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Trump really isn't pulling punches (emphasis added): "If you think that Huma isn't telling Anthony, who she's probably desperately in love with, in all fairness to Anthony. Cause why else would she marry this guy? Can you believe it? Can't see straight."
#3
Trump's suggestion that Huma Abedin would tell secrets to family members whom she loves takes another meaning if one looks at her family background.
These are people a sane Western nation would not let get near anything remotely sensitive.
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No one is going to remember what Hilarity's camp said in response. Whereas, the Donald's comments will reverberate around the country for a while.
Smart move by the Donald. Keep people talking about the problems and the awful people we have in our political class today. The most dangerous thing for someone to ask the Donald, in front of a camera, would be, "fine, what would YOU do? And be specific..."
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Disclosure: I have an NRA sticker in the rear window of my S-10, and I am not a member.
An epic fisking...
[TheLibertyZone] OK, so I don’t have an NRA sticker. Although I’m an ardent gun rights advocate, I am not an NRA member. The NRA and I never really got along all that well. But nonetheless, bear with me here, because I’m about to explain why the NRA sticker says much more about the metrosexual douche pickle who wrote this column than it does about anyone who has that sticker on their vehicle.
Truth is, the writer was more of a menace with a panic attack while driving. More so if he had to twit his panic.
=BrerRabbit, I took a driving class with a professional driver. Best thing I ever did, learn to break without locking, cones, so forth. Best thing I ever did to learn how to operate the tool called automobile. People take classes to learn how to wire electricity. Do the same for any other tool, including firearms.
But let's play devil's advocate and assume that an NRA sticker *is* the sign of a heavily-armed person filled with murderous rage who may explode at any minute. It would make sense to give such a person a wide berth, or at least be polite to them. Forewarned is forearmed, if you'll pardon the expression.
And isn't that warning better than being blind-sided by, for example, an unlabeled gay black TV news guy?
[RUDAW.NET] A few days ago at a funeral for one of the young Turkish soldiers killed in the recent fighting with the PKK, something unusual happened. Local Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputies and officials elbowed their way to the front of the mourners' line by the coffin of the young captain being laid to rest. That of course was not the unusual part, as government officials in most places seem to do this sort of thing. The unusual part came in the reaction of the crowd of mourners and the young captain's older brother, lieutenant colonel Mehmet Alkan. They booed the AKP deputies, telling them "You have nothing to do here. Get out!" Another mourner called out "I am a relative of our martyr and I am not standing in the front row. What are these marauders doing there?"
In a series of grief-laced shouts, the lieutenant colonel asked, "Why do those who have been saying 'solution' since yesterday now say war? This son of our homeland was just 32 years old. He couldn't get enough of his country, his beloved ones yet. Who is his murderer?" As others tried to restrain him, he continued: "Those who say that they want to become a martyr are hanging around in palaces with 30 bodyguards and armored vehicles. There is no such thing! If you want to become a martyr, then you should go there and do it!" (Mr. Alkan was referring to AKP Minister of Energy Taner Yildiz, who recently told the press that his goal is to become a martyr for his religion, nation and country, "if God wills it").
Another mourner for a soldier at another funeral shouted at the AKP Minister of Health, "If we had elected him president, it wouldn't end up like this, right?" (The health minister had recently said in a speech that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's failure to put a strong presidential system into place was the cause of the chaos in the country). At yet another funeral of a soldier -- a young private -- a mourning cousin called out "The president should be proud, as he has managed to make brothers kill each other!"
Losing little time, pro-AKP Internet trolls took to Twitter and on-line forums to denounce the mourners, targeting especially the lieutenant colonel who lost his younger brother. They accused the grieving mourners of disloyalty to Turkey, adding that lieutenant colonel Alkan was probably an Alevi or a Gulenist or even a terrorist. For AKP Internet trolls, being an Alevi is apparently an insult
"Not real Muslims at all, donchaknow. Why, they're practically Shiites!"
and criticizing the Dear Leader is evidence of disloyalty to the state, which speaks volumes about the kind of politics some quarters pursue these days. Taking their cue, the Turkish Armed Forces opened an investigation against the lieutenant colonel.
These were unusual events because in the past, everyone in Turkey was in the habit of solely blaming the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) for all violence. Even today, the norm is to exclusively blame the PKK for the approximately 35,000 deaths since the insurgency began in 1984 -- as if the large majority of those deaths were not PKK fighters and Kurds killed by the state, and as if that same state had not subjected its Kurdish minority to a decades-long pressure cooker of repression, denial and forced assimilation.
