French diplomat stars in latest Pallywood production...
Saturday Night Card Game - Who were they hoping for?...
There has been an attack by gunmen at an upscale Nairobi mall, killing at least 30 and wounding countless more. Hostages have also been taken. An al Qaeda-linked Somalian-based group has claimed the credit---or the blame, depending on your outlook. A mall attack on this scale has...
According to the report, the soldiers entered the club while on patrol on Monday, after hearing the song Gangnam Style by Psy coming from the building.In a better world, this would have been a good thing. But they were disciplined for it, because Palestinians have been trying to kidnap Israeli soldiers for ransom, and it left them vulnerable. That is no idle threat, as the news today of an Israeli soldier kidnapped by a co-worker for ransom demonstrates: https://twitter.com/LTCPeterLerner/status/381413050139803648 https://twitter.com/LTCPeterLerner/status/381414577671766016 IDF soldier Tomer Hazan, kidnapped and killed in West Bank:The footage aired by Channel 2 purportedly shows a soldier in IDF uniform, fully armed, sitting on the shoulders of a Palestinian club-goer, even clasping hands with another man at the club. Channel 2 said that the club was frequented by members of a Palestinian clan known for its pro-Hamas tendencies.
Hazan was lured on Friday to the village of Beit Amin, south of Qalqilya, by a 42-year-old Palestinian resident of the village, Nidal Amar. Amar worked at an Israeli restaurant, in Bat Yam, where Hazan also worked part-time.
It's about leaving nothing left except government care. And no, you can't keep your doctor or your present insurance.
https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/381402534574698496
https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/381403140924243968
Emails Show Qatar Coordinated Messaging About October 7th Attacks With American Universities in Doha
Tin soldiers and Obama coming, we're finally on our own, this summer I heard the rumbling, four tanks in Ohio: Ohio State’s Public Safety crew now have an armored fighting vehicle [caption id="attachment_65455" align="alignnone" width="567"] (Ohio State is ready)[/caption] We could have used those up in Vermont: Middlebury College Staff...
Producers of high-tech products from MRI scanners to semiconductors are breathing a sigh of relief after U.S. lawmakers acted on Thursday to prevent the shutdown of a 90-year-old helium reservoir in Texas. The U.S. Senate vote was hardly a squeaker, at 97-2, to keep the Federal Helium Program running past its scheduled closure on October 7. The House of Representatives voted earlier in the year to keep the reserve running, but without action in the Senate panic set in, triggering some frantic lobbying. More than 100 organizations, universities and companies, including Siemens, Philips, Samsung, and General Electric, wrote to Congress last week urging it to keep the reservoir open or risk a disruption to the U.S. economy, putting millions of jobs at risk.Helium is a key industrial gas, which has a lot of useful properties that also make it a very hard-to-obtain commodity. It is lighter than air, which is great for balloons...but also a property that allows and easy escape from Earth's atmosphere. It is an inert, non-reactive gas, which is useful in applications that must be kept dry and oxygen-free, but that also means helium can't be "trapped" by forming other compounds and then extracted chemically.
Helium is a by-product of radioactive decay, which is "mined" from underground reserves. In fact, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Crude Helium Enrichment Facility in Texas supplies about 40% of the Helium produced in this country.
It turns out this government intervention is part of the shortage problem.
Where Congress once mandated that the federal government keep a reserve of this crucial gas, it reversed course several decades later. In 1996, Congress moved to privatize the federal helium program, requiring all of the government’s helium supplies to be sold off by 2015. "The legislation in 1996 says we were supposed to get out of the helium business," says Joe Peterson, the Bureau of Land Management’s assistant field manager for helium in Amarillo. "The hope was by 2015, by the time the reserve was sold down, that new sources of helium would be online and take up the demand. However, it has not happened yet."
You thought the creepy Obamacare videos were creepy? From Brooks, the creepy bumper sticker below was accompanied by the ubiquitous One Big Ass Mistake America full-gate sign: Was getting gas in Euless, TX, and saw this truck at the pumps. The owner was rather pleased that I took...
Looks like the chance of "comprehensive immigration reform" (a/k/a amnesty) passing the House just got a little less. From Greg Sargent at WaPo, In blow to immigration reform, House `gang of seven’ bill looks dead In a blow to the hopes of passing immigration reform anytime soon, the bipartisan House...
or more precisely, who they really are. Allan Brauer, Communications Director for the Sacramento Democratic Party wished Amanda Carpenter's children slow painful deaths from incurable diseases (via Twitchy): Amanda Carpenter, by the way, used to be a speech writer for Jim DeMint, and now is a speech writer...
"this program is open to people of color only." (UPDATE - program canceled after this reporting.)...
Yesterday I covered the story of ex-NFL player Brian Holloway, whose upstate NY house was trashed by a couple hundred partying teens. Holloway watched the entire situation unfold on Twitter from his primary residence in Florida, as teens at the party tweeted out photos and...
Why are Democrats holding the nation hostage to Obamacare?...
Syria has reportedly turned over information outlining its weapons program to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. https://twitter.com/AP/status/381048351208513536 From the Associated Press: Syria has sent the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons an "initial declaration" outlining its weapons program, the organization said Friday. Spokesman Michael Luhan...
Unfortunately, such discourse on campuses and elsewhere is par for the course in the anti-Israel movement. The attempt to single out Israel alone for boycott, and the false equation of Israel with Apartheid, fascism and Nazism, is part of the dialogue and accepted.
Oberlin is one of only a handful of higher education campuses where the student government has endorsed the anti-Israel BDS movement and boycott.
https://twitter.com/SJPNational/status/331473633899864064
In fact, Oberlin has one of the most active anti-Israel movements which spreads historically inaccurate falsehoods about the "occupation" and Israeli "Apartheid" policies:
I have to wonder, if only the anti-Israel posters were put up around Oberlin not accompanied by attacks on blacks, Muslims and gays, would anyone have noticed or cared? Would the campus have erupted in protest?
Somehow I doubt it.
The specific flag used on the Oberlin poster is akin to a stock image in anti-Israel protests, this one in San Francisco:
Bloomberg News is reporting tonight that the same contractor that vetted NSA leaker Edward Snowden also did the background check on Aaron Alexis. The U.S. government contractor that vetted Edward Snowden, who leaked information about national surveillance programs, said it also performed a background check on...
