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Yemeni protesters demand trial of president
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Fifth Column
..a field of skulls somewhere...
An excerpt:
For them, no price was too much to pay for regaining power. No cost was too high, because they're so clever, and good, and enlightened that they can fix it all. Just bow a few more times, President Obama. Just make a few more speeches about how Islam should be let to do anything it wants. Just issue a few more statements condemning violence by people fighting against tyrants. That will make it all better.

You have a lot to answer to on the left. I'd hope that some day the truth and your consciences would finally come to haunt you, but I'm beginning to think a lot of you are impervious to the truth and have no conscience.

Because all these people are paying the price for your unbridled lust for power and idiot's dream of a social justice utopia. They're being tortured and maimed and dying because of your dream. And that always seems to happen, doesn't it? Every time the left has a revolution there's always a field of skulls buried nearby and careful education to get people to ignore it.
Per Badanov's suggestion I checked out this blog. Superb and should be on everyone's reading list.
Posted by: badanov || 12/31/2011 14:14 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  bookmarked, thx Bad and SW
Posted by: Frank G || 12/31/2011 16:23 Comments || Top||

#2  "I'm beginning to think a lot of you are impervious to the truth and have no conscience"

Beginning? Where ya' been the past 10 20 30 years??
Posted by: Barbara || 12/31/2011 18:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Sadly, if these Syrians want BO to do something, their signs are all wrong. Instead of appealing to his humanity (which is not a pronounced trait among narcissists), the signs should read: "Kill Assad and you carry Ohio!" or "Syrian Rebels Form PAC for Obama!" or "Kill Assad and We Buy Two Plates at Your Next $38,000 a Plate Fundraiser."
Posted by: Matt || 12/31/2011 18:40 Comments || Top||

#4  amen, Matt
Posted by: Frank G || 12/31/2011 18:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Matt, of course foreign donations are illegal. At least if a Republican did it. The ONE is above all laws, though.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/31/2011 20:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Matt, of course foreign donations are illegal. At least if a Republican did it. The ONE is above all laws, though.

Don't worry. They'll sort it out after the election is over. Like last time ....
Posted by: gorb || 12/31/2011 22:48 Comments || Top||

#7  OUCH! nice shot, Gorb
Posted by: Frank G || 12/31/2011 23:08 Comments || Top||

#8  IMO the Commies + aligned in the US-West are makinga a serious, perhaps even catastrophic, strategic mistake allowing Radical Islam to wage jihad throughout the Third World, + concessions includ widin the First World. THE LEFT'S IDEO, ECON, + ULTIMATELY ITS NUCLEAR ACE IS STEADILY SHRINKING + BECOM IRRELEVANT AS MORE + MORE MUSLIM GOVTS SUCCUMB TO THE ARAB SPRING VEE POLITICAL-KEGAL-DIPLOMATIC JIHAD WID DESIRE TO DEV THEIR OWN INDIGENS NUCPROGS.

ONCE DAY THAT MOUNTAIN OF SKULLS WILL BE THOSE OF THE LEFT'S, + THE RIGHT WON'T BE AROUND TO SAVE 'EM.

OH, THE BEHEAD-MANITY!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 12/31/2011 23:40 Comments || Top||

#9  Yeah, crude but effective.
Posted by: gorb || 12/31/2011 23:44 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
America's contribution to the Pacific Century
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel benefits from discretion on Syria
Posted by: ryuge || 12/31/2011 05:33 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Actually, Israel could involve itself indirectly, by not entirely quietly, negotiating sanctuary for Assad in some puzzled neutral country, insuring that the story was leaked.

In the process, they could also drop some goodies about Assad that would piss off the rebels, like mentioning the banks where he and his cabal have squirreled away billions, and that his last act before splitting will be to sabotage Damascus in some nasty way.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 12/31/2011 10:18 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran's attempt to trap Obama
Posted by: ryuge || 12/31/2011 05:33 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  O's Carter moment. Good post. This is something they would wish to revisit.
Posted by: Dale || 12/31/2011 7:50 Comments || Top||

#2  The brilliant US patriot, prior US:UN AMB. John Bolton (the son of a Baltimore, MD career fire-fighter)pretty much said the same thing in 60% fewer words two days ago during a FOX News interview. PALIN/BOLTON in 2012.
Posted by: Slomp Oppressor of the Faeries1490 || 12/31/2011 23:28 Comments || Top||

#3  As past empires or civilizations in Histoire' West or East, had learned, the only real way to stop a Pesky Persian is to fight + conquer him in Persia [Iran].

AKA IRAN WILL GET ITS NUKES; OR ELSE IRAN WILL GET INVADED.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 12/31/2011 23:47 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Obama’s foreign policy spin
In recent months, a curious argument has surfaced in favor of US President Barack Obama. His supporters argue that Obama’s foreign policy has been a massive success. If he had as much freedom of action on domestic affairs as he has on foreign affairs, they say, his achievements in all areas would be without peer.

Expressing this view, Karen Finney, a former Democratic spokeswoman who often defends the party in the US media, told The Huffington Post, “Look at the progress the president can make when he doesn’t have Republicans obstructing him.”

According to a Gallup poll from early November, the US public also believes that Obama’s foreign policy has been successful. Whereas 67 percent of Americans disapproved of Obama’s handling of the economy and the federal budget deficit, 63% of Americans approved of his terrorism strategy. So, too, 52% approved of his decision to remove US forces from Iraq. In general, 49% of Americans approved of Obama’s handling of foreign affairs while 44% disapproved.

These support levels tell us a great deal about the insularity of the American public. For when one assesses the impact to date of Obama’s foreign policy it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that if the US public was more aware of the actual consequences of his policies, his approval rating in foreign affairs would be even lower than his approval rating in domestic policy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/31/2011 10:14 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  his achievements in all areas would be without peer

Calling someone peerless is not always a good thing.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/31/2011 15:25 Comments || Top||

#2  "and I would've gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those meddling teenagers Republicans"

Thanks, Karen. Pretty obviously a totalitarian leftist.
Posted by: Frank G || 12/31/2011 15:32 Comments || Top||

#3  We lost Libya, Iraq, Great Britain, Egypt, Honduras, and a whole lotta face as well. His foreign policy was the worst of any President in history.

Shut up potus, you have done NOTHING right.
Posted by: newc || 12/31/2011 16:47 Comments || Top||

#4  63% of Americans approved of his terrorism strategy

What? A few drones over Pakistan, in the midst of some pre-arranged protestations from some clowns in the Pakistani government, and that's the sum of the War on "Terror"?

I have to wonder what his next move will be now that we are out of the region. Africa will now be swamped, and we are not making any moves towards it.
Posted by: gorb || 12/31/2011 22:53 Comments || Top||



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