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Europe
Europe's Jews facing backlash
Neil Berry
[ARABNEWS] On Aug. 11, Britannia's Guardian newspaper horrified great numbers of its liberal readers by publishing a full page Zionist advertisement with the heading: "Jews rejected child sacrifice 3,500 years ago. Now it's Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' turn."

It was an astonishing development, especially considering that the Times newspaper, which has long mirrored the fervently pro-Israel views of its owner Rupert Murdoch, declined to carry the ad. It came moreover at a time when people all over the world are experiencing revulsion at images of Paleostinian children maimed and killed in Gazoo by the Israeli Defense Force.

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Posted by: Fred || 08/23/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Drop dead pommy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/23/2014 2:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Backlash?

The lash has always been there from ghettos to pogroms parsed by interludes of calm usually associated with some need on the part of the non-Jews to keep them around.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2014 13:35 Comments || Top||

#3  the same tool would disparage Roman Catholics who denounce other abortion-promoting Catholics.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/23/2014 14:22 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Media are baffled by Obama's deepening isolation
Megalomanic sociopaths do this when things go badly for them.
President Obama has few remaining friends--either in his own party or in the media.

That's the unmistakable conclusion of two pieces this week in the New York Times. Just about everyone, it seems, is down on his single, solitary nature.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: gorb || 08/23/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Barack Obama was seated next to a little girl on an airplane trip back to Washington. He turned to her and said, “Let’s talk. I’ve heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.”

The little girl, who had just opened her book, closed it slowly and said to The Obama, “What would you like to talk about?”

“Oh, I don’t know,” said the Obama. “How about What Changes I Should Make To America?” and he smiles.

“OK,” she says. “That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff - grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose that is?”

Obama, visibly surprised by the little girl’s intelligence, thinks about it for a second and finally says, “Hmmm, I have no idea.”

To which the little girl replies, “Do you really feel qualified to change America when you don’t know shit?”
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 08/23/2014 1:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Baffled?

DSM-IV-TR

The APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV-TR), defines antisocial personality disorder (in Axis II Cluster B):
A) There is a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others occurring since age 15 years, as indicated by three or more of the following:
1.failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest;
2.deception, as indicated by repeatedly lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure;
3.impulsivity or failure to plan ahead;
4.irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults;
5.reckless disregard for safety of self or others;
6.consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations;
7.lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