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Obama under fire for admitting he has no ISIL strategy
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Chelsea Clinton Is Leaving NBC New$
[PEOPLE] Princess Chelsea Clinton says she's stepping out of her correspondent job as she looks forward to taking on mom duties

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."

Having specialized in feel-good stories of "remarkable people and organizations making a profound difference," Clinton, 34, says the highlights of her job included meeting people like Annette Dove, whose TOPPS program in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, "continues to fill the hunger, education and safety gaps for kids of all ages in her community."
Posted by: Fred || 08/30/2014 10:50 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  .....Ripley discovers that she wears a germ of the beast in her body. It concerns a queen. She understands now why the MSM Alien that ravages the penitentiary did not attack her.

Yes, I saw the movie.

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2014 11:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Thank God there were no pictures! Just thinking of the twat the demon child made me throw up a little in the back of my throat.
Bedroom must be really, really dark or it's immaculate conception.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 08/30/2014 11:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Webb Hubbell would've loved to live long enough to see his grandchild
Posted by: Frank G || 08/30/2014 11:59 Comments || Top||

#4  No great loss to NBC since NBC was already lost long ago. Chelsea had one of those "made up" jobs such as Moochell had in Chicago--lots of money for doing nothing.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/30/2014 12:12 Comments || Top||

#5  $26K/on-air minute
Posted by: Frank G || 08/30/2014 13:07 Comments || Top||

#6  People do talk.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2014 15:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Don't blame me, you all laughed when I tried to get together money enough to bribe her into tube-tying.
Posted by: Shipman || 08/30/2014 15:09 Comments || Top||

#8  I'd cut her a bit of slack. She can't help who her parents are.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/30/2014 16:41 Comments || Top||

#9  Sorry Deac' no slack. She had a chance to break from the herd and go straight, but she chose to follow the spoor of her parents and wedded to a similar tribe of scoundrels. Our grannies will no doubt be dealing with the legacy of the Arkansonian Camelot as well. Apple falling not far from tree.... that sort of thing. Of course I could be wrong, been wrong many times, but why chance it.

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2014 17:25 Comments || Top||

#10  She's leaving NBC to manage the family business, the Clinton Foundation charity.

The principal charitable goal of the Foundation? To maintain the wealth, lifestyle and influence of the Clinton family. It's a tough job but she's up to it.

Her next move, already mooted, will be a run for Congress in a 'safe' district. That might not happen until 2016 when the Tea Party vote of this year will be swamped by the Dems supporting Elizabeth Warren her mother for Prez.

A Clinton always needs to be in office, running for office, or contemplating running for office. That's how the Foundation maintains its influence. Chelsea will run for something; alternatively she'll get some plum high job for the last year or two of Champ's term.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/30/2014 18:58 Comments || Top||

#11  First U.S. Ambassador to the Reformed, Moderate Islamic Caliphate (RMIC).
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2014 19:37 Comments || Top||

#12  perhaps if she carpetbagged alighted in Detroit to allow the citizens there to share in her pull?

she is the "daughter" of the FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT, right?
Posted by: Frank G || 08/30/2014 21:08 Comments || Top||


Britain
George Galloway get the full Fisking
Nice pic at the link
British Parliament Member George Galloway has been hospitalized after being attacked on a London street, the BBC reported Saturday. The assailant was "shouting about the Holocaust," according to the MP's spokesman.
"That's a myth" "really?" *SMACK*
"George was posing for pictures with people and this guy just attacked him, leapt on him and started punching him," the spokesman said.

"It appears to be connected with his comments about Israel because the guy was shouting about the Holocaust."

Police who responded on the scene arrested a suspect.
"I am Spartacus!"
"No, I am Spartacus!"

Galloway may have suffered a broken jaw, a broken rib and severe bruising to the face and head. The Friday night attack in Notting Hill left the Respect MP in "a pretty bad shape," the spokesman said.
there IS a God, his name's not Allah, and he smites assholes occasionally
Posted by: Frank G || 08/30/2014 08:07 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Couldn't have happened to a nicer asshole.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/30/2014 11:01 Comments || Top||

#2  i admit i laughed at the spatracus comment

but it is wrong to beat up an old man even one so vile as George Galloway

it was OK when he and Christopher Hitchens had a punch up as they were both roughly the same age.

