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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Black Violence: The Terror That Dare Not Speak Its Name
[American Thinker] Even stranger than Don Lemon’s fairy tale that white people are responsible for violent terrorism in this country, is the fact that no national conservative media figures refuted him.

A shame, because it is so easily done. And so important to do.

Lemon concocted his claim in front of CNN’s Cuomo the Lesser, who stared dumbstruck as his colleague sketched his vision of white supremacists running amok with terror and violence in their wake.

Cuomo has made a career of shutting up and nodding his head when black people like D. L. Hughley come on his show and insist that white violence against black people is wildly out of proportion. A lie.

The following day, Lemon challenged his angry critics to check the numbers: White terror is eight times greater than other racial terror.

In response, all that we heard from conservative media was fake outrage. Calls for his firing. Demands for a retraction. But not much in the way of using facts to show that Lemon was wrong. Dangerously wrong.

Not that many people expected much else from most conservative pundits. These are the same people who cower in front of "It’s okay to be white" signs.

Well, it’s not okay to be white. That is Lemon’s stock in trade. And he and others ply it so well that most cannot see or even declare the obvious: That over the last five years, black mob violence in America has been -- by far -- the greatest source of domestic terror.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 04:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Chicago. Saint Barry blessed.
Posted by: Woodrow || 11/04/2018 6:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Don Lemon thinks a Black Hole (Not White!) ate Malaysia Flight 370
Posted by: Frank G || 11/04/2018 7:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Chicago Stats
Posted by: Frank G || 11/04/2018 9:00 Comments || Top||

#4  not sure how author defines 'terror'

it is certainly true that the overwhelming number of homicide victims are black and of the cases where the race of the killer is known, the overwhelming number of killers are also black -- even Obama once admitted this
Posted by: lord garth || 11/04/2018 13:40 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
The Strange Allure of Pioneer Living - How Shaye Elliott became the Gwyneth Paltrow of America's growing homesteading movement
[The Atlantic] Running late after several wrong turns, I made a final, desperate attempt to locate Shaye Elliott’s home by driving into what appeared to be an apple orchard. Down a dirt path, past a gaggle of squawking geese, in the shadow of the town’s 10-story cross, there it was: the two-acre property outside Wenatchee, Washington, on which Elliott cultivates nearly all the food she feeds herself, her husband, and their four children. The Elliotts’ squat three-bedroom house, which they renovated themselves, was nestled among a pigpen, a rabbit hutch, a chicken coop, two pastures, and three gardens, the sum total of which Elliott refers to as her "homestead"‐a nod to the back-to-basics, pioneer-inflected movement that inspired her lifestyle.

Shortly after I arrived, Elliott started preparing breakfast. As she poached eggs taken from her coop and sizzled potatoes in fat rendered from ducks she’d slaughtered last fall, she recounted a recent trip to Los Angeles. She still seemed scarred by the experience. "I couldn’t bear it," she told me. "Everything smelled like Lysol and Febreze, and I was just like, ’Oh my gosh, the sound of the traffic!’ " That visit had admittedly been better than her previous one, when she ate "that kind of food"‐a restaurant salad prepared with conventionally grown ingredients‐and promptly threw up.

Elliott, who is 32 years old, "homesteads" not because it’s practical (it’s not) or because she grew up farming (she didn’t) but because, she says, modern technology "has stripped people of their purpose." In hopes of "drawing on and learning things of the past," she has for eight years rejected an increasing number of modern conveniences. Like the 19th-century homesteaders who traveled west in covered wagons, she churns butter, stocks her larder before winter, and treats illnesses with herbs. Unlike the pioneers, however, she enthusiastically broadcasts her life to an audience of Instagram followers, YouTube subscribers, book buyers, and 100,000 monthly readers of her blog, The Elliott Homestead. One of her chickens, Helen, has become a celebrity for antics like sneaking into the house to peck at butter. "You think these Instagram Stories are made up," Elliott said as a less famous chicken wandered through the front door. "Very much not."

