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Saturday, October 4, 2014

This Civil War Vet’s 124 Year-Old Grave Warning Perfectly Predicted Obama’s Presidency

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by:Norvell Rose 
He died more than 124 years ago, but Nathaniel Grigsby could be seen by many in America as a modern-day prophet. 

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Said to have been a Kansas farmer, Second Lieutenant in the Indiana Cavalry, and “dear friend” of Abraham Lincoln, Grigsby left specific instructions for a carefully worded engraving on his tombstone.
Grigsby’s dire “warning” has been noted before in blogs and on news websites; but given all that’s currently happening in the country — considering the radical, unrelenting efforts of Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats to “fundamentally change” America no matter the cost or consequence to liberty or to the treasury — Nathaniel Grigsby’s cry from the past is all the more meaningful.
And by the way, multiple fact-checking websites have confirmed the authenticity of the prescient inscription you’re about to see…and likely marvel at.
What hasn’t been explained, though, is how this fellow knew to caution generations ahead to beware of the “party of treason.”

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H/T: madworldnews.com    Photo Credits: findagrave.com

 

Friday, October 3, 2014

Bottom line message to MSM and yes Fox News also the elite et al...

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Homes of the rich and famous

Y'all have made fame and fortune enjoying your freedom and toys on the backs of Middle America who makes up the volunteer military...You continue to allow the progressives who put Obama into office for not just one term but two and who is on a mission to destroy the US Constitution,the Bill of Rights and your wonderful lifestyle...Newsflash we the people OathKeepers and patriots are growing weary of sounding the alarm to the deaf and dumb..Y'all continue to hide your head in the sand rant and rave,sugar coat everything while hiding behind the easy excuse of being politically correct in order to keep your elite jobs with big paychecks while those in uniform keep trying to keep the head hunters at bay for little more than minimum wage!

Bottom line....very few of you took the time to serve your country and get you hands dirty...you were just way too busy enjoying your toys and leaving the dirty work to patriots...well here is the hard blunt truth...when the proverbial s*** hits the fan don't wait for patriots to come to your aid...we will be way to busy defending ourselves,our families and each other #Patriots...y'all will be on your own to defend your property,toys and family members from pillage,rape and beheadings...I will give you maybe 15 minutes of defense before it is said,done and over for you and yours...you have no experience nor training in self defense nor survival.

Until we patriots see y'all defending our opinions on what needs to be done don't expect us to come to your defense as y'all allowed it to happen! You have been warned...it is up to you if you want our help not if but when terror comes to visit you and yours!

Defense Dept. won’t define military’s Ebola mission

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oped: DOD really needs to address why 3000 Army 101st AB are sent to fight Ebola vs ISIL! Sorry not in their proverbial job description! wtf is going on at DOD??? why have they not told the traitor Obama to stuff it?


Having troops there doesn’t seem to matter since people can just get on a plane and fly to the US.
Check it out:
As 1,400 U.S. soldiers prepare to head to Liberia this month, critics are still wondering why President Obama is using his valuable, highly trained warfighters to provide mostly logistical and engineering support for health workers trying to stop the spread of Ebola.
According to Department of Defense officials, the Pentagon is planning to spend at least $1 billion on the effort and send a total of 3,000 military personnel to the center of the unprecedented outbreak.
Defense Department spokesman John Kirby said the troops will set up the infrastructure for an operation that will be run by the State Department’s U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID

Kirby made clear at a Sept. 19 press conference that the effort will not include U.S. military personnel treating Ebola patients. Instead, their function will be in support of other health-care workers who are the experts in the Ebola treatment process.
A WND request to the DOD for a response to questions such as why U.S. troops are being used for support and engineering in a place that will subject them to a deadly viral disease went unanswered.
Continue Reading on www.wnd.com ...

During An Ebola Pandemic All Of Your Rights Would Essentially Be Meaningless

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oped: wake up people...this is Barry Barack Hussein Soetoro Davis Obama or whatever his real name is wants...then he could suspend the US Constitution/Elections and become el presidente' /the Ninth Imam for life...he is Islam ISIS ISIL MB et al rolled into one fake personna! He is on a mission and people are asleep... with the proverbial  head in the sand syndrome!  

The liberal dream of total government control would be accomplished.
Check it out:
If there is a major Ebola pandemic in America, all of the liberties and the freedoms that you currently enjoy would be gone. If government officials believe that you have the virus, federal law allows them to round you up and detain you “for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary.” In addition, the CDC already has the authority to quarantine healthy Americans if they reasonably believe that they may become sick. During an outbreak, the government can force you to remain isolated in your own home, or the government may forcibly take you to a treatment facility, a tent city, a sports stadium, an old military base or a camp. You would not have any choice in the matter. And you would be forced to endure any medical procedure mandated by the government. That includes shots, vaccines and the drawing of blood. During such a scenario, you can scream about your “rights” all that you want, but it won’t do any good. 


In case you are tempted to think that I am making this up, I want you to read what federal law actually says. The following is 42 U.S.C. 264(d). I have added bold for emphasis…
(1) Regulations prescribed under this section may provide for the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease in a qualifying stage and (A) to be moving or about to move from a State to another State; or (B) to be a probable source of infection to individuals who, while infected with such disease in a qualifying stage, will be moving from a State to another State. Such regulations may provide that if upon examination any such individual is found to be infected, he may be detained for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary. For purposes of this subsection, the term “State” includes, in addition to the several States, only the District of Columbia.
Continue Reading on www.infowars.com ...

Dallas Paramedic Slams Health Officials; Was Not Informed Of Ebola Diagnosis; Drove Contaminated Ambulance For 2 Days

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Incompetence seems to be reaching new levels of silliness.
Check it out:
Paramedics who attended to the Ebola diagnosed patient in Dallas were not contacted by hospital officials, local or state health officials, or the CDC to inform them that they were driving around in an ambulance that could be contaminated with the infectious virus.
According to a report by Breitbart News, one of the paramedics himself says that it was not until 48 hours after he had transported Thomas Duncan to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital that he was informed that he could be driving around in an Ebola contaminated death trap.

