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BREAKING. President Trump's Remarks On Leaving The Iran Nuclear Deal
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Is Hillary Clinton wearing a missing laptop back brace ?
She is the right age to be experiencing osteoporosis...
[MAIL] Hillary Clinton has been spotted on multiple occasions lately wearing long jackets paired with colorful scarves that cover her neck and drape down over her back.

But Clinton's style choice, which she has even worn out in 80 degree temperatures, has prompted speculation that she has something to hide... a back brace.

Eagle-eyed social media users noticed a strange protrusion coming from Clinton's back when she was photographed visiting her daughter Chelsea's apartment in New York last week.

The supposed back brace was clearly visible under her blue jacket as she left her daughter's building and headed back to her waiting car.

Social media users are convinced that Hillary Clinton is sporting a back brace after she was spotted out in New York last week with a strange protrusion coming from under her jacket.

Social media users are convinced that Hillary Clinton is sporting a back brace after she was spotted out in New York last week with a strange protrusion coming from under her jacket.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Mali/Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen

#1  Just her battery charger. She has to recharge more often now that she's older and her cells are getting more and more worn out - like those laptop batteries. Probably had to plug into a 110 outlet in her Chelsea's apartment.

look for her to soon be admitted to have her batteries changed.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/08/2018 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't want to use the word "Hillarybot", but have there been any visits by engineers from Boston Dynamics?
Posted by: SteveS || 05/08/2018 1:13 Comments || Top||

#3  I've always thought she was a Dalek
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/08/2018 2:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Armor for back? Some sort of device for harvesting bile?
Early morning Snark of The Day
Posted by: Harcourt Hatrack9591 || 05/08/2018 5:54 Comments || Top||

#5  She got really bent out of shape loosing to Trump so when Trump started calling her Crooked Hillary she thought wearing a back brace help her image.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 05/08/2018 6:49 Comments || Top||

#6  At this point does it really matter.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 05/08/2018 8:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Well...the spine removal surgery was decades ago so it can't be that. Maybe she plans on going Bosnia again and is trying new body armor.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 05/08/2018 8:31 Comments || Top||

#8  Saddle ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2018 8:36 Comments || Top||

#9  SVest? One can hope right?
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 05/08/2018 8:42 Comments || Top||

#10  It's just one of her Borg implants popping out.
Posted by: Raj || 05/08/2018 8:59 Comments || Top||

#11  one of many choices,

ORTONYX Full Back Dorsolumbar Brace Posture Corrector, Thoracic Kyphosis, Rounded Shoulders, Posture Correction, Muscular Aches, Lumbar Support - Fully Adjustable - Class 1 Medical Device

Broom riding can be painful.
Posted by: AlanC || 05/08/2018 10:36 Comments || Top||

#12  SVest? One can hope right?
Posted by Bangkok Billy


She issues suicide vests to others. She's the LAST person one might find wearing one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2018 10:52 Comments || Top||

#13  She is en route to becoming Baroness Harkonnen.
Posted by: Classical_Liberal || 05/08/2018 11:29 Comments || Top||

#14  It's an atrial defibrillator I think.
Posted by: gorb || 05/08/2018 13:33 Comments || Top||

#15  If it were Obama, I'd suggest it was the puppeteers' hand
Posted by: Frank G || 05/08/2018 14:20 Comments || Top||

#16  Mini-bar ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2018 15:02 Comments || Top||

#17  It's an atrial defibrillator I think.

Only works if you have a heart.
Early evening Snark of The Day
Posted by: Warthog || 05/08/2018 16:47 Comments || Top||

#18  Yeah, broom riding can be painful. Especialy sice hil took humma's advice to put the broom handle up her a$$...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2018 16:55 Comments || Top||

#19  She dresses like Uncle Fester in drag.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 05/08/2018 17:11 Comments || Top||

#20  Would you people stop making fun of frail old lady who can barely walk and talk!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/08/2018 17:30 Comments || Top||

#21  A contraption to hide her tail.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/08/2018 18:19 Comments || Top||

#22  Lesbo yoga dildo? Just saying.
Posted by: Woodrow || 05/08/2018 19:57 Comments || Top||

#23  A Camel Pack full of vodka?
Posted by: Thor Sholuse3760 || 05/08/2018 20:54 Comments || Top||

#24  Saddle ?

