Watcher’s Council Nominations – Global Warming Edition

Global Warming Hits Michigan…

Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday morning.

Council News:

This week, Ask Marion, The Blue Ridge Forum, The Pirate’s Cove and The Independent Sentinel earned honorable mention status with some great articles.

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• Liberty’s Spirit – New York City: Melting Pot or Plantation
• The Noisy Room – New York Gets The Communist Leader It Deserves
• Rhymes With Right – Archdiocese Of New York Explains What’s Wrong With ObamaCare Birth Control Mandate Intransigence
• Joshuapundit - Al-Qaeda Wins A Major Victory Over The Iraqi Army
• Simply Jews – PressTV, Gordon Duff and Quenelle
• The Political Commentator – An Amsterdam good time is giving beer to alcoholics!
• The Colossus of Rhodey – Merely saying “I’m not gay” isn’t enough
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Losing Iraq
• The Right Planet – All Incandescent Light Bulbs Declared ‘Enemies of the State’
• Bookworm Room – Solidarity with the nuns — a tipping point moment?
• Nice Deb – Video: Priests for Life Wins Emergency Relief From HHS mandate
• The Glittering Eye - Chicago’s Public Pension Problem
• VA Right! - Obamacare Targets Women: Pregnant Women Forced to Pay In Full BEFORE Delivery
• The Razor – The Entitlement Mindset
• The Mellow Jihadi – Business ethics & credibility BZ…

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion – Election 2014 and 2016… All Sewn-Up or the Battle(s) for Americas Life
• Blue Ridge Forum – Stop The President’s Lawlessness Before It Stops Us
• The Pirate’s Cove – Good Grief: Cold Weather Events More Likely Due To “Climate Change”
• The Independent Sentinel – Obama Administration’s Hostile Takeover of the Little Sisters of the Poor

Non-Council Submissions

• Sandra Stotsky/WSJ – Common Core Doesn’t Add Up to STEM Success submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
• Matthew Vadum/FrontPage Mag – Comrade De Blasio Takes Over submitted by The Noisy Room
• Red State – Why Faith submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Powerline – Rachel Maddow Is Crazy, Too submitted by Joshuapundit
• The Sad Red Earth – Wrong on Both Counts: Academic Boycotts and Israel submitted by Simply Jews
• American Thinker - Leftist Jew-Hatred: From Marx to Dieudonne submitted by The Political Commentator
• National Affairs – The Brooklyn Burkeans submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• War On The Rocks – It’s an Anbar Thing submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Bleeding Heart Libertarians – Immigration, Eugenics, and the Minimum Wage submitted by The Right Planet
• Andrew McCarthy/NRO - Down the Times’ Benghazi Rabbit Hole submitted by Bookworm Room
• John Sexton, The Conversation - Now It Can Be Told: Obamacare Paves the Way for Single Payer submitted by Nice Deb
• Sean Davis/The Federalist – “Sorry, Comrade, But You Didn’t Just Discover The Secret To Making Communism Work” submitted by The Glittering Eye
• The Other McCain – Al Gore and the Big Climate Lie submitted by VA Right!
• Megan McArdle – Another Problem Obamacare Won’t Solve: Health Costs submitted by The Razor
• JustOneMinute – Obama Quit In Afghanistan submitted by Watcher

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The Wrap at Ask Marion 12.29.13 Thru 1.05.14

Our weekly wrap… Sunday to Sunday… Please share! Ask Marion

Quote of the Week: “Only in America can you find a movement of People who aren’t satisfied with the Freedom they have to Believe or Not Believe, but rather have to go on the attack against the beliefs of others.”

The Atheist War on Christmas and Religious Freedom – WoC 2013/14

Read this normally… and then read it again from the bottom up.

•  An American Depression: Extreme Haircut Edition
• The Council Has Spoken!! This Weeks’ Watchers’ Council Results Posted 01.03.14
• The Atheist War on Christmas and Religious Freedom – WoC 2013/14
• Iraqi Army Shells Fallujah As Street Fights Rage In Ramadi
• Eleven AGs slam Obama’s healthcare fixes; Greg Abbot says Obama is acting like a king
• Alert: Rand Paul Sues Obama… Join Class Action Suit
• Welfare Warpath
• War on Christmas is really part of war on-going religion – WoC 2013/14
• Krauthammer on Obama: "The Great Irony…He Has Created the Greatest Inequality"
• Sandy Hook Elementary Now Leveled…
• Election 2014 and 2016… All Sewn-Up or the Battle(s) for Americas Life
• Obama’s Top Violations of the U.S. Constitution
• RUSH: Every Problem That Exists In New York Derives From Liberalism
• Sarah Palin: "The Eyes Of The Nation Are Really Opening Up"
• Recapping 2013 with Strategies for 2014 and Beyond
• The Twelve Days of Christmas – WoC 2013
• New York Gets The Communist Leader It Deserves
• Watcher’s Council Nominations – Snappy Happy New Year Edition
• Where Do We Go from Here America? Will there be Anything Left?
• New Year 2014 – 2013 Wrap – AskMarion WoC Series
• Watcher’s Forum: What Are Your Predictions For 2014?
• Willie and Korie Robertson Joins Fox’s New Years Eve Special 12-31- 2013
• Happy New Year 2014 From Ask Marion
• Progressive Racism and Stupidity Know No Bounds
• New Years Eve – WoC 2013 
• Rep. Trey Gowdy: New York Times Doing PR Work For Hillary, White House On Benghazi
• Inside TAO… NSA Intercepts Your Mail
• Everyone Has at Least One Book in Them, Between Christmas and New Years is a Good Time to Start Yours – WoC 2013
• The Wrap at Ask Marion 12.22.13 Thru 12.29.13

