Posted on 09/06/2015 4:43:14 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sept 6th, 2015
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz; Police Chiefs Charles Ramsey of Philadelphia and Edward Flynn of Milwaukee.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Republican presidential candidates John Kasich and Mike Huckabee; David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.; former Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska.
God forbid we ever let go of the John Kennedy wing of the Party.
Thank you for the report on Powell. He may have used a personal email account but I’d bet the farm he did not have a private server in his home to use.
I like Greta, for the most part, but she’s gone off the deep end, on this
Showing remnants of her Lib DNA......
Obama-worshipping Colon Bowel
Got to cover “ the brothers” back.... Can’t let people realize that we are talking about real threats, and potential for mass catastrophe.
Also, cover the fact that mega $$$ come from somewhere to go to those who will use it to wipe us and others out.....
In fact, even the pitiful Europeans (mostly in Eastern Europe plus UK) are starting to rebel against having their culture destroyed by psychotic muslims.
Arm them if they are willing to go back in and fight for their lives, land, and freedom.
They deserve nothing else.
Fearing domestic protest, Libya's government implemented preventative measures, reducing food prices, purging the army leadership of potential defectors and releasing several Islamist prisoners. They proved ineffective, and on 17 February 2011, major protests broke out against Gaddafi's government. Unlike Tunisia or Egypt, Libya was largely religiously homogeneous and had no strong Islamist movement, but there was widespread dissatisfaction with the corruption and entrenched systems of patronage, while unemployment had reached around 30%.
Accusing the rebels of being "drugged" and linked to al-Qaeda, Gaddafi proclaimed that he would die a martyr rather than leave Libya. As he announced that the rebels would be "hunted down street by street, house by house and wardrobe by wardrobe", the army opened fire on protests in Benghazi, killing hundreds. Shocked at the government's response, a number of senior politicians resigned or defected to the protesters' side. The uprising spread quickly through Libya's less economically developed eastern half. By February's end, eastern cities like Benghazi, Misrata, al-Bayda and Tobruk were controlled by rebels, and the Benghazi-based National Transitional Council (NTC) had been founded to represent them.
In the conflict's early months it appeared that Gaddafi's government – with its greater firepower – would be victorious. Both sides disregarded the laws of war, committing human rights abuses, including arbitrary arrests, torture, extrajudicial executions and revenge attacks. On 26 February the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1970, suspending Libya from the UN Human Rights Council, implementing sanctions and calling for an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into the killing of unarmed civilians.
In March, the Security Council declared a no fly zone to protect the civilian population from aerial bombardment, calling on foreign nations to enforce it; it also specifically prohibited foreign occupation. Ignoring this, Qatar sent hundreds of troops to support the dissidents, and along with France and the United Arab Emirates provided the NTC with weaponry and training.
A week after the implementation of the no-fly zone, NATO announced that it would be enforced. On 30 April a NATO airstrike killed Gaddafi's sixth son and three of his grandsons in Tripoli, though Gaddafi and his wife were unharmed. Western officials remained divided over whether Gaddafi was a legitimate military target under the U.N. Security Council resolution. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that NATO was "not targeting Gaddafi specifically" but that his command-and-control facilities were legitimate targets—including a facility inside his sprawling Tripoli compound that was hit with airstrikes on 25 April.
Following the 2011 revolution in Tunisia and the civil war in Libya, the Italian island of Lampedusa saw a boom in illegal immigration from those countries. In February, Italian Foreign Minister Frattini expressed his concerns that the amount of Libyan refugees trying to reach Italy might reach between 200,000 and 300,000 people. More than 45,000 boat people arrived on Lampedusa in the first five months of 2011.
It has always been my contention that the US was pressured into the intervention in Libya by the Europeans for two reasons: the oil interests and the flood of refugees streaming into Italy and elsewhere. The civil war in Libya was well underway prior to the UN and NATO's involvement. There is no doubt that the disintegration of Libya to this day has caused a continuous stream of refugees into Italy. And the refugees are coming not only from Libya but sub-Saharan Africa.
Obama's leading from behind destabilized Libya. The question is whether Gaddafi could have survived if NATO and the UN had not intervened. And if he did, wouldn't the flood of refugees have still continued?
Re Iran, there has been a steady flow of Iranians out of Iran, especially the educated ones. The fertility rate in Iran is 1.83 children born/woman (2015 est.), below the replacement level of 2.1.
The net migration level is minus 0.08 compared to plus 2.45 for the US. When you look at the number of migrants per 1,000 it is readily apparent that the countries bordering the various conflicts or using guest workers have the greatest number of migrants. Net migration rate compares the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during the year per 1,000 persons (based on midyear population). The top ten:
1. Lebanon -- 83.82
2. Qatar -- 27.35
3. Zimbabwe -- 21.78
4. British Virgin Islands -- 17.69
5. Jordan -- 17.22
6. Libya -- 16.01
7. Cayman Islands -- 14.71
8. Singapore -- 14.55
9. Bahrain -- 13.60
10. UAE -- 13.58
Hiya Cousin Mike.
I saw a bunch of detailed data and knew it was you.
I just got back from church....
First, Father Tom called forth all those in the congregation that had police in the family, or were police.
We then said a Hail Mary to protect the brothers in blue.
Then we said the pledge of allegiance and the flag was very proudly displayed by the altar. We then sang every verse of “America the Beautiful”. For the recessional hymn we sang “God Bless America”.
More on Father Tom....known around here as “THE TEA PARTY PRIEST”....later.
