enghaitham1989@Twitter – ISIS Jihadist: Tomorrow new York will burn
- (Twitchy) ISIS Jihadist Sympathizer Tweets Specific Bomb and Gun Threats
(MRC TV Video) White House Press Secy Josh Earnest Condemns ‘Terrible Act of Violence’ in Paris — Calls Islam a ‘Peaceful Religion’
More here from CNS News
Loony Liberal Lefty Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) Tweets Social Security Outlook is a Made-Up Crisis of the GOP
(CBO) “In calendar year 2010, for the first time since the enactment of the Social Security Amendments of 1983 annual outlays for the program exceeded annual tax revenues…CBO projects under current law the DI (Disability Insurance) trust fund will be exhausted in fiscal year 2017 and the OASI (Old Age and Survivors Insurance) will be exhausted in 2032.”
Taxpayers can also thank ObamaCare for liberating Americans out of the historic 40 hour work week which only exacerbates the problem–fewer hours working results in even less tax revenues in federal coffers, accelerating the crisis of funding pension obligations that Democrat Progressive/Socialists like Warren doesn’t believe exists.
Related: The ACA & the Economics of Part-Time Work –Mercatus Center
(Newsweek) Obama Proposes Making 2 Year Community Colleges Free
Hong Kong ‘Freedom Movement’ Student Leader Joshua Wong
Slams Authorities in Court —Deutsce Welle (Chinese)
(Daily Mail) Joshua Wong, the teenage face of Hong Kong’s ‘Freedom Movement’ slammed authorities Thursday in a Court appearance linked to mass pro-Democracy demonstrations which had brought parts of the city to a standstill.
Wong was one of 29 activists in Court for a preliminary hearing on possible criminal contempt charges in November–China pledged that voters can elect the next Hong Kong chief executive in 2017 but says that only 2 or 3 candidates can run for the office and must be approved by the China regime.
China authorities have called the ‘Freedom Movement’ demonstrations illegal and police vowed to target the so called “principle instigators” in an ongoing witch-hunt–Obama assured China President Xi Jinping, the U.S. had no involvement in promoting freedom and democracy in Hong Kong.
On the 29 December, I wrote here about Han Ying, who has been arrested and imprisoned in China for advocating support of Hong Kong’s Freedom Revolution.
(White House.gov) BHO: “So Let There Be No Doubt, Islam is Part of America–Islam has a Proud Tradition of Tolerance”
(FOX News) Islamic Jihadists dressed in black, storm the Paris offices of a ‘Charlie Hebdo’ a satirical newspaper known for lampooning the false prophet Mohammed, massacring 12 and injuring as many as 15 others before escaping–as many as three Jihadists were being sought following the 11:30 AM terrorist attack.
Charlie Hebdo publisher of marauding Muslim cartoons recently Tweeted a cartoon of ISIS Terrorist Thug Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Two policemen, several journalists, including the cartoonist behind the weekly publication’s satirical images were among the dead.
“We’ve avenged the honor of the Prophet,” the Islamic Jihad Fascists shouted according to witnesses.
Related: Paris Policeman Shot in Head –Harrowing Video –Sky News
Anti-Islam Parties are Now on March Across Europe –The Telegraph
(Defense News) The 320 American Troops at Al Asad air base in western Iraq have taken “regular” mortar fire from Islamic Jihadists for several weeks, Col. Steve Warren told reporters on Monday, while Warren insists that the attacks have been “wholly ineffective” and that no U.S. personnel have been impacted in any way–this was the first time the Pentagon acknowledged the 2,100 American Troops Obama sent back to Iraq have been in danger since deploying last year.
In addition to the Marines from a ‘Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force’ training units with Iraq’s 7th Army Division at Al Asad, there’s 170 American Troops from the Army’s 1st Infantry Division training another four Iraqi Army battalions near Taji, northwest of Baghdad–Both sites were major U.S. bases during the U.S. – Iraq war from 2003 until 2011 when Obama declared…
Obama: We Have Met Our Responsibility…Iraq is in a Position
to Shape Its Own Future
Flashback: Remember in December, 2011 when Obama claimed: “We’re leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq.”