Who the hell would ride that? Not even Bill would take that ride on his most hard-up days...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/08/2018 21:21 Comments || Top||

#25  Hence: Webb's baby batter via turkey baster
Posted by: Frank G || 05/08/2018 21:26 Comments || Top||

#26  Gak! Get help, Frank!
Posted by: gorb || 05/08/2018 22:11 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
WAPO, owned by Blue Origin/Amazon/Bezos - Trashes SpaceX with propaganda Story!


Posted by: 3dc || 05/08/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators

#1  I could see it is a hit piece but couldn't remember who benefits. Now I know.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 05/08/2018 8:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Wonder when he will SpaceX propellant to kill an elephant to show how dangerous this stuff is?
Posted by: Thrise Shomble3667 || 05/08/2018 10:01 Comments || Top||

#3  What propellant do they use? Nasa has used liquid hydrogen for some time and that's super-cold.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/08/2018 11:09 Comments || Top||

#4  They use right now RP-1 (kereosene) and LOX. They super chill the propellant and oxidizer to make them more dense so more in the same size tank. Since they use composite tanks one of them ruptured doing fueling for a static test some time ago. I assume they fixed the problem. The BFR will use LNG for fuel and LOX as oxidizer.
Posted by: Thrise Shomble3667 || 05/08/2018 12:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Ooooooh, someone at WaPo made fun of Musk. Instapundit ban in 3-2-1...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2018 16:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Interesting, Kerosene was suggested by Robert Zubrin as getting almost as much bang for the buck but being far easier when it comes to handling but super-cooling it probably undoes any handling advantages.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/08/2018 18:18 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Stormy Daniels' Lawyer Makes Stuff Up About Probe Into Trump's Lawyer
[TheFederalist] It was quite the week for lawyers outdoing themselves on television. Let’s start with the ever-present Michael Avenatti. In less than two months, Avenatti appeared on CNN 59 times. Fifty-nine times!

As tweeted by the Washington Free Beacon’s David Rutz, Avenatti appeared on seven different programs on MSNBC on a single day, May 4. I do hope alleged Donald Trump paramour Stormy Daniels is his only client, because I find it difficult to believe he’s not neglecting his other cases and clients.

Last week I discussed the defamation suit Avenatti filed on behalf of Daniels against the president over a tweet. Finally, CNN contributor and legal analyst Paul Callan called out Avenatti to his face, and said the lawsuit was a "publicity stunt."

True to form, Avenatti acted like a complete buffoon in response. At one point, Callan mentioned Daniels had appeared in 200 to 500 pornographic movies. Avenatti interrupted him and asked, "From what you’ve read or what you seen?" How can anyone take Avenatti seriously when he continues to act like a jack-ss?

When pressed by Callan on actual legal questions, Avenatti became flustered and childishly cried "You’ve got to stop interrupting me!" It was nice to finally see someone push back at Avenatti’s nonsense.

...who is funding this charade. This week Daniels confirmed in a tweet what we all already knew‐that she is not paying Avenatti. We know they have a legal fund set up. But I am beginning to think there is something or someone larger at play.

It’s no secret that for five years Avenatti worked at a political opposition and media firm run by Rahm Emanuel, who we all know went on to become Obama’s chief of staff. Indeed, Avenatti’s website says that during this time he worked on more than 150 campaigns, including Joe Biden’s Senate campaign!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/08/2018 05:12 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fake news is created by losers.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 05/08/2018 7:16 Comments || Top||

#2  "From what you’ve read or what you seen?"
I can give the guy some credit for this quip.
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/08/2018 9:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Rahm!
Nuff said.
Posted by: 3dc || 05/08/2018 9:16 Comments || Top||


Keith Ellison Wears T-Shirt Calling For Open Borders [VIDEO]
[Daily Caller] Democratic National Committee (DNC) deputy chair Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota sported a T-shirt calling for the elimination of national borders while walking in a May Day parade on Saturday.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Monday published a video of Ellison greeting parade marchers in Minneapolis while wearing the shirt, which read, "yo no creo en fronteras." That translates to "I don’t believe in borders."
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The idea that immigration dilutes "African-American" electoral power, and therefore his own prospects, doesn't seem to penetrate
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/08/2018 2:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Globalists/Marxist have only one master - power. Why do you think the Femnazis support Muslims?
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 05/08/2018 7:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Goes well with the Che banner in his campaign headquarters.
Posted by: Mugsy Glink || 05/08/2018 8:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Globalists/Marxist have only one master - power.

