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Yemen Bombs Rebels After Cease-Fire Falters
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Biden: 'Tea Baggers' Preventing New Gun-Control Laws
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/07/2014 18:23 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Way to stay classy Biden...

"90 percent of Americans are for a responsible background check for a gun, and you know what this Congress has done? Not voted on it, not brought it to the floor, not introduced a bill." John Walsh

Listen prick... there are already background checks on gun buys. After having your show of America's most wanted, you seriously think that more laws and background checks will keep criminals from getting weapons? You are dumber than you look.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/07/2014 18:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Jeez Mr. Walsh, s'why you don't go around kissing strangers, just don't know how dirty their mouth is.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/07/2014 18:47 Comments || Top||

#3  He has his head so far up his butt he needs a glass bellybutton to see.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/07/2014 19:07 Comments || Top||

#4  So, Slow Joe is basically saying he's familiar with 'tea-bagging' and it's participants.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/07/2014 19:26 Comments || Top||

#5  One-trick pony meets one brain-celled politician.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/07/2014 21:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Joe Biden - a Political Flatworm
Posted by: Frank G || 07/07/2014 21:10 Comments || Top||

#7  I've never heard a flatworm say anything stupid. Plus they have a rudimentary nervous system!

Perhaps Crazy Uncle Joe could explain how tougher gun laws would improve the 14 killed, 84 wounded stat for Chicago over the weekend? (ok, so it was a long weekend)
Posted by: SteveS || 07/07/2014 23:02 Comments || Top||


Stand Your Ground: Protesters Divert 3rd Round of Buses from Murrieta
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/07/2014 18:08 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The anti-illegal immigration protests Monday brought out new, first-time demonstrators and onlookers from many different backgrounds--from young enlisted Marines to legal immigrants from Germany, Mexico, and Central America.

All AMERICANS come to protest the importation of non-citizens who are illegal.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/07/2014 18:10 Comments || Top||

#2  I read that the Feds were going to deploy riot police for this transfer; nothing confirmed, could be a game of telephone...or people went whoah the feds have riot teams? then I remembered Department of Weights and Measures.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/07/2014 18:53 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Flineck Flusock4496 || 07/07/2014 18:59 Comments || Top||

#4  I might be wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised iff this issue of illegal immigrant children is more than NAFTA, OWG NAU ETC. starting in the Year 2015, but is actually covertly a massive ruse or cover story for POTUS Obama = USA to have an PCorrect-Deniable "good excuse(s)" to unilater N-O-T fight a major mil conflict wid Iran, Russia, andor China, etc. in the very near future, espec vee CHINA IN EAST ASIA-PACIFIC, IN DEFENSE OF US STRATEGIC INTERESTS OR SOVEREIGN TERRITORIES LET ALONE US OVERSEAS ALLIES???

FYI as per FREEREPUBLIC, HOT AIR ARTIC = claims that up to 300,000 people [adults] from Central America are planning to sneak into the US.

Also, ...

* WORLD NEWS > [HuffPO] THE "ASIAN CENTURY" RISKS BECOMING AN "AGE OF PERIL".

* SAME > CHINA + SOUTH KOREA VS. JAPAN + NORTH KOREA?

* VOICE OF RUSSIA > "WE CAN'T TRUST THE US TO TO RESIST ISIS ONSLAUGHT" - ME EXPERT.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Rediff Blogs] IRAN CORNERS US IN IRAQ - INDIAN PUNCHLINE.

Ditto IRAN in ME from Lebanon to Syria now Iraq, + PUTINIST RUSSIA in the Black Sea???

* GLOBAL NATION PHILIPPINES > CHINA'S NEW TERRITORIAL LAW COULD SPELL DISASTER - [Phil] ANALYST.

* TOPIX > [Wall Street Cheat Sheet] HERE'S WHY TENSIONS BETWEEN US + CHINA ARE GROWING.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/07/2014 23:30 Comments || Top||


Economy
Long wait times in ERs and other areas increasing due to ObamaCare
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/07/2014 15:59 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ridiculed for flashy wristwatch
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/07/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  IMO the "islamic State" Caliphate is here to stay despite any + all real andor potens travials.

It will be Al-Baghdadi, aa the saying goes, whom will have the last laugh.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/07/2014 1:22 Comments || Top||

#2  No mention of the fancy high-dollar 3 blade electric fan behind him blowing the stench off his body into the crowd of jihadists.


Posted by: Airandee || 07/07/2014 6:13 Comments || Top||

#3  stench off his body into the crowd of jihadists smells like ... victory
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/07/2014 6:24 Comments || Top||

#4  I don't always were a watch, but when I do, I drink Dos Equis.

1) He lives vicariously through himself.

2) He once had an awkward moment, just to see how it feels.

3) His beard alone has experienced more than a lesser man’s entire body.

4) When it is raining, it is because he is thinking of something sad.

5) His shirts never wrinkle.

6) He is left-handed and right-handed.

7) If he were to mail a letter without postage, it would still get there.

8) The police often question him just because they find him interesting.

9) His blood smells like cologne.

10) On every continent in the world, there is a sandwich named after him. His hands feel like rich brown suede.

11) Cuba imports cigars from him. Mosquitos refuse to bite him purely out of respect. In museums, he is allowed to touch the art.

12) His business card simply says “I’ll call you.”

13) He has won the lifetime achievement award, twice.

14) If he were to punch you in the face, you would have to fight off the urge to thank him.

15) He bowls overhand.

16) He is fluent in all languages, including three that he only speaks.

17) He tips an astonishing 100%.

18) Once while sailing around the world, he discovered a short cut.

19) Panhandlers give him money.

