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Home Front: Politix
How The US Gave Guns To Mexican Cartels
Posted by: Grunter || 12/01/2013 07:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Apologies and recommendation to Viktor Anatolyevich Bout. Contact Eric Holder on how you can solidity your government cover.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2013 13:20 Comments || Top||


Government
WH claims healthcare.gov success - we have met the goal
Posted by: Frozen Al || 12/01/2013 12:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So.

'Fixed' in their definition means you can bring up a web page, and type in information.

There's a very good chance that the wrong information will go to the wrong carriers resulting in the wrong coverage and in massive security breaches, but this is FIXED!

Well done, Team Obama! You've lowered the standard of success so far that anyone can reach it! Truly a great victory for equality!

The car is FIXED! Sure, it may blow up when you turn it on, it's likely to crash because the brakes only work occasionally, and the steering wheel is semi-random, but it's FIXED! Success!

Orion
Posted by: Orion || 12/01/2013 18:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Borrowed a page from the drawdown in Iraq and Afghanistan, did we?
Posted by: gorb || 12/01/2013 21:44 Comments || Top||

#3  WH claims healthcare.gov success


Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Grundy3050 || 12/01/2013 22:21 Comments || Top||

#4  After a release you are supposed to wait a couple of weeks for feedback and then let those affected the issues reported.

Announcing success 2 minutes after the release shows how incompetent this bunch truly is.
Posted by: Guillibaldo McCoy1948 || 12/01/2013 22:42 Comments || Top||


Rep. Gwen Moore diagnoses anemia and high BP.
[Daily Caller] Wisconsin Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore played doctor on MSNBC Friday, diagnosing two young people she met over Thanksgiving with illnesses and saying they “needed to be educated” about Obamacare.
Too tired to think for themselves? Could be anemia, high BP, Low-T.
Here, smoke these and call my office in two weeks.

Moore was on “Andrea Mitchell Reports” to discuss the impending deadline for the Obamacare website with guest host T.J. Holmes. The congresswoman effectively hijacked the program to promote the law, declaring the “storms and the rain” of website glitches and dropped plans “really sort of obscures the rainbow” of Obamacare.
Storms, rain, rainbow.... unicorns ?
But a modest question from Holmes caused the lawmaker to cite the example of two young people she met Thursday.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2013 11:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Have you seen her? Chasing parked cars, obviously
Posted by: Frank G || 12/01/2013 12:09 Comments || Top||

#2  "really sort of obscures the rainbow" of Obamacare.

No classroom 'foot stomp' needed. We get it.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2013 13:30 Comments || Top||

#3  ...too bad Charles Krauthammer would likely pass on a general psych. diagnosis of Ms. Moore...
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 12/01/2013 15:31 Comments || Top||

#4  I wonder if she's related to Kim Jong Il.
Posted by: gorb || 12/01/2013 21:45 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Left Pushing for More Populist Agenda
Have we now changed the definition of 'populist' to mean far-left, liberal wacko dreams?
For more than two years, President Obama has endorsed reducing Social Security payments as part of an ambitious deal to tame the national debt. But then Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) -- viewed by supporters on the left as a potential 2016 presidential candidate -- embraced a far different proposal: increasing benefits for seniors.
Junior Senator from a blue state lining up to be the next "Know Nothing" president. We need a Senator Warren photo.
As Obama struggles to achieve his second-term domestic agenda, a more liberal and populist voice is emerging within a Democratic Party already looking ahead to the next presidential election. The push from the left represents both a critique of Obama's tenure and a clear challenge to Hillary Rodham Clinton, the party's presumptive presidential front-runner, who carries a more centrist banner.
Hilly carries a 'more centrist' banner? Compared to Wasserman-Schlitz, I suppose.
The left's influence will be on display in coming weeks when a high-profile congressional committee formed after the government shutdown faces a deadline to forge a budget agreement. Under strong pressure from liberals, the panel has effectively abandoned discussion of a "grand bargain" agreement partly because it probably would involve cuts to Social Security.
So the budget will be balanced by increasing taxes and expanding benefits?
"The absolute last thing we should do in 2013 -- at the very moment that Social Security has become the principal lifeline for millions of our seniors -- is allow the program to begin to be dismantled inch by inch," Warren said recently on the Senate floor, announcing her support for a bill that would expand the program.
So if you're not "expanding", you're "dismantling inch by inch"?
Posted by: Bobby || 12/01/2013 09:09 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I hope Fauxcahontas runs in 2016. I'd crawl naked over broken glass to vote against her or that _itch Hillary
Posted by: Frank G || 12/01/2013 11:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Frank Frank! Frank! Who would you vote for in the California primary? You should maybe consider.... ummm.. stuff.
Posted by: Shipman || 12/01/2013 12:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Scott Walker. I can't vote in the Dem Primary
Posted by: Frank G || 12/01/2013 12:26 Comments || Top||

