pakistan-islamicstate-idUSKBN0H203E20140907?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews<br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90531114384176562712014-09-07T17:45:51.416-04:002014-09-07T17:45:51.416-04:00a long long time ago.....a long long time ago.....Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-91906215937483905242014-09-07T17:44:47.668-04:002014-09-07T17:44:47.668-04:00You lost your sense of humor I long long time ago....You lost your sense of humor I long long time ago.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28604606699228918132014-09-07T17:27:21.869-04:002014-09-07T17:27:21.869-04:00sometimes that ignoramus is more than I can take.sometimes that ignoramus is more than I can take.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12724575493822201952014-09-07T17:16:16.669-04:002014-09-07T17:16:16.669-04:00States that decline to expand Medicaid give up bil...<br /><b>States that decline to expand Medicaid give up billions in aid </b><br /><br />By Tony Pugh - <br />McClatchy Washington bureau<br /> <br /> 09/03/2014 7:50 AM <br /> | Updated: 09/03/2014 7:50 AM <br />WASHINGTON — <br /><br /><b>If the 23 states that have rejected expanding Medicaid under the 2010 health care law continue to do so for the next eight years, they'll pay $152 billion to extend the program in other states – while receiving nothing in return.</b><br /><br />This massive exodus of federal tax dollars from 2013 through 2022 would pay 37 percent of the cost to expand Medicaid in the 27 remaining states and Washington, D.C., over that time.<br /><br />Most of the money, nearly $88 billion, would come from taxpayers in just five non-expansion states: Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia.<br /><br />The findings are part of a McClatchy analysis of data from the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan research center that’s advised states on implementing the health care law, the Affordable Care Act.<br /><br /><br />Non-expansion states would see direct benefits from their $152 billion only if they reversed course and expanded eligibility for Medicaid, the state and federal health program for low-income Americans. The health care law provides financial incentives for states to extend Medicaid coverage to adults who earn up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level.<br /><br /><b>If the non-expansion states did so, they’d still have to pay the $152 billion. But the 23 states also would split nearly $386 billion in federal Medicaid funding from 2013 to 2022, according to Urban Institute estimates.</b><br /><br />The money would cover all medical costs for newly eligible Medicaid enrollees from 2014 through 2016, and no less than 90 percent of their costs thereafter.<br /><br /><b>“Here is money that is pretty much there for the asking, and these states are turning it down. And in the meantime, their taxpayers are paying taxes that fund expansions in states that are moving forward. It just doesn’t make any sense,” said Sherry Glied, the dean of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.</b><br /><br />The federal funding under Medicaid expansion also would stimulate economic activity, boost tax revenue and create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the non-expansion states, experts say.<br /><br /><br /><b>“This additional use of medical services not only brings more federal dollars, but hospitals, physicians and pharmacies would likely hire more people, keep longer hours and probably raise wages. All of which leads to indirect spending and subsequent rounds of spending that generate tax revenues and, in general, the expansion of the economy within states,” said Michael Morrisey, a health economics professor at the University of . . . . . . .</b><br /><br />Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article1416171.html#storylink=cpy<br /><br /><a href="http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article1416171.html" rel="nofollow">Brainiacs, one and all</a><br />Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-63628802452302556162014-09-07T16:55:24.367-04:002014-09-07T16:55:24.367-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-26479102072150913132014-09-07T16:46:06.043-04:002014-09-07T16:46:06.043-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-14997868463455226312014-09-07T16:30:38.846-04:002014-09-07T16:30:38.846-04:00Whatever. Details.
Drink, Rufus, live a long time...Whatever. Details.<br /><br />Drink, Rufus, live a long time, just don't drink 'too much'.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62610776708996387412014-09-07T16:28:11.222-04:002014-09-07T16:28:11.222-04:00Informative article, Ash.
I did notice this:
&qu...Informative article, Ash.<br /><br />I did notice this:<br /><br />"Yet, Mr. Berger writes, while Mr. Baghdadi’s group has won pockets of support from terrorist leaders in Gaza, Afghanistan, Indonesia and elsewhere......"<br /><br /><br />'support of terrorist leaders in Gaza'Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-67060838370005098552014-09-07T16:24:26.390-04:002014-09-07T16:24:26.390-04:00.
