The tough question

HT Berit.

We’re in big trouble, folks

“The president’s mention of the visa waiver program comes at a time of heightened scrutiny for the program. In recent weeks, members of Congress have proposed changes to the program, which allows citizens from 38 countries to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa.”  Daily Signal

“In the wake of the deadliest terror attack on American soil since 9/11, the Obama administration is promising swift action -- against Islamophobia.”   Daily Caller

Hillary Clinton writes in an Op-Ed on Wall Street that she would "fight for tough new rules, stronger enforcement and more accountability that go well beyond Dodd-Frank." New York Times

“I think the standard of living should be lower because I like to go to the bars and drink the alcohol for lower,” one woman, a Hillary supporter, said.  Watters world.

BYRON YORK: "But in the end, Obama's brief speech -- immediately after, he donned a tuxedo and dashed to a Kennedy Center gala -- contained no new measures against ISIS, and he spent as much time repeating old warnings not to offend Muslim sensibilities as he spent discussing any particular effort to combat terrorism."

“For nearly seven years, this Administration has been an abject failure in defining, confronting, and ultimately defeating the radical Islamist threat facing our nation. Radical Islam seeks to destroy our way of life and derives its power from the establishment of an Islamic caliphate. Sharia Law and the desires of radical Islam are diametrically opposed to the values of America and they cannot co-exist. This is a fact and the President has refused to level with the American public.”  Rich Santorum

We have visited Israel—this is true

Why are we afraid?

Dr. William Warner has had a life-long interest in religion and its effects on history. He has studied the source texts of the major religions for decades. Even before the destruction of the World Trade Center he had predicted the war between Islam and America. The day after 9/11 he decided to make the source texts of Islam available for the average person.

He holds a PhD in physics and math, NC State University, 1968. He has been a university professor, businessman, and applied physicist.

He was a Member of the Technical Staff in solid-state physics at the Sarnoff Princeton Laboratories in the area of integrated circuit structures. During the energy crisis of the 80’s he founded and ran a company that specialized in energy efficient homes. For eight years he was a professor at Tennessee State University in the Engineering School.

He is puzzled that we are afraid to know the truth about Islam.  Take a look at this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y#t=313

http://www.politicalislam.com/the-most-despised-people-in-the-world/

http://www.politicalislam.com/

The politicians do not use the word jihad, but terror and terror networks.

The left of center press says that the rhetoric of the right causes terror and that poor Muslims will suffer from being associated with terror. They should be worried about being associated with jihad.

The professors still teach Islam without jihad. The press will not offend Muslims. Police do not study the doctrine of jihad. Politicians cry out for more Muslim refugees.
We are losing a civilizational war because of political correctness. To win we must start using the language of Islam. We must start conversations that about the ideology and doctrine of political Islam.

Do Catholics read their Bibles?

So you think your Catholic friends don't read the Bible? "Some time ago, a friend of mine compared the amount of the Scripture used at Mass to that used in an Evangelical Protestant service. The Catholic Mass was almost 30 percent Scripture. When my friend checked the content of his local Bible-based Evangelical church, he was surprised to discover that the total amount of Scripture read took just 3 percent of the service."  It's the difference between study and worship. In theory, most Christians follow the lectionary, a series of readings from the Old Testament, Psalms, Epistles, and Gospel for their Sunday worship. But if your church is like mine, if there is a topical series for the sermons, it would be a stretch to use the lectionary selection that Christians around the world are using. Our new year has started (Advent) and we're supposed to be in cycle C; the gospel of Luke.

http://www.cruxnow.com/faith/2015/11/17/why-dont-catholics-read-the-bible/

The administration is reluctant to find evidence of terrorism.

“The shocking sight of journalists storming into the apartment of the San Bernardino terrorists, less than 48 hours after the attack, was apparently allowed by the FBI, which handed the apartment back over to the landlord, who let the media in with a crowbar.”

