tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post447189333684403956..comments2024-03-28T03:47:46.544-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Saudi Arabia’s attack on Yemen Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27698911613416721572015-05-10T21:11:21.683-04:002015-05-10T21:11:21.683-04:00.
BINGO !
And that's the BIG THING.
That mi....<br /><br /><i>BINGO !<br /><br />And that's the BIG THING.</i><br /><br />That might be the big thing but it is something that no one is arguing about. It is a subject that is not in contention. Never has been. The problem is dolts like you that that can't walk and chew gum at the same time. You continue to confute the end result of the conference with the shootings with my opinions of Geller and her reasons for organizing the conference. They are separate issues but you refuse to see it, that or you are just incapable of seeing it.<br /><br />So in the future, why don't you keep posting your whiney little articles about how nobody loves her, poor baby. I will continue to post that she is a media whore seeking self-aggrandizement. I won't refer to you. Please don't refer to me.<br /><br /><i>I bet not 2% of the American people would recognize Geller, not 1% would recognize Spencer, and about 0.1 % would actually recognize Geert Wilders.</i><br /><br />Of course not, why do you think they put on the contest? Why do you think they included their blog names in the name of the contest?<br /><br />Hint: refer back to comments on media whores and self-aggrandizement.<br /><br />.<br /><br />What is in argument is the opinion of Geller et al.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25215604109982905842015-05-10T17:59:38.289-04:002015-05-10T17:59:38.289-04:00This might endear Ben Carson to Rufus......
Ben C...This might endear Ben Carson to Rufus......<br /><br />Ben Carson: Let’s slash Big Oil to pay for ethanol<br />posted at 5:01 pm on May 10, 2015 by Jazz Shaw<br /><br /> Share on Facebook<br /> 12<br /> 61 SHARES<br /><br />Well this is certainly disappointing. With all of the newly emerging candidates running around the early primary and caucus states talking to anyone who will listen it gets difficult to keep track of them all. But there’s one bit of news out of Iowa from earlier this week which is definitely worth a quick rewind and a better look. Newly announced presidential contender Ben Carson was out talking to the Cornhuskers and the inevitable subjects of ethanol, the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and subsidies for King Corn came up. The answer from the esteemed neurosurgeon was dismaying even compared to some of the other pandering we’ve seen previously.<br /><br />He started out on a fairly good note:<br /><br /> Carson, in his first speech in the state as a candidate, was asked by a voter about the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the federal mandate that fuel refiners blend a certain volume of ethanol and biodiesel into their gasoline and diesel supplies.<br /><br /> “I don’t particularly like the idea of government subsidies for anything because it interferes with the natural free market,” Carson said, according to The Des Moines Register.<br /><br />Not bad. Subsidies in general are detrimental. If he’d only stopped there. But sadly, he didn’t.<br /><br /> “Therefore, I would probably be in favor of taking that $4 billion a year we spend on oil subsidies and using that in new fueling stations” for 30 percent ethanol blends, he added.<br /><br />How much wrong can you package into just one sentence? First of all… thirty percent blends? We’re fighting like mad to hold the line against E-15 as it is. I don’t even need to go back over all the reasons why yet again in this article. But let’s move on to the other half of that pitch.<br /><br />He’s suggesting cutting subsidies for domestic energy companies in the oil and gas industry. Not for everyone, mind you. Just them. And then reallocating that money away from fossil fuels and into ethanol processing. Just five seconds before that Carson had been claiming that he didn’t want anyone interfering with the free market, but now he’s saying to cherry pick one specific set of companies in the energy sector, remove a subsidy from them, and then redirect it to benefit the ethanol industry? It’s difficult to imagine a more egregious example of the government picking winners and losers, with the winners just happening to be in the first caucus state.