Elliott belongs to a growing network of bloggers who have tapped into‐and fueled‐the growing homesteading movement, which encourages self-reliance through the embrace of traditional skills and subsistence farming. A homesteader seeks to "be a producer and not just a consumer," Elliott said. (She and others distinguish themselves from farmers in harvesting food solely for their own needs, not to sell.) The appeal of this retro-agrarian lifestyle transcends ideological differences, uniting farmwives and feminists, hippies and Christians, preppers and yuppies, from Brooklyn to rural Alaska. Despite its ostensible rejection of consumerism, the subculture has spawned a brisk trade in homesteading-themed TV shows, books, gear, and courses. Last year, the inaugural Homesteaders of America conference drew 1,500 attendees‐more than twice the expected turnout‐and organizers expect hundreds more this year.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 04:47 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Or possibly not so "strange".....
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 4:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Elliott, who is 32 years old, "homesteads" not because it’s practical (it’s not)

Author is obviously oblivious to 4,000 year of human history. Being cocooned in an urban environment that never exited till about 100 years ago does that to you. You believe history started with your birth. It's been less than a hundred years that more people live in metro areas than rural areas.

What makes homesteading harder today than a hundred years ago is property taxes leached to sustain the non-productives in the urban areas. You have to raise more than you need to just sustain you and yours, but to sustain a state that farms votes with other people's money.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/04/2018 6:15 Comments || Top||

#3  What makes homesteading harder today than a hundred years ago is property taxes leached to sustain the non-productives in the urban areas.

But, but, but how else can consolidated public (gummit) school systems be sustained, and the Blue Birds... how can you buy and operate the Blue Bird buses? Everyone knows busing is the key to social justice and equality.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 7:14 Comments || Top||

#4  The Strange Allure of Pioneer Living - How Shaye Elliott became the Gwyneth Paltrow of America's growing homesteading movement

You mean, like an overrated actress who's hated by just about everybody?
Posted by: Raj || 11/04/2018 7:48 Comments || Top||

#5  My grandparents were self sustaining farmers. My mother and father were raised on small farms. 129 acres for my Mom and about the same for my Dad.123 acres. Hand milked cows Jerseys and Holsteins in a Dairy for my Mom and Pecans and Eggs for my dad. These were the cash makers. Big Gardens both families. Hunting in the fall. Hog slaughters and selling Calves. The war sent my mother to College and saw my Father commissioned to fly a fighter against the Japanese..My brother and I made our living off the wars thru'out the next generation. We grew up in Asia, I married in Asia. Retired in the North Georgia mountains. We aren't farmers anymore. But I remember . Still own the Land.
Posted by: Elmoluper Splat7589 || 11/04/2018 8:03 Comments || Top||

#6  You picked a nice neighborhood Splat.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 8:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Looking at the romantic Mrs. Elliott’s website, one sees that she also uses her social media presence to market her cookbooks and an essential oils franchise — clearly a modern version of egg money that pays for her internet devices and internet use.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/04/2018 9:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Who said homesteaders can’t be capitalists?
What she is trying is hard. Harder when she loses her good health.
Posted by: jvalentour || 11/04/2018 9:48 Comments || Top||

#9  Wenatchee is a perfect place for this
Posted by: 746 || 11/04/2018 11:13 Comments || Top||


Arabia
A different perspective on the Middle East from Muscat
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Although Omani politics seems to be cautious and quiet in its positions and statements, it is actually the only Arab country that has good relations with the main effective parties in the region: Gulf States, Iran and Israel.

What distinguishes the sultanate from other countries that tried to have this same position is that it’s clear and it practices its illusory sovereignty in its political methodology publicly without hiding it and without maneuvering or even explaining itself to anyone. Oman has these relations with opposing parties for reasons that might not please others but that are enough for it.

OMAN’S OPEN POLICY
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Caribbean-Latin America
Sense of Entitlement Fuels Increasingly Violent Pedestrian Invasion Forces
[Townhall] "Daddy, I don’t want a Volkswagen. I want a BMW. And I want it NOW!"