“[It was] 48 hours later before they finally took the ambulance out of service,” said Dallas Paramedic Geoffrey Aklinski in a discussion on Facebook, referring to the September 28th incident when Duncan was picked up, violently vomiting, at his apartment.
“None of them have been contacted. None of the paramedics that were on that shift and went in the ambulance were contacted. I’ve been off three days now. No one contacted me and I was in and drove that ambulance after it was infected.” Aklinski adds.
The Dallas Fire Department finally put the ambulance into quarantine on Wednesday, a full day after the diagnosis was made public. It is not known how many paramedics drove the ambulance during the 48 hour period or how many patients were transported.
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Obama Brushes Off Plight of U.S. Marine Jailed in Mexico

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Obama will trade 5 terrorists for a deserter traitor, but ignores this patriot. Unreal.
Check it out:
It’s the State Department’s problem.
On the same day Republican lawmakers urged President Obama to do something about an American war veteran languishing in a Mexican jail, a White House spokesman indicated it’s not going to happen.
“My colleagues at the State Department are very focused on this issue,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said at Wednesday’s briefing.”And so, I’d refer you to them for their efforts to work with the Mexican government.”
Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, says he asked Vice President Biden to ask President Obama to call the Mexican president directly to urge leniency for Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi — but apparently it hasn’t happened. 


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SHE’S DESPERATE: FLOTUS Sends Out E-Mail Warning, ‘Impeachment Rests On A Few Votes’

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[Ha I say Impeach,arrest and prosecute for Treason both of the above!]

Michelle Obama seems to be using fear tactics to raise money for Democratic campaigns. She sent out an e-mail blast warning of possible impeachment if Dems lose the senate. Check it out…
First lady Michelle Obama, going to bat for Senate Democrats amid reports she is abandoning them on the campaign trail, is warning that control of the chamber and the potential Republican impeachment of her husband rests on just a few votes.
In a fundraising email for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, she urged party loyalists to cough up more money and help get Democrats to the polls in a month.

“I’ll put it frankly: If we lose these midterm elections, we’ll just see more obstruction, more lawsuits and talk about impeachment, and more votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act or even shut down the government,” she wrote.
“These races are going to be unbelievably tight. They could be won and lost by a few thousand — or even a few hundred — votes,” she added.
Her email is below:
Friend — You can’t hold your breath and wait to see who wins the Senate.
It’s too close for that. We need your help immediately.
I’ll put it frankly: If we lose these midterm elections, we’ll just see more obstruction, more lawsuits and talk about impeachment, and more votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act or even shut down the government.
Read more: Washington Examiner

“THE CDC IS LYING”: Doctor Dons Protection Suit In Protest, Says the CDC Is Lying About Ebola

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This is coming from a Doctor…what do you think? Is the CDC downplaying the threat of Ebola? If so, we will have hell to pay. Check it out…
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – Two days after a man in Texas was diagnosed with Ebola, a Missouri doctor Thursday morning showed up at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport dressed in protective gear to protest what he called mismanagement of the crisis by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Gil Mobley checked in and cleared airport security wearing a mask, goggles, gloves, boots and a hooded white jumpsuit emblazoned on the back with the words, “CDC is lying!”
“If they’re not lying, they are grossly incompetent,” said Mobley, a microbiologist and emergency trauma physician from Springfield, Mo.
Mobley said the CDC is “sugar-coating” the risk of the virus spreading in the United States.
“For them to say last week that the likelihood of importing an Ebola case was extremely small was a real bad call,” he said.
Read more: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

BHO’s “Payback”: Remaking U.S. Into Third World Nation One Patient at a Time

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by Teri O'Brien 

On September 30, the Centers for Disease Control confirmed that Thomas Eric Duncan, had been diagnosed in Dallas, TX with the extremely deadly Ebola virus. The Liberian man is the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with this dangerous disease.

To a great extent, the American people have been kept in the dark about the specifics of this situation, as officials cite “patient privacy” concerns. Where did Mr. Duncan go in the 2-3 days between the time when he first sought medical attention on September 26 and September 28 when he was transported by ambulance and admitted to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas? Was he in line in front of you at Wal-Mart? Was he on the bus with your grandmother? Why haven’t we banned flights from Liberia, Sierra Leone and other West African countries where Ebola is rampant? Why did the doctor who first saw Mr. Duncan tell him to take two aspirin and call them in the morning?

Forgive me. I know that it’s ridiculous to ask these questions because we have been assured by the federal government that there is absolutely no chance that this disease will break out into the general population, and we know that federal bureaucrats would never lie. You could even ask your doctor, which we know you still have even after the enactment of the “Affordable” Care Act, right?
There’s a lot that we don’t know about this case. Some of you may be scratching your heads, trying to get your minds around some of the things that we do know, not only about Mr. Duncan and Ebola, but the state of affairs we find ourselves experiencing in this country; specifically, the following:
Even though Barack Obama has declared that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a threat to U.S. national security, he has also stated that it is inappropriate to defeat this threat using “boots on the ground,” (how sick of that stupid Lame Stream Media cliche are you?) a claim that, given the fact that he has sent troops back to Iraq, is a ridiculous charade designed to placate his goofball left-wing voting base.

While “boots on the ground” are absolutely out of the question to protect our national security, they are completely appropriate to fight the Ebola virus, which is why Obama sent 3000 troops to West Africa. If you thought our military is there to capture and kill bad guys, not play nurse maid in Third World countries, think again.
The “Unaccompanied Minor Children” (read “illegal aliens) who have been invading our country are not being screened for diseases. Suddenly, we see the appearance of enterovirus D68, a virus we haven’t seen in this country since the 1960’s. Coincidence? What’s next? Bubonic plague?
I don’t think what I’m about to say will come as a revelation to Clash Daily readers. You are high-information citizens who know the score, but sadly, many of your friends and neighbors aren’t connecting these dots, and they need to do so. So let me state clearly what is going on. 