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/12/04/fbi-neglect-of-san-bernardino-crime-scene-fits-a-pattern/

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/fbi-allowed-mainstream-media-destroy-san-bernardino-crime-scene-live-tv/

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2015/dec/04/san-bernardino-shooting-victims-named-live

http://twitchy.com/2015/12/04/reporters-hammered-for-entering-sanbernardino-apartment-thats-not-a-cleared-crime-scene/

If I lived in San Bernardino, or even California, I’d be very nervous right now.  There could have been many helping set up this arsenal.  There may be many cues in the apartment about friends and colleagues. Now all trampled and pawed over.

Three Word Wednesday—The Christmas Letter

Three Word Wednesday gives writers, poets and those who journal a mid-week jolt of creativity. Each week, three words are selected; and participants create something with those words. Then they return to the website and post the link. This week’s suggestions:

Lackadaisical, adjective: lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy.
Makeshift, adjective: serving as a temporary substitute; sufficient for the time being; noun: a temporary substitute or device.
Nude, adjective: wearing no clothes; naked; depicting or performed by naked people; (especially of hosiery) flesh-colored; noun: a naked human figure, typically as the subject of a painting, sculpture, or photograph; flesh color.

The Christmas Letter
by Norma J. Bruce
December 2, 2015

The page is almost nude, missing inspiration.
The 2015 Christmas letter has stalled.
It looks makeshift, a temporary substitute
For the lively travel log and holiday schedule
I had hoped to create.
My lackadaisical attitude is pushed by a short time frame,
And so  I start again. It reappears on the back of the card.
Problem solved.

Stole classified documents, but at least he didn’t use an e-mail server

Sandy "Socks" Berger died this week. He's the Clinton official who stole classified documents from the national archives that were needed for the 9/11 investigation. I can't find out if he ever served his sentence or paid his fine. He was a crook and a thief, and loyal to his President. He was a Clintonian, after all. Serving time is for people like Martha Stewart. Obama called him a leader and humanitarian.  He’s on the list of Clinton staff who believed Saddam had WMD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Berger

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/2/sandy-berger-clinton-security-adviser-dies/

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/sandy-berger-national-security-adviser-216344

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16706-2005Mar31.html

Muslims in Ohio

We have thousands of foreign born Muslims in Central Ohio and many born here. I haven't seen any bullying or discrimination. I'm sure it exists--especially on the internet. I get nasty, unkind remarks for being an old White lady. That said, I have seen university employees who won't come to private homes for parties, women who won't join exercise classes if there are men in it, special accommodations for them in churches that provide education classes, men who have more than one "wife," and women who must always be accompanied by a male relative when out of the home.
However, I used to help with English classes for mixed ethnicities sponsored by our church, mostly Muslim but from a variety of countries. I thought the women were delightful, eager to learn, devoted to their families and fun, but some didn't like each other because of grievances in "the old country." One dear soul told me in her home country she was considered a descendant of slaves (she had blue-green eyes) and wasn't allowed to go to school.
Anyone with half a brain knows that all American Muslims aren't like the couple who killed Christians and Jews at a holiday party and had an arsenal in their home. But with their other half brain they aren't using, they'd better dust it off and understand that the President's party is leading them astray about the real danger of Islamic terrorism.
All the murdered people in San Bernardino were Christians and Jews, but in a show of concern for the "real" victims, "A handful of House Democrats will meet early Friday afternoon at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center, a Northern Virginia mosque that has controversial ties to terrorists who have engaged in terrorist acts against the United States,” reports The Washington Examiner.

Daily News lies—God can fix this

Our free and independent (from government control) press

Did you notice that CAIR already had family members of the shooters on hand for interviews by the time the rest of us were told their names?

Please:  it’s media ARE.

False positive mammograms

Women with positive mammography screens ultimately judged to be false were still at significantly increased likelihood for developing invasive breast cancer within the next 10 years, a study involving 1.3 million women showed.

So what is happening? Lots of things. Read this:

http://www.medpagetoday.com/HematologyOncology/BreastCancer/54978?

She can move quickly when an election is at stake

Wealthy liberals could just fire their accountants

Today I got an e-mail from  “Patriotic Millionaires,”  a group of more than 200 Americans with annual incomes over $1 million and/or assets of more than $5 million. (I’m not on the list as a millionaire, but am a gapper.) They are looking at the Forbes list and see too few blacks and Hispanics.  Well, there are more Blacks than Bruces!  Look, patriots.  All you have to do is fire your accountants—just skip over those loopholes that you’ve lobbied for.

