"Thus, it’s fitting that John Kerry’s last major act as secretary of state is a speech that offers up hot nonsense, a bitterly hostile address that called Israel’s government “the most right-wing in Israeli history, with an agenda driven by its most extreme elements.” (Mind you, the opposing side in this conflict elected Hamas, an actual terrorist group, to govern the Gaza Strip.)"Monday, January 02, 2017
John Kerry -- Secretary State Failure | National Review
John Kerry -- Secretary State Failure | National Review:
"Thus, it’s fitting that John Kerry’s last major act as secretary of state is a speech that offers up hot nonsense, a bitterly hostile address that called Israel’s government “the most right-wing in Israeli history, with an agenda driven by its most extreme elements.” (Mind you, the opposing side in this conflict elected Hamas, an actual terrorist group, to govern the Gaza Strip.)"
"Thus, it’s fitting that John Kerry’s last major act as secretary of state is a speech that offers up hot nonsense, a bitterly hostile address that called Israel’s government “the most right-wing in Israeli history, with an agenda driven by its most extreme elements.” (Mind you, the opposing side in this conflict elected Hamas, an actual terrorist group, to govern the Gaza Strip.)"
Slate both quotes me (a brilliant idea) and makes...
(1) Leon Drolet - Slate both quotes me (a brilliant idea) and makes...:
"Slate both quotes me (a brilliant idea) and makes self-defeating arguments against increased use of ride sharing services, like Lyft and Uber, as alternatives to traditional mass transit.
Specifically:
"Slate both quotes me (a brilliant idea) and makes self-defeating arguments against increased use of ride sharing services, like Lyft and Uber, as alternatives to traditional mass transit.
Specifically:
1. The author laments that ride share services employ private citizens who charge less than expensive, unionized government employees - ignoring that transit should serve customers, not fatten government employee coffers.
2,. He points out that ride share services currently provide rides at less than true cost, while not caring that buses/subways use far more massive taxpayer subsidies. Example: he cites a bus route in Florida where riders pay only $2.25 of the $16 cost per ride, then criticizes the Uber/Lyft replacement of that route for using a $5 per ride subsidy - which saves taxpayers almost $9 per ride while (the author admits) providing better service. Yet, this is bad in his view.
3. He unfavorably compares Uber/Lyft's "fare box recovery" (the % that riders pay of overall costs) to selected subway fare box recovery while ignoring the fact that the vast majority of public mass transit are buses and light rail, which have FAR lower fare box recovery rates than Uber/Lyft or subways.
If this is the best critics of transit modernization can do, they will lose badly to advocates of privatization and modernization of mass transit.
Absolutely Stunning – Leaked Audio of Secretary Kerry Reveals President Obama Intentionally Allowed Rise of ISIS… | The Last Refuge
Absolutely Stunning – Leaked Audio of Secretary Kerry Reveals President Obama Intentionally Allowed Rise of ISIS… | The Last Refuge:
"There are moments within investigative research when your jaw can stand agape as you recognize the scope of what you are reading or hearing. A brutally down-played audio of Secretary John Kerry is just such an occasion.
When you listen to the audio recording (embed below) it becomes immediately obvious what was going on when both of those 2014 statements were made by the White House. In addition, you discover why this jaw-dropping 2016 leak/story was buried by the U.S. media and how it connects to over 5 years of perplexing U.S. mid-east policy.
"There are moments within investigative research when your jaw can stand agape as you recognize the scope of what you are reading or hearing. A brutally down-played audio of Secretary John Kerry is just such an occasion.
♦ In August of 2014 President Obama (wearing a tan business suit) gave a press conference where he stated he “did not have a strategy” against ISIS. –Video Link–
♦ Two months later, in October of 2014, Josh Earnest gave a press conference where he stated: “Our ISIS strategy is dependent on something that does not yet exist” –Video Link–
However, on September 30th 2016 the New York Times quietly released a leaked audio recording of Secretary John Kerry meeting with multiple factions associated within Syria.
