[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Former US President Jimmy Carter ...only the second worst president ever... has been released from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after recovering from surgery to relieve pressure on his brain caused by bleeding from a fall.
Carter Center spokeswoman Deanna Congileo said Wednesday that the Carters "look forward to enjoying Thanksgiving at home in Plains, where he will continue to recover."
The Carter Center has said the bleeding was connected to Carter’s recent falls. A fall required him to get hip replacement surgery. He fell twice in October, hitting his head at least once.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia is militarily ready for a Cuban Missile-style crisis if the United States wanted one and threatened to place hypersonic nuclear missiles on ships or submarines near U.S. territorial waters. https://t.co/rgKSYRfUSh
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was just a gambit on the geo-political chessboard. IIRC, the end goal was the removal of intermediate-range missiles in Europe. Not sure exactly what prompted Putin's statement, but "we're tired of all your shit" has a lot of explanatory power.
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Suddenly, it dawns on me: Anti-missile defenses in Poland, Javelins to Ukraine - it's the Cuban Missile Crisis with the roles reversed. Still filed under "we're tired of all your shit".
President Trump has a stellar sense of humor. So, as the press put itself deep into the weeds, piously blovating about impeachment and a presidency on the ropes, he responded with perfect comic timing: the Rocky pic
The pious and self-important press, as you may imagine, reacted in exactly the way Trump calculated they would, dancing to his tune like marionettes.
...Rest assured, the WaPo and the rest of the Beltway swamp are not confused, they're bitter. And with this tweet, he's now rubbing their noses in it, getting them to get busy and make one of their stupid excuses for analysis and befuddlement. It's just like him to pull out the laser pointer at a time like this and watch them go running. He knew they wouldn't get it.
[American Thinker] A story making the rounds, based on court testimony from a Saudi fixer ‐ that Rep. Ilhan Omar is a spy for Qatar ‐ is starting to fall apart. It didn't smell right from the start, which is why we at AT didn't touch it, but now the Daily Caller News Foundation has pretty decisively blown the rubbish out of the water.
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Well, the way the left does it, it doesn't have to be true, per se, just believable. Dirty, yes, but the rules are set to the lowest common denominator, people like Mittens' inability to see that not withstanding.
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More of such attacks please.
"Dirt, gentlemen. What we want is dirt!"
- Shattered Glass(2003)
[Gateway Pundit] Stick a fork in him, he's done A super PAC formed to support the campaign of Sen. Cory Booker has announced that it is ending their operations, as the candidate's chances continue to dwindle in the Democrat presidential primary.
The PAC, Dream United, was formed by Booker's former classmate and friend Steve Phillips and T-Bone.
Phillips, a major Democrat donor, has previously fundraiser for former President Barack Obama and other candidates.
On Wednesday, Dream United announced that they will be shutting down after failing to reach Phillips' fundraising goals. He had aimed to raise $10 million for Booker's campaign, but was only able to come up with $1.1 million during the first six months of the year, the Associated Press reports.
Ironically, Booker has disavowed funding from super PACS, despite having one formed just for him.
The website for Dream United now features a statement about the end of their efforts.
"We remain firm in our belief that Senator Cory Booker is uniquely qualified to unite and heal Americans across this country at this critical point in our history. Respecting the Senator's publicly-stated sentiments about SuperPACs, Dream United will cease operations effective immediately. On November 27, 2019, Dream United initiated the steps to formally close down," the website said. "Dream United PAC was a federal, independent-expenditure only committee (or super PAC) that is registered with the Federal Election Commission and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee."
Booker is currently polling at 1.7%, according to the Real Clear Politics average from multiple polling sources.
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I'm sure his rating are stratospheric inside his bubble.
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The steak picture is not quite appropriate. Fartacus is more like that dented can of Spam that's leaking all over the shelf at the dollar store. What's that smell?
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That's his imaginary friend: T-Bone
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Hopefully he won't adopt the on-going Clinton error.
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Things don't get fixed till people start paying significant price for crimes, as in bearing false witness. We're quickly headed to a zero trust society, all made possible by libel laws gutted by our judiciary aristocracy.
A respected policy in the IT world. I prefer my bank and investment counselor operate this way, why shouldn't I want that of the gummint too?
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I'm with P2K. We're seeing an explosion of malicious lies, slander, libel aimed at destroying people the slanderer doesn't like. The Gibson case, Sandmann, Kavanaugh: this madness can't be allowed to spread any further, or else we will re-create a Soviet-style culture in which no one speaks the truth or trusts his neighbor not to denounce him.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The US Justice Department on Wednesday asked an appeals court to put on hold a ruling requiring former White House Counsel Don McGahn to testify to politicians as part of the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election... .
The filing in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit came after Obama Appointee US District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson did not act on a similar request to prevent her ruling on Monday from going into effect.
Victor Davis Hanson. Just an excerpt, maybe not even the best one.
