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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Texas congressman Blake Farenthold denies he sexually harassed staffer
[SeeBS] WASHINGTON -- Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, told a federal court on Friday that he never sexually harassed one of his staffers.

In the document filed Friday, Farenthold acknowledged having disclosed in a staff meeting that he had been propositioned for a "threesome." But the congressman took issue with the detail that it involved a lobbyist and the suggestion was made for "an improper or lascivious purpose."
Strange, very strange. He simply doesn't look the type. I always went to Rudy's for my sandwiches.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/14/2015 13:39 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I knew I shouldn't have clicked on the link right after eating. Ugh.
Posted by: Chantry || 02/14/2015 19:15 Comments || Top||


Obama says N.C. shooting victims may have been targeted as Muslims
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Although police haven't determined yet whether three Moslems in North Carolina were murdered in a parking dispute or because of their religion, President B.O. suggested Friday that they were victims of a hate crime.
From what I've heard. it was a crime not a hate crime. The guy was a nut and he had a grouch on about all religions.This might be another teachable moment, but to me it's just another indication he's on the other side.
"No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship," Mr. Obama said,
...true that, though I do wonder if he'd say the same thing if the victims were three Baptists...
Or if the murder was the other way around.
saying he and first lady Michelle Obama were offering condolences to the victims' families.

The three victims, Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, of Raleigh, were shot to death Tuesday at an apartment building in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in what police say was an apparently long-simmering dispute over a parking space. Police are also investigating whether religious hatred was a factor in the shootings.
But, but, but there were other people in that Deli looking for car parks besides Mooslims.
Posted by: Fred || 02/14/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Interference in the prosecution by the POTUS? The defense has to be thanking Obama.
Posted by: tipover || 02/14/2015 0:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey dipshit, all crimes are hate crimes""

This needs no FBI anything nor any help from you you moslem whore.

Remember, it is a crime.
You said so yourself.


I said F Off.
Posted by: newc || 02/14/2015 1:46 Comments || Top||

#3  He will pimp these people out to make a cheap and fake political statement.

Light fires with no pretext.

It is just evil.
Posted by: newc || 02/14/2015 1:50 Comments || Top||

#4  They, probably, behaved like Muslims---driving the shooter over the edge.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/14/2015 4:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Sounds like the Champ has already ruled out 'Workplace Violence.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/14/2015 6:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Nearly all murder is a hate crime... I hate where you parked, I hate who you are dating now, I hate that you do not like me anymore, I hate the way you look or what you said, I hate what you did to me or someone I love.....
Posted by: Airandee || 02/14/2015 7:50 Comments || Top||

#7  Never let a crisis go to waste, or the opportunity to make one up.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/14/2015 8:06 Comments || Top||

#8  This is the same guy who said the choice of an Orthodox Jewish supermarket in France was "random", despite the jihadist actually telling the press the choice was deliberate.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/14/2015 9:53 Comments || Top||

#9  I see the pot smoker...President Choom...is also the pot stirrer.
Posted by: Mugsy Glink || 02/14/2015 11:36 Comments || Top||

#10  Let's get this straight.

The guy who went into the Jewish deli in Paris and shot up the place and took hostages was a "random shooting" but a road side dispute over a parking place in which three innocent people, Moslem by faith, are shot is a targeted shooting?

Oh Lordy, I have to go get some Kleenex, I am getting a nose bleed again.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 02/14/2015 12:00 Comments || Top||

#11  Sociopaths are constant liars.

Maybe there's a coincidence?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/14/2015 12:21 Comments || Top||

#12  Leading with his behind, again.
Posted by: Anice Nim || 02/14/2015 13:30 Comments || Top||

#13  obama sez wut?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/14/2015 13:39 Comments || Top||

#14  Sadly, he's going to be worse when he is out of office.
Posted by: jvalentour || 02/14/2015 14:00 Comments || Top||

#15  he's going to be worse when he is out of office.