This evidence within this single story would/should forever remove any credibility toward the U.S. foreign policy under President Obama. It also destroys the credibility of a large number of well known republicans. What the recording reveals is substantive:
♦ First, only regime change, the removal of Bashir Assad, in Syria was the goal for President Obama. This is admitted and outlined by Secretary John Kerry.
♦ Secondly, in order to accomplish this primary goal, the White House was willing to watch the rise of ISIS by placing their bet that ISIS’s success would force Syrian President Bashir Assad to acquiesce toward Obama’s terms and step down.
♦ Thirdly, in order to facilitate the two objectives, Obama and Kerry intentionally gave arms to ISIS and even, arguably, attacked a Syrian government military convoy to stop a strategic attack upon the Islamic extremists killing 80 Syrian soldiers.
Pause for a moment and consider those three points carefully before continuing. Because this audio (below), along with accompanying research now surfacing, not only exposes these three points as truth – but also provides the specific evidence toward them..."
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Mike Rowe Criticizes Media For Calling Trump Voters Uneducated | The Daily Caller
Mike Rowe Criticizes Media For Calling Trump Voters Uneducated | The Daily Caller:
"“If the media didn’t care about the lack of college among black men supporting Obama, why do they care so much about the lack of college among white men supporting Trump? Moreover, when exactly did a lack of college become synonymous with a lack of education?”"
"“If the media didn’t care about the lack of college among black men supporting Obama, why do they care so much about the lack of college among white men supporting Trump? Moreover, when exactly did a lack of college become synonymous with a lack of education?”"
Man jailed for leaving a bacon sandwich outside a mosque is found dead in prison halfway through his 12-month sentence
Man jailed for leaving a bacon sandwich outside a mosque is found dead in prison halfway through his 12-month sentence - The Geller Report:
"Leaving bacon outside a mosque is a criminal offense in Western countries?
That is Islamic law — that is the sharia.
This man was jailed for it and died in prison.
There is no doubt in my mind he was killed by Muslim prisoners enforcing the sharia in prison — death for anyone who insults or criticizes Islam.
"Leaving bacon outside a mosque is a criminal offense in Western countries?
That is Islamic law — that is the sharia.
This man was jailed for it and died in prison.
There is no doubt in my mind he was killed by Muslim prisoners enforcing the sharia in prison — death for anyone who insults or criticizes Islam.
Prisons are hotbeds of jihad recruitment and activity.
This man should have been kept separate from the Muslim population.
This was murder by the state.
Millions oppressed, subjugated in the cause of Islam but we are not allowed to criticize it or oppose it.
This man should have been kept separate from the Muslim population.
This was murder by the state.
Millions oppressed, subjugated in the cause of Islam but we are not allowed to criticize it or oppose it.
- Kevin Crehan, 35, was found dead in his cell at HMP Bristol on Tuesday
- He was serving a one-year sentence for racist attack on a Bristol mosque
- Crehan and accomplices left bacon sandwiches outside the building
- They also left a St George flag outside with ‘No Mosques’ written on it
Crehan and three accomplices all admitted a racially-aggravated attack on a mosque in Bristol in which they tied bacon to door handles and left bacon sandwiches outside, pictured
A St George flag with the words ‘no mosques’ was also tied to the fence outside the building in Totterdown, Bristol, and shouted racial abuse at a worshipper.Bacon was tied to the door handles and sandwiches made of raw meat and sliced white bread were left at the entrance, in what was described in court by the judge as an ‘an attack on England’.
OUTRAGE! Iran To Get $10 BILLION In Cash And Gold As 'Sanctions Relief'
OUTRAGE! Iran To Get $10 BILLION In Cash And Gold As 'Sanctions Relief'
"Remember back in August when the Obama administration paid $400 million as ransom to Iran to get the American hostages freed?
Remember when it came out that they didn’t give Iran $400 million but rather gave them $1.3 BILLION for the hostages?
"Remember back in August when the Obama administration paid $400 million as ransom to Iran to get the American hostages freed?
Remember when it came out that they didn’t give Iran $400 million but rather gave them $1.3 BILLION for the hostages?
Well now the Obama administration has found another way to give Iran money; this time the administration is helping the terrorist state get $10 billion.
