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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
We will raise the flag of Islam over the White House - Iranian Cleric
A senior Iranian cleric with close ties to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed on Friday that "we will raise the flag of Islam over the White House" in response to the killing of Hezbollah and Revolutionary Guards operatives on the Golan Heights last month.

According to foreign media, Israeli attack helicopters killed six Hezbollah terrorists along with six Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) operatives, including a high-ranking general.

Among the Hezbollah operatives killed in the strike was Jihad Mougniyeh, the son of Hezbollah's former military leader, Imad Moughniyeh, who according to Western intelligence sources, was in the midst of setting up a terrorism base on the Syrian Golan and plotting rocket attacks, bombings, anti-tank missile strikes, and cross-border infiltrations against Israel.

The cleric, Ali Shirazi, made the remarks to the official Revolutionary Guards web site. His comments were reported by the Saudi-owned news network Al Arabiya.

"The resistance front led by Iran would retaliate from the global arrogance of killing [Iranian officers] and Hezbollah men" on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, Shirazi said during a ceremony honoring Iranian soldiers who died in Syria and Iraq.

The cleric added that Iran continues to make its presence felt in a number of areas throughout the region, including Yemen, where a sect affiliated with Shi'ite Islam has overthrown a ruling government and taken power.
Posted by: Gling Sneper4712 || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ValJar is already planning it.
Posted by: OldSpook || 03/01/2015 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  HEADLINES this week. "Obama in tears as Holder leaves" "Holder tells young people to study Malcolm-X"

So I said, lets look at Malcolm-X.

Do everything possible to eliminate the white influence in your nation (through mass immigration of non-whites and muslims) Malcolm-X

Christianity is the white slave owners religion - Malcolm-X (exactly what Obama said at the Prayer Breakfast two weeks ago.

Islam is the only right religion - Malcolm-X Obama changed his name from Barry to Obama Hussein

Capitalism is evil - Malcolm-X

Israel is evil - Malcolm-X

Socialism and communism, anything but capitalism is the way - Malcolm-X

Whites and Jews are ok if they are non-capitalists who can help eliminate white American capitalists and support the destruction of Israel - Malcolm-X (two days before his assassination.)

Arm yourself, disarm your enemies. Malcolm-X

Defend the gay life style and persecute the white Christian - Malcolm-X was a male prostitute as a young man

My summation;

Border patrol agent Brian Terry killed, no justice since, Brian was defending the white capitalist America system. The illegals that shot him are the good guys.

Benghazi seals who died, represent white capitalists of America system. The Islamists who killed them and the white ambassadors are good guys.

Netanyahu and Israel, the bad guys.

Mass immigration of non-whites, the illegals will nullify the white American capitalist influence and support socialism and Marxism.

Can't eliminate the guns, go after their ammunition.

Take all Capital away from the Capitalists and give it to your socialist supporters in the process of destroying Capitalism (spread the wealth, heavy Obama care taxation. The arming up of the agencies to over whelm the opposition to taking away their capital.)

Enemies of white capitalist America, even Putin and Fidel Castro (who loved Malcolm-X when he was alive), and socialist Jews are partners in the destruction of white capitalist America.

The African-Unity movement and American Black Islamic movement hold the same goals.

To trully know the Obama Regime and Holder, study Malcolm-X.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 03/01/2015 4:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Correction.

Enemies of white capitalist America, even Putin and Fidel Castro (who loved Malcolm-X when he was alive), and socialist Jews and socialist whites are partners in the destruction of white capitalist America and the state of Israel.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 03/01/2015 4:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Seldom mentioned are the facts leading up to the death of Malcolm-X, or who was responsible.

In February 1965, shortly after repudiating the Nation of Islam, he was assassinated by three of its members.
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Posted by: Besoeker || 03/01/2015 5:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 has been reading the administration's playbook. Well done Eb !

Besoeker has contributed the epilog. Keep up the good research Mr. B.

