Imagine if Oswald and Sirhan were Tea Party Americans? -----Speaking of the Kennedy Assassination

Speaking of the Kennedy Assassination | The Volokh ConspiracyThe Volokh Conspiracy:
Speaking of the Kennedy Assassination

by David Bernstein on November 23, 2013 8:27 pm in Media

While fifty years later, much of the MSM still refuses to acknowledge that JFK’s assassin was a Communist loser, somehow it’s also apparently not cricket to point out that his brother RFK was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist.

So let’s review.
Sirhan Sirhan was a Palestinian refugee with Jordanian citizenship.
He murdered Kennedy because the latter promised to send advanced fighter planes to Israel.
The PLO terrorist group Black September demanded his release in exchange for hostages in
 1973, recognizing that he was “one of theirs.”

Yet of 5755 hits for “Sirhan Sirhan” in the ALLNEWS database on Westlaw, only four of them refer to him as a “Palestinian terrorist” or “Palestinian extremist;” three of these sources are the Jerusalem Post, and one is the New York Jewish Week. In mainstream publications, you actually get phrases like this, “Black September terrorists who kidnapped the Western diplomats in a failed plot to free Palestinian terrorists in European jails and Sirhan Sirhan, the killer of Robert F. Kennedy,” as if Sirhan Sirhan, a terrorist and a Palestinian, on the same “trade of for hostages list” as other Palestinian terrorists, was somehow not a “Palestinian terrorist.” An even better one, from the Huffington Post: “[RFK] was gunned down in a hotel kitchen by a 24-year-old Palestinian whose motives have never been determined.” (Ironically, sources from the Arab world (e.g.,) seem more likely to acknowledge the real dynamic, though with the message that the U.S. and assumedly RFK got what was coming to it and him for supporting Israel).

Database: A look at the nation's top 100 airports and how fares have changed since 2005

Database: A look at the nation's top 100 airports and how fares have changed since 2005 | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

Maybe they could change the name of the airport to "N. Tampa Airport"? ---Emptier skies, higher fares at Detroit Metro Airport

Michigan Traveler: Emptier skies, higher fares at Detroit Metro Airport | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"Since 2005, Metro has lost 22% of its domestic passenger flights, 27% of available seats on planes — and fares have surged 34%."

■ Airlines are concentrating on flying when travelers most want to travel — in the daytime. While Thanksgiving week may seem swamped, on many nights, passengers flying into the McNamara or North terminals after 9:30 p.m. could roll a bowling ball down the terminal aisles and not hit anyone.

British politician slams Obama for abandoning friends

British politician slams Obama for abandoning friends | The Daily Caller:
"British Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan says he is “deeply disappointed” in President Obama.
“What happened to that inspiring, bipartisan fellow who made the speech about not slicing and dicing red and blue states?” the conservative politician, who despite being a member of the European Parliament is a Euro-skeptic, told The Daily Caller.
"The debt is growing, the health care scheme is misguided, and I’m not sure there has ever been a president who cares less about the U.S.’s relations with her traditional friends, or the patrimony she was privileged to inherit from her Founders.”"

Obama's america-We pay the banks. Twice! ----Banks Warn Fed They May Have To Start Charging Depositors

Banks Warn Fed They May Have To Start Charging Depositors | Zero Hedge:
"As the FT reports leading US banks have warned the Fed that should it lower IOER, they would be forced to start charging depositors."

"IOER"-Excess reserves - Wikipedia, the free Encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_reserves
... the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 allowed the Fed to begin paying interest on excess reserve balances ("IOER") as well as required reserves.

Are these young men attending Obama's old racist church? ---Six 'Knockout' Attacks in New Haven, Connecticut

Six 'Knockout' Attacks in New Haven, Connecticut:
"The “Knockout Game” has been increasingly reported in cities in the United States.
It is an unprovoked assault that appears to be motivated by malice, desire for Internet fame, or bigotry.
The Independent had no report of the physical description of the attackers or the victims besides their ages.
The attacks in other cities have typically been carried out by a group of young black men on a lone white or Asian individual. "

We are hiring federal workers to tell citizens to cheat the government-----Obamacare Navigator Fraud Rampant, Not "Isolated Incident"