Anway, glad to be joining back in, now watching my DVR....got lots of opinions.
Damn I missed that one had to be good
Thanks Bray again for your essay. Very thought provoking. I just could not make myself watch any of the shows today. I usually tape a few, but could not even do that. Maybe sensory overload?
It is finally cooling off here in upstate South Carolina. We are enjoying being able to sit outside, get the smoker going and listening to some bluegrass!
Hope all of you have a good long W/E.
Probably need to follow the money with Powell he’s bound to be bought and paid for by someone.
http://www.rt.com/op-edge/233787-egypt-west-isis-mideast-libya/
On March 6, 2011, several weeks before NATO began seven months of bombing, Gaddafi gave a prophetic interview with French newspaper Le Monde du Dimanche, in which he stated: “I want to make myself understood: if one threatens [Libya], if one seeks to destabilize [Libya], there will be chaos, Bin Laden, armed factions. That is what will happen. You will have immigration, thousands of people will invade Europe from Libya. And there will no longer be anyone to stop them.”
He’s around 70 and needs to get the hell out.
The facts say otherwise. Latinos/Hispanics favor Big Government to a much greater extent than the rest of the population.
Trd Cruz was born in Canada. He doesn't speak Spanish and his mother is not Hispanic. Cruz is an Hispanic in name only. But he is Hispanic when it helps him politically, e.g., amnesty and increased guest worker programs.
I hope you can control your gag reflex when viewing the Fox panel.
Your statistics are stellar and right on the mark I’m sure.however I sometimes wonder in countries like Haiti where the dictator was forced out and he was a brutal dictator and yet the country left in a vacuum with no leadership at all and it still that way 30 years later might not have been better off just to leave the dictator in until nature took its course now here we have libya with no one in charge and an absolute disaster, was Gaddafi a dictator of course. was he brutal? of course! but was he better than no leadership at all? one wonders
Amazing how things work out isn’t it
Last weekend our church's organ broke. I am very suspicious of the timing but moving on.
Our church had been wrestling with purchasing a new organ about forever and ever and I, as is often the case, am involved in it up to hips. I am on the church Finance council for one thing. When I belong to an organization I always like to keep an eye on the money.
So about five years ago we looked into buying an organ…these things are very expensive….$100K and up. I am very much involved in the church's music ministry, being in the choir. So I wanted to buy a new organ then and obviously want to buy one now.
A big difference here, yon reader should smile, is NOW we have a very new priest, known far and wide across Delaware, as "The Tea Party" priest. And oh, I know all about it, insert wink here.
So here I am, always the guileless walking the hot sands of happenings, on the finance council AND on the choir, with this new VERY conservative Tea Party priest who….I should add, is one hell of a writer.
Heh.
Let's see….he sings, writes, is 64 years old by the way, and is a political junkee.
Now throughout this intro of myself to him we have exchanged tidbits, political remarks….example, one Sunday as I stood in the line to shake his hand after mass I leaned in close and told him that I thought Ben Carson won the debate. He then argued for somebody else…..and…..that sort of thing.
So by the time the great finance showdown came about, when Father Tom slid in his chair next to me and spent the twenty minutes proceeding the meeting telling me that while the pope IS a liberal, he is from Argentina for God's sake. This subject and all others and go on….he and I were locked in conversation.
No it's not a romantic thing though who knows…maybe under different circumstances. I see it as two people who recognizes their numerous things in common and rather like it.
Understand now that we got to vote for this organ coming up that is costing over $125 grand, big deal….well everyone knew how my vote was going to go. Before this meeting all the members of the finance council had been emailing with problems about buying a new organ but give me a break….I made up my mind that we were getting a new organ if for no other reason than the one we had IS BROKE!
That and, Father Tom supported buying a new organ.
So the meeting began and we talked about the pros and cons of a new organ purchase but go on, we already had three capital campaigns and our parishioners gave and we built and we remodeled. That money was raised with the intent of getting an organ too. Now we're finally getting around to it.
After 20 minutes of conversing with Father Tom the meeting began and he presented his reasons for buying a new organ and told us to play devil's advocate. I spoke and said I would not play devil's advocate, that I was on his side …..and everyone else spoke their piece. Quite a few of these folks were AGAINST buying this organ and honestly they had good reasons.
But never mind I can be quite convincing when I want to be even with all those big former CFO's and Financial Managers of DELTECH on the finance council with me being but a lowly payroll manager. Heh, that and the priest really, really, really, really likes me.
To prove my point, right during the meeting, when I had a question about something, something about where to put the sacristy and stuff, all part of this organ purchase…..and Father Tom said, out loud, in front of everybody, "If you invite me to your house for dinner I will tell you all about the church."
Heh.
So the finance council voted TO buy the organ, but of course. My choir director, who y'all might remember I wrote about through the years, was delighted and had a big THANK YOU thing for me and so….
But hey, here's my bigger point once I get over being full of myself, this guy is really, really a terrific priest so do not worry that I should sin with him. I feel like I know him well and feel certain we shall be friends but absolutely everyone in Sussex county knows about my locally famous priest. I am looking for suggestions on how to do this.
He told me about the night he stayed up late at night hoping McGovern would win….like me he was once a liberal dumbbell. He has attended three Delaware Republican conventions and YES, BUT OF COURSE HE'S GOING TO GIVE ME AN INTERVIEW.
Thought I'd include a pict of him and I…below.
I just heard the new PC word for anchor babies its birthright citizen or some crap like that
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