Hi there, !
Today Fri 04/26/2019 Thu 04/25/2019 Wed 04/24/2019 Tue 04/23/2019 Mon 04/22/2019 Sun 04/21/2019 Sat 04/20/2019 Archives
Rantburg
531704 articles and 1855995 comments are archived on Rantburg.

Today: 55 articles and 107 comments as of 15:04.
Post a news link    Post your own article   
Area: WoT Operations    WoT Background    Non-WoT        Politix   
IS claims Sri Lanka blasts
Today's Headlines
Headline Comments [Views]
Page 4: Opinion
3 20:47 Frank G [] 
5 22:08 Anomalous Sources [] 
5 12:01 Beldar Spoluque3195 [] 
2 12:58 Skidmark [] 
9 22:59 trailing wife [] 
0 [] 
Page 1: WoT Operations
1 15:53 Sock Puppet of Doom []
3 11:59 Rambler in Virginia []
1 06:33 Richard Aubrey [1]
0 []
0 []
0 []
2 12:31 Skidmark [1]
0 [1]
0 []
11 12:35 Skidmark []
0 [1]
0 []
0 []
0 []
0 []
0 []
0 []
3 15:50 Sock Puppet of Doom [1]
0 [1]
1 09:04 Bobby []
1 00:21 Richard Aubrey []
5 20:51 Frank G []
Page 2: WoT Background
11 23:45 Thing From Snowy Mountain []
3 15:54 Dron66046 [1]
0 []
0 []
1 06:35 Bright Pebbles [1]
0 []
0 []
1 22:15 Skidmark [1]
1 12:38 Skidmark []
0 [2]
1 10:27 Omorong Black8889 []
4 16:50 Helmuth, Speaking for Clunk1470 []
0 []
0 []
Page 3: Non-WoT
1 22:23 Anomalous Sources []
3 18:25 swksvolFF [2]
4 22:35 Slats Flesing8084 []
5 20:49 Frank G []
0 []
0 []
1 12:42 Skidmark [1]
3 15:20 SteveS [2]
0 [1]
5 14:48 Spanky Whuter1088 []
0 [1]
3 11:40 Seeking Cure For Ignorance []
Page 6: Politix
8 13:03 Skidmark []
-Short Attention Span Theater-
Bad Luck: Pope Francis Had Just Transferred All Records On Sex Abuse Scandal To Notre Dame For Safekeeping
[Babylon Bee] PARIS‐Well, seems there was a bit of bad luck in the Notre Dame fire last week. While most of the relics, artwork, and idols were saved, one thing didn't survive: all the Catholic Church's meticulous records on its ongoing sex abuse scandals.

Pope Francis had reportedly just transferred the files to Notre Dame for safekeeping just days before the fire broke out.

"Oh well," Pope Francis said, shrugging. "How were we supposed to know it was going to burst into flames? We thought the Notre Dame cathedral would be the safest place for them."

The files were placed in the most flammable parts of the building hours before it caught fire, unfortunately. Several volunteers attempted to pull the files out of the fire, but Catholic Church officials sent them away, telling them not to risk their lives for them.

"It was a judgment call, but we care more about people's lives than the important work of bringing down sex offenders," one cardinal said. "Tough choice, but what are you gonna do."

At publishing time, the Pope had confirmed that all the files were also accidentally doused with lighter fluid just before the fire hit.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2019 07:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's the Bee....Jake.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/23/2019 9:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh good, it’s the Bee. I was upset when I saw the headline.

A good thing you added the image, Besoeker.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2019 10:52 Comments || Top||

#3  With this antipope, I'm not willing to dismiss any possibility, even when it comes from satirical news sources.
Posted by: charger || 04/23/2019 11:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Yeah, it's the Bee... America's paper of note. So obviously it is completely true.
Posted by: Vernal Hatrack2366 || 04/23/2019 19:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Lifetimes post the Habsburg-Valois Wars, "Italian Lightning" continues churning about.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/23/2019 22:08 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Mueller Report Concludes it was Not Needed
[The Hill] How would you like to spend two years and $30 million assembling a report that concludes you were not needed in the first place? Voilà: the Mueller report. Nice work if you can get it.

The report is appropriately thick, D.C. thick. It takes more than 400 pages to state the obvious: There was no collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians to swing the 2016 election. Zip. Nada. Nothing to see here.

It goes on to tee up a question about obstruction of justice that the special counsel was not asked to investigate ‐ and then doesn’t answer it. Wait. What?

These are some of the most elite prosecutors in the country, and they went full Hamlet on a legal determination a third-year law student would knock down between Budweisers. This is what we get for $30 million? Make a call; that’s your job as prosecutors.