Also See:

• HEALTHCARE REFORM'S FIRST BIG TEST 
• Here comes Obama’s solution to the disastrous Affordable Care Act: National Health Care a.k.a. the Single Payer System 
• Eight Ways to Opt Out of ObamaCare -> Ron Paul Says It Will Totally Self-Destruct 
• Happy New Year 2014 From True Health Is True Wealth
• How The Grinch Stole Healthcare
• Are Young Americans Signing Up For Obamacare? 
• Iditarod Trail Race Headquarters, Palin and Alaskan Tourism
• Conga Dog Project [photo] 
• Lucy Pet Foundation’s Rose Parade float promotes pet spay/neuter – Features Daniel 
• Happy New Year 2014 From Just One More Pet
• Some Fun Christmas Pet Photos From 2013 and Years Past
• Dogs slaughtered for meat in Vietnam… Stop the Dog Meat Trade
• Stop the Pain… Get-Involved and Speak Up Whenever You Suspect Abuse, Of Any Kind
• True Meaning Of Family – Stray Cat Takes Day-Old Puppy Off The Streets

Book of the Week – Lethal Engagement

“The Iraq/Afghani War Has Cost Nearly 3-Trillion Dollars and 51,778 U.S. Casualties, Including 4489 Killed…” So Why Would We Have Pulled Out Against the Advice of All The Leadership and Troops on the Ground?  It Makes No Sense!

Full constitutional rights for foreign Islamic terrorist detainees. Apologies to the Muslim world for American 'misdeeds,' and promises to make amends even if the security of the American people is placed in peril. Welcoming radical Muslim sympathizers into high positions of authority. Abridging freedom of expression. And much, much more. Lethal Engagement documents how in these and other ways President Barack Hussein Obama has forsaken the oath of office he took to 'preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.' Lethal Engagement exposes how radical Muslims are re-branding their barbaric ideology to fool their gullible audience in the West and how they play the racism victim card, all with President Obama's help. Lethal Engagement systematically lays out the dangerous entanglement of Obama with the United Nations, which radical Muslims are manipulating to promulgate international law to their liking, and how his nomination of more activist judges willing to throw away the Constitution allows radical Muslims to subvert American law. Lethal Engagement also reveals the radical Muslim plan to destroy the value of the dollar and use the United Nations to replace it with a new global reserve currency, all helped along by the Obama administration's disastrous economic policies. After connecting all these dots, Joseph Klein explains the steps 'we the people' must take to rescue our country.

Iraqi Army Shells Fallujah As Street Fights Rage In Ramadi

Fallujah falls fully into hands of al-Qaida group 

McCain, Graham blast Obama for Al Qaeda-related takeover of ...

 

We are living in amazing times, good and bad, the kind of times that truly try men’s (and women’s) souls and that make or break countries and shape (or reshape) societies. Please get involved, pray for guidance, prepare for the worst (for yourself and to help others), then educate yourself and share what you learn with as many people as you can. All our futures depend on it!!

Be sure to come visit us here at Ask Marion regularly and subscribe to receive the latest posts first… as well as visit: Just One More Pet, True Health Is True Wealth!!, Knowledge Is Power, and the Daily Thought Pad.

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Obama’s ring: ‘There is no god but Allah’

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"America's Mama Grizz!" - Wild Bill [video]

Video:  "America's Mama Grizz!" -  Wild Bill

Listen up… Palin is one classy yet tough American woman who defeated the left wing media smear machine and gives hope for good men and women everywhere to run for office.

“By the Way… If you want to save this country, don’t even consider Chris Christie or Paul Ryan as a presidential candidate, Republicans; it’s time to get real America, it’s time to focus and create the opportunity for Truth to be heard. How? By speaking it and not shrinking back from the PC liars!”  …PBN  (And Democrats, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden are just variations of what we have had for the past 5-years who were involved in all the scandals and screw-ups in Obamaland!)