* America’s 20 wealthiest people now own more wealth than the bottom half of the American population combined, a total of 152 million people in 57 million households.
* The wealthiest 100 households now own about as much wealth as the entire African American population in the United States. Among the Forbes 400, just 2 individuals are African-American.
* The wealthiest 186 members of the Forbes 400 own as much wealth as the entire Latino population. Just 5 members of the Forbes 400 are Latino.

San Bernardino and Colorado Springs

Catching up on the news coverage of the horrific events in San Bernardino, I see that no liberal wants to call this act terrorism and they are seeking a motive why a married couple, both Muslims with middle eastern names and dressed for assault with multiple bombs and guns, would kill people in a government building.  Whereas last Friday in a shooting in the parking lot of a Planned Parenthood building in Colorado, a man crazy as a loon was described within hours on national TV by prominent liberals as a terrorist, a conservative and a Christian, with nothing to back it up. They blamed the GOP, the NRA and “toxic” language arguing against our Bill of Rights.
Meanwhile, the New York Times has done an extensive background check on Dear and learned of his history of crime and assault on women, a pot head with bizarre behavior particularly on-line. NYT leads with the “Christian” angle, even though he was about as “christian” as the Westboro Baptist group that protests at funerals of soldiers, a group smaller than our church choir. Liberals in the press and on twitter are also criticizing those who are praying for the victims and their families.

Andy Griffith, Little Brown Church

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIcyRWlJHHY

How lovely.

No blogging today

I’m at the library.  No wireless connection today.  Guess I’ll have to invite my daughter over to check, and if she can’t get it going, I’ll have a service call.  Hate when this happens.

Imaginary Enemies

“Hunger in America is an imaginary enemy. Liberal advocacy groups routinely claim that one in seven Americans is hungry—in a country where the poorest counties have the highest rates of obesity. The statistic is a preposterous extrapolation from a dubious Agriculture Department measure of “food insecurity.” But the line gives those advocacy groups a reason to exist while feeding the liberal narrative of America as a savage society of haves and have nots.”

Liberal advocacy groups need problems.  If poverty were solved tomorrow, millions of well-paid, middle class bureaucrats, social workers, and non-profit fund raisers would be out of work.  Then we’d have a problem. . .

There are 123 wealth transfer programs, where is this money going if the poor don’t get it? TANF, SNAP, EITC, Section 8 Housing, Medicaid, WIC, SCHIP, and other disability from Social Security. 

http://www.wsj.com/articles/liberalisms-imaginary-enemies-1448929043

World AIDS Day

Approximately 70% of the new HIV/AIDS cases are in sub-Saharan Africa. Most people living with HIV or at risk for HIV do not have access to prevention, care, and treatment, and there is still no cure. I wonder if Africans think the billions being pledged in Paris to be spent on the fool's errand to stop the weather is well spent? Perhaps they remember (if alive) the malaria fiasco when millions died because of a foolish American author's testimony before Congress.

https://www.aids.gov/news-and-events/awareness-days/world-aids-day/

Rape in the Peace Corps

Yesterday I watched a CBS report on rape in the Peace Corps. ABC had done extensive reporting on this in 2011. Oversight of the Peace Corps is technically not Obama's job, not like cleaning up the VA (which he campaigned on in 2008) because commander in chief is his job description in the Constitution. But it is under the executive branch and he does appoint the director. However, if these two huge scandals had been reported in the Bush years, the media would have at least had his name in the story.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-finds-peace-corps-volunteers-blamed-fired-after-reporting-sexual-assault/

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/us/11corps.html?_r=0

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/16/the-peace-corps-awful-secret.html

And so my liberal “friend” who reads my blog and only comments if I say something about Obama will then say, why must you blame him for everything?  You racist!  I’m only doing the job our media used to do for us—holding the president accountable when he doesn’t do his job.  And they should do that in a country where the “free” press keeps a protective eye on our liberties. They did that very well during the Bush Administration.  They didn’t let him get away with anything, and when they did support him, he usually got flak from his own party.