We've been listening to the impeachment nattering speeches all day. Nancy Pelosi wore black, to emphasize how solemn the occasion is. Everybody got their fifteen seconds of fame, some as long as three dreary minutes. There weren't lots of actual facts presented, but by golly, the Dems are sure he's guilty guilty guilty of something, even if the president of Ukraine sez her's not. (What the hell does he know about it, after all?) The professional protesters are out on the streets, where they usually are, while the Trump supporters are at work, supporting their families, except for the ones lining up in seventeen degree weather in balmy Battle Creek, Michigan to hear him.
The phrase we keep hearing over and over is "abuse of power." Asking the president of Ukraine to look into monkey business by what's recently become known as The Biden Crime Family is an abuse of power. Not passing on attorney client conversations between Trump and his lawyers, or confidential executive discussions is abuse of power.
We haven't heard a word about Congressional abuse of power. Sure, we've heard it described, but no one's put a name on it. Rep. Rashida Tlaib wants everyone to come together, not as Publicans or Sinners Democrats, but as Merkins to "Impeach the Motherfxcker!"
"Obstruction of Congress?" Obviously it's a term of art, beyond the ability of my limited three-digit IQ to comprehend. I've heard the term "Obstruction of Justice," but I can't recall, from before the time I started growing whiskers (which have now turned white) hearing the term "Obstruction of a Court." Nor have I ever heard the phrase "Obstruction of the Presidency." I think one applies better than the other in this case.
But what the hell do I know? I'm just an old crank. All I can do is vote, and after I'm dead I'll just change parties anyway.
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"Obstruction of Congress?"
On behalf of a goodly portion of America, I gotta say obstruction of Congress sounds like a damn fine thing.
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This whole process is beneath contempt. There's nothing left to discuss with these barking mad hatters.
I don't know if there was a last straw - the first straw was the last straw for me and everyone who knows anything about Russia-- but surely the ultimate absurdity in this whole Shitshow was learning that these idiots didn't even know that their sisters at Langley had enlisted Carter page as OUR OWN ASSET. They were wiretapping THEIR OWN GUY.
There's nothing worth debating at this point. These people are as lucid and cogent as the Black Hebrew Israelites.
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Have you ever gone to a public restroom and it is filthy, smells bad and is disgusting. The place reeks, permeates and contaminates surrounding areas outside the public restroom. These things need to be routinely and thoroughly cleaned out and disinfected as they accumulate germs and are a public hazard.
[FoxNews] A Border Patrol K-9 agent was allegedly shot and killed by a 62-year-old in El Paso, Texas, according to reports.
Bulder, a 5-year-old Belgian Malinois, was shot to death as agents were executing a search warrant related to a federal firearms violation in connection with dealing and manufacturing firearms early Tuesday morning.
Agents shot the alleged suspect to death after he killed Bulder, KTRK reported.
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federal firearms violation in connection with dealing and manufacturing firearms
Same pretense used at Ruby Ridge and Waco.
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Ref #2: Yes, there it is again. The guy never goes out to the post office, grocery store, gas station? How about a nice, easy casual arrest and return to the house with search warrant, or did the MRAP, dogs, local media, and SWAT time need exercising ?
What about the perps social network, contacts in Mexico, criminal associates ?
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gotta start getting as many of those firearms off the streets before the dems get the real as lex would say, shitshow started.
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This smells. The article is all about 'the poor pooch', but any other details are lacking. And why Border Patrol K-9? It's terrible how un-trusting of law enforcement I have become.
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[ToloNews] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... attack was held off by security forces in Ghazni on Tuesday night, local police officials said.
At least 11 Taliban were killed in attack on a joint army-police security checkpoint in Ghazni province on Tuesday night, said Mohammad Khalid Wardak, the provincial police chief.
The attack took place around 7:30pm local time after a group of Taliban attacked the checkpoint in Shahbaz area on the Kabul-Kandahar highway, said Wardak.
"The Taliban escaped the area after they suffered casualties and air support was provided," according to Wardak.
Mirwais Akrami, the police commander of the highway, was also injured in the festivities with the Taliban, Wardak confirmed.
