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Mortars hit near Somali Presidential Palace, 2 hurt
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Britain
Ilana Mercer: Jihad's Triumph On Westminster Bridge
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[Townhall] The attacks keep coming. Murder or maiming by Muslims living among us is an almost daily occurrence in the West. The latest was knifeman Khalid Masood, who plowed a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, London, and then proceeded to slash at them with a 12-inch blade. Immoral media counted five dead, with the killer.

In addition to the four murdered, 50 people were injured.

Promptly did Prime Minister Theresa May get her Churchill on: "[W]e are not afraid and our resolve will never waver in the face of terrorism." How easy it is to wax fat from the safety of a bunker! May was whisked away from the Houses of Parliament by an armed security detail.

In fact, the only reason Masood hadn't claimed more lives for his vampiric God (a peaceful entity, promised Prime Minister May) was because he committed Jihad at the Parliamentary estate. There, a "close protection officer," essentially a bodyguard to a politician, drew a gun and dispatched the rampaging Muslim.

So you know: In Cool Britannia, the moniker the Island acquired in the times of trendy Tony Blair, the only way disarmed Britons may shoot a savage is with ... a camera. For in the country that gave us the "Rights of Englishmen," the inspiration for the American founders--including the 1689 English Bill of Rights which entails the right to possess arms--the natural order has been inverted.

In the new old Blighty, only criminals are armed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 08:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


The Grand Turk
What kind of success did Turkey achieve in Syria?
[Hurriyet Daily News] Hours before U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s arrival in Ankara on the evening of March 29, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on NTV that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
’s "Euphrates Shield" operation on Syria soil had been completed.

Yildirim had just stepped out of a National Security Board (MGK) meeting chaired by President Tayyip Erdogan, with the board’s blurb subsequently saying the operation had been "successfully completed."
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Posted by: Fred || 03/31/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Home Front: Politix
Tammy Duckworth joins effort to block Neil Gorsuch confirmation vote
[Guardian] Illinois senator criticized Gorsuch’s refusal to meet, as more than 30 Democrats now plan not to support Donald Trump’s supreme court nominee.

Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth announced Thursday that she would join fellow Democrats in blocking a confirmation vote on Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump’s supreme court nominee.

Duckworth, a combat veteran of the Iraq war who was first elected to the Senate in 2016, cited in a statement the refusal of Gorsuch to meet her as one key reason for her vote.

"Judge Gorsuch has not made the effort to meet with me in person to answer the serious questions I have about his record and he in fact cancelled a meeting we had previously scheduled," said Duckworth. She added: "I refuse to vote to end debate on a nominee who refuses to provide any answers to my questions."
Emphasis added.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 07:34 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Judge Gorsuch has not made the effort to meet with me in person

That would be to his credit. The real news is found underlined in the first sentence. Possibly as few as 16 left undecided.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 7:40 Comments || Top||

#2  They don't slather shmuckworthless with the same "war hero" stuff mcstain gets mega helpings of...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/31/2017 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3  meet with me in person

The public hearings where the various senators engage in grandstanding and long-winded speeches aren't enough?
Posted by: SteveS || 03/31/2017 10:39 Comments || Top||

#4  As Lee said about the Richmond Congress, which he had little use for.... (slight paraprhase I suspect):

"All they do is sit around chewing tobacco and eating peanuts"
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 11:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe he's imitating Mike Pence.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/31/2017 12:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Re: Ms. Quackworth -any damn fool can crash an aircraft. The heroes are those who put the damn fools back together.

