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3 Americans Dead, 6 Aircraft Destroyed Or Damaged, Including A Rare Spy Plane, In #Kenya Attack
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Home Front: Politix
Ilhan Omar voted 2019's antisemite of the year
[JPost] - The poll, which started at the end of 2019, included Omar as one of the top three nominees, alongside Louis Farrakhan and Richard Spencer.

The votes are in and the counting has been completed: US Rep. Ilhan Omar is 2019's biggest antisemite, according to stopantisemitism.org.

The NGO announced that Omar would be awarded the contested title of biggest antisemite of the year on Monday, including a video listing her unmatched achievements in the field of Jew-hatred, accompanied sarcastically by congratulatory music and confetti.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/06/2020 13:16 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Farrakhan would have taken my vote. Omar is close, ether are base liars for Muhamhead's cult. But as for the rest.

PC junk. Call her what she is, pure jewophobic, christophbic racist muslim porkoranimal.

No Jewphobia (aka “antisemitism”)? So all those pogroms, expulsions, blood libels and massacres of Jews throughout history were just a random accident? Or something?

As for “christophobia” there's been plenty of that too. Ask a Lebanese Christian or Egyptian Copt about how much fun they have being Christians.
Posted by: Woodrow || 01/06/2020 13:30 Comments || Top||

#2  ...seems the latter had a better year. Yeah, I know, it's relative.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/06/2020 13:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Somewhat like this...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/06/2020 15:07 Comments || Top||

#4  It seems to me to me to be a choice of convenience to improve award recipients' diversity and to bring the new generation into the spotlight.

Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert || 01/06/2020 19:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Gotta give it to Omar; Farrakhan's got the lifetime achievement award locked up, so make room for the young 'un's.
Posted by: Raj || 01/06/2020 19:43 Comments || Top||


Lindsey Graham to Force Pelosi's Hand on Impeachment: Put Up or We Will Shut You Down
[Red State] Senate Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is warning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Deliver the articles of impeachment by the end of the week or we will "take matters in our own hands."

He called Pelosi’s antics a "political stunt" and said neither he nor McConnell would stand for it.

From Fox News:
"What I would do, if she continues to refuse to send the articles as required by the Constitution, I would work with Senator McConnell to change the rules of the Senate so we could start the trial without her, if necessary," Graham proposed.

When asked how long he would wait before taking this step, Graham replied, "Days, not weeks."

"Well, we’re not going to let Nancy Pelosi use the rules of the Senate to her advantage. This is dangerous to the presidency as an institution," Graham said. "They impeached the president, but the speaker of the hosue is holding the articles back, trying to extort from the majority leader of the Senate a trial to her liking. They’re trying to hold these articles over the head of the president."

He can do that as long as he can guarantee at least 51 votes to get him there. They have 53 Republicans so they have to hope for not many defections. Hopefully, enough of them are together at this point, over the ridiculous actions of Pelosi.

He said that when they move on the articles, they would use the Clinton model of impeachment, take the record from the House, then allow each side, the House and then the President, to present their arguments. Then they would decide if any witnesses were needed. He said that he anticipated that would take about two weeks and would be done by the end of January, assuming they moved around Pelosi.

He said if she didn’t deliver them given notice, they would deem them delivered and move ahead without her, but invite the House to participate according to the Clinton model. "If they don’t come, dismiss the case and get on with governing the country," he finished.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/06/2020 01:20 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's obviously a SS. Why not dismiss it outright? What's she going to do?

What makes Graham think that a majority of Americans would be opposed to dismissing it forthwith?
Posted by: Lex || 01/06/2020 2:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Give them a deadline, say April lst.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/06/2020 8:15 Comments || Top||

#3  I think Pelosi's tighty-whities don't fit too well these days. Joe Biden's son has his problems. Paul Pelosi has similar problems. There is probably some reluctance to push too hard on impeachment.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/06/2020 8:33 Comments || Top||

#4  If she doesn't forward the 'charges' to the Senate by noontime Friday, the Senate should vote to dismiss those charges and be done with the dog and pony show.
Posted by: Raj || 01/06/2020 9:12 Comments || Top||

#5  I dunno. Keeping the House occupied with their impeachment show makes them look like lunatics and keeps them from getting up to further mischief.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/06/2020 10:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Looks like the impeachment much like Pelosi herself is withering on the vine. And they were so proud of themselves too.
Posted by: jpal || 01/06/2020 10:16 Comments || Top||

#7  I think #4 Raj has it. The issue is not impeachment any more. It is Pelosi and Co thinking that they hold a threat over the heads of Trump and the Republicans.

So the "defecate or decommode" is the correct response to these House Tantrumoids.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/06/2020 13:33 Comments || Top||

#8  She is trying to insure the Senate rule will protect Biden and her son, who were both on the Ukraine dole. If they do allow witnesses many other congress critters will get exposed right before election for defrauding America of millions of defense dollars. Literally stealing from our troops during war time. Making carpet baggers look honorable.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 01/06/2020 14:21 Comments || Top||

#9  I like what Besoeker said except I'd declare the deadline to be the week of the Democrat convention to ensure they have lots to talk about.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/06/2020 14:37 Comments || Top||

#10  #5 "Makes the Dems look like lunatics?"

