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In the news today.....
1. Giuliani says Trump's tax leak shows his 'genius'
Some of Donald Trump's leading supporters pushed back on Sunday against a New York Times report saying he declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 tax returns that might have let him avoid paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said the Republican presidential nominee had merely made a "perfectly legal application of the tax code," something only a "fool" would have passed up. "He's a genius — absolute genius," Giuliani said on ABC's This Week. The news capped a tough week in which Trump delivered a widely panned debate performance and doubled down on calling a former Miss Universe fat as he slipped in polls.
Source: The Washington Post, The New York Times
2. Colombians unexpectedly reject FARC peace deal
Colombian voters narrowly rejected a peace deal with the South American country's biggest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia or FARC (its Spanish acronym). The surprise 50.25 percent to 49.75 percent vote threatened to prolong a 52-year armed conflict that leaders of both the government and FARC had declared over after nearly six years of negotiations. Pre-vote polls had pointed to a win for the deal, with the "yes" vote leading by a two-to-one margin. President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC Commander Rodrigo Londono vowed to keep a ceasefire in place and continue the peace effort.
Source: The Washington Post, The Miami Herald
(Can you believe the country put this out for a vote??????)
3. Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba brace for dangerous hurricane
Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba braced on Monday for a potentially catastrophic hit from Hurricane Matthew, a slow-moving storm bringing torrential rains and top sustained winds of 130 miles per hour. The western tip of Haiti's southern peninsula could get as much as 25 inches of rainfall. "This rainfall will produce life-threatening flash floods and mudslides," the National Weather Service said late Sunday night. "Preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion." After slamming the western Caribbean islands, Matthew is forecast to head north through the Bahamas off the U.S. East Coast.
Source: The Weather Channel, CNN
4. India ratifies Paris climate deal
India on Sunday ratified the Paris global climate control agreement, committing the world's third largest greenhouse gas emitter to generating at least 40 percent of its electricity from non-fossil fuels by 2030. The Paris accord, the world's first comprehensive climate agreement, was agreed to by nearly 200 countries last December. It aims to reduce CO2 emissions, widely considered to be a driving force of human-caused climate change, but will only take effect if at least 55 countries producing a combined 55 percent or more of the world's carbon emissions sign on. Next week the European Union is expected to wrap up joint ratification of the pact, which would put the deal over the 55 percent threshold.
Source: BBC News
5. Hungarians reject E.U. refugee quotas
Hungarian voters on Sunday overwhelmingly rejected the European Union's mandatory migrant quotas, the national election office said shortly after polls closed. With nearly all of the ballots counted, 98 percent had voted against the quotas, but the result appeared not to be valid, however, as exit polls indicated that turnout did not reach the required 50 percent. Still, right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban said the E.U. "cannot force" Hungary to accept migrants after voters so resoundingly opposed the quotas, under which Hungary would receive 1,294 asylum seekers out of 160,000 migrants the E.U. wants to relocate.
Source: The Associated Press, BBC News
(Duh......)
6. New Jersey Transit train black box yields no clues
A recovered black box recorder from a New Jersey Transit train was not working when the train crashed into the Hoboken station last week, killing one woman and injuring more than 100 other people, National Transportation Safety administration vice chair Bella Dinh-Zarr said Sunday. The train's engineer told investigators that the train was traveling at 10 miles per hour when it entered the station. The engineer said he was fully rested during the trip, but does not remember the impact.
Source: New York Daily News
7. Dozens die in panic at Ethiopia demonstration
Dozens of people were killed in Ethiopia's Oromia region on Sunday in a panicked stampede sparked when security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters during a religious festival. Opposition leaders estimated the death toll at 100; the regional government said 52 people died. The national government only confirmed immediately that "lives were lost," and said, "Those responsible will face justice." Police said anti-government protesters had thrown rocks and bottles, but some witnesses said the demonstration was entirely peaceful.
Source: BBC News
8. India amnesty program uncovers $9.8 billion in undeclared income
The Indian government announced over the weekend that an amnesty program had prompted suspected tax dodgers to disclose $9.8 billion in previously undeclared income. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government sent letters to 700,000 suspected tax evaders promising they would not be prosecuted if they came clean about hidden assets, or "black money," and paid a penalty. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the government received 64,275 declarations of previously undisclosed wealth over four months.
Source: Reuters
(That is not chump change)
9. Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi wins Nobel Prize for medicine
Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for his discovery of how cells break down and recycle their content, a process known as autophagy. His work could lead to a better understanding of diseases like cancer, Parkinson's, and type 2 diabetes. "His discoveries opened the path to understanding ... many physiological processes, such as in the adaptation to starvation or response to infection," the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute said. The prize of $933,000 is the first Nobel awarded each year. Ohsumi said he was "extremely honored."
Source: Reuters
10. U.S. wins Ryder Cup for first time since 2008
The United States won its first Ryder Cup since 2008 on Sunday, defeating Europe 17-11 — the biggest margin of victory since 1981. The final day of play included intense matches between Patrick Reed and Rory McIlroy, and Phil Mickelson and Sergio Garcia. Mickelson and Garcia both shot a 63 with a combined 19 birdies. The Ryder Cup, founded by Samuel Ryder in 1927, is held every two years, and features the best male golfers from the U.S. and Europe in head-to-head match play competition. This year's cup was held at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota.
