Ok, another round of my eclectic choices of reading material that has struck my fancy today to pass along. I hope you find it either food for thought … or entertaining … in either case, feel free to point out my shortcomings … or not … either here or on my FaceBook page.
Note: Each block of text actually is a link to a story or a web page that I am commenting on. Click on that text and it will take to the page being referred to.
When to take the Deal to the UN ... I suspect that many in Congress - for once jealous of its prerogatives - feel like if the issue is already resolved in the UN (as the US will have to vote before Congressional action), then Congress will be steamrolled into accepting the pact and ending sanctions immediately. Don't know if that is going to happen, but one should remember what happened when President Wilson signed the Treaty of Versailles and created the League of Nations. It doesn't pay to get ahead of Congress sometimes.
This is an aspect of racial relations in South Carolina that I have personally witnessed, tried to bring to the attention of national AND international media, and have seen pretty much ignored by the National Media in the US - hence people stereotype South Carolinians as racist ...
Chattanooga shooter: And people wonder why readers just shake their heads at the biases of the WaPo. Calling the shooter an "aimless, depressed 24-year-old Muslim man" and "One possibility is that Abdulazeez was just a troubled young man" ... give me a break here... accept things at face value ... like the racist, white supremacist idiot in South Carolina, this guy was a Islamic Jihadi.
And now the Obama Administration wants to "criminalize" Social Security and Social Security Disability recipients by entering their names into the National Crime Information System database to keep them from having firearms. It may be legal, but it seems to me that it is an abuse of authority and the right to privacy SS and SSD recipients should have. But like the VA, those people no longer have privacy rights under the Brave New World.
Cuba reopens Embassy in Washington. This was inevitable.
Results like this only happen in dictatorships ...
Mitsubishi apologies to WWII POW labor ... in one sense this is important ... in Japan apologies really are a big thing. But in fact, it really changes nothing.
From the "It feels good to be a Liberal" these days corner ... these do seem like some questions that should be answered ... but won't be.
The question here is: Will this case be followed up? Will it even make the national and cable news nets? This story sounds like a throw-back to the 1960s in Mississippi ... except it was white Mississippians in the suspect car rather than black Mississippians.
VA Healthcare ... well, my view is that this is a typical bureaucratic hissy fit from a system that is riven with problems.
Ambassador Rice is correct ... we should expect Iran to divert some of the $160 Billion windfall they get out of the Deal unfreezing assets. Even if they use only 1/10th of 1 percent of it, that still is $160 Million to go to fund terrorists.
Some people just don't like Planned Parenthood as an organization ... and it seems with good reason.
Two points for John McCain ... however much I may disagree with the Arizona Republican Senator ... and I have my share ... I am glad he is taking the high road.
An interesting take on marriage ... unfortunately, rather utopian and politically incorrect these days. Sadly, I fear, the dam has broken and life will get ever more interesting in the days to come.
Another take on the Trump-McCain dustup
Even though WaPo is unsympathetic in its portrayal, Gov. Walker is correct: The United States either is a nation of laws, or it isn't. If you are here illegally, then you need to go back out and come in again. Nobody, not even women and children are above the law.
It IS impossible to inspect something you don't know is there ... and in the Iran deal (given its past history and actions) it is not a given that the UN will know where all the Iranian facilities are.
Retired UK Chief of Defence Staff (equivalent to the US JCS Chief) really ramps up the rhetoric on ISIS ... not that I think there will be many takers in Europe.
Kerry on the Iran Deal .... this deal is better than no deal ... Huh? Tell that to the Czechs in 1938.
Russia v. Ukraine - one never knows what is in Putin's mind ... but it does raise questions as to why so many troops are there.
Soviet maps - fascinating story. I remember way back when I was in the National Guard, taking a class on how to read Soviet military maps and how to use them in combat ... spooky to know how good they were
A tad unsympathetic to the US portrayal of life at Guantanamo Bay's Detention facility. Having interviewed former Guards down there, I understand a different point a view.
Leave to the Obama Administration to do something stupid. I guess they don't realize you can do just about anything to a service member, just don't mess with his food ... that will inspire a mutiny
Is China taking a step back in repression ... it looks that way ... and that could signal other bad things ... interesting story here
An analysis of Obama/Kerry's planned end run around Congress to the UN on the Iran Deal ... "This is not going to end well."
ET Call Home - well, not really, but with Stephen Hawking and a Russian billionaire backing it, the search for ET rises to a new level.
War against Sweden? What are the Russians thinking ... more saber-rattling from Putin and his minions.
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