Obamacare Navigator Fraud Rampant, Not "Isolated Incident" - YouTube: ""
If you earn cash on the side, do not tell the government—that’s what multiple Obamacare navigators are saying in Texas.
James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released a second video exposing more Obamacare navigators who encouraged undercover investigators to lie and hide income when applying for Obamacare.
“I have two jobs. One is part time and the other is part time but I don’t claim the income, so how does that work?” a Project Veritas investigator asked an Obamacare navigator.
“Nora,” an Obamacare navigator at Community Health Centers of South Central Texas, said, “If you don’t claim the income then you don’t have to.”
A second navigator advised an undercover investigator to get her income as low as possible before reporting it.
“I like went on to the calculator thing online and it said I qualify for these things,” the investigator said. “But then if you add my additional income, I do like every Friday, Saturday, Sunday I nanny for a family and it makes, I make substantial extra income from that, that put me over.”
The navigator, Kris McCray from Change Happens located in Houston, Texas, said, “Well see I don’t know if you have to report all that stuff. I think they’re going to go off on where you file for your taxes. So stuff like that, to get a lower premium, I wouldn’t include in it.”
McCray continued, “If I was cutting grass on the weekends, and they were just giving me money, that’s my money.”
“I would just try to get the number as low as you can. It would help you qualify you for more stuff as far as aid and stuff like that,” he said to the investigator.
Watch the video to see more and hear a navigator explain that he hasn’t been able to sign anybody up for Obamacare.

Think about it. Jimmah, Kofi, Barry and the Ayatollahs ALL agree this is a good idea. Think about it.........Jimmy Carter on Geneva deal: 'Historic opportunity' to rebuild relations with Iran

Jimmy Carter on Geneva deal: 'Historic opportunity' to rebuild relations with Iran - Middle East Israel News | Haaretz:
"Former U.S. president and member of The Elders says aware of risks involved, but hopes this can rebuild relations with Iran; Netanyahu call deal 'historic mistake.'"

They are NOT our friends----Chinese Aggressiveness in Asia

Chinese Aggressiveness in Asia - Ricochet.com:

There is trouble on the horizon, and before long it may turn into very big trouble.

In late August, I wrote at length about China's resolute turn back to despotism; about its vehement public repudiation of constitutionalism, the rule of law, and freedom of the press; and about the manner in which Chinese communist cadres are now expected to read Alexis de Tocqueville's classic The Ancien Regime and the Revolution as a warning against a relaxation of party discipline.

There is another dimension to what is going on in China, and it dovetails neatly with the first. In and for a long time after the time of Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese talked softly while carrying a big stick. Deng and his immediate successors understood that the rise of China would elicit anxiety on the part of the Japanese, the Koreans, the Vietnamese, the Taiwanese, and the Filipinos, and they did what they could to allay that anxiety by refraining from doing anything that would suggest on their part aggressive intent.

In the last couple of years,  however, all of that has changed; and everywhere where one goes in Asia, an old friend who travels in high circles told me earlier this week, one senses hostility -- not towards the United States but towards one's neighbors. The anger underlying all of this has been stirred by the Chinese, who have been throwing their weight around with ever greater force.

This weekend the Chinese upped the ante. In the South China Sea, between Korea and Taiwan, there are some uninhabited islands, which are called the Senkaku isles by the Japanese and the Diayu isles by the Chinese. Although there are other claimants, these have been controlled for many decades by the Japanese. This weekend, however, China extended its air-defence zone to include the islands:

Spreadin' the wealth around.....

Ummm, Mr. reporterman. Simple math. Flintsonians are moving out faster than thay can burn what's left. That nominator/denominator thing........Newspaper: Arson arrests drop in Flint

Newspaper: Arson arrests drop in Flint | The Detroit News:
"Flint — Flint police and fire departments are spending less time and money investigating arsons and making fewer arrests for the crime even though the city leads the nation in the rate of arsons per capita, a newspaper reports."

And EVERY elected democrat in the country supported their democrat thug cronies who destroyed this city------10 revealing exchanges: How Judge Rhodes is conducting Detroit's bankruptcy

This honorable judge may be able to find some light at the end of this endless tunnel. 
Maybe.
10 revealing exchanges: How Judge Rhodes is conducting Detroit's bankruptcy | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"5. Remembers resident's story about lack of emergency response to neighbor's killing
During a hearing in which 50 individuals were given the chance to discuss their objections to Detroit’s bankruptcy, resident and former mayoral candidate Jean Vortkamp recalled a slain neighbor whose body stayed in the street for five hours this summer before emergency responders arrived.

My "friends" at MoveOn.com explain the debacle is caused by the greedy insurance companies and not Barry. Or anyone who Barry has even heard of......

And everything is Okeydokie!


Dear MoveOn member,
I'm Jim Frost, a MoveOn member in Reston, Virginia, and I started a petition to Congress and President Barack Obama, which says:

The Affordable Care Act is a good thing. Defend it for the sake of the majority!