Source: CBS Sports
http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=533a8449522e198f5a133e200&id=55a9a9880d&e=b0da828860
In the news today.............
1. Giuliani says Trump's tax leak shows his 'genius'
Some of Donald Trump's leading supporters pushed back on Sunday against a New York Times report saying he declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 tax returns that might have let him avoid paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said the Republican presidential nominee had merely made a "perfectly legal application of the tax code," something only a "fool" would have passed up. "He's a genius — absolute genius," Giuliani said on ABC's This Week. The news capped a tough week in which Trump delivered a widely panned debate performance and doubled down on calling a former Miss Universe fat as he slipped in polls.
Source: The Washington Post, The New York Times
2. Colombians unexpectedly reject FARC peace deal
Colombian voters narrowly rejected a peace deal with the South American country's biggest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia or FARC (its Spanish acronym). The surprise 50.25 percent to 49.75 percent vote threatened to prolong a 52-year armed conflict that leaders of both the government and FARC had declared over after nearly six years of negotiations. Pre-vote polls had pointed to a win for the deal, with the "yes" vote leading by a two-to-one margin. President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC Commander Rodrigo Londono vowed to keep a ceasefire in place and continue the peace effort.
Source: The Washington Post, The Miami Herald
(Can you believe the country put this out for a vote??????)
3. Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba brace for dangerous hurricane
Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba braced on Monday for a potentially catastrophic hit from Hurricane Matthew, a slow-moving storm bringing torrential rains and top sustained winds of 130 miles per hour. The western tip of Haiti's southern peninsula could get as much as 25 inches of rainfall. "This rainfall will produce life-threatening flash floods and mudslides," the National Weather Service said late Sunday night. "Preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion." After slamming the western Caribbean islands, Matthew is forecast to head north through the Bahamas off the U.S. East Coast.
Source: The Weather Channel, CNN
4. India ratifies Paris climate deal
India on Sunday ratified the Paris global climate control agreement, committing the world's third largest greenhouse gas emitter to generating at least 40 percent of its electricity from non-fossil fuels by 2030. The Paris accord, the world's first comprehensive climate agreement, was agreed to by nearly 200 countries last December. It aims to reduce CO2 emissions, widely considered to be a driving force of human-caused climate change, but will only take effect if at least 55 countries producing a combined 55 percent or more of the world's carbon emissions sign on. Next week the European Union is expected to wrap up joint ratification of the pact, which would put the deal over the 55 percent threshold.
Source: BBC News
5. Hungarians reject E.U. refugee quotas
Hungarian voters on Sunday overwhelmingly rejected the European Union's mandatory migrant quotas, the national election office said shortly after polls closed. With nearly all of the ballots counted, 98 percent had voted against the quotas, but the result appeared not to be valid, however, as exit polls indicated that turnout did not reach the required 50 percent. Still, right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban said the E.U. "cannot force" Hungary to accept migrants after voters so resoundingly opposed the quotas, under which Hungary would receive 1,294 asylum seekers out of 160,000 migrants the E.U. wants to relocate.
Source: The Associated Press, BBC News
(Duh.....)
6. New Jersey Transit train black box yields no clues
A recovered black box recorder from a New Jersey Transit train was not working when the train crashed into the Hoboken station last week, killing one woman and injuring more than 100 other people, National Transportation Safety administration vice chair Bella Dinh-Zarr said Sunday. The train's engineer told investigators that the train was traveling at 10 miles per hour when it entered the station. The engineer said he was fully rested during the trip, but does not remember the impact.
Source: New York Daily News
7. Dozens die in panic at Ethiopia demonstration
Dozens of people were killed in Ethiopia's Oromia region on Sunday in a panicked stampede sparked when security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters during a religious festival. Opposition leaders estimated the death toll at 100; the regional government said 52 people died. The national government only confirmed immediately that "lives were lost," and said, "Those responsible will face justice." Police said anti-government protesters had thrown rocks and bottles, but some witnesses said the demonstration was entirely peaceful.
Source: BBC News
8. India amnesty program uncovers $9.8 billion in undeclared income
The Indian government announced over the weekend that an amnesty program had prompted suspected tax dodgers to disclose $9.8 billion in previously undeclared income. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government sent letters to 700,000 suspected tax evaders promising they would not be prosecuted if they came clean about hidden assets, or "black money," and paid a penalty. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the government received 64,275 declarations of previously undisclosed wealth over four months.
Source: Reuters
(That is not chump change)
9. Japan's Yoshinori Ohsumi wins Nobel Prize for medicine
Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for his discovery of how cells break down and recycle their content, a process known as autophagy. His work could lead to a better understanding of diseases like cancer, Parkinson's, and type 2 diabetes. "His discoveries opened the path to understanding ... many physiological processes, such as in the adaptation to starvation or response to infection," the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute said. The prize of $933,000 is the first Nobel awarded each year. Ohsumi said he was "extremely honored."