“It is also time to stop listening to the propaganda that has been fed us, over and over again, by the Progressives on both sides, by the RINOs and Establishment Republicans and by the ruling elite which includes the mainstream media whose job it is to inform the public and report the truth of what is going on without bias… not to work hand-in-hand with one side or the other and spout their opinions instead of facts without noting that they are editorializing!”

Sarah Palin is a contender and she could win in 2016 if we, the American people, wake-up, stand-up and really want to turn things around!!  We all need to educate ourselves and share the truth about Palin, the Tea Party and other patriots under attack including Ted Cruz, Mile Lee, Rand Paul, and anyone else who stands up to the entrenched beltway politicians, as well as educate everyone about the Progressive media! We need a million more Sarah Palins to stand-up, to step-up and to stand with her!!

 Sarah Palin: The Undefeated

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Watcher’s Council Nominations – Snow In The Holy Land Edition

Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday.

Council News:

This week, AskMarion, The Optimistic Conservative, Maggie’s Notebook and The Pirate’s Cove earned honorable mention status with some excellent articles.

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• Liberty’s Spirit – 6-Year-old Suspended for Kissing a Girl: Too Much, Yet Not Enough
• The Noisy Room – Inside the Empire of Horror
• The Political Commentator – The Ghost of Obamacare Yet to Come: UK healthcare in shambles!
• The Razor – The Keys to the Kingdom Should Not Be Available to the Peasants
• Simply Jews – Obama’s handshake with Raul Castro: the alternatives
• Joshuapundit - “American Betrayal”.. A Review
• The Mellow Jihadi – Fargham, Iranian space monkey (& friends)
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – War Weary Myth
• The Colossus of Rhodey – “Horrible person”
• Rhymes With Right – A Dozen Candidates In Congressional District 36 GOP Primary
• Nice Deb – ObamaCare Whistleblower: I was Told IRS Harassment ‘Came From The Top’ (Audio)
• The Glittering Eye - The Reality Sinks In
• The Right Planet – I Don’t Believe In Defeat
• VA Right! - Snowden Revisited: Hero or Zero Now?
• Bookworm Room – To sell their ideas, conservatives must first re-train Americans to recognize their humanity

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion – Still Think There Is No War on Christmas - WoC 2013
• Maggie’s Notebook – IRS Targeting Now ‘Reverse-Engineered’ to Isolate, Shut Down TEA Party: Clintons See Limitless Future
• The Optimistic Conservative – Biofuels for defense: Cronyism and the banality of evil
• The Pirate’s Cove – The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug – My Take

Non-Council Submissions

• David Gerstman/Le.gal In.sur.rec.tion – Al Qaeda is on the Run …to Everywhere submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
• Allen West – Maybe we need Michelle “Death Stare” Obama to negotiate with Iran submitted by The Noisy Room
• Mises Institute - Starvation and Military Keynesianism: Lessons from Nazi Germany submitted by The Political Commentator
• Phyllis Chessler – Beneath the burqa — a bruised and badly beaten teenager submitted by The Razor
• Martin In The Margins – Understanding the new Christian anti-Zionism: Part 1 submitted by Simply Jews
• David P. Goldman/ PJ Media – It’s About the Settlements, Stupid submitted by Joshuapundit
• Althouse – “National Security Agency officials are considering a controversial amnesty that would return Edward Snowden to the United States…” submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• House Of Marathon – Courting a Nemesis Out of Necessity: An Israeli-Saudi Alliance submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Cato @ Liberty – The Constitution Still Applies on College Campuses submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• David Bernstein/Volokh COnspiracy – Is Refusing to Provide Commercial Services for a Circumcision Discrimination against Jews? submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Truth Revolt - Unions Paid MSNBC’s Schultz $177,000 in 2012, $75,000 in 2013 submitted by Nice Deb
• Bob Tisdale/Watts Up With That? – Open Letter to the Executive Producers of YEARS of LIVING DANGEROUSLY submitted by The Glittering Eye
• David J. Shestokas – Natural Law and the Legitimate Authority of the United States submitted by The Right Planet
• FOX News – Tax-exempt academic group’s boycott of Israel draws fire submitted by VA Right!
• National Journal - Politics trumped policy, truth for Obama’s reelect submitted by Bookworm Room
• Camille Paglia – It’s a Man’s World, and It Always Will Be submitted by The Watcher
• War Is Boring – ‘Ender’s Game’ and Maneuver Warfare submitted by Watcher

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The Council Has Spoken!! This Weeks’ Watcher’s Council Results – 12/13/13

The House Passed the Ryan-Murray Budget, 332-94

The Budget Deal’s Sneaky Tax Increases

Boehner Attacks Conservative Groups

Boehner Declares War on the American People

It’s war! Senate gears up for epic battle as ZERO Republicans line up to support budget agreement (and Democrats need to find at least five) 

Breitbart Exclusive -- Palin: Read My Lipstick: No New Taxes

The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match-up.

