Castro, Glenn - Who will be the Third Famous (or Infamous) Figure to Go?

I did not care much for Glenn, but he deserves to Rest In Peace. m/r

John Glenn, astronaut and former senator, dead at 95

You Won't Get A Straight Story from NPR - Blame the 3rd World Invasion, Aging Boomers and Obamacare

The invasion of 3rd World Aliens who carry diseases that were once nearly eliminated from the US is probably the most insidious long term effect from Obama's open boarders policy. The Baby Boomers are getting old, but they don't believe it and can be careless or even reckless in their lifestyle. Then there is Obamacare. Now we're all forced, by intrusive penalty, to carry state mandated, cumbersome, health insurance. Yet its "affordability" has made it useless for basic healthcare due to the outrageous deductibles that are now part of the plans.
Centrally planned healthcare is as useless as National Public Radio. m/r

Life Expectancy In U.S. Drops For First Time In Decades, Report Finds

December 8, 201612:02 Heard on Morning Edition

One of the fundamental ways scientists measure the well-being of a nation is tracking the rate at which its citizens die and how long they can be expected to live.
So the news out of the federal government Thursday is disturbing: The overall U.S. death rate has increased for the first time in a decade, according to an analysis of the latest data. And that led to a drop in overall life expectancy for the first time since 1993, particularly among people younger than 65.
"This is a big deal," says Philip Morgan, a demographer at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill who was not involved in the new analysis.
"There's not a better indicator of well-being than life expectancy," he says. "The fact that it's leveling off in the U.S. is a striking finding."
Now, there's a chance that the latest data, from 2015, could be just a one-time blip. In fact, a preliminary analysis from the first two quarters of 2016 suggests that may be the case, says Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at the National Center for Health Statistics, which released the new report.

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Remember that Julia was Winston Smith's Girlfriend in "1984"

She was a product of the world under Big Brother. 

P. J. O'Rourke is mentioned in this article, but he even turned weenie on us and became a Pro-Hillary, Never-Trumper. m/r

Escape From the Life of Julia

By Claudia Rosett   December 2, 2016

There were plenty of flaws in the victory speech with which President-elect Donald Trump just kicked off his "Thank You Tour" of swing states. I hope he'll stick with his free-market plans to cut taxes and scrap regulations and jettison his state-planning proposal to punish companies for leaving the country (prosperity will come of free markets, not of presidentially directed industrial policy). And Shakespeare he's not; nor, for that matter, is he a Winston Churchill or Ronald Reagan.
But when Trump stood up in front of that Cincinnati crowd, looked into the cameras of national television, and proclaimed "America will start winning again bigly," what came over me -- not for the first time since Nov. 8th -- was a sweeping sense of relief.
Yes, there are yuge problems looming, at home and abroad. President Obama has guaranteed us cliff-hanger crises ahead, with his eight years of central planning, profligate spending, politicized law, apologies for America, betrayal of our allies, pandering to our enemies, and postmodern"narratives" designed to emulsify all common sense (Obama's erstwhile legacy deal for an "exclusively peaceful" Iranian nuclear program comes to mind).
Trump, even if he pursues the wisest of plans with the best of intentions, will have his hands full. We don't yet know how he will govern in practice. It's likely he's not quite sure either.
But here's something that really is huge. With last month's election, as underscored by the crowd celebrating Trump in Cincinnati, this country now has a fighting chance to escape the Life of Julia.
You remember "The Life of Julia"?

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this is not Obama's

The Life Of Julia

from May 4, 2012

Don't believe Obama, Julia/Julian did not really live a happy go lucky life at all.   

Just Checking Al Gore's BS Meter

Some relief from the Scam of the Climate Hoax! m/r

Trump ignores Gore’s advice, instead picks skeptic to head EPA & dismantle climate agenda

'Trump listened to what Gore had to say at their New York City meeting and then he exercised his good judgement and did the exact opposite.'

