Beltway Insider: Obama Gives PT Speech, Media Outrage; San Bernardino; 2016 Race; Scott Weiland OD

President Obama presented a rare prime-time speech to address the nation on the San Bernardino Terrorist attack that killed 14 in an ISIS style mass shooting and the plan that he and coalition members have to address this new wave of terrorist attacks.

According to Gallup, President Obama's job approval, over the past week, increased one percentage point to 47% of those polled who approve of his effectiveness as President and those who disapprove of his effectiveness as President remained constant at 48%.

Also to note Gallup conducted a poll asking Americans "if stricter gun laws would prevent mass shootings?" The results? 19% say a great deal; 31% say not at all.

Obama Addresses The Nation; Media Voices Outrage

President Obama, on the wake of a new wave of terrorist attacks, addressed the nation in a rare prime time speech speaking on key points in the new war on terror.

Held in the Oval office, the President stood behind a lectern and explained to gun violence weary nation what efforts his administration is currently engaged in and what they are planning to do. While not blaming, in the usual rhetoric, fist pounding, accusatory it is all the GOP, when it came to brass tacks the president said "Here's what Congress needs to do," knowing full well the seasoned politicians rarely cross the aisle for anything and the piles of dead Americans, and French, are not one of the issues that will bring either side to a bargaining table.

His strategy in combating the Islamic State Fighters is as usual soft and stopping short of invasion, he now, after years of tough talk, in the strongest possible language, to Basher al-Assad is willing to negotiate peace to the war torn terror haven nation.

Notwithstanding the images of citizens choking on nerve gas, that were sent via social media platforms as it happened. The terror friendly Assad has resorted to use of Chemical and biological warfare in the not too distant past, and again tough rhetoric from the Obama Whitehouse on dismantling Assad and his terror regime, Obama now decides to a peaceful negotiation with the beleaguered leader will ultimately serve the present goals of ending the terror havens along the Syrian and Turkish border.

Propped up by Vladimir Putin, Assad now has a winning hand of getting the tough talking U.S. president to back down, to peaceful negotiation, and this of course isn't this first time Obama has failed to deliver on foreign policy.

The recent Iran Nuclear deal which puts longtime and strongest ally in the region Israel directly in harm's way against a generational enemy that has sworn to annihilate, is simply giving away the keys to the kingdom.

Obama's plan to combat homegrown terror networks will fail. It will not work and worse many more Americans will die in the process before another president is elected who will stand up to our united enemies and fight the terror networks with the only weapons they understand.

Fire is fought with fire not olive branches. In order to stop the simplest of weeds from growing, the dandelion, one needs to pull it up by the root. Simply breaking the stem won't end the infestation. Slapping the hand of the Islamic Fighter will not stop them.

In order to defeat ISIS, an enemy whose tactics we have never encountered before, is to fight them according to their means and methods. Get down, get dirty, and get rid of them.

"The threat from terrorism is real but we will overcome it," Obama said in his address to the nation.  

Americans are a resilient people, a nation of individuals bound by a way of life that includes freedom. So yes, Mr. President we will overcome this threat. This one that has invaded our own shores and the sad reality and truth is we will overcome it under different leadership.

Media Expresses Outrage

The New York Times, one of the oldest newspapers in the country, for the first time since 1920, in 95 years, used the front page for an editorial calling for politicians to outlaw certain types of weapons.

The New York Daily News also made a bold statement, running a blackened page with the headline "God Isn't Fixing This" with boxes of national leaders offering prayers.

Mainstream media, now that Islamic State Fighters, the lone wolves, the fringe, the non-connected to a larger more sophisticated network, have landed on our domestic shores and are active in murdering citizens out of devotion to a cult religion have decided it is time to become properly outraged. 

To the New York Times Saturday Editorial Board and Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., I say "Bravo." Any attention to the need for responsible gun reform may initiate a dialogue that may just manifest change.

However and without being a naysayer, it is as useful without further pressure as the "prayers" offered by insincere politicians who line their pockets with NRA money.

Violence is classified an epidemic by the CDC, the upswing in mass shootings, gun violence an offshoot or energized strain of the disease of violence.

Combating the disease of violence and recognizing that it is a disease is the first step toward calming or abating the strain. It is also important to understand the Second Amendment does not in any interpretation (not simply the opinion of this author and magazine) offer the protection of mass shootings.

Understanding the mind of the framers when the second amendment was written and conceived helps understand what needs to be modified to common sense gun reform (not lazy man's gun reform that is rhetoric only), gun reform that stop today the sale of one weapon is the gun reform that we the people, in order to form a more perfect "more perfect" union want and need.

We want our elected politicians to find the way back to a more perfect union and stop the plague of violence and its more potent strain of gun violence from continuing. The vaccine gun reform that stops the sale to individuals that don't qualify for the purchase.

Finding the right words to craft law, amendments, an executive order that meets these requirements and we might let current seated politicians keep your job.

