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Israel resumes Gaza offensive after Hamas rockets break cease-fire
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Barack Obama banned from entering Chechnya
[THEGUARDIAN] Although Russia has not responded to US sanctions over the Ukraine crisis by putting a travel ban on President Barack Obama
I am the change that you seek...
, there is one part of the country he is now barred from entering: Chechnya.

On Saturday Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of the small Russian republic that has been the scene of two devastating separatist wars in the past 20 years, said he was placing Obama on a list of people banned from visiting.

The list also includes European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
figures Jose Manuel Barroso, Herbert van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton.

Kadyrov, wrote on his Instagram account that the ban was in response to US and EU actions in Ukraine, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, which he called "state terrorism
... any action taken by a non-Moslem state that constrains the violent impulses of Moslems or their allies ...
On Saturday, the Russian foreign ministry released a strongly worded statement blaming the US, in part, for the Ukraine crisis.

"The United States continues to push Kiev into the forceful repression of [Ukraine's] Russian-speaking population's discontent," the statement said. "There is one conclusion — the B.O. regime has some responsibility both for the internal conflict in Ukraine and its severe consequences."
Posted by: Fred || 07/27/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the president of the small Russian republic that has been the scene of two devastating separatist wars in the past 20 years. This place has been in chaos for a long time. The last thing they need is a leftist Alinsky-type community organizer creating more chaos.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2014 8:28 Comments || Top||

#2  And you see, that's where I was hoping they'd kick him out the door of the helicopter.
It has such, uh, potential as a retirement location.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/27/2014 9:22 Comments || Top||

#3  I betcha you didn't know that they grow the best arugula in the World in Chechen mountain valleys.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2014 11:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Mean while, in Ukraine, Ukraine Military unleashes this salvo against pro-Russian rebels yesterday.

Posted by: Ebbinelet Omusoling8390 || 07/27/2014 13:29 Comments || Top||

#5  In related news Obama withdraws from the Chechnya Open Golf tournament scheduled for Aug 1.

Obama caddy John Kerry was quoted to say "I cleaned his putter and washed his balls for nothing".
Posted by: Airandee || 07/27/2014 15:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Obama caddy John Kerry was quoted to say "I cleaned his putter and washed his balls for nothing". Posted by Airandee

Rubbish! Such rhetoric will harsh Reggies evening. Please stop.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2014 16:58 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Identities released of six accused in TX voter fraud case
Six women are facing multiple charges in connection to a voter fraud investigation headed by the Texas Attorney GeneralÂ’s Office.
Voter fraud - which doesn't exist, according to Democrats
Tomasa Chavez, Facunda Garcia, Bernice Garcia, Vicenta Verino, Sara Virginia Perales and Margarita Ozuna were booked into the Cameron County Jail on multiple charges.

The six arrested were booked into the Cameron County Jail on Wednesday, July 16th.

The arrests were made by the Attorney GeneralÂ’s Office.

The alleged voter fraud took place during the July 2012 Democratic primary runoff election in Cameron County, according to the elections department.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/27/2014 12:05 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In the poster, cross out 30 and put in 50. The term wage slave is taking on a whole new meaning.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/27/2014 12:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Tomasa Chavez, Facunda Garcia, Bernice Garcia, Vicenta Verino, Sara Virginia Perales and Margarita Ozuna

Damned Amish and their voter fraud...
Posted by: charger || 07/27/2014 15:18 Comments || Top||

#3  I know, right?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/27/2014 15:40 Comments || Top||


This Just In --- The GOP Is Still The Stupid Party
Twitchy collects the tweets.
Posted by: charger || 07/27/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I got one of those. plenty of 4 letter words in my reply to the GOP response email address.

This shows just how elitist and out of touch the central party in DC has become. Rove, Barbour, all those criminals. Until the GOP runs them out of the party, the party will continue to rot, with McCain, et al compromising their way to a progressive hell.
Posted by: OldSpook || 07/27/2014 2:04 Comments || Top||

#2  I always thought the guilt ploy was a democratic tool. Oh wait....
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2014 3:31 Comments || Top||

#3  I didn't realize how pathetic they've become. I received that email too but I couldn't even work up any surprised outrage as my opinion of the RNC is so low. 10 years ago I would have been pissed. Now? Not so much.
Posted by: whitecollar redneck || 07/27/2014 11:00 Comments || Top||

#4  I did not receive this, as I haven't donated to any national Republican organization in over a decade. I donate directly to candidates, especially in primaries.
Posted by: Iblis || 07/27/2014 12:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Had another thought. Wonder if declaring open war against the Tea Party has dried up donations a wee bit? Wouldn't that be a shame.
Posted by: Iblis || 07/27/2014 16:34 Comments || Top||

