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United Nations:
Disarmament.
Of you and yours, at the behest of the United Nations.
BZ
China: GOP responsible for giant killer hornets
From the Guardian.com:
The Chinese city living in fear of giant killer hornets
Jonathan Kaiman visits Ankang municipality where swarms of highly venomous hornets have killed 41 people in three months
by Jonathan Kaiman in Ankang
Chen pointed with a shaky hand at the small plot of cabbage, scallions and corn where his friend Yu Yihong was stung to death by giant hornets.
“When he got to the hospital, there were still two hornets in his trousers,” says Chen, a local farmer who, like many villagers, declined to give his full name to a foreign journalist. “The hornets’ poison was too strong – his liver and kidneys failed, and he couldn’t urinate.”
Vespa mandarinia is the world’s largest hornet, around the size of a human adult’s thumb, yellow and black in colour and highly venomous. Their 6mm-long stingers carry a venom potent enough to dissolve human tissue. Victims may die of kidney failure or anaphylactic shock.
An Asian hornet (vespa mandarinia) eats a honeybee. The sting of the highly venomous giant hornet, which measures about the size of a human thumb, can dissolve human tissue and cause kidney failure. Photograph: Scott Camazine
Yu’s story is a tragic but increasingly common one in north-west China‘s Shaanxi province where, over the past three months alone, hornets have killed 41 people and injured a further 1,675. Ankang, a municipality in the province’s south, appears to be the epicentre of the scourge. While hornets infest its mountainous rural areas every year – 36 residents were stung to death between 2002 and 2005 – locals and municipal officials say this year is tantamount to an epidemic, the worst they have ever seen.
Chinese leaders, in consultation with Harry Reid, have decided that the GOP is responsible for the invasion of the giant flesh-eating and deadly hornets.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, from HuffPo:
Here’s A Tally Of Which House Republicans Are Ready To Fund The Government, No Strings Attached
WASHINGTON — In the hours since the government shut down, House Republicans have slowly but steadily been coming forward to say they’re ready to pass a bill to fund the government with no strings attached.
Who might those House GOP members be? Try:
Rep. Pat Meehan (R-Pa.), Rep. Scott Rigell (R-Va.), Rep. Jon Runyan (R-N.J.), Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.), Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.), Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.), Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.), Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.), Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), Rep. Jim Gerlach (R-Pa.), Rep. Leonard Lance (R-N.J.), Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), Rep. Bill Young (R-Fla.), Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.), Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), Rep. Tim Griffin (R-Ark.).
It’s heartening to see that so many House Republicans are willing to give away the store for absolutely nothing in return.
It’s also invigorating to note that the east coast is well represented by GOP Surrender Monkeys in the form of Pennsylvania, Virgina, New York and New Jersey. Closer to their paychecks and pork, they realize the Demorats may not be so willing to drink heavily with them at the end of the day in various local DC watering holes.
BZ
WWII Vets Knock Over Shutdown Barrier to Visit Memorial
They didn’t become the Greatest Generation by being shrinking violets.
From the WashingtonFreeBeacon.com:
A group of World War II veterans in an Honor Flight group Tuesday knocked over barriers imposed during the government shutdown at the WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C., to get inside.
After having arrived by way of an Honor Flight (please click the link to read about this great organization, and check my post here), various WWII veterans decided that, “government shutdown” or not, they were not going to be kept from their memorial.
And shutting down a memorial like this — open as it is on the mall — required not just somebody at a gate or single barricade. Oh no; it required purposeful barriers physically lugged into position. See the photos.
The WashingtonTimes.com also wrote:
By David Sherfinski, The Washington Times
A group that included elderly veterans forced their way into the World War II Memorial on Tuesday in defiance of a federal government shutdown that had closed the monument.
The memorial on the national Mall was closed along with most of the city’s memorials and museums after Congress failed to reach a federal spending deal by midnight Monday.
Allow me to interject the obvious now, at this point: these memorials were closed not because they were the most costly items to run in the government, but because Mr Obama purposely wants to hurt and negatively impact as many American citizens as he possible can, for the temerity of the GOP in not bowing to Mr Obama’s every whim.
Federal park rangers and federal police, perplexed, don’t know what to do about all those damned pushy WWII veterans. Arresting men in their 80s and 90s, in wheelchairs, might be bad for Mr Obama.
The Demorats and Mr Obama are in charge in DC. It was their decision to close the monuments and parks. Oddly enough, however, you do not see their salaries or perks impacted in any way whatsoever. That’s because they don’t want to make themselves hurt; they want to make you hurt. Obama and his sycophants simply utilize sophistry.
Continuing:
Dozens of people, including several in wheelchairs, made their way on to the grounds of the monument just before noon as police officers, National Park Service personnel and tourists watched.
The group, which arrived in four buses, was part of an “honor flight” that brings veterans to the District to see the memorial. They were accompanied by a handful of members of Congress. Among those present were Rep. Steven M. Palazzo, Mississippi Republican; Rep. Steve King, Iowa Republican; Rep. Louie Gohmert, Texas Republican; and Sen. Roger Wicker, Mississippi Republican.
But here’s the best part:
Mr. King’s spokeswoman confirmed to The Washington Times that he distracted the guards, giving the veterans the chance to break through.
Obama in His Godly Dictatorship: “I shouldn’t have to offer anything.”
Obama: ‘I shouldn’t have to offer anything’
From the WashingtonPost.com:
By Aaron Blake, Published: September 30 at 5:23 pm
President Obama says in a new interview with NPR that he doesn’t feel the need to compromise on anything when it comes to the budget and debt ceiling debates.
“I shouldn’t have to offer anything,” he said. “They’re not doing me a favor by paying for things that they have already approved for the government to do. That’s part of their basic function of government; that’s not doing me a favor. That’s doing what the American people sent them here to do – carrying out their responsibilities.”
“I shouldn’t have to offer anything.
Because we need to recognize that Mr Obama is basically Imperial. His word simply becomes The Word.
And yet, when I check the phrase on YouTube, I get this video:
I slap my forehead in shock. No air conditioning?
I can’t write this stuff. Reality always trumps fiction. Obama is a buffoon at the most extensive and frakking best. With bushels of understanding held in reserve.
BZ