I've always said the American Thinker was a....<br /><br />I've always said the American Thinker was anti-Pollack. And the Telegraph too. As were scientists and the guys that came up with the DNA test and Scotland Yard and Queen Victoria and the English in general.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18715577497928212362014-09-07T15:14:10.550-04:002014-09-07T15:14:10.550-04:00Israel is not about to use nukes on Iran. They are...Israel is not about to use nukes on Iran. They are already losing support around the world. <br /><br />Really? Where do you draw your measurement from?<br /><br />I seem to recall, not to long ago the "world" passed the famous "zionism is racism" at the UN body.. I remember the non-aligned movement supporting the palestinians locked step.<br /><br />Today? Israel has trade, inspite of the arab boycott (and office) with numerous arab countries. <br /><br />Today? Israel is being accepted into more and more international trade organizations<br /><br />Today? Israeli innovations and inventions are used universally.<br /><br />As for losing support? I seem to remember much larger and more angry crowds than now days..<br /><br />Can you name me any significant cutting of real ties to Israel, and please don't mention bullshit symbolic crap like England cutting sales of obsolete parts, or Obama slowing Hellfire rockets...<br /><br />If Iran had an active nuclear bomb ready to go? israel could and would use whatever it had to to protect it itself.<br /><br />However Israel has not admitted to having any nukes. <br /><br />What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83382888256346567782014-09-07T14:41:49.278-04:002014-09-07T14:41:49.278-04:00A rather lengthy article on ISIS
http://m.theglob...A rather lengthy article on ISIS<br /><br />http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/how-a-former-us-prisoner-of-war-created-an-islamic-state/article20378971/?service=mobileAshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-44080148472726416442014-09-07T14:37:28.222-04:002014-09-07T14:37:28.222-04:00McConnell now up by 5 in Kentucky, Cotton up by 2 ...McConnell now up by 5 in Kentucky, Cotton up by 2 in Arkansas.<br /><br /><br />Latest map:<br /><br />http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2014/senate/2014_elections_senate_map.htmlCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50926399491274597902014-09-07T14:34:21.114-04:002014-09-07T14:34:21.114-04:00Horseshit, we've had Income Taxes since the 18...Horseshit, we've had Income Taxes since the 1860's, and the Constitutional Amendment enabling the modern income tax was the <b>16th Amendment.</b><br /><br />The <b>18th Amendment,</b> paving the way for "Prohibition," was ratified Seven Years later.<br /><br /><i>American Nonthinker</i> at its finest.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-89559337139486849962014-09-07T14:14:42.720-04:002014-09-07T14:14:42.720-04:00And another interesting article from that racist r...And another interesting article from that racist rag, American Thinker -<br /><br /><br />September 7, 2014<br /><br />126 year old DNA evidence unmasks the identity of Jack the Ripper<br /><br />By Rick Moran<br /><br />A fascinating story published in The Telegraph today reveals the true identity of Jack the Ripper. DNA evidence from a shawl worn by one of the victims proves beyond a reasonable doubt who the notorious killer was. The shawl contained DNA from both the victim and the attacker and was matched to descendants of both. The scientist who extracted the DNA from the shawl discovered traces of semen from the attacker while blood evidence was used for DNA from the victim.<br /><br />And the winner is: Aaron Kosminski, one of the original six suspects Scotland Yard liked for the murders. Kosminski was a Polish immigrant - a pathetic loser who was insane. He ended up in an asylum and died at age 53..........<br /><br /><br />Read more: http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/09/126_year_old_dna_evidence_unmasks_the_identity_of_jack_the_ripper.html#ixzz3CeeSfW20 <br /><br />AT has always had it in for the Pollacks.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7153568248442144262014-09-07T14:09:40.875-04:002014-09-07T14:09:40.875-04:00There are a few caveats. True binge drinking -- on...There are a few caveats. True binge drinking -- on the order of 12 drinks in a session -- is unhealthy. That seems pretty obvious, just given the possibility of stumbling and falling, not to mention the hazards of getting behind the wheel. Steele notes: “drinking 10 drinks Friday and Saturday nights does not convey the benefits of two or three drinks daily, even though your weekly totals would be the same.” But I have seen “binge drinking” defined as four or so drinks, which is ridiculous for anyone of average or great body mass.<br /><br />And there are some people who are particularly vulnerable to harm:<br /><br /><br />…these outcome data do not apply to women with the “breast-cancer gene” mutations (BRCA 1 or 2) or a first-degree (mother, sister) relation who has had breast cancer, for whom alcohol consumption is far riskier.