Source: Reuters
10. U.S. wins Ryder Cup for first time since 2008
The United States won its first Ryder Cup since 2008 on Sunday, defeating Europe 17-11 — the biggest margin of victory since 1981. The final day of play included intense matches between Patrick Reed and Rory McIlroy, and Phil Mickelson and Sergio Garcia. Mickelson and Garcia both shot a 63 with a combined 19 birdies. The Ryder Cup, founded by Samuel Ryder in 1927, is held every two years, and features the best male golfers from the U.S. and Europe in head-to-head match play competition. This year's cup was held at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota.
Source: CBS Sports
http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=533a8449522e198f5a133e200&id=55a9a9880d&e=b0da828860
What Turns a Muslim Into a Terrorist Extremist?
http://www.ba-bamail.com/video.aspx?emailid=22730
What is our national strategy to address this?.......
BO has an answer......
What Turns a Muslim Into a Terrorist Extremist?
http://www.ba-bamail.com/video.aspx?emailid=22730
What is our national strategy to address this?.......
BO has an answer......
She is full of drugs, amphetamines so she can keep going. Her handlers forgot the emergency hand key the time she was collapsing but were fortunately the bus was right in front of them. Tossed her in, hooked her up. Might have to weave solar battery cells into her pant suit to avoid a similar event. Check the batteries please.........
Interesting jump. Happens just before I was going to increase my position..... Oh well. Might improve it anyway. Article is interesting and we'll see if this has implication for the rest of the week. On TMX, 2.02 on 25,685 shares so far. Will check later to see if they took up one way or the other on their final post.
They can take of 'feeling good' by using a hand in the privacy of their own home. That's where they belong, not out telling us, legislating us on how to live in our lives.
Amazing to see the new release of emails with the revelation that BO was emailing her on her private email (free from the freedom of information act). They'll sweep it under the carpet again. If it's from BO, how can that NOT be classified. It can't. BO knew of the illegal server and should be held as accountable for knowingly, mishandling US top secret information. He didn't give a rip either. Should impeach him before he leaves office and throw Shrill in jail today.
It's a blonde Patty Duke in the new movie 'Two of a Kind.' Showing everywhere.
A Hard Rain Is Going to Fall
World events seem relatively calm, but repeated appeasement has built up pressure across the globe, and someone has to be there when crisis erupts.
By Victor Davis Hanson — September 22, 2016
This summer, President Obama was often golfing. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were promising to let the world be. The end of summer seemed sleepy, the world relatively calm.
The summer of 1914 in Europe also seemed quiet. But on July 28, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip with help from his accomplices, fellow Serbian separatists. That isolated act sparked World War I.
In the summer of 1939, most observers thought Adolf Hitler was finally through with his serial bullying. Appeasement supposedly had satiated his once enormous territorial appetites. But on September 1, Nazi Germany unexpectedly invaded Poland and touched off World War II, which consumed some 60 million lives.
Wars often seem to come out of nowhere, as unlikely events ignite long-simmering disputes into global conflagrations.
The instigators often are weaker attackers who foolishly assume that more powerful nations wish peace at any cost, and so will not react to opportunistic aggression.
Unfortunately, our late-summer calm of 2016 has masked a lot of festering tensions that are now coming to a head — largely due to disengagement by a supposedly tired United States.
In contrast, war, unlike individual states, does not sleep.
Russia has been massing troops on its border with Ukraine. Russian president Vladimir Putin apparently believes that Europe is in utter disarray and assumes that President Obama remains most interested in apologizing to foreigners for the past evils of the United States. Putin is wagering that no tired Western power could or would stop his reabsorption of Ukraine — or the Baltic states next. Who in hip Amsterdam cares what happens to faraway Kiev?
Iran swapped American hostages for cash. An Iranian missile narrowly missed a U.S. aircraft carrier not long ago. Iranians hijacked an American boat and buzzed our warships in the Persian Gulf. There are frequent promises from Tehran to destroy either Israel, America, or both. So much for the peace dividend of the “Iran deal.”
North Korea is more than just delusional. Recent nuclear tests and missile launches toward Japan suggest that North Korean strongman Kim Jong-un actually believes that he could win a war — and thereby gain even larger concessions from the West and from his Asian neighbors.
Radical Islamists likewise seem emboldened to try more attacks on the premise that Western nations will hardly respond with overwhelming power. The past weekend brought pipe bombings in Manhattan and New Jersey as well as a mass stabbing in a Minnesota mall — and American frustration.
Europe and the United States have been bewildered by huge numbers of largely young male migrants from the war-torn Middle East. Political correctness has paralyzed Western leaders from even articulating the threat, much less replying to it.
Instead, the American government appears more concerned with shutting down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, ensuring that no administration official utters the words “Islamic terror,” and issuing warnings to Americans not to lash out due to their supposedly innate prejudices.
Aggressors are also encouraged by vast cutbacks in the U.S. defense budget. The lame-duck Obama presidency, lead-from-behind policies, and a culturally and racially divided America reflect voter weariness with overseas commitments.
It would be a mistake to assume that war is impossible because it logically benefits no one, or is outdated in our sophisticated 21st century, or would be insane in a world of nuclear weapons.