Flashback: Trump’s pick for EPA chief declared EPA climate regs were like ‘gun to the head’

Greens freak out over Trump’s EPA pick: Call him ‘Dangerous’ – ‘Existential threat to the planet’

By: Marc Morano - Climate Depot   December 7, 2016

Climate Depot’s publisher Marc Morano statement on President Elect Donald Trump’s selection of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt pick for EPA chief: 
“President-Elect Trump’s appointment of Scott Pruitt is a breath of fresh air. No longer do we have to suffer under President Obama’s ridiculous EPA ‘climate’ regulations. It is also refreshing that a Republican President is not throwing the EPA over to the green activists and the media by appointing a weak administrator. Christine Todd Whitman he is not! See: Bravo! Trump appoints ‘a fierce critic of the EPA’ — to head EPA! & Cheers! Trump picks leading EPA critic to head agency & NYT: ‘Trump Picks Scott Pruitt, Climate Change Denialist, to Lead EPA‘
Trump’s pick of Pruitt finally means that a Republican President is standing up the green establishment! Historically, EPA chiefs have been among the most pro regulatory members of past Republican presidents from Nixon through Ford, Reagan and both Bushes. Trump has broken the cycle!
Climate sanity has been restored to the U.S. EPA. ...

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How Did Obama Avoid Blaming Bush?

This failure cannot go too soon! m/r

Obama Lays Out Excuses for Terror Legacy

Outgoing president argues hands were tied in Iraq, blames gun laws and internet for homegrown terror

by Brendan Kirby | Updated 07 Dec 2016 

... Speaking at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, the president sought to absolve himself from responsibility for the growth of ISIS — an organization he once famously dismissed as a “JV team” — by prematurely withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq in 2011.

“As a practical matter, this was not an option,” he said. “By 2011, Iraqis wanted our military presence in Iraq to end, and they were unwilling to sign a new status-of-forces agreement to protect our troops from prosecution if they were trying to defend themselves in Iraq.”
After bragging that “no foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland,” Obama acknowledged so-called “lone wolf” attacks in Boston, California, Orlando, and Fort Hood — the last example notable because the Obama administration initially refused to label the mass shooting at the Army base as an act of terrorism.

In pinpointing the cause of those attacks, Obama reached for two familiar boogeymen, the internet and — wait for it — lax guns laws.

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Pompous Freeloader and Castro Suck-Up

"Bourdain is something of an archetypal 21st century New York liberal — a sophomoric character masquerading as an intellectual who uses his relatively extensive vocabulary to disguise the fact that his understanding of politics appears roughly on par with that of a coddled millennial who was never exposed to real history."

Anthony Bourdain Likens Trump to Mussolini

CNN's culinary traveler implies post-2016 America comparable to fascist Italy

by Edmund Kozak | Updated 05 Dec 2016

... “You fall into a trance here, you think no matter what, this beautiful dream will last forever,” declares a thoughtful-sounding Bourdain before finally arriving at his point. “And then suddenly, sh** gets real,” he says, as the camera cuts to a photograph of Mussolini as foreboding, doom-filled music begins to play.

“Before World War I, Benito Mussolini was considered a bully and a crackpot, a short-tempered, ever pontificating soap box orator from the small town of Predappio,” Bourdain claims. “In time, though, the country was divided and in crisis — it saw itself as besieged by enemies within and without,” he continues.

“It needed someone who said he could make Italy great again. He was a man on a horse saying, ‘Follow me,’ and they did … It can happen anywhere. It can happen here,” he says finally.
While wholly inappropriate — if not dangerous — and demonstrably unjustified, Bourdain’s analogy is hardly surprising.

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What America Needs is Bob Barr on the Supreme Court

If he would take it, and if he could get past the fools in the Senate. m/r

What America Needs Is a Good Dose of Bob Barr at Justice!

Christian Josi  from November 30, 2016

The best résumé you never heard about?

In an article he authored last week for townhall.com, former Congressman Bob Barr echoed the sentiments shared by me and many others who support President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Sen. Jeff Sessions as the next attorney general. The insights offered by Barr are especially apropos considering his background.

