This and That...

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Amen

[Ross]

Warph,
Those cowardly sons a bitches have no idea what they would be up against if they brought their fight here to the Mother Land. Lots of old vets, given the chance again, would like to check out in a blaze of glory---that is unless our CiC disarms us all before his brothers all get here. Personally, I would have to recruit Doc Larry to come here and pass out Darvons every day just to get me jump started

Yes sir,  Oops  Yeah, Jarhead you got that right.

VietNam Could have been cleaned up in about a month if the Gov. would have let those 3,000 Special Forces Veterans, yes, there were some 3,000 civilians that volunteered to go back and do the job right. Politics stopped it from happening.

On our own soil, I don't believe any good veteran could be stopped by the government.

[Ross]

BORN LUCKY

Hi All
I won a Kenyan lottery according to an email from a Nigerian prince. He holds the sum of ONE MILLION DOLLARS in my name and he wants to send it to me FREE!

All I have to do is give him my bank account numbers and send him $500.00 US dollars first, to show my good faith so he can transfer the money!

And then I got ANOTHER email.
It's from a KENYAN prince who wants to give me FREE healthcare for life!
All I have to do is give him
My BANK ACCOUNT NUMBERS,
MY SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER
And MY CONFIDENTIAL HEALTH INFORMATION
So he can make it happen!
Am I lucky or what?

[Warph]

(Absolutely outstanding work by Maureen Dowd of the NY Times.
Yes, a flying pig moment...)

The Gettysburg Golf Address

FORE! Score? And seven trillion rounds ago, our forecaddies brought forth on this continent a new playground, conceived by Robert Trent Jones, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal when it comes to spending as much time on the links as possible — even when it seems totally inappropriate, like moments after making a solemn statement condemning the grisly murder of a 40-year-old American journalist beheaded by ISIL.

I know reporters didn't get a chance to ask questions, but I had to bounce. I had a 1 p.m. tee time at Vineyard Golf Club with Alonzo Mourning and a part-owner of the Boston Celtics. Hillary and I agreed when we partied with Vernon Jordan up here, hanging out with celebrities and rich folks is fun.

Now we are engaged in a great civil divide in Ferguson, which does not even have a golf course, and that's why I had a "logistical" issue with going there. We are testing whether that community, or any community so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure when the nation's leader wants nothing more than to sink a birdie putt.

We are met on a great field of that battle, not Augusta, not Pebble Beach, not Bethpage Black, not Burning Tree, but Farm Neck Golf Club in Martha's Vineyard, which we can't get enough of — me, Alonzo, Ray Allen and Marvin Nicholson, my trip director and favorite golfing partner who has played 134 rounds and counting with me.

We have to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for my presidency, if I keep swinging from behind.

Yet it is altogether fitting and proper that I should get to play as much golf as I want, despite all the lame jokes about how golf is turning into "a real handicap" for my presidency and how I have to "stay the course" with ISIL. I've heard all the carping that I should be in the Situation Room droning and plinking the bad folks. I know some people think I should go to Ferguson. Don't they understand that I've delegated the Martin Luther King Jr. thing to Eric Holder? Plus, Valerie Jarrett and Al Sharpton have it under control.

I know it doesn't look good to have pictures of me grinning in a golf cart juxtaposed with ones of James Foley's parents crying, and a distraught David Cameron rushing back from his vacation after only one day, and the Pentagon news conference with Chuck Hagel and General Dempsey on the failed mission to rescue the hostages in Syria.

We're stuck in the rough, going to war all over again in Iraq and maybe striking Syria, too. Every time Chuck says ISIL is "beyond anything we've ever seen," I sprout seven more gray hairs. But my cool golf caps cover them. If only I could just play through the rest of my presidency.

ISIL brutally killing hostages because we won't pay ransoms, rumbles of coups with our puppets in Iraq and Afghanistan, the racial caldron in Ferguson, the Ebola outbreak, the Putin freakout — there's enough awful stuff going on to give anyone the yips.