Human nature is unchanging and remains irrational. Evil is eternal. Unfortunately, appeasement is often seen by thugs not as magnanimity to be reciprocated but as timidity to be exploited.
Someone soon will have to tell the North Koreans that a stable world order cannot endure its frequent missile launches and nuclear detonations.
Someone could remind Putin that the former Soviet republics have a right to self-determination.
Someone might inform the Chinese that no one can plop down artificial islands and military bases to control commercial sea lanes.
Someone might make it clear to radical Islamic terrorists that there is a limit to Western patience with their chronic bombing, murdering, and destruction.
The problem is that there is no other “someone” (especially not the United Nations or the European Union) with the requisite power and authority except the United States. But for a long time America has done more than its fair share of international policing — and its people are tired of costly dragon-slaying abroad.
The result is that at this late date, the tough medicine of restoring long-term deterrence is almost as dangerous as the disease of continual short-term appeasement.
Obama apparently assumes he can leave office as a peacemaker before his appeased chickens come home to roost in violent fashion. He has assured us that the world has never been calmer and quieter.
Others said the same thing in the last calm summer weeks of 1914 and 1939.
War clouds are gathering. A hard rain is soon going to fall.
— Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author, most recently, of The Savior Generals. You can reach him by e-mailing author@victorhanson.com. © 2016 Tribune Media Services, Inc.
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/440252/print
The Legacies of Barack Obama
Without policy achievements to hang his hat on, Obama’s rhetoric will be how he’s remembered – and the results have been ugly.
By Victor Davis Hanson — September 15, 2016
On his recent Asian tour, President Obama characterized his fellow Americans (the most productive workers in the world) as “lazy.”
In fact, he went on to deride Americans for a list of supposed transgressions ranging from the Vietnam War to environmental desecration to the 19th century treatment of Native Americans.
“If you’re in the United States,” the president said, “sometimes you can feel lazy and think we’re so big we don’t have to really know anything about other people.”
The attack on supposedly insular Americans was somewhat bizarre, given that Obama himself knows no foreign languages. He often seems confused about even basic world geography. (His birthplace of Hawaii is not “Asia,” Austrians do not speak “Austrian,” and the Falkland Islands are not the Maldives).
Obama’s sense of history is equally weak. Contrary to his past remarks, the Islamic world did not spark either the Western Renaissance or the Enlightenment. Cordoba was not, as he once suggested, an Islamic center of “tolerance” during the Spanish Inquisition; in fact, its Muslim population had been expelled during the early Reconquista over two centuries earlier.
In another eerie ditto of his infamous 2008 attack on the supposedly intolerant Pennsylvania “clingers,” Obama returned to his theme that ignorant Americans “typically” become xenophobic and racist: “Typically, when people feel stressed, they turn on others who don’t look like them.” (“Typically” is not a good Obama word to use in the context of racial relations, since he once dubbed his own grandmother a “typical white person.”)
Too often Obama has gratuitously aroused racial animosities with inflammatory rhetoric such as “punish our enemies,” or injected himself into the middle of hot-button controversies like the Trayvon Martin case, the Henry Louis Gates melodrama, and the “hands up, don’t shoot” Ferguson mayhem.
Most recently, Obama seemed to praise backup 49ers quarterback and multimillionaire Colin Kaepernick for his refusal to stand during the National Anthem, empathizing with Kaepernick’s claims of endemic American racism.
What is going on in Obama’s home stretch?
Apparently Obama is veering even further to the left, in hopes of establishing a rhetorical progressive legacy in lieu of any lasting legislative or foreign-policy achievement. Turning the presidency into an edgy soapbox is seemingly all that is left of Obama’s promise to “fundamentally transform” the country.
But divisive sermonizing and the issuing of executive orders are not the same as successfully reforming our health-care system. The Affordable Care Act, born of exaggeration and untruth, is now in peril as insurers pull out and the costs of premiums and deductibles soar.
Even presidential nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is not really defending the Obama administration’s past “red line” in Syria, the “reset” with Vladimir Putin’s Russia, the bombing of Libya, the Benghazi tragedy, the euphemistic rebranding of Islamic terrorism as mere “violent extremism,” the abrupt pullout from (and subsequent collapse of) Iraq, or the Iran nuclear deal that so far seems to have made the theocracy both rich and emboldened.
The U.S. economy — with its record-low growth over eight years, near-record labor non-participation rates, record national debt, and record consecutive years of zero interest rates — is not much of a legacy either.
Racial relations in this country seem as bad as they have been in a half-century.
Given the scandal involving Hillary Clinton’s use of a private, unsecured e-mail server for official State Department communications, the politicization of the IRS, the messes at the GSA and VA, and the current ethical confusion at the FBI and Justice Department over Clinton’s violations, Obama has not made good on his promise of a transparent, efficient, and honest government.
Near energy independence through fracking is certainly a revolutionary development, but it arrived largely despite, not because of, the Obama administration.
The sharper the sermon, the more Obama preps himself for his post-presidency as a social justice warrior, akin to the pre-political incarnation of Obama as a community organizer.