Why are we so fixated on 4 million insured people who may lose their current and mostly sub-standard health insurance policies and ignoring the fact that 48 million people who have never had health insurance will finally be able to buy health insurance?

The 4 million insured have had the ability to purchase insurance all along. 

Now, due to circumstances beyond their control, including the greed of insurance companies, they could potentially lose their current policy. 
But they still have the option to get another plan.

The 48 million people that have never had coverage would not be able to get any health insurance coverage if it were not for the Affordable Care Act. End of story!

Tell your lawmakers to stop putting politics ahead of the needs of the majority—that is not the way a democracy is supposed to work.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!
–Jim Frost
MoveOn members around the country have gone all-in to save Obamacare. As part of that big campaign, Jim Frost started this petition urging Congress and President Obama to defend the Affordable Care Act.
In addition to Jim's petition, we collected over 800 stories this week about how Obamacare is helping people. We're fighting to get the media to cover those stories. We're beating back lies and misinformation about the law—and we're holding lawmakers who voted to gut the law accountable.
Want to support our work? MoveOn Civic Action is entirely funded by our 8 million members—no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. Chip in here.

Killing The "We Paid Our Taxes; We Earned Our Benefits" Social Security Ponzi Meme | Zero Hedge

Killing The "We Paid Our Taxes; We Earned Our Benefits" Social Security Ponzi Meme | Zero Hedge

One recent study of lifetime payroll taxes and benefits comes from the Urban Institute. For Medicare, they calculated that (in 2012 dollars) an average-wage-earning male would get $180,000 in benefits, but pay only $61,000 in taxes — “earning” only about one-third of benefits received. A similarly situated female does even better. The cumulative “excess” benefits equal $105 trillion, with net benefits increasing over time.

...In fact, perhaps the best description of the current Social Security and Medicare situation comes from Henry Hazlitt, long ago, in Economics in One Lesson:

Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore. The long-run consequences of some economic policies may become evident in a few months. Others may not become evident for several years. Still others may not become evident for decades. But in every case those long-run consequences are contained in the policy as surely as the hen was in the egg, the flower in the seed.

Social Security and Medicare’s generational high-jacking has become “the third rail of politics” in large part because seniors want to believe that they paid their own way. 

But they have not. 

They have only paid for part of what they have gotten. 

The rest has indeed been a Ponzi scheme. 

And as Social Security is already revealing, the future cannot be put off forever, however much wishful thinking is involved. 

Some are already being forced to confront the exploding pot of IOUs involved, and it will get much worse.

I STILL can't "Enroll", yet I'm counted as one who "has chosen his plan". Mr. President, tear down this website!

The real reason they support "global warming/climatechange/cooling/whatever" legislation. Your moolah! ---Developing countries want to FORCE rich countries to bail them out if they're hit by natural disasters

Developing countries want to FORCE rich countries to bail them out if they're hit by natural disasters | Mail Online:
"Developing countries want to FORCE rich countries to bail them out if they're hit by natural disasters.

Group of poorer nations claim richer nations have contributed to global warming so should pay compensation to afflicted countries.

The earlier nations industrialised, the more they should pay, one claimed.
Debate caused rift at the end of peaceful UN climate summit in Warsaw"

Wacha doin there, eh? ----Public Masturbation on the Rise in Vancouver

Public Masturbation on the Rise in Vancouver:
 "Known as the Hollywood of the North, Vancouver is one of the few destinations where one can ski and golf on the same day.
These are just two of the many wonderful things to know about Vancouver.
Here's another one: incidents of public masturbation are on the rise.
Vancouver Police are telling residents to call 911 immediately if they see sexually motivated offences.
Since the beginning of October, Police say they have received numerous calls about prowlers and incidents involving men masturbating and exposing themselves in public."

Der Fuehrer's propagandists would be proud----- What ObamaCare Disaster? NBC Continues Blackout of Failing Health Care Law

What ObamaCare Disaster? NBC Continues Blackout of Failing Health Care Law | NewsBusters:
"After going 72 hours without even mentioning ObamaCare on its air waves, NBC's continued refusal to cover the disastrous policy on Thursday's Nightly News or Friday's Today brought that total up to 96 hours.
Amazingly, Friday's Today had the audacity to include two segments about Vice President Joe Biden buying lunch at a Washington D.C. sandwich shop rather provide any ObamaCare updates."

Bloody Hell! Publicly funded Wayne State University now in the real estate development biz????? Detroit geniuses plan $60 million apartment, retail building

Wayne State plans $60 million apartment, retail building | Crain's Detroit Business:
"A $60 million mixed-use development by Wayne State University at the northeast corner of Cass and Canfield streets in Midtown is expected to open by 2016.
......Construction is expected to begin by the first quarter of 2015."