As long as he is out of office, who cares?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/14/2015 14:27 Comments || Top||

#16  When you've got prejudices dogma, who needs facts?
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp15043 || 02/14/2015 15:26 Comments || Top||

#17  The shooter's defense ought to be that he just snapped after reading about the beheadings in Iraq and Syria.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/14/2015 18:55 Comments || Top||

#18  I'll suggest the problem was the normal Arab disregard for other people's welfare and property eventually pushed the shooter too far.
Posted by: phil_b || 02/14/2015 19:39 Comments || Top||

#19  Wait, it is plausibe. Victims parked a white ISIS toyota technical in the disputed parking space.
Posted by: Alpha2c || 02/14/2015 23:34 Comments || Top||


First openly bisexual governor in American history
[WASHINGTONPOST] Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown (D) will become the first openly bisexual governor in U.S. history when Gov. John Kitzhaber (D) resigns Wednesday.
And that's really, really important. For some reason.
An open LGBT governor has never been elected, although New Jersey did have an openly gay governor briefly in 2004, after Gov. Jim McGreevey (D) came out as gay and admitted an affair with a man he had appointed to a key job. He resigned three months later.
Had he been porking a woman he'd appointed to a key job things would have been different unless he quibbled over the meaning of "is."
Brown is married to husband Dan Little; she has publicly discussed her bisexuality in past campaigns.
Wow. That's really interesting. Being stodgy and old-fashioned, I only have intimate relations with my wife, and that not very often anymore.
Thanks for stopping, Dan, you're a dear. Don't forget the milk, bread, and batteries.
She is already arguably the highest-ranking bisexual elected official in America; Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) became the first bisexual member of Congress in 2013. There are about 525 openly LGBT public officials in office at all levels of government, according to the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund. Most of them are Democrats, said interim executive director Denis Dison, and only about 20 are Republicans.
We guessed that. One of these days the grown-ups in this country will slap these bozeaux down. As far as I can recall--it's been awhile; we're going to have to try it again sometime--having "intimate relations" involves taking your pants off and anywhere from 30 seconds to an hour or so, usually about twenty minutes. Surely what a person does in the other 23 hours and 40 minutes of the day is more important? Or is importance added by the fact that it's gotten pretty common not to do it in private anymore?
Posted by: Fred || 02/14/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So she is proud to be unfaithful?
Posted by: James || 02/14/2015 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Fabulous?
Posted by: Raj || 02/14/2015 0:43 Comments || Top||

#3  ...and anywhere from 30 seconds

It's called the Rick Pitino rule.
Posted by: Raj || 02/14/2015 0:45 Comments || Top||

#4  'Openly' is the key word in this story.
Posted by: Airandee || 02/14/2015 7:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Yawn...
Posted by: Eohippus Cloth6610 || 02/14/2015 9:04 Comments || Top||

#6  @#2: Nah, only homosexual men are allowed to be fabulous. Double swing-door females get to be condescending. Not all, fortunately, take up this banner.

If the world does not bore me with their sexual preferences, I'll be happy to reciprocate in kind.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp15043 || 02/14/2015 14:42 Comments || Top||

#7  When is the first trisexual coming out?
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 02/14/2015 14:57 Comments || Top||

#8  Call me when the first Dawn Syndrome POTUS is sworn in.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/14/2015 15:43 Comments || Top||

#9  "First openly bisexual governor"

Who cares?

I don't care if you sleep with a sheep (or 2), as long as it's a consenting adult sheep and the baa-ing doesn't keep me up at night.

Just SHUT UP about your sex life - I don't care.

And mine is none of your goddam business, either.
Posted by: Barbara || 02/14/2015 15:57 Comments || Top||

#10  Ditto barb. My bet is that the vast majority of people really don't give a rats ass who or what they do in private.

It's the LGBT crowd who are making a big deal out of it.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/14/2015 17:21 Comments || Top||

#11  #7 When is the first trisexual coming out?