“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” – Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar”

“By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.” – Adolf Hitler on media

“What difference does it make?” – Hillary Rodham Clinton, Benghazi hearings

This week’s winner, Joshuapundit’s The Mixed Legacy Of Nelson Mandela, is my obituary for South African leader Nelson Mandela, whose death literally sparked an orgy of amnesia as both media and politicians rushed to worship at his altar. However, as I point out, his legacy was extremely mixed and comparisons to men like Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, were ludicrous. Here’s a slice:

Former South African leader Nelson Mandela has passed away at the age of 95, from complications resulting from a lung infection.

Since he was essentially a secular saint, the hagiographies, the emotional tributes and the kicky sound bites will be in abundance. His place in history is assured, because like other secular saints, burning incense and making offerings at his altar is seen to confer virtue on the worshiper, especially if they’re white.

Nelson Mandela was an important figure in contemporary history, no doubt. But who was Nelson Mandela really? What did he accomplish? What is his legacy?

That’s a more complicated and nuanced story that you’re unlikely to hear about much in the medias frenzy over the next week or so. Because it doesn’t quite fit the script for a secular saint. And the complexity can be imagined when you learn that Mandela was the proud recipient of both the U.S. Medal of Freedom awarded to him by President Obama and the Order of Lenin, given to him by the Soviet Union, hardly a bastion of freedom or even simple human decency.

Certainly, he looked and sounded like a secular saint. A member of a family of Xhosa royalty, his tall, dignified bearing and his measured speech could almost have been cooked up by a Hollywood casting agent.

Nelson Mandela was born in Mvezo, a small village in the eastern part of South Africa’s cape province. Coming from a prominent family , he received excellent schooling in South Africa’s best schools so he could work as a councilor for the the Xhosa’s Thembu royal house. He later attended University of Fort Hare, an elite black institution in Alice, Eastern Cape. There he first got his political indoctrination in anti-colonialism and his introduction to Marxism. Traveling to Johannesburg in 1941, he first ran into the African National Congress in the person of Walter Sisulu, then a member of the fledgling African National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). In Johannesburg, Mandela was taken under the wing of Lazar Sidelsky, a Left wing Jewish lawyer sympathetic to the ANC and a partner in the law firm of Witkin, Sidelsky and Eidelman, who gave Nelson Mandela a job as a law clerk.

In those days,the ANC was essentially a non-violent social justice movement that lobbied for black rights and engaged in local politics. However, like many similar organizations in the West, it had been targeted by the Soviet Comintern and was already infiltrated by members of the CPSA as well as by actual Soviet agents.

While the evidence is mixed over whether Nelson Mandela ever joined the communist party, he frequently attended their meetings, and many of his closest associates, like Lionel ‘Rusty’ Bernstein, Joe Slovo, the long-time leader of the CPSA, his wife Ruth First, Gaur Redebe, Walter Sisulu and Nat Bregman definitely were, and some of them might have been actual Soviet agents. All of them were under ‘party discipline just as American communists were, which meant that their marching orders came directly from the Comintern and the Kremlin, no deviations allowed. Many members of CPSA became part of the ANC and the CPSA is still a part of the ANC’s political coalition today. Mandela’s openly expressed admiration and later friendship for communist dictators, his views on nationalization of South Africa’s major industries and government redistribution of wealth and his subsequently receiving the Order of Lenin from the Soviets shows that at best, he was a communist sympathizer.

After South Africa’s 1948 general election, the Afrikaner-led Herenigde Nasionale Party took power, uniting with the Afrikaner Party to form the National Party. They implemented the system of racial segregation known as apartheid. Mandela and his supporters were able to depose the existing ANC President Alfred Bitini Xuma at that time, who favored non-violence in seeking black civil rights and was an open anti-Communist. As Mandela wrote later in his memoirs, “We had now guided the ANC to a more radical and revolutionary path.”

In 1955, Mandela finally went fully over to the idea of using terrorism as as a political tool, or as he put it, the ANC “had no alternative to armed and violent resistance. ” In this, he was greatly influenced by his open admiration of the tactics of Mao Tse Tung and Fidel Castro.

In fact, the first ‘revolutionary’ act of Mandela’s was to send communist party apparatchnik and ANC member Walter Sisulu to the People’s Republic of China to obtain weapons. The PRC turned Mandela down, officially because they felt the ANC was not prepared for Mao-style guerilla warfare, but perhaps more likely because they were already deeply involved in arming and training the Viet Minh in their attempt to overthrow the Diem government in South Vietnam and similar operations with groups like the Pathet Lao elsewhere in South East Asia. They also likely underestimated Mandela and the ANC’s ability to win a war where resupply would be so difficult and no communist-controlled havens were nearby.

