tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post6554621117653161122..comments2024-03-28T21:41:52.558-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: AIPAC and the Saudis are doing their mischief to get the US involved in a war with IranDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger122125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46071041807369480412014-01-15T09:31:52.883-05:002014-01-15T09:31:52.883-05:00.
I will have to respond later this afternoon as ....<br /><br />I will have to respond later this afternoon as I have appointments I have to attend. But I respond. As usual, your comments are riddled with misleading and inaccurate statements.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56598335432285850322014-01-15T08:30:35.195-05:002014-01-15T08:30:35.195-05:00Is it anti-zionism or anti-semitism or just stupid...Is it anti-zionism or anti-semitism or just stupidity that my "wio" is not added to the blog roll?<br />What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47039377900528098302014-01-15T08:30:06.915-05:002014-01-15T08:30:06.915-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-26608703621744161222014-01-15T08:28:55.019-05:002014-01-15T08:28:55.019-05:00QuirkTue Jan 14, 05:41:00 PM EST
'What do you ...QuirkTue Jan 14, 05:41:00 PM EST<br />'What do you say about the numerous Jews through the decades and up to the present in the U.S., in Israel, and around the world who for various reasons both religious and secular oppose Zionism? Are they anti-Semites? A simple yes or no is all that is required.'<br /><br />Thank you Mr Lawyer. But the answer is not a simple yes or no.<br /><br />The modern issue of anti-zionism of being anti-Semitism has nothing to do with the anti-zionism of "numerous" jews from the previous decades. BTW what is a "numerous"? 1%? 5% of the total population of Jews in the world?<br /><br />Jewish culture, religion and it's peoples support the self determination of the Jewish people for nationhood in it's historic homeland in Israel by a majority of over 98%. Of course there are always exceptions. There are also deluded, ill and simply retarded folks as well. Are they a part of your "numerous" calculus? <br /><br />Quirk: "who for various reasons both religious and secular oppose Zionism?" Should we give weight to the remaining Iranian Jews who oppose zionism? Or should we give the vast majority of Jews that escaped Iran more credence.<br /><br />The political tool that is now the rage in the world which is anti-zionism is in fact anti-Semitic,<br /><br />And yes there are self hating Jews who are intact anti-Semitic.<br /><br />And I am sure there are "numerous" Jews that embrace Islam, Christianity and the modern Porn industry. This does not change the calculus. <br /><br />There are NUMEROUS articles that describe the "anti-zionist" movement as a cover for anti-Semitism. <br /><br />You have have dismissed Daniel Pearl's mother article as ignorant or so other such dismissive term.<br /><br />Anti-Zionism has become the most dangerous and effective form of anti-Semitism in our time, through its systematic delegitimization, defamation, and demonization of Israel. Although not a priori anti-Semitic, the calls to dismantle the Jewish state, whether they come from Muslims, the Left, or the radical Right, increasingly rely on an anti-Semitic stereotypization of classic themes, such as the manipulative "Jewish lobby," the Jewish/Zionist "world conspiracy," and Jewish/Israeli "warmongers."<br /><br />In a nut shell, a simple answer is...<br /><br />If you hate Israel and wish to deny the jewish people self determination in it's historic homeland and apply a standard of judgement that ONLY Israel has to live up to? You are an anti-SemiteWhat is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-11476711270315647442014-01-15T04:45:42.314-05:002014-01-15T04:45:42.314-05:00Also among those whose secret testimony was declas...Also among those whose secret testimony was declassified was Dempsey, the first person Ham briefed about Benghazi. Ham told lawmakers he considered it a fortuitous "happenstance" that he was able to rope Dempsey and Panetta into one meeting, so that, as Ham put it, "they had the basic information as they headed across for the meeting at the White House." Ham also told lawmakers he met with Panetta and Dempsey when they returned from their 30-minute session with President Obama on Sept. 11.<br /><br />Armed Services Chairman Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., sitting in on the subcommittee's hearing with Ham last June, reserved for himself an especially sensitive line of questioning: namely, whether senior Obama administration officials, in the very earliest stages of their knowledge of Benghazi, had any reason to believe that the assault grew spontaneously out of a demonstration over an anti-Islam video produced in America.