#4  "Gun Control" is probably on her Agenda too:

Posted by: Au Auric || 12/01/2013 15:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Junior Senator from a blue state lining up to be the next "Know Nothing" president. We need a Senator Warren photo.


Posted by: Au Auric || 12/01/2013 15:25 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Au Auric || 12/01/2013 15:27 Comments || Top||

#7  I don't know - how


Posted by: Au Auric || 12/01/2013 15:29 Comments || Top||

#8  Julia Child - She ain't


Posted by: Au Auric || 12/01/2013 15:34 Comments || Top||

#9  I'll put a spell on you my little pretties

Posted by: Au Auric || 12/01/2013 15:38 Comments || Top||

#10  The "Nancy Pelosi Look"

Posted by: Au Auric || 12/01/2013 15:43 Comments || Top||

#11  Last Ones "With the Boss" and her Native American Name

Posted by: Au Auric || 12/01/2013 15:48 Comments || Top||

#12  Her Next Run

Posted by: Au Auric || 12/01/2013 15:56 Comments || Top||

#13  #6 We need a Senator Warren photo.

Those are beautiful (I'm still laughing), but for the moderate audience, how about one little feather sticking up from behind her ear? Easiest photobomb or graffito ever. Real feathers on posters. It's less susceptible to the racism counter and more easily retargeted to the eventual nominee than the ethnic/historical stuff. I know, I lost most of you there, but stick with me a sec. A solitary Trudeau-style feather leaves room to coopt the imagery of Indian coolness, competence, resistance. Arms (with headbands, even)! Religion (of a kind). Frugality (not to say conservation)! Stylish underdogs stoically standing up to stuffy, plodding, legalistic, contract-breaking Leviathan and its hordes of rapacious minions. All the good American values, and exactly the narrative we favor, in a frame moonbeams and metrosexuals can handle. And it'd be fun to use our enemies' own memes against them.

Don't get me wrong. I'm praying that Warren runs. I'm hooting imagining what you creative types will do with old western soundtracks and whatnot. For all I care, Rush can moon Warren from Wounded Knee wearing a warbonnet on his ass, but we've gotta poach some wishy-washies, some dupes. Okay, I'm full of crap, but what a chill I just got thinking of Ronnie recast as a leathery old wisdom-bearer intoning some choice quotes! Iron Eyes Cody, eat your heart out.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 12/01/2013 17:44 Comments || Top||

#14  how about one little feather sticking up from behind her ear?

Maybe two feathers ?

Posted by: Au Auric || 12/01/2013 18:53 Comments || Top||

#15  Lone Ranger and Tonto close-up

Posted by: Au Auric || 12/01/2013 18:57 Comments || Top||

#16  Taking on the GOP

Posted by: Au Auric || 12/01/2013 18:59 Comments || Top||

#17  Now THATS the ticket

Posted by: Au Auric || 12/01/2013 19:01 Comments || Top||

#18 
Posted by: Au Auric || 12/01/2013 19:04 Comments || Top||

#19  Posted by Au Auric 2013-12-01 18:53||

You forgot the H after the s...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/01/2013 19:06 Comments || Top||

#20  The Estrogen Ticket


Posted by: Au Auric || 12/01/2013 19:14 Comments || Top||

#21  Well, I will leave it to the mods to correct the spelling errors Bright Pebbles ;-)

Posted by: Au Auric || 12/01/2013 19:18 Comments || Top||

#22  Who could NOT vote for this ticket ?