READ OF THE MONTH!!!!! No more I-375? Detroit to study removing freeway in favor of walkable surface street

This is so silly and destructive it leaves one breathless.
The only part of the city that has any spark if life is downtown. 
And getting there requires a car run through the most violent city in the country.
Sooooo.
Let's make it much more inconvenient for those with money to visit.
And replace that highway with a "walkable ambiance" that might as well be a synonym for "Knock-out game Detroit".
Ya kant fix what dont want ta be fixed.......

No more I-375? Detroit to study removing freeway in favor of walkable surface street | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"For the first time in a half century, Detroit could follow a national trend and remove aging I-375, cutting off express downtown access for tens of thousands of motorists a day in favor of a pedestrian-friendly parkway connecting Lafayette Park and Eastern Market with the central business district.

Turning the trench-like interstate that runs from I-75 near Gratiot south to Jefferson Avenue into a surface street would make for easier connections between residential areas on the east side and central downtown.
Creating that walkable ambiance would come at the cost of high-speed connections on I-375 that suburbanites take to reach the Renaissance Center, Cobo Center and other downtown destinations."

That was THE PLAN. Get it? ------------------Price of Electricity Hit Record for October; Up 42% in Decade

Price of Electricity Hit Record for October; Up 42% in Decade | CNS News:
"The price of electricity hit a record for the month of October, according to data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
That made October the eleventh straight month when the average price of electricity hit or matched the record level for that month."

Well, he surely delivered on this promise:
http://youtu.be/CNSZ62xiD4M

Obama Promises Skyrocketing Energy Costs

And affirmative action does rule our country.....Is Barack Mentally Malnourished? A Reasonable Explanation for Obama’s Mind

Is Barack Mentally Malnourished? A Reasonable Explanation for Obama’s Mind
Would it really be so strange if an individual of high office, yet low achievement were driven by small ideas and an incipient laziness - which were somehow obscured by his position? 
In fact, it seems Barack has an allergy to deep thinking, the work of deep study, and in-depth analysis. 
This would help explain his apparent ignorance regarding the failed ObamaCare website, and virtually all of his other failures. 
According to this theory, it is not the times being too difficult which tripped up Barack, but his being too small in confronting the tasks which resulted in his overwhelming failure as commander in chief. 
Consider the following argument.

Federal court??? Michigan bars are now allowed to offer alcohol and fully nude dancers ... but do they want to?

Michigan bars are now allowed to offer alcohol and fully nude dancers ... but do they want to? | MLive.com: "LANSING -- For 26 years, Michigan law prohibited fully nude dancers in establishments serving alcohol.
That changed in 2007 when a federal court ruled the ban was unconstitutional.

Think 1930s. They are.......China's new air defense zone above Senkakus 'very dangerous' escalation, Japan says

China's new air defense zone above Senkakus 'very dangerous' escalation, Japan says | The Japan Times:
"BEIJING – The government branded as “very dangerous” China’s announcement Saturday that it has set up an East China Sea air defense identification zone that includes the Japan-held Senkaku Islands.
The Chinese Defence Ministry said the zone was created to “guard against potential air threats,” but the move will only inflame a bitter sovereignty row over the islets, which China claims as Diaoyu."

The future is here---X-47B UCAS Aviation History Under Way

▶ X-47B UCAS Aviation History Under Way - YouTube: "
Northrop Grumman's X-47B unmanned combat air system demonstrates how to successfully takeoff and land from the deck of a moving aircraft carrier.
"

Don't you just love silent movies! ---- Armed Carjacker meets Armed Citizen

▶ Armed Carjacker meets Armed Citizen - YouTube: ""

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Attitudes Towards Handgun Bans

Attitudes Towards Handgun Bans | The Volokh ConspiracyThe Volokh Conspiracy:
"The lines indicate the responses to a Gallup survey, which asked “What about the possession of pistols and revolvers — do you think there should be a law which would forbid possession of this type of gun except by the police or other authorized person?” (or, since 1980, “Do you think there should or should not be a law that would ban the possession of handguns, except by the police or other authorized persons?”). The green line shows the “Yes” responses from 1959 to 2013, and the red line shows the “No” responses.

The change, of course, is striking, and hard to explain with any one answer. Increases in crime rates might be part of the reason for the change, but since the early 1990s crime rates have declined.
America’s historical connection to the West and to the Revolutionary era is often cited to explain views about guns, but of course that history was as present in 1959 as now. "

▶ Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli - Time to say Goodbye 2013 - YouTube

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