<br /><br />Second, calling out the “subsidies for Big Oil” is the language of the Left, and as usual it’s complete horse hockey. As anyone who follows this topic knows, the subsidies received by oil and gas companies are not specific to them. They are precisely the same as subsidies given to almost anyone who sells anything, including Apple and Microsoft among so many others. In fact, you couldn’t just cancel the subsidies to the fossil fuel segment of the energy industry without rewriting the rules entirely just to exclude them. That’s a left wing, anti-energy talking point and Carson should be embarrassed to be saying it in front of an ostensibly conservative crowd.<br /><br />If you want to have a discussion about removing all subsidies across the board, then fine. We’re all ears. Carly Fiorina has proposed the same thing and it’s a worthy topic of debate. But when you start talking about just picking the pockets of oil and gas developers and using it to pay for ethanol, you may as well be running for the Democrat nomination. Poor showing, Dr. Carson. <br /><br />http://hotair.com/archives/2015/05/10/ben-carson-lets-slash-big-oil-to-pay-for-ethanol/<br /><br />I like Ben and wish him well but think he's in over his head.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-67364057641318859832015-05-10T17:47:25.081-04:002015-05-10T17:47:25.081-04:00Did Kerry say "I voted for it before I voted ...Did Kerry say "I voted for it before I voted against it" or "I voted against it before I voted for it" ?<br /><br />Can't recall for sure.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90569552937526519122015-05-10T17:46:17.183-04:002015-05-10T17:46:17.183-04:00You might have done so yourself, at the time.
The...You might have done so yourself, at the time.<br /><br />The majority in Congress voted for it, including many Democrats, including Hillary and Kerry, IIRC.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-24387560784632269352015-05-10T17:36:29.516-04:002015-05-10T17:36:29.516-04:00>> he sees one thing, that both were attacke...>> he sees one thing, that both were attacked Islamic radicals over free speech issues<<<br /><br />BINGO !<br /><br />And that's the BIG THING.<br /><br />And you allow yourself to get sidetracked over some 'media whore' craparoo.<br /><br />jeez, you're impossible.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-64015112424047017472015-05-10T17:32:39.930-04:002015-05-10T17:32:39.930-04:00So, Spencer flaps his gums just like you.
It took...So, Spencer flaps his gums just like you.<br /><br />It took you three or four dense paragraphs to finally get around to saying you'd be doing much the same as O'bozo is doing now in Iraq.<br /><br />>>they are media whores out for their own aggrandizement<<<br /><br />Non sense.<br /><br />I bet not 2% of the American people would recognize Geller, not 1% would recognize Spencer, and about 0.1 % would actually recognize Geert Wilders.<br /><br />Only about 20% can name the Vice-President, according to Waters World on Fox News.<br /><br />More people would recognize your name, Q, than Wilders, I'd bet.<br /><br />Now, feel proud, and puff up.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-76575195783732171022015-05-10T15:19:45.200-04:002015-05-10T15:19:45.200-04:00Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) would have author...<b>Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) would have authorized the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, putting the likely 2016 presidential contender on the same page as his brother George W. Bush, the president who actually did so.</b><br /><br />“I would have [authorized the invasion], and so would have Hillary Clinton, just to remind everybody. And so would almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got,” Bush told Fox News' Megyn Kelly in an interview scheduled to air Monday.<br /><br />But he acknowledged that the "intelligence that everybody saw, that the world saw, was faulty," adding that after the invasion, the U.S. ought to have focused on securing and stabilizing Iraq in order to shield its people from sectarian violence.<br /><br /><br />“By the way, guess who thinks that those mistakes took place as well? George W. Bush. Yes, I mean, so just for the news flash to the world, if they’re trying to find places where there’s big space between me and my brother, this might not be one of those," Jeb Bush said.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-21817931453458263322015-05-10T15:10:46.146-04:002015-05-10T15:10:46.146-04:00UPDATE 1815 BST: FIRST PERSON ACCOUNT FROM SAADA U...<b>UPDATE 1815 BST: FIRST PERSON ACCOUNT FROM SAADA UNDER THE BOMBS</b><br /><br />A Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team spent last night in the city of Saada under intense bombing from the coalition led by Saudi Arabia. On Friday night the coalition gave an ultimatum to the population to leave the city and the surrounding area, as the whole province in the north of the country would become a military target.