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AP: Breaking the US is not attacking Syrian AFBs. Somebody else is.
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Page 6: Politix
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Woman blames cocaine in purse on windy day
[NY Post] FORT PIERCE, Fla. ‐ Authorities say a Florida woman is blaming a windy day for the cocaine that police found in her purse.

WPLG reported Kennecia Posey was one of two passengers in a car stopped by Fort Pierce police in late March. Police say an officer smelled marijuana and that, after searching the car, cocaine and marijuana in separate bags were found inside a purse Posey had on her lap.

Authorities say they questioned Posey about the drugs. According to the police report, Posey responded: "It’s a windy day. It must have flown through the window and into my purse."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2018 01:18 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She's got a sense of humor!

Really, I wanted to go straight, officer. But the sign said 'No, you turn'.
Posted by: gorb || 04/09/2018 3:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Isn't that known as the Clinton defense? Could be the Cosby defense not certain about that.
Posted by: jpal || 04/09/2018 11:07 Comments || Top||

#3  There is a reason they call it 'blow'.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/09/2018 13:29 Comments || Top||

#4  There is a reason they call it 'blow'.

Discussion was how if got in her purse, not how she earned it......
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 04/09/2018 14:19 Comments || Top||

#5  He looks pretty Anglo. Obvious racist overtones. She cannot be blamed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2018 14:30 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: 3dc || 04/09/2018 14:44 Comments || Top||

#7  And then the wind blew it up her nose?
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/09/2018 18:11 Comments || Top||


Arabia
A Yemen political solution is needed, but which one?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran depends on three militias to expand and "export the revolution." The first and most important militia and probably the most successful one is Hezbollah in Leb. The second one is the Islamized Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, militia in Gazoo while the third, and which is so far considered the weakest, is the Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ...
militia in Yemen.

Iran’s three militias
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Posted by: Fred || 04/09/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Europe
Influx of Asylum Seekers ‘Major Factor' In Rise of Children Receiving Welfare Payments
[Breitbart Londonistan] The rise in the number of children needing state welfare in Germany is being primarily driven by migrants arriving from the Middle East and from poorer European Union nations.

While one in six recipients of the Hartz IV benefits under three are foreign-born, the number of native German children living on state assistance is decreasing, reports Der Spiegel.

According to the Federal Employment Agency (BA), 2.052 million children and adolescents under the age of 18 live in families dependent on Hartz IV because of unemployment or low wages. This is 100,634 (5.2 per cent) more than in June 2016 and eight per cent more than five years ago.

Officials said that the massive influx of asylum seekers in the country was a "major factor" in the rise, as unemployed migrants wait for their asylum applications to be processed or to complete integration and language courses, with job centres usually paying for their upkeep.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2018 06:26 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
John Kerry ‘Obviously' Wrong About Obama Administration Removing Chemical Weapons
[Breitbart] On this weekend’s broadcast of on Fox News Channel’s "Sunday Morning Futures," House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) said after the apparent chemical weapons attack in Syria, former Secretary of State John Kerry was not successful in removing all the chemical weapons from Syria.

McCaul said, "There has to be a consequence to this and I think the president is absolutely right is that President Obama drew the red line, the red line was crossed he did nothing and then he negotiated through John Kerry the settlement, this weapons convention. I remember John Kerry saying we took all their chemical weapons away. Obviously not. They still have this and I also blame Russia and Iran I think they’re complicit with this as well."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2018 01:04 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Their hearts were in the right place. But their brains were up their butts. As usual.
Posted by: gorb || 04/09/2018 3:38 Comments || Top||

#2  His brain has always been up his butt. Since the day he was born it's been there.
Posted by: 3dc || 04/09/2018 6:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Wrong about chemical weapons in Iraq as well. Perhaps we are discussing the same chemical weapons?

Well, we are talking about the same Russians and Syrians.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2018 6:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Obama screwed up many things here and in the M.E.: the Arab Spring (Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq), Iraq withdrawal, purging our government of anything claimed by CAIR to be anti-Muslim, anti-Israel stance, and the Iran nuke sell-out to name a few.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/09/2018 11:17 Comments || Top||

#5  "John Kerry ‘Obviously' Wrong " they should have a macro for that line.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/09/2018 17:38 Comments || Top||

#6  I don't take ANYTHING out of the Middle East (or US gov't) at face value. I don't trust that there actually was a chemical weapons attack. I don't trust accusations as to who initiated the attack (these people are quite capable of attacking their own people to generate sympathy.) I can't even say with confidence that the US or Israel didn't do it. And I don't care enough about the victims or 'victims') to want to do anything about it.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/09/2018 19:16 Comments || Top||


Funding Hezbollah terror, paid for by depriving struggling citizens
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] With the Iranian people taking part in widespread demonstrations throughout the country, many of their grievances have been focused on the immense cost of foreign wars to the Iranian economy. Much of the cost stems from a vast amount of funds being channelled into the coffers of both Hezbollah and Bashir al-Assad’s war machine.

This cash is blown on funding the formers proxy war effort in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, as well as paying for its war against Israel, and the upkeep of its infrastructure within Leb. While for the latter, it comes in the form of propping up a vile dictator’s beleaguered regime in a bid to save him from annihilation, while back home the Iranian people pay the price through deprivation.