"A soldier was killed in the attack, and police commander Mirwais and another policeman were maimed in the festivities," he added.
The Taliban have not yet commented on the festivities.
[KhaamaPress] At least 16 Talibs were killed or maimed in Special Forces raids and Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in three provinces in the past 24 hours.
The military officials said Wednesday the Special Forces killed 3 Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons during a raid in Balkh district of northern Balkh province.
The officials further added that that the Special Forces killed 2 Talibs and destroyed 2 caches of weapons during separate raids in Khogyani and Rodat districts of Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. The Special Forces destroyed another small cache of weapons during a raid in Deh Yak district of Ghazni, the officials said, adding that an airstrike killed 8 Talibs and maimed 3 others in Ghazni province.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A member of the Military Information Division, al-Mundhir al-Khartoush, affiliated with the Libyan National Army (LNA), announced that their forces are advancing in several areas around Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... after a fierce battle with the Ottoman Turkish-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) troops.
According to reports, the 73rd Infantry Brigade scored a new advance in Tripoli’s outskirts, capturing a number of points from the GNA forces.
In particular, the 73rd Brigade was able to capture new points at the Salaheddine axis, which has been the scene of some of the most intense festivities around Tripoli.
A spokesperson from the Military Information Division said the GNA forces attempted to retake some of the points they lost over the last few hours; however, they have been unsuccessful thus far.
The Libyan National Army has been involved in a fierce battle with the GNA forces since the weekend, when Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... announced the start of the "final battle" to capture the capital.
To counter Haftar’s aggressiveness, the Tripoli-based government has reached a new security agreement with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... to protect the last areas under their control in northern Libya.
The Benghazi-based government has heavily criticized this agreement and vowed to confront the Ottoman Turkish aggression if need be.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Libyan National Army (LNA) announced on Wednesday that their forces had managed to cordon off Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... after a series of advances against the Government of National Accord (GNA) troops.
The Commander of Moral Guidance in the Libyan National Army, Brigadier General Khaled al-Mahjoub, said that the LNA cordoned off Tripoli after capturing several points around the city’s outskirts.
that the security cordon over the capital, Tripoli, was completed, after the attacking forces met at most points.
General Khaled Al Mahjoub said that the forces attacking the capital met at most poinHaftar-led Libyan Army allegedly cordons off Tripoli after new advancets and cordoned off the GNA forces.
The LNA commander said the festivities are now on the streets of Tripoli, with heavy fighting taking place at the Salaheddine axis.
"Now the cordon has been tightened from al-Dhahirah Bridge to al-Buqei’a, they withdrew completely from there and our forces met each other, and at most points our forces joined together and there was a complete cordon over the capital," Mahjoub added.
Regarding the Berlin conference and international calls for a political solution to the Libyan crisis , al-Mahjoub explained that "the survival of the militias is not in line with any conference or with any political agreements and must be eliminated."
"We believe that the dismantling and elimination of militia weapons is the solution," the Libyan military official concluded.
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[Libya Observer] Spokesperson for the Sirte Protection Force, Taha Hadid, has confirmed that one person was killed and three others maimed in an air strike conducted by Haftar's forces on a security patrol west of Sirte.
Hadid clarified that the attack came in conjunction with the celebration of the third anniversary of the liberation of Sirte from the ISIS group by of al-Bunyan al-Marsous forces.
Haftar’s aircraft carried out other raids yesterday, targeting sites in Zliten and Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , but no damage was reported.
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Warlord Khalifa Haftar's militia groups shelled residential areas in Salah Eddine district in south #Tripoli last night causing damage to some houses and cars pic.twitter.com/31LXAExkrV
[Dhaka Tribune] The Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) of police has arrested three suspected top members of the banned bad boy outfit "Allahr Dal".
...the old name of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)...
They were arrested in the Keraniganj area, on the outskirts of Dhaka, around 6:30am on Wednesday.
The arrestees are -- Abdullah Al Hasnat alias Kollol, 39, chief of the outfit's Khulna and Barisal divisions; Aminul Islam alias Shatu, 30, executive nayek of Khulna, Satkhira and Bagerhat districts; and Fazleh Karim alias Shohag, 32, head of the outfit's Khulna division.