Enough of this "Hero" bull$hit already.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 03/31/2017 17:08 Comments || Top||

#7  I crashed one once upon a time. Fortunately for me no lasting injuries and most fortunately for me, prevented my deployment in 1971. When I was able to fly again my window was gone.
Unfortunately I believe I once heard that "damn fool" comment being said about me as well. I'll take it now, but back then, I'll just say I wasn't.
Posted by: illeagle || 03/31/2017 17:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Republicans, who number 52 in the Senate, need eight Democrats to join them in order to end the expected filibuster, or in more technical terms, invoke cloture.
If they don't reach 60 votes, they can still get around it by changing the rules and requiring only a simple majority, or 51 votes, to end the debate.
...and otherwise invoking the nuclear option.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/31/2017 18:08 Comments || Top||

#9  Dear 'illeagle:' Thank you for your service to our Nation. Glad you survived the crash. Thank you for visiting the Burg also.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 18:24 Comments || Top||

#10  Don't think #6 meant "any damn fool" means "only damn fools."

I read accident analyses regularly. Once you sit in the front seat, excepting catastrophic failures and/or unforecast Wx, well, you're "boned" if something untoward happens.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 03/31/2017 20:02 Comments || Top||

#11  Absolutely correct, BU5562. My greatest "bitch" about Tammy D. is that her only claim to fame is a Purple Heart and prosthetic limb.

Although her sacrifice was great, its constant use as a marketing gimmick grows tiresome and tarnishes her body of work.

As far as myself, too much caffeine and not enough sleep is a dangerous combination......
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 03/31/2017 22:53 Comments || Top||


Rush: ‘Fantasy' of Trump Working With Dems Will End When Gorsuch Confirmation Is Filibustered
[Breitbart] Thursday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh dismissed the possibility of President Donald Trump working alongside Democrats as "fantasy."

Limbaugh said this fantasy would come to an end when Democrats filibuster the Supreme Court confirmation vote of Judge Neil Gorsuch likely to happen next month, which Limbaugh said will be done out of a necessity for Democrats to fundraise.

Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 07:26 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's not so much Trump working with the Donks as much as the Donks, sensing their total lack of power and influence after the Reid option, working with Trump to claw some back. Individual Senators and some reps may be looking for constituent representation.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/31/2017 9:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Dems won't break ranks. The hard Left would crucify them if they tried.
Posted by: Iblis || 03/31/2017 11:32 Comments || Top||

#3  How can you work with people who are full on bat shit crazy?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/31/2017 12:05 Comments || Top||

#4  How can you work with people who are full on bat shit crazy? Posted by Abu Uluque

Appears you've never worked in the Federal Government Ab. Alcohol my vriend, and in prodigious quantities.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/31/2017 12:41 Comments || Top||

#5  How can you work with people who are full on bat shit crazy?

I perceive you haven't spent much time in academia.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/31/2017 12:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Trump needs to do and say all the cross-the aisles things to appeal to the drive by voters.

The left will do the crazy thing and it is best to give them little of anything to blame except themselves.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/31/2017 13:55 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2017-03-31
  Mortars hit near Somali Presidential Palace, 2 hurt
Thu 2017-03-30
  503 militants surrender in Homs
Wed 2017-03-29
  Taliban commanders among 21 killed in Helmand airstrikes: MoD
Tue 2017-03-28
  33 ISIS troops die in Nangarhar airstrike
Mon 2017-03-27
  Leading member of Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis killed in North Sinai raid: Egyptian army
Sun 2017-03-26
  Police clash with anti-Christian mob in southern Egypt
Sat 2017-03-25
  ISIL withdrawing fighters from southern Syria to concentrate on Raqqa
Fri 2017-03-24
  Helmand’s Sangin district has reportedly fallen to Taliban
Thu 2017-03-23
  It's worse: Jewish Israeli-American, 19, arrested in Ashkelon for phoning in dozens of JCC bomb threats
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  Jihadi car and knife attack: Parliament in lockdown
Tue 2017-03-21
  U.S. Bans Laptops, Tablets from Cabins on Flights from Middle East
Mon 2017-03-20
  Syrian regulars gain control of regions near Palmyra
Sun 2017-03-19
  Four wanted Maute militants nabbed in Lanao
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  Man shot dead at Paris Orly airport this morning after taking soldier's gun: official
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