This attitude is grating enough among spoiled teenagers. Even worse, this sense of entitlement permeates the pedestrian invasion forces ‐ euphemized as "migrant caravans" ‐ now marching up from Central America, through Mexico.

Undetermined thousands of illegal aliens, largely from Honduras and El Salvador, have broken into Guatemala and then broken into Mexico. They intend to break into America. Last month, news cameras caught them swamping the gate that separates Guatemala’s Ciudad Tecun Uman and Mexico’s Ciudad Hidalgo. They banged on the barrier, and down it came. A wave of humanity rushed forth, like floodwaters pouring through a ruptured levee on the mighty Mississippi.

Hondurans are poor, and their nation is no hotbed of hope. Most of these people seek to brighten their life prospects. But the path to greener pastures must be legal. These people all should stand down, retreat, and apply for visas at the embassies of the countries to which they wish to emigrate. No land ‐ not least the USA ‐ is obligated to accept these people. They have no right to live anywhere else without their destination nation’s permission.

A complex set of international customs and legal precedents holds that those in distress should seek relief in the "first country of asylum" safe enough for them to take refuge. International law does not recognize a right for those fleeing chaos or squalor to shop from one nation to the next, as if they were homebuyers who skin up their noses at houses A and B and demand house C.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 05:07 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hondurans are poor, and their nation is no hotbed of hope. Most of these people seek to brighten their life prospects.

Seem to notice, that not one of those festering holes ever demonstrates on the behalf of direct intervention to remove the ruling caste who generally own and operate the place. And that the ruling caste usually follows the policy of "its better to rule in hell than serve in heaven". Something they share with 'Progressives'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/04/2018 6:07 Comments || Top||

#2  I notice none of the panhandlers here in Daytona are looking to migrate towards greener pastures. Seems to indicate that for those who whish to "live off the fat of the land," the USA is the destination and improvement of personal circumstances (thru hard work, etc.) isn't in the plans.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/04/2018 6:54 Comments || Top||

#3  'Sense of entitlement', the obvious 'causal link' btwn the liberal democrats and the motivation of the pedestrian invaders.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 7:22 Comments || Top||

#4  A Ponzi 'Pyramid' Scam is Fun, until the money runs out to pay the premiums -- that's what this is on a national level.
Posted by: magpie || 11/04/2018 18:22 Comments || Top||


Europe
Approaching a Horrific Anniversary in Jewish History: Kristallnacht
[American Thinker] As Jews and people of conscience of all ethnicities reel from the horrors that took place at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, we once again approach another heinous epoch in Jewish history: the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht. With that in mind, it's important to remember that Kristallnacht and its aftermath the Holocaust did not occur in a vacuum.

With the exception of insular Holocaust-deniers, most people have heard and recognize the unspeakable horrors and inhumanity Jews suffered all over Europe during this horrific period in time. However, not so many are familiar with the vehement anti-Semitism that permeated Eastern Europe and Russia at the dawn of 20th century.

Beginning in the 1880s and ending for the most part around 1922, there were three distinct, increasingly violent cycles of debasement committed against the Jewish people. In what is collectively known as pogroms, perpetrators on both the right and left took turns raping, murdering, and looting the property of helpless Jewish victims, lacking only in scale and organization what was to come a decade later.