<br /><br />Steele does not mention alcoholism, which is interesting coming from an addiction specialist. I strongly suspect he has complicated views on the subject that would distract from his underlying message. I am old enough and have lived enough life to enjoy friendships with people who credit Alcoholics Anonymous with saving their lives. So I am cautious toward attempts to debunk the very notion that alcoholism is not, as is often claimed, a “disease.” I just don’t know. I do know that people I care about have come close to ruining their lives with compulsive drinking, and that they have found the power to stop through a 12 step program. God bless ‘em.<br /><br />I should disclose that I have a financial interest in the consumption of alcohol, as I am a partner in a California winery. I should also disclose that I love to drink good wine.<br /><br />In the last 10 years or so, I have done a lot of reading on Prohibition, and have concluded that the dimensions of the disaster it inflicted on our country are enormous. One of the great largely unknown stories is that Prohibition was a progressive project, driven by the same desire to perfect society and thereby eliminate the downsides of human nature that underlie all of progressivism’s fallacies. Another little-known aspect of Prohibition is that the income tax was created (and a constitutional amendment passed to enable same) as part of the deal which brought us Prohibition. The income tax was created to replace rthe alcohol taxes which had provided a siubstantial share of federal revenue. Talk about a Devil’s Bargain!<br /><br /><br />Stanton Peele, who studies and treats addiction, has published a fascinating summation of the scientific evidence on drinking and health (hat tip: Instapundit), and it cuts against the grain of much of what you will hear from most public health spokesmen. Drinking alcohol, up to two drinks a day for women and four for men (sorry, ladies, that’s what the data shows!), decreases mortality. Drink up and live longer.<br /><br /><br />Read more: http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/09/the_happy_news_drinking_is_good_for_you.html#ixzz3Ced1N6rB <br /><br /><br />Aristotle: all things in moderationCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16094184493129084842014-09-07T14:09:14.676-04:002014-09-07T14:09:14.676-04:00September 7, 2014
The happy news: drinking is goo...September 7, 2014<br /><br />The happy news: drinking is good for you<br /><br />By Thomas Lifson<br /><br />Stanton Peele, who studies and treats addiction, has published a fascinating summation of the scientific evidence on drinking and health (hat tip: Instapundit), and it cuts against the grain of much of what you will hear from most public health spokesmen. Drinking alcohol, up to two drinks a day for women and four for men (sorry, ladies, that’s what the data shows!), decreases mortality. Drink up and live longer.<br /><br />The U.S. public health establishment buries overwhelming evidence that abstinence is a cause of heart disease and early death. People deserve to know that alcohol gives most of us a higher life expectancy—even if consumed above recommended limits. (snip)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />…the evidence that abstinence from alcohol is a cause of heart disease and early death is irrefutable—yet this is almost unmentionable in the United States. Even as health bodies like the CDC and Dietary Guidelines for Americans (prepared by Health and Human Services) now recognize the decisive benefits from moderate drinking, each such announcement is met by an onslaught of opposition and criticism, and is always at risk of being reversed.<br /><br />Noting that even drinking at non-pathological levels above recommended moderate limits gives you a better chance of a longer life than abstaining draws louder protests still. Yet that’s exactly what the evidence tells us.<br /><br />Driven by the cultural residue of Temperance, most Americans still view drinking as unhealthy; many call alcohol toxic. Yet, despite drinking far less than many European nations, Americans have significantly worse health outcomes than heavier-drinking countries. (For example, despite being heavily out-drunk by the English, we have almost exactly twice their levels of diabetes, cancer, and heart disease.)<br /><br />This graphic from The New England Journal of Medicine lays out the basic facts:<br /><br /><br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-5905868329650675102014-09-07T14:04:09.220-04:002014-09-07T14:04:09.220-04:00You think America would survive an emp?You think America would survive an emp?What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80393604928809619082014-09-07T14:02:14.692-04:002014-09-07T14:02:14.692-04:00Rufus, you actually are not worth protecting.
How...Rufus, you actually are not worth protecting.<br /><br />However you don't reflect what America stands for.What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.com