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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Pelosi: Qatar Tells Me that 'Hamas Is a Humanitarian Organization'
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/28/2014 15:39 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In a sane world, that statement alone would be enough to immediately impeach her and send her to prison for aiding and abating a terrorist organization.

But she'll get re-elected and get more money and power instead.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/28/2014 15:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Depends on whose side you are on, witch.
Posted by: Thineng Angailet7166 || 07/28/2014 16:06 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: gorb || 07/28/2014 16:21 Comments || Top||

#4  In a sane world she would've spent her life in a padded room.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2014 16:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Isn't that scarf unIslamic because it depicts leaves which are living organisms?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 07/28/2014 18:55 Comments || Top||

#6  So not only is she a demented witch, she's a DUMB demented witch.
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/28/2014 18:59 Comments || Top||

#7  Qatar is the big financier for Hamas. They are the facilitator for much of the misery in Gaza.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/28/2014 20:32 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Rahm Emanuel: Illegal Aliens are Fleeing Violent Conditions, So Let's Move Them to Chicago
The mayor's office says the federal government
I love how these turds say "federal government" and the publicly-schooled masses are unable to sense the impending "cashectomy."
will pay for the youths' shelter, education, health care, food, safety and social services.
Giving cover to his seatwarmer.
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/28/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Move them into the homes of the highest legislators and members of the Executive Branch, for the duration.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/28/2014 0:08 Comments || Top||

#2  So far in July 39 dead 249 wounded. Yeah, nice and peaceful for the "refugees"
Posted by: Jimp Forkbeard8158 || 07/28/2014 0:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Hmmm. Time to google the murder rates in Chicago vs Honduras.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/28/2014 1:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, the refugees will be able to do a gradual tradition from a life of crime and violence, which they are comfortable in. Just like home.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/28/2014 1:26 Comments || Top||

#5  As a loyal, recruited agent of the regime, it is not for me to question the urban directives of the Champ. Besides, we can certainly use the money for our local machine. I usually follow the money.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2014 3:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Where was rahm when Elian Gonzales fled Cuba?
Posted by: Airandee || 07/28/2014 6:32 Comments || Top||

#7  If I lived in Chicago, I'd be heading for the Canadian border and asking for amnesty.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/28/2014 10:39 Comments || Top||

#8  An interesting footnote of history on Elian Gonzales. Elian and Holder.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2014 11:42 Comments || Top||

#9  Ref #8 and link to one my favorite SWAT/police state fotos. Special note: Don't miss the mission essential, high-speed NOMEX gloves with cut-away fingers. [nose nugget mining whilst awaiting that next call, obviously requires unrestricted freedom of movement]
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2014 12:13 Comments || Top||

#10  So, can we fly open the border doors to Ukrainian brides fleeing a violent condition? And if not, why? (none of this, you have to show you will not be a financial burden to the country crap)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2014 15:52 Comments || Top||

#11  Most are probably headed there to meet up with their MS13 bosses anyway.
Posted by: OldSpook || 07/28/2014 22:39 Comments || Top||


Senator Walsh's Plagiarism Scandal, PTSD References Angers Veterans
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/28/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One can be certain that the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania is conducting a thorough AR 15-6 investigation of the alleged plagiarism, with published findings, recommendations for admonishments and punitive withdrawal of degree award.

[sarcasm of course, nothing of the sort will be done]
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2014 4:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Walsh, a Democrat, must be on the wrong side of donk politics, maybe too military or too right--something like that. I dare say, that nearly all theses and dissertations, if nitpicked carefully, could be found to contain improper citation of sources. His committee probably did a Pelosi (you have to pass it to read it). They just didn't read it carefully enough. The thesis is the first one the student does. The committee has seen many, many of these. His chairman should have caught most of this. His committee the rest. Some of this has to do with dealing with deadlines at the end of a term and many such theses going through at the same time as well as grading deadlines.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2014 10:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Just another set of memorandum, a couple of paragraphs to 'clarify' the standards, etc, etc, because as B alludes too, they just don't want to hold someone in rank accountable for their act.

You know you don't need as many regulations and as much paper work, if you just take a couple these types and use them as an example regardless of rank. In fact more so with the higher rank as holding the office is suppose to come with special trust and confidence.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2014 11:06 Comments || Top||

#4  The maddening part isn't his plagiarisms, which he does not deny, but rather his use of PTSD as a cause. It' generally the cover-up that carries the worst odor, this being no exception.