<br /><br />Numerous aides to the president and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton repeatedly told the public in the weeks following the murder of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans that night -- as Obama's hotly contested bid for re-election was entering its final stretch -- that there was no evidence the killings were the result of a premeditated terrorist attack, but rather were the result of a protest gone awry. Subsequent disclosures exposed the falsity of that narrative, and the Obama administration ultimately acknowledged that its early statements on Benghazi were untrue. <br /><br />"In your discussions with General Dempsey and Secretary Panetta," McKeon asked, "was there any mention of a demonstration or was all discussion about an attack?" Ham initially testified that there was some "peripheral" discussion of this subject, but added "at that initial meeting, we knew that a U.S. facility had been attacked and was under attack, and we knew at that point that we had two individuals, Ambassador Stevens and Mr. [Sean] Smith, unaccounted for."<br /><br />Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, a first-term lawmaker with experience as an Iraq war veteran and Army reserve officer, pressed Ham further on the point, prodding the 29-year Army veteran to admit that "the nature of the conversation" he had with Panetta and Dempsey was that "this was a terrorist attack." ...<br /><br /> Posted by Robert Spencer on January 14, 2014 <br /><br /><br /><br />Farmer Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02392109642256694683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-13660875532623299352014-01-15T04:44:50.637-05:002014-01-15T04:44:50.637-05:00Finally !!
This must be the in depth report on th...Finally !!<br /><br />This must be the in depth report on the Benghazi betrayal that Obama promised us all in the last campaign -<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Jihad Watch<br /><br />Benghazi: Obama was told immediately that it was a "terrorist attack," not a protest on Muhammad video<br /><br /> What is most disturbing about Obama's deceptiveness here is that he blamed the Muhammad video -- in effect blaming America's freedom of speech and implying that restrictions on the freedom of speech would be warranted. As Pamela Geller notes: "Not one week after the September 11th attacks on our consulate, Obama stood before the world at the UN and said, 'the future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.' Obama said this knowing that the murder of our people and the attack on our consulate was in the cause of Muhammad." You'd almost think he wanted the U.S. to adopt Sharia blasphemy restrictions.<br /><br />"The Benghazi Transcripts: Top Defense officials briefed Obama on ‘attack,’ not video or protest," by James Rosen for Fox News, January 14 (thanks to all who sent this in):<br /><br />Minutes after the American consulate in Benghazi came under assault on Sept. 11, 2012, the nation's top civilian and uniformed defense officials -- headed for a previously scheduled Oval Office session with President Obama -- were informed that the event was a "terrorist attack," declassified documents show. The new evidence raises the question of why the top military men, one of whom was a member of the president's Cabinet, allowed him and other senior Obama administration officials to press a false narrative of the Benghazi attacks for two weeks afterward. <br /><br />Gen. Carter Ham, who at the time was head of AFRICOM, the Defense Department combatant command with jurisdiction over Libya, told the House in classified testimony last year that it was him who broke the news about the unfolding situation in Benghazi to then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The tense briefing -- in which it was already known that U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens had been targeted and had gone missing -- occurred just before the two senior officials departed the Pentagon for their session with the commander in chief. <br /><br />According to declassified testimony obtained by Fox News, Ham -- who was working out of his Pentagon office on the afternoon of Sept. 11 -- said he learned about the assault on the consulate compound within 15 minutes of its commencement, at 9:42 p.m. Libya time, through a call he received from the AFRICOM Command Center. <br /><br />"My first call was to General Dempsey, General Dempsey's office, to say, 'Hey, I am headed down the hall. I need to see him right away,'" Ham told lawmakers on the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation on June 26 of last year. "I told him what I knew. We immediately walked upstairs to meet with Secretary Panetta."<br /><br />Ham's account of that fateful day was included in some 450 pages of testimony given by senior Pentagon officials in classified, closed-door hearings conducted last year by the Armed Services subcommittee. The testimony, given under "Top Secret" clearance and only declassified this month, presents a rare glimpse into how information during a crisis travels at the top echelons of America's national security apparatus, all the way up to the president. <br /><br />Farmer Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02392109642256694683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-13549424908652319432014-01-15T04:35:51.688-05:002014-01-15T04:35:51.688-05:00Suckers-R-Us