<br /><br />Teresa Sancristóval, MSF emergency coordinator, was part of the team who worked thourough the night at the Al Gumhury hospital in Saada. She said:<br /><br />“The bombing has been quite intense, more than twenty bombs have hit different buildings in the city, which has already suffered a huge level of destruction in recent weeks. There have been reports of 140 bombs being dropped on the city in a single day.<br /><br />"Even though the city is noticeably emptier, many people were not aware of the order of evacuation—it hasn't been heard by the entire population. There is no electricity, no working telephones and yesterday there was a huge storm... We fear that everyone wasn't aware of the ultimatum. Even at the hospital last night we had seven women giving birth, five of them had to flee because of the intensity of the airstrikes.<br /><br />"Some people were leaving the city in trucks, but many were leaving on foot as there is no fuel due to the blockade.<br /><br />"Although many people had already left the town, the population that remains in the city are very scared and worried. The market, storage facilities and government buildings have been destroyed and many civilians are suffering the consequences. At the hospital, where those severely injured are brought in, the majority of the staff works and lives in the hospital.<br /><br />“MSF’s team worked at the hospital throughout the night. Due to the bombing we had to move patients around the hospital, which is running out of safe places. The maternity ward is now also a pediatric and inpatient Ward for women.”Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-17367198049923041292015-05-10T14:45:34.188-04:002015-05-10T14:45:34.188-04:00.
I have always been a supporter of Steyn from th....<br /><br />I have always been a supporter of Steyn from the times he was writing for McCleans and was being sued in Canada because his writing wasn't PC enough. I support him on a number of issues especially on free-speech issues (not so much on foreign policy where he tends towards the neocon). However, when he equates what happened in Garland to Charlie Hebdo, he sees one thing, that both were attacked Islamic radicals over free speech issues. What he fails to understand (perhaps because of his illness), the same thing that the other dolts that are stomping around whining in their high dudgeon that Geller or Spencer can somehow be equated to the cartoonists of Hebdo, the 'actual' reason we fail to give the Geller, Spencer, Wilders of the world the love they demand, is that they are media whores out for their own aggrandizement. <br /><br />We only have to look at the name of the event, the AFDIJWMAECC. In speaking of it in a post you put up, Spencer could have referred to the event as the contest, or the cartoon contest, or the Muhammad cartoon contest, but he didn't. No, he had to spell it all out like an advertisement for for his and Geller's blogs, <i>The American Defense Institute/Jihad Watch Muhammad Art Exhibition and Cartoon Contest</i>.<br /><br />Good lord.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-22154449374062987122015-05-10T14:16:33.730-04:002015-05-10T14:16:33.730-04:00.
And no, I don't feel impacted by the Patrio....<br /><br /><i>And no, I don't feel impacted by the Patriot Act now that phones calls aren't to be monitored.</i><br /><br />Your post, which I responded to, was in reply to a stream of posts put up in response to Deuce's post talking about a bill McConnell is introducing which would extend the 215 program the appeals court has ruled was unconstitutional.<br /><br />If I misinterpreted your meaning or you weren't actually responding to the post on the McConnell bill, I apologize. However...<br /><br /><i>I have to say, I haven't been impacted by the Patriot Act and I don't think anyone else here really has been, either.</i><br /><br />seems pretty clear.<br /><br />.<br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43214913388499328392015-05-10T14:03:16.873-04:002015-05-10T14:03:16.873-04:00>>As Steyn notes, once the thousands (!) of ...>>As Steyn notes, once the thousands (!) of Western passport-owning jihadis currently receiving training by ISIS start returning home, it is going to get very ugly. In the meantime, let’s all pray for Mark’s speedy recovery.