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It's worse: Jewish Israeli-American, 19, arrested in Ashkelon for phoning in dozens of JCC bomb threats
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Feds Indict Philly DA Seth Williams on Charges of Corruption, Stealing From His Mother
Why are you surprised?

He's a Democrat, isn't he?



Posted by: charger || 03/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Inreturn, the indictment alleges that, among other things Williams sought to assist Ali "in limiting security screening by law enforcement authorities at the United States border when attempting to return to the United States after foreign travel," specifically trying to help him avoid secondary screening when Ali would travel through the Philadelphia airport.

Selling America's and Citizen's safety out.
Yep. A Democrat
Posted by: Frank G || 03/23/2017 7:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Mr. Williams should not have brought his work home.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 03/23/2017 8:12 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
David Brock, Media Matters founder and Clinton ally, suffers heart attack
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] David Brock, founder of the left-leaning Media Matters for America non-profit and a longtime Hillary Clinton ally, suffered a heart attack on Tuesday, according to a press release.

"David Brock suffered a heart attack while working in the Washington DC office early Tuesday," the release said on Wednesday.

It added that he was quickly treated and stabilized.
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any medical updates on George Soros ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/23/2017 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2  He drank from Breitbart's glass?
Posted by: al aSha-med || 03/23/2017 1:10 Comments || Top||

#3  At a certain age, ya gotta quit. Cocaine - it's a helluva drug
Posted by: Frank G || 03/23/2017 7:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Whose heart attacked him?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 03/23/2017 7:14 Comments || Top||

#5  With any luck, it will prove to be an eye-opener for Mr. Brock.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 03/23/2017 8:09 Comments || Top||

#6  There's always a down side to medical advances.
Posted by: brujotejano || 03/23/2017 10:14 Comments || Top||

#7  A lot of stress involved when you align yourself with losers.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 03/23/2017 19:08 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
'America First' cannot mean 'America, Go It Alone,' top EU official cautions (wanna bet?)
[FoxNews]
Given that President Trump wants Europe to be able to better defend itself at home and abroad, hence the demand they increase defense spending to long-promised levels, it seems to me that going it alone is not what he intended.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  it seems to me that going it alone is not what he intended

His intent to suggest that they should carry their share may have been faithfully nuanced but poorly represented by Ms. Airhead.
Posted by: al aSha-med || 03/23/2017 1:06 Comments || Top||

#2  ...They always start with the "we all need each other" song when they think we might actually start making them carry their own weight...

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 03/23/2017 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  How does one say "Lead, follow or get out of the way" in European?
Posted by: SteveS || 03/23/2017 16:52 Comments || Top||


Devin Nunes says President Trump's personal communications may have been picked up by investigators through "incidental collection"
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds like he used Geek Squad.
Posted by: Pliny Shose2737 || 03/23/2017 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2  The bird on the right was "incidentally collected."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/23/2017 0:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Is that Cheney?
Posted by: al aSha-med || 03/23/2017 1:02 Comments || Top||

#4  And then incidentally leaked?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/23/2017 4:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe so, but it wasn't "wiretapped" and Obama didn't connect the wires, so Trump was still lying. We never make a mistake - The Media
Posted by: Bobby || 03/23/2017 7:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Just a question for those who may know.

Nunes took his info first to Paul Ryan then to Mr. Trump before presenting it to the Intelligence Committee.

The Committee Dems now have their panties in a wad.

Question: Is it possible that the Committee could have bottled up this information, thereby delaying it from Messrs. Ryan and Trump?
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 03/23/2017 8:08 Comments || Top||


#8  My guess is they know the damage to Trump was done and they will soon be exposed that they did wiretap him so they are slowly walking things back and managing the story to avoid the worst of the blowback as the story ages.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/23/2017 10:07 Comments || Top||

#9  Outrage!â„¢: Top Dem calls for investigation into House Intelligence chairman
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 03/23/2017 10:52 Comments || Top||

#10  Outrage!â„¢: Top Dem calls for investigation into House Intelligence chairman.

Great idea, but can begin with former Congressman and HPSCI Chair Mike Rogers, then bring it forward ?

No you say? Well then just fok'n drop it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/23/2017 13:20 Comments || Top||

#11  Possible Clinton State Dept connections
Posted by: al aSha-med || 03/23/2017 15:39 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Senile Idiot Visits DC, Babbles About Nukes and Trump

Gov. Jerry Brown arrived in Washington for his first trip to the capital during the Trump administration with an agenda full to the point of groaning. But in addition to infrastructure, immigration, health care and myriad other issues important to the nation's largest state, he had another topic on his mind.

