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Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Joining Army
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Grab your barf bags: Obama farewell video
Posted by: badanov || 01/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is this the one where he admits he's a Muslim originally born in Kenya?

Because I can't imagine sitting thru any other video of his that I could bother to watch.
Posted by: Crusader || 01/11/2017 0:50 Comments || Top||

#2  There was this description of Mr, Obama as the first Javanese president, which makes sense to me. Courtesy of Instapundit.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/11/2017 14:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Colonoscopy with rusty barbed wire is preferable to spending even a nano-second listening to this POS
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 01/11/2017 14:31 Comments || Top||

#4  During prime-time basketball, well done.

Anyone catch the Farewell Mrs. Obama Christmas Eve Special?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/11/2017 15:15 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/11/2017 15:39 Comments || Top||

#6  swksvolFF, I was trimming my toenails. Missed it.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/11/2017 16:58 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Poll: CNN Least Trusted Cable News Network
[Free Beacon] Television viewers prefer Fox News for political coverage above all other cable news networks and trust CNN the least among them, according to a recent poll.

The Rasmussen poll shows that, when Americans were asked what channels they turn to "at least occasionally" for political news, Fox News took the top spot with 42 percent saying they watch the channel. Competitors CNN and MSNBC fell short with 35 percent and 19 percent, respectively.

The poll also asked how viewers trust the political news from each of the cable networks. Fox News again took the top spot, with 50 percent of respondents saying they trust the network’s political news. Fourty-three percent of MSNBC viewers said the same, and only 33 percent of those who tune into CNN said they trust the news network.

Rasmussen Reports also found that 75 percent of likely American voters watch cable news "at least occasionally" for some of their news reception. For the poll, Rasmussen contacted 1,000 likely voters on Jan. 2.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/11/2017 02:27 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  End bundling. Let nature takes its own path.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/11/2017 7:37 Comments || Top||

#2  P2K that works as an answer to The Great New England Baby Shortage of 1648 as well.



Posted by: Shipman || 01/11/2017 9:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Some things require no polling. Must have been a slow month for Rasmussen.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/11/2017 9:21 Comments || Top||

#4  This is a poll of people who actually watch the network. How many don't watch because they don't trust?
Posted by: Iblis || 01/11/2017 11:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Must have been a slow month for Rasmussen

After the last election, I suspect all the polling outfits are scrambling for work.
Posted by: Pappy || 01/11/2017 15:10 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
David Horowitz: The Inauguration War
[Breitbart] According to Gallup, the average presidential honeymoon lasts seven months. This is a window when the losing party declares a partisan peace, allows the incoming president to pick his cabinet and launch the agenda his victory mandates. Presidential honeymoons are not only a venerable American tradition they are one of democracy’s pillars. For generations they have been ceremonial supports for the peaceful transition of power, and the peaceful resolution of partisan conflicts.

Not this election year. There will be no honeymoon. This year even before Trump arrives in the Oval Office, the opposition cry has been Resist! Block! Reject! It is not just anti-American radicals like Michael Moore, who has indeed called for "100 days of resistance" to the Trump presidency, but by the leadership of the Democratic Party which has vowed to fight Trump’s appointments, has attacked the election result as an expression of popular racism, attempted to discredit the Electoral College by falsely calling it a legacy of slavery, and even accused Trump of being a Russian agent, a pawn in the chess game of its dictator Vladimir Putin. It is a sad day for America when the world’s oldest political party, whose name proclaims it a partisan of democracy, comes out in force as a saboteur of that same system.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/11/2017 02:17 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Indonesia resolute in war on Islamist terror
[Strategy Page]
Posted by: ryuge || 01/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sure they are...
Posted by: Crusader || 01/11/2017 1:30 Comments || Top||

#2  On which side?
Posted by: AlanC || 01/11/2017 7:57 Comments || Top||

#3  The oligarchs. Revolutions tend to disrupt the flow of graft money.
Posted by: magpie || 01/11/2017 19:51 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
NFL Viewership Goes To Pot
What has Colin Kaepernick wrought?
Viewership of this past weekend’s Wild Card playoff games should have been a boost for the NFL as it continues to work through a relatively challenging regular season. Yet if the reported overnights are any indication, the league will be expecting some postseason declines as well unless either the Dallas Cowboys or the resurgent Green Bay Packers run the table after their divisional round game this coming weekend.