Following the Clinton model, a post-presidential Obama will no doubt garner huge fees as a “citizen of the world” — squaring the circle of becoming fabulously rich while offering sharp criticism of the cultural landscape of the capitalist West on everything from sports controversies to pending criminal trials.
What, then, is the presidential legacy of Barack Obama?
It will not be found in either foreign- or domestic-policy accomplishment. More likely, he will be viewed as an outspoken progressive who left office loudly in the same manner that he entered it — as a critic of the culture and country in which he has thrived.
But there may be another, unspoken legacy of Obama, and it is his creation of the candidacy of Donald J. Trump.
Trump is running as an angry populist, fueled by the promise that whatever supposed elites such as Obama have done to the country, he will largely undo.
Obama’s only legacy seems to be that “hope and change” begat “make America great again.”
— Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author, most recently, of The Savior Generals. You can reach him by e-mailing author@victorhanson.com. © 2016 Tribune Media Services, Inc.
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/440048/print
A Hard Rain Is Going to Fall
World events seem relatively calm, but repeated appeasement has built up pressure across the globe, and someone has to be there when crisis erupts.
By Victor Davis Hanson — September 22, 2016
This summer, President Obama was often golfing. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were promising to let the world be. The end of summer seemed sleepy, the world relatively calm.
The summer of 1914 in Europe also seemed quiet. But on July 28, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip with help from his accomplices, fellow Serbian separatists. That isolated act sparked World War I.
In the summer of 1939, most observers thought Adolf Hitler was finally through with his serial bullying. Appeasement supposedly had satiated his once enormous territorial appetites. But on September 1, Nazi Germany unexpectedly invaded Poland and touched off World War II, which consumed some 60 million lives.
Wars often seem to come out of nowhere, as unlikely events ignite long-simmering disputes into global conflagrations.
The instigators often are weaker attackers who foolishly assume that more powerful nations wish peace at any cost, and so will not react to opportunistic aggression.
Unfortunately, our late-summer calm of 2016 has masked a lot of festering tensions that are now coming to a head — largely due to disengagement by a supposedly tired United States.
In contrast, war, unlike individual states, does not sleep.
Russia has been massing troops on its border with Ukraine. Russian president Vladimir Putin apparently believes that Europe is in utter disarray and assumes that President Obama remains most interested in apologizing to foreigners for the past evils of the United States. Putin is wagering that no tired Western power could or would stop his reabsorption of Ukraine — or the Baltic states next. Who in hip Amsterdam cares what happens to faraway Kiev?
Iran swapped American hostages for cash. An Iranian missile narrowly missed a U.S. aircraft carrier not long ago. Iranians hijacked an American boat and buzzed our warships in the Persian Gulf. There are frequent promises from Tehran to destroy either Israel, America, or both. So much for the peace dividend of the “Iran deal.”
North Korea is more than just delusional. Recent nuclear tests and missile launches toward Japan suggest that North Korean strongman Kim Jong-un actually believes that he could win a war — and thereby gain even larger concessions from the West and from his Asian neighbors.
Radical Islamists likewise seem emboldened to try more attacks on the premise that Western nations will hardly respond with overwhelming power. The past weekend brought pipe bombings in Manhattan and New Jersey as well as a mass stabbing in a Minnesota mall — and American frustration.
Europe and the United States have been bewildered by huge numbers of largely young male migrants from the war-torn Middle East. Political correctness has paralyzed Western leaders from even articulating the threat, much less replying to it.
Instead, the American government appears more concerned with shutting down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, ensuring that no administration official utters the words “Islamic terror,” and issuing warnings to Americans not to lash out due to their supposedly innate prejudices.
Aggressors are also encouraged by vast cutbacks in the U.S. defense budget. The lame-duck Obama presidency, lead-from-behind policies, and a culturally and racially divided America reflect voter weariness with overseas commitments.
It would be a mistake to assume that war is impossible because it logically benefits no one, or is outdated in our sophisticated 21st century, or would be insane in a world of nuclear weapons.
Human nature is unchanging and remains irrational. Evil is eternal. Unfortunately, appeasement is often seen by thugs not as magnanimity to be reciprocated but as timidity to be exploited.
Someone soon will have to tell the North Koreans that a stable world order cannot endure its frequent missile launches and nuclear detonations.
Someone could remind Putin that the former Soviet republics have a right to self-determination.
Someone might inform the Chinese that no one can plop down artificial islands and military bases to control commercial sea lanes.
Someone might make it clear to radical Islamic terrorists that there is a limit to Western patience with their chronic bombing, murdering, and destruction.
The problem is that there is no other “someone” (especially not the United Nations or the European Union) with the requisite power and authority except the United States. But for a long time America has done more than its fair share of international policing — and its people are tired of costly dragon-slaying abroad.
The result is that at this late date, the tough medicine of restoring long-term deterrence is almost as dangerous as the disease of continual short-term appeasement.
Obama apparently assumes he can leave office as a peacemaker before his appeased chickens come home to roost in violent fashion. He has assured us that the world has never been calmer and quieter.
Others said the same thing in the last calm summer weeks of 1914 and 1939.
War clouds are gathering. A hard rain is soon going to fall.
— Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author, most recently, of The Savior Generals. You can reach him by e-mailing author@victorhanson.com. © 2016 Tribune Media Services, Inc.
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/440252/print
The Legacies of Barack Obama
Without policy achievements to hang his hat on, Obama’s rhetoric will be how he’s remembered – and the results have been ugly.
By Victor Davis Hanson — September 15, 2016
On his recent Asian tour, President Obama characterized his fellow Americans (the most productive workers in the world) as “lazy.”
In fact, he went on to deride Americans for a list of supposed transgressions ranging from the Vietnam War to environmental desecration to the 19th century treatment of Native Americans.
“If you’re in the United States,” the president said, “sometimes you can feel lazy and think we’re so big we don’t have to really know anything about other people.”
The attack on supposedly insular Americans was somewhat bizarre, given that Obama himself knows no foreign languages. He often seems confused about even basic world geography. (His birthplace of Hawaii is not “Asia,” Austrians do not speak “Austrian,” and the Falkland Islands are not the Maldives).
Obama’s sense of history is equally weak. Contrary to his past remarks, the Islamic world did not spark either the Western Renaissance or the Enlightenment. Cordoba was not, as he once suggested, an Islamic center of “tolerance” during the Spanish Inquisition; in fact, its Muslim population had been expelled during the early Reconquista over two centuries earlier.
In another eerie ditto of his infamous 2008 attack on the supposedly intolerant Pennsylvania “clingers,” Obama returned to his theme that ignorant Americans “typically” become xenophobic and racist: “Typically, when people feel stressed, they turn on others who don’t look like them.” (“Typically” is not a good Obama word to use in the context of racial relations, since he once dubbed his own grandmother a “typical white person.”)
Too often Obama has gratuitously aroused racial animosities with inflammatory rhetoric such as “punish our enemies,” or injected himself into the middle of hot-button controversies like the Trayvon Martin case, the Henry Louis Gates melodrama, and the “hands up, don’t shoot” Ferguson mayhem.
Most recently, Obama seemed to praise backup 49ers quarterback and multimillionaire Colin Kaepernick for his refusal to stand during the National Anthem, empathizing with Kaepernick’s claims of endemic American racism.
What is going on in Obama’s home stretch?
Apparently Obama is veering even further to the left, in hopes of establishing a rhetorical progressive legacy in lieu of any lasting legislative or foreign-policy achievement. Turning the presidency into an edgy soapbox is seemingly all that is left of Obama’s promise to “fundamentally transform” the country.
But divisive sermonizing and the issuing of executive orders are not the same as successfully reforming our health-care system. The Affordable Care Act, born of exaggeration and untruth, is now in peril as insurers pull out and the costs of premiums and deductibles soar.
Even presidential nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is not really defending the Obama administration’s past “red line” in Syria, the “reset” with Vladimir Putin’s Russia, the bombing of Libya, the Benghazi tragedy, the euphemistic rebranding of Islamic terrorism as mere “violent extremism,” the abrupt pullout from (and subsequent collapse of) Iraq, or the Iran nuclear deal that so far seems to have made the theocracy both rich and emboldened.
The U.S. economy — with its record-low growth over eight years, near-record labor non-participation rates, record national debt, and record consecutive years of zero interest rates — is not much of a legacy either.
Racial relations in this country seem as bad as they have been in a half-century.
Given the scandal involving Hillary Clinton’s use of a private, unsecured e-mail server for official State Department communications, the politicization of the IRS, the messes at the GSA and VA, and the current ethical confusion at the FBI and Justice Department over Clinton’s violations, Obama has not made good on his promise of a transparent, efficient, and honest government.
Near energy independence through fracking is certainly a revolutionary development, but it arrived largely despite, not because of, the Obama administration.
The sharper the sermon, the more Obama preps himself for his post-presidency as a social justice warrior, akin to the pre-political incarnation of Obama as a community organizer.
Following the Clinton model, a post-presidential Obama will no doubt garner huge fees as a “citizen of the world” — squaring the circle of becoming fabulously rich while offering sharp criticism of the cultural landscape of the capitalist West on everything from sports controversies to pending criminal trials.
What, then, is the presidential legacy of Barack Obama?
It will not be found in either foreign- or domestic-policy accomplishment. More likely, he will be viewed as an outspoken progressive who left office loudly in the same manner that he entered it — as a critic of the culture and country in which he has thrived.
But there may be another, unspoken legacy of Obama, and it is his creation of the candidacy of Donald J. Trump.
Trump is running as an angry populist, fueled by the promise that whatever supposed elites such as Obama have done to the country, he will largely undo.
Obama’s only legacy seems to be that “hope and change” begat “make America great again.”
— Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author, most recently, of The Savior Generals. You can reach him by e-mailing author@victorhanson.com. © 2016 Tribune Media Services, Inc.
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/440048/print
In CA., in the central valley, with the decrease in available water for the farmers, the legit farm workers are leaving their homes. The electricity is off, no gas, no phones, no water. The homes are invaded, all the utilities are turned back on by the Hispanic invaders. They don't receive any bills. They work for cheaper wages since they don't much out flow. The homes usually become trash collection dumps since there is no garbage service. But law enforcement doesn't do anything even though the farmers report them. Crime increases.