I would LOVE for someone to do a simple audit of his awards and decorations, just on the off chance he might have some other..... potentially PTSD related irregularities.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2014 11:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Conduct unbecoming... No matter how you slice it.
Posted by: OldSpook || 07/28/2014 22:42 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Oh Brother... Hillary Clinton Now Says She Was "Most Skeptical" of Reset With Russia (Video)
Flashbacks included!
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/28/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But no doubt not nearly as 'skpetical' as we are of you.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2014 3:56 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2014 4:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Now that requires a "willing suspension of disbelief".
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2014 12:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Well she does have that southern drawl...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/28/2014 12:17 Comments || Top||

#5  She's a disgrace on all things Southern.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/28/2014 16:58 Comments || Top||

#6  She's from Illinois. She may have lived in Arkansas, but she's a Yankee by birth.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/28/2014 17:02 Comments || Top||

#7  Even if not by birth, Rambler, then certainly by behavior.

No matter where her mother actually gave birth, Shrillery is a carpet-bagging Yankee.
Posted by: Barbara || 07/28/2014 18:57 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Obama: Israel has right to defend itself
[Iran Press TV] The US president says Israel has the right to defend itself against Paleostinian resistance forces. Barack Obama
I am the change that you seek...
also calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire between Tel Aviv and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,.

The White House, in a statement, said Obama made the remarks in a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

According to the White House, Obama "made clear the strategic imperative of instituting an immediate, unconditional humanitarian ceasefire that ends hostilities now and leads to a permanent cessation of hostilities based on the November 2012 ceasefire agreement."

He "reiterated the United States' serious and growing concern about the rising number of Paleostinian civilian deaths and the loss of Israeli lives, as well as the worsening humanitarian situation in Gazoo," the statement added.
Posted by: Fred || 07/28/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Latest poll numbers came in, and he is reacting to them. Events are inside his OODA loop. They always are.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/28/2014 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  "If you like your doctor"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2014 4:43 Comments || Top||

#3  "Israel has right to defend itself"

Gee, must be his white half talking.








No, that's not racist. It's a reference to the old, sarcastic, saying "That's damn white of you" when someone does an unexpectedly nice thing (tongue planted firmly in cheek)
Posted by: AlanC || 07/28/2014 7:44 Comments || Top||

#4  They didn't let him finish his sentence:

"...but we are doing everything we can to change that."
Posted by: Iblis || 07/28/2014 10:26 Comments || Top||

#5  In making this statement, Champ is helping Hamas. Khaled Mashal was shown on CBS's 60 Minutes last night refusing to acknowledge the right of Israel to exist. It is clear for all to see that Hamas does not want peace and will violate any ceasefire. There is no point in attempting to negotiate with mad dogs. The only way to deal with them is to keep killing them until they are all disarmed and surrender unconditionally. Champ should know this. He almost certainly does know it. So if he really believed Israel has a right to defend itself he would publicly offer Netanyahu all the help he can use and at the same time tell Hamas to go to hell. Anything short of that will only encourage the bastards. But then, Champ should know this. He almost certainly does know it. That's the whole point.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 07/28/2014 14:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Don't forget Champ's 'top master advisor' is ValJar - an Iranian by birth. Iran backs Hamas.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/28/2014 16:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Also don't forget that Champ's middle name is Hussein.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 07/28/2014 18:59 Comments || Top||

#8  ...an Iranian by birth.

Not quite. She spent her childhood in Iran, where her father was working, but her parents are American, and therefore so is she. She clearly absorbed certain attitudes, though.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/28/2014 23:34 Comments || Top||


Government
John Kerry still the only Secretary of State in 20 years to fail at ceasefire efforts in Mideast
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/28/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is unfair. Both Hamas armaments & Israeli resolve owe a lot the the efforts of previous US secretaries (do they make coffee?) of state.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2014 4:46 Comments || Top||

#2  the the ---> to the
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2014 4:47 Comments || Top||


Champ: US Must 'Embrace an Economic Patriotism That Says We Rise or Fall Together'
[Breitbart] Saturday in his weekly address, President Champ said companies that avoid paying U.S. taxes by setting up overseas headquarters are “basically renouncing their citizenship.”
Whether he intended to or not, I'm delighted that the Champ has brought up the topic of 'citizenship.' It's high time we had this discussion. Firstly, let's begin with his very own citizenship [former student status], and then move on to the tens of thousands he has assisted in crossing our southern border in open defiance of national sovereignty and the [citizenship] rights of all Americans.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/28/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is Obama saying that companies are people with citizenship and everything? Do companies get to vote?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/28/2014 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm sure he is not interested in sharing with me.
Jackasshole
Posted by: newc || 07/28/2014 0:43 Comments || Top||