However, Mandela and the ANC began to collect whatever weapons and explosives they could get hold of and prepare for armed struggle on their own,while continuing to work on political agitation against the apartheid regime.

It was at this time that Mandela, inspired by Castro’s guerilla groups like 26th of July Movement and the Viet Minh founded his own terrorist elite, Umkhonto we Sizwe (“Spear of the Nation”, abbreviated as MK) with communists Walter Sisulu and Joe Slovo. The MK made their debut with 57 bombings on Dingane’s Day (16 December) 1961, followed by further attacks on New Year’s Eve.MK killed civilians and military alike, and two of their more famous operations were the Church Street bombing and the Magoo’s Bar bombing, both of which targeted civilians and were designed for maximum carnage..

The MK and an ANC group run by Mandela’s wife Winnie called the “Mandela United Football Club” were also responsible for the murder, torture and kidnapping of both whites and black political opponents and their families who opposed ‘armed struggle’. Much of this came out through Mandela’s own Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which investigated crimes committed under apartheid by both the government and the ANC. The 1998 findings of that investigation were suppressed by President Mandela.

Winnie Mandela is credited with introducing the practice of using necklacing (see video), forcing a gas or oil soaked tire over the head and shoulders to pin the arms of the victim and then lighting it on fire.Her quote? “With our matches and our necklaces we will liberate this country.” She has never served a day in jail, and still sits on the ANC executive committee.

Bob Simon says Mandela was a "normal human being?" Since I, too, want to be normal, will have to brush up on "Necklacing."

It’s worth recalling that the ANC was officially named a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department and many other western nations. That designation wasn’t rescinded officially by the State Department until 1990.

Much more at the link.

In our non-Council category, the winner was The Babalu blog with Gone is Fidel’s greatest admirer, submitted by Joshuapundit. It’s a Cuban blogger’s view of Nelson Mandela and his love affair with Fidel Castor that is must reading.

Okay, here are this week’s full results:

Council Winners

• *First place with 5 2/3 votes! – Joshuapundit – The Mixed Legacy Of Nelson Mandela
• Second place *t* with 2 votes – Bookworm Room – Pope Francis’s Marxist economic analysis reflects the Left’’s long march through the Catholic Church
• Second place *t* with 2 votes – Liberty’s Spirit – Apparently Antisemitism Doesn’t Exist in Europe Anymore
• Third place with 1 2/3 vote – Nice Deb – Legal Expert At Today’s Judiciary Hearing: ‘The Check on Executive lawlessness is Impeachment’ (Video)
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – The Right Planet – Is the President a Malignant Narcissist?
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Noisy Room – About One of My Articles and Allen West
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Glittering Eye – What Should We Remember About December 7th?
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Simply Jews – Yousef Munayyer, Open Zion and Nelson Mandela
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – VA Right! – Calibrating the Extremist Meter
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Colossus of Rhodey – A waste of time and money
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Razor – RIP Nelson Mandela

Non-Council Winners

• *First place with 3 votes! – Babalu Blog – Gone is Fidel’s greatest admirer. submitted by Joshuapundit
• Second place *t* with 2 1/3 votes – Victor Davis Hanson/NRO – The World’s New Outlaws submitted by The Noisy Room
• Second place *t* with 2 1/3 votes – Andrew McCarthy/NRO – Impeachment Lessons submitted by Nice Deb
• Third place with 2 votes – Mises Institute – The State Causes the Poverty It Later Claims to Solve submitted by The Political Commentator
• Fourth place with 1 1/3 votes – Alan Johnson – The slaughter and torture of Christians: not a priority for the Government, Labour or DfID submitted by Simply Jews
• Fifth place *t* with 1 vote – Ace of Spades – Almost Three Quarters of All US Military Deaths in Afghanistan Have Occurred During The Presidency of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Obama submitted by Bookworm Room
• Fifth place *t* with 1 vote – The Independent Sentinel – Obama Has Taken To Robbing Banks submitted by The Watcher
• Sixth place with 2/3 vote – Brad DeLong/The Equitablog – Is Growth Getting Harder? If so, Why, and What Can We Do About It?: The Honest Broker for the Week of December 1, 2013 submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion – Killer of British soldier Lee Rigby: “I am a soldier and this is war” submitted by The Mellow Jihadi
• Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Other McCain – Were Vassar Students Who Perpetrated Hate Hoax Linked to Another Injustice? submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – Daily Beast – Husain Haqqani – Pakistan’s Change of Guard and General Ashfaq Kayani’’s Legacy submitted by The Razor
• Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – Seymour M. Hersh – Who’s Sarin? submitted by The Right Planet
• Seventh place *t* with 1/3 vote – Bill Whittle – I can’t Believe They Let You Do That! submitted by The Watcher

Honorable Mentions

• Ask Marion – RNC Chairman Says Hillary 2016 Candidacy is Set… And Female Presidency Will be the Carrot
• The Pirate’s Cove – Know What’s Perfect For Christmas? Carbon Offsets

See you next week! Don’t forget to tune in on Monday AM for this week’s Watcher’s Forum, as the Council and their invited special guests take apart one of the provocative issues of the day with short takes and weigh in… don’t you dare miss it. And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter… ’cause we’re cool like that!