Posted by: Au Auric || 12/01/2013 19:26 Comments || Top||

#23  Thanks for being a sport about my babbling. Two feathers is great. Love the house sign, btw. Good lord, I'm missing Texas today.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 12/01/2013 19:27 Comments || Top||

#24  Off topic - could not resist

Posted by: Au Auric || 12/01/2013 19:29 Comments || Top||

#25  No problem Zenobia Floger6220, I thought your suggestions were very constructive. I had some time to burn and took off with your input. Hope the mods don't burn me for the graphics, found all of them out on the "net" using Bing, including the lawn sign, made me laugh and reminded me of small town Americans, who believe in defending their rights under the US Constitution in creative ways....Texas does spring to mind... Thanks again for the input
Posted by: Au Auric || 12/01/2013 19:38 Comments || Top||


Government
Debbie Wasserchitz: Dems can run and win on ObamaCare
too bad there's no "insane mouthpiece" category?
Democrats will be able to run on ObamaCare and win in 2014, the party's chairwoman insisted Friday.

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said the troubled rollout of ObamaCare's enrollment website, which has frustrated thousands trying to enter the site and bruised the administration, won't hurt Democrats in next year's midterm elections.

"Democrats will run on the Affordable Care Act and win," Wasserman Schultz said.

Speaking to reporters after an address to the DNC's Women Leadership Forum on Friday, Wasserman Schultz said the law will help the party with female voters because of the benefits women will receive under the healthcare law.

"No, on the contrary, we know that women are already benefiting significantly from the part of ObamaCare that's already been implemented," she said.

Wasserman Schultz cited the ability of women to receive free birth control and preventative care under the law as examples. 

A number of Democrats have signaled worries about the law and the website
cuz WalMart, et al, doesn't sell contraceptives and birth control? Now we need Whores-R-Us?
Posted by: Frank G || 12/01/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Once again, the foundation of many issues remains democrats 'helping people prevent people'. Since it's passage, Roe vs Wade has been the holy grail of the democratic party. Thank you DWS for stating the obvious.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2013 1:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Debbie Hateschristians-Schultz is giving us a preview of what the biggest issue will be for the Dems next year. Whether or not it is the biggest issue for the voters remains to be seen.
Posted by: no mo uro || 12/01/2013 4:13 Comments || Top||

#3  will help the party with female voters because of the benefits women will receive under the healthcare law.

Doubtful. Can the ACA do something about that greasy nasty Isro of hers? Because I just can't believe she gets out of bed every day and does that to herself on purpose.
Posted by: RandomJD || 12/01/2013 9:02 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm sorry but she might be right.

Women tend to be much more easily bribed by OPM and the lure of money without work.

Of course this sexist redistribution/apartheid will costs unforeseen by women.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/01/2013 9:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Reminds me of Pelosi proclaiming the Dems would re-take the House.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/01/2013 10:27 Comments || Top||

#6  El Presidente Maduro to the courtesy phone.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/01/2013 10:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said the troubled rollout of ObamaCare's enrollment website, which has frustrated thousands trying to enter the site and bruised the administration, won't hurt Democrats in next year's midterm elections.

HA, HA, HA, HA, (Gasp) HA, HA, HA, HA,



Posted by: Redneck Jim || 12/01/2013 10:56 Comments || Top||

#8  Oh please run on Obamacare, it's a sure loser.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 12/01/2013 16:02 Comments || Top||

#9  Obamacare and ballot box stuffing.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/01/2013 16:41 Comments || Top||

#10  "insane mouthpiece" - kind of a toss-up, DWS or MSM

Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Grundy3050 || 12/01/2013 20:53 Comments || Top||

#11  Of course this sexist redistribution/apartheid will costs unforeseen by women.

As in an increase in "transactional sex", for beginners?
Posted by: gorb || 12/01/2013 21:51 Comments || Top||



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  41 killed, 22 wounded in latest attacks in Iraq
Sat 2013-11-30
  Tuaregs Declare Return to War against Mali Army
Fri 2013-11-29
  Air base blast near Sebha kills at least ten
Thu 2013-11-28
  15 Islamists with suicide belts detained in Moscow
Wed 2013-11-27
  US warns Karzai it may leave no troops in Afghanistan
Tue 2013-11-26
  Libyan Militiamen Battle Government Forces in Benghazi
Mon 2013-11-25
  More than 160 killed as Syrian rebels try to break siege
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  Nuclear deal reached with Mad Mullahs™
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  Belmokhtar deputy killed in Mali
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  Militias pull out of Libya's capital, Tripoli
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