#6  The last time someone from the national R'pug party called me asking for a donation ... yeah, her ears are probably still ringing. Which was likely unfair of me personally, since she was likely a low-level drone volunteer, or even someone from a hired phone-bank operation.
I did not abandon the GOP ... the GOP insulted, betrayed and sold me out, through being mealy-mouthed, lickspittle members of the Establishment Party, meekly lining up for their turn at what was left in the trough. Like Ilblis, I prefer to support individual candidates - those who have some fire about supporting the Country Party.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 07/27/2014 18:51 Comments || Top||


Hillary Clinton Praises GOP Establishment, Big Business for Taking on Tea Party
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/27/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  An imprudent wedge, or 'damning with faint praise' at an entirely new level? Surely both.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2014 3:22 Comments || Top||

#2  "I'm glad to see that you place class interests above party interests." sorta thing?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2014 3:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, yes.

Also "Here, let me hold your wallet while you two fight."
Posted by: Pappy || 07/27/2014 9:54 Comments || Top||

#4  You know, when I started volunteering for a local tea party, a good chunk of the active members, and a whole lot of the contributors were local small to medium-sized businesses. Some of them were tiny companies, essentially one person with their family helping, and some of them were retail and restaurants ... the sort of businesses which taken all together are employers of quite a good chunk of the working population.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 07/27/2014 12:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Hillary's approach is to appeal to the middle. Which is why the only democrat contenders are far left and proud (moonbeam and squaw 'shitting bull' warren). Not surprised she is now playing to the RINOs.
Posted by: Airandee || 07/27/2014 17:55 Comments || Top||

#6  When HillyBeast praises you, you know you've lost
Posted by: AlmostAnonuymous5839 || 07/27/2014 19:25 Comments || Top||


A decision in Palmer vs D.C.
Link here
The decision was handed down early today, probably why it hasn't made the major news sources yet. Read the judge's decision at the link
For those of us not paying close attention, this is about Washington, DC's ban on carrying handguns.
The MSM will manage to ignore this for another day. Journolist will need until Monday to decide what the news shall be...
Posted by: Chantry || 07/27/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ban on carrying unequivocally struck down. Completely. Just like in Illinois. DC is going to have to come up with a carry permit system.
Posted by: OldSpook || 07/27/2014 2:10 Comments || Top||

#2  I can see why the elite in Washington D.C. and Chicago would want to ban the carrying of firearms. The ordinary people might see behind the curtain. They might just all realize that they are getting shafted and get fed up.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2014 7:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Who knows, an a society of armed citizens might just lead to a civility, lawfulness, and politeness in Chicago and D.C. Miracles can happen.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2014 7:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Have we reach the point yet where such acts by pols are declared an out right civil rights violation and lose immunity to prosecution for conspiracy to violate those rights?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/27/2014 11:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Just lie about carry permits like NJ does. Carry ban works 100% here. We're MAY issue like right after Hell may freeze over.
Posted by: Hellfish || 07/27/2014 23:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh and SCOTUS is just fine with it.
Posted by: Hellfish || 07/27/2014 23:41 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Haaretz: SoState Kerry is a tool
Haaretz is the WaPo/NYTimes of Israel. They represent the leftist, dovish segment of the population. They personally like Kerry and can't believe he is as stupid as it seems.
Kerry's latest cease-fire plan: What was he thinking?

The draft Kerry passed to Israel on Friday shocked the cabinet ministers not only because it was the opposite of what Kerry told them less than 24 hours earlier, but mostly because it might as well have been penned by Khaled Meshal. It was everything Hamas could have hoped for.
Israeli rubes self-identify. Back when I used to read the New York Times, I also read Ha'aretz. It now occurs to me that my father never did, though he'd been a technocrat for Labour during his Israeli period. Daddy read the international edition of the Jerusalem Post.
Posted by: lord garth || 07/27/2014 07:47 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We the American people figured that out a long time ago when we voted for Bush over Kerry.
Posted by: OldSpook || 07/27/2014 10:39 Comments || Top||

#2  And then you went and elected Obama
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2014 12:05 Comments || Top||

#3  no - a tool is useful
Posted by: Frank G || 07/27/2014 14:02 Comments || Top||

#4  a 'tool' of Qatar and Turkey (and indirectly of hamas)

Posted by: lord garth || 07/27/2014 15:15 Comments || Top||

#5  And then you went and elected Obama

Sorry about that.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/27/2014 16:45 Comments || Top||


Government
Eleanor Holmes Norton: You don't have a right to know everything gov't does
[Breitbart] Friday at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) told her Republican colleagues trying to get to the bottom of a potential violation of federal election law by the Obama administration that they "don't have a right to know everything in a separation-of-powers government, my friend."
If I had the energy I'd find the documentation of what she said about separation of powers when George W. Bush was president...
Norton claimed, "That is the difference between a parliamentary government and a separation-of-powers government."

