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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Rush: What if Champ wants a third term.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/08/2015 14:48 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Then, I guess, we'll see if anybody remembers what your second amendment is really for.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/08/2015 15:22 Comments || Top||

#2  The Democrats have lost the White House before. I don't see Mr. Limbagh's scenario as plausible, especially given how many Congresscritters and governors begged the president not to help as they ran for reelection in 2014. He was reportedly very annoyed about it.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2015 15:28 Comments || Top||

#3  I just about threw up reading the headline
Posted by: chris || 03/08/2015 16:05 Comments || Top||

#4  A nightmare I've been having more frequently. g(r)om has the right of it.

From the day he was elected I thought that a revolution was a possibility though not probable. With his actions lately and the trend for the next two years I am not at all a happy camper.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/08/2015 16:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Could be trouble if he's managed to "diversify" the military by then but I doubt it. I'm afraid Jeb Bush will be bad enough, thank you very much.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/08/2015 17:09 Comments || Top||

#6  What TW said. It's just not going to happen--unless someone has a great desire for another revolution.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/08/2015 18:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Not so much worried about a third term as the idea of a suspension of the constitution and martial law on the basis of some catastrophic event like massive social unrest, or a military conflict within CONUS. I started out believing that this was just a very bad period and we could repair much of the damage this POS has caused. I am no longer very confident that is the case, and increasingly see behaviors that greatly worry me, among them the need for Champ to be seen daily and increasingly, bald-faced lies with little effort to make them credible.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/08/2015 18:38 Comments || Top||

#8  I think the same as you NoMoreBS.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/08/2015 19:27 Comments || Top||

#9  It would have to occur on or about the 2016 POTUS Elex, + be serious enough for our mighty Unitarian Anti-Unitarian Congress to suspend the Constitution + Habeas Corpus, to includ suspending the POTUS Elex itself?

Safe to say Biden's office, i.e. the Office of the VPOTUS will also be directly or indirectly affected.

A bad or problematic economy, or even the assassination or attempted assassination of the Bammer, won't be enuff by themselves.

To paraph DONALD "COLONEL Y" SUTHERLAND from PRE-TEXAS-SIZED ASTEROID OLLIE STONE'S "JFK" > "NOTHING CAN BE LEFT TO CHANCE ... THE CONSPIRATORS/PERPETRATORS MUST ALWAYS BE ON THE WINNING SIDE ... THAT, MR. GARRISON [Kevin Costner], IS A COUP D'ETAT"!


Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/08/2015 20:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Is there a line anymore?
Posted by: newc || 03/08/2015 21:44 Comments || Top||

#11  If he ends up in there past his term, he is a dead man walking. Not a threat against the president, but a simple statement of fact: there are people who would willingly arrest and even kill *anyone* that would do that, R or D, as a matter of what they would perceive to be their duty.
Posted by: OldSpook || 03/08/2015 22:51 Comments || Top||

#12  This is the same bull sh1t that comes up at the end of every term. Sadly it's 8 years and not 4. They said the same for Clinton and Bush. Go friggin away.
Posted by: jvalentour || 03/08/2015 23:04 Comments || Top||

#13  He doesn't need a third term. The damage has been done and is very likely irreversible at this point. For Champ the next two years are nothing but a victory lap.
Posted by: Sheater Thud2458 || 03/08/2015 23:05 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Four Rival Factions Pick Over Syria’s Bones
A taste:
[PJMedia] [After the dissolution of US-supported rebel group Harakat Hazm] As of now, what constitutes the rebellion in northwest Syria is Nusra, plus the Salafi Islamic Front, plus the Levant Front, whose most significant members are also Sunni Islamist. But it is the jihadists of Nusra which are the key element.

Jabhat al Nusra receives less media attention than the rival jihadi group, Islamic State. Nusra has not declared the area it controls to be a sovereign state, much less a “caliphate.’ But in the longer term, it may well be Nusra that establishes itself as the key armed group representing Syria’s Sunni Arabs. There are number of signs that the smartest local players are seeing the situation in these terms.

As of today, there are four serious forces on the ground in Syria. They are the Iran/Hezbollah/Assad side, the Islamic State, the Kurds, and Jabhat al-Nusra. What used to be Syria is divided between them.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
We were wrong to try to ban racism
h/t Instapundit
A former equality chief has branded his years working to stamp out racial discrimination as 'utterly wrong'.

Writer and broadcaster Trevor Phillips said efforts made under the Blair government turned anti-racism into an 'ugly new doctrine'.

Mr Phillips is the former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and has waged a 30-year campaign to tackle issues around discrimination and equality.

In an upcoming Channel 4 documentary, called Things We Won't Say About Race That Are True, he says attempts to stop prejudice instead encouraged abuse and endangered lives as well as contributed to the rise of parties like Ukip.

'Campaigners like me seriously believed that if we could prevent people expressing prejudiced ideas then eventually they would stop thinking them. 'But now I'm convinced we were utterly wrong.'

Mr Phillips, a Labour party member, says anti-racism began with good intentions but turned into 'thought control'.

He says the London 2005 bombing by British Muslims, forced him to do rethink his views.

Now, he insists that only a willingness to talk more openly about race, despite risk of causing offence, will help those in need.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/08/2015 11:27 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mr Phillips, no sh*t, finally gave up on your rainbow and unicorn dreams or were you just revived from a 30 year coma, of course its thought control. What, now that you have retired and are collecting a fat government pension, you decide you can tell the truth? Look dullard, treat people the way you would like to be treated, fairly, with respect and a speck of kindness, and you might just reach the goal.
Posted by: Thavins Clase8010 || 03/08/2015 14:16 Comments || Top||

#2  He says the London 2005 bombing by British Muslims, forced him to do rethink his views.

That was almost an entire decade ago. The man most definitely is not what you might call a zippy thinker.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/08/2015 22:07 Comments || Top||



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