Trisexual? Is that where the person tries anything sexual?
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/14/2015 19:08 Comments || Top||

#12  Possibly JohnQC. I believe that it is when hemaphrodites get together.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 02/14/2015 20:35 Comments || Top||

#13  I be leave the next steps are pediphilia and beastality. Harry Reid is a step in that direction according to reliable rumors....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/14/2015 20:42 Comments || Top||

#14  Speaking of hemaphrodites , I was reminded of a Jimmy Duranty joke when I was a kid.

I was walking through the park one day when I looked and saw a little woim sticking out of the ground. He saw another little woim nearby, and said to the other little woim, "You're cute I want to marry you." And the other little woim looked at him and said, "Don't be a dope! I'm your other end!"
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 02/14/2015 20:55 Comments || Top||

#15  And will there be a live in first Lady or is that second Lady?
Posted by: Alpha2c || 02/14/2015 23:03 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Psaki: Third Embassy Evacuation In Middle East Doesn't Mean U.S. Is Being Run Out Of Town

[REALCLEARPOLITICS] Following in the footsteps of their counterparts in Syria and Libya, western diplomats in Yemen fled from their posts ahead of a new revolutionary government, leaving behind supplies, weapons, vehicles and cash.
MATT LEE, ASSOCIATED PRESS: Jen, more broadly on Yemen, this is the third embassy that you guys have had to uncharitably, perhaps, say, abandon in an Arab Spring country since the first one, which was Syria. Is there a broader concern that you're being ‐ the U.S. is being run out of town in the Arab world?

JEN PSAKI, STATE DEPARTMENT: We certainly don't look at it in that way.

Posted by: Fred || 02/14/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Brave Sir Robin, etc.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/14/2015 9:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Jen Psaki - go back to the 80s valley malls where you belong.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/14/2015 10:27 Comments || Top||

#3  And war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is knowledge.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/14/2015 12:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Ms. Ptui's Psaki's job is to paint the incredible as credible. And she puts on a pretty good show for those who hear without listening.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp15043 || 02/14/2015 12:14 Comments || Top||

#5  I will be so happy when the professional prevaricators leave; Rear Admiral John Kirby, Maria Harf, Josh Ernest, and Jen Psaki. Jeebus, they put Baghdad Bob to shame.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/14/2015 19:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Jen is Baghdad Bob without the winsome good looks.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/14/2015 20:49 Comments || Top||

#7  One recalls the older Army tactical field manual - Infantry Company in Retrograde movements. Implication being that retreat is the wrong word choice because 'we shall return'. Perhaps but we will have to beg the Iranians for access since they are in charge.
Posted by: Alpha2c || 02/14/2015 23:50 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Ted Cruz mocks the FCC Internet regulations
[WEEKLYSTANDARD] "The FCC has now rolled out its initial plan, it's 332 pages. Although when I say rolled out, that word has to be used lightly, because you and I are not allowed to read those 332 pages. They literally have a book, this is how we are going to regulate the internet, and by the way, no one gets to read it. One FCC commissioner held up the book and said 'I guess you got to pass it to find out what's in it,' echoing Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...
," Cruz says in a statement.

"If the FCC turns the Internet into a regulated public utility, the innovation, the creativity that has characterized the Internet from its dawn, will inevitably be stifled. Now Title II by the way, gives all sorts of authority to regulate pricing and terms of service, and one of the implications if the Internet is regulated under Title II is 11 billion dollars a year in new taxes... Think about whether 11 billion dollars a year on the Internet is a good thing or a bad thing.
If you like your internet provider, you can keep your internet provider.
"Now here's where the FCC says, 'no don't worry, we won't collect those taxes, we're going to exercise forbearance,' I don't know if you've heard the ancient fable about the frog who gives the scorpion a ride across the river, and half way across the river the scorpion stabs the frog and they both sink under the water and as they're going under, the frog says, 'why, now we both will die', and the scorpion tells the frog, 'because it is my nature.' I promise you, it is the nature of the government regulators, if they have it, they will use it, 100 percent of the time, it will grow, the taxes will come.
Posted by: Fred || 02/14/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nailed it, as always.
As always...
Posted by: newc || 02/14/2015 1:25 Comments || Top||