From The Blaze:
The Obama administration reportedly signed legal waivers that allowed sanctions relief to the tune of $10 billion in cash and gold to be sent to Iran as part of the Iran deal. But the White House denies that they had any direct role in the payments.According to the Wall Street Journal, the cash and gold were moved through third-party countries in the Middle East and Europe after Asian nations unfroze Iranian oil revenues and wired the funds to various banks, including in Oman, Switzerland and Turkey. U.S. lawmakers and Middle East allies worry, due to the highly liquid nature of cash, the payments could be used to fund terror regimes.
The money was converted to currency and bars of gold, U.S. officials said. The White House put a single restriction on the transactions: They could not include U.S. dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal:
To enable the flow of the $700 million monthly payments, the White House signed a series of legal waivers authorizing countries to unfreeze Iranian oil revenues, the officials said. Without the waivers, those countries in many cases would have been in violation of U.S. secondary sanctions.
The Obama administration says it played no role in the $10 billion cash and gold payments to Iran, contending that the countries that unfroze the oil revenues and made the banking transfers acted of their own volition."
White House fails to make case that Russian hackers tampered with election
White House fails to make case that Russian hackers tampered with election | Ars Technica:
"Talk about disappointments.
The US government's much-anticipated analysis of Russian-sponsored hacking operations provides almost none of the promised evidence linking them to breaches that the Obama administration claims were orchestrated in an attempt to interfere with the 2016 presidential election."
"Talk about disappointments.
The US government's much-anticipated analysis of Russian-sponsored hacking operations provides almost none of the promised evidence linking them to breaches that the Obama administration claims were orchestrated in an attempt to interfere with the 2016 presidential election."
Seven Ways Obama Is Trying to Sabotage the Trump Administration - Breitbart
Seven Ways Obama Is Trying to Sabotage the Trump Administration - Breitbart:
"President Barack Obama’s final weeks in office seem dedicated to setting foreign and domestic policy on fire to make life as difficult as possible on his successor, Donald Trump. Here are some of the biggest mousetraps Obama scattered across the White House floor on his way out:"
The Progressive Missionaries of Unhappiness
Sultan Knish: The Progressive Missionaries of Unhappiness:
"There is no one that the left hates more than a man who does not hate, who goes through the day without outrage and who does not spend his life stewing with vindictive resentments.
Leftists call it “privilege” now.
They have called it apathy, escapism and a hundred other things.
They will find a thousand other names for it as they march through the future centuries grinding their teeth and cursing their country for its backwardness, their people for their provincialism and their culture for its mercantilism.
But privilege is simply freedom from resentment.
To be of the left is to confuse perpetual outrage with righteousness.
The professional leftist believes that the path to utopia on earth lies in constantly denouncing thought criminals until they have all been unthought so that only their kind of ethical and empathetic people walk the earth.
Like most utopians, they plan for a utopia that they could never actually live in.
Leftists without grievances are like an army without guns.
That is why leftist experiments in communes dissolved into denunciations, power grabs and authoritarian rules as soon the drugs ran out.
Often even before.
The leftist isn’t seeking freedom from capitalism, religion, nationalism, racism, sexism, office dress codes, bar codes and any of the other great evils of the moment.
These are just the outrage fuel of the willfully outraged whose resentment has become both culture and religion.
What he wants is to express an egotistical grievance at a world that is not built around him.
His resentments came before his ideology.
They are in a very real sense his ideology.
The idealistic leftist is a passing phenomenon.
He is useful for getting the actual work done while everyone else shouts.
Unless he is very dim, he eventually realizes that and heads off to volunteer in Africa.
The core is the aggrieved leftist whose grievances merge with his storytelling skills into the compelling narrative of a narcissist.
The perpetually aggrieved deeply resent those who are oblivious to their anger.
It is the theme that dominates the literature, the music and the political writings of an infuriated left throwing its anger at a mindless mass that is perfectly happy collecting paychecks, living in the suburbs and watching television.
It is not their prosperity that the left hates, but their uncomplicated happiness.
It is this uncomplicated happiness that the left sets out to ruin at all costs..."
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"There is no one that the left hates more than a man who does not hate, who goes through the day without outrage and who does not spend his life stewing with vindictive resentments.
