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Kurds repel attack near Mosul, 60 ISIS Bad Guys die
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Narrative fail: FBI releases report showing hate crimes dropped 8% in 2014
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/17/2015 12:20 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  On a positive note, fake hate crimes are up, especially on college campuses.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/17/2015 14:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, tut. Obviously we need more activities defined as hate crimes. Wouldn't want moral to drop.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/17/2015 19:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Dang. That goes against the narrative.
Posted by: gorb || 11/17/2015 20:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Primary rule for hate crimes:
No member of a victim group can commit a hate crime, even if they yell "I hate you privileged mofos" as they are beating someone to death

And a hate crime can be defined down to "that privileged person didn't smile nicely at me"
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 11/17/2015 21:02 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Cuban Migrant Wave Prompts Nicaragua to Bolster Border Force
Nicaragua dispatched its military and police to help close its southern border in a dispute with Costa Rica over the passage of Cuban migrants on their way to the U.S.

Costa Rica’s decision on Saturday to grant seven-day transit visas to 1,200 Cuban migrants who entered the country through Panama “violated national sovereignty,” Nicaragua’s government said in a statement over the weekend. Nicaraguan troops and riot police fired tear gas at people attempting to enter on Sunday in what Costa Rica called a "humanitarian crisis."

Authorities re-opened the border Monday morning to tourists and merchants. Some 450 Cuban migrants were transferred to shelters in Costa Rica while the rest remained at the border checkpoint. Nicaragua’s ambassador to the United Nations, Maria Rubiales, said Monday that Costa Rica had violated the UN Charter and international law by not consulting Nicaragua over the passage of the migrants.
Pretty sneaky of the Costa Ricans in a way -- emulates what Hungary did to provoke the East German crisis that eventually brought down the wall.
Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis met with legislators and cabinet members today to discuss the influx of Cuban migrants crossing the country en route to the U.S. through Central America. His government said in a statement it is working with the UN refugee agency to "guarantee the protection of the lives of these persons" and that officials have sent food and bedding to the border.

The number of Cubans seeking to migrate to the U.S. has spiked since the two countries began working in December last year to normalize relations after more than five decades. Almost 28,000 Cubans entered the U.S. in the first nine months of the 2015 fiscal year, according to the Pew Research Center, citing U.S. Census data. Cuban migrants have historically used Central America as a land bridge to the U.S., where under current law they are usually offered the chance to apply for residency after a year.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/17/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Guess the Cubans don't have the Danegeld to pay the Mexican pols and cartels for passage.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/17/2015 14:48 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Noble savages conduct Black Lives Matter protestations at Dartmouth.
[Breitbart] The Dartmouth Review reports that on Thursday, about 150 ISIS-Lite "black-clad" Black Lives Matter protesters pushed and shoved students and hurled racial epithets at them as they surged through doors of study spaces, harassing students studying for exams and shouting obscenities at them.
Interrupting the acquisition of knowledge and the development of 'white privilege.' How novel.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/17/2015 01:35 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They will try this in the wrong place and a bunch of them will wind up with bullet holes. Then they will whine and cry about how it's unfair that they get shot for being racist thugs and attacking people.

On the plus side, they are squandering whatever sympathy they gained from the civil rights movement and will begin to face more and more people who don't give a flying rat turd about their 'issues'.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/17/2015 2:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, they see the respect accorded to Islam
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/17/2015 2:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Fred

Also some of the students just might use the procedures in the student's handbook on harassment bwahhhaaaaa
The snowflakes violated the other student's safe staff,called them racist names and disrupted studying. Aaa the schdenfreude
Posted by: Woozle Whaimble5433 || 11/17/2015 6:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Our Community-Organizer-in-Chief has provided money and organizational structure to many far left-wing groups through Organizing for Action. No surprise, that we have ended up where we are today. We have a large number of pissed off groups yelling, screaming, and getting violent in the streets.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/17/2015 7:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Of course there are no principles, it's all about power.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/17/2015 10:00 Comments || Top||

#6  they are just racist with a big brown chip on their shoulder.

if they think the US is so racist, pick a country in africa and emigrate.
Posted by: anon1 || 11/17/2015 10:07 Comments || Top||

#7  It is the left's version of an extended Kristallnacht.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/17/2015 10:14 Comments || Top||

#8  ...and the original practitioners were the National Socialist Workers Party.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/17/2015 10:39 Comments || Top||

#9  And today's National Socialists are just as hung up on race as the original ones.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/17/2015 10:48 Comments || Top||

#10  Interesting that the official word from Dartmouth is, "nothing happened".
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/17/2015 12:16 Comments || Top||

#11  I think g(r)omgoru is right, they prefer fear to sympathy. The left will cave either way and they know the Right won't be sympathetic so what have they got to lose?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/17/2015 14:54 Comments || Top||

#12  #4 Our Community-Organizer-in-Chief has provided money and organizational structure to many far left-wing groups through Organizing for Action. No surprise, that we have ended up where we are today

Big Daddy needs a Reichstag Fire before Jan. 20, 2017.

Or a means to exercise post Presidential veto power.
Posted by: charger || 11/17/2015 21:04 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2015-11-17
  Kurds repel attack near Mosul, 60 ISIS Bad Guys die
Mon 2015-11-16
  ISIS executes 73 of its own militants for evacuating headquarters
Sun 2015-11-15
  France hits Raqqa - Water and Power cut off
Sat 2015-11-14
  Hollande declares state of emergency
Fri 2015-11-13
  US ‘99% sure’ it killed Islamic State executioner ‘Jihadi John’
Thu 2015-11-12
  43 Dead, 239 Hurt as 2 IS Suicide Bombers Target Bourj al-Barajneh in Leb
Wed 2015-11-11
  al-Baghdadi arrives in Nineveh amid secrecy
Tue 2015-11-10
  ISIS, Talibunnies do battle in eastern Nangarhar province
Mon 2015-11-09
  New ISIS Video: Execution of 200 Syrian Children
Sun 2015-11-08
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Sat 2015-11-07
  Russian air strikes kill 42 in ISIL-held Raqqa, Syria: monitor
Fri 2015-11-06
  ISIS commanders get the hell out of Dodge Raqqa
Thu 2015-11-05
  British Son of Omar Bakri Mohammed is 'executed by ISIS in Syria' after fleeing there to fight
Wed 2015-11-04
  Germany: Enraged Syrians Threaten Police With Use Of Armed Force
Tue 2015-11-03
  Turks continue attacks against Kurds


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