So how can you blame me for wanting to unwind on the course or for five hours at dinner with my former assistant chef? He's a great organic cook, and he's got a gluten-free backyard putting green.

But, in a larger sense, we can dedicate, we can consecrate, we can hallow this ground where I can get away from my wife, my mother-in-law, Uncle Joe, Congress and all the other hazards in my life.

The brave foursomes, living and dead, who struggled here in the sand, in the trees, in the water, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or subtract a few strokes to improve our score. Bill Clinton was Mr. Mulligan, and he is twice as popular as I am.

The world will little note, nor long remember, what we shot here, or why I haven't invited a bunch of tiresome congressmen to tee it up. I'm trying to relax, guys. So I'd much rather stay in the bunker with my usual bros.

Why don't you play 18 with Mitch McConnell? And John Boehner is a lot better than me, so I don't want to play with him.

It is for us, the duffers, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who played here have thus far so nobly advanced to get young folks to stop spurning a game they find slow and boring.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us of getting rid of our slice on the public's dime — that from this honored green we take increased devotion to that cause for which Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy gave their last full measure of devotion — and divots.

We here highly resolve that these golfing greats shall not have competed in vain, especially poor Tiger, and that this nation, under par, shall have a new birth of freedom to play the game that I have become unnaturally obsessed with, and that golf of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
So help me Golf.

....By Maureen Dowd of the NY Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-the-golf-address.html?_r=1

[Warph]

>:(Obuma White House To Send Representation To The Bully Clowns Funeral) >:

(Need we remind you that there was no White House representation at the funeral of Major General Greene, the highest ranking officer murdered in Afghanistan?  There were no current members of the Obama White House sent to the funeral of Margaret Thatcher either

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EDGARTOWN, Mass. – (POS)President Barack Obama is sending three White House officials to the funeral service of the Missouri teenager whose death in a police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, has sparked days of racial unrest.

Leading the group for Monday's service will be the chairman of the My Brother's Keeper Task Force, Broderick Johnson. My Brother's Keeper is an Obama initiative that aims to empower young minorities. Johnson is also the secretary for the Cabinet.

Also attending will be the deputy director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, Marlon Marshall, and an adviser for the office, Heather Foster.

The White House says Marshall is a St. Louis native and attended high school with Brown's mother.

[Warph]

How Muslims Think

By Dr. Arieh Eldad an M.D. at Hadassah Hospital in Israel

A true story of gratitude!


I was instrumental in establishing the "Israeli National Skin Bank", which is the largest in the world. The National Skin Bank stores skin for every day needs as well as for war time or mass casualty situations.

This skin bank is hosted at the Hadassah Ein Kerem University hospital in Jerusalem where I was the Chairman of plastic surgery.

This is how I was asked to supply skin for an Arab woman from Gaza, who was hospitalized in Soroka Hospital in Beersheva, after her family burned her.  Usually, such atrocities happen among Arab families when the women are suspected of having an affair.

We supplied all the needed Homografts for her treatment.  She was successfully treated by my friend and colleague, Prof. Lior Rosenberg and discharged to return to Gaza.

She was invited for regular follow-up visits to the outpatient clinic in Beersheva.

One day she was caught at a border crossing wearing a suicide belt.  She meant to explode herself in the outpatient clinic of the hospital where they saved her life.  It seems that her family promised her that if she did that, they would forgive her.

This is only one example of the war between Jews and Muslims in the Land of Israel.  It is not a territorial conflict.  This is a civilization conflict, or rather a war between civilization & barbarism.

Bibi (Netanyahu) gets it, Obama does not.

I have never written before asking everyone to please forward onwards so that as many as possible can understand radical Islam and what awaits the world if it is not stopped.

[Warph]

"I woke up this morning and the whole world was backwards. Right is now wrong... illegal immigration is an act of love... self-defense is not permitted... the rich are evil... God is banned... the government of the people is out to get the people... the truth is forbidden... the ignorant are in charge of the intelligent... communism is good... robbery is overlooked... free speech is regulated money is evil."