#3  The selling out of the meaning of being an American citizen by the Beltway Party (to special interest groups, business groups, the 1 percenters looking for cheap labor), it's rather lame to call upon patriotism. It's every tribe and individual for themselves. You look after your own interests to stuff the ballot box and we'll look at our own interests as well.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/28/2014 0:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Obama (the community organizing politician) is trying to get businesses (a part of the capitalist business community run by real business people such as Romney) to cooperate on hiring the foreigners Obama is shoving down Americas throat.
Posted by: Thineng Angailet7166 || 07/28/2014 2:05 Comments || Top||

#5  "You work, we spend."?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/28/2014 4:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Maybe oblama should have a chat with his leftist friends running google, facebook and amazon.
Posted by: Airandee || 07/28/2014 6:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Well, how about that Obama start by not trying to tear down industry in this country with heavy-handed government tactics, over-regulation, and crony capitalism. For example, early on, Obama sent armed Federal SWAT teams into Gibson Guitar in Nashville over some ginned up environmental issue (use of illegal exotic rosewood in their process). It was found later that the CEO of Gibson donated to Republican candidates. The CEO of Martin who was a heavy Democratic supporter was left alone despite using the same materials as Gibson in their manufacturing of guitars. Crony capitalism or down-right criminal use of the government for punishment of people on the wrong side of politics? Gibson.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/28/2014 10:21 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm quite sure King George would have agreed.
Posted by: Iblis || 07/28/2014 10:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Just what I want - a lecture on economics from a Marxist...
Posted by: Raj || 07/28/2014 12:27 Comments || Top||

#10  This guy shut down my state's primary industry for over a year, while he was giving the banksters roughly a trillion dollars in stimulus.

He's just trolling/gaslighting at this point.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/28/2014 12:31 Comments || Top||

#11  How about this?

Drop most of the repatriotazion of the overseas monies. We are one of very few countries that do this and the only western one to do so.

Allow them to bring the money back home to reinvest and you'll see more tax revenue than if you took it out the first time.

Otherwise.... go fuck yourself.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/28/2014 13:06 Comments || Top||

#12  DV's last sentence pretty much sums up my comments on all things Obama....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 07/28/2014 14:42 Comments || Top||

#13  I'm with you, #12 Ret.
Posted by: Barbara || 07/28/2014 15:22 Comments || Top||

#14  You fall, we'll watch.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/28/2014 17:03 Comments || Top||

#15  I'm with #12, and would add the entire bevy of progressive apparatchiks you brought into office and have salted throughout the senior ranks of the civil service. Burning those ticks and leeches off will take years and ruin careers to cauterize the wounds this POS has caused our nation.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/28/2014 17:47 Comments || Top||

#16  A trick he learned from the Norks.
Posted by: gorb || 07/28/2014 19:29 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2014-07-28
  IDF warns resident of three Gaza regions to evacuate to central Gaza City
Sun 2014-07-27
  Israel resumes Gaza offensive after Hamas rockets break cease-fire
Sat 2014-07-26
  Islamic Jihad number 3 killed in Gaza
Fri 2014-07-25
  Key Taliban commander among five killed in Orakzai blast
Thu 2014-07-24
  295 Suspects Arrested For Jerusalem Riots
Wed 2014-07-23
  Clashes in Libya's Benghazi kill 16, injure 81
Tue 2014-07-22
  At Least 572 Palestinians Killed During Gaza Operation
Mon 2014-07-21
  'Islamic State' Kills 270 in Syria Gas Field Takeover
Sun 2014-07-20
  Battle for Syria gas field after jihadists execute hundreds
Sat 2014-07-19
  IS-led Militants Storm Iraqi Air Base near Tikrit
Fri 2014-07-18
  Insurgents Attack Kabul Airport
Thu 2014-07-17
   IDF starts Gaza ground invasion
Wed 2014-07-16
  20 militants killed in US drone attack in Pakistan
Tue 2014-07-15
  Israeli airstrikes kill 40 Palestinians in 24 hours
Mon 2014-07-14
  "Libya Dawn" Islamist movement orders Qaaqaa and Sawaq brigades to leave Tripoli


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