The RoanokeSlant
This file is a US personal journal of commentary of examples of the Roanoke Times and Liberal Media Slant...... lbhagen@aol.comWednesday, August 31, 2016
John Kerry To Media: Give American’s The Mushroom Treatment
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John Kerry:
You Media People Should Stop Reporting on Terrorism So People Don't Know What's
Going On
Speaking
from Bangladesh
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Obama’s
Sec. of State telling Fox News (clearly he wasn’t talking to the Pravda Media)
that the American people should get the mushroom treatment on Radical Muslim
Terrorist Attacks.
(keep them
in the dark and feed them lots of heifer-dust)
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Have there
ever been such a band of losers running our Government as Obama and his
minions?
Just More Hope and Change We Can Depend On!
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Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Homesick For Chicago
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Source unknown but very insightful
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Chicago Chicago
At The Villages in Florida last week, there
was a bumper sticker on a parked car that read:
"I missChicago
Someone broke the window, stole the radio, shot out all four of the tires, added an Obama bumper sticker and left a note that read:
"Hope this helps"
"I miss
Someone broke the window, stole the radio, shot out all four of the tires, added an Obama bumper sticker and left a note that read:
"Hope this helps"
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Time For Solar To Shine On Its Own Two-feet
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Lexington Nevada Nevada Solar City
Roanoke
Times, 8-30-2016, Pg 6: 1st community
solar project BARC lights up
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Taxpayers and electric ratepayers
are starting to challenge the subsidies being enjoyed by the solar energy
industry and solar electricity suppliers.
These
subsidies include the Obama Solyndra debacle at the panel level;
and include
all aspects of the solar systems components, installation and electric rates.
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Of
particular current interest is the effect of “net metering” in which solar system
owners can sell their “excess solar electricity” (at that point they are
suppliers) back to the “grid” for the utility’s “retail price”.
Utilities
do not buy electricity at the “retail price” from suppliers; they buy a much
lower “supplier’s wholesale price”.
The solar
panel owners who use “net metering” are electricity suppliers and therefore
should be paid at the “supplier’s price” for their product.
The result
is that solar owners are being subsidized by all the other customer-ratepayers.
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A recent
example of this situation is Amazon’s massive solar system in Virginia
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Compounding
these issues is the fact that these electric energy producing facilities do not
produce power during low-sunlight conditions; therefore, they are dependent
upon the “grid” that is primarily supported by the other customers which is an
additional subsidizing of the solar electricity suppliers.
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The Subsidizing Summary:
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Taxpayer
money “given” to every aspect of the solar industry
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Solar
electricity suppliers being paid retail instead of wholesale
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Solar
electricity suppliers getting free ride on the “grid” overhead costs
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Solar
energy generation is indeed “green sustainable energy”.
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It
is long overdue for that industry to stand on its own merits
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Solar
electric energy suppliers should not be subsidized by other customers and
taxpayers
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The
real cost-benefit of solar is best demonstrated by “off-grid” systems where
significant energy storage and supplemental energy supplies are required for 24/7/365 service.
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Hail
Helios, Hail Yes.
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Solar
Manufacturers Could Face Rough
Road
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2016/08/30/solar-manufacturers-could-face-rough-road-ahead.html
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The
Disappointing Solar Power Disconnect
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Monday, August 29, 2016
Real Americans Stand In Respect While The Privileged Quarterback Sits In Disrespect
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Colin
Kaepernick Sat During National Anthem to Protest America
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49ers QB
Colin Kaepernick sits down during the national anthem:
'I am not
going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses Black
people'
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This arrogant,
self-centered, misdirected person is simply acting out Obama’s behaviors,
statements and actions including refusal to wear an American Flag pin because
“he didn’t want to take sides” and his direct support for nasty racists like
Sharpton and violent people including The Black Lives Matter Gang.
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Let Kaepernick
sit in disrespect of all those who have given so much for this country, for all
our people and for him so that our flag may wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave.
The opening
49ers game is on September 11th, a day that lives in infamy, that he
says he will also disrespect. How sad is
that!
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Perhaps
someday he could become productive and positive and spend time with the youths
in the ghettos of Chicago
Two Chicago
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Just
another example of Obama’s Racial Legacy.
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In retrospect: perhaps his mother misspelled his name; should have been "colon" not colin
In retrospect: perhaps his mother misspelled his name; should have been "colon" not colin
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It is
alleged that Colon ’s woman is hip-hop radio
personality DJ Nessa Diab.She's a Berkeley
IF true -- explains a lot!