The Georgia lawyer served as the presidentially appointed United States attorney in Atlanta from 1986 to 1990 and was a member of the House Judiciary Committee for the eight years he served in Congress from 1995 to 2003. In other words, when Barr praises Trump’s pick for attorney general — in expectation of returning to the department the priorities of the Reagan-Meese years, when the focus was on fighting serious federal crimes rather than attacking police departments and pressing a liberal social agenda — he knows what he’s talking about.
During his tenure as a federal prosecutor (which overlapped with Sessions, who served as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Alabama), Barr led the prosecutions of many significant drug cases (including one of the first involving a cartel figure extradited from Colombia). He also pressed for the establishment of, and then headed a subcommittee in, the U.S. Attorneys’ office at the Department of Justice that focused on public corruption — reflecting the fact that his office prosecuted many such cases (including that of a Republican Member of Congress from Georgia). Barr’s nonpartisan handling of public corruption cases helped insulate him from some of the charges of partisanship that Democrats lodged against him when, as a congressman, he was an early and aggressive advocate for President Bill Clinton’s impeachment.
Another of Barr’s signature issues in the House was defending the Second Amendment. Barr became the “go-to guy” for the National Rifle Association on key firearms issues, based on his knowledge of the issue, and his understanding that the Second Amendment must be defended constantly and against indirect as well as direct attacks. Right up there with his advocacy of the Second Amendment was Barr’s relentless defense of privacy rights, earning him the sobriquet “Mr. Privacy” by famed writer William Safire. ...

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Day of Infamy, That Dastardly Attack

A word of sorrow and regret from Japan may be in order, no mater what that fool Obama says! m/r

Pearl Harbor survivors reflect, share vivid memories 75 years after ‘day of infamy’

By Laura Kelly and Carlo Munoz - The Washington Times - Tuesday, December 6, 2016 

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — At exactly 55 minutes past noon Wednesday, pilot Jim Record will take off from Long Island’s Republic Airport and steer his World War II-era North American SNJ 2 around the Statue of Liberty, while his co-pilot prepares the drop of 75 red American Beauty roses — commemorating each year since Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
The red roses will be joined by a single white rose, commemorating the victims of Sept. 11.
“It’s important for the people in general to remember this and also for the military people to remember this,” Mr. Record, 69, a retired airline pilot, Vietnam-era veteran and Navy flier, said. “It’s not something they stress too much in school — or if you talk about Dec. 7 to people on the street, they don’t know what it means. That’s a shame. It’s shocking and very important in our history.”
It’s a momentous milestone of an event that stubbornly refuses to retreat into the history books — the 75th anniversary of the attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, an event that dragged a reluctant America into World War II and transformed an isolationist nation into a global superpower. The number of first-hand witnesses dwindles by the day — a 20-year-old Navy corpsman at Pearl Harbor turns 95 this year.
Gerard Barbosa, 93 of East Meadow, Long Island, is one of two Pearl Harbor survivors who plans to attend Wednesday’s ceremony. Then a 17-year-old second-class petty officer and assistant gunner aboard the USS Raleigh in the waters off Oahu, he isn’t sentimental about the terror he lived through.

“I’m no hero. I volunteered, my twin brother volunteered, my father was in World War I. ...

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"Angela, a 62-year-old German woman, found herself attracted to 1.3 million Muslim migrants in just one year!"

Why don't you believe them when they say the want to kill all infidels? 
That's you and me! m/r

Dark Waters

by Mark Steyn  •  Dec 6, 2016 

~Here's another of what The Globe & Mail's Doug Saunders calls those "urban myths" about migrant rape:

AN Afghan migrant has admitted the rape and murder of a medical student, who also worked voluntarily at a refugee centre.

Maria Ladenburger, the daughter of a high-ranking EU official, was returning from a party in the university city of Freiburg in Germany when she was assaulted on a cycle path.
She was raped and then drowned before her body was found in the River Dreisam.

Under the insane rules of German crime reporting, the murderer is only mentioned in the press by his first name - Hussein. In fact, he's Hussein Kavari. You can see a picture of him here. Quite the charmer. Very assimilated in terms of his fashion style, if not in anything that matters.

Poor Miss Ladenburger was 19 years old, the daughter of Dr Clemens Ladenburger, who's a senior advisor at the European Commission's legal directorate. Whether or not she is as Saunders sneers an "urban myth", she was certainly the victim of other kinds of myths, and yet another sacrifice on the altar of utopian illusions.

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The Reality of Voting Fraud - "Who's Counting?"

Here is what has been happening in a nutshell. m/r 

Illegal Votes may Influence some Elections

Published on Dec 6, 2016

Multiple media reports show widespread voter fraud isn't possible. As it turns out, there's a real chance illegal aliens and citizens could have voted illegally. One America's John Hines reports.   

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