Leftists call it “privilege” now.
They have called it apathy, escapism and a hundred other things.
They will find a thousand other names for it as they march through the future centuries grinding their teeth and cursing their country for its backwardness, their people for their provincialism and their culture for its mercantilism.But privilege is simply freedom from resentment.
To be of the left is to confuse perpetual outrage with righteousness.
The professional leftist believes that the path to utopia on earth lies in constantly denouncing thought criminals until they have all been unthought so that only their kind of ethical and empathetic people walk the earth.
Like most utopians, they plan for a utopia that they could never actually live in.
Leftists without grievances are like an army without guns.
That is why leftist experiments in communes dissolved into denunciations, power grabs and authoritarian rules as soon the drugs ran out.
Often even before.
The leftist isn’t seeking freedom from capitalism, religion, nationalism, racism, sexism, office dress codes, bar codes and any of the other great evils of the moment.
These are just the outrage fuel of the willfully outraged whose resentment has become both culture and religion.
What he wants is to express an egotistical grievance at a world that is not built around him.
His resentments came before his ideology.
They are in a very real sense his ideology.
The idealistic leftist is a passing phenomenon.
He is useful for getting the actual work done while everyone else shouts.
Unless he is very dim, he eventually realizes that and heads off to volunteer in Africa.
The core is the aggrieved leftist whose grievances merge with his storytelling skills into the compelling narrative of a narcissist.The perpetually aggrieved deeply resent those who are oblivious to their anger.
It is the theme that dominates the literature, the music and the political writings of an infuriated left throwing its anger at a mindless mass that is perfectly happy collecting paychecks, living in the suburbs and watching television.
It is not their prosperity that the left hates, but their uncomplicated happiness.
It is this uncomplicated happiness that the left sets out to ruin at all costs..."
Read on!
History for January 2
History for January 2 - On-This-Day.com:
Isaac Asimov 1920, Roger Miller 1936, Jim Bakker 1939
Cuba Gooding, Jr. 1968, Christy Turlington 1969, Kate Bosworth 1973
1842 - In Fairmount, PA, the first wire suspension bridge was opened to traffic.
1892 - Ellis Island opened as America's first federal immigration center. Annie Moore, at age 15, became the first person to pass through.
1900 - U.S. Secretary of State John Hay announced the Open Door Policy to prompt trade with China.
1935 - Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for the kidnap-murder of Charles Lindberghs baby. Hauptmann was found guilt and executed.
1942 - The Philippine capital of Manila was captured by Japanese forces during World War II.
1949 - Jack Benny's television show aired on CBS for the first time. The show had previously been aired on NBC.
1953 - "The Life of Riley" debuted on NBC-TV.
1965 - "Broadway" Joe Namath signed the richest rookie contract ($400,000) in the history of pro football.
1974 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon signed a bill requiring all states to lower the maximum speed limit to 55 MPH. The law was intended to conserve gasoline supplies during an embargo imposed by Arab oil-producing countries. Federal speed limits were abolished in 1995.
Sunday, January 01, 2017
20 Ways Obama Used His Presidency to Set Israel Up for Destruction » BarbWire.com
20 Ways Obama Used His Presidency to Set Israel Up for Destruction » BarbWire.com:
"The recent sell out by Obama in which, for the first time ever, the U.S. refused to veto an anti-Israel U.N. resolution concerning Israeli settlements was just the tip of an iceberg. Indeed, while Obama pretended to be pro-Israel, he and his team of anti-Semitic middle eastern advisors did everything they could over the last 8 years to undermine Israel, clearly in an attempt to weaken them so that they would eventually be destroyed by their Islamic neighbors."
U.S. Navy Takes Massive Stand Against Obama... They've Had Enough - American News - Breaking News, Political News and Updates
U.S. Navy Takes Massive Stand Against Obama... They've Had Enough - American News - Breaking News, Political News and Updates:
"Barack Obama has shown a blatant disregard for our military. Time and time again, he has demonstrated that he has no appreciation for its traditions. Earlier this year, he ordered the United States Navy to scrub “man” from all job designations in an effort to be politically correct."
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