The Besmaya Combat Training Center was transferred to the Iraqi Army subsequent to Obama’s withdrawal in 2011 and was intended for use as a training site for Iraq Army purchased U.S. M1A1 Abrams tanks.
Col Warren added that the U.S. is currently establishing two other sites to train a total of 9 Iraqi and 3 Kurdish battalions in Irbil, south of Baghdad.
While the last of the 3,100 U.S. Troops Obama has recommitted to Iraq for training and advising the Iraqi Army are arriving, new equipment is flowing into the country–Over the past two week, 250 U.S. made ‘Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles have been sent to Iraq: 225 to the Iraqi Security Forces and 25 to the government in Kurdistan, according to Central Command.
The cost to taxpayers of refurbishing the vehicles was $9,832,500–In December, the U.S. State Dept announced that Baghdad has requested 175 more M1A1 Abrams tanks and other vehicles at a cost of $2.4 Billion, together with 1,000 Humvees at a price tag of $579 Million.
The Pentagon continues to insist that American Troops will not participate in combat (though they have a right to self-defense) in Iraq against the genocidal ISIS Jihadists that are slaughtering Christians, beheading Americans and committing other wartime atrocities.
Related: ISIS: Come to Caliphate for the Beheadings–Stay for the Sunsets
H/T: Weasel Zippers
U.S. Federal Deficit Now Exceeds $18 Trillion…
Image Courtesy: Victor Herrera@Twitter
During today’s White House Daily Press Briefing, Press Secy Josh Earnest claimed (at 51.38) “Its important for people to remember, the ACA (ObamaCare) substantially reduced the deficit which is good for the economic health and fiscal health of the country….”
Huh???
Isn’t this lie, eerily similar to the Obama Administration big whopper on the federal deficit, claiming on the 15 October: “Under President Obama, the deficit has been reduced by two-thirds since 2009.”
What do they think, that we’re stupid?
It took Obama just 39 months to run up $5 Trillion more in debt and now the Obama Administration has the audacity to insult our intelligence by claiming the $18.080 Trillion federal deficit is actually falling.
Riiight…
Christians Kidnapped by ISIS Jihadists Last Year
Image: Aus Coptic Movement@Twitter
(UPI) At least 13 Coptic Christians were abducted from their homes by ISIS Jihadists in Libya.
According to the BBC 15 armed men in masks stormed a residential complex early Saturday, going room-to-room, forcing residents to show identification before separating Muslims and Christians, one witness said, the Jihadists handcuffed and took into custody 13 Coptic Christians, all reportedly men.
“They had a list of full names of Christians in the building. While checking IDs, Muslims were left aside as the Christians were grabbed,” Hanna Aziz told the Associated Press.
Flashback: Remember in June when Obama claimed “The world is less violent than it has ever been.” — Riiight…
Christians have specifically been singled out as targets, they include a Coptic couple and their daughters who were murdered in December, when an unidentified gunman burst into their home in the City of Sirte, about 220 miles southwest of Libya, Tripoli.
More here from the Los Angeles Times
Birds of a Feather: Obama: I have stolen ideas from…Jonathan Gruber; ObamaCare Architect ‘Stupid Americans’ Jonathan Gruber
(NRO/Mona Charen) Jonathan Gruber, sage of MIT and proud champion of ObamaCare, may well have had the worst year in public life, he repeated demonstrations of arrogance, contempt for the American people and smug self-satisfaction brought mortification to Democrats–his glib references to redistributionist aspects of the ACA gave the lie to to Democratic Party’s dubious claim that the mandate was not a tax, along with the excruciating (to Democrats) acknowledgement, that presidential oaths to the contrary, notwithstanding, Democrats regard ‘nontransparency’ as their friend.
So hail the verbal incontinent Mr. Gruber for revealing the truth underlying ObamaCare: It wouldn’t have passed if presented honestly. Gruber, Obama, Pelosi, Reid and Co. didn’t ever succeed in hoodwinking the majority of Americans–ObamaCare was unpopular when proposed, despised when passed and remains disliked to this day. Gruber’s contribution was to put a frame around its essential deception.