Posted by: Chuckles Gravins5654 || 03/01/2015 9:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Thanks CG..... "I only know what I read in the papers internets."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/01/2015 11:38 Comments || Top||

#7  And if you do, the usual suspects will praise it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/01/2015 12:53 Comments || Top||

#8  It's probably over at State, just awaiting the 'go ahead' signal.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/01/2015 13:13 Comments || Top||

#9  I would say you already have an "Islamic" Whitehouse.
Posted by: newc || 03/01/2015 14:26 Comments || Top||

#10  The flag has not yet been flown by Obama's Islamadministration. Maybe the useless twit will get tossed before that happens.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/01/2015 18:04 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Norway Just Deported 824 Muslims, Every American Needs To See What Happened Next
"Despite all the liberals in Norway deeming this "racist", the logical party went ahead with it and the result almost shut down every opposing voice in the government instantly. This is one of the best stories we have eve seen come from such a liberal area of the world."
But, but, but this is racist, separation [apartheid] is WRONG I tell you. Assimilation, multiculturalism, rainbows, and unicorns must continue, even at the cost of our culture and prodigy. Has self loathing and denial taught us nothing ?
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 || 03/01/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


#2  In other news:

U.S. seeks to deport Bosnians over war crimes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/01/2015 5:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Interesting site. They showed me the number one item FEMA doesn't want me to hoard, Armand Hammer baking soda. You can brush your tooth with it and make small rockets.

Story much less than hoped for.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/01/2015 7:27 Comments || Top||

#4  #1, we killed a lot of German and Japanese civilians to get to the heart of the leadership that ran those countries by 1945. Might be noted, that they are among the countries least interested in pursuing conflict these days.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/01/2015 8:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Go Norway!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 03/01/2015 11:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Just a note on the numbers:

Norway deporting 824 people is like the US deporting 40,000 people. i.e. not very much. But it gives you an idea of how much more violent those people were than ordinary Norwegians.
Posted by: frozen al || 03/01/2015 12:14 Comments || Top||

#7  Yes FA, a very significant number. Europe and Scandinavia have a decision to make. Appears they may be making it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/01/2015 12:16 Comments || Top||

#8  The War College theory is that you have to kill 10 to 15% of the civilian population to get an unconditional surrender.
Posted by: Jiggs White1864 || 03/01/2015 14:38 Comments || Top||

#9  It's a start.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/01/2015 16:53 Comments || Top||

#10  I didn't think they had it in them. National survival can be a powerful motivator. Go Norway.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/01/2015 18:09 Comments || Top||

#11  Call me racist. It would be worth it.
Posted by: Iblis || 03/01/2015 18:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Bet you didn't know.... Trigonometry is Racist
Lengthy, but here's the BLUF in about 100 words.
[National Review] If you want to know why our educational establishment is so dysfunctional -- especially in the matter of reforming the institutions that give such grievous disservice to the poor and the black -- you have to understand the attitude that regards calls for an emphasis on science and technology as some sort of subtly racist reflex, and how that line of thinking is rooted in a self-interested resource competition in which specialists in African-American studies, among others, are likely to lose out. "A Nation at Risk" may not have produced an actionable agenda for education reform. But what is being offered as an alternative?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/01/2015 08:37 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If trig is racist, what can we say about analytical geometry?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/01/2015 12:33 Comments || Top||

#2 
If trig is racist, what can we say about analytical geometry?


Obviously fine but we may have to wait for federal judges to put those rednecks out in flyover country back in their place.
Posted by: Sheater Thud2458 || 03/01/2015 13:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Wait till you have to deal with the issues of complex variables. There will be liberal heads (or turbans) exploding!
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/01/2015 13:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Differential Equations = Rayyyycist!
Posted by: Frank G || 03/01/2015 14:10 Comments || Top||

#5  You want racist? Group theory.
Posted by: KBK || 03/01/2015 14:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Venn Diagrams?
Posted by: 3dc || 03/01/2015 14:54 Comments || Top||

#7  Excellent 3dc !
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/01/2015 15:03 Comments || Top||

#8  Poor Venn, if he only knew what would happen to his diagrams, he might have thought twice about inventing them.
Posted by: Chuckles Gravins5654 || 03/01/2015 15:04 Comments || Top||

#9  If trig is racist, what can we say about analytical geometry?