This should be somewhat expected, however, because we’ve come out of a 2016 campaign that was as relatively as hard as it’s been for the league in a very long time. Previous analysis showed that the ratings struggle was more than a passing concern, but a real problem for both the league and its broadcasters. FOX, CBS and ESPN didn’t shout to the heavens about their numbers as loudly this season and try as it might, NBC’s sole reason for sounding its horn this season was because of Dallas. After taking a glance at how Election Day had an overstated effect on viewership, here are snapshots at how the full NFL season looked from a demographic standpoint against the past three seasons, including the TV peak of 2013.
Posted by: Raj || 01/11/2017 18:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wanted to watch 3 hours of back-to-back TV commercials and those idiots kept interrupting it with a NFL "game."
Seriously, there are so many interruptions that the viewer immersion is constantly shattered. And then some announcer decides that they have to share their personal feelings.
Posted by: magpie || 01/11/2017 19:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Going to pot makes Curling addictive.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/11/2017 21:48 Comments || Top||


Black Professor Calls for Individual Reparation Accounts for Whites
[Moonbattery] The 620,000 lives lost in the U.S. Civil War were not enough. Systemic discrimination in the name of Affirmative Action isn’t enough. The $trillions confiscated and redistributed as welfare payments aren’t enough.


The senseless violence isn’t enough. Not even Barack Obama is enough. Whites still need to be punished, even if the punishment is directly self-inflicted. So says luxuriantly oppressed Georgetown University sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson, in a nauseatingly obsequious interview with New York Times Magazine intended to promote his book Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America:
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 01/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From his photo, I'd say he had more white ancestry than black, and therefore assume he will be first in line to open an account.
Posted by: phil_b || 01/11/2017 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Were Hillary to be taking over in a few days, I still doubt measures like this would meet with any more success than the ACA did.

Why is the left so blatantly stupid when it comes to economics?
Posted by: Crusader || 01/11/2017 0:59 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm sorry, isn't that what we already have when the IRS collects April 15?
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/11/2017 2:36 Comments || Top||

#4  The back man owes the white man. After thousands of years of wide spread slavery, then came the United States of America. A Christian nation that abolished slavery and then created an industrial revolution that replaced slaves with machines that abolished slavery around the world.

Yes. The black man OWES the white man.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 01/11/2017 3:12 Comments || Top||

#5  I thought that was what the "Earned Income Tax Credit" was for. What am I missing ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/11/2017 3:15 Comments || Top||

#6  The notion that everything he and these like him have is due to "white guilt", which is not inexhaustible, just doesn't seem to penetrate - does it?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/11/2017 4:06 Comments || Top||

#7  I will fund his one-way flight to Liberia if he emigrates.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/11/2017 6:07 Comments || Top||

#8  I would be happy to set up a time for my foot being slammed so far up your ass your goddamn teeth fucking crack in lieu of payment.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/11/2017 8:06 Comments || Top||

#9  "Reparations" were paid in full, in blood.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/11/2017 8:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Molon Labe can be used in a double entendre context here.
The next four years are ripe for that meaning to be learned by a lot of those on the left if portents hold.....
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/11/2017 12:20 Comments || Top||

#11  Sorry, I gave at the office.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/11/2017 13:16 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2017-01-11
  Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Joining Army
Tue 2017-01-10
  Mosul Left Coast Fully Liberated
Mon 2017-01-09
  U.S. Navy ship fires warning shots at Iranian vessels
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  German Vice Chancellor calls for ban of Salafist mosques
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  Turkey Nabs 2 Foreigners at Istanbul Airport over Nightclub Attack
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