Thursday, September 24, 2015

As I've said in the past...Abdullah is NO friend of Israel

Jordan's King Abdullah won't speak with Netanyahu, Arab media report

By JPOST.COM STAFF

According to the reports, the Hashemite monarchy is furious with the Israeli government over recent statements accusing Amman of playing a destabilizing role on Temple Mount.

Relations between Jordan and Israel have soured to the point where King Abdullah is refusing to communicate directly with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Channel 2 reported on Thursday, citing Arab and Jordanian media sources.

The Kuwaiti daily A-Jarida is reporting on Thursday that King Abdullah refused Netanyahu's request to hold a secret meeting in the Red Sea resort town of Aqaba, just over the border near Eilat.

According to the reports, the Hashemite monarchy is furious with the Israeli government over recent statements accusing Amman of playing a destabilizing role and turning a blind eye to Palestinian provocations on Temple Mount.

The reports indicate that not only has the Jordanian government refused to accept any back-channel messages from the Prime Minister's Office, but it is also considering a recall of its ambassador to Tel Aviv as a means to express its displeasure with Jerusalem's policies as they relate to the Islamic holy sites.

Obamacare Waste Continues to Pile Up

Justin Haskins / Townhall Columnist

When President Barack Obama was working to “sell” the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, one of the primary claims he made was that the costs associated with providing some 30 million Americans with health insurance could be offset by reducing government mismanagement and fraud. But the more time Americans have had to experience the health care reform legislation first-hand, the more obvious it has become that, like virtually all government-controlled social experiments, Obamacare’s waste of taxpayers’ money has grown to epic levels. And there’s no sign the poorly managed program is improving.

According to Whitehouse.gov, an official website of the Obamacare administration, the ACA “reduces health care costs,” in part, “by ... cracking down on waste, fraud, and abuse.”

A new government audit of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) management of contracts made with eight companies that helped to build the Healthcare.gov website, shows the 20 contracts “most critical to the website’s operation” – worth roughly $600 million in total – were incredibly mismanaged. According to the report, millions were wasted in cost overruns, shoddy practices, and poor business practices.

Pressure on Obama grows to declare war against Christians a genocide

“Christianity in the Middle East is shattered,” Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, Nebraska Republican, told the IDC [In Defense of Christians] conference on Sept. 9. “The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken and dying. Yet Christians in Iraq and Syria are hanging on in the face of the Islamic State’s barbarous onslaught. This is genocide.” Yes. And […]

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Poll: Vast Majority of Americans Reject Obama Plan To Bring Syrian Refugees To U.S.

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

Obama doesn’t care. He has been running roughshod over the will of the people throughout his presidency. The real problem is the weakness of the Republican Party in continuing to do his bidding rather than stand up to him in an effective manner.

“Poll: Vast Majority of Americans Reject Calls To Bring Syrian Refugees To U.S.,” by Katie Pavlich, Townhall, September 22, 2015 (thanks to TheReligionofPeace.com):

As the Syrian refugee crisis continues to get worse, politicians on both sides of the political aisle have called for the United States to increase the number of refugees it takes in from the region. The Obama administration has already increased the number of Syrian refugees accepted into the U.S. from 1500 to...

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