RNC Chairman Says Hillary 2016 Candidacy is Set… And Female Presidency Will be the Carrot

 

We have a country to save!

What difference does it make?

America… if the elites on both sides fear you enough to create a whole syndrome about you, the average person should be on your side!  And if the media worships you… the average America should wary if not afraid!

By Marion Algier – Ask Marion

The 2016 shuffle is in full swing.  Seems Hillary is looking like the heir to the Democrat nomination. While on Friday,12.06.13 Rand Paul’s (R) wife, when asked, said ‘no’ to a 2016 run for her husband… leaving some wiggle room; Elizabeth Warren (D) said she would not be running; while Ben Carson (R) said God had a plan for him and indicated that he was closer to a decision to run.

Then when RNC Chairman Reince Preibus told Hugh Hewitt on air Wednesday, 12.04.13, that his team was getting ready for Hillary in 2016, the "news" went viral on the left in a hurry.  And of course this time around, instead of electing the first Black President, the Democrats’ carrot will be electing the first female President, even if she is recycled goods with unending baggage and scandals in her back background.

Hewitt:

(The complete transcript of my chat with the chairman is here, including my continuing pitch for Cleveland as the site of the 2016 RNC Convo.)

The Huffington Post story reporting on Preibus' matter-of-fact acknowledgment drew 3,000+ comments in 12 hours.

Talking Points Memo and Politico added coverage. Others will follow through the day.

There should be no surprise here though, of course it is great to be the first show on which the chairman acknowledged the obvious. Priebus and his team have learned from Team Obama that once you know whom the other side is going to nominate, hone and and define that candidate. Don't wait for Labor Day 2016 to run negative ads about Hillary. Run them now. Start as soon as you can. That means now.

That's what Axelrod, Stephanie Cutter et al did vis-a-vis Mitt Romney from early 2012 forward. And it worked, as Collision 2012 by the Washington Post's Dan Balz and The Center Holds Bloomberg's Jonathan Alter and others confirm. (My interview with Balz is here; with Alter here.)

So people (especially Mr. Preibus) what does common sense dictate…? We, Republicans, with the support of anyone who knows that Hillary will be Obama with brains and perhaps less puppet strings attached… as well as the final death nail for America, need to wake-up and run the toughest and strongest female Republican candidate that we have and start backing and promoting her now!!! 

And who would that female be, you ask?  Really???  Is there a question?  That would be Sarah Palin… who people she has helped get elected call the Kingmaker; who is asked by icons like Billy Graham to speak at their 95th Birthday Party; who draws throngs of people for book signings all over the country… including students after her speeches, and who has already survived every dirty, untruthful, and ugly attack the left can throw at her and her family.  The Journolistic attacks against Palin have all been proven to be a set-up and she has won every trumped-up battle in the courts.  Meaning:  Unless you are someone who loves Sarah and stuck with her or an honest thorough student of politics and current events… what you know or think you know about Sarah Palin is pretty much false!!  And in that same vain, what you know or think you know about Hillary Clinton is pretty much false!

And as for the GOP, Conservatives, Independents and fed up Democrats, there comes a time to realize that you have to stop running the same old moderates… McCain and Romney didn’t win, but Sarah Palin almost pulled out McCain’s bacon. And it is time to let the GOP establishment, who keep making the same bad decisions, ride into the sunset… and win with a winner. Or you can try to hang on and lose again and go the way of the Whigs.  The problem is that if the GOP loses again and we end up with Hillary… America is finished!

There shouldn’t even be a debate or do we want to beat ourselves to death again, like in the last primary?  But even in a fight like that, Palin is the best candidate because the mainstream media, the Democrats, and the GOP Establishment have already tried to beat her to a pulp and she came out the other end leaner, meaner, smarter and still standing. America… if the elites on both sides fear you enough to create a whole syndrome about you, the average person should be on your side!  And if the media worships you… the average America should wary if not afraid!

If they were dolls, the choice would be between Boring Benghazi Betty (Hillary) or Charismatic Constitutionalist Carol (Sarah).

We need to fight Hillary and the first female president scenario with Sarah and for once be ‘the first’ as well as on the side of the people.

The mainstream media was afraid of Sarah Palin because they knew she could win and would make a change in their Progressive world. But they love Progressive Hillary Clinton and are willing to overlook the truth, as they did with her hubby Bill and did again with Obama.  And even though Palin holds no office at this time, many in the mainstream media are obsessed with her and continue their unfounded attacks.