Kevin R. Brock, former assistant director of intelligence for the FBI, was an FBI special agent for 24 years and principal deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).
Posted by: Bobby || 04/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fooled me! I was betting on the Bee.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/23/2019 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  The Mueller Report Exposes the Absurdity of the Governing Class
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/23/2019 7:33 Comments || Top||

#3  #2 - NRO link - Did Jonah Goldberg and anti-Trump couch have anything to say? F*ck them
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2019 8:57 Comments || Top||

#4  So the Mueller--Weissmann report states no collusion. If there is no collusion and there was not a crime, how can there be obstruction of justice for a non-crime? Early on, Page and Strzok said in an email, "there's no there there? The Mueller counsel ought to be sued for white-collar corruption and fraud. We didn't need a 430 page report that was spread over more than two years.

There was not a mention of the elephant in the room in the pants suit.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/23/2019 9:03 Comments || Top||

#5  The writer clearly exposed himself as being as arrogant as those he criticized.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 04/23/2019 15:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Did Jonah Goldberg and anti-Trump couch have anything to say? F*ck them

Frank G, it’s Jay Cost , whoever that is, and he’s seen the light. Opening paragraph:

The release of the Mueller report this week was a revelatory moment for me. I realized that, some time ago apparently, I crossed a political Mendoza line, where I am now more disgusted by Donald Trump’s opponents than I am by Trump himself.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2019 15:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Just read the rest of it. The gentleman hasn’t changed his mind about Mr, Trump, he just dislikes the Deep Staters morez
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2019 19:05 Comments || Top||

#8  TW - Jay may be temporarily saved, especially after watching the scuppering of the USS Bill Kristol Weakly Standard Cruise Ship, but he will likely flip like a switch with a Dem Socialist Anti-Trump Candidacy. I remain cynical (as you know). I used to subscribe to NRO and am disgusted by their response to Trump
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2019 20:54 Comments || Top||

#9  After reading the rest of it Inam sad to agree with you, Frank.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2019 22:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Adam Schiff Not Terribly Interested In Finding Out If Steele Dossier Was Russian Misinformation
[Hot Air] Rep. Adam Schiff appeared on Fox News yesterday morning where he was asked about a recent report by the NY Times suggesting the Steele dossier may have become part of a Russian disinformation campaign. Specifically, the Times reported that Steele himself won’t rule out the possibility that Russia funneled information to him which then became part of the dossier and, from there, part of the years-long investigation into Russian collusion. As the Times pointed out last week, several of the most serious allegations, including that Trump had shared information with Russia over a period of eight years, were not found to have any support by Special Counsel Mueller. From the Daily Caller:
The Intelligence Community knew the dossier was garbage, so they removed it from the National Intelligence Estimate and cleverly re-purposed it for political use.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2019 06:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course Schiff is not interested in a Russian disinformation campaign, particularly one targeted at the Orange Man. How could the Clinton's election loss be blamed on the Russians if they were actually targeting Donald Trump ?

Sort of answers the question about Obama reportedly doing little to thwart Russian election interference doesn't it? The narrative obviously needed room to breath.

"The enemy of your enemy is your friend."
~ The Arthashastra, 4th century BC.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2019 6:12 Comments || Top||

#2  ..or plots within plots, Schiff is acting as a Russian stooge.
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 04/23/2019 6:23 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm hoping this little pencil-&icked bootlicker gets his justice.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/23/2019 9:05 Comments || Top||

#4  No shiff....

Sorry.

Well he is nothing more than a demoncrat statist and will do anything to pull down the right.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/23/2019 9:15 Comments || Top||

#5  In Mudville, a swing and a whiff
As Adam strikes out, with a sniff,
Then, on the defensive,
Winds up in intensive
When Don beats the sh-t outta Schiff.
Posted by: Beldar Spoluque3195 || 04/23/2019 12:01 Comments || Top||


When a Hamas Front Lobbies Congress Starring Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Athena Salman
[Islamist Watch] Mere days after the United States Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO, an Islamist umbrella coalition), descended upon Capitol Hill for National Muslim Advocacy Day, one of USCMO's founding groups, the virulently anti-Semitic American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), returned to lobby Congress yet again. AMP and its partner organization, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), claim to be motivated by universal human rights, but the truth is more alarming; as a recent court case has made clear, AMP is the direct successor organization to the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), which was sued into oblivion for being a propaganda front for the terrorist group Hamas.

While the USCMO lobby day focused on domestic issues of concern to Islamists, AMP's fifth annual Palestine Advocacy Day focused on eroding American relations with Israel ‐ complete with two days of training, and presentations from Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Arizona state representative Athena Salman ‐ and an entire day of Hamas-connected activists holding meetings with members of Congress.

Ms. Salman is a relatively new addition to the AMP scene. She was first elected to the Arizona legislature in 2016 and is already serving as minority whip. Salman is an avowed atheist, but her father is Palestinian and Salman publicly defended the movement to Boycott, Divest and Sanction the state of Israel (BDS) during a contentious debate on an anti-BDS bill in the Arizona legislature in early April. (She had voted against the earlier version of the bill as well in 2016, which earned her the endorsement of the Arizona State chapter of SJP.)