<<<br /><br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-15054441992003603782015-05-10T14:00:54.630-04:002015-05-10T14:00:54.630-04:00I'm not the only one that thinks so (Doug thou...I'm not the only one that thinks so (Doug thought so too, by the way) -<br /><br />May 10, 2015<br />Steyn on Garland, Texas terror attack<br />By Thomas Lifson<br /><br />I am very sorry to learn from his latest column that Mark Steyn has been ill, but very glad that he has managed to find the energy to comment on the media and political response to the terror attack in Garland, Texas. As you would expect, he is witty and to the point. The title alone is gem: "Stay Quiet and You'll Be Okay"<br /><br />Read the whole thing, but here is an excerpt to whet the appetite:<br /><br /> …a rough couple of weeks for free speech, culminating in the attempted mass murder in Garland, Texas.<br /><br /> That's what it was, by the way - although you might have difficulty telling that from the news coverage. The Washington Post offered the celebrated headline "Event Organizer Offers No Apology After Thwarted Attack In Texas", while the Associated Press went with "Pamela Geller says she has no regrets about Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest that ended in 2 deaths"......<br /><br />http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/05/steyn_on_garland_texas_terror_attack.html<br /><br /><br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-14613414763662308862015-05-10T13:54:44.159-04:002015-05-10T13:54:44.159-04:00>>>If the American press were not so lazy...>>>If the American press were not so lazy and parochial, they would understand that this was the third Islamic attack on free speech this year - first, Charlie Hebdo in Paris; second, the Lars Vilks event in Copenhagen; and now Texas. The difference in the corpse count is easily explained by a look at the video of the Paris gunmen, or the bullet holes they put in the police car. The French and Texan attackers supposedly had the same kind of weapons, although one should always treat American media reports with a high degree of skepticism when it comes to early identification of "assault weapons" and "AK47s". Nonetheless, from this reconstruction, it seems clear that the key distinction between the two attacks is that in Paris they knew how to use their guns and in Garland they didn't. So a very cool 60-year-old local cop with nothing but his service pistol advanced under fire and took down two guys whose heavier firepower managed only to put a bullet in an unarmed security guard's foot.<br /><br />The Charlie Hebdo killers had received effective training overseas - as thousands of ISIS recruits with western passports are getting right now. What if the Garland gunmen had been as good as the Paris gunmen? Surely that would be a more interesting question for the somnolent American media than whether some lippy Jewess was asking for it.<br /><br />As for the free-speech issues, some of us have been around this question for a long time. I wrote a whole book about it: Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight Of The West - well worth a read, and I'm happy to autograph it for you. On page 123 I write about Jyllands Posten and the original Motoons:<br /><br /> The twelve cartoonists are now in hiding. According to the chairman of the Danish Liberal Party, a group of Muslim men showed up at a local school looking for the daughter of one of the artists.<br /><br /> When that racket starts, no cartoonist or publisher or editor should have to stand alone. The minute there were multimillion-dollar bounties on those cartoonists' heads, The Times of London and Le Monde and The Washington Post and all the rest should have said, "This Thursday we're all publishing the cartoons. If you want to put bounties on all our heads, you'd better have a great credit line at the Bank of Jihad. If you want to kill us, you'll have to kill us all..."<br /><br /> But it didn't happen.<br /><br />The only two magazines to stand in solidarity with the Danish cartoonists and republish the Motoons were Charlie Hebdo in Paris and my own magazine in Canada, Ezra Levant's Western Standard. Ezra wound up getting hauled up by some dimestore imam before the ignorant and thuggish Alberta "Human Rights" Commission whose leisurely money-no-object "investigation" consumed years of his life and all his savings. But he was more fortunate than our comrades at Charlie Hebdo: He's still alive.<<<<br /><br />"Stay Quiet and You'll Be Okay"<br /><br />by Mark Steyn<br />The War on Free Speech<br />May 9, 2015<br /><br />http://www.steynonline.com/6943/stay-quiet-and-youll-be-okay<br /><br />Mark Steyn is a wonderfully good writer.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-76013207219898228152015-05-10T13:45:48.198-04:002015-05-10T13:45:48.198-04:00Two white Police killed by two blacks in Mississip...Two white Police killed by two blacks in Mississippi.<br /><br />Blue lives matter.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74487321838958938532015-05-10T13:34:02.150-04:002015-05-10T13:34:02.150-04:00I'll make a deal with you Quirk.