[NATIONALREVIEW] Schiff’s overweening ambition and ego drove him into a full-fledged, prime-daytime soap opera. Previously washed and rinsed witnesses returned for televised cross-examinations with Schiff in the star inquisitor role. He apparently thought he could outperform his own Republican colleagues on camera — people he had blatantly misrepresented for weeks.
But television allowed the country to conclude that seeing and hearing Schiff all day long was a different experience from catching minute- or two-minute glimpses of him. The TV version was entirely toxic.
In person, some of the House civil-servant witnesses were haughty. They were certainly obsessed with their positions, titles, and résumés, and eager to talk down to others while talking themselves up. But mostly they sounded incoherent in decrying a brief hold on military assistance to Ukraine by a president who in fact has armed Ukrainians in a way his predecessor never dared. Most of the public came away with several general takeaways — all harmful to the Democrats.
One, the more viewers learned of the corrupt, wily Ukrainians (who were constantly shifting alliances to bet on the anticipated 2016 front-runner), the more they thought that Trump might have been circumspect to have held up, if only for a few weeks, U.S. military assistance in the first place, at least until he learned the nature of the new Ukrainian president. The more one learned about the baffling array of freelancing and often duplicitous Ukrainian ambassadors, prosecutors, foreign ministers, presidents, and gas directors, the more one concluded it might be better to let them get their house in order first.
Two, why blast a president who armed the Ukrainians while staying silent about a prior president who refused military aid and even used non-military aid as a lever to adjudicate Ukraine prosecutions?
Three, the House Republican interrogators, previously mostly unknown, turned out to be far more effective cross-examiners than their Democratic counterparts, in part because the latter were trying to remove a president on the basis of hearsay.
While Democrats talked of Fiona Hill’s pigtails as an eleven-year-old and raincoat metaphors, Republicans Conaway, Jordan, Nunes, Ratcliffe, Stefanik, Stewart, Turner, and Wenstrup drew out contradictions, hearsay, fuzzy memories, and mostly anemic “I suppose,” “I heard,” “I assumed,” and “I presumed,” rather than documents, tapes, and proofs from the witnesses.
Schiff had no White House tape of Trump channeling Richard Nixon’s obscenity-ridden machinations, a Ken Starr or a Leon Jaworski report, or Monica’s stained dress.
By Thursday night, a pale Schiff was reduced to mock outrage and lecturing a purportedly dense nation — on the admissibility of hearsay. When the last remarks of the chairman were to rail into the microphone, one knew he had lost control of his star chamber.
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Again the eyes. He needs to get his thyroid tested ASAP.
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they sounded incoherent in decrying a brief hold on military assistance to Ukraine by a president who in fact has armed Ukrainians in a way his predecessor never dared.
This. Whatever one thinks of OrangeMan or his foreign policy, the hard indisputable fact is that, in practice, Trump's is the most anti-Russian and confrontational US administration we have seen since 1983. Or maybe ever.
The madness, the sheer barking lunacy, of the the Trump's-a-Russky-puppet meme, is obvious when you consider any of literally dozens of facts that are hidden in plain view. Trump has confronted, challenged and escalated Russia on every front.
Trump pulled us out of the INF Treaty.
Trump reversed Obama's Russia policy on missile sales and signed two massive sales of our most advanced weaponry, the Patriot anti-missile systems, to Russia's neighbors. Putin is furious about this.
Trump reversed Obama's Ukraine policy and will ship Javelin antitank missiles to the Ukrainians so as to destroy Russian tanks. The Russians are enraged.
Trump closed two Russian consulates, sanctioned dozens more Russian oligarchs and government officials, and expanded the Magnitsky List.
Trump officially called out Russia for the devastating ForPetya computer virus.
Under Trump, and for the first time in history, American troops have directly engaged Russian soldiers (not uniformed but under the Russian command structure) on the ground, in battle.
Trump has dramatically raised military spending aimed at countering Russia and has loudly, publicly urged NATO allies to do the same.
Perhaps, to our media morons, these seem bewildering in light of Trump's foolish tweets, but these are hard, undeniable FACTS.
In reality, this is the most aggressively anti-Russian presidential administration since Reagan's.
Reagan, too, was called a dumb entertainer, a warmongering racist, a fascist by his critics. It was Reagan whose pressure brought the Cold War to a peaceful conclusion (near-peaceful: Gorbachev slaughtered 14 Lithuanian protestors).
Reagan slashed our nuclear arsenal.
Here's hoping after next November Trump will now pivot and de-escalate. No war with Russia.
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.
Jimmy Carter
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat 
Schiff’s overweening ambition and ego drove him into a full-fledged, prime-daytime soap opera. Previously washed and rinsed witnesses returned for televised cross-examinations with Schiff in the star inquisitor role. He apparently thought he could outperform his own Republican colleagues on camera — people he had blatantly misrepresented for weeks.
Gotta love it! I suspect it is fotoshopped, but one never really knows. 