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WSJ:
Jason Riley: Violent young men, not cops, are the problem
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Fox's Hume:
Obama "Has Consistently Chosen To See Things Through The Eyes Of An
Aggrieved Black Activist"
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FoxNews:
Bill O’Reilly: President Obama and race
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Juan Williams on President Obama’s comments on racism
http://www.msn.com/pt-br/tv/bbb/juan-williams-on-president-obama%E2%80%99s-comments-on-racism/vi-AAbYhdv?refvid=AAc46r5
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http://www.msn.com/pt-br/tv/bbb/juan-williams-on-president-obama%E2%80%99s-comments-on-racism/vi-AAbYhdv?refvid=AAc46r5
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Solid Thinking Comes Out Of The University Of Chicago!
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University
to Freshmen: Don’t Expect Safe Spaces or Trigger Warnings
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"WE DO
NOT SUPPORT SO-CALLED 'TRIGGER WARNINGS,’ WE DO NOT CANCEL INVITED SPEAKERS
BECAUSE THEIR TOPICS MIGHT PROVE CONTROVERSIAL, AND WE DO NOT CONDONE THE
CREATION OF INTELLECTUAL ‘SAFE SPACES.'"
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What a
breath of Fresh American Air!
Something
about the 2nd Amendment!
How soon
will all our schools adopt this policy?
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Politically
Correct Police Run Amok At Hampden-Sydney
College
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Hollins
President Crashes Into Black Politically-Incorrect Wall
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The
Inquisition And Lynching Of Roanoke Mayor David Bowers
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Microsoft
Enforces Political Correctness
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NPR Cans
Juan Williams and Free and Open Speech
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Sunday, August 28, 2016
It’s Not The Ransom, It’s Not The Cash, It’s The Obama Lies Stupid
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U.S. Payment of $1.7 Billion to Iran -
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Roanoke
Times, 8-28-2016, Pg 3, AP: Little precedent
for $400 MILLION payment.
The White
House said it was not unusual (for a $440 MILLION cash payment to another
country), experts did not know of a similar instance.
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What nice
kind words by “the AP Pravda Media experts” to describe Obama’s DECEPTION AND
LIES!
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Obama Says
Ransom To Iran
It all
depends on what your definition of “is” is!
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Watch Obama
Lie real-time through his teeth to the public and families of hostages: we do not pay ransom for hostages because it would place American's in harms way.
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It WAS
RANSOM! US
Iranian Hostage Says Iran
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Obama
Administration Finally Admits $400M To Iran
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Obama then
LIED that the $400 MILLION to Iran
had to be cash because he had no way of doing a “wire transfer” to Iran
(the way many
pay bills via the banking internet)
Three Days
Later Obama did a series of “wire transfers” of $1.7 BILLION to Iran
(apparently
Hillary got her server up and running again!)
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-payment-of-1-7-billion-to-iran-raises-questions-of-ransom-1453421778
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What a
pathetic and sinister government we have!
Makes the
WaterGate fiasco look like child’s play!
The Pravda
Media’s Response: Move Along Folks –
Nothing to See Here!
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New Folks Cleaning Up The Mess Left By The Old Roanoke Folks
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Roanoke
Roanoke
Times, 8-28-2016, Pg 1, 3: Major Article with great pictures of: Deschutes Brewery
Execs. helping to clean-up Tinker Creek.
“Deschutes
Brewery officials came up with the stream clean-up proposal and approached Roanoke
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Exactly how embarrassing is this
scenario?
Executives
from a Brewery Company that hasn’t even moved here yet, spearheading an effort
to clean-up one of Roanoke’s streams.
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Where have
all the Roanoke Sierra Club folks and their Green and Sustainable Buds been all
this time?
Apparently
they were waiting for some new out-of-towners to show up and cajole them into
action.
This isn’t
near as much fun as picketing or protesting or disrupting.
Might be a
good idea for Roanoke
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It’s not
clear what the residents of Roanoke
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Thank You
Deschutes People and all others who helped!
We
down-streamers appreciate your good work!
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UVa Slush Fund: $1.0 Million Per Day For 2200 Days = $2.2 BILLION
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Roanoke
Times, 8-27-2016, Pg 1,4: UVa leaders
pledge to rethink $2.2 BILLION fund
8-28-2016,
Pg 6: UVa In-State Tuition UP 430% in
past 25 Years
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UVa leaders
tell the Va Legislature that they did nothing wrong in secretly establishing a
$2.2 BILLION Slush Fund and hiding that astounding fund from the Board Of
Visitors and everyone else.
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How big is
$2.2 BILLION?
The UVa
“management” could have done the following:
Hide $1.0 Million Per Day for 2200 days
equal to 6 years.
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We the
public do not know how much per day for what time frame this incredible sum of
money was squirreled away.
It’s a
“Public” University but the taxpayers, voters, Legislators and the tuition
payers “don’t have a need to know” about little things like this.
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In addition
to that feat, the UVA “management” has raised in-state tuition by 430% during
the past 25 years.