Barack Obama made no secret of his desire to “remake” America. Hearing that goal, many of us wondered what he was saying. After all, we love our country, and we didn’t think it needed to be “remade.” Barack Obama doesn’t share our view, as you well know. Like all radical Leftists, he despises the founding of this nation, viewing it as a creation of the racist, imperialistic white Europeans who created it.
In Obama’s world, America, as it has existed for the last couple of centuries, is not “exceptional.” What you view as “exceptional,” is actually just unfair. What right do we have to live in comfort, free from the possibility of dying from diseases like Ebola, TB, enterovirus, or any other diseases that we eradicated decades ago when people in Africa and other Third World countries still die from them?
That is inherently “unfair,” and Obama has a solution to fix that. No longer will you benefit by the happy accident of being born in this country. To make things equal, since America is not the Third World, at least not yet, he will bring the Third World to America, be it through our airports or through our open Southern “border.”

Think of it this way: the United States, at least as it existed until approximately 1965, when the Hart-Cellar law dramatically altered our immigration laws, was like the suburbs that Obama hates so much writ large; that is, a bastion of white privilege, insulated from the disease, poverty and misery of Third World countries. That wasn’t “fair.” To make things right, we need to bring those problems here. Obama has been working on that, and so far, has made tremendous progress to that end, as we can see from the arrival of Ebola here.
Mark my words. I strongly suspect that Mr. Duncan knew that he had been exposed to Ebola before he left Liberia, and came here specifically to seek treatment. We may learn the truth despite the Obama Regime. In the meantime, never forget that we are witnessing and living through the consequences of electing a radical leftist who wants to see America (Amerika) cut down to size as payback for its “racist” origins.
Politics, Pop Culture, the Hottest Issues of the ay, and the facts, background and context to stay ahead of the curve. The Teri O’Brien Show, live, Sundays, 5 pm Eastern, 4 pm Central, at teriobrien.com, on spreaker.com, stitcher.com and iTunes, featuring America’s Original Conservative Warrior Princess, Daring to Commit Common Sense, Fearlessly, and More Important, Cheerfully, in the Age of Obama.
 

BARACK EBOLA: In 2010 Obama Admin Scrapped CDC Quarantine Regulations Aimed At Ebola

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So much for fighting the war on Ebola, BHO. This is an interesting little nugget of information. Check it out…
In October 2014, the first patient on American soil infected with the Ebola virus sits in isolation in a Texas hospital, prompting calls for travel restrictions between the United States and Ebola-stricken countries.
Meanwhile, four years ago, the administration of President Barack Obama moved with virtually no fanfare to abandon a comprehensive set of regulations which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had called essential to preventing international travelers from spreading deadly diseases inside the United States.

The CDC had proposed the regulations in 2005 under the administration of George W. Bush, reported USA Today in 2010. The original impetus for the regulations was fear that avian flu would spread unchecked.
The regulations proposed under the Bush administration would have granted the federal government a power of “provisional quarantine” to confine airline passengers involuntarily for up to three days if they exhibit symptoms of certain infectious diseases. Federal officials would also have been able to quarantine passengers exposed to people with those symptoms.
There was a fairly long list of diseases. It included smallpox, yellow fever, diphtheria, pandemic flu, infectious tuberculosis, cholera — and viral fevers such as Ebola.
Before the Obama administration withdrew the proposed new rules, CDC officials had emphasized that they would only invoke the involuntary “provisional quarantine” when someone exhibiting a set of symptoms refused to work with federal officials voluntarily.
Read more: The Daily Caller

Homosexual Hate Campaign and activist Gay judges

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Mark Horne 

Homosexual Hate Campaign Targets a Woman who Doesn’t Know Her Place

I missed this amazing and sickening piece when it came out—written by Janna Darnelle, a wife and mother whose marriage ended when her former husband left her for a man—or really a string of men (see below on the nature of their alleged “marriage”).
A couple of quotations:

Try as I might to save our marriage, there was no stopping my husband. Our divorce was not settled in mediation or with lawyers. No, it went all the way to trial. My husband wanted primary custody of our children. His entire case can be summed up in one sentence: “I am gay, and I deserve my rights.” It worked: the judge gave him practically everything he wanted. At one point, he even told my husband, “If you had asked for more, I would have given it to you.” 

I truly believe that judge was legislating from the bench, disregarding the facts of our particular case and simply using us—using our children— to help influence future cases. In our society, LGBT citizens are seen as marginalized victims who must be protected at all costs, even if it means stripping rights from others. By ignoring the injustice committed against me and my children, the judge seemed to think that he was correcting a larger injustice. 

And then this:
My ex-husband and his partner went on to marry. Their first ceremony took place before our state redefined marriage. After it created same-sex marriage, they chose to have a repeat performance. In both cases, my children were forced—against my will and theirs—to participate. At the second ceremony, which included more than twenty couples, local news stations and papers were there to document the first gay weddings officiated in our state. USA Today did a photo journal shoot on my ex and his partner, my children, and even the grandparents. I was not notified that this was taking place, nor was I given a voice to object to our children being used as props to promote same-sex marriage in the media.
At the time of the first ceremony, the marriage was not recognized by our state, our nation, or our church. And my ex-husband’s new marriage, like the majority of male-male relationships, is an “open,” non-exclusive relationship.  


Yeah, that’s the role model you want to have partial custody of your children. (Yes, they are his children too, but he left them and is only hanging on to them as set pieces for his fantasy role playing game.)
After our children’s pictures were publicized, a flood of comments and posts appeared. Commenters exclaimed at how beautiful this gay family was and congratulated my ex-husband and his new partner on the family that they “created.” But there is a significant person missing from those pictures: the mother and abandoned wife. That “gay family” could not exist without me.
As far as I know this story was ignored in the mainstream media. However, it was virulently attacked through the internet, and at the writer’s place of employment. Yesterday, this post was published at the Public Discourse blog of the Witherspoon Institute (which also published the original piece). It is a response to the hate campaign: “I will comment not only as a former child who was once all smiles in those pictures, but also as an academic, a woman, a mother, and a feminist.”

Here we learn that the un-named ex-husband and current sodomite put out his ex-wife’s full legal name on the internet so that she could be targeted for harassment.
For those of you who avoid the subterranean landscape of online same-sex parenting debates, it is useful to be introduced to Scott “Rose” Rosenzweig, a virulently misogynistic LGBT activist. As soon as Darnelle’s essay was published, Rose went into action, darting from the blog Good As You to other sites in an effort to destroy her personally. (Rose’s obsessive internet commenting has attracted attention at other news outlets as well.) […]
Janna Darnelle wrote under a pen name in order to protect her family. Unfortunately, her ex-husband’s comments helped Scott Rose embark on a campaign of harassment and intimidation.  


