#8
It sure would be great if the $6 trillion we spent on worthless wars had been spent on that instead. We got nothing for it except graveyards full of good Americans.
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Macro, tool. Save yourself from Carpal Tunnel
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How bout the $6 Trillion never got taken off the taxpayer in the first place. Donate Boosh fambly organs to keep Saud creatures alive. On second thought, don't.
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We got nothing for it
Except lots of intelligence, ops experience and the muzz gene pool is thinning out. I'll say that at least some ROI...
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Thanks to all the mods, past and present, but above all to Fred.
Frank, didn't there used to be a rule against mentioning AK's name lest we conure him up?
I don't know how many times I've commented, but I first commented in March 2003.
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Meaning that I'm one loyal SOB, sort of like a tick.
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I don't know how many times I've commented, but I first commented in March 2003.
Impressive memory, Matt. If you click on Comment, above the comment box it will tell you your loquacity niumber.
#23
Matt, it's like Beetlejuice. You have to say it three times...
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LOL, Frank. Last I remember, he had just been drafted into the Greek army. That boy should could type fast, though.
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I’ve commented 13,437.7734 times!
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I've only got 2775. Unless it's counting by IP? Then....maybe 4-6 times that given I comment from home, work, and varying rigs around the US. IP always changing. But checking my phone, no. Less than 3k:) Guess I'm just dipping my toes. I only comment here for political stuff so as not to cause fits of Apoplexy in certain of our friends. One of which drinks the Beto koolaid big time. We pretty much don't talk politics.
#27
2099 times here. Congratulations Fred, great work.
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Thank you, Fred.
And trailing wife. And Pappy and EC and Old Patriot and Badenov and Besoeker and Dron and Mary Ellen and John Boy and Tiny Tim, God bless us, every one!
[NYPOST] Halloween revelers dumped piles of trash on a cop car in Brooklyn, and onlookers shouted, "Trick or treat, motherf‐-rs!" ‐ in the latest incident of disrespect to police, new footage reveals.
The stunning video shows nearly a dozen cardboard boxes and other garbage strewn across the top of a police vehicle parked on a street in Brownsville Thursday, according to police and the footage.
Two officers then begin to yank the boxes down as passersby laugh, shoot cellphone footage and mock them on East 95th Street near Clarkson Avenue, according to the video, which was posted on Facebook Thursday.
"This what happens in the hood. Police get trashed!" a man shooting the video can be heard snickering. "Oh man, look at that."
In the distance, a second onlooker shouts, "Trick or treat, motherf‐-rs!"
Police confirmed that the incident happened Thursday, and said they are investigating what happened.
The cop-trashing comes after months of hostility directed at NYPD officers, including incidents in which brazen young men in Harlem and Brownsville drenched coppers with buckets of water.
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THEY, (meaning po-po) SHOULD TRICK them a little with maybe AMMONIA Out of a Fire house??? JUSTA mild solution mix. OR maybe the Military's new SONIC BOOMER turned ALL the way up & SAY HERE TURDS, TRICK THIS! That is as their HIDE tingles and SIZZLES!! long winded, sorry IMO
#5
This was actually the situation in Kashmir for years. And this is how it began. Soon, there were zones. A cop wouldn't dare enter alone, even grunts went in APCs. Lasted for years.
#7
Same here. 25-year cycles.
NYC has 25 years of competent rule under Giuliani, Bloomberg and their police commissioners Bratton and Kelly. From 1990-2015, the violent crime rate fell off a cliff. Homicides in NYC fell by 85%.
An EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT DECREASE -- nearly all of it due to Giuliani-Bratton's reforms, including data-driven "Compustat" allocation of beat patrol resources, enforcement against petty thieves and so-called aggressive policing.
All of which the leftist moron De Blasio has thrown out the window.
Which means we're now into the reverse 25-year cycle. Back to Fort Apache, The Bronx.
Back to "Death Wish" subway cars owned by predatory punks and maniacs harassing your neighbor Mr. Goetz.
Graffiti, piss, needles, vermin everywhere: "three-rat days."
Wolfpack in the parks.
Brooklyn pogroms against the Hasidim.
Back to thousands of murders each year.
Poor New Yorkers. You had a good 25-year run, and now the Dark Ages return.
What a f---ing shame.
Damn that De Blasio and those other eftist idiots.
#8
Damn that De Blasio and those other eftist idiots.