If nothing else, the pogroms portrayed Jews as defenseless and their blood and property as easy pickings for marauding bands of mercenaries, a fact not lost upon later generations of Ukrainians and Russians at the dawn of the 20th century as well as Hitler and his Nazi cohorts in the 1930s.
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#1  I would have thought that the anniversary passes every year. Who knew? (anni... annual ?)
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/04/2018 10:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Well sure, but this is a biggish one, ed. Though the 75th ought to have resonated more...
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/04/2018 23:18 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Khashoggi crisis may tip Middle East power balance towards Turkey
[PULSE.NG] The murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi could alter the power dynamic in the Middle East by strengthening The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
's influence at 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 expense as they compete for leadership of the Islamic world, analysts say.
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Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  Fuck That.
Posted by: newc || 11/04/2018 1:59 Comments || Top||

#2  May... or may not. And Turkey can’t affird to carry the cost of leadership, such as it is, that the Saudis have been carrying. Granted, the Saudis soon won’t be able to afford it either, I suspect, nor Iran in the face of American intransigence, but those are different questions.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/04/2018 3:31 Comments || Top||

#3  As long as oil prices remain low nothing will change
Posted by: jvalentour || 11/04/2018 7:56 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
There's No Going Back. The G.O.P. Is Trump's Party.
[NYT] Donald Trump’s conservative critics have one last hope: defeat. If Republicans suffer humiliating defeats in the midterm elections, they suggest, President Trump will get the blame. Influential donors and grass-roots Republicans will turn on him, and the party will get back to normal. Not so long ago this was the party of Paul Ryan and free trade. This was the party of George W. Bush and compassionate conservatism. This was a party whose self-performed autopsy after the 2012 election called for more minority outreach. After Mr. Trump, why can’t the Republicans be that party again?

The ranks of anti-Trump Republicans grow thinner by the day. They’re retiring from Congress. They’re writing memoirs blasting their former friends. But they hold out hope for the future. If the Republican Party could undergo such a profound change in personality and policy thanks to just one man in a mere three years, who’s to say it can’t change back? The Trump coalition seems so impermanent, after all, a motley mix of Southern evangelicals, businessmen who think like the Chamber of Commerce and disaffected white voters from the Rust Belt. Throw in foreign-policy hawks and anti-interventionist America Firsters, and Mr. Trump’s Republican Party looks like an impossible contradiction. It can’t last. Can it?

Yes, it can. In fact, the party that President Trump has remade in his image is arguably less divided and in a better position to keep winning the White House than it has been at any time since the 1980s. What Mr. Trump has done is to rediscover the formula that made the landslide Republican Electoral College victories of the Nixon and Reagan years possible. Mr. Trump’s signature themes of economic nationalism and immigration restriction are only 21st-century updates to the issues that brought the Republican Party triumph in all but one of the six presidential elections between 1968 and 1988.
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#1  Cruise Captain Bill Kristol, Egg McMuffin, and Rick Wilson should have a Wednesday attack of butthurt
Posted by: Frank G || 11/04/2018 13:13 Comments || Top||

#2  GOPe is still part of the Uniparty. Trump is merely a focus point for the real Grand Old Party which is the people that the GOPe abandoned and betrayed long ago.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/04/2018 16:02 Comments || Top||

#3  The guy is a fighter, a master manipulator, doesn't give a crap about courting the libtards opinions or favor, and despite being a vulgar and uncouth man at times, DELIVERS on policy and actually is President of the actual United States, not the rest of the globalist world!Newtie got it right, Donald is a disruptor, and it is working, 60 years of encrusted policy attitude laid down by ever increasing progressive pressures is breaking up....
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/04/2018 16:54 Comments || Top||

#4  All this BS about uncouth and vulgar.

Compared to the frothing and cursing Democrats, he's a paragon of civility, and he's certainly couth enough for me.
Posted by: KBK || 11/04/2018 23:22 Comments || Top||


Democrats Say Republicans Are Stealing the Midterms. Are They Right?
[Politico] COLUMBUS, Ga.‐Ed Harbison remembers Jim Crow. The segregated schools, the no-go theaters, the colored-only water fountains. The white supremacist siege of the First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where Martin Luther King, Jr., was trapped inside, and Harbison was, too. The white folks telling his mother she couldn’t vote unless she could answer how many beans were in a jar, or how wet water was.