Rose even contacted her employer to get her fired.
Sadly, all of this conforms to a predictable pattern of attack. If you study the routine that plays out whenever Jeremy Hooper and Scott Rose conspire to take someone out, you will see seasoned patterns. Four steps comprise their usual character assassination.
First, they call the individual a liar and say the person’s existence cannot be verified without more data about him or her. Second, once Hooper and Rose have such data, they write to the person’s employer to get him or her fired or professionally destroyed. Third, if they cannot get the person fired, Hooper and Rose go after the family members. Fourth, if they cannot turn the person’s family against him or her, Hooper and Rose blast endless broadsides against the person, trying to make him or her feel afraid or unsafe at all times.
I have only pointed to a small portion of this amazing expose. It demonstrates that the incredible hate and intolerance displayed by homosexuals in public is only a small part of what they are capable of.

This second piece is more than a report on homosexual hate; it also dissects the values embodied in male homosexual advocacy. For example:
The “unfit mother” trope is very important to men like Hooper and Rose, because it helps justify taking women’s children, eggs, or the use of their uteri. Darnelle is right. Many families headed by gay male couples are built upon exploitation of women. Practically speaking, Jeremy Hooper, Scott Rose, and their compatriots have formed a men’s rights group that seeks to use women as breeders. These egg donors and surrogate mothers supply infants for a bustling market full of same-sex couples, for whom reproduction is naturally and biologically impossible.
In the name of equality, groups such as GLAAD (which employs Jeremy Hooper) have pushed through gender identity laws that have legally erased women. The term “woman” now legally can refer to the way that a man chooses to identify himself. Once women have been erased legally as a group and as individuals, it is not hard to erase “mothers.” This lends support to the practice of using one woman’s eggs and another woman’s womb to supply children for gay male couples, obscuring the concept of motherhood and making it seem dispensable. 


This is an interesting way to think of the phenomenon of men “coming out” after years of marriage, when a woman has lost her youth in part due to her willingness to bear a man’s children on the mistaken premise that he will stay true to her and them. He gets to satisfy the urge to reproduce and then goes off into a happy hunting ground of lawless sexual experiences. The ex-wife exists to give him the privilege of parenting part-time.
 

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Here’s Why I Think Rahm Emanuel’s Brother (“Dr. Death”) Is Full Of Crap

Obamacare Death Panels already coming true. Was Palin Right and Obama ...
oped: Since Dr.Death is like 57 now and in 18 years he will turn 75 providing he makes it...I'm thinking God may call him before the court of angels before he turns 58 being that 57 is backwards of 75...:) Careful of what you ask for Dr.Death God has very large ears! and your death panels/abortion goes against his plan for humanity! And by the way you better pray to your and Barack Obama's God Allah...maybe he will provide some really really old virgins for ya like 75 +++ ! 

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Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm’s brother, says that, all other things being equal, he’d just as soon die at age 75—in his case, 18 years from now.
My take on that is that he should go first.
Just like those jihadist “leaders” who tell their followers that it is a good idea to kill themselves with suicide vests because they will be rewarded in heaven with 72 virgins. 

They never seem to want to go first, either. Somehow, they’re too important to “the cause”.
What’s jarring about the article Emanuel wrote in this month’s Atlantic Monthly and the adoring TV interviews on the mainstream media is that this is the guy who, for all practical intents and purposes, designed that abortion waiting to happen, Obamacare.
These guys always talk and write in code.
They talk about “sustainability” and “end of life decisions” the same way animal “shelters” use the term “euthanizing” as opposed to “whacking” or “killing”. 


Now, my father lived until he was 86. He never met a candy bar he didn’t like, and he wasn’t a real fanatic at taking care of himself. The Mickey Mantle of college professors. According to my sister, who studies these things, his ancestors tended to live almost a decade longer, although his father was felled with a massive stroke when he was 67.
My father—until the last six months or so of his life—was in pretty good shape and, in general, a net contributor to society. Granted, he didn’t found any schools or television stations in the last 11 years of his life; but he did enjoy his retirement, his children, grandchildren, and his great grandchildren. He did have a sense of mortality. But he wasn’t as ready to check out until very near the end as Rambo’s brother says he will be at age 75.
Dr. Death-At-75 says that it is not true that 70 is the new 50.

Perhaps he’s a bit tetched (as Granny on “The Beverly Hillbillies” would have said) in the head.
When I was 50, I didn’t feel nearly as old as I was told I was supposed to feel. Most of my similarly aged friends didn’t either. When I turned 60, although I discovered that certain body parts need more frequent attention, I still couldn’t pass for the “senior citizen” the 60-year-olds saw themselves as in my youth. That was also the case for my similarly aged friends.
I remember watching Chris Wallace interview his father, the late Mike Wallace, on Fox News Sunday (a coup for Fox and a big ad for CBS News).
Near age 90, the great inquisitor told his son that getting old was not for sissies. When he was 75, he was as feared and as gifted as when he was 60. He died at 93.
For the World War Two greatest generation, that was a bit on the far side of normal; but I also saw an 86-year-old vet jump out of an airplane onto Utah Beach during the 70th anniversary of the Normandy invasion and tell the media that this jump was a lot easier than in 1944 because nobody was shooting at him.

Do you think he wanted to die at age 75?
Growing up with a background in engineering, I’m of the opinion that God puts a serial number plate on the back of your heart–and he certifies that heart for a specific number of beats. If, like my 1994 Ford Explorer, you can exceed that number (275,000 miles)—great!

If you can’t, trying is still a good thing.
Because aspiring is what man does. If we all decide that we want to be gone at 75, this would be a very dull world, indeed.
Which is why I believe that Rambo’s brother is either being disingenuous and is actually saying to do as he says and not as he will actually do himself, or he’s trying to create a black market in medicine by suggesting—as one of its inventors—that government healthcare will no longer do much for folks over 75.

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ON OBAMA HEALTH CARE PACKAGE

I’ll wait to see what Dr. Death-At-75 does in 18 years. Too bad there’s not a book in Las Vegas that could take my futures bet.