You look aft...I'll make a deal with you Quirk.<br /><br />You look after our right to privacy, I'll look after our right to free speech.<br /><br />Between the both of us, we will uphold the Constitution as it was meant to be.<br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-67342631908949761632015-05-10T13:30:13.458-04:002015-05-10T13:30:13.458-04:00Jesus, Quirk, I am JOKING when I say vote for Hill...Jesus, Quirk, I am JOKING when I say vote for Hillary.<br /><br />And no, I don't feel impacted by the Patriot Act now that phones calls aren't to be monitored.<br /><br />I don't think you have been, or anyone else around here, other than maybe rat'sass, if the government were doing its job.<br /><br />I do not know the true answer about attacks being stopped. <br /><br />Anyway I ain't a goin' to argue with you. Recall for me my stated position of agreeing with Q on spooking.<br /><br />I agree with Q on all matters pertaining to spooking, I said it right here.<br /><br />Even thought I don't see how I could have been personally affected by it, living a clean quiet life out here in the woods and fields.<br /><br />Unless my minor association with the Dreaded Tea Party put me on the radar screen. (Hadn't thought of that until this instant)<br /><br />Hmmmmm.....maybe I am a victim after all....<br /><br /><br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-13857683842228328362015-05-10T13:21:23.016-04:002015-05-10T13:21:23.016-04:00.
The rat would disagree with you.
..<br /><br />The rat would disagree with you.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-522028074208474672015-05-10T13:20:11.016-04:002015-05-10T13:20:11.016-04:00There are more interceptions in the cold and rain ...There are more interceptions in the cold and rain than on normal days, Noble Ash.<br /><br />But, I let it pass, it kinda a dumb argument anyway.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49293931474147631922015-05-10T13:11:47.579-04:002015-05-10T13:11:47.579-04:00I have to say, I haven't been impacted by the ...<br /><br /><i>I have to say, I haven't been impacted by the Patriot Act and I don't think anyone else here really has been, either.</i><br /><br />How the hell do you know you haven't been effected by it? Everything about the program is declared 'secret'. Most of the public weren't even aware of it before Snowden bolted. I would wager most of them still aren't aware of any details and the bulk of those that do know anything about it are sheeple like you.<br /><br />But of course , whether a particular individual has been effected by it or not is not the issue. In broad terms, the issues are twofold, the chance for abuse and the lack of any proof that the programs are adequate for the task it is purportedly designed for.<br /><br />We have seen the militarization of our police force that was highlighted after Ferguson. However, that is minor compared to other sharing between the Feds and the state and the local police. There is a growing sharing of all types of information in the form of databases between these organizations, information that local officials couldn't legally collect on their own. However, the sheeple deny Reagan's warning the the scariest words in the English language is 'We're from the government and we are here to help.' Instead, they trust the government even in light of evidence such as Lois Lerner and the IRS. There are of course other examples of bureaucrats trampling on the rights of people, J. Edgar Hoover being one. But we don't have to go back that far to see how some of these guys think. The post Deuce put up showing Hayden saying that 911 changed everything, that the constitution has to be 'interpreted' differently, that he, an unelected bureaucrat in his position as head of NSA, has the power to make policy and take action without accountability to the people, the courts, the president, or the Congress if his actions are 'in his opinion' in the best interests of the US. <br /><br />However, though those in charge of our intelligence agencies swear to the media these programs have thwarted numerous terrorist attacks, over fifty were mentioned in congressional testimony, they have offered zero evidence that these collection programs were responsible for thwarting even one. And why haven't they provided that evidence? Well, national security, of course. All of the details are 'secret'. We can't reveal our methods (this after Snowden has already revealed their methods). <br /><br />Independent agencies and watchdog groups have reviewed the government claims. Courts have reviewed the government claims. Congressional committees have investigated the government claims. IG's within the agencies themselves have investigated the government claims. None of them have come up with any evidence that these collection programs have in themselves prevented any terrorist plots. Despite this, dolts like McConnell and Cotton and Cruz and Rubio would insist on continuing to spend billions on these programs even though they have now been ruled unconstitutional at the appeal level. But the sheeple merely "Baaahh" and head over to t-shirt night at the casino.<br /><br />We have seen the actual lack of effectiveness of these programs when they fail to prevent events like the underwear bomber over Detroit, the Times Square bomber, the Boston marathon bombers, even the latest events in Garland, Texas. Yet, guys like Clapper and Hayden and Brennan still insist these programs are needed, even after they have been found lying to Congress, even as with Brennan and Clapper they have admitted that they lied to Congress. These guys should have been fired and tried for lying to Congress instead of allowed to keep their positions. <br /><br />It is sad when Americans are willing to give up their basic rights to privacy in false hope that the government can protect them from all future terror attacks. It is even more sad when decisions like that are dependent up the political affililiations of those promoting the programs.<br /><br />.<br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50923058612748466742015-05-10T13:06:52.665-04:002015-05-10T13:06:52.665-04:00.