Harbison is now a Democratic state senator from Georgia, and the Deep South has changed radically in his 72 years on its soil. Sometimes, though, he reflects on how it hasn’t changed‐like when he reflects on the high-profile race for governor pitting Stacey Abrams, a progressive African-American Democrat who used to run a voting rights nonprofit, against Brian Kemp, the conservative white Republican secretary of state who is mired in multiple voting rights controversies. Harbison is rooting for Abrams to become the first black woman governor of any American state, and Kemp’s efforts to purge voter rolls and challenge voter registrations in ways that disproportionately affect minorities bring back painful memories of the bad old days. "It’s a different time, but it feels like the same game plan," Harbison told me after an Abrams rally at Columbus State University.

Georgia is at the epicenter of a national movement for stricter voting rules in Republican-controlled states, and its battles over the ballot have become a national story about race and power in the South. But while Harbison is concerned that Republicans may be disenfranchising some black voters, perhaps even enough to swing a too-close-to-call governor’s race to Kemp, he thinks far more black voters disenfranchise themselves, sitting out elections they suspect are pre-determined to ratify the white power structure’s status quo. He tells his constituents, especially young ones, about the blood that’s been spilled to secure their right to vote, but many of them don’t believe their vote will count.
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#1  Admitting defeat in Georgia, they're now laying the foundation for post-election legal challenges. Marches, calls for violence coming soon.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 4:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Politico = Dem Propaganda Arm
Posted by: Frank G || 11/04/2018 7:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Funny how a Dem loss is usually because a Republican 'stole' it. That just ain't right!
Posted by: Raj || 11/04/2018 7:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Yes, we evil whites just stole it.
Posted by: jvalentour || 11/04/2018 9:45 Comments || Top||

#5  I noticed that the first paragraph avoided pointing out that it was Dems that created the Jim Crow laws, etc. Funny how that slipped through the editorial process.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/04/2018 10:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Like the 2 prospective headlines in 'Citizen Kane', KANE WINS IN LANDSLIDE! OR FRAUD AT POLLS. These idiots have told themselves this preposterous lie for so long they are beginning to actually believe it themselves.
Posted by: Cesare || 11/04/2018 10:54 Comments || Top||

#7  "...more black voters disenfranchise themselves, sitting out elections..."

or maybe they have mixed feelings about voting for someone who is black but could cause business to leave
Posted by: lord garth || 11/04/2018 10:56 Comments || Top||

#8  Who wrote this drivel (not a real question, I speak satirically). Oh. Politico. Enough said.

Sometimes I get sucked into reading the excrement from 'Yahoo'. What a well-named site. Nth bitten, N^nth shy. Or something.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 11/04/2018 17:12 Comments || Top||

#9  The story (it is not a news article) starts with the Logical Fallacy of 'Appealing to Emotion" and goes down hill from there... Useless tripe.
Posted by: magpie || 11/04/2018 19:42 Comments || Top||


Neo-Nazi Group targets its own?
[Daily Beest] Georgia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and Oprah Winfrey ‐ who supports Abrams and knocked on voters' doors for her this week ‐ were targeted in a racist robocall evidently funded by a neo-Nazi group on Friday. The voice on the robocall introduces herself as the "magical negro" Oprah, and calls Abrams a "poor man’s Aunt Jemima," and a candidate "white women can be tricked into voting for, especially the fat ones." The call claims it is paid for by TheRoadToPower.com, which previously funded racist robocalls against Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 03:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The call claims it is paid for by TheRoadToPower.com

In other news, Cuban marked Douglas A-26 flown by former USAF pilots and others in failed Invasión de Playa Girón (Bay of Pigs) operation.

If I wanted to set up a low cost 'false flag' or disinformation venue, TheRoadToPower.com would certainly be the model.

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 4:08 Comments || Top||


More than 4m Texans already voted - Beto back to flipping burgers soon
[Daily Caller] Millions of Texans have cast early ballots ahead of the Tuesday’s election as Republican Sen. Ted Cruz fends off his Democratic opponent, Rep. Beto O’Rourke.