These mourners, in contrast, appeared to be blaming the AKP government for the resumption in violence. It seems that the old trick of declaring a war and waiting for the rally around the flag effect no longer works so well on the population that must bear the costs of such policies. On the state's side, no sons of ministers or wealthy families die, as these typically pay their way out of military service. On the Kurdish side, most families seem to have lost someone. Many ministers of parliament for the People's Democracy Party (HDP) have lost close relatives in the conflict. In general, it is the poor and disempowered of Turkey who are forced to bear the brunt of the conflict.
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[DAWN] THE operation being carried out by the Rangers in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... is at serious risk of losing its focus, as the detention of former petroleum minister Asim Hussain on Wednesday has shown.
Dr Hussain, an associate of former president Asif Ali Zardari, was taken into custody under a law strictly formulated for the pursuit of terrorists, and his detention has come across as a misuse of legal authority by the paramilitary force.
Indeed, the perception of the Rangers overstepping their mandate has extended to other instances as well: not too long ago, an MQM leader was detained by the Rangers for organising a public meeting during which the increasingly hugeAltaf Hussain ..The head of MQM in Pakistain, who has lived in London and hasn't laid eyes on Pakistain since Caesar made corporal. Judging from the size of him,he may be a Hutt... spoke against the security establishment.
Dr Asim Hussain was detained under Section 11EEEE of the Anti Terrorism Act of 1997, which was passed as an amendment in October 2013 at the start of the Karachi operation, specifically to empower the Rangers to detain and question those suspected of being involved in terrorism.
Since then, the anti-terrorism law has been used to apprehend a growing number of individuals from all walks of life, from the chairman of the Fishermen Cooperative Society, to the head of the country's largest association of builders and developers, to various officials of the city government.
In their application for preventive detention, the Rangers simply have to inform the court that they possess "credible information" that the suspect is involved in terror-related crime. Whatever the former minister's alleged involvement in corruption cases, it beggars belief that he could have been involved in acts of terrorism.
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was taken into custody under a law strictly formulated for the pursuit of terrorists, and his detention has come across as a misuse of legal authority by the paramilitary force.
Sounds like the Patriot Act. Government will always use any law to expand their power over opposition.
[DAWN] MANY Paks are thrilled by the news originating from two think tanks in Washington. Although no real evidence has been presented, they claim that the Pak nuclear arsenal may become the world's third largest over the next five to 10 years. The current number, estimated at around 120 Hiroshima-sized warheads, could increase to around 350. This would exceed numbers held by La Belle France (290), China (240), and UK (190).
Is the sky the limit? If not, what is the number that Pakistain "must have"? Seventy years ago, just one bomb had turned Hiroshima to rubble. Today, if Pakistain and India use even half their arsenals, the radioactive ash and smoke would destroy not just both countries but also cause a global catastrophe. Nevertheless, neither specifies a cap. The only figures I have ever seen are speculations published by a retired Pak air force officer.
His logic goes something like this: adequate deterrence requires two Indian cities to be hit with five nuclear bombs each. Assume 50pc probability of successfully penetrating enemy defences. Suppose also that 50pc of Pakistain's nuclear weapons are destroyed in an Indian pre-emptive first strike. Using rules of arithmetic that even a 10-year old knows, he puts the desired number at 40 bombs. Then, changing probabilities from 50pc to 90pc, he raises the cap to a staggering 1,000! For the reader: change two cities to three, and five bombs to six, and calculate the change. It's huge!
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[Breitbart] Details continued to emerge about the behavior and history of black, gay Virginia shooter Vester Flanagan II, aka Bryce Williams, in the aftermath of brutal slaying of two white journalists on live television on Wednesday.
Williams' blackness and homosexuality are relevant only because Williams used them as rationales for the murders, explaining in a 23-page manifesto that he felt justified in his murders because of racism and homophobia. He said he wanted a "race war" and, on Twitter, specifically accused Alison Parker, one of his victims, of racist comments.
Naturally, some on the left bought Williams' version of events. Sally Kohn of CNN tweeted that Williams "was mentally unstable AND appears to have acted out of sense of victimization I have no reason to believe not justified." We are reaping the tragic harvest of multiculturalism and victimization. Certain community organizers and social disturbers 'understand the cruelty of man' and silently condone violence and the group think of Ferguson, Mo.
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Sally Kohn is a lesb1an idiot - she's serially wrong on any and all issues
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"was mentally unstable AND appears to have acted out of sense of victimization I have no reason to believe not justified."
Nice example of trance-inducing language. Anyone who seriously attempts to make sense of those words will become a little less mentally stable, just for making the attempt. Hat tip: Milton Erickson.
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A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense
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[DAWN] MANY Paks are thrilled by the news originating from two think tanks in Washington. Although no real evidence has been presented, they claim that the Pak nuclear arsenal may become the world's third largest over the next five to 10 years. The current number, estimated at around 120 Hiroshima-sized warheads, could increase to around 350. This would exceed numbers held by 