That’s way more
than double the impact of inflation!
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Apparently
all this is OK with everyone concerned, especially the Pravda Media. After all, the Hillary-Bernie plan is to have
the taxpayers pay-off all the accumulated student debt and pay all the future tuition's.
What could possibly
go wrong with that plan?
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We’re only
$20 TRILLION in national debt with Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and
ObamaCare all on a glide-path to apocalyptic Bankruptcy.
ps: Why are
the Democrats mocking Trump for his Bankruptcies when they have driven the
entire country into “money-printing-Bankruptcy"?
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RT: Casey: Virginia
In recent
decades, tuition and fees at Virginia University of Virginia
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UVa
Bureaucrats Throwing The Anti-FOIA Blanket Over Their $2.2 BILLION Slush Fund
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The Massive
UVa Hidden $2.3 BILLION Slush Fund In Perspective
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UVa Slush
Fund Highlights Massive Cost Of College And Out-of-control Administrations
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Saturday, August 27, 2016
Pathetic Weather And Climate Modeling And Outlandish Predictions
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No Major Hurricane
Has Made Landfall In the
There are
hundreds of millions of dollars spent each year on Weather and Climate
Modeling.
Except for
nuclear weapons design, physics research and mineral exploration,
Weather and Climate are the greatest “investment” in super-computers and the
massive infrastructure surrounding them.
The results are incredibly
disappointing and in many cases malfeasance of taxpayer money!
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Super-computers
are not to blame. They perform massive
operations per second with flawless accuracy.
Clearly the
two other elements of the equations are the programs they are running and data
they are fed.
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Aye – there
is the rub! People with all their flaws,
biases, egos, agendas and limitations writing programs and inputting data and
in many cases trying to obtain a predefined outcome.
Something
about: garbage in = garbage out.
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Just look
at the pathetic weather models for the current Tropical Storm Invest 99-L.
Over a
dozen weather models predicting land-fall over an 870 mile shoreline.
How can
this be called a professional prediction?
How can
this be of any use to anyone?
Do we pay
these people? Do we actually pay these
people?
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Then look
at the pathetic Man-made Global Warming AGW Models.
The average
of 102 Climate Models that are four-times (4X) off the measured “current”
temperature (0.8 vs. 0.2 degrees).
Not one model reflects the recent
and current temperature!
And to
think that these are the models that Obama is using to totally restructure our
National Energy Systems.
What could
possibly go wrong with that so-called plan?
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Our
president and secretary of state pronounce that, based on these models of “man-made”
global warming (as if there’s never been the natural kind – the only kind so
far) that AGW is more dangerous than those who have declared war upon us and
are working diligently to kill as many of us and our friends as they can.
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As an
interesting highlight reflect on the difference between the doomsday apocalyptic projections by the AGW-Alarmists
about today’s effects of so-called man-made CO2 and global warming and reality:
No Atlantic
Hurricanes since Wilma in 2005
No Gulf
Hurricanes since Ingrid 2013
No Major Hurricane
Has Made Landfall In the U.S.
Don’t see that highlighted in the
Pravda Press do we?
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WSJ: 8-31-2016: How the Exxon Case Unraveled
New York
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s investigation of Exxon Mobil for climate sins has
collapsed due to its own willful dishonesty. The posse of state AGs he
pretended to assemble never really materialized. Now his few allies are melting
away: Massachusetts California
It becomes
clear that investigators simply don’t know what a climate model is.
The whole
purpose of a climate model is to estimate warming from a given input
of CO2. In its most recent report, issued in 2013, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change assumes a doubling of atmospheric CO2 and predicts
warming of 1.5 to 4.5 degrees Celsius—i.e., an uncertainty of output, not
input.
What’s
more, this represents an increase in uncertainty over its 2007 report
(when the range was 2.0 to 4.5 degrees). In fact, the IPCC’s new estimate is
now identical to Exxon’s 1977 estimate and the 1979 estimate of the U.S.
National Research Council.
In other
words, on the crucial question, the help we’re getting from climate models has
not improved in 40 years and has been going backward of late.
For bonus
insight, ask yourself why we still rely on computer simulations at all, rather
than empirical study of climate—even though we’ve been burning fossil fuels for
200 years and recording temperatures even longer.
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For
professional views of Earth Science peruse:
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Obama’s
National Security Strategy: Terrorism Equivalent To AGW
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Man-made
Global Warming or Mother Nature's Normal
Climate?
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Global
Warming Meets Mother Nature
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AGW Global
Warming Alarmism -- It's All About Wealth Redistribution
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McAuliffe’s $1.5 BILLION Budget Shortfall Crisis – How Can That Be?
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Roanoke
Times, 8-26-2016, Pg 1, 8: Rainy day
fund will help soak up Virginia
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A McAuliffe
Virginia Budget Shortfall Crisis – Impossible!