The Ghost In The White House


by:Derek Hunter  

There is a ghost in the White House, a spirit disconnected from this world, whisking from room to room, past staff, uninterested in their conversations. Unfortunately for us, the ghost is the president of the United States.
Barack Obama loves being president – the perks, the privilege, the pomp and circumstance. It’s the job that bores him. Unlike community organizing, the Illinois State Senate, or even the U.S. Senate, there’s only one president. They can’t just show up when they want or bleed into the background when they’d rather be doing other things.
President Obama loves the campaign trail. He performs a substance-free partisan attack speech written by snarky young staffers better than any recent occupant of the Oval Office. But those speechwriters aren’t serious people. They’re smartasses better suited for Twitter, not the seat of power. As such, when it comes to serious issues of foreign policy, the speeches give us nothing but vacant platitudes when what we need is serious thoughtfulness.

Ask yourself this: Have you heard Barack Obama deliver a serious, substantive foreign policy speech? Not a recap of what is already known, but a practical speech laying out principles, practical goals and the means by which to achieve them? Obama’s “ISIS strategy” speech last month was devoid of anything, even inspiring words, beyond what anyone who’d read a couple of Associated Press stories on the subject could’ve written.
A president knowledgeable and interested in the job and the subject would recognize this and demand others, maybe adults, craft a speech designed to inform and rally the American people to his side. Obama’s failure to do so shows either he doesn’t know or he doesn’t care.
Not knowing or not caring was on full display on Sunday when President Obama sat down with Steve Croft of 60 Minutes. When he was asked how ISIS managed to control so much without his knowing, and was it a surprise to him, Obama gave a very “Obama” answer.


“Well, I think our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper, has acknowledged that I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria,” he said.
Barack Obama didn’t fail; James Clapper and the intelligence community did.

Iraqi forces capture 30 villages east of Baghdad from Islamic State militants

Iraqi forces capture 30 villages east of Baghdad from Islamic State ...
Iraqi forces backed by Shi'ite volunteer fighters captured several villages from Islamic State fighters in eastern Baghdad Thursday, the Iraqi Ministry of Defense said. Deborah Lutterbeck reports. 



Iraqi forces capture 30 villages east of Baghdad from IS militants ...
forces have dislodged ISIL fighters from 16 villages east of Baghdad ...

'Gay' Judge Will Not Marry Heterosexual Couples but Don’t You try it!

 
[Hypocrisy anyone?]
Gay Texas judge Tonya Parker refuses to wed straight couples (VIDEO)
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You’ve read stories about business owners that will not serve same-sex couples when it comes to proving services for weddings. Bakeries, a photographer, a florist, and others have been sanctioned by the government because they would not participate in the charade of same-sex marriages. 
An Oregon couple has had to close their business because the state has made it impossible for them to do business because they will not serve same-sex couples who want to marry.
A bakery owner in Oregon broke down in tears while discussing the fallout of her and her husband’s decision not to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple on the basis of their Christian beliefs.
“Earlier this year, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries found ‘substantial evidence’ that Aaron and Melissa Klein, owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, discriminated against the lesbian couple.

“Oregon bakery owners face a $150,000 discrimination fine for not baking a wedding cake for lesbians.”
From this story we are learning that business owners are not permitted to refuse service to people with whom they disagree on lifestyle choices.
Are we to believe that a Muslim food shop that only sells Halal meats should be forced to sell pork?
Should restaurants be forced to sell Halal meats because Muslims are offended by non-Halal eateries in their neighborhood?
Should a black print shop be forced to print fliers for a KKK rally?
These are all common sense questions that demand a common sense answer. No.
But when it comes to anything homosexual, the rules change. People must comply or face severe financial hardship at the discretion of the government.

It is forbidden to discriminate against same-sex couples who want to marry, but it is perfectly legal for a homosexual to discriminate against heterosexual couples: 

“Catholic priests have refused to marry same-sex couples for years. Now a Texas judge has an answer to that, saying she will not marry straight couples until gay marriage is legal in the state.
“Judge Tonya Parker of Dallas County told the Dallas Voice that she respectfully tells couples why she can’t conduct their marriage ceremony: 
“‘I'm sorry. I don't perform marriage ceremonies because we are in a state that does not have marriage equality, and until it does, I am not going to partially apply the law to one group of people that doesn’t apply to another group of people.’
“The Lone Star state judge also points out that she is not required by law to perform marriages, as it was considered a ‘discretionary function’ that is not to interfere with ‘mandatory judicial duties.’” 

The double standard is duly noted.
Judge Tonya Parker understands the double standard she is promoting, so she offers the legal caveat “that she is not required by law to perform marriages.” She knows she can get away with this hypocrisy because people opposed to same-sex marriage would not want to pass a law that compelled her to marry anybody.
The problem is that there shouldn’t be a law forcing businesses to act contrary to their personal beliefs. Everybody should have this freedom.
Oregon and other states have passed laws, and that’s where the tyranny resides.
Do I object that this homosexual judge refuses to perform marriages because of her homosexual bias? Not at all. There are plenty of judges that will perform marriages.

The same should be true for homosexuals who are looking for vendors to service same-sex weddings. If you don’t find what you like in one business, then take your business elsewhere. People discriminate in their buying and selling decisions all the time for any number of reasons, and they are not penalized for it.
A business should go out of business because people decide not to do business with the business; it’s none of the government’s business who a business does or does not do business with.

 

Pentagon Official: Obama Is Lying About ISIS Intel

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Does anyone believe anything Obama ever says anymore?
Check it out:
“Pentagon Official: The President Is Lying to America — About Us, and About ISIS.” It’s written by a guy named as “Joseph Miller,” but Joseph Miller is the pen name. (For those of you in Rio Linda, that means he’s making this up. His name. He doesn’t want to reveal his real name.) “Joseph Miller is the pen name for a ranking Department of Defense official with a background in US special operations and combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has worked in strategic planning.”
He has written a piece, and to hide his identity, he has created a pen name. “On Sunday, Obama said the intelligence community had underestimated the rise of ISIS, saying in an interview with CBS, ‘Our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper, has acknowledged that, I think, they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria,'” close quote.

