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From Das Boot (IIRC):
"Our masters in Berlin spend their time thinking up new names for Churchill. What's the latest? Drunken. Syphilitic! I must say, for a drunken syphilitic he's putting up a hell of a fight."
Snark of the day.
Posted by: Matt ||
02/18/2017 8:18 Comments ||
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Don't think we ever really got a clean bill of health for Hillary.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
02/18/2017 10:53 Comments ||
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I can understand how he can come to this conclusion. The President has been screwing the disease infected Democrats these past few weeks and being infected with an STD is not much of a leap.
Posted by: Joe of the jungle ||
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[POWERLINEBLOG] April Ryan is a news hound for American Urban Radio Networks. Last week, after a tense exchange with White House aide Omarosa Manigault, she leveled several accusations.
Ryan claimed that Manigault told her she was among a group of news hounds on whom the White House is keeping dossiers with negative information. She claimed that she felt "physically intimidated" by Manigault. She described Manigault’s behavior as threatening enough to be "Secret Serviceable," meaning that it warranted intervention by law enforcement officers.
Manigault denied Ryan’s accusations. She called them "fake news."
Now, Manigault says that a White House media employee recorded the encounter. According to Manigault, the recording backs up her contention that Ryan’s version is false.
She says the tape shows that Ryan came into the White House press-staff area "hot," hurling insults at her:
She came in with an attitude. For her to characterize me as the bully -- I’m so glad we have this tape. . .because it’s ’liar, liar, pants on fire."
Ryan is not happy that the the White House has the tape. She complains that she was not aware that the exchange was being recorded and that she never consented to it. "This is freaking Nixonian," she adds.
As the Washington Post notes, under District of Columbia law there was no requirement that Ryan consent to the recording. It is ludicrous, moreover, to find a reasonable expectation of privacy in an area where White House news hounds mingle with White House staffers.
Indeed, portions of the encounter were overheard by, among others, Abby Phillip of the Washington Post and John Roberts of Fox News. (Neither has corroborated Ryan’s claims, with Roberts denying that the event rose to the level of a "confrontation" and saying he did not hear the word "dossier.")
The taping of a public disagreement is not in any sense Nixonian. If there’s a "Nixon" in this scenario, it is Ryan -- if, in fact, a tape exposes her as dishonest.
During the campaign, there were reports that Ryan was taking money from the Clinton campaign to provide favorable coverage. Manigault, formerly Ryan’s friend (according to the Post), emailed her about this allegation.
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02/18/2017 00:00 ||
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Let's see... vindictive, dishonest, makes stuff up, and is outraged when exposed. Yep, she's a sociopath reporter, all right.
#3
April, sweetie, lemme explain this to youse: everything is recorded today. There are smartphones, cameras, voice recorders everywhere. Everybody's got one, and everybody knows how to use them.
So now you're upset because someone did to you what you ordinarily do to them? Welcome to Washington.
Posted by: Steve White ||
02/18/2017 10:31 Comments ||
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Welcome to the swamp! Watch out for the alligators.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
02/18/2017 11:09 Comments ||
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The government policy should be that the Gov record a version of every interaction with the media. Let it be known and the editing games will slow down if not stop.
#7
Not merely the government: Everyone should always make their own recording of any dealings with the media.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
02/18/2017 15:02 Comments ||
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I have little sympathy for any problems the MSM has brought on themselves. My feelings for them are somewhere south of most repulsive things you might think of. Most should have to give up their 1st Amendment protections since they have abdicated any sense of being reporters.
[BREITBART] Former CIA operative and 2016 third-party presidential candidate Evan McMullin
...who got a whopping 0.53% of the national vote, then on January 25, 2017, announced the formation of Stand Up Republic, a "nonpartisan" watchdog organization meant to ensure that the Trump administration upholds democracy and tells the truth, according to Wikipedia...
took to Twitter and CNN on Wednesday to defend rogue intelligence agents who break the law to leak classified information, saying President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... "presents a threat to the country."
In response to President Trump’s tweets earlier Wednesday, in which he alleged that elements of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Agency were engaged in "Russia"-style political operations, McMullin tweeted:
Tweets can be seen at the link.
The obvious implication was that McMullin believes that intelligence and law enforcement agents are entitled to break the law based on their own views that the President of the United States is a threat to the Constitution and in cahoots with Russia.
Mcmullen reiterated his views on CNN, where he purported to speak for the concern of the agents doing the leaking:
"I’ll tell you what their concerns are. There concerns are that Donald Trump presents a threat to the country because of his -- what they see as his relationship with Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... and the relationship of his team to other Russian intelligence officers."