The question is… do you like where America is today: weak, jobless, controlled by Big Brother where soon the government will tell you who and when people get healthcare treatments?  Or do you love the Constitutional Republic America used to be: strong, working, where freedom and opportunity not Big Government ruled and our healthcare was the best in the world?  If you like option one… Hillary is your girl.  If you life option two… Sarah is your girl.  It is as simple as that. 

Countering the possibility of the first woman president along with the Clinton machine… the GOP is not going to win with a male candidate and there is not a stronger woman in the arena to fight Hillary than Sarah Palin.  A great and winning ticket would be:

Palin-Cruz, Palin-West, Palin-Carson, Palin-Paul, Palin-Bachmann, Palin-Martinez…

The Democrats are busy rebranding Hillary Clinton and GOP should be busy re-introducing Sarah Palin.

Here is a good start for everyone… Listen to Palin’s 2008 convention speech, when she was the over-night darling, before the Democrat media plotted to destroy her.  Then buy or rent the Undefeated.  Go out to one of her book signings for her new book Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas (Kindle) and meet her.  And then do your homework.  If you do, you will find that Palin is smart, patriotic, energetic, principled, honest, spiritual, nice but tough, charismatic, stands for and with the average American, really is and has what most feminists only talk about and is pretty to boot.  She made a difference in Alaska!!, whereas, to quote Charles Krauthammer, “Hillary is a Paper Tiger and won’t be remembered as an exemplary Secretary of State”.

 

Hillary is worn-out, a progressive elitist, thinks she knows better than the average American, is un-relatable, and if you do your homework had more dirt and scandals in her background than anyone being considered for the highest office in the land should ever have.  For your homework her you can start by renting or buying Primary Colors and reading The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party (Kindle).  Do your homework on Benghazi (not what the mainstream media has been feeding us).  Then look up Huma Abedin Weiner, and start digging and doing your research the Clintons.

Video: I prefer to call myself a progressive

As Americans, whatever your politics, or lack of political interest up to this point, we cannot afford to elect another president with vetting them, with really knowing who they are, and definitely on the word and guidance of a biased mainstream media.  We cannot afford another Obama and if you don’t like ObamaCare… you’ll hate HillaryCare!

And conservatives… stop buying into the Establishment line that a conservative or tea party type can’t win… or that Ronald Reagan or JFK couldn’t get elected by their parties today.  That is what those in power and their media minions want you to believe!!  If the American people get behind a true leader, they far out number those on the beltway of Washington D.C. as well as the ruling elite in the world!  So the people’s choice can win if the people get involved and stand-up! 

Charles Krauthammer says Hillary Clinton Is ‘Eminently Defeatable’ in 2016… as long as the GOP wakes up!!

If you agree… please get involved and send this to RNC Chairman Reince Preibus… Twitter: @Reince and @RNCPRBS

 

Unless you are someone who loves Sarah and stuck with her or are an honest thorough student of politics and current events… what you know or think you know about Sarah Palin is pretty much false!!  And in that same vain, what you know or think you know about Hillary Clinton is also pretty much false!

Research Resources 

2016 – The Election of the First Female President of the United States?

Re-Introducing Saray

Rebranding Hillary

Sarah:

Photo:  Sarah Palin with fellow speaker Dr. Alveda King at Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Event 

Why Are They So Afraid of Sarah Palin???

Why Sarah Palin Is Here To Stay

CNN: Palin Influence Far from Diminishing 

Noam Chomsky Shocker: Palin Was Right About Obama 

Sarah Palin on Politics and Religion • 11/10/13 With Susan Page [video]

Palin… One of 3 Speakers for Billy Graham’s 95th Birthday Celebration

Palin Derangement Syndrome Continues 

For Dick Cheney and His Ilk, John McCain’s Brilliant Choice of Sarah Palin was Bad News!

Long Lost Sarah Palin Emerges From Released Emails Victoriously…

Politico Palin Alert: Vast Left Wing Conspiracy’s Mission: Sarah Palin Must Be Destroyed Uncovered!