Norton was addressing the Obama administration defying Chairman Darrell Issa's (R-CA) subpoena of David Simas, the director of the Office of Political Strategy and Outreach, to appear before Congress. Issa has accused Obama's former labor secretary, Hilda Solis, of breaking the law with a voicemail seeking political donations for the president's re-election.
Defying a subpoena is a criminal act which can land you in jail in the U.S. or the U.K. Of course breaking the law means nothing to the IQ-67 cadre.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  2 words for Eleanor: Fuck You. Last time someone got that attitude, we had a revolution. Seems to forget Congress is supposed to govern, not rule. I am a citizen, not a subject -- seems she thinks the nation is like her plantation slaves/cattle she keeps in line and in ignorance for the Dem party vote farming.
Posted by: OldSpook || 07/27/2014 2:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Ditto that OS. This woman is dumb as a box of rocks. Must be that Lincoln's Gettysburg address did not have much meaning for her or at least the part where it says government of the people, by the people, for the people.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2014 7:13 Comments || Top||

#3  Yep Eleanor, and doctors can take the same attitude about what you need to know about your health (cause it's only for your own good, no need to scare you - see:death panels). /sarc off
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/27/2014 9:59 Comments || Top||

#4  But of course Government has a right to know everything *you* do dear slaves citizens!

No you dumb cow (Mooo!) the people have a right to know what government is doing - particulary when it comes to elections and election law.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/27/2014 10:09 Comments || Top||

#5  then you, the government don't have the authority to expropriate my money to fund your preposterous secret crap
Posted by: Cesare || 07/27/2014 10:14 Comments || Top||

#6  A recorded call with a private contractor in 2010 of Congresswoman Norton soliciting campaign contributions in return for favorable project awards:

This is, uh, Eleanor Norton, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. Uh, I noticed that you have given to, uh, other colleagues on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. I am a, um, senior member, a 20-year veteran and am chair of the Sub-committee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management. I'm handling the largest economic development project in the United States now, the Homeland Security compound of three buildings being built on the, uh, old St. Elizabeth's hospital site in the District of Columbia along with, uh, 15 other, uh, sites here for, that are part of the stimulus.

I was, frankly, uh, uh, surprised to see that we don't have a record, so far as I can tell, of your having given to me despite my, uh, long and deep, uh, work. In fact, it's been my major work, uh, on the committee and sub-committee. It's been essentially in your sector.

I am, I'm simply candidly calling to ask for a contribution. As the senior member of the, um, committee and a sub-committee chair, we have [chuckles] obligations to raise, uh, funds. And, I think it must have been me who hasn't, frankly, uh, done my homework to ask for a contribution earlier. So I'm trying to make up for it by asking for one now, when we particularly, uh, need, uh, contributions, particularly those of us who have the seniority and chairmanships and are in a position to raise the funds.

I'm asking you to give to Citizens for Eleanor Holmes Norton, PO Box 70626, DC, 20024. I'll send you a follow-up note with appreciation for having heard me out. Thanks again.
Posted by: Ebbinelet Omusoling8390 || 07/27/2014 14:00 Comments || Top||

#7  As a matter of fact, you stupid scrut, if it isn't to do with national security - we do have a right to know it. Get this, Eleanor - you and your ilk work for us. We do not work for you. Our taxes pay your salary, we essentially hire you to do a job.

We, Eleanor. We, the people.

Under any other circumstance of employment, you'd be emptying out the contents of your desk into a cardboard carton, surrendering your employee badge and being escorted to the door by security, with a check for severance pay in your sweaty little hand.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 07/27/2014 18:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Sgt. Mom, people who are fired for cause shouldn't get a severance check. Maybe waged and vacation owed, but that's it.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/27/2014 18:30 Comments || Top||

#9  I'm feeling generous, Rambler. There are employees that you just want to get gone, and if two weeks severance does it? Worth the relatively paltry expense.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 07/27/2014 18:47 Comments || Top||



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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
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  Israeli airstrikes kill 40 Palestinians in 24 hours
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