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To: FJB who wrote (775288)3/17/2014 11:58:44 AM
From: i-node  Respond to of 1573841
 
>> Keeping additional borrowing OFF THE BOOKS and claiming there is a surplus is an epic scam...

It is; as you know, I believe the unfunded liabilities (which are essentially off-book debt) that are so prevalent in governmental accounting are the biggest failure of the accounting industry in history.

OTOH, Brown had to deal with the situation as best he could. Whether there is a surplus vs. a deficit is a different thing from whether there is an excess of assets over liabilities. I think Brown has put them on a considerably better trajectory than the one they were on, even though I don't agree with the accounting methods most governmental entities use.



To: FJB who wrote (775288)3/17/2014 1:10:34 PM
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Muslim prof threatens to stab fellow Oberlin professor
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The Daily Caller ^ | 03/15/2014 | Eric Owens


Oberlin College professor Eunjung An, professor of French and cinema studies, has filed a lawsuit because, she claims, a professor on the Oberlin faculty has harassed her and created a hostile work environment for female employees for years.

The plaintiff is comparative literature professor Ali Yedes informed an unnamed Oberlin employee last year that he had helped his nephew obtain a student visa to the United States expressly to “stab and kill someone from his department.”..

Yedes serves as the school’s “Muslim Religious Life Affiliate (Islamic Center of Cleveland).” ..

An’s lawsuit claims that Yedes has been engaged in a pattern of harassment since 2006 that includes loud, disruptive behavior in faculty meetings and pointing his finger in An’s face.

“His erratic and abusive behavior has caused immense instability in the department,”

...

Meanwhile, in rural southern Thailand, Muslim terrorists shot and killed a Buddhist teacher who was riding to work on a motorbike...

Her death marks the 170th murder of a teacher by Muslim terrorists over the course of a years-long, still-raging Muslim insurgency in Thailand’s three southernmost provinces.

Thailand is predominantly Buddhist.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


One can't be too careful what one says about the "religion of peace".



To: FJB who wrote (775288)3/17/2014 1:23:09 PM
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Female Military Judges Offer Soft Touch In Hasan/Manning Trials
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Thursday, August 22, 2013
joeclarke.net


Seriously, folks, I do not go looking for examples of extreme Political Correctness in the military or anywhere else. As I read military news journals and hear from the boots on the ground soldiers, it is conclusive that our great American military is being systematically disemboweled through leftist and liberal ideological engineering.

Bradley (aka transgender name Chelsea) Manning has been treated with kid gloves, or rather ladies fashion gloves, from the time he enlisted in the military
. He erupted into inexplicable snits during military schooling, he slapped a fellow female soldier, he sent pictures of himself dressed in women's clothes out on the internet, things which would not been tolerated in the Marine Corps today or yesterday's Army. Because Don't Ask Don't Tell was in the works, I am sure the military was well aware of his confused sexuality and behavior - long before he was sent to the theater of war in Iraq. Manning downloaded hundreds of thousands of secret documents, including soldiers' email addresses, locations of prisoners of war, and secret combat logs. No matter,

Hollywood and the rest of the Left lionized Manning and are now groaning about his "stiff" sentence of 7 years,
if he remains a good boy, or girl, in the military stockade. Military Judge Denise Lind, faculty member of George Washington University and member of the New York Bar Association rendered a very moderate and motherly sentence to Manning. She may again have to judge as to whether Manning may have transgender surgery to fulfill his inner Chelsea (the female name he would like to be addressed with) paid for by the U.S. Government. His liking Lady Gaga should have given the military brass a clue that this fellow/lady was not going to be a good soldier.

Now, here comes military Judge Colonel Tara Osborn (related to Ozzie?) who was chosen to replace male judge Colonel Gregory Gross, because he was a bit "tough" on the vulnerable Major Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood assassin who shot and or killed 43 soldiers, as he said, for Allah and Islam.