"The end of the world," said Mr. Brown.
Or DC
In a visit to The New York Times Washington bureau Tuesday, the always-spirited governor was at his most animated when discussing his work on the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and a threat he said should be taken more seriously.

"One bomb of 15 kilotons dropped in Washington from a terrorist from some material they put together ‐ unlikely but highly possible ‐ could kill 80,000 people instantly, 100,000 serious casualties, wipe out the president, most of the Congress, whoever is at the meeting and change America forever," said Mr. Brown, tapping a conference table for emphasis. "End America as we know it. That is not inconceivable."
Cue Inigo Montoya
The governor put in a plug for legislation sponsored by Senator Edward Markey of Massachusetts that would require the president to receive congressional approval to use nuclear weapons
Thanks, Moonbeam, you doddering old choo choo fool
Posted by: Frank G || 03/23/2017 08:49 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/23/2017 10:27 Comments || Top||

#2  It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine. Posted by Deacon Blues

Me as well, but I've always excelled at denial.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/23/2017 10:28 Comments || Top||

#3  That photo always brings me back to 1979 when Moonbeam and Linda Ronstadt were an item and I saw her perform at an outdoor festival in Northern Cal called Mountainaire. She had a mishap the week of the show and performed with an ankle cast.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 03/23/2017 11:34 Comments || Top||

#4  that would require the president to receive congressional approval to use nuclear weapons

Is this the same Congress that would be wiped out in a nuke strike on Washington?
Posted by: SteveS || 03/23/2017 11:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Linda was a "beard".
Posted by: Sgt.D.T. || 03/23/2017 13:39 Comments || Top||

#6  "One bomb of 15 kilotons dropped in Washington

More likely rowed to shore then driven to its destination. But do go on.
Posted by: gorb || 03/23/2017 14:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Senile Idiot Visits DC, Babbles About Nukes and Trump

Thought this was a Biden news story
Posted by: al aSha-med || 03/23/2017 15:31 Comments || Top||

#8  Could have been any member of the demoncratic party these days.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/23/2017 15:36 Comments || Top||

#9  Yeah, I thought it was going to be about McCain. Biden was my second choice.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/23/2017 16:42 Comments || Top||

#10  yeah...both good calls
Posted by: Frank G || 03/23/2017 19:02 Comments || Top||


Susan Rice Lectures Trump About Making False Statements
[Daily Caller] The Obama administration official who misled the American public on national television about the Benghazi attacks is out with a new op-ed lecturing President Trump about contorting "the facts."

Writing at The Washington Post, Susan Rice, the national security advisor under Obama, chastised Trump for his claims in recent weeks that the Obama administration wiretapped his offices during the presidential campaign.

While Trump has made false and inaccurate statements about being wiretapped by both the Obama administration and British intelligence services, Rice is perhaps the least-qualified Obama official to call out the Republican.

Rice is perhaps best known for her appearances on five Sunday talk shows on the morning of Sept. 16, 2012, five days after Muslim terrorists killed four Americans in attacks on U.S. compounds in Benghazi.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But...the pot IS black
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/23/2017 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  The left defines Trooth. Got that?
Posted by: Pliny Shose2737 || 03/23/2017 0:27 Comments || Top||

#3  I am sooooo sick of these self righteous assholes lecturing us.

Posted by: DarthVader || 03/23/2017 8:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Lord Have Mercy,

Its a wonder lightning didn't strike her dead when she said that...
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 03/23/2017 10:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Some types of mouthing off should be a capital offense.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/23/2017 11:36 Comments || Top||

#6  It's about the best the Dems could do, I guess.
Posted by: gorb || 03/23/2017 14:36 Comments || Top||


Desperate Dems mobilize elderly Volkssturm - Joe Biden sent to the Russian front
[The Hill] Former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday knocked the Trump administration for its relationship with Russia, criticizing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's decision to visit Russia before a NATO meeting.

"The notion that there's still this romance with Putin ... I'm told [Tillerson] has decided he's going to go visit Putin before he goes to the NATO conference? What in the hell are we doing?" Biden told reporters at the Capitol.