20) He divorced his wife because he caught her littering.

21) His passport requires no photograph.

22) When he drives a new car off the lot, it increases in value.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/07/2014 7:11 Comments || Top||

#5  ...wear a watch.
Posted by: || 07/07/2014 7:19 Comments || Top||

#6  $20 at the bazaar in Mosul, assuming you aren't in a mood to haggle.
Posted by: KBK || 07/07/2014 9:03 Comments || Top||

#7  The guy can afford a high-dollar watch. He knocked over the Mosul bank for nearly a 1/2 billion dollars. The watch won't do him much good if he gets drone-zapped or someone decides to collect the $10M bounty the U.S. has on the guy.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/07/2014 10:08 Comments || Top||

#8  Funny thing about most of the Arabs. They're pretty much conformist in traditional dress (and Baghdadi's is more or less traditional.) But it's the accoutrements that designate status, like watches, pens, rings, etc.

So yeah, they notice.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/07/2014 11:21 Comments || Top||

#9  Mine's better.

But, hey, congrats, Abu! You have gone from jihadi to caliph almost overnight. You are now qualified for Rantburg's Page Six, the Politix section. Now you can associate with the likes of al-Maliki, Assad, al-Sisi, Khamenei, Erdogan, Sarkozy, Xi, Putin, King Abdullah and Obama. Don't let anybody give you any crap if you wanna wear a cheap bauble on your wrist. You've earned it. This is a freaking big deal, you bloody bastard. Cheers!
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 07/07/2014 11:31 Comments || Top||

#10  LOL Beosoeker.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/07/2014 12:09 Comments || Top||

#11  This is the great media counter-offensive to discredit jihad cool? Maybe keeping track of time without sporting a smart/cell phone is good for business, and business seems to be going good.

The better question is whether this becomes like wearing a pink bracelet in October.

(good stuff B, lost it @9)
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/07/2014 12:56 Comments || Top||

#12  ROFLOL Beosoeker!
Posted by: borgboy || 07/07/2014 16:15 Comments || Top||

#13  So what model battery does the watch require? Flood that area of the MidEast with radioactive watch batteries.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/07/2014 21:21 Comments || Top||


Government
WH trying to pre-empt sticker shock on September premium increases
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/07/2014 11:16 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There are other factors as well:

"More than half of companies (56%) increased employees' share of health care premiums or co-payments for doctors' visits in 2013, and 59% of employers say they intend to do the same in 2014." - USA Today

And

"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is expected to rule any day now in a lawsuit that aims to block the law's insurance subsidies in more than half the country. If the challengers ultimately prevail, the Affordable Care Act's complex framework could begin to unravel as millions of people lose financial assistance." - National Journal
Posted by: Pappy || 07/07/2014 11:34 Comments || Top||

#2  I Told you So.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/07/2014 12:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Rate increases will be kept to a minimum so long as ObamaCare delivers reinsurance to cover losses. Reinsurance is being lowered incrementally over the next few years. Sort of like slowing boiling the frog.
Posted by: regular joe || 07/07/2014 12:48 Comments || Top||

#4  That means that premiums will go up in the fall in order to cover the added expense of the higher-risk enrollments — and that has the Obama administration spin team working extra hard this summer to cover their rear ends just before the midterms:

The Donks deserve any losses that come their way in 2014 and 2016. Shame on them for foisting this Obamanation on the American people. The sheer arrogance of Pelosi saying you have to pass it to read it [ACA] was astounding and should have been enough to get her tossed out of office. Unfortunately for Americans, so many Congressmen/women did exactly that [It may be that some of them that can't read]. Freedom suffered for the American people.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/07/2014 13:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Well then get ready to LOL when all these illegals get deemed citizens, opening them to the IRS tax system, which requires them to have health insurance, which they cannot afford, so qualify for so many deductions, some of which yet to be interpreted by the new HHS, they actually get paid to have health insurance.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/07/2014 13:52 Comments || Top||

#6  IF I were running a US company I'd make any payment for employee health insurance bundled with a ridiculously personal-data filled bedroom-habit enquiring form and say it's to mitigate hiring risks and make sure we're meeting the needs of our employees...
If the government says Business needs to be in your bedroom then they should be allowed to ask a few questions too.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/07/2014 14:32 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Flineck Flusock4496 || 07/07/2014 19:19 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2014-07-07
  Yemen Bombs Rebels After Cease-Fire Falters
Sun 2014-07-06
  ISIS destroys shrines, Shiite mosques in Mosul
Sat 2014-07-05
  Iraq's Maliki to Run Again
Fri 2014-07-04
  IDF Begins To Shift Forces South As Rocket Fire Continues
Thu 2014-07-03
  Saudi Arabia deploys 30,000 soldiers to border with Iraq
Wed 2014-07-02
  Civilian group: 56 dead in Nigeria market blast
Tue 2014-07-01
  Report: Abbas holding 'frantic' talks with US, EU
Mon 2014-06-30
  Bodies of Kidnapped Teens Found Near Hevron
Sun 2014-06-29
  Afghan Forces Claim Victory in Major Taliban Battle
Sat 2014-06-28
  Maliki rejects calls for emergency government
Fri 2014-06-27
  Syrian planes bomb Sunni targets in Iraq, Maliki rejects calls for emergency government
Thu 2014-06-26
  At least 21 killed in rush-hour blast in Nigerian capital
Wed 2014-06-25
  Zarb-i-Azb: 47 militants killed in NWA, Khyber blitz
Tue 2014-06-24
  Thousands flee North Waziristan region on last day of evacuation
Mon 2014-06-23
  Syria Army, Hizbullah Seek to Oust Rebels from Qalamun Foothills


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