It's homophobic?
Posted by: charger || 03/01/2015 16:59 Comments || Top||

#10  Exponential Power!

Exponential Power!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/01/2015 18:25 Comments || Top||

#11  Integrals are raccccccissst, actually Uncle Tom-ist.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/01/2015 22:28 Comments || Top||


Government
Obamacare threatens to end John Roberts's dream of a nonpartisan Supreme Court
[WAPO] The first time the Affordable Care Act came before the Supreme Court, its constitutional foundation under attack, John G. Roberts Jr. was its unlikely savior. In a spectacular display of spot-welding, the chief justice joined fellow conservatives on some points and brought liberals on board for others. Roberts was the only member of the court to endorse the entire jerry-rigged thing, and even he made sure to distance himself from the substance of the law. ("It is," he wrote, "not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.") Still, his efforts rescued President Obama's signature achievement on grounds that many had dismissed as an afterthought.

As long as Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is on the court, he will most often be the decider when the justices split along their familiar ideological fault lines. But, slowly and quietly, Roberts is the one trying to build its legacy. He sees it as somehow exempt from the partisan fugue that long ago enveloped Washington. Justice Stephen G. Breyer has worried that the public might see him and his colleagues as "nine junior-varsity politicians"; public approval of the Supreme Court is falling. But while all of the justices bristle at the notion of a political court, the eponymous head of the Roberts court has the most to lose. After all, its decisions cannot be respected if the court is not respected. "It is a very serious threat to the independence and integrity of the courts to politicize them," Roberts said at his 2005 confirmation hearings.

Roberts, 60, jokes about the "odd historical quirk" that gives the chief justice only one vote. But he has learned to use the tools that come with the job: He shapes the discussion at conference; he writes the court's opinion, or assigns it strategically, when he is in the majority; he's happy to settle for nonthreatening, incremental changes that may bloom later into something more. And last term, what Roberts has described as the chief justice's "particular obligation to try to achieve consensus" paid off. The share of unanimous decisions soared to 66 percent, a level not seen since the 1940s. The share of 5-to-4 decisions, high during Roberts's tenure compared with those of other chief justices, fell to 14 percent, the lowest since he joined the court.

And then here comes Obamacare II. In King v. Burwell , to be argued Wednesday, plaintiffs say the text of the law must be interpreted in a way that would neuter it, canceling health insurance subsidies for about 7.5 million Americans in at least 34 states. Can Roberts's portrayal of the Supreme Court as above politics survive another round with the most partisan issue of the decade?
Nonpartisan Supreme Court...? A bit late for that I'd say.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/01/2015 05:33 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Supreme Court jumped the shark a long time ago. They clearly stopped being the best interest of America and the constitution and now support the migration toward activist judicial system.
Posted by: airandee || 03/01/2015 7:17 Comments || Top||

#2  ...the migration toward activist judicial system the new aristocracy.

FIFY. When you sit for life and are unaccountable to the people, it cannot be in any way a republic or democracy. They crossed that line when they unilaterally suspended the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment decades ago (rationalized as rectifying a wrong only to perpetuate a new wrong against the majority).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/01/2015 8:47 Comments || Top||

#3  This is a key ruling. Does the law mean what it says -- and what was said about it during the drafting (Thanks to Gruber's inadvertent admissions that it was designed to exclude states without exchanges as an incentive, which are part of the congressional record) -- or does it mean whatever the Democrats and executive branch want to twist it into after it was passed to find out whats in it?

Justice Roberts, which is is: does the law mean what it says, or is it OK to ignore the words and go with whatever you want?
Posted by: OldSpook || 03/01/2015 14:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Dream is the right word. Appointments these days are made based on ideological consistency. Asking reliable partisans to act nonpartisan is about as futile a task as the human mind has ever conceived.
Posted by: Iblis || 03/01/2015 18:09 Comments || Top||



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