That's what I'm saying - you think when "Hispanics" are majority of Democrat voters, he'll be a candidate?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/08/2018 8:23 Comments || Top||

#5  That's what I'm saying - you think when "Hispanics" are majority of Democrat voters, he'll be a candidate?

Elections? We don't need no steenkin elections!
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/08/2018 10:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Sure, why don;t he ca;; for China to open their border. Also Russia. Other countries.

Someone a while ago here once asked "why don't you ask the native Americans how the 'open borders' policy worked out for them".
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 05/08/2018 11:19 Comments || Top||


Ex-CIA officer: Brennan's attacks on Trump ‘cringe-worthy,' put national security at risk
[Wash Times] A behind-the-scenes U.S. intelligence community fight over the merits of publicly scorning President Trump has burst into the open recently, with the CIA’s former Moscow station chief accusing Obama-era spymaster John O. Brennan of crossing a red line through incessant Twitter and cable news excoriations of the current commander in chief.

In addition to claiming that Mr. Brennan is aiding a Kremlin plot to deepen America’s partisan divide, former CIA Clandestine Service Officer Daniel Hoffman says the former CIA director has actually jeopardized national security by publicly insinuating that Russian President Vladimir Putin may be blackmailing Mr. Trump.

Mr. Brennan made the insinuation in late-March when he asserted during an appearance on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" that Mr. Trump is "afraid of the president of Russia" and that "one can speculate as to why."

"The Russians may have something on [Mr. Trump] personally, that they could always roll out and make his life more difficult," Mr. Brennan said. "That [Mr. Trump] has had this fawning attitude toward Mr. Putin...say[s] to me that he does have something to fear and something very serious to fear."

The comments quickly became fodder for headlines in other news outlets. But they also had something of an explosive impact inside the intelligence community, where many recoiled at the notion that the former CIA chief had made a public declaration on a matter U.S. spy agencies have never weighed in on conclusively.

Apparently aware of this, Mr. Brennan wasted little time trying to rectify the situation by reiterating that he was only speculating. Within just a few hours of the MSNBC interview, he told The New York Times that, "I do not know if the Russians have something on Donald Trump that they could use as blackmail."
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Brennan: furthering Putin's plan to divide America and have us fighting with one another.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 05/08/2018 1:07 Comments || Top||

#2  CIA: the best funded, most powerful, fraternity in the World.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/08/2018 2:42 Comments || Top||

#3  It's OK. We all know what Brennan is and why he's out of a job.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/08/2018 10:11 Comments || Top||


How Buzzfeed’s ‘Data-Monster’ Leveraged User Data To Fuel Super PACs, Target Voters
[DailyMail]
  • BuzzFeed created dozens of native political ads for anti-Trump super PACs in 2016 that were “based off mounds and piles and troves of data and information” it had collected on its own 650 million users, according to former BuzzFeed vice president.

  • At the same time, BuzzFeed refused to work with pro-Trump groups because to do so would be “hazardous to our health.”