One thing about the decrease in water availability.
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American politician and lawyer, who has been serving as the 39th Governor of California since 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, Brown previously served as the 34th governor from 1975 to 1983, and is the longest-serving governor in California history.
When Jerry Brown took over as Governor of CA, he had 12 dam and reservoir projects approved for him to build. So how many more do we have since has been in office. ZERO. And people wonder why we don't have enough water. It's sad to live under Democrat policies.
The CA state senate currently consists of 26 Democrats and 14 Republicans, and the Assembly consists of 52 Democrats and 28 Republicans. Except for the period from 1995 to 1996, the Assembly has been in Democratic hands since the 1970 election (even while the governor's office has gone back and forth between Republicans and Democrats). The Senate has been in Democratic hands continuously since 1970.
Why isn't the country running against Democrat policies down to the local level? Especially those coming from their Democrat controlled state legislators for decades. The Federal Congress is a huge issue but we need to control our state legislators even more since it involves every neighbor where we live, recreate and do business.
Obama is 'The Pretender.'
The final numbers on TMX came back up to match the US final trades.
Nothing wrong with that. TMX now shows 1.38 when factoring in exchange rate.
Looking at TMX, we should be at 1.39. Could see the drop going into the close.
Interesting to see the 0.06+ drop on one, 100 share trade. If one is taking profits, it won't take much more to want to get back in. So few shares for the drop, not much profit taking. Feel free to give us cheap shares....... Unusual trading. Guess the buyers took Friday off.
What I like are the international ties that can accelerate product to market in their areas. Today, the stock market is sluggish all around and a profit taking day for some.
If we can hold here, it would be a good sign to me. If we hold here for the next month, it would be a good sign to me. This has been a nice lift and would be encouraging to stabilize here as the base pps ready for the news that pushes the stock on another run and new level.
If this activity is a precursor of significant news, deal, one would anticipate it should be in the near future and the insiders are building their position now. That's an upside way one could think about it. And one might ask, why are we seeing this trend? Doubt it's short covering.
With the relative high volume the last few days, why so slow today? Why the intra day drop off from yesterday's high? That looked some profit taking to me. Has an insider filled their position and we'll go back to a relatively light trading until the next event? I hope we hold and wait for the next event. We'll see.
Yes, the manipulation is virtually guaranteed.
Sarcasm:
noun
1. harsh or bitter derision or irony.
2. a sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark:
a review full of sarcasms.
How about some straw?
Interesting how the mms held the small ask of 1.27 final pps with all the shares traded that normally would have easily increased the ask to 1.28 if not 1.29.
Not bad. Good September.
http://web.tmxmoney.com/pricehistory.php?qm_symbol=RVX
That's crazy. My wife is from Edmonton. Her brother now has a house in the San Diego area. We're in the SF area in the suburbs. Easy to get into the city but don't have to live there. Millennials are taking it over and they can have it. We'll continue to use the best parts which they haven't figured out yet.
Wife's good friend lives in Oakville. We'll visit her next spring as part of our annual trip to London.
That's true. My wife is Canadian and their system is wild. Too many provinces with competing rules......
2.16 - 81,163 at this point. On the money with the exchange.
Thought the phase 3 status in Europe was great news and the 2 China patents were solid. There was movement at the time. Maybe there is progress on the p3 in Europe to be announced or something new in China is pending. The trading in Canada has definitely picked up.
Hillary Clinton's Bizarre Eye Movement Before Canceling Event
Hillary Clinton's Bizarre Eye Movement Before Canceling Event
And now the left wants to put out a woman that has had blood clots in her brain and legs, tries to tell us she has a sinus problem that effects her balance. And that pollen is bothering her. Pollen, in the Fall? She was sick enough to NOT do a second term as Secretary of State and was only well enough to fly around for photo ops. Look at the difference between Kerry and Clinton as Sec. of State. Kerry works his butt off all over the world (to what end?.....), Clinton shook hands, took photos and came home. What happens if she's in the White House? Does Mr. C, with Parkinson's, actually take over again while she 'rests.' She already said he would take over the economy. He'll need a Republican super majority in the House and Senate to get anything of value right. Same as he had when President.
Here's a CNN version of her health. Nice obliging doctor and soft media version.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/11/health/hillary-clinton-health/
How is she going to make it a full term if elected? Stay behind closed doors and not go out. Only she has an ambulance ready at all of her events. What is the leftists thinking?
Too bad it's true. Can you believe his screaming at the black caucus about them getting out to vote? How it would destroy his legacy. A personal insult.
Well, here's the response:
Glaude: Obama Speech to Black Caucus ‘Condescending’; ‘Really Annoyed Me’
‘I think part of what we see is the Clinton campaign made a bad decision’
Glaude: Obama Speech to Black Caucus ‘Condescending’; ‘Really Annoyed Me’
Princeton professor African-American studies, Eddie Glaude, is blasting President Obama for the "condescending" speech he delivered Saturday, during which he urged black voters to vote for Hillary Clinton. Failure to do so, Obama told the Congressional Black Caucus, would "insult" him.