Vote for Hillary !
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I have t....<br /><br /><i>Vote for Hillary !<br /><br />-----------------<br /><br />I have to say, I haven't been impacted by the Patriot Act and I don't think anyone else here really has been, either.</i><br /><br /><br />The voice of the ill-informed sheeple is once again heard in the land as he spouts his patriotic war cry, "Thinking is hard. It hurts. Besides, no skin off my nose."<br /><br />Bob, try getting informed.<br /><br /><i>Vote for Hillary !</i><br /><br />As poster boy for the Idaho Sheeple and Mensa Society, you will no doubt believe Hillary when she claims she supports restrictions on the Freedom Act (if the polls support that, of course). To believe that would be to believe her when she says she wants to ban money from politics. Hillary is a bigger neocon than Obama. It was her who pushed Obama into the war on Libya. Her shitty ass grin as she proclaimed, "We came, we saw, he's dead" should tell you everything you need to know about Hillary.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-66283708719116734152015-05-10T12:52:06.109-04:002015-05-10T12:52:06.109-04:00CaISO<a href="http://content.caiso.com/green/renewrpt/DailyRenewablesWatch.pdf" rel="nofollow">CaISO</a><br />Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-13220047588180786952015-05-10T12:48:38.959-04:002015-05-10T12:48:38.959-04:00Yesterday, California obtained 28% of its electric...Yesterday, California obtained <b>28%</b> of its electricity from Renewables <br /><br /> (Large Hydro Not included.)<br /><br /><a href="http://content.caiso.com/green/renewrpt/DailyRenewablesWatch.pdf'>CaISO</a><br /><br />Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50559290140761529192015-05-10T12:34:32.501-04:002015-05-10T12:34:32.501-04:00From a Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inheren...From a Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve News Release<br /><br />U.S. and coalition military forces have continued to attack Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Syria and Iraq, Combined Joint Task Force Inherent Resolve officials reported today.<br /><br />Officials reported details of the latest strikes, which took place between 8 a.m. yesterday and 8 a.m. today, local time, noting that assessments of results are based on initial reports.<br /><br />Airstrikes in Syria<br /><br />Attack, bomber and fighter aircraft conducted 15 airstrikes in Syria:<br /><br />-- Near Hasakah, 13 airstrikes struck three large and seven small ISIL tactical units, destroying nine ISIL fighting positions, 10 ISIL vehicles, two ISIL heavy machine guns and an ISIL armored vehicle.<br /><br />-- Near Aleppo, one airstrike struck an ISIL building and an ISIL vehicle-borne improvised explosive device.<br /><br />-- Near Kobani, one airstrike struck an ISIL tactical unit, destroying an ISIL vehicle and an ISIL heavy machine gun.<br /><br />Airstrikes in Iraq<br /><br />Attack, fighter and remotely piloted aircraft conducted 13 airstrikes in Iraq, approved by the Iraqi Ministry of Defense:<br /><br />-- Near Asad, one airstrike struck an ISIL tactical unit.<br /><br />-- Near Beiji, four airstrikes struck two ISIL tactical units, destroying three ISIL VBIEDS, two ISIL IED staging areas, an ISIL structure, an ISIL vehicle and an ISIL IED.<br /><br />-- Near Fallujah, four airstrikes struck an ISIL tactical unit, an ISIL weapons facility, an ISIL IED staging facility, an ISIL VBIED facility, destroying an ISIL VBIED and an ISIL heavy machine gun.<br /><br />-- Near Mosul, one airstrike destroyed an ISIL excavator.<br /><br />-- Near Sinjar, one airstrike struck an ISIL mortar position.<br /><br />-- Near Tal Afar, two airstrikes destroyed an ISIL building, an ISIL excavator, an ISIL heavy machine gun and an ISIL fighting position.