"Illegal aliens have more rights and benefits than American citizens... personal property is fair game because it was not earned... it was stolen from the lazy and uneducated... living and breathing causes the earth to go into global warming Armageddon... criminal enemies and jihadis are welcomed with open arms through the southern border with a Club Med socialist red carpet to speed up our demise... sovereignty is selfish and passé... speaking English is offensive to invading ethnic groups, we are now global citizens... the flag, the national anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance are racist... our culture and Christianity are insulting to primitive cultures who should have stayed in the hell hole they came from if they are offended... and being American is shameful and socially unjust."

"Somebody wake me up, this must be a nightmare."

Unfortunately it is the "new norm." We are brainwashed to this "new norm" every day through manufactured crisis after manufactured crisis. The low information voters are convinced that our economy is booming, we don't have almost 100 million Americans out of work, there are no discouraged workers, unemployment went down below six percent, and life could not be better as long as the welfare checks keep rolling in. Would the cash cow not run out of money eventually, even printing them ad nauseam?

Data from the U.S. Treasury show that "Social Security retirement and disability programs have dedicated resources sufficient to cover benefits for the next 19 years, until 2033. However, the projected depletion date for the Separate Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Fund is only two years away, in late 2016." Because in 2016 "dedicated revenues are projected to be depleted and will only cover 80 percent of scheduled benefit payments," the report recommends that "legislation will be needed to address this financial imbalance."

At the end of 2013 11 million people were receiving DI payments. The number of people receiving DI benefits grew by 0.9 percent. This growth increase reflects the gradual aging of the population as well as increases in the insured population. (pp. 35-36)

According to the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA), an employer must withhold three separate taxes from employee wages:

■6.2 percent Social Security tax
■1.45 percent Medicare tax
■0.9 percent Medicare surtax for employees earning over $200,000 (began in 2013)
The FICA law requires employers to match the 6.2 percent Social Security tax, the 1.45 percent Medicare tax, but not the 0.9 Medicare surtax.

Social Security Disability Insurance protects more than 160 million American workers with an average benefit of $1,146 per month (May 2014), slightly above the 2014 federal poverty line for an individual of $972. "For more than 80 percent of beneficiaries, Disability Insurance is their main source of income. For one-third, it is their only source of income."

Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew testified before Congress in August 2014, proposing a change in Social Security funding. From the 6.3 percent contribution, 9/10 of one percent goes to the disability insurance fund which is so tapped that will allegedly be insolvent by mid-2016. Secretary Lew wants to shift a couple of tens of one percent from the Social Security fund to the disability fund.

According to Dick Morris, the disability insurance (DI) fund is stressed by the extra 20 percent increase in disability recipients. Why is there such a sudden increase of disabled people under this administration when the U.S. population grew by only 4 points "since Obama became president?" Morris explained that this growth is attributed to "shaky diagnoses that are highly subjective such as back pain, psychological conditions, migraines, and not from serious diseases such as cancer, heart disease, or diabetes." He is of the opinion that funding such subjective claims by "stripping money from Social Security is a horrible decision."

Social Security's establishment 80 years ago was necessary to "ensure the security of the men, women and children of the nation against the hazards and vicissitudes of life." It is those who take advantage of the system dishonestly who can actually work but choose not to, and illegal aliens who draw benefits that are problematic.

[Warph]

Mexico Has Deported 93% Of The Illegal Immigrant Minors Detained
At Its Border And 64K Of The 69K Illegal Adults

(Same Mexico that chastises America for deporting illegals)

Via BuzzFeed:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnstanton/mexico-has-deported-93-of-the-unaccompanied-minors-detained#1tsma43
Mexican officials have deported more than 13,000 of the 14,000 undocumented, unaccompanied minors who have been caught at Mexico's southern border, a rate significantly higher than in the United States, according to government sources familiar with the situation.

Additionally, Mexican authorities have deported more than 64,000 of the estimated 69,000 adults that have been detained along their southern border this year.

Those numbers stand in stark contrast to the deportation of minor immigrants from the United States: None of the more than 60,000 Central American minors detained this year have been deported.