In case we needed another reason to be frustrated with Jonathan Gruber, writes Cortney O’Brien in LifeNews.com America’s most infamous ObamaCare architect who insulted our intelligence also once argued that abortion has helped improve our nation’s economy and social environment.
In a paper entitled, Abortion Legalization and Child Living Circumstances: Who is the “Marginal Child?” Gruber co-authored in May, 1997 for the Natl Bureau of Economic Research, Gruber and his two colleagues suggested that abortion has helped save the nation money and social woes together arguing:
We find evidence of possible sizable positive selection: the average living circumstances of cohorts of children born immediately after abortion became legalized, improved substantially relative to preceding cohorts and relative to places where the legal status of abortion was not changing.
Our results suggest that marginal children who were not born as a result of abortion legalization would have been systematically been born into worse circumstances had the pregnancies not been terminated. They would have been 70% more likely to live in a single parent household, 40% more likely to live in poverty, 35% more likely to die during the first year of life and 50% more likely to be in a household collecting welfare.
The last of these findings implies that the selection effects operating through the legalization of abortion saved the government over $14 Billion in welfare payments through the year 1994
“Considering that 30% of Abortions are obtained by African-American Women–though they comprise just 13% of the population,” writes Mona Charen in National Review Online “Gruber was in effect arguing that reducing the number of poor black children was, not to put to fine a point on it, a ‘positive good.’ One cannot begin to imagine the outcry if a Conservative academic had published similar conclusions.”
“Leaving aside the moral obtuseness of arguing that abortion is justified because it reduces crime or welfare expenditures (which party is supposed to be sting with welfare, again?) and consider the many, many possible explanations for the drop in crime that began in the 1990s (such as an aging population–I digress) but lets imagine Gruber was right–that legalizing abortion eliminated a big cohort of the criminal element and led to a drop in crime. Did everyone of those aborted criminals merit the death penalty? The car thieves? The embezzlers? Did each one deserve a preemptive death penalty?”
“It is upsetting to say the least writes Cortney O’Brien, that someone who thought so highly of Roe -v- Wade was helping to craft our national health care law. Perhaps it explains who ObamaCare is filled with abortion subsidies–plans that indirectly fund the procedure,” and government lawyers going into federal courts to force Christian benevolent organizations such as the ‘Little Sisters of the Poor’ to comply with the ObamaCare mandate.
Chalk Art Drawing of Two Flowers Around Taped Yellow Umbrella
(Symbol of Hong Kong Umbrella Revolution) Resulted in Arrest
of 14 Year Old Girl –Image: Isabella Lo@Twitter
(Sinosphere/NYTimes) The arrest and detention of a 14 year old Hong Kong girl who was sent to a reeducation children’s home for drawing on ‘Lennon Wall’ has brought accusations that authorities are using misusing child protection laws to intimidate young pro-Democracy activists together with their families.
On the 23 December, Hong Kong Police arrested the 14 yr old girl on suspicion of drawing chalk flowers on ‘Lennon Wall’ that became widely known with posting of messages during the 79 day pro-Democracy rallies when protesters peacefully occupied key highways and intersections.
Yesterday according to Radio Free Asia a Hong Kong Judge released the 14 yr old who had become known as ‘Chalk Girl’ by Netizens from custody with strict conditions.
The Obama Administration continues to say nothing about the human rights abuses by the China regime against pro-Democracy activists such as Han Ying who was recently detained and arrested by authorities on trumped up charges of ‘picking quarrels and provoking troubles.’
On the 11 November, I wrote here that Obama at the recent AIPAC Summit assured China President Xi Jinping, that the United States had ‘no involvement’ in promoting Democracy or supporting Hong Kong’s ‘Umbrella Revolution’ Freedom Movement — No surprises here.
U.S. Taxpayers Spent Billions Training and Equipping Iraqi Soldiers