More than 4,514,930 Texans have cast in-person ballots during the entire early voting period in the 30 counties where most of the state’s registered voters live. To put it another way, roughly 40 percent of the 12 million registered voters in those counties have voted.

Early voting in those counties surpassed turnout from the 2012 presidential election. Data compiled by the Texas Tribune also shows turnout over 12 days of early voting in those 30 counties also surpassed the entire turnout of the 2014 midterm election.

Polling data in Texas has been all over the map, with Cruz leading anywhere from nine points, to O’Rourke of El Paso ahead by two points. Yet, O’Rourke likely faces a much tougher task, according to some experts. He will need to pick off almost 20 percent of Cruz’s GOP base to win the election, Texas Politics Project Director James Henson wrote in an analysis in October.

Related: Hot Air from last week - Beto throws Avenatti under the bus.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 03:29 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe "Bite me" can get together with "Wonderful Wendy" for Thanksgiving, and talk about the good times.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/04/2018 9:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Ay Pee:

Nearly 4.9 million people voted in Texas’ 30 largest counties during the early-voting period, surpassing the total number of votes cast throughout the state in the last midterm election.

Texas secretary of state figures released Saturday found that more than 540,000 people in those 30 counties voted early on Friday, which was the last day of early voting in the state. Although Texas has 254 counties, the 30 largest are home to nearly 80 percent of the state’s residents.

The nearly 4.9 million early votes exceed the 4.7 million total votes cast in Texas in the 2014 midterm election


I can live with Beto flipping burgers for the next four years while he comes to better understand the needs and desires of Texan voters...
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/04/2018 13:27 Comments || Top||

#3  They'll be bankrolling and creating a "a legend" for him in Hollywood. He is the Next Kennedy™, ya know? (drunk driving and all)
Posted by: Frank G || 11/04/2018 13:31 Comments || Top||

#4  And MSM won't serve up a tear jerker about 5 or six other races the dems might have won if all the outside money hadn't been concentrated on O'Yuck
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/04/2018 15:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Seems someone has stirred up a hornet's nest.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/04/2018 16:06 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
The Palestinian leadership is desperate for legitimacy
[Al Jazeera] On October 30, as I was scrolling through news updates from Paleostine, I received a phone call from a friend. "It's that time of the year," she said through thunderous laughter, "when our self-proclaimed leadership decides to play peek-a-boo and threaten to end security coordination with Israel."

The Paleostinian Central Council (PCC) had announced that it authorised the Paleostine Liberation Organization (PLO) to suspend recognition of Israel and stop security coordination with Tel Aviv. It argued that the suspensions should remain in place until Israel recognises the Paleostinian state based on pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.

We both laughed, but more at the tragedy of the situation than anything else. The PCC made the same announcement in 2015. The repetition was indeed tragic, and telling of the nature of these efforts - that they are mere considerations, nothing more than laughable scarecrow tactics.
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Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: PLO

#1  In Wars somebody wins and somebody loses. That WHY they call them Wars. If it get to War, those are the inevitable rules. Somebody wins and somebody loses. Th knives come out and thats the way it gets played. No right and wrong, just somebody goes in the ditch and somebody finishes him off. You stick him till he quits moving. Better the Palestinians than the Israelis . Somebody has to win. There is no "nice" way to kill somebody. Better him than you. Make sure he's dead.
The only solution is make sure you get the job done and walk away whole yourself. Make up your mind. There is only one way this all can end.
Posted by: Elmoluper Splat7589 || 11/04/2018 7:38 Comments || Top||

#2  The author has an unearned sense of power and importance for Paleos in the perceived Joooo fear. 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi needs a rifle butt to the face and a boot on the neck to realize that the only thing stopping it from being a deserved daily beating is the patience and humanity of the IDF.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/04/2018 7:48 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US sanctions on Hezbollah: Subjugation and ‘disciplining’
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US 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...
recently signed a new revised sanction law on Hezbollah and this coincided with the anniversary of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings, which claimed the lives of more than 200 US soldiers.