According to a Department of Homeland Security spokesman, those minors — who are estimated to total as many as 90,000 by year's end — must first make their way through the legal system, which has seen significant backlogs, because they qualify to apply for asylum status.

[Warph]

POS Obuma Sends No Representative To Memorial Mass For James Foley,
Sent Three WH Aides To Michael Brown Funeral

Via CNS News:
President Barack Obama sent no White House representative to the memorial Mass held yesterday in Rochester, New Hampshire, for James Foley, the American journalist beheaded by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) terrorists.

President Obama, however, did send three White House aides to Monday's funeral for Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American fatally shot in an encounter with a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo.

The memorial mass for James Foley took place Sunday at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Foley's hometown. Connie Hammond, an administrative assistant at Holy Rosary, told CNSNews.com that no White House officials were in attendance.

"There was nobody that represented the White House," Hammond said, adding that all of the dignitaries in attendance called ahead except for one and that all of them sat together.

[Warph]

The use of the word 'Bullet' is offensive to sensitive ears!

There are days when one has to be at the end of their rope when it comes to being politically correct...this is one of them! This is such inane insanity one has to almost laugh at the absurdity of it all...after-all, we all need some humor these days. The example I'm speaking of below will make you angry at first, but when you stop and think about it all...you have to snicker at the fools that surround us that make it so. In the long run of things that really matter, they are creating their own demise... it will take time, but it will take place eventually.

Anyway folks, enough of my rambling on... here's the gist of the story:
The University of Mary Washington has changed the name of its campus newspaper, founded in 1922, because of political correctness.

The Fredericksburg, Va., school changed The Bullet to The Blue & Gray Press because the old name "propagated violence," according to a press release.

The editorial board felt that the paper's name, which alludes to ammunition for an artillery weapon, propagated violence and did not honor our school's history in a sensitive manner. The board intends to remain faithful to the history our university stands upon, and we continue to honor this history both in a respectful and meaningful way.

Well, not exactly. Artillery fires shells, guns fire bullets. Still, Editor-in-Chief Alison Thoet told Campus Reform that the university was interested in something more "updated" and "more representative" of its home city. The board picked The Blue & Gray Press because of the history of Civil War battles fought in the area, as well as the school's colors. However, as Campus Reform points out, Thoet told them, "In this day and age, no one really cares about the Civil War. We wanted something that was updated." Um, OK.

After media outlets such as Campus Reform and backlash from alumni, the editorial board of the paper slightly redacted its reasoning in an updated open letter.

On August 18, the University of Mary Washington student newspaper announced a revamping, which included the announcement of a new name, The Blue & Gray Press. Since that date, the announcement has been interpreted in some media circles in a manner that misrepresents our decision and intention.

We, as the editorial board, would like to emphasize that the main reasoning behind changing the name was to better connect the newspaper with the student body. As it stood, the previous name of the publication did not have a direct connection to the school community. Therefore, it did not reflect the university it served in the way college newspapers, and all school organizations, should.

The editorial board has no intention of disrespecting the history upon which our school rests. We specifically chose a new name that represents the spirit of the school and acknowledges the history of UMW and Fredericksburg's region. The name Blue & Gray Press, which incorporates our school colors, respectfully presents a powerful image of school spirit, with a nod toward local history.

The Bullet, a name related to the word 'bulletin' and the phrase 'news as fast as a bullet,' had become dated and no longer represented adequately the student body nor the university. Blue and Gray symbolize both the community's history and our school's spirit. By choosing The Blue & Gray Press as our name we are connecting the past with the present to honor both our beautiful city's history and our student body's pride in an identifiable and meaningful way.

The Blue & Gray Press is a symbol of the school it serves and the locale in which it publishes. The name expresses our desire to be an even greater part of both communities in our shared future.

The letter goes on to promise "to continue in the tradition of fair and honest journalism" that has been a staple of The Bullet for almost a century, as one commenter pointed out. Another said: I was a proud member of the class of '88. A bit less proud now. Shame on you. Error and hypocrisy. Abandon history for political correctness stating reasons which are wrong to begin with.