“But we know that isn’t true, as nearly a dozen administration officials have testified to the threat posed by ISIS publicly over the last year. … To mitigate the fallout, Earnest’s office issued a statement stating that, ‘…A lot of that [decision-making] was predicated on the will of the Iraqi security forces to fight for their country.’
“But this was also not true. In 2010, General Lloyd Austin, then-commander of United State Forces in Iraq, directly informed the president that over 20,000 US troops would be required to maintain the gains made by US forces against al-Qaida and its affiliates, and to mentor the fledgling Iraqi security forces — because he knew they were not ready to go out on their own.”
So here’s a guy working there who says Obama’s lying, making it all up. Everything Obama’s saying is a lie. The military, the intel people have told Obama exactly what the circumstances are, and the circumstances that have unfolded are exactly what he was told would happen as far back as four years ago. Obama pulls out of Iraq. He’s gotta get out to placate his lunatic fringe base.
Continue Reading on www.rushlimbaugh.com ...

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Gun Range Owner Declares Her Business A 'Muslim Free Zone'

Gun Range Owner Declares Her Business A 'Muslim Free Zone'

oped: Indeed and I stand with Jan Morgan totally...and for those who will claim she is discriminating against a religion known as Islam/Muslim I say to you...Islam is not a religion per se' it is a 7th Century Theocracy...so those who claim to be Muslim and follow Islam you can't have it both ways...Islam is not moderate by any stretch of the imagination you either follow the Qur'an and Hadith per Muhammad or not...If not you are not a Muslim and  do not follow Islam and should look for another religion to call home... Period end of story!
Let me bring you up to speed on the Myth of Islam~ read who and what Islam is all about...sorry no claim for a law suit as it is written and it is done!  (For the ACLU et al ambulance chasers)
SEE:
http://sharlaslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-life-and-times-of-muhammad_5191.html



Business Insider

Jan Morgan, owner of the Gun Cave Indoor Shooting Range in Hot Springs, Arkansas, published a note on her website Sunday declaring her intention to ban Muslims from her business. 
"The Gun Cave Indoor Shooting Range is now a a MUSLIM FREE ZONE," Morgan wrote.
Morgan, who describes herself as a "nationally recognized 2nd Amendment advocate," attributed her decision to the dangerous nature of her business. 
"This is a live fire indoor shooting range. People come here to buy, rent, and shoot lethal weapons," wrote Morgan. "In the range, people are shooting guns in close proximity to each other, so my patrons depend on me and my discretion regarding who I allow to shoot beside them. One mistake in judgement on my part could cost innocent people their lives." 

Morgan, who did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, went on to list the reasons she believes it would be poor judgement to allow Muslims at her gun range. She cited past experiences she claimed to have had with Muslims, terrorist acts committed by jihadist groups, and verses in the Koran that she said advocate violence against non-Muslims. 
"I understand that not all muslims [sic] are terrorists. I also believe there are as many Muslims who do not know what is in their Koran as there are Christians who do not know what is in their Bible," explained Morgan. "Since I have no way of discerning which muslims will or will not kill in the name of their religion and the commands in their koran…I choose to err on the side of caution for the safety of my patrons."
Rita Sklar, executive director of the ACLU in Arkansas told Business Insider Morgan's declaration is "illegal."
"It's unconstitutional, it's illegal under the Civil Rights Act. It's a violation of the right to religious liberty," said Sklar. 


The White House Won’t Meet With Marines But They Will Meet With Beyonce!

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Obama doesn’t have time to talk to the “serfs” of America, but he sure does have time for Beyonce and Jay-Z to come over. Check it out…
There was a time in America where a citizen could walk right up and knock on the door of the White House. After all, it was the peoples’ house- the president is supposed to work for us.

According to a report from conservativetribune.com, to raise awareness of the plight of Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, an American citizen who lingers in a Mexican prison due to a simple mistake where he accidentally brought firearms into the country, two former Marines, Terry Sharpe and Allen Brown, traveled hundreds of miles.

Sharpe walked from Summerfield, N.C., and was joined by and was joined by Brown of Danville, Va. The two walked the hundreds of miles and arrived at the White House and were accompanied by a police escort and many who followed their example and walked in a showing of solidarity with Sgt. Tahmooressi.
The two Vietnam veterans, who were strangers before the trek, were denied entry to the White House and were not permitted to speak with the President. No official greeted the duo, either.
Read more: TPNN

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Muslim Attacks Street Preacher – TampaPD Cite Preacher for Battery

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The following video is how Islamists press their hegemony on society, through violence. Yes, this is the true face of the "religion of peace." In a video captured at a Lady Gaga concert in 2011, a team of street preachers were violently attacked by a Muslim.   

While the Muslim attempted to shout them down, the preachers were unwilling to bend to the follower of Mohamed.
Unable to exercise self-control, the Islamists continued his bullying tactics, finally pushing up against one of the men holding a couple of signs. When the man would not back down, the Muslim head butted him in the face, breaking his cap and causing blood to pour from his mouth.



The preacher speaking through a bullhorn then wrapped the Muslim up in a headlock and it was about to be "WWF time," until the Tampa police, who were watching the entire episode stopped directing traffic to deal with the issue.
The Muslim man was told to leave. However, the video later demonstrated that he did not do so and eventually was handcuffed and arrested.
However, the man who was attacked was then charged with battery by the police officer and given an option to either sign a citation to that effect or go to jail. The man signed the citation.

The officer would not view the video, claiming that he saw the entire thing. If that was true, then he should not have been citing the Christians at all.
Kudos to the men who stood their ground against this Islamic devil!
According to the video's description:

This may be a bad thing but what is worse is the way the police handled the attack. They actually charge the Christian with battery. They would not view the video nor did they talk to any of the witnesses. Here is the video you be the judge and then call the Tampa police department and tell them to drop these trumped up charges and do their job properly. Case # 11-217735, ORI# 0290200 The (I hate to give him this title) police officers name and badge number are Kevin Krupa Badge # 565.
Here is their number (813) 242-3800
You can also call the Chief of Police 813-276-3799
Or the Mayor at 813-274-8251
More of this will come as demographics of Muslims grow (To see what's coming if it is not stopped, take a look at the UK). And since there are no "moderate" Muslims, those who have remained silent will eventually join them. I'm with my friend Tom Wise on things like this: It's time for a beatdown, and I'm not speaking metaphorically here.