Hitchens outclassed him superbly in the intelligence stakes though i don't know who won the dust up
Posted by: anon1 || 08/30/2014 16:55 Comments || Top||


Moved From "Needs Doing" to "Done"
Respect MP George Galloway has 'jaw and rib broken by attacker who shouted comment about the Holocaust as he posed for pictures in Notting Hill'
could not have happened to a more deserving guy
Posted by: Bov Flimbers || 08/30/2014 03:23 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  crap - posted before seeing this story
Posted by: Frank G || 08/30/2014 8:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Never mind, Frank - I loved seeing this story in stereo.

I was mildly interested to see the headline that someone had fisked him, and then to scroll down and see what was meant.

It's been a hell of a week - we all needed a great feel-good story.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 08/30/2014 12:52 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Obama's Labor Day Weekend: Three Fundraisers And An MSNBC Wedding
[BREITBART] President B.O. has a busy Labor Day weekend planned as he leaves on Air Force One for New York later this afternoon.

Once in New York, President B.O. is scheduled to attend two Democratic National Committee fundraisers in the area at private homes.

One of the fundraisers will be a Labor Day Barbecue, hosted by ex-UBS CEO Robert Wolf, who also golfed with the president on Martha's Vineyard during their vacation.

He will then travel abroad Air Force One to Newport, Rhode Island for a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser with House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...


The Rhode Island fundraiser will be held at the home of former Nortek CEO Richard Bready and Betty Easton. Obama is scheduled to be in Rhode Island for less than three hours, before returning to Westchester where he will spend the night.

Saturday, President B.O. and First Lady Michelle Obama are expected to attend the wedding of MSNBC's Alex Wagner to his personal White House Chef Sam Kass.

The wedding will be held at the Blue Hill at Stone Barns, a Westchester County farm-to-table restaurant in New Rochelle, New York.

On Labor Day, President B.O. will travel to Milwaukee, Wisconsin to speak at Laborfest 2014, an event sponsored by the AFL-CIO.

Posted by: Fred || 08/30/2014 10:50 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Glad he is taking the Ukraine problem and the ISIS issue seriously. /sarc <-- for the government that is to fucking stupid to figure out sarcasm.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/30/2014 11:05 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2014 11:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Having to go to the hard-blue states...
Posted by: Pappy || 08/30/2014 11:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Hey, not a bad plan: Do what you know how to do, let the rest go to hell. Works for him.
This is what "I voted present" translates to as president.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/30/2014 16:55 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sat 2014-08-30
  Obama under fire for admitting he has no ISIL strategy
Fri 2014-08-29
  Sinai Group Says It Beheaded 4 Egyptian 'Mossad Agents'
Thu 2014-08-28
  Online photos show ISIL executing Syrian soldiers
Wed 2014-08-27
  TTP commanders form new splinter group 'Jamatul Ahrar'
Tue 2014-08-26
  Thousands flee to Cameroon after Boko Haram attack in Nigeria
Mon 2014-08-25
  Boko Haram leader declares Islamic caliphate in Nigeria
Sun 2014-08-24
  Boko Haram Executes Two People For Smoking Cigarettes
Sat 2014-08-23
  Syrian army ambushes 140 IS fighters in al-Raqqa
Fri 2014-08-22
  Boko Haram Takfiris seize town in NE Nigeria
Thu 2014-08-21
  Israeli Fire Kills 31 in Gaza as Hamas Warns Foreign Airlines, Declares Truce Talks Over
Wed 2014-08-20
  Geelani, Yasin Malik meet Pak envoy after India calls off talks
Tue 2014-08-19
  Kurdish PKK trains Yazidis to fight back against Islamic State.
Mon 2014-08-18
  Apple employee took assassin's bullets for British colonel
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