This must be some kind of anti-McAuliffe-Hillary Right Wing Conspiracy
trick!
McAuliffe,
Hillary and Obama have been bragging how great our economy is and how they are
responsible for our wonderful financial situation.
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Using the
“rainy day” fund – Really?
It’s not
raining – in fact McAuliffe-Hillay-Obama and their Pravda Media have been
bragging about just how financially bright and shiny it really is!
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It’s been eight years since the Recession Ended.
It’s historically overdue for another recession. What will McAuliffe do for “rainy day” funds
when that happens?
Not to
worry, the Democrats, with the able assistance of their Pravda Media, will
ram-through yet more taxes and fees to pay for their dependency legacy.
And to add
insult to injury they will pile lots more regulations on the private industry,
the real jobs creators.
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Eight years
after the recession ended and the Obama-Economy is growing at a pathetic and
anemic one-percent (1%) the lowest in over 50 years!
The new GDP
numbers are terrible.
No wonder Hillary won’t talk about the economy
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Just More
Hope And Change We Can Believe In!
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Obama: It’s Still The Economy
Stupid!
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Obama’s Economic News: Hiding The
Bad News
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Only Thing Worse Than The Economy Is
Obama Talking About It
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McAuliffe: 2016 Will Be 'Banner
Economic Year
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Pravda Press Hiding Obama’s BiPolar
Economy
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Friday, August 26, 2016
Iranian Swift-Boats Run At US Ships
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US Navy ship fired warning shots at Iranian ship; 4Mideast
close calls this week
US Navy ship fired warning shots at Iranian ship; 4
“The USS Squall fired the shots,
according to the official.
On Tuesday,
four Iranian small boats "harassed" the USS Nitze, sailing near the
guided missile destroyer in the narrow Strait of
Hormuz , a U.S. Navy official told Fox News.
Other close
calls this week involved the USS Tempest and USS Squall, Pentagon Press
Secretary Peter Cook told reporters Thursday.”
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A classic
military tactic is the probing of the enemy’s defenses to identify weaknesses.
Should
Iranian attack boats, modern-day PT-boats, find blind-spots in US ship defenses
they may well sink US
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The USS Cole’s
demise by a similar size attack boat loaded with explosives, a seaborne IED
vessel, is a recent example of the danger of these attacks.
17 American
sailors were killed, and 39 were injured and the ship totally disabled.
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Obama Just Sent GITMO USS Cole
Bomber Back To His Comrades – April 2016!
As Radical Muslim Terrorists Played "Hail to the Chief"
As Radical Muslim Terrorists Played "Hail to the Chief"
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Thursday, August 25, 2016
Sailor Gets Year In Brig For Obtaining And Possessing Classified Material
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Roanoke
Times, 820-2016, Pg 3: Sailor gets year
for nuclear sub photos.
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A young
sailor from Arlington , Vermont
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There is no
indication that he intended sabotage.
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There is no
indication he intended to violate national security rules.
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There is no
indication that the photos were marked or contained security markings.
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There is no
indication he purposely exposed national security material to others.
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HOWEVER
UNLIKE
HILLARY -- HE’S GOING TO JAIL FOR ONE
YEAR FOLLOWED BY THREE YEARS OF TRACKING AND MONITORING and he certainly will have great difficulty getting a good new job.
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Apparently FBI Director Comey and AG
Lynch view the unintended misdeeds of a young sailor in a much different light
than Her Majesty Hillary.
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But then
again, everyone who has ever had a security clearance and handled classified
materials knew the sailor was going to get hammered!
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Hillary
Didn’t Mis-Handle Classified Material
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Obama’s AG
Loretta Lynch Huddles With Bill Clinton
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Trump’s Ideological Test For Immigrants Absurd -- Really?
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Roanoke
Times, 8-22-2016, Pg 5, Opinion: Trump’s
ideological test for immigrants is absurd.
Esther
Cepeda, Washington Post columnist
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Perhaps Ms.
Cepeda and her associates should take a hard look at Teddy Roosevelt’s view of
the responsibilities of immigrants during a time of massive immigration into
the US from Europe .
No one
called Teddy or his immigration views “absurd”.
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Note to Obama and all Liberals:
Illegal is not a race, It’s a crime!
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My parents
were Legal Immigrants in the 1920’s and they gladly complied with all Teddy’s
requirements. They didn’t view these
requirements for US Citizenship as absurd, instead they embraced them!
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Canadians
Show Obama How To Handle Illegal Immigrants
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The Syrian
Refugee Onslaught: European Countries Resurrect Their Borders
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Liberal
Media Promotes Orwell’s 1984 Doublespeak: Undocumented Immigrants
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To
Assimilate or Not -- 2006
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