Only 24% of voters bothered to vote in 2013, of which he got 72% of the votes. Turnout in 2017 was even lower; even so, he fell to 67% of the votes. Fortunately for his future reputation, the New York City mayoralty is term-limited, so he can only serve two consecutive terms. If, later, he should run and win again, New Yorkers will deserve what they get.
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces killed 3 forces of Evil of ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... Khurasan group and arrested a Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... bad boy during the operations in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. and Parwan provinces.
The military officials said Friday the Special Forces killed the 3 ISIS Khurasan forces of Evil during a patrol in Achin district of Nangarhar.
The officials further added that the Special Forces arrested the Taliban bad boy in Bagram district of Parwan province.
The Special Forces also destroyed IED making material during a separate operation in Chaparhar district of Parwan, the officials added.
The Taliban and ISIS groups have not commented regarding the operations so far.
[KhaamaPress] An Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... killed at least 13 Talibs in Pul-e Khumri, the scenic provincial capital of Baghlan province.
The military officials said Friday the security forces conducted the airstrike in the past 24 hours as part of the ongoing offensive to suppress the anti-government armed bad boys.
The security situation in Baghlan province has tanked during the recent years.
Talibs are active in some districts of the province and often conduct terrorist related activities.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pond, Gloria again dodged the questing tip of the giant frog's tongue and ran for her life... the Afghan forces routinely conduct counter-terrorism operations against the anti-government gangs in this province.
The U.S. forces also conduct regular airstrikes in restive parts of the country to suppress Taliban ...Arabic for students... and other anti-government bad boys.
[Libya Observer] Sirte Protection and Security Force has arrested, in cooperation with the Military Police, a gang involved in organized migrants colonists smuggling at the eastern entrance of Sirte.
The force said that the migrants colonists were caught hiding in a truck packed with vegetables, coming from al-Bayda city.
It further clarified that there were 14 of them, all of Egyptian nationality, confirming the referral of the gang to the Criminal Investigation Department to take legal action against them.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... movement, which controls the north of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , said on Friday that it had shot down a US-made spy drone near the border with the southwestern Saudi province of Aseer.
"The downed ScanEagle drone was conducting a reconnaissance mission," Houthi military front man Yahya Saria wrote on Twitter.
The Saudi-led coalition has been carrying out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against the Houthis at the internationally recognised Yemeni government’s request since March 2015.
In response, Houthis regularly attack Saudi border areas. In September, the attack on the kingdom’s oil facilities resulted in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s net oil output falling by half.
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Thanks for exposing yourselves. Airstrike on the way.
[BREITBART] An alleged assassin asked the mayor of a small town in central Mexico for a photo moments before shooting him to death. The politician was threatened earlier this year by cartel members.
On Tuesday morning, Valle De Chalco Mayor Francisco Tenorio Contreras was touring his municipality when two men asked him to pose for photos and then requested a ride. According to the Mexico State Attorney General’s Office, the mayor told his driver to give the men a lift before one of the button men shot the politician en route. The killer later escaped the scene. The mayor died hours later at a local hospital.
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Great pic. Remember you have to have both eyes open when sighting on the target.....um, never mind.....
[Jpost] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... captured two Russian nationals believed to be members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... murderous Moslem group near the Syrian border, after they illegally entered the country, state broadcaster TRT Haber said on Friday.
The two women captured in the southern border province of Kilis were wanted by Interpol, it said, adding they had been handed over to the provincial immigration authorities.
The women had three children with them, TRT said.
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[DAILYSABAH] Some 11 suspects with links to ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... , including high-level targets, were arrested on Friday in counterterrorism operations in central The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... 's Cankiri province, according to a security source.
As part of the fight against ISIS, security units conducted simultaneous operations at various addresses in the city, said the source, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.
An individual who is suspected of being an aide to the terror group's late ringleader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed in a U.S. operation last weekend, is among the suspects.
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[DAILYSABAH] Ottoman Turkish security forces have neutralized two PKK terrorists, including one on the country's Most Wanted list, in an operation in the eastern province of Van, Interior Ministry confirmed Friday.
Muhacir Duman, codenamed Karker, was killed in operation carried out by the provincial gendarmerie command. He had a TL 300,000 bounty on his head.
Ottoman Turkish authorities often use the word "neutralized" in their statements to imply that the Lions of Islam in question either surrendered or were killed or captured.