Washington accuses Hezbollah of being behind the bombing while the Lebanese organization has denied its role and has refused to take responsibility for the attack.
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Posted by: Fred || 11/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Home Front: Culture Wars
The Almighty Condemns Washington DC After Being Unable To Find Ten Righteous People There
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.‐The city of Washington has declared a state of emergency after the Almighty condemned the city, being unable to find ten righteous people anywhere near the nation's capital.

Senator Ben Sasse attempted to intercede for the city after the Lord revealed his plans to smite the home of the federal government, begging the Lord to spare the city if even fifty righteous could be found among the "wretched hive of scum and villainy."

"Lord, what if there are fifty righteous there? Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked?" Sasse prayed, and God reportedly agreed to spare the city for even fifty. But after God was unable to find fifty, Sasse reduced the threshold to merely forty-five.

This continued until a desperate Sasse got all the way down to 10, and finally, the Nebraska senator relented from his pleading with the Lord, confident that the city would be spared.

But God could not find ten righteous people in the city, and the fire and brimstone started falling shortly after, with politicians and lobbyists fleeing the city in terror throughout the afternoon.

"I thought for sure that would work," Sasse said as he fled his office.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 05:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Love the idea of tongues literally on fire and Swillary being turned into a pillar of salt.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/04/2018 6:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Swillary being turned into a pillar of salt.

Well she does keep...looking back.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 7:05 Comments || Top||

#3  ...Could someone please intercede with the Almighty to give us enough time to move out the museums and monuments first?

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 11/04/2018 7:53 Comments || Top||

#4  For years I've been saying neutron bomb.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/04/2018 8:23 Comments || Top||

#5  So DC is Gomorrah. I assume San Fran is Sodom?
Posted by: Chusorong Smith8041 || 11/04/2018 10:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Just to be on the safe side, someone please contact our parody impaired reader.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 12:12 Comments || Top||

#7  heh heh
Posted by: Frank G || 11/04/2018 12:26 Comments || Top||


Don Lemon: 'I Apologize If Any Evil White People Were Offended By My Remarks’
[Babylon Bee] After CNN anchor Don Lemon made controversial comments calling white men "the biggest terror threat in this country," the host somberly apologized on his program, stating he never intended to offend "all the evil white men who watch this program."

Backlash against Lemon's remarks was swift, and so he appeared the following evening to express his regret over his inflammatory rhetoric that "may have hurt all the evil white people in America."

"My remarks were insensitive to white men, the scourge of this nation, and for that I am extremely sorry," he said. "It was never my intention to cause offense to the disgusting, wretched, mouth-breathing people who make up the white American males in this country."

Lemon further acknowledged that he may have mischaracterized white people when he called them terrorists. "I said they were terrorists, and that's unacceptable. They're actually demon-possessed monsters bent on destroying all of humanity. I regret the error."

Shortly after his apology, Lemon kicked off another impassioned speech blaming white men for causing racial division in the country. "It's all the fault of the people with the wrong colored skin," he said.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If I ever see this cocksucker in a restaurant, I'm grabbing the nearest three fire extinguishers and going to town on him.
Posted by: Raj || 11/04/2018 0:27 Comments || Top||

#2  FYI - From the Babylonian Bee...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/04/2018 0:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Fitting last name, "Lemon". In the mean time...
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 11/04/2018 0:55 Comments || Top||

#4  What a hypocrite. This jerk has a gay white male lover. He ought to be fired for all the lies and B.S. he is allowed to spout on CNN. Most likely, he would sue CNN if fired for either sexual or race discrimination or both and have a big payday. Probably the only reason he doesn't get fired is CNN can't afford to.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/04/2018 0:58 Comments || Top||

#5  This is parody, you easily fooled morons.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 11/04/2018 1:26 Comments || Top||

#6  In defense of easily-fooled morons everywhere, it reads like just another day at CNN, only with slightly more froth.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/04/2018 1:51 Comments || Top||

#7  This is parody, you easily fooled morons.