ATU's Superintendent of Police (SP) (Intelligence) MM Hasanul Zahid said some members of the bad boy organization came to Keraniganj from Khulna and plotted to execute anti-state activities.
"Acting on a tip-off, [RING!] Cop shoppe! Sergeant Shafiq speaking! Lissen! Dis is Mahmoud da Weasel! I got a tip for youse... a team of ATU conducted a raid in the area and arrested them."
In the raid, a mobile phone, various documents of the outfit's activities, and books related to extremism were also recovered from their possession, he said.
During the primary interrogation, they admitted that they gathered in the area to promote religious extremism ideology to destroy the law and order situation, the official claimed.
A case was filed against them with the South Keraniganj cop shoppe under the Anti-Terrorism Act, he added.
[Jpost] Israel’s Channel 12 reported that the IDF was retaliating for a rocket fired by Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, toward Israel overnight Wednesday. The rocket was intercepted by Israel’s iron dome.
Several Paleostinians were lightly injured after IDF fighter jets attacked a Hamas weapons production site in the northern Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, according to Paleostinian media.
Israel’s Channel 12 reported that the IDF was retaliating for a rocket fired by Hamas toward Israel overnight on Wednesday (Thursday morning). The rocket was intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome.
On Wednesday night, the IDF reported that the Israeli Air Force shot up an armed terrorist who approached the border in the southern Gaza Strip, near Khan Yunis.
[Jpost] Israeli security forces in the West Bank have uncovered and dismantled a 50-person strong terrorist cell believed to behind a string of deadly attacks in the area including the deadly Dolev bombing which claimed the life of a teenage girl, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) said Wednesday.
According to the Shin Bet the investigation into the Dolev attack, the cell planned to carry out additional attacks in the near future.
As part of the investigation, approximately 50 Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP)
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Antiochian Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia, Atallah Hanna, was rushed to the hospital on Wednesday after being poisoned with an undisclosed chemical substance, Quds TV reported. Arafat's blood?
Archbishop Hanna is said to be in an undisclosed hospital in Jerusalem, where he is currently being treated.
No further details were released about the poisoning.
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Is it true he carries his lunch in his big hat, to protect it from poisoning ?
#BREAKING The Shin Bet has unconverted a big PFLP terror cell considering of 50 militants in the #WestBank , number of major attacks were thwarted #Israel
[Jpost] The IDF shot and arrested a Paleostinian who was throwing Molotov cocktails at Israeli vehicles traveling near the Paleostinian town of Beit Jala north-west of Bethlehem on Tuesday.
The suspect was captured after trying to escape from the scene.
[Jpost] Indonesian anti-terrorism officers are interrogating eight suspected Islamic forces of Evil arrested in the province of Papua on suspicion that they were planning an attack, a police front man said on Wednesday.
The arrest was a "pre-emptive strike" by the anti-terrorism squad earlier this month in several locations in Papua, National Police front man Asep Adi Saputra said in Jakarta.
The suspects have been transferred to Jakarta for questioning, he said. They were suspected of having links to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... -inspired Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), which has carried out a series of attacks in Indonesia.
Police said the arrests were made after officers had conduced surveillance of meetings between the suspects, as well as training and preparation for suspected attacks.
"Their target and their plan is currently being investigated," Saputra said.Related:Jamaah Ansharut Daulah: 2019-11-19 Indonesia police link suicide kaboom to Islamic State-inspired group
Jamaah Ansharut Daulah: 2019-11-13 Suspected suicide kaboom at police headquarters in Indonesia's Medan
Jamaah Ansharut Daulah: 2018-06-23 Indonesian holy man sentenced to death over 2016 ISIS/JAD terror attack
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"a police front man said on Wednesday."
Why the use of the term Front Man? It appears to me the Indonesian Police, are doing A Good Thing By your use of that phrase (which has a negative connotation)you imply they are Not doing the best they can. Could the reason be Conservative PC, where we are not supposed to say anything positive about Muslims/Islam?
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Fred's site uses a cute system to substitute words, like "Front man" for "spokesman". I could also substitute "you" with" wadded-panty lib apologist for muzzies".