Glaude appeared Monday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." Here's an excerpt:
GLAUDE: “They’re getting a little wobbly but they’re still still sturdy. (Laughter) And part of — you know, I am really — I was really annoyed actually by the president’s speech.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Were you really? I thought that was inspiring.”
GLAUDE: “Well, you know, I think part of what we see is that the Clinton campaign made a bad decision. They spent most of the summer trying to court disaffected Republicans and taking their baits for granted. And I said on this show that how what would happen as she was getting the endorsement of Bush Republicans and the like, how would that excite those folks who were supporting Bernie Sanders? How would that excite Latino, how would it excite voters African-American voters? And so, now, what do we get? Instead of a series of rationale arguments from the president to black political — to black voters, we get, you know, don’t insult me.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Wow. OK.”
GLAUDE: “And I just find that condescending. And I know I’m going to get in trouble for it, I just founded it —“
Manic Man....................
Watching this loon scream at the American people makes one wonder 'What is it you aren't getting?'. The guy is a Muslim and a fraud. He grew up in a family where both parents hated America. The American people elect a no accomplishment, no real job ever, state level back bencher to be President? America has lost it's mind and much of it can be credited to the education system, Left-wing 'main stream' media, the internet and social media. It's only going to get worse as he and people that follow him want a 'one world' solution based on mass mediocrity that creates even more division, separation of the classes.
Hillary's back on the trail........
I think they'll be carrying her out one day.
Hillary’s Gurney: Hospital Bed on Standby at Clinton Rally
EMS workers in bullet proof vests traveled with Clinton's motorcade
Paul Joseph Watson - September 9, 2016 ?
EMS workers wearing bullet proof vests who had been traveling in an ambulance that was part of Hillary Clinton’s motorcade in Cleveland, Ohio earlier this week were caught on camera wheeling out a hospital bed, prompting more questions as to the state of Hillary’s health.
Hillary suffered a four minute coughing fit during the event which prompted national headlines and an attempt by the Clinton campaign to pressure the media into not reporting on future episodes of Hillary’s ill health.
Infowars reporter Millie Weaver reported how she was intrigued to see the EMS workers traveling with Hillary given all the questions about her health.
“I’m standing there waiting for Hillary to come out of her tent and the event was already running over an hour behind, so I had a feeling something was wrong, that maybe she was sick….and sure enough I turn right around and there is a gurney and there’s these EMS workers bit they are wearing what looks like bullet proof vests,” said Weaver.
The men seen in the video wheeling out the gurney emerged from the same ambulance that had been part of Hillary’s motorcade, according to Weaver and her cameraman.
“They were staged right behind stage waiting in the event that maybe she might have had something happen or maybe she fainted or fell,” said Weaver, who noted how Clinton “sounded so sick in person” when she finally emerged from the tent to give her cough-addled speech.
Leftist media outlets claimed they had “debunked” our previous article about Hillary’s motorcade containing an ambulance by claiming that all presidential candidates had one.
However, there was no ambulance in Donald Trump’s motorcade when he visited Cleveland for a rally three days later, according to Weaver.
http://www.infowars.com/hillarys-gurney-hospital-bed-on-standby-at-clinton-rally/
This would be great......
A new, revived Hillary back on the campaign trail.....
A new, revived Hillary back on the campaign trail.
You all have probably seen this:
Obama nominates first Muslim-American federal judge
By Zach Montellaro
09/07/16 10:02 AM EDT
President Barack Obama has nominated the first Muslim-American to serve as a federal judge, saying the D.C. based-lawyer would serve "with integrity and a steadfast commitment to justice" if confirmed.
Abid Riaz Qureshi was nominated by the White House Tuesday evening to serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
“I am pleased to nominate Mr. Qureshi to serve on the United States District Court bench,” President Barack Obama said in a statement. “I am confident he will serve the American people with integrity and a steadfast commitment to justice.”
Qureshi currently works at the firm Latham & Watkins LLP, where he focuses on health care fraud and securities violations. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1997.
Congressional Republicans have refused to hold a hearing for Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, who was nominated in March.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/obama-nominates-muslim-federal-judge-227824#ixzz4KcZMftAA
You all have probably seen this:
Obama nominates first Muslim-American federal judge
By Zach Montellaro
09/07/16 10:02 AM EDT
President Barack Obama has nominated the first Muslim-American to serve as a federal judge, saying the D.C. based-lawyer would serve "with integrity and a steadfast commitment to justice" if confirmed.
Abid Riaz Qureshi was nominated by the White House Tuesday evening to serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
“I am pleased to nominate Mr. Qureshi to serve on the United States District Court bench,” President Barack Obama said in a statement. “I am confident he will serve the American people with integrity and a steadfast commitment to justice.”
Qureshi currently works at the firm Latham & Watkins LLP, where he focuses on health care fraud and securities violations. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1997.
Congressional Republicans have refused to hold a hearing for Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, who was nominated in March.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/obama-nominates-muslim-federal-judge-227824#ixzz4KcZMftAA
South Park Parodies Colin Kaepernick’s National Anthem Protest
time.com
"Why did I listen to Colin Kaepernick? He’s not even any good"
Quote:
http://time.com/4489554/south-park-colin-kaep...m-protest/