Barack Obama: “Wherever I Go…People Always Tell Me I’m So Great”

(A gaunt, sickly-looking Barack Obama addressing the Congressional Black Caucus this weekend.) 

via: DW Ulsterman
As odd, uncomfortable, and downright strange it is to watch and hear someone say such a thing, it is even more troubling to view how he says it. There’s something very “off” in this man’s eyes.  Perhaps it is terrible fatigue and/or stress, perhaps something else. The voice is strained, out of breath, the eyes distant and glassy,  Whatever is going on, it is concerning to have anyone looking and sounding like this, let alone the President of the United States… 




Monday, September 29, 2014

New York Fusion Center Declares Oath Keepers, Other Liberty Groups as ‘Extremist Threats’

... in the near term,” a New York state counterterrorism bulletin warns
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oped: This is exactly why we have such a problem dealing with terrorism at home as well as abroad since the DHS was established and IMO a very bad idea which has come to fruition.
Being that instead of using resources to investigate and keep track of deadly radical Islamist organizations DHS and it's offshoots use their power and resources to harass patriots which only have the best interest of the USA as their goal. It appears as if the Obama administration is abusing the power of this agency to achieve the radical Obama agenda. 
Congress needs to defund,disband and abolish the DHS and return power to individual agencies as they were  prior to the formation of this agency. It is always a bad idea to have one umbrella agency having control of all individual agencies as abuse of power will always follow when individual checks and balances are removed! 

Addendum: side note: Hitler formed his own Homeland Security agency it was called SA then later the infamous SS...if you get the drift it appears as if the DHS is following the SS in it's tactics of controlling the population through dis-information and branding dissenters as criminals of the state...need I really say more?


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The New York State Intelligence Center — a known Fusion Center with the stated purpose to, "collect, evaluate, analyze, and disseminate information and intelligence data regarding criminal and terrorist activity relevant to New York State" — issued a Counter Terrorism Bulletin last June identifying Oath Keepers in addition to other liberty related groups as "far-right extremist group and/or a threat to law enforcement."  

Here is a portion of a statement released by Oath Keepers yesterday:
On August 11, 2014, the New York Oath Keepers sent out correspondence to both the Governor and the Superintendent of the New York State Police clearly pointing out the New York State Intelligence Center's faulty logic and misstatements of fact that were used to politically demonize the New York Oath Keeper organization whose clearly stated nonpartisan mission is simply to encourage our Military and Law Enforcement Officers, and others, to honor their oaths to the United States and New York State Constitutions.

In that correspondence, we requested that the officials at the NYSIC issue a public correction, indicating their error in classifying New York Oath Keepers as a far-right extremist group and/or a threat to law enforcement. We also requested a meeting with the Governor, the Superintendent of the New York State Police and/or officials from other NYSIC member organizations, so we could address any misinformation and misunderstandings about the New York Oath Keepers mission. We told them that It is our goal to see this extremely prejudicial "far-right extremist" label retracted and the necessary corrections made to the Bulletin.
A month and a half has passed, and neither the Governor nor the Superintendent of the New York State Police has seen fit to even reply to our original correspondence.
So, today the New York Oath Keepers, an organization consisting of thousands of active duty and retired military, police and fire personnel, who have at one or more times in their lives taken an Oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, sent them a second letter. We also sent a letter to the Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Office of the FBI, as they are also key members of the NYSIC.

The full statement is up on the official Oath Keepers site here which includes copies of all letters (including the latest) sent to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Some 58 fusion centers were created by the Department of Homeland Security in the wake of 9/11, supposedly to help fight terrorism through local data intelligence gathering. This is not the first time that one of these fusion centers has criminalized anyone outspoken against tyrannical government control and the destruction of the Constitution of the United States and the rights of the American people.

The Missouri Information Analysis Center, or MIAC, which Fox News describes as, "a government collective that identifies the warning signs of potential domestic terrorists for law enforcement communities," identified Constitutional militia members and even Ron Paul supporters as potential terrorists.
Oath Keepers, meanwhile, is a nonpartisan group made up of current and formerly serving military, police, and first responders who have pledged simply to fulfill the oath all military and police take — to "defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic." [emphasis added]

It's that part about Oath Keepers standing up to defend the law of this land, our Constitution — something Homeland Security has been actively destroying since its inception with leaked DHS training videos referring to America's founding fathers as domestic terrorists and ludicrous actions like the creation of "100-mile inland Constitution-free zone" checkpoints around the nation's border, that seems to be the real issue here.
Branding liberty minded groups and those that would stand up for our rights and the Constitution as potential domestic terrorist threats is essentially branding them as criminals, setting them up under a dubious legal framework, and paving the way to make government dissent a crime.
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Developing: ISIS Advances To Within One Mile Of Baghdad… Obama's Plan Not Working At All...

 ... of Dallah Abbas, 35 miles outside of Baghdad, Iraq on Jun 28, 2014
How ISIS is Winning in Iraq: The Mongols and Seige of Baghdad 2.0
[How ISIS is Winning in Iraq: The Mongols and Seige of Baghdad 2.0]
 oped: If this information is accurate...where pray tell are the US,UK,France,UAE,Saudi Arabia and Jordan Air Force ? They have massed in order  to have such a overwhelming impact...sitting ducks for a Air Strike in mass!

Via Daily Mail:
Fierce fighting has been reported on the outskirts of Baghdad where ISIS militants are attempting to seize control of the Iraqi capital – despite ongoing Western airstrikes against the terror group.
The fighting is taking place just one mile to the west of the city, with government forces desperately trying to hold off the militants, who allegedly killed up to 1,000 soldiers during clashes yesterday.
ISIS have held a number of towns and villages close to the Iraqi capital since earlier in the year, when government troops melted away following a lightning advance in the west of the country – enabling the terrorist group to seize further swaths of territory for their so-called caliphate.
Reports that ISIS militants are now just one mile from Baghdad came from the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East – an organisation supporting the work of Canon Andrew White, vicar of the city’s St George’s Church, the only Anglican church in Iraq.
In a message posted on Facebook, the group said: ‘The Islamic State are now less than 2km away from entering Baghdad. They said it could never happen and now it almost has.