McMullin cited a New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... report indicating that Trump campaign aides had contact with Russian intelligence -- without also noting that the same report indicated there was "no evidence" that the "Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians on the hacking or other efforts to influence the election."
Any CIA man, current or former, who believes the words emitted by the New York Times in the order they were emitted isn't worth the gold paper his official deputy star was cut out of.
He went on to make the very claim denied by the Times article, telling Baldwin Trump "ran a campaign that was assisted by a foreign adversary -- our greatest foreign adversary."
Pressed by host Brooke Baldwin as to whether there were "too many leaks," McMullin said that intelligence officers were bound by an oath to defend the country and the Constitution against "domestic and foreign enemies." That included "a security threat coming from the White House."
An obviously sympathetic Baldwin then asked McMullin: "Are any of these people you’re talking to just even worried about him even getting intel briefings, period?"
McMullin said that they are -- and seemed to admit, in the process, that he is speaking with intelligence officials who may be leaking information.
During the presidential campaign, McMullin was a leader in the "NeverTrump" movement, consisting of conservatives who rejected Trump as the Republican Party nominee. Though he hoped to flip Utah, among a few other states, to Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... by relegating Trump to third place, Trump won in that state and elsewhere.
Posted by: Fred ||
02/18/2017 00:00 ||
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Ed McMuffin has the sense of an ass.
He is just another democrat poser phony.
"Christian terrorism does not exist, Jewish terrorism does not exist, and Muslim terrorism does not exist. They do not exist," Francis said in his speech to a world meeting of populist movements.
What he apparently meant is that not all Christians are terrorists and not all Muslims are terrorists--a fact evident to all--yet his words also seemed to suggest that no specifically Islamic form of terrorism exists in the world, an assertion that stands in stark contradiction to established fact. And there you have it.
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EX-communicate yourself, Pope.
You are nothing but a phony, marxist, useless idiot.
You lead nothing and you are standing in the way of someone who could actually do their job.
#7
Jesuits are strong on leftism/liberalism/progressivism. Not Orthodxy. After such great scholarly minds as Saint John Paull II The Great, and Benedict XVI, we now have a mediocre intellect as Pope who is headed into disaster and scandal with his soft headed "feelings first" approach.
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In his address Friday, the Pope denounced “the guise of what is politically correct or ideologically fashionable,” which he described as a “hypocritical attitude,” while urging real solutions to unemployment, corruption, the identity crisis, and “the gutting of democracies.”
“The system’s gangrene cannot be whitewashed forever because sooner or later the stench becomes too strong,” he said.
The Jesuits are uniting: Podesta, Brennan, Francis....war and refugees are good for the business of the church. Toward the Global Liberation of All Nations and Peoples requires the pope end perpetual colonization and subjugation of peoples through the archaic Doctrine of Discovery. Besides Native Americans, the principle applies to the UNHCR, Palestinians, refugees, and other indiginous peoples. Catholic Charities are also being forced to close refugee resettlement offices because of Trump's immigration policies. The Deep State is a bloated global bureaucracy. Fumigating required before cleaning.
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Yes not all Muslims are terrorists but when polled a strikingly large number of Muslims living in Muslim nations believe in things that the west finds very objectionable. And many support the terrorism against non Muslims and other sects at alarming rates.
No they are not terrorists but they are not part of western civilization and we shouldn't fool ourselves into thinking they are.
Many liberal opinions on Muslims were based on very moderate (nearly atheist but unwilling to admit it) Muslims who fled their nations. I would say that is a fringe and not the baseline we should use.
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“Please it your Grace,” said the Prince, very coldly and politely. “You see that lamp. It is round and yellow and gives light to the whole room; and hangeth moreover from the roof. Now that thing which we call the sun is like the lamp, only far greater and brighter. It giveth light to the whole Overworld and hangeth in the sky.”
“Hangeth from what, my lord?” asked the Witch; and then, while they were all still thinking how to answer her, she added, with another of her soft, silver laughs: “You see? When you try to think out clearly what this sun must be, you cannot tell me. You can only tell me it is like the lamp. Your sun is a dream; and there is nothing in that dream that was not copied from the lamp. The lamp is the real thing; the sun is but a tale, a children’s story.”
“Yes, I see now,” said Jill in a heavy, hopeless tone. “It must be so.” And while she said this, it seemed to her to be very good sense.
Slowly and gravely the Witch repeated, “There is no sun.” And they all said nothing. She repeated, in a softer and deeper voice. “There is no sun.” After a pause, and after a struggle in their minds, all four of them said together, “You are right. There is no sun.” It was such a relief to give in and say it.