On Monday, it was announced that Tillerson would not attend an April 5-6 meeting of NATO foreign ministers. He is instead staying in the U.S. for a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Tillerson will then travel to Russia for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Lawmakers from both parties have called for a thorough investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election after Russian-backed hackers were linked to a breach of the Democratic National Committee last year.

In December, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security released a joint report detailing how federal investigators linked the Russian government to hacks of Democratic Party organizations.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What in the hell are we doing?

Guess what, Joe. You're not doing anything!
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/23/2017 11:35 Comments || Top||


Obama Admin Loyalists, Government Insiders Sabotage Trump White House
[FREEBEACON] The B.O. regime worked in its final weeks in office to undermine the incoming Trump White and continues to do so, according to multiple sources both in and out of the White House.

Behind the effort, these sources say, are senior government officials who previously worked under President B.O. and remain loyal to his agenda. These individuals leak negative information about the Trump White House and its senior staff to a network of former B.O. regime officials who then plant this information in key media outlets including the Washington Post and New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had been cornered by the banditti...
holdovers from the B.O. regime are working to undermine the Trump administration's agenda through efforts to alter official communications, a number of administration officials confirmed in conversations with the Washington Free Beacon.

Multiple sources expressed concern
...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended...
over what they described as an unprecedented effort by the former administration to subvert President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
's team. These sources would only speak on background because they were not officially authorized to publicly discuss the situation, which is said to have fostered a level of discomfort and distrust in the West Wing.

The Free Beacon first reported on several portions of this effort earlier this year, including separate campaigns to undermine current CIA Director Mike Pompeo and former national security adviser Michael Flynn, both of whom were subjected to leaks aimed at undermining their credibility.

"We have members of the former administration at the highest levels who through their actions after January 20 have demonstrated their refusal to recognize the results of the general election," one senior administration official told the Free Beacon. "They have pursued, organized, and managed a comprehensive subversion of the new administration."
Posted by: Fred || 03/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  and BO is working his way thru the impoverished on the atoll
Posted by: al aSha-med || 03/23/2017 15:33 Comments || Top||

#2  The last great white hope for the liberals, Paul Ryan, will hopefully go down in flames with the defeat of Ryancare.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 03/23/2017 19:43 Comments || Top||


Government
Fairness Alert: IRS takes only 10 days to make After School Satan Club Tax Exempt
Professional courtesy ?
Posted by: Frozen Al || 03/23/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe that's what the Tea Party should have called itself.
Posted by: gorb || 03/23/2017 4:14 Comments || Top||

#2  I've read comments from Leftists that the Tea Party IS Satan.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/23/2017 14:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Said absolutely serious: "All members of the Tea Party are racist!"
In a prior conversation the same person had complained that a Lil' Old Lady had seen his Obama bumper sticker and accused him of "Supporting godless baby killers!"
Posted by: magpie || 03/23/2017 17:21 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2017-03-23
  It's worse: Jewish Israeli-American, 19, arrested in Ashkelon for phoning in dozens of JCC bomb threats
Wed 2017-03-22
  Jihadi car and knife attack: Parliament in lockdown
Tue 2017-03-21
  U.S. Bans Laptops, Tablets from Cabins on Flights from Middle East
Mon 2017-03-20
  Syrian regulars gain control of regions near Palmyra
Sun 2017-03-19
  Four wanted Maute militants nabbed in Lanao
Sat 2017-03-18
  Man shot dead at Paris Orly airport this morning after taking soldier's gun: official
Fri 2017-03-17
  Four Killed as Bangladesh Police Storm Islamist Hideout
Thu 2017-03-16
  Kommander Abdullah, 10 others die in airstrike in Paktika
Wed 2017-03-15
  Dozens killed in suicide bombing at Damascus "Palace of Justice" courthouse
Tue 2017-03-14
  Suspected ISIS gas attack hits Iraqi forces in west Mosul
Mon 2017-03-13
  Kenyan police nab 6 terror suspects in coastal town
Sun 2017-03-12
  Double suicide attack kills 40 in Damascus
Sat 2017-03-11
  Syrian force a ‘few weeks’ from Raqqa, U.S. Marines deployed
Fri 2017-03-10
   Ax attacker at Düsseldorf main train station arrested
Thu 2017-03-09
  Baghdadi abandons Mosul fight to field commanders
Wed 2017-03-08
  IS gunmen dressed as medics kill 30 at Kabul military hospital


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