According to Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, his latest budget was aimed at working toward full employment, eliminating poverty, and creating social justice. But as far as any of those goals are concerned, the methods put in place to attain them, which comprise of slashing subsidies on basic goods; including food, gas and electricity, which will mean the price of fuel rising by 50 percent, and with the price of poultry and eggs having already risen by 40 percent, adding this to the cutting of cash handouts to low income families, it seems to be a very odd way to attain such policies.
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Posted by: Fred || 04/09/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Home Front: Culture Wars
Looking for 'solutions' to mass killings? Start with punishing failure.
[USAToday] Law enforcement keeps failing, and people keep dying. Where are the consequences? Where is the accountability?

Despite receiving a warning directly from the Russian government, the FBI failed to stop the Tsarnaev brothers from staging the Boston Marathon bombing. Despite having plenty of resources, the Charlottesville police failed to stop a car attack that left a woman dead. The FBI interviewed Omar Mateen, the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooter, and considered criminally investigating him. They didn’t ‐ possibly because his father was an FBI informant.

The FBI also missed numerous "red flags" before the San Bernardino shooting. And despite having lots of warning, the FBI, the Broward County schools and the Broward Sheriff’s Department under Sheriff Scott Israel all failed to stop Nikolas Cruz from shooting up a high school.

And yet these repeated failures ‐ among others ‐ keep getting swept under the rug as we look for "solutions" to the problem of violence. No doubt Israel and the others whose incompetence made it possible for Cruz to kill his classmates were relieved to see our national discourse veer into questions of whether Laura Ingraham should lose sponsors for mocking David Hogg’s college-admissions failures, instead of their own failures to do their jobs.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/09/2018 13:03 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  USA Today says this? Maybe that's a start. If the MSM would start hounding elected officials about these failures maybe something would get done.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/09/2018 15:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, you didn't fire the CIA director a day or two after 9/11.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/09/2018 18:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Glenn Harlan Reynolds, a University of Tennessee law professor and the author of The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself, is a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors. Follow him on Twitter: @instapundit.

Columnist, Abu Uluque, not something from the USA Today stable of staff editorialists.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/09/2018 18:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Column is by instapundit, a libertarian blogger and must read site.
Posted by: ruprecht || 04/09/2018 23:04 Comments || Top||


Government
Leadership: American Fighter Pilots Give Up
At the link Strategy Page has an editorial about Fighter Pilots giving up on the Air Force and leaving because its leadership cadre are perceived as total bureaucrats.
Posted by: 3dc || 04/09/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh, I thought by the title the John McCain tradition was back.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 04/09/2018 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  ...Every single word was truthful, and the commentary exactly what I expect from StrategyPage. Direct, to the point, and honest.

And it tore my heart out.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 04/09/2018 4:33 Comments || Top||

#3  "While the first wave of air force leaders (until the 1970s) were bomber pilots, and the next wave were fighter pilots by the 1990s the next wave consisted of technocrats and bureaucrats."
Anyone who has followed the Air Force Academy soap opera over the last quarter century knows that there was something radically wrong with the Air Force itself.
Posted by: Clurong Peacock9529 || 04/09/2018 9:15 Comments || Top||

#4  ....something radically wrong with the Air Force itself.

Yes, the symptom began to appear in 1947.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/09/2018 10:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes, the symptom began to appear in 1947.
Posted by Besoeker


What happened in 1947? Alien spacecraft crashing in New Mexico?
Posted by: jpal || 04/09/2018 11:14 Comments || Top||

#6  ...Air Force separated from the Army under the National Security Act of 1947.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/09/2018 11:46 Comments || Top||

#7  They removed the warrior ethos from the AF. High rise hotels and golf courses. They need to work to get out of the ego and into the fight.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/09/2018 11:48 Comments || Top||

#8  They need to work to get out of the ego and into the fight.
"But the ascots? Can't we at least keep the ascots? Pretty please???"
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 04/09/2018 14:21 Comments || Top||

#9  They seem to want to not want to get their hands dirty.

They don't want to fly close air support.
They don't want guns in their fighters
They want to launch missiles from a zillion miles away.

Dang, what are they good for anyway? Just a bunch of pampered techies with expensive toys and no killer instinct
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 04/09/2018 15:02 Comments || Top||

#10  SPOD, they might as well be a Navy ship the way you describe it! HAHA
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/09/2018 16:39 Comments || Top||

#11  a Navy ship

Speaking of that, check the satellite views of the Mobile AL shipyard on the Mobile River between I10 and Government St. Pointy nose boats! Drove right past'em.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/09/2018 16:56 Comments || Top||

#12  It is a pity that the USAF has a purpose other than providing careers for REMFs isn't it? Complicates things when you actually have to fly the planes, right? Much less paperwork if they just sit there and get polished when they start looking dirty.
Posted by: magpie || 04/09/2018 17:16 Comments || Top||

#13  ...And like #2) Mike, this just makes me sad.
My family were US Navy vets and my Dad worked as a civilian at OCAMA, Tinker AFB, his last project was helping to get the AWAC program into production.
So, like looking at a crumbling mansion, sad...
Posted by: magpie || 04/09/2018 17:24 Comments || Top||

#14  At some point they are going to have to remove the redundancy between the branches. It made sense when money was super-available because of the cold war but now? Do we need air arms in the Army, Navy, Airforce and Marines?
Posted by: ruprecht || 04/09/2018 23:05 Comments || Top||



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