  • BuzzFeed said that political ads on its website would be labeled as such, but most of the political ads the website reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation were not.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/08/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Buzzfeed has the world's largest database of uncaged retardates. The dems want it soooo much...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2018 9:06 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
4 Women accuse NY Attorney General of physical abuse
[NewYorker] Now Schneiderman is facing a reckoning of his own. As his prominence as a voice against sexual misconduct has risen, so, too, has the distress of four women with whom he has had romantic relationships or encounters. They accuse Schneiderman of having subjected them to nonconsensual physical violence. All have been reluctant to speak out, fearing reprisal. But two of the women, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam, have talked to The New Yorker on the record, because they feel that doing so could protect other women. They allege that he repeatedly hit them, often after drinking, frequently in bed and never with their consent. Manning Barish and Selvaratnam categorize the abuse he inflicted on them as "assault." They did not report their allegations to the police at the time, but both say that they eventually sought medical attention after having been slapped hard across the ear and face, and also choked. Selvaratnam says that Schneiderman warned her he could have her followed and her phones tapped, and both say that he threatened to kill them if they broke up with him. (Schneiderman’s spokesperson said that he "never made any of these threats.")
Schneiderman is one of the more arrogant and abhorrent Democrat pols out there, and has had a special talent for using the resources of the State of New York to conduct lawfare against the Trump Administration. Quite honestly, his reckoning is going to be fun to watch. As Glenn Reyonlds at Instapundit says, #MeToo was supposed to torpedo DJT - but it keeps circling around to take out Democrats.

Mike

Update: Three hours after the publication of this story, Schneiderman resigned from his position. “While these allegations are unrelated to my professional conduct or the operations of the office, they will effectively prevent me from leading the office’s work at this critical time,” he said in a statement. “I therefore resign my office, effective at the close of business on May 8, 2018.”
About those torpedoes circling round...
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 05/08/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Three hours after the publication of this story, Schneiderman resigned from his position. “While these allegations are unrelated to my professional conduct or the operations of the office, they will effectively prevent me from leading the office’s work at this critical time,”

...and if you insist on asking further questions about this, I will kick you arses.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2018 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  "...“While these allegations are unrelated to my professional conduct or the operations of the office..."

so he abuses women on his own time, not at the office - what a guy
Posted by: lord garth || 05/08/2018 0:38 Comments || Top||

#3  The body politic has become watching a Roadrunner cartoon with DJT as Wile Ethelbert Coyote's foil.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 05/08/2018 1:22 Comments || Top||

#4  John Norman to the white courtesy phone.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/08/2018 2:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Arrogant piece of shit. Assault (sexual and otherwise) should be easy to prove. Prosecute and imprison this preening bitch. Strip his license.
Posted by: Frank G || 05/08/2018 7:07 Comments || Top||

#6  From Wiki:

In February 2018, Schneiderman brought a civil rights lawsuit against The Weinstein Company, alleging the company "repeatedly broke New York law by failing to protect its employees from pervasive sexual harassment, intimidation, and discrimination.

Would you like milk with your schadenfreude Harvey ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/08/2018 7:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Always with the Freudian Projection from the Left.
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 05/08/2018 7:27 Comments || Top||

#8  re: #5.
Manhattan DA opens probe into Schneiderman

Here's hoping it's the first of near-nightly probing. "But, but, Climate Change™! #MeToo!..."
Posted by: Frank G || 05/08/2018 7:40 Comments || Top||

#9  "Egads Batman! I have never seen such a debased code of ethics!"

"It is a characteristic of the Democrat, Robin."
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606 || 05/08/2018 8:39 Comments || Top||

#10  nice image of Schneiderman speaking at a press conference with Al Gore, Bill McKibben and various other AGs announcing their lawsuit against Exxon here


https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/attonery-general-gore-climate.jpg
Posted by: lord garth || 05/08/2018 8:47 Comments || Top||

#11  But he was so busy telling you how bad you are for being white, capitalist, gun owner, Trump voter. He was waaaaay to busy to actually behave.

Another dumb dem "rising star" flames out...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2018 8:50 Comments || Top||

#12  He's been in on the "fossil fuels lawsuit" racket from the get-go. Time for Chevron and Exxon Mobil's lawyers to ask of every litigant "do you ride around in a gasoline powered car?" "Do you slather petroleum products on your girlfriends' buttocks?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/08/2018 8:54 Comments || Top||

#13  Louise Mensch says that it's the Russians framing him to protect Trump from a NY criminal charge.

Pop-corn anyone? Tinfoil chapeau?
Posted by: AlanC || 05/08/2018 10:39 Comments || Top||



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