Journolists… The Truth of Media Fraud Confirmed

The Hate for Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin Mythology Debunked

The Quayling of Sarah

Sarah Palin, Combat Veteran

Palin’s First Rally in Cali

Don’t Underestimate Palin

Full Palin vs Biden Debate

The Judas Media

Why Sarah Could Win

The Candidate… 

Greta: About Those People Claiming Sarah Palin Cost John McCain the Election 

The Lesson in the Betrayal of Sarah Palin 

Be a Mensch… Inform Yourself 

Why Sarah Palin is here to stay

Martin Bashir Finally Resigns From MSNBC After His Inexcusable Comment  

 Sarah Palin • Q & A at Liberty University for 10,000 Students - After Giving Convocation • 12/4/13

Photo: Hillary with her Chief of Staff, Huma Abudin Weiner (Mrs. Anthony Weiner) 

Huma Abedin Weiner Returns To Hillaryville… 

Hillary’s Ultimatum to Huma: Your Marriage or Your Job… As Flowers Speaks Out

Hillary Doesn’t Deserve Our Admiration or Another Shot at the Presidency

Lovefest on Syrupy Minutes to Manipulate You

Hillary Lets the Jihadist Cat Out of Bag

Colonel: Hillary Made Decision Not to Post Marines at Benghazi

Manifesto Puts Hillary’s Deputy Chief In Middle Of Muslim Plot

Final UN Arms Trade Treaty Disarms America With Clinton’s Signature

Clinton aide Huma Abedin tied directly to Muslim Brotherhood and the "Godfather" of Al Qaeda… post-9/11

Breaking Hillaryland News: New Evidence Shows Hillary a Mastermind Behind Gunwalker as Her Welcome in Egypt Not So Good

Global gun control law pushed by Clinton – Updated

What did Hillary know and when did she know it and why has she flown under the radar on “Operation Gun Walker? 

President Obama campaign manager says he would not run a Hillary Clinton 2016 Presidential campaign 

Bill Whittle – What Difference Does It Make? (Video) 

Judge Jeanine Pirro Calls Out Hillary Clinton & Barack Obama as Liars

NY Times Takes a Hard Look at the Clinton Foundation

Saudi Arabia Among Biggest Donors to Clinton Foundation

Related Book and Videos:

Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election—and How to Stop Them from Doing It in 2016 (Kindle)

Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas (Kindle) – Sarah’s New Book

The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know — and Men Can’t Say (Kindle)

America by Heart : Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag (Kindle)

Going Rogue: An American Life (Kindle)

Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys (Kindle)

Our Sarah: Made in Alaska (Kindle)

The Clinton Diaries (Kindle)

The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories

The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party (Kindle)

Hillary Clinton Nude: Naked Ambition, Hillary Clinton And America’s Demise (Kindle)

Video: Primary Colors

Video: Sarah Palin: The Undefeated 

Sarah Palin – The Undefeated with Going Rogue: An American Life mp3 Audiobook

And for the Spanish speakers out there: Going Rogue, Going Palin

The Wrap at Ask Marion 10.13.13 Thru 10.20.13

Our weekly wrap… Sunday to Sunday… Please share! Ask Marion

• The Tea Party and the Mad Hatter
• The Council Has Spoken!! This Weeks’ Watcher’s Council Results
• Audio – Mark Levin: Obama Asks The Nation To Stop Paying Attention To The Bloggers And Talk Radio
• Conservatism on the Rise
• Two Very Telling Scenes From America’s Cities
• House Stenographer Snapped or Called?
• Vietnam POW 40th Reunion News Coverage [video]
• Sen. Cruz: Senate Budget Deal Provides ‘No Relief’
• Rep. Gowdy Questions Witness National Parks Service Director Jarvis
• Glenn Beck Explodes! Our Dystopian Nightmare Is ‘Definitely’ Less Than Two Years Away!
• Know Someone In New Jersey… Share This With Them – Vote For Steve Lonegan Today 10.16.13
• Watcher’s Council Nominations – Pawns In The Obama Shutdown Game Edition
• The House GOP Voted 11 Times To Reopen The Government
• Restaurant Where the Owners, Chefs, Workers and Their Families Refuse to Eat… ObamaCare
• History Repeating Itself – TheBlaze [Video]
• Most powerful White House Obamacare official at center of IRS scandal (Jeanne Lambrew)
• Surprise… Analysis Shows All 50 States Are Actually Shifting Toward Conservatism?!?
• Coach Mike Ditka claims one of his biggest regrets is not running against Obama or the 2004 Illinois Senate race
• This Is the Moment for Action and Choice
• Invasion U.S.A. — Enemies From Within, Enemies From Afar…
• The Aggression of Hunger, Fear and the Entitlement Mentality
• It Is a Wrap!! Ask Marion 10.06.13 – 10.13.13

Also See:

• Heart - An American Medical Odyssey - Book Review
• Obamacare will double my monthly premium (according to Kaiser)
• ObamaCare… Like a Restaurant Where the Owners, Chefs, Workers and Their Families Refuse to Eat… 
• Have You Gotten Your Biometric Screening Letter from Your Employer, Yet?
• ObamaCare… And So It Begins: Exchange Leaks Private Information of 2,400 People in Minnesota 
• Adopting Military Dogs 
• Severely beaten dog found in Columbus is dead 
• Some October Mid Month Doggie Daycare Fun [video] 
• Giant Oarfish Found – Probably Inspired Sea Serpent Myths 
• AMAZING! Orangutan asks girl for help in sign language

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