I suppose stranger things have happened.
Posted by: gorb || 11/04/2018 1:42 Comments || Top||

#8  The comedy lies in not that they are morons or anything of the sort. The comedy is in the fact that people Will believe the CNN (NPC) has said that as they say all the insane and stupid things all day and people watch this all day and then it is trump bad and then they hate everyone.

Because everyone has a mouth and no ears. Or they are holigamns until they throw their drinks at you.



Orange man bad
Posted by: newc || 11/04/2018 2:39 Comments || Top||

#9  You can't just make parody anymore. Real life seems to always be one step ahead of it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/04/2018 6:17 Comments || Top||

#10  This is parody, you easily fooled morons.

I can read a tagline, dickhead...
Posted by: Raj || 11/04/2018 7:51 Comments || Top||

#11  I put the tag line in on purpose, Herb. Eat these
Posted by: Frank G || 11/04/2018 8:31 Comments || Top||

#12  "Gentlemen, please, there's no fighting in here, this is the War Room!"

I love that movie! Oh, wait, what did you say?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/04/2018 10:28 Comments || Top||

#13  Raj and JohnQC totally fell for it and did not give any indication of replying satirically.

Who the hell knows what the whatever Bee is? It's not The Onion, it's not labeled as satire. Who knows how many would have fallen for it had I not pointed it out early.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 11/04/2018 10:59 Comments || Top||

#14  On their web pages: "The Babylon Bee is Your Trusted Source For Christian News Satire."

It appears you just.can't.read.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/04/2018 11:16 Comments || Top||

#15  Shopping isles 10 and 11 as well. Watch your step please, we won't be able to get to it until Monday morning.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/04/2018 11:58 Comments || Top||

#16  I've been saying that about Don Lemon and other Dems ever since they drove Sarah Huckabee Sanders out of a restaurant four months ago, so if someone wants to think I fell for a parody, you can GFY.
Posted by: Raj || 11/04/2018 12:35 Comments || Top||

#17  We all climb that learning curve... and without being able to see expressions it can be be hard to know when people aren’t being serious. I’ve had to apologize for misreading posts far more often than I care to count.

Herb dear, while you are often a delight, you could have pointed out the error without the insult. It is the insult that caused the reaction, not the pointing out, which probably was received with silent relief by those of our readers who also weren’t familiar with the Babylon Bee approach — or, it being a short night after we lost an hour changing to standard time (except Hawaii and most of Arizona — you know who you are) they need more coffee or coffee-equivalents to reach their normal Sunday perceptiveness. ;-)

Raj, just for information, what does GFY stand for? My vocabulary has expanded greatly since I discovered this site, but I must have missed that one.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/04/2018 13:10 Comments || Top||

#18  GFY = Go F*** Yourself (in polite company)

I merely suggested a tasty sugar snack :-)
Posted by: Frank G || 11/04/2018 13:12 Comments || Top||

#19  Well for myself it is obvious who the evil black people are. They oftentimes are the most racist people you could encounter. Even the degree of blackness is a factor to them. They discriminate against those who are the blackest in color. My personal view having worked with many different peoples in DC.
Posted by: Dale || 11/04/2018 14:48 Comments || Top||

#20  Herb McCoy

'We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them.’

This statement may have appeared in the Babylon Bee. However, I watched Don Lemon state this on CNN while talking to Chris Cuomo. Don't be an apologist for Don Lemon and his racism. Racism is never cool. A parody is a ludricous immitation with comedy assumed of a thing, situation or a person. The only parody is Don Lemon himself. He is a ludicrous immitation of a newsperson or commentator.

Otherwise, what others have said here.
Posted by: Maggie Tingle7172 || 11/04/2018 18:28 Comments || Top||

#21  Maggie Tingle7172 = JohnQC
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/04/2018 18:32 Comments || Top||

#22  While I did check to be sure it was the Babylon Bee, it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell satire from reality these days.
Posted by: Tom || 11/04/2018 19:47 Comments || Top||



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