“There never was a sun,” said the Witch.
“No. There never was a sun,” said the Prince, and the Marsh-wiggle, and the children.
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Is his language that staggeringly sloppy (wouldn't be the first time) or is the Vatican translation team sloppy or invidious (wouldn't be the first time)? Or is he trying to work an obvious absurdity into a homily?
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University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill administrators condemned a flier found on campus encouraging violence against Donald Trump supporters, calling it antithetical to free speech.
The cartoon features two scenes: one in which a man's "Make America Great Again" hat is stolen and burned, and another in which a neo-Nazi is bludgeoned by a bat bearing the inscription "Bash the Fash."
#3
Ahhh,, my college; at least this is a reasonable response (not their norm), but it still illustrates a problem with the student body they admit and how they are educated.
[DAILYCALLER] House Republicans are moving forward with efforts to keep taxpayer dollars from going to Planned Parenthood ...has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act. It is sometimes described as the gynecololgical wing of the Democratic party. and other abortion providers.
The House voted 230-188 Thursday to repeal a regulation that prohibits states from defunding organizations that perform abortions, including Planned Parenthood, by far the largest American abortion provider. Planned Parenthood performs one out of every three abortions in the U.S., according to the Heritage Foundation.
The abortion ban was put in place by Congress Jan. 18, just two days before President B.O. left office. The B.O. regime pushed through a rule that targeted family planning funding under Title X of the Public Health Service Act, requiring that states treat all health providers equally, whether they perform abortions or not.
"Why is it necessary for those services to be funded at the nation’s largest provider of abortions?" Republican Alabama Rep. Martha Roby said. "It isn’t, of course, but the abortion industry and its supporters want us to think it is."
Republican Texas Rep. Michael Burgess, who heads the health subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy, said the vote was a positive step towards returning power to the states.
"In the final hours of the B.O. regime, a rule was pushed through that dramatically reduced states’ authority to allocate Title X funding as they see fit," Burgess said in a statement. "We believe that states have the right to choose the health care providers that best serve the needs of their local communities and the B.O. regime’s rule undermines that critical authority."
Posted by: Fred ||
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Let Hillary Clinton put in the first $100,000 donation, challenging her supporters to meet or beat it. That first subscription should cover the next ten years of expenses plus the upgrades needed to bring all their offices up to the standards for proper ambulatory surgeries.
[NYPost] Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is cleaning house at the State Department, according to a report.
Staffers in the offices of deputy secretary of state for management and resources as well as counselor were shown the door Thursday, according to CBS News.
Many of those let go were on the building’s seventh floor -- top-floor bigs -- a symbolically important sign to the rest of the diplomatic corps that their new boss has different priorities than the last one.
The staffing changes came as Tillerson was on his first foreign trip -- attending a G-20 meeting in Bonn, Germany.
"As part of the transition from one administration to the next, we continue to build out our team. The State Department is supported by a very talented group of individuals, both Republicans and Democrats," State Department spokesman RC Hammond told CBS.
"We are appreciative to any American who dedicates their talents to public," he added.
This week’s round of firings marks the second time State Department personnel have been cleared out since President Trump took office last month.
Four top officials were cleared out of the building at the end of January.
"As is standard with every transition, the outgoing administration, in coordination with the incoming one, requested all politically appointed officers submit letters of resignation," a State Department spokesman said at the time.
So all they had to do was stamp given ones "Resignation Accepted," and send Security to walk them out the door.
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Getting rid of the appointees and strap-hanging contractors is certainly a healthy beginning. The virus that haunts the institution and it's parent company in McLean will take much time and be more difficult to deal with.
#5
It may be dawning on some of them with a party line vote in Congress Civil Service Tenure can be wiped out. Or if a stroke of the pen made them Civil Service a stroke of the pen could unmake them.
#13
Trump ordered a hiring freeze around day one so they will have to be replaced by people from lower down the totum pole, people used to taking orders than giving orders so that will be ok.
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Staffers in the offices of deputy secretary of state for management and resources as well as counselor were shown the door Thursday, according to CBS News. According to CBS news?
If true, it's been needed for a long time. Under the last two Secretaries, State has been a mess.
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.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
Hillary Clinton
Help is on the way. 
"Christian terrorism does not exist, Jewish terrorism does not exist, and Muslim terrorism does not exist. They do not exist," Francis said in his speech to a world meeting of populist movements.
[DAILYCALLER] House Republicans are moving forward with efforts to keep taxpayer dollars from going to 