New agreement doesn't give IAEA...Suckers-R-Us<br /><br /><br />New agreement doesn't give IAEA enough access to Iran to investigate whether they're working on nuclear bomb<br /><br /><br /><br />Nackaerts.jpgHerman Nackaerts, living in hope<br /><br /><br /> Iran keeps playing Obama and the other Western leaders for fools. And they are, of course. "IAEA gains more Iran access, but not enough for bomb probe," by Fredrik Dahl for Reuters, January 13:<br /><br />(Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's increased access in Iran to monitor a landmark agreement with world powers still falls short of what it says it needs to investigate suspicions that Tehran may have worked on designing an atomic bomb. <br />It is also a far cry from the wide-ranging inspection powers the International Atomic Energy Agency had in Iraq in the 1990s to help unearth and dismantle Saddam Hussein's clandestine nuclear program after the first Gulf war.<br /><br />Nevertheless, the IAEA will see its role in Iran expand significantly under the November 24 interim accord between the country and the six major powers, the implementation of which will start next Monday.<br /><br />Since the deal is only preliminary, the IAEA and its investigation may gain more prominence in later talks on a final settlement of the decade-old dispute over Iran's nuclear program, but it remains to be seen how far it will go.<br /><br />"This is just an appetizer, I guess ... a starter," former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Herman Nackaerts said.<br /><br />Good luck with getting the rest of your meal, Nackaerts.<br /><br /> Posted by Robert Spencer on January 14, 2014Farmer Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02392109642256694683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-89620395453242775842014-01-15T03:11:09.334-05:002014-01-15T03:11:09.334-05:00"If you are going to vacuum your junk, just m..."If you are going to vacuum your junk, just make certain you never pay retail for the penis pump"<br /><br />JunkPumps-R-Us<br /><br />Cut rates, coupon deals, remanufactured used devices, low pressure interest loans -<br /><br />More info -<br /><br />Q<br />Box 10000001<br />Detroit, Michigan<br /><br />Self addressed stamped return envelope required.Farmer Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02392109642256694683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27054478057781139842014-01-15T01:59:50.759-05:002014-01-15T01:59:50.759-05:00"both signed ofF""both signed ofF"Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50053352476806800602014-01-14T23:57:04.526-05:002014-01-14T23:57:04.526-05:00The head of the Investigation worked for Obama'...The head of the Investigation worked for Obama's Campaign!<br /><br />The Scales of Justice.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-10857084666354275482014-01-14T23:51:56.281-05:002014-01-14T23:51:56.281-05:00There's a brain dead lady in Texas on life sup...There's a brain dead lady in Texas on life support. She and her husband were both paramedics, and both signed of on not being kept alive in her condition, but since she's pregnant, the law there says they can't pull the plug.<br /><br />The Captive Vagina.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-52704511254206965942014-01-14T22:51:27.628-05:002014-01-14T22:51:27.628-05:00The Obama Administration is the worst in our histo...The Obama Administration is the worst in our history.Farmer Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02392109642256694683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39137536333041326812014-01-14T22:50:32.526-05:002014-01-14T22:50:32.526-05:00January 14, 2014
Sarah Palin's father harasse...January 14, 2014 <br />Sarah Palin's father harassed by IRS six times since 2008<br />Thomas Lifson<br /><br /><br /> <br /><br />The problems with a politicized IRS may be far more serious than we have yet suspected. Sarah Palin's brother Chuck Heath, Jr. posted the following on his Facebook account January 11th:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> My father, who worked multiple jobs and faithfully and honestly paid his taxes for fifty years, had never heard a word from the IRS. In 2008, his daughter was tapped to run for vice president of the United States. Since that time, he has been, in his words "horribly harassed" six times by the agency. They've tried to dig up something on him but he's always operated above board.