Participants in the event seem to be more extreme. One example of excellence is Joe Catron ‐ a blogger at the viciously anti-Semitic site Electronic Intifada ‐ who calls himself a "reluctant citizen of the American empire." Catron maintains a Twitter account emblazoned with images glorifying terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP), such as a map of Israel inside crosshairs, with an Arabic caption that reads, "Hell awaits you."

Unfortunately, Mr. Catron fits right in with AMP. As has been established in court and in Congressional testimony, AMP's board is composed of alumni from not only the Hamas front IAP, but also the terror-finance charities KindHearts for Charitable Development (shut down by the Federal government) and the Holy Land Foundation (its executives convicted in court), both of which laundered donations to Hamas.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2019 05:41 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Nothing to see here. No "criminal intent" as Comey would assess...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2019 7:25 Comments || Top||



Science & Technology
Just in time for Elections: Massive waves of molten metal inside the Earth's core cause the planet's magnetic field to JERK around every 6 to 12 years
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2019 11:50 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, but the magnetic pole is moving closer to the geographic pole, for the last 70 years. Pretty soon, you won't need magnetic declination!
Posted by: Bobby || 04/23/2019 15:11 Comments || Top||

#2  And it's all Trump's fault!
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/23/2019 15:50 Comments || Top||

#3  probably by the collected personal magnetism of all 432 439 Democrat candidates for POTUS
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2019 20:47 Comments || Top||


SpaceX Crew Dragon accident clouds outlook for domestic astronaut launches
I am just going to say this once, because it no longer matters... At the beginning SpaceX wanted to land their capsule on the ground with rockets. NASA threw a hissy fit and insisted it land on sea. When they used 3 parachutes to land at sea NASA's giggly men insisted on 4. Each change with a redesign period with a dunking in salt water that rots everything. NASA is letting Boeing Land on Land (although it is desert land) on a bunch of air bags. But, no SpaceX must drown in the ocean. Why do you think the Starship will land on a surface and has no escape systems? Maybe SpaceX got fed up with NASA and regulations? This capsule blew up after a dunking in the ocean. Something that would have never happened without the NASA insistence that they land and wallow in the salt water. Then if they could relaunch. Nuf said...
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



Who's in the News
25[untagged]
10Islamic State
5Govt of Iran
2Taliban
2Commies
2Moslem Colonists
2al-Nusra
1TTP
1Govt of Iran Proxies
1Govt of Pakistain Proxies
1Hamas
1Hezbollah
1Palestinian Authority
1Sublime Porte

Bookmark
E-Mail Me

The Classics
The O Club
Rantburg Store
The Bloids
The Never-ending Story
Thugburg
Gulf War I
The Way We Were
Bio

Merry-Go-Blog











On Sale now!


A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
Click here for more information

Meet the Mods
In no particular order...
Steve White
Seafarious
tu3031
badanov
sherry
ryuge
GolfBravoUSMC
Bright Pebbles
trailing wife
Gloria
Fred
Besoeker
Glenmore
Frank G
3dc
Skidmark

Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2019-04-23
  IS claims Sri Lanka blasts
Mon 2019-04-22
  Sri Lanka explosions, 24 arrested, 290+ dead, 8 kabooms
Sun 2019-04-21
  3 churches bombed at Easter services in Sri Lanka 262 Dead
Sat 2019-04-20
  Woman killed after shots fired during violent riots in Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Fri 2019-04-19
  Islamic State Declared A New Wilaya In Africa
Thu 2019-04-18
  German Police Arrest Man Suspected Of Recruiting ISIS Members To Syria
Wed 2019-04-17
  Houthis in Yemen introduced a new airburst ballistic missile that spreads 14,000 pieces of shrapnel over a large area
Tue 2019-04-16
  Violence and dozens of arson attacks in Copenhagen after anti-Islam politician throws Koran in migrant neighbourhood
Mon 2019-04-15
  Notre Dame Cathedral is burning
Sun 2019-04-14
  Taliban’s shadow governor for Helmand succumbs to injuries sustained in an airstrike
Sat 2019-04-13
  Algerian police fire water cannon at protesters
Fri 2019-04-12
  Sudan President al-Bashir officially arrested
Thu 2019-04-11
  Ecuador withdraws asylum from Julian Assange, arrested by UK police
Wed 2019-04-10
  Election Council Rejects Erdogan's Party Demand for Full Istanbul Recount
Tue 2019-04-09
  Maryland man accused of stealing U-Haul truck in 'ISIS-inspired attack'

Better than the average link...



Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
3.82.232.31
Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:
WoT Operations (22)    WoT Background (14)    Non-WoT (12)    (0)    Politix (1)