Again, Leftist Engineering, even in the hallowed halls of the military, was at play long before Nidal Hasan shot up Fort Hood. For years, Hasan, as a psychiatrist officer, was shouting the praise of Islam while denigrating the United States as he "treated" fellow soldiers. Political Correctness prohibited, or at least inhibited, fellow officers from reporting the outrageous behavior. It has not just been President Obama who has been reluctant to call a terrorist a terrorist.

In any event, male Judge Colonel Gregory Gross was replaced by female Judge Colonel Tara Osborn because Col. Gross made the terrible mistake of demanding that killer Hasan shave his beard, as it is against military rules to have an unshaven face in the trial. The rules just had to be broken citing Relgious Freedom, and that it would be disrespectful to Allah and Islam not to don a beard. In her motherly mode Judge Tara Osborn recently denied the prosecution's attempt to enter in historical evidence, including email correspondence between Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, the American born Islamic cleric who encouraged at least 3 of the 9/11 hijackers to fly planes into the Twin Towers.

Political Correctness is ruining our military on so many levels. Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell will prove to be a disaster, which will only be exposed, unfortunately, when the U.S. again engages in a full scale war. When I was in the service, in Vietnam, only about 3 percent of the Armed Forces were composed of women. Now, it is over 15 percent and higher, depending on the branch of service. Why is it a mystery that there has been a gigantic increase in sexual assault cases, illegitimate pregnancies on duty when deployed, adulteries,even suicides, and so on within the military? It should be a no-brainer.

George Washington, who knew a little something about combat, was adamantly opposed to female and homosexual soldiers. Is Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Martin Dempsey, who has promoted Political Correctness, smarter than George Washington? The question is ridiculous.




posted by joeclarke at Thursday, August 22, 2013




To: FJB who wrote (775288)3/17/2014 2:37:07 PM
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How Will Foreign Leaders Be Able To Trust America After Obama?
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PowerLine
by Paul Mirengoff
March 16, 2014

Excerpt:

International credibility is to foreign affairs what political capital is to domestic matters. Without it, an American president can exert little influence and thus can get little done.

President Obama has used up nearly all of his political capital. He began his administration with 69 percent approval and 12 percent disapproval. Today, he is underwater at 40-54 according to the latest Gallup poll.

This presents a problem for Obama, but not for his successor. The next president will begin his or term (sic) with a strong approval rating, though almost certainly not as strong as Obama’s historically high mark.

Obama has also used up nearly all of his international credibility.

Michael Rubin writes:


In 1994, the United States (and the United Kingdom and Russia) signed an agreement with Ukraine as part of its forfeiture of nuclear weaponry: Russia promised to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty, and the United States and Great Britain agreed to help protect it. That Budapest Memorandum, it turns out, has become meaningless.

So too were American promises to Georgia in 2008.
And American promises to Poland and the Czech Republic with regard to missile defense.

The Obama administration’s decision to slash American assistance to Israel’s missile defense—while at the same time enabling between $7 billion and $20 billion in sanctions relief and new investment into Iran—likewise undercuts any lingering hope in Israel or among Israel’s defenders in the United States that Obama would lift a finger if Iranian leaders act on their promise to annihilate the Jewish state.


The world could hardly fail to notice:


Saudi Arabia and Egypt are furious with Obama. And Kuwaiti and Emirati leaders suggest that they can no longer trust American commitments.

I spent the last week in Baghdad, and Iraqis too express dismay that the United States doesn’t keep its side of the bargain it struck in the Strategic Framework Agreement. That is a sentiment growing in Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Colombia, and Estonia as well.


Unlike political capital, international credibility is not automatically restored once a new president takes office. Political capital belongs to the politician who has obtained it. International credibility belongs to the nation. At the outset of a new administration, it is the product of (1) firm leadership by past presidents and (2) sacrifices by our armed forces.

Barack Obama’s successor will have to live with the consequences of Obama’s failure to keep America’s promises. This will be especially true of Hillary Clinton, who helped Obama run American foreign policy for four years.

But it will also be true of whomever we elect in 2016.

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