<br /> <br />Government and politics are ugly. Kudos to the few that are trying to clean it up. (hat tip: PJ Tatler)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Assuming that this is true, it represents either a remarkable coincidence, or (more likely) a pattern of political abuse by the most powerful and most feared arm of the federal government dealing directly with everyone who lives in or enjoys citizenship in the United States. This is frightening, to say the least. And in what may be even worse news, it appears that the shambolic "investigation" of the IRS targeting of conservative nonprofit groups is about to claim that there is nothing to see here, move on. Devlin Barrett of the Wall Street Journal:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The Federal Bureau of Investigation doesn't plan to file criminal charges over the Internal Revenue Service's heightened scrutiny of conservative groups, law-enforcement officials said, a move that likely will only intensify debate over the politically charged scandal.<br /><br /><br /><br />The officials said investigators didn't find the kind of political bias or "enemy hunting" that would amount to a violation of criminal law. Instead, what emerged during the probe was evidence of a mismanaged bureaucracy enforcing rules about tax-exemption applications it didn't understand, according to the law-enforcement officials.<br /><br /><br /><br />While the case is still being investigated and could remain open for months, officials familiar with its progress said it is increasingly unlikely any criminal charges will result. That could change, the officials cautioned, if unexpected evidence is discovered that alters their thinking.<br /><br /><br /><br />Gee, I guess when Lois Lerner took the Fifth Amendment, she was just kidding. There was no crime committed.<br /><br /><br /><br />The New York Post editorializes:<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Maybe the FBI is right, that it's just all a big misunderstanding, that IRS officials were only at the White House for Easter Egg rolls. Even so, our Constitution doesn't leave accountability to the judgement of the FBI. To the contrary, our system holds that the American people, through their elected representatives in Congress, have the right to know what their government is doing.<br /><br /><br /><br />In short, if the threat of criminal charges has in fact been removed, there's no more excuse for Lois Lerner not to tell us, under oath, what she was apparently afraid to say in May.<br /><br />It is time for an IRS Special Prosecutor. This is a lot more serious than Chris Christie making TV ads for New Jersey tourism.<br /><br /><br />Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/01/sarah_palins_father_harassed_by_irs_six_times_since_2008.html#ixzz2qR4H7j4P <br />Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook<br />Farmer Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02392109642256694683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-67017220951947739182014-01-14T22:46:34.919-05:002014-01-14T22:46:34.919-05:00The ObamaCare numbers are a bunch of crap as every...The ObamaCare numbers are a bunch of crap as everyone but the willfully blind already knew -<br /><br /><br /><br />Analysis: It sure looks like the WH’s Medicaid expansion stats are made up<br /><br />posted at 1:05 am on January 14, 2014 by Guy Benson<br /><br />The always-sharp Sean Trende first voiced his suspicions about the Obama administration’s official Medicaid numbers last week, arguing that the advertised “4 million new enrollments under Obamacare!” figure was almost certainly a wild exaggeration. Upon further review, Trende is now convinced he’s right, and that Team Obama is cooking the books to serve their narrative:<br /><br /><br />There were two major problems with the administration’s numbers. First, of the 4 million new enrollees, more than half of were in states that did not even undertake the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. So we can be pretty comfortable that the number of enrollees due to the ACA is no more than 1.9 million, using the data provided by the administration. (There are probably some previously eligible folk who decided to apply after hearing about the expansion, but their number is likely relatively small.) … The second issue is that of those 1.9 million, some would have enrolled (or re-enrolled) in the program under the pre-expansion rules. Every state had a Medicaid program in place prior to the expansion, although the eligibility level varied widely from state to state, and therefore would have signed up people in the program absent the new funding.