#2  I guess you got to pass it to find out what's in it

How about if we're not that curious?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/14/2015 17:41 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Rep. Alan Grayson: We Could Destroy ISIS, "Turn Iraq & Syria Into Molten Glass," But That Is "Beneath Us"
[REALCLEARPOLITICS] They dont have to be turned into molten glass, but they do have to be destroyed. The only way to do that is to make all the would-be jihadi heroes afraid to put on the face mask and wave the flag. The ones already do it need to be exterminated, not "controlled."
Posted by: Fred || 02/14/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I like the molten glass idea.
Posted by: chris || 02/14/2015 9:26 Comments || Top||

#2  But letting them continue and expand their reign of torture, slavery, and slaughter isn't?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/14/2015 9:51 Comments || Top||

#3  I second the glass. Desert sands should make pretty glass.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/14/2015 10:26 Comments || Top||

#4  All is beneath the untethered.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp15043 || 02/14/2015 12:11 Comments || Top||

#5  "In fact, there is no way to win this that is something that we would regard as even acceptable to us on a moral level."

Sorry, guy. Your track record doesn't qualify you on anything to do with "moral".
Posted by: Pappy || 02/14/2015 12:44 Comments || Top||

#6  You know, we managed to defeat Nazi Germany without turning France into a glass parking lot or turning everyone in Denmark into lampshades. And the Germans had an industrial base.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 02/14/2015 13:45 Comments || Top||

#7  we managed to defeat Nazi Germany without... and when leftover Nazis assassinated some of our troops after VE day, we mobilized 100,000 or so odd troops of our own to go door to door and confiscate weaponry. That couldn't have happened in Iraq in 2003 - 2004.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/14/2015 14:02 Comments || Top||

#8  His way is cheaper Snowy and thorough.

It would be wrong of course, I mean unless we had numbers.
Posted by: Shipman || 02/14/2015 16:49 Comments || Top||

#9  Anguper: that wouldn't have been a good strategy in Iraq anyway. The predecessor group to ISIS was armed by the Syrian government. Given that ISIS spends most of its time fighting the Other Syrian Rebels, Iraqi Sunnis, and Kurds, it _probably_ gets support from the Syrians too. I think the relevant Star Trek episode is "A Private Little War."

Grayson was one of the dipshits who helped make ISIS strong by refusing to acknowledge that most of the violence in Iraq was because of Syria and Iran trying to start an Iraqi civil war along religious lines. Thanks to people like him and Presnident Zero, Affirmative Action Example Extroardinaire, they've now succeeded. As far as I'm concerned, he should shut the fuck up until the end of goddamn time.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 02/14/2015 21:43 Comments || Top||



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Sat 2015-02-14
  21 Coptic Christians slaughtered in Libya
Fri 2015-02-13
  Thousands expected at funeral for 3 Muslims killed in US
Thu 2015-02-12
  France says it has dismantled 15 terrorist networks
Wed 2015-02-11
  4 Qaida Suspects Dead in Yemen Drone Strike
Tue 2015-02-10
  Obama, Family Confirm Death of IS Hostage Kayla Mueller
Mon 2015-02-09
  Top Pakistani Taliban leader injured in Afghanistan
Sun 2015-02-08
  '109 Boko Haram Fighters Dead' after First Attack on Niger Friday
Sat 2015-02-07
  Yemen rebels dissolve parliament, assume power
Fri 2015-02-06
  Al-Qaeda holy man killed in Yemen drone strike, AQAP says
Thu 2015-02-05
  Jordanian King Personally Participating in Sorties Against ISIS
Wed 2015-02-04
  Jordan hangs two Iraqi militants in response to pilot's death
Tue 2015-02-03
  ISIS burns Jordanian Pilot Alive
Mon 2015-02-02
  Nigeria's Military Repels Boko Haram's Attack on Maiduguri
Sun 2015-02-01
  Drone Attack Kills Four Qaida Suspects in Yemen
Sat 2015-01-31
  Al-Nusra Launches Assault on Western-Backed Syria Rebels


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