Friday, August 29, 2014

BloggeRhythms

In a press conference this morning the incumbent took a strong and defiant stance against the growing ISIS threat, vowing to prevent the terrorist organization from harming the homeland and its people.
 
The government raised its terror threat level Friday from "substantial" to "severe," the fourth highest of five levels, in response to events in Iraq and Syria, where ISIS militants have seized a swath of territory. A senior government official said, “that means that a terrorist attack is highly likely, but there is no intelligence to suggest that an attack is imminent."
 
The incumbent also said, the "root cause" of the terrorist threat is "Islamist extremism." And that, the recent killing of U.S. journalist James Foley is clear evidence that ISIS's fight in Iraq and Syria "is not some foreign conflict thousands of miles from home that we can hope to ignore."
 
The danger that ISIS poses now is a "greater and deeper" threat to the nation’s security than the country has ever known. This is in part because ISIS is not simply seeking refuge in a country but ruthlessly seeking its own terrorist state and expanding.
 
Furthermore, he also said he will soon announce plans to stop would-be jihadists from traveling to Syria and Iraq and to make it easier to take their passports away, and that the nation also needs to do more to stop current fighters from returning from the Middle East and to deal decisively with those who already have returned.
 
While the leader’s comments were strong, decisive and presented a strategic basis for dealing with a growing terrorist threat, they did not, however, do much to assuage the fears and trepidations of many U.S. citizens. Because the words were delivered by the incumbent British Prime Minister David Cameron and referred to his approach for his nation and citizens.
 
As far as the U.S. is concerned its POTUS has long been reluctant to enter into the Syrian conflict. He told reporters Thursday that “we don’t have a strategy yet” for confronting ISIS on a regional level. Which points out a glaring difference in statesmanship between an accomplished leader such as PM Cameron and a floundering political hack from Chicago.  
 
AP reports that, “The president is interrupting a weekend trip to return to D.C., tonight. The White House says Obama has changed his plans for Friday and will return to Washington late in the evening after fundraisers in Rhode Island and New York. He had planned to spend the night in New York. Presidential aides say the change in plans was not related to any current events and was the president's personal choice.”
 
And what that means is, his planned New York golf date must have cancelled and was replaced by one back home in DC. 
 
On another subject, Sharon Cotliar  of people.com reports that, “After not quite three years as a special correspondent for NBC News – and with just a little while until she and husband Marc Mezvinsky are expected to become parents – the former first daughter is now leaving that position, she tells PEOPLE in a statement, "to continue focusing on my work at the Clinton Foundation and as Marc and I look forward to welcoming our first child."
 
Its far more likely, though, that what really happened was that NBC looked at its shrinking revenues and said we can no longer afford the $600,000 we’re paying this woman to do pretty much nothing at all. What’s more, its beginning to look like her mother may not even be electable, whereas every day brings a drop in her poll numbers and the presidential election’s still more than two years away. So why pay for access to someone who won’t even make it to the White House?
 
As far as the loss of Chelsea’s income goes, if she’s in a financial bind she can always go to dad who, Wealth-X says: “Is founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and a former U.S. president. Financial news site 24/7 Wall Street estimates his net worth at around $38 million. However, the value of his circle of influence is $227 billion.” Therefore, he’d probably advance her a low-interest loan.
 
That's it for today folks
 
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