Would you agree to "reveals them to be lunatics?"
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/06/2020 16:26 Comments || Top||

#11  I think that Pelosi wants the two charge rag to rot and go away, while the rads and the village idiots in the house want to push this dung beetle ball somewhere towards the senate. Keep showing your knack for leadership Pelosi. You're doin' fine.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/06/2020 17:52 Comments || Top||


Gun ‘sanctuaries’ compared to slavery, ‘dangerous,’ ‘ugly,’ ‘disturbing’
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] A new line of attack on Virginia’s fast-growing gun sanctuary movement, which is propelling similar pro-gun efforts in other states, compares it to slavery, drawing criticism from movement leaders who have won support in 91% of the state’s counties.

In the latest Washington Post slam on the movement, dubbed "vigilantism" in a recent editorial, the paper gave space Sunday to a critic who said the "thinking" behind the organic movement is what propelled slavery and opposed the civil rights movement.

Peter Galuszka called the movement "disturbing," "reactionary," "hysteria," "ugly," and "dangerous."

In linking it to slavery, he wrote, "A sad irony is that the ’sanctuary’ movement conjures the disturbing nullification movements of the past three centuries in Virginia. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison argued that the states have the right to ignore federal laws they consider unconstitutional. That thinking was applied to proslavery movements, leading to the Civil War and the fight over integration in the 1950s and 1960s."

He also cited polls showing broad public support for gun control, which the new Democratic state legislature and Gov. Ralph Coonman Northam
...Governor of Virginia, another Dem Great White Hope. He won election by calling his Publican opponent Ed Gillespie a racist, but then, don't they all?...
plan to use in arguing for a ban on modern sporting weapons such as the AR-15, limits on the size of magazines that hold cartridges, an expanded background check system, and a new $4 million, 18-member team to enforce new gun control measures and a limit on gun purchases.

Posted by: Fred || 01/06/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A sad irony is that the ’sanctuary’ movement conjures the disturbing nullification movements of the past three centuries in Virginia

They say that with a straight face while nullifying the 2nd Amendment of the federal Constitution. Freudian projection runs deep deep on the Left.

Speaking of slaves. When did slaves ever own guns equal to that of the 'authorities'? Thus, who are the real slavers? /rhet question

He also cited polls showing broad public support for gun control

Polls do not equal consent of the governed. Willingness to give the last full measure of devotion equals consent of the governed.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/06/2020 3:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Molon Labe* is usually translated as "Come and take them". 2400 years later, it seems the challenge needs to be updated.

"Come and get it" works for me.

* I'm told the literal translation is "Having come, take". Now you know where the term "laconic" comes from. Thus endeth today's gratuitous lesson.
Posted by: Mercutio || 01/06/2020 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  These are the same SS Clowns that coined the term "sanctuary cities" -- their own Calhoun-esque revival of Nullification of federal law & law enforcement.

Look in the mirror, you deluded fools.
Posted by: Lex || 01/06/2020 8:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Comparing gun sanctuary to slavery is a red herring that is meaningless. Nothing prevents African-Americans from obtaining firearms for personal protection or from a government that goes rogue. Many do. It seems like this sanctuary city, county, and state idea is going viral.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/06/2020 9:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Screw these fools, the next civil war is a war to the knife. At the end they will beg for mercy but they have destroyed any last vestiges of it from America. Reap the whirlwird.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 01/06/2020 9:05 Comments || Top||

#6  SO says the LIB FOOLS! Be-careful how you rub a mean DOG, you can be BIT??
Posted by: ranture || 01/06/2020 11:32 Comments || Top||

#7  What about the sanctuary cities that try to nullify federal laws that apply to illegal aliens?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/06/2020 12:36 Comments || Top||

#8  The problem with liberal when they try to present logical and legal arguments is that their logic is full of holes and they ignore the law.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/06/2020 12:37 Comments || Top||

#9  #7 What about the sanctuary cities that try to nullify federal laws that apply to illegal aliens?

Bingo.

Alinsky's 4th Rule: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules"
Posted by: Lex || 01/06/2020 12:44 Comments || Top||

#10  Everything through the prism of race, the gift of the Obama era, and the use of racism as the wedge to drive white guilt. The charge of Racism is now thrown at every target and is a tool of the socialist revolution and it needs to be dismissed as meaningless and trite...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/06/2020 13:47 Comments || Top||


Warren Questions if Soleimani Strike Linked to Impeachment
[BREITBART] On Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s "State of the Union," 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren
...Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless...
(D-MA) questioned if President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
’s reasons for the Qasem Soleimani liquidation was to distract from impeachment.