Otherwise, we the people in order to form a more perfect union are going to fire you, vote you out, send you home and elect leaders, not career politicians who work the crowd like a magician creating illusions of better days, we want leaders who understand we the people want gun reform not mass shootings. Find a way and fix it or find a new job.

November 13, 2015 to December 6, 2015 Islamic State ISIS Attacks

Over the last three weeks, globally there have been Islamic State Fighter Attacks in Paris, France, San Bernardino, California, Lake Chad, Africa, and London, England.

Three weeks, four attacks. For the first time women are increasingly playing a major role in attacks willing to die alongside their male brothers for the furtherance of the skewed ideology that presents Islam as a religion of war.

Three women blamed for triple suicide bombings in Lake Chad, Africa that killed 27 and injured more than 130. A knife attack in the Tube in London wounding three. Not to mention the non-terrorist mass shooting of which don't qualify for the renewed interest in gun reform or media awareness as they were only committed by the deranged not the indoctrinated.

San Bernardino shooters, Syed Rizwan Farook, an American citizen born in Chicago, and his foreign born wife, Tashfeen Malik were responsible for the murders of 14 employees of San Bernardino County and injuring 21 others during an annual training even turned holiday party.

The attack lasted less than four minutes and was completed by the time the first responder arrived on the scene within four minutes. The shooters had fled the scene before the police arrived.

Within ten minutes more than 300 officers and agents from various agencies, including San Bernardino SWAT Team that had been holding its monthly tactical exercises less than two miles from the scene, they arrived in full gear, ready.

In this new wave of terrorism, the only escape is the made by the hand of God, and having a workplace that enforces safety precautions much as fire drills are mandatory, pre-planned active shooter exit strategies are necessities.

Election 2016

The time has come in our nation where politics and politicians as Americans have become accustomed to will and must end. The nation needs leaders, not politicians, not those as cemented in an ideology as the Islamic fighter. The rhetoric of party politics is tearing our nation apart and making it ripe for homeland terror.

New York Real Estate developer Donald Trump and GOP Presidential candidate front runner is continuing to lead his party. His recent surge, which coupled with his tough talk on terrorism and critique of the recent interviews of the San Bernardino family members, has put him with a 20 point lead, the strongest to date.

His background as a business leader, and one of the two potential GOP candidates that is not a seasoned and career politicians, is deeply cutting a groove through the party as the nation, the people, are tired of politics as usual. And the one thing everyone would agree on is that Mr. Trump is anything but usual.

Gun Violence and Homeland Terror are quickly becoming part of the top five issues that concern Americans most. With the economy, jobs and immigration rounding out the top five.

Islamic State Fighters in the United States are part of the fringe radicalized networks prompted through social media. The realization that as a cult, ISIS, and the Islamic State fighters, are controlled through skewed doctrine, wrong interpretation and personal power trips.

Make no mistake in thinking, ISIS, Islamic State fighters are a cult. They follow a religious interpretation that is false, and denounced by Muslims worldwide as a false interpretation of the religion.

Muslims Denounce ISIS

The Muslim world and global leadership is facing a crisis of interpretation. As each new wave of terror attack fills the television screens and bodies of Americans and our allies lie, sheet covered, in the streets, Muslims face retaliation.

Muslims in the United Kingdom are fighting back. Nahdlatul Ulama or NU, is the largest Muslim organization in the world with 50million members worldwide. They have initiated an anti-extremism movement and declared an "ideology holy war" against extremism and spreading the anti-extremists message through the membership.

NU is planning to mobilize 50,000 Muslim Clerics to denounce ISIS and the Islamic State Fighter manifesto, and spread the anti-extremist message.

United the world, all faiths, all religions to combat the ideology that operates in the mind of the terrorist is the single most important step in combating the rise of ISIS and the Islamic State Fighter.

Stone Temple Pilot Front Man OD; Bandmate Arrested

Scott Weiland, the front man for the Grammy award winning grunge rock band, Stone Temple Pilots, has died from an apparent drug overdose. He was 48.

Weiland was discovered unresponsive in his bedroom on the luxury tour bus in Bloomington, Indiana, where his secondary band, Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts, was schedule to play.

Throughout his career, Weiland described himself as a "tenacious" drug user. A recovering Heroin Addict, Weiland stated his concerns over Alcohol in his life.  His substance abuse battle were widely known and openly discussed.

Thomas Delton Black, the bassist for Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts, has been arrested after a subsequent police search found what was believed to be cocaine. The Studio City, California, resident has yet to issue a statement.

Celebrities from the Rock-n-Roll world took to Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms to publically express their grief, shock and offer condolences to one who was called "a groundbreaking innovator" in a statement issued by The Recording Academy.

Rockers from Motely Crews Nikki Sixx, Aerosmith Joe Perry to Lenny Kravitz took to twitter to express.

In addition to the Stone Temple Pilots, Weiland also formed Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts, and played with the Velvet Revolver.

He leaves a wife, two children and legions of fans who will miss his style, creative soul and sound.

For more information on President Barack Obama: www.whitehouse.gov

Sources: Whitehouse.gov, Wikipedia.com, itakelibertywithmycoffee.com

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