[ZEROHEDGE] Things are turning increasingly sour for the US, which is barely able to keep track of which feuding factions it supports in the escalating Syrian war.
Recall that over the weekend we reported how "Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... Was Humiliated In Turkish "Appeasement" As Erdogan Bombs US Allies In Syria." Concerned by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's recent overtures toward Russia, which even hinted at military cooperation between Moscow and Ankara, Biden arrived in Turkey last Wednesday, just as Turkey sent tanks into northern Syria, with nothing but appeasement for the Turkish president whose unprecedented crackdown on human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. has left over 100,000 Turks placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! , terminated, or otherwise "purged" without anything more than an occasional verbal rebuke by the western "democratic" powers.
Meeting with Erdogan and Turkey's prime minister in Ankara, Biden delivered a message of alliance and conciliation: "Let me say it for one last time: The American people stand with you ... Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... was one of the first people you called. But I do apologize. I wish I could have been here earlier," Biden said.
That is all Erdogan needed to hear as he then proceeded to launch a bombing campaign not against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... holdouts in proximity to the Turkish border - the stated reason for the Turkish incursion - but against his legacy foes, the Kurdish militia, the YPG, which problematically for the US, is part of the broader U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) coalition.
So, less than a week after Biden's attempt to appease Erdogan, earlier today US Slams Turkish Bombing Of American Coalition Partners As "Unacceptable And A Source Of Deep Concern"the United States, now finding itself in the paradoxical position of directly supporting two warring factions, criticized festivities between Turkish forces and some opposition groups in northern Syria as "unacceptable," calling on all armed actors in the fighting to stand down and focus on battling ISIS.
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Have the nukes been moved out of Incirlik yet? Reports saying they were moved to Romania (or some such) weren't positively confirmed.
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Meanwhile, some 50% of this country continue to support Hillary. Are you fucking kidding me? Why aren't there more passionate pleas to loving this country? Why do we continue to allow the Dems (and the National Review Online, and the "never Trump") to claim that they love this country without STRONG outrage at such a BULLSHIT claim?
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Biden delivered a message of alliance and conciliation: "Let me say it for one last time: The American people stand with you ... Barack Obama
"one last time?" That sounds like another useless, feckless, neutered line in the sand. Anyway, it doesn't seem that Ergodan really gave a flip what Obean or Biden said. I suggest moving the nukes out of Turkey to a safer location if they haven't yet.
[PJMEDIA] He was working on that for a long time before the "Reichsstag Fire." Zaman was seized by the government last March. The Dogan group, which owns Hurriyet, got a crippling $2.5 billion (with a b) fine in 2009. AKP brownshirts stormed its headquarters in September of 2015.
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[Daily Caller] Larry the Cable Guy doesn't have a good outlook if Hillary Clinton is elected president this November.
During an interview on "Fox and Friends" Tuesday morning, the 53-year-old comedian said the Democratic nominee will be the "end of the country."
"I know who I’m not voting for," he said. "I’ll give you the initials -- Hillary Clinton. This election is so crazy because I want to change."
"I like Trump, but some of things he says are outrageous, so you just don't know. It's kind of like the choice is, - Do I want to poop my pants or do I want someone else to poop my pants? I think I'll poop my own pants.'"
"It’s not like it used to be. If you pick somebody, people want to beat you up, give you death threats. Nobody's civil. Ever since social media came along, everybody’s a jerk. So if you say, "I kind of like Trump, I kind of like the things he says, you're always a racist."
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Ever since social media came along, everybody’s a jerk. So if you say, "I kind of like Trump, I kind of like the things he says, you're always a racist."
Yes, and you get the same crap (especially here) when you say you're not a fan of Trump as well.
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I (like many) am most definitely not a fan of Trump. And yet things being as they are (Hillary) - I feel forced to crawl over broken glass while holding my nose to vote for him. Or as Larry says - poop my own pants.
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If you can't bring yourself to pull the lever for any of the presidential candidates, please make a point of voting the remainder of the ticket. Regardless who sits in the White House, the party that controls Congress, the governorships and state legislatures will determine how much the president gets things his or her own way. If the Democrats regain control of the Senate, they'll keep a Donald Trump from accomplishing anything... and if the Senate has less than a veto-proof Republican majority, a veto-proof House won't be able to do anything about a President Clinton.
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The problem, cable guy, is that almost all voters want "the end of the country." Voters who elected obooboo twice to wreck what it used to be are disappointed and want redoubled efforts. Voters who hate what is has become and what it is becoming want that to die hard and fast. You see the problem?
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The late Gene Wilder not only played comedy, but wrote it. "Young Frankenstein," for my money Mel Brook's best film, was Wilder's idea, and the script was a joint effort by the two comic geniuses. Cloris Leachman's creepy cameo as Frau Blucher, the housekeeper and apparent mistress of the late monster-maker, qualifies as one of the funniest moments on the American screen. Horses rear in terror at the mention of her name. She gazes at her dead lover's grandson with a perverse lust that would grow fungus on a billiard ball. And she was in the film for a reason.
"Frau Blucher" was the married name of the renegade Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt, the erstwhile mistress of the philosopher and sometime Nazi Party member Martin Heidegger. Who' IMO, would've been Nazi herself if they were taking Jews
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When my kids were young, I played them Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein (already a decade old). They laughed soooo hard (while missing the adult jokes..I hope). They thought humor started when they were born and were pleasantly surprised. Then they saw "Kids in the hall"...
RIP Gene Wilder
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Quite a disgusting smear of Hannah Arendt. Wow. Didn't expect to read this here.
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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.
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.
Joe 
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