Warren said, "I think that the question that we ought to focus on is why now? Why not a month ago, and why not a month from now? And the answer from the administration seems to be that they can’t keep their story straight on this. They pointed in all different directions. And you know, the last time that we watched them do this was the summer over Ukraine. As soon as people started asking about the conversations between Donald Trump and the president of Ukraine and why aid had been held up to Ukraine, the administration did the same thing. They pointed in all directions of what was going on. And of course, what emerged then is that this is Donald Trump just trying to advance Donald Trump’s own political agenda. Not the agenda of the United States of America. So what happens right now? Next week, the president of the United States could be facing an impeachment trial in the Senate. We know that he is deeply upset about that. I think that people are reasonably asking why this moment? Why does he pick now to take this highly inflammatory, highly dangerous action that moves us closer to war? We have been at war for 20 years in the Middle East, and we need to stop the war this the Middle East and not expand it."

Tapper asked, "Are you suggesting that President Trump pulled the trigger and had Qasem Soleimani killed as a distraction from impeachment?"

Warren said, "Look, I think that people are reasonably asking about the timing and why it is that the administration seems to have all kinds of different answers. In the first 48 hours after this attack, what did we hear? Well, we heard it was for an imminent attack, and then we heard, no, no, it is to prevent any future attack, and then we heard that it is from the vice president himself and no, it is related to 9/11, and then we heard from president reports of people in the intelligence community saying that the whole, that the threat was overblown. You know, when the administration doesn’t seem to have a coherent answer for taking a step like this. They have taken a step that moves us closer to war, a step that puts everyone at risk, and step that puts the military at risk and puts the diplomats in the region at risk.
Posted by: Fred || 01/06/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Home Front: WoT
Chuck Schumer: President Trump seems hell bent on starting another endless war in the Middle East
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Posted by: Fred || 01/06/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1  1 The Iranian followers announced they would kill every American in that Embassy if they could get in, but they failed.

2 The Iranians sent a general to help them succeed and the US stopped him.

3 If the self-hating, anti-American left decides to align with Iran we will deal with you accordingly.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 01/06/2020 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  P.S. The left wanted hostages taken to negatively influence Trumps re-election.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 01/06/2020 1:13 Comments || Top||

#3  He does not have the authority to do so.

Neither did Obama in Libya or Syria but you seemed OK with that Chucky.

If you didn't have double standards, you'd have no standards at all.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/06/2020 3:02 Comments || Top||

#4  He doesn't?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 01/06/2020 5:41 Comments || Top||

#5  This isn't new. Just a continuation of the old.

Posted by: DarthVader || 01/06/2020 9:02 Comments || Top||

#6  These people are sick. They wanted another Benghazi. They don't care how many Americans are butchered if it hinders OrangeMan's re-election.
Posted by: Lex || 01/06/2020 11:22 Comments || Top||

#7  They, the 'rats, were trying to gin up a Jimmuh Cahter moment for PDJT. Then their chosen surrender monkey could ride in with the cash pallets and be crowned as the new Reagan.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/06/2020 11:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Kerry has been meeting with the Iranian Foreign Minister and other high-level officials and has been heaping abuse on Trump, telling the Iranians that Trump will be out in 2020 and the Iranians will once again have cash and trade and a free hand.

Is Kerry registered as a foreign agent?

This is treason in plain sight.
Posted by: Lex || 01/06/2020 11:38 Comments || Top||

#9  Democrats=Vichy France.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 01/06/2020 13:00 Comments || Top||

#10  Does Kerry have a family member married to an Iranian national?
Posted by: Sgt.D.T. || 01/06/2020 15:19 Comments || Top||

#11  IMO Trump is trying to end wars and bring about stability in the mideast.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/06/2020 16:37 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2020-01-06
  3 Americans Dead, 6 Aircraft Destroyed Or Damaged, Including A Rare Spy Plane, In #Kenya Attack
Sun 2020-01-05
  Iran Puts $80M Bounty on Trump's Head for Soleimani Hit
Sat 2020-01-04
  6 More Iran-Backed Leaders Zapped, incl. Shibl al-Zaidi, commander of Kataib Imam Ali
Fri 2020-01-03
  Lebanon Hizbullah: "It's war!"
Thu 2020-01-02
  Qassim Soleimani, head of Iran's elite Quds force, zapped in Iraq
Wed 2020-01-01
  Hashid Al Shaabi #PMF leader Abo Alaa Al Walae threatens to attack Embassies of #Saudi, #UAE, #Bahrain and others in #Baghdad.
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  Crowd storms US Embassy compound in Baghdad
Mon 2019-12-30
  Qais al-Khazali was a close associate of Qassem Suleimani - killed by USAF.
Sun 2019-12-29
  Iraq launches new military operation against ISIS 4 provinces
Sat 2019-12-28
  US civilian contractor killed and several US and Iraqi personnel wounded in Kirkuk rocket attack
Fri 2019-12-27
  Libya's Tripoli-based govt makes formal request for Turkish military support, Turkey gets ready to rock
Thu 2019-12-26
  Jihadists suffer heavy losses in failed attempt to retake strategic southeast Idlib town
Wed 2019-12-25
  Boko Haram abducts 17 fishermen in Cameroon’s Far North region
Tue 2019-12-24
  Merry Christmas - Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht, Peter Alexander
Mon 2019-12-23
  Islamic State just issued this statement that claims the Battle of revenge is on


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