<br /><br />Click through for Trende’s updated analysis, which examines Arkansas as a case study to extrapolate and estimate the true number of newly-eligible Americans who’ve signed up for Medicaid as a result of Obamacare. (Spoiler: It’s less than a quarter of what the administration is bragging about in public). Meanwhile, the White House won’t tell us what percentage of Americans who have “selected plans” through Obamacare’s exchanges are actually paid up and enrolled. Not that it necessarily matters; even some of those consumers who’ve followed through on every jot and tittle still haven’t managed to obtain coverage. Beyond that, HHS’ recent disclosure on the percentage of ‘young invincibles’ within state-level risk pools portends significant adverse selection disruptions ahead. And the administration’s “cost containment” story is a fiction. Distorting, withholding and downplaying data: How else is a desperate political operation supposed to shift the punishing winds of public opinion?<br />Farmer Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02392109642256694683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-67980722070185933882014-01-14T22:06:10.670-05:002014-01-14T22:06:10.670-05:00There is a halo around the moon, from ice crystals...There is a halo around the moon, from ice crystals up high I imagine.<br /><br />We may be witnessing not just any old average star birth, but the Birth of a Hero Star (planet) here.Farmer Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02392109642256694683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43472679184202030282014-01-14T22:06:08.897-05:002014-01-14T22:06:08.897-05:00allen does not threaten. If there is a nuclear exc...allen does not threaten. If there is a nuclear exchange, the world you know will cease to exist as will civilization. By the way, I did not use "Arch of American Civilization" (whatever that means).<br /><br /> Israel has never gone to war lightheartedly. We have never used propaganda posters and commercials glorifying war. We go to war reluctantly but always with the intention of winning, since defeat is not an option.<br /><br />At the moment, the Muslims are doing very well dismantling themselves on their own without any help from Israel. You may be sure that the only assistance anyone will get from Israel is a longer shovel. allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-82827886469550376452014-01-14T22:04:01.638-05:002014-01-14T22:04:01.638-05:00You can be certain your next typo is going to very...You can be certain your next typo is going to very heavily criticized, my good man.Farmer Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02392109642256694683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-54750803919248225072014-01-14T22:02:58.869-05:002014-01-14T22:02:58.869-05:00If I were drinking I wouldn't make such an err...If I were drinking I wouldn't make such an error, Ash.Farmer Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02392109642256694683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-82268765242714195972014-01-14T22:00:41.216-05:002014-01-14T22:00:41.216-05:00Gotta luv blogging by phone..
...*hic*Gotta luv blogging by phone.. <br /><br />...*hic*Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39886257081394305662014-01-14T21:58:19.166-05:002014-01-14T21:58:19.166-05:00I follow this blog pretty closely and I've nev...I follow this blog pretty closely and I've never seen his m attempt an answer. He knows he is boxed in. He knows he us w hypocrite and he is hoping to obfuscate his way out. I'm guessing even bob knows the truth in this particular issue.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42309126199813055082014-01-14T21:57:17.848-05:002014-01-14T21:57:17.848-05:00The attack was all too real and no one other than ...The attack was all too real and no one other than you has said "alleged". The question went malice, something with which you are intimately familiar. In every case, malice was not found. allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-41551634640001557122014-01-14T21:50:58.865-05:002014-01-14T21:50:58.865-05:00You were looking for attention I suppose.You were looking for attention I suppose.allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-69572319327570409612014-01-14T21:39:56.359-05:002014-01-14T21:39:56.359-05:00The moon is full, and is giving birth to a star a ...<i>The moon is full, and is giving birth to a star a little to the north. (probably a planet)</i><br /><br />Skyglobe (one of the programs left over from MS-DOS days that I still love) says it's Jupiter, Bob.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05294240310371429923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-77534502412991309722014-01-14T21:36:04.988-05:002014-01-14T21:36:04.988-05:00Making very sense is she? Good to know. Have ano...Making very sense is she? Good to know. Have another belt on me bobbo.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-49652384989288510582014-01-14T21:34:46.810-05:002014-01-14T21:34:46.810-05:00Dear Miss T, you are making very LITTLE sense righ...Dear Miss T, you are making very LITTLE sense right now.<br /><br />I am really getting sloppy and am beginning to be concerned about myself....Farmer Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02392109642256694683noreply@blogger.com