<br /><br />The strikes were conducted as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, the operation to eliminate the ISIL terrorist group and the threat they pose to Iraq, Syria, the region and the wider international community. The destruction of ISIL targets in Syria and Iraq further limits the terrorist group`s ability to project terror and conduct operations.<br /><br />Coalition nations conducting airstrikes in Iraq include the United States, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Jordan, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Coalition nations conducting airstrikes in Syria include the United States, Bahrain, Canada, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. <br /><br />http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=128773<br /><br /><a href="http://thesop.org/story/20150510/airstrikes-continue-against-isil-in-syria-iraq.html" rel="nofollow">More Dead Than "Walking"</a>Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60963681162781644402015-05-10T10:48:53.268-04:002015-05-10T10:48:53.268-04:00For the past 46 years, all residents within greate...For the past 46 years, all residents within greater Israel have lived under the same regime, <br />which claims to be the sole legitimate political and military authority.<br /><br />The state controls the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, ruling over eight million rights-bearing citizens <br />(75% of whom are Jews) and four million Palestinian subjects denied civil and political rights. <br /><br />Millions of Palestinian refugees <br />(who were born in the territory or whose direct ancestors were)<br /> cannot set foot in their homeland, let alone determine its political future as citizens.<br /><br /><b>Insiders</b><br />How is the notion of apartheid relevant to this reality?<br /><br /> The Israeli regime is based on an ethnic-religious distinction<br />between Jewish insiders and Palestinian outsiders.<br /><br />It expands citizenship beyond its territory, potentially to all Jews regardless of their links to the country, and contracts citizenship within it: <br /><br />Palestinians in the occupied territories and refugees outside have no citizenship and cannot become Israeli citizens.<br /><br />The regime combines different modes of rule: <br />civilian authority with democratic institutions within the Green Line (the pre-1967 boundaries), and military authority beyond it.<br /><br />In times of crisis, the military mode of rule spills over the line to apply to Palestinian citizens in Israel.<br />At all times, the civilian mode of rule spills over the line to apply to Jewish settlers.<br /><br />The distinction between the two sides of the line is constantly eroding as a result, <br />and norms and practices developed under the occupation filter back into Israel.<br /><br />Israel as a "Jewish democratic state" is "democratic" for Jews and "Jewish" for Arabs.<br /><br />http://mg.co.za/article/2013-10-04-00-is-there-a-better-adjective-than-apartheid-to-describe-israel/<br />Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-37481879417639687902015-05-10T10:07:50.456-04:002015-05-10T10:07:50.456-04:00Israel is not the issue, not in the least.
Israel...Israel is not the issue, not in the least.<br /><br />Israel, the ONLY true democratic nation in the middle east, is stable, democratic and free.<br /><br />Unlike most nations in the world. Some could argue even freer than America these days.<br /><br /><br />Now the issue is and will be? The Great Sunni/Shia fight and OIL.<br /><br />As long as the islamic nations of the middle east have a valuable commodity called OIL it will cause murder and destruction.<br /><br />But not to worry, the Iranian Firster's here will point their bony fingers at Israel.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the moslems continue to cut each other's heads off at greater and greater numbers....What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.com