Battle against Islamic State creates new alliances



oped: Just *SMH* and a 'Never ending Story' continues : The 'Ottoman Empire' (Star Wars) the old sequel continues for a 4 star rating amongst the MSM...and the world at large! 

Associated Press

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — On a recent evening, two of Jordan's top pro-al-Qaida ideologues held court on the rooftop of a villa decorated with strings of lights. Sporting shaggy beards and robes, the Muslim preachers whispered to each other and rose occasionally from plastic chairs to greet supporters.

It would have been hard to picture such a scene just a few months ago, with Abu Qatada and Abu Mohammed al-Maqdisi then being held in Jordanian prisons on security charges. But Jordan's priorities appear to have shifted because of the mounting threat posed by the Islamic State group, an al-Qaida offshoot that has seized large areas of neighboring Syria and Iraq, sending shivers through the kingdom.

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Abu Qatada and al-Maqdisi have denounced some of the group's practices as un-Islamic — comments some analysts say have turned the preachers into assets in Jordan's campaign to contain the Islamic State, which is believed to have attracted thousands of followers in the country. Authorities say their release from prison — al-Maqdisi in June and Abu Qatada after an acquittal last week — had nothing to do with politics.
But the clerics' outspokenness points to ways the U.S.-led fight against the group is upending old assumptions in the Middle East. At the core of issue: the Islamic State group is viewed by some regional players as an existential threat, creating an unlikely mix of allies and reshaping regional priorities. 

Longtime foes such as the United States and Iran now find themselves fighting a common enemy, as do Iraq's Arabs and Kurds — who rarely agree on much. Squabbling Arab states, such as Qatar and its Gulf neighbors, have at least temporarily put aside their differences in the fight against the militants.
One-time rivals "view the Islamic State through a similar lens, that it represents a threat to their national security interests," said Fawaz Gerges, a London-based expert on Islamic movements.
"This tells you the extent to which the Islamic State has really reconfigured regional security and global security," he added. 

The coalition has quickly grown since the U.S. first launched airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Iraq on Aug. 8, followed by bombardments in Syria that began Sept. 21.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Jordan have participated in attacks in Syria, while Qatar hosts an air base used by the coalition. France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium and Britain are among European countries contributing to U.S. efforts to hit the Islamic State group in Iraq. 

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Jordan have participated in attacks in Syria, while Qatar hosts an air base used by the coalition. France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium and Britain are among European countries contributing to U.S. efforts to hit the Islamic State group in Iraq.
The shakeup of alliances is perhaps most dramatic in Syria, ravaged by a civil war between President Bashar Assad's troops and Sunni Muslim-led rebels, including Islamic State fighters and al-Qaida's local branch, the al-Nusra front.
A year ago, the Obama administration appeared on the verge of striking government targets in Syria after blaming Assad for a deadly chemical weapons attack on rebel-held areas outside Damascus. Now Assad stands to benefit from U.S.-led airstrikes that are hitting some of his most ruthless enemies while, for now, staying clear of his fighters. 

Saudi Arabia and Qatar, among the most active supporters of the armed opposition seeking to topple Assad, are now part of the coalition that appears to be helping him militarily, even if unintentionally. How long they are willing to do so is unclear.
"The coalition is being held together by American resolve, determination and leadership. But we shouldn't take it for granted," said Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar. 

Qatar's participation in the coalition is significant. It has been under mounting political pressure over its backing of Islamist groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, its ties with Hamas, which fought a 50-day war with Israel this summer, and for not doing more to stamp out private funding for extremist groups. 

It now finds itself allied with three Gulf neighbors who pulled their ambassadors from the country earlier this year to protest Qatar's perceived regional meddling and support for Islamists. While the diplomats haven't been formally reinstated, it appears the Islamic State threat is now a more pressing concern.
"This is helping to push the GCC (alliance of six Gulf states) together against the Sunni extremists in Syria," said Theodore Karasik, an analyst at the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis.
Jordanian government spokesman Mohammad al-Momani predicted a long fight against the Islamic State militants.
"They have been trying to infiltrate into our borders, and therefore the threat is there," he said. "We will continue until we achieve our objective of degrading and finishing the terrorist organization." 

The new counterterrorism fight isn't prompting the Obama administration to ease efforts against other long-term threats to the United States. Washington is still pushing for a nuclear deal with Iran and targeting the financing of Hezbollah and Hamas.
But shifting the priority to destroying the Islamic State group is creating new opportunities for indirect collaboration, even with sworn enemies.
U.S. and Iranian officials have held discussions on counteracting the Sunni extremists, although they deny direct cooperation. 

In a sign of the overlap of Iranian and U.S. interests, Iran last week said one of the Islamic Republic's most senior generals and 70 Iranian soldiers helped Kurdish fighters defend Irbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq that has been a focus of the American military. The city is home to a U.S. consulate and offices of numerous Western companies, and the approach of Islamic State militants to its outskirts prompted American airstrikes in August.
Lebanon's powerful, Iranian-backed Shiite Hezbollah militia has used the threat posed by the Islamic State to justify fighting in Syria, alongside Assad's forces. After sending fighters to Syria last year, Hezbollah had faced mounting criticism at home that it was dragging the country into the civil war there.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah now argues that Hezbollah's actions have prevented Islamic State militants from overrunning Lebanon. 

The new regional climate also helped refocus Egypt's relations with the West on the issue of terrorism, a conversation President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi appears more comfortable with than Washington's concerns about human rights violations resulting from his domestic crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.
El-Sissi deposed an elected president from the Brotherhood last year and has tried to portray his move against the group as a model for fighting terrorism. Washington remains critical of Cairo, but observers believe the ties between the two are improving.
Some in the Arab coalition say they are engaged in an existential battle.
"What we are fighting is not just a terrorist organization, but the embodiment of a malicious ideology that must be defeated intellectually," the vice president and prime minister of the Emirates, Dubai ruler Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, wrote in an opinion piece Sunday. 

"I consider this ideology to be the greatest danger that the world will face in the next decade," he said.
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Schreck reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Associated Press writers Bassem Mroue and Diaa Hadid in Beirut, Bradley S. Klapper in Washington and Maggie Michael in Cairo contributed to this report.