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Or #4) shot after capture
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[DAILYSABAH] Ottoman Turkish police on Friday arrested 10 alleged members of the Gulenist Terror Group (FETÖ), which is behind the 2016 defeated coup attempt, as part of an investigation into the terror group's infiltration into the naval forces command.
The arrests came after prosecutors in Ankara, the Ottoman Turkish capital, issued arrest warrants for 12 suspects for using ByLock, the terror group's encrypted smartphone messaging app, and for communicating via pay phones with other members of the organization. Among the suspects were retired, dismissed, suspended and on active-duty soldiers. The arrests were made in various provinces including Ankara, and operations continue to arrest the remaining two other suspects.
FETÖ, known for its secretive methods of communication, utilized everything from in-game chats in mobile games to pay phones to convey messages between its members. ByLock is the most well-known app used by FETÖ members; its use was discovered before the 2016 coup attempt. Authorities deciphered ByLock messages, revealing secret messages pointing to an imminent coup in operations after the putsch bid. The Interior Ministry announced that 4,676 new ByLock users were detected through an investigation that had already identified more than 95,000 users. More than 79,337 people faced legal charges in ByLock investigations.
#2
You know, we all should have actually helped them take Turkey over.
The Gulenists would not have been any less Islamicist, Dron66046, they just would have individually been better at whatever they were doing. That’s why Recep Tayip Erdogan and Fethullen Gulen were such dear, dear friends for so many years. Mr. Erdogan handled the political side of things, while Mr. Gulen managed the slow march through the institutions.
This is Bolshevik versus Menshevik territory. It still looks like Venezuela in the end.
[Jpost] Tens of thousands of Iraqis thronged central Baghdad on Friday demanding the root-and-branch downfall of the political elite in the biggest day of mass anti-government demonstrations since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
One woman died after she was struck in the head by a tear gas canister, Iraq's Human Rights Commission said, and at least 155 people were maimed on Friday as security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets on protesters camped out in the capital's Tahrir Square.
Five people died on Thursday night from similar injuries.
Protests have accelerated dramatically in recent days, drawing huge crowds from across Iraq's sectarian and ethnic divides to reject the political parties in power since 2003.
Friday, the Moslem main day of prayer, drew the biggest crowds yet, with many taking to the streets after worship.
By the afternoon tens of thousands had packed the square, condemning elites they see as deeply corrupt, beholden to foreign powers and responsible for daily privations.
Protests have been comparatively peaceful by day, becoming more violent after dark as police use tear gas and rubber bullets to battle self-proclaimed "revolutionary" youths.
At least 250 people have been killed over the past month.
Clashes have focused on the ramparts to the Republic Bridge leading across the Tigris to the heavily fortified Green Zone of government buildings, where the protesters say out-of-touch leaders are holed up in a walled-off bastion of privilege.
"Every time we smell death from your smoke, we yearn more to cross your republic's bridge," someone wrote on a nearby wall.
Amnesia Amnesty International said on Thursday security forces were using "previously unseen" tear gas canisters modeled on military grenades that are 10 times as heavy as standard ones.
"We are peaceful yet they fire on us. What are we, Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... holy warriors? I saw a man die. I took a tear gas canister to the face," said Barah, 21, whose face was wrapped in bandages.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday urged all sides to reject violence, adding that Iraq's official inquiry into the early October violence "lacked sufficient credibility."
"The Iraqi people deserve genuine accountability and justice," Pompeo said in a statement. "The Government of Iraq should listen to the legitimate demands made by the Iraqi people."
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Fatah members in a funeral procession of Ahmed Mohammed al-Shahri. He was killed by IDF airstrikes in Khan Yunis overnight in retaliation for rockets fired from the #Gaza Strip. #Israelpic.twitter.com/kvbDt79znU
[Jpost] The IDF attacked terror targets within the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip on Friday night after a residential home in the southern Israeli city of Sderot sustained a direct hit by a rocket. The attack was part of a barrage fired into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Friday night.
The Sderot Municipality spokesperson confirmed in a statement that there was damage to the building but there were no injuries as all individuals in the home were in the bomb shelter.
"When I arrived at the street there was chaos, nearby there where numerous vehicles with shattered windscreens. The residents of the building, a 40 year old couple with their children where in a nearby building. The told us that they immediately entered the protected area and left a few minutes later. They were not injured and did not require medical treatment," said MDA Paramedic Alex Kosinov.
Incoming rocket alert sirens were activated in Sderot and other Gaza border communities beginning at 9pm on Friday night.
According to the IDF, seven projectiles were fired from the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",-run coastal enclave during the first barrage and all were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system. Following the first barrage Paleostinian media reported that an IDF tank shelled a Hamas observation post in the Strip.
Shortly afterwards three more projectiles were fired during the second wave, with only one intercepted.
Magen David Adom (MDA) reported that it treated a 65-year-old woman in mild condition who fell while trying to reach a bomb shelter. The woman was evacuated to Barzilai Medical Center in Ashdod for medical treatment. Several others were treated for shock.
Earlier in the day some 65,000
...probably a typo— other reports gave figures between 5000-6500...
Paleostinians participated in the weekly Great Return March riots along the Gaza border fence. Paleostinian Wafa News Agency reported 88 injuries but no deaths.
On Thursday evening a rocket was launched towards southern Israeli with incoming rocket sirens activated in the communities of Beeri and Alumim. The rocket landed in an open field, causing no damage or injuries.
The Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health reports that one man has died during the IDF attacks in Gaza on Friday night, which were in response to rocket fire from Gaza earlier that day, Walla reports.
The PA also reports of two injuries alongside the casualty.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army has redeployed several units to the Ottoman Turkish border with al-Hasakah this week after a brief pullback.
According to reports from al-Hasakah, the Syrian Army has returned to their posts in the al-Derghabiyah, Amuda, and al-Malkiyah districts, while also deploying several units of reinforcements to the Tal Tamr front.
The Syrian Army did not transfer any heavy weapons to these fronts, despite the looming threat from the Ottoman Turkish-backed hard boyz who want to expand their territorial influence in northeastern Syria.
At the same time, the Syrian Army is hoping to work out a deal with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that would see their troops join the military.
The primary issue preventing the two sides from merging is the SDF’s insistence that they be allowed to remain in their areas as part of a local defense force. Damascus has not provided these reassurances to the SDF, so the two continue to remain at odds over this.
This video is in circulation saying that it shows the reinforcements of the Syrian army heading towards the Syrian-Turkish border. pic.twitter.com/WglaHRomND
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian Armed Forces unleashed a massive attack on the jihadist stronghold of Jisr Al-Shughour today, launching both airstrikes and cruise missiles towards this city in western Idlib.
According to reports from western Syria, the Russian Navy fired several missiles towards the jihadist positions in Jisr Al-Shughour, causing a number of explosions that could be heard throughout this district near the Turkish border.
The reports said the Russian military carried out this attack on Jisr Al-Shughour in response to last night’s attack on the Hmeimim (var. Khmeimim) Airbase and the jihadist offensive in northern Latakia.
At the same time, the Syrian Arab Army is also firing artillery and missiles towards the jihadist defenses in this area, as their troops attempt to obstruct the militant supply routes throughout western Idlib.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The jihadist rebels launched a new offensive in the northern countryside of the Latakia Governorate on Friday, targeting several areas under the control of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
Led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... , the jihadist rebels were initially successful in northern Latakia, as their forces managed to capture several sites, including Tal Rasho and Tal Ballout.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... the Syrian Arab Army would quickly respond to this offensive by heavily shelling the jihadist rebels before they could fortify their positions at these newly captured sites in northern Latakia.
According to a military source near the front-lines, the Syrian Arab Army recovered all the areas they lost, except for Tal Rasho, which is expected to retaken later in the day.
The source said the Syrian Army suffered four casualties during the jihadist offensive on Friday, adding that the HTS murderous Moslems and their allies lost more than 10 fighters.
This latest offensive by the jihadist rebels comes just hours after the Syrian Arab Army once again stormed the strategic town of Kabani in the northeastern countryside of Latakia.
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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
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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.
Herb, a time and place, man. 
[NYPOST] Halloween revelers dumped piles of trash on a cop car in Brooklyn, and onlookers shouted, "Trick or treat, motherf‐-rs!" ‐ in the latest incident of disrespect to police, new footage reveals.
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
[BREITBART] An alleged assassin asked the mayor of a small town in central Mexico for a photo moments before shooting him to death. The politician was threatened earlier this year by cartel members.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
[Jpost] Tens of thousands of Iraqis thronged central Baghdad on Friday demanding the root-and-branch downfall of the political elite in the biggest day of mass anti-government demonstrations since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