See? It works fine
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Fred's site uses a cute system to substitute words, like "Front man" for "spokesman"
This issue has come up before in different contexts, like "maimed" for "wounded". I believe the text substitution got started back when copyright trolls were trying to extort websites. Righthaven was one of them that Rantburg has particular problems with, if memory serves.
[IsraelTimes] A mob in Leb attacked the office of a Sunni Moslem religious leader in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , smashing in windows early today, reports say.
The military says a mob of men on cycle of violences gathered outside the home of Sunni Mufti Sheik Malek al-Shaar and rioted, "used profanity" and smashed property.
The mob then moved to the square and threw fire bombs at the Christmas tree, setting it on fire.
The military says it arrested four men and confiscated their cycle of violences.
The violence indicates that the tensions that recently gripped the Lebanese capital, Beirut, over an online video deemed offensive to the country’s Shiites are spreading to Tripoli, the country’s second-largest city.
On Tuesday, anger boiled over in Beirut after the offensive video was widely circulated online, showing a Sunni resident of Tripoli railing against the leaders of the country’s two main Shiite groups, Hezbollah and Amal, and religious Shiite figures and using expletives.
The daily An-Nahar says the assailants in Tripoli were angered because the Sunni mufti, al-Shaar, had called the powerful Shiite parliament speaker and head of Amal, Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... , to apologize for the video.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) has seized new ground in the eastern region of Syria after launching a powerful attack against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) troops along the Deir Ezzor-Homs axis.
According to reports from this front, the Islamic State began their assault by storming a Syrian Army garrison in the al-Shoula area that is located between Deir Ezzor city and the desert town of al-Sukhnah.
The field reports said the Islamic State Death Eaters managed to capture several points near the town of al-Shoula, marking the first time in several months that they have captured new ground in eastern Syria.
A source from the Syrian Arab Army told al-Masdar over the weekend that the Islamic State has recently increased their activities in the Badiya al-Sham region of Syria, prompting the Syrian and Russian air forces to get involved.
This has also been the case in northwestern Iraq, where the Islamic State elements have been involved in a number of fierce festivities with the Iraqi Armed Forces and the Popular Mobilization Units (Hashd al-Sha’abi).
ISIS has used the vast desert region between Syria and Iraq to hideout after their defeats in 2017 and 2018; they have used this territory to regroup and rebuild their forces.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Russian and Syrian air forces launched their largest attack of the month over the northwestern region of Syria this week.
Led by the Russian air squadron at the Hmeimim Airport in Latakia, the two air forces launched over 140 Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the past 72 hours, with the primary target of this attack being the southern countryside of the Idlib Governorate.
According to a report from the nearby Hama Governorate, the Russian and Syrian air forces have been launching nonstop airstrikes over southern Idlib this evening.
Several strikes have already been reported around the key town of Ma’arat al-Nu’man, which is the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) next major target in the Idlib Governorate.
Over the last three days, the Syrian Arab Army has been building up their forces along the southern and southeastern axes of Idlib, with reports of several tanks arriving to help with the upcoming offensive.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Everybody got their fifteen seconds of fame, some as long as three dreary minutes. There weren't lots of actual facts presented, but by golly, the Dems are sure he's guilty guilty guilty of something, even if the president of Ukraine sez her's not. (What the hell does he know about it, after all?) The professional protesters are out on the streets, where they usually are, while the Trump supporters are at work, supporting their families, except for the ones lining up in seventeen degree weather in balmy Battle Creek, Michigan to hear him.
"Obstruction of Congress?" Obviously it's a term of art, beyond the ability of my limited three-digit IQ to comprehend. I've heard the term "Obstruction of Justice," but I can't recall, from before the time I started growing whiskers (which have now turned white) hearing the term "Obstruction of a Court." Nor have I ever heard the phrase "Obstruction of the Presidency." I think one applies better than the other in this case.
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[Jpost] Israeli security forces in the West Bank have uncovered and dismantled a 50-person strong terrorist cell believed to behind a string of deadly attacks in the area including the deadly Dolev bombing which claimed the life of a teenage girl, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) said Wednesday.
...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians...
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