RWC Unfiltered 8-11-11

• Wisconsin Voters Reject Recall of Senators
• More Congressional Arrogrance and Contempt
• Hollywood Plans To Releaae A Film Just in Time for the 2012 Eection Sensationalizing The Killing Of Osama Featruting an Heroic Obama
• North Korea Has 165,000 Terror Troops Directed at South
• Russia Messing With Assad
• Iran Takes Syria’s Side
• Iran Funds Al Qaeda Against US
• Human Sperm From Rat Stem Cells

An American airstrike has killed the Taliban fighters believed responsible for shooting down a Chinook helicopter, killing 38 people including 30 American military personnel. The Taliban were tracked and watched as the ten grouped together and a Marine F-16 attacked and killed them.

Four of six  Wisconsin State Republican senators survived the most expensive recall election in histoy Tuesday to keep control of the legislature. The recall was financed by State Democrats and public employee unions. A new law - that the four supported — makes it unlawful there for State employees to unionize.

Democrats there are forging ahead with efforts to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker next year, one day after losing four of six recall elections to oust GOP state senators.

An 83-year-old Santa Ana, California woman paid $8,000 for breast implants setting some sort of record.

Americans’ assessment of Congress has hit a new low, with only 13% saying they approve of the way Congress is handling its job. The 83% disapproval rating is also the worst Gallup has measured in more than 30 years of tracking congressional job performance. When Americans learn these thing it will go lower:

• FOX News has learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. As far as I know not one other main stream media outlet has mentioned this scandal.
• Members of Congress can retire at full pay after only one two-year term. Congress specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform… in all of its forms.

Proposed  28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: “Congress shall make  no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply  equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall  make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that  does not apply equally to the citizens of the United  States.”

In Walnut City, California, a man wishing to cross-dress in woman’s cloths must first obtain permission from the sheriff

With the economic stats from the administration looking phonier than the spray tans on “Jersey Shore,” the White House is hoping some Hollywood-style image manipulation can boost its sagging poll numbers.

Sony Pictures has announced that the release date for the yet-untitled film about the death of Osama bin Laden will be Oct. 12, 2012, just weeks prior to President Barack Obama’s re-election attempt.

The flick is directed and written by the Oscar-winning duo of “The Hurt Locker,” Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal. The fall release also perfectly positions the film for Oscar nominations.

Bigelow and Boal actually had the project in development before bin Laden was killed but reportedly have reworked the script.

The White House will be rooting for the movie to do well at the box office and is said to be granting the filmmakers unprecedented access to information.

Maureen Dowd of The New York Times commented, “The White House had outsourced the job of manning up the president’s image to Hollywood when Boal got welcomed to the upper echelons of the White House and the Pentagon and showed up recently - to the surprise of some military officers - at a CIA ceremony celebrating the hero SEALs.”

North Korea’s military trains more than 165,000 troops tasked with launching various types of terror attacks on South Korea, including 110,000 special forces, according to a group of former North Korean soldiers who defected to Seoul.

An Al Qaida-aligned militia has acquired extended-range rockets and used them in attacks against Israel.

Palestinian sources said the Tawhid fighters were detained in Gaza City two days after Tawhid claimed responsibility for a rocket strike in the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat.

The sources said Tawhid and Army of Islam were believed to have received scores of Katyushas amid the flood of weapons that arrived from Libya in the spring and summer of 2011. They said the weapons included short-range missiles, extended-range rockets and mortars stolen from the military warehouses of the regime of Col. Moammar Gadhafi.

In 1987 the DOW dropped 22% on one October Monday barely staying above 1,000   Monday Moody’s credit rating agency warned it is watching U. S. debt and deficits

Twelve hours after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned Assad he faced a “sad fate” if he failed to introduce reforms, Moscow’s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin accused the Western alliance of planning a military campaign against Syria to help overthrow the Assad regime “with the long-reaching goal of preparing a beachhead for an attack on Iran.”
In an interview published by Izvestia Friday, Aug. 5, the knowledgeable and high-placed Rogozin added: “This statement means that the planning [of the military campaign] is well underway. It could be a logical conclusion of those military and propaganda operations, which have been carried out by certain Western countries against North Africa.”

 Thursday, as the Syrian military crackdown in Hama reached a new level of ferocity with public executions in the town square, the Russian president warned Assad: “We are watching how the situation is developing. It’s changing and our approach is changing as well.”

 Moscow sources note that the Rogozin added Yemen to his remarks on NATO: He said he agreed with the opinion that Syria and later Yemen could be NATO’s last steps on the way to launching an attack on Iran.

 ”The noose around Iran is tightening,” he said. “Military planning against Iran is underway. And we are certainly concerned about an escalation of a large-scale war in this huge region.”
The Russian envoy made a point of citing NATO - never once mentioning the United States in his remarks. However, they were definitely meant to clarify to Washington that Moscow is fully updated on the next American military steps in the Middle East and Persian Gulf.

 Military sources add: The Libyan campaign taught NATO that without US military strength, alliance members were incapable of defeating even a small army on the scale of Muammar Qaddafi’s six brigades, much less muster the ground, air and sea forces for striking Syria and Iran. The only power with the requisite military strength is the United States, which was therefore the unspoken address of Rogozin’s warning.
Russian diplomats have repeatedly cautioned Tehran that it incurs the danger of American attack on its nuclear facilities. Now Syria has been included. Rogozin remarked that having “learned the Libyan lesson, Russia will continue to oppose a forcible resolution of the situation in Syria.”

 There are more than 10,000,000 bricks in the Empire State Building!

 In addition to Russia’s warning Assad, with Iranian support rebuffed an ultimatum from the U. S. and sorta Turkey too. Obama’s dissembly of America’s prestige abroad as well as domestically marked another step backward last weekend.

 As Assad’s tanks and artillery stormed the eastern Syrian town of Deir al-Zour, killing 100 civilians in one day, the US and Turkey Sunday night, Aug. 7 began to turn the screw on President Bashar Assad: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked Turkey’s foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu to press Syria to “return its military to the barracks,” during his visit to Syria Tuesday. 

 The Syrian ruler with Iranian backing spurned the toothless ultimatum even before the minister reached Damascus.

 Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!

Iran was helping to finance Al Qaida attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The community has identified Al Qaida operatives who worked with Iran in recruitment, funding other operations.

“Iran is a critical transit point for funding to support Al Qaida’s activities in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” the Treasury Department said. “This network serves as the core pipeline through which Al Qaida moves money, facilitators and operatives from across the Middle East to South Asia.”

On July 28, the government disclosed the first details of what Treasury said marked cooperation between Al Qaida and Iran to destabilize Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Treasury said Iran was working with a six-member Al Qaida team headed by Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil, based in Iran and targeted in the latest round of U.S. sanctions. Other Al Qaida operatives working with Iran were said to be based in Kuwait and Qatar.

The 29-year-old Khalil was said to have been operating in Iran since 2005 and moved money and recruits through the Middle East. Officials said Khalil has used Iran as a waystation for Al Qaida fighters to destabilize Pakistan.

Al Qaida was also said to have stationed a liasion in Kuwait, a major non-NATO ally of Washington. The liasion was identified as Ali Hasan Ali Al Ajmi, a 32-year-old said to have relayed funding from Gulf Cooperation Council states to Al Qaida and Taliban in Afghanistan.

“He [Al Ajmi] has also supported Al Qaida by facilitating travel for individuals associated with the group so that they could take part in fighting in Afghanistan,” Treasury said.

Officials said GCC states have been notified of the Al Qaida suspects. But they would not say whether the Al Qaida agents were arrested by Kuwait and Qatar.

“By exposing Iran’s secret deal with Al Qaida allowing it to funnel funds and operatives through its territory, we are illuminating yet another aspect of Iran’s unmatched support for terrorism,” Treasury Undersecretary David Cohen said.

A Libyan terrorist funded by Iran is running al Qaeda operations in Pakistan. If, as rumored Iran constructs a nuclear weapon the dynamic changes.

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo. No one knows why.

A team of scientists has reported producing viable sperm using the stem cells of mice in an experiment that researchers hope could one day lead to treating infertile men.

The Kyoto University researchers managed to induce mice stem cells into creating sperm precursors, which were transplanted into infertile male mice. The mice then produced sperm that was successfully used to fertilize eggs in a lab dish.

The offspring were healthy and fertile, according to a paper published online Thursday in the scientific journal Cell.

Can you imagine being fathered by a real rat?

Drinkers in ancient times clinked their cups to ward off evil demons.That lead to the tradition of toasting goodwill and health

A March 2011 study by the Foundation for Educational Choice (FEC) analyzed the results of all empirical studies that used the best scientific methods to measure how school-choice vouchers affect the academic outcomes of participating students.

The study concluded, “Contrary to the widespread claim that vouchers do not benefit participants and hurt public schools, the empirical evidence consistently shows that vouchers improve outcomes for both participants and public schools.”

 According to the FEC study, nine out of the 10 studies found that vouchers improved student outcome measurements such as test scores in the core subjects and graduation rates.  In addition, by increasing competition between public and private schools, voucher programs forced public school systems to improve.

 In fact, every empirical study conducted in states with voucher programs, such as Wisconsin, Ohio and Florida, has found that “voucher programs in those places improved public schools.” 

 In May, Indiana governor Mitch Daniels signed into law the most comprehensive expansion of school choice in the nation’s history.  The law creates the largest voucher program in the country that will help 600,000 children from low- and middle-income families attend the public or private school of their choosing.  California is at the other extreme erecting barriers even capping the number of charter schools.

 As the FEC study observes, “Only universal vouchers can break the [government-run] education monopoly and produce the dramatic improvements we need.”

 ”it is time for government and its [allied] special-interest obstructionists to get out of the way and let the future in so that parents and their children can exercise their fundamental right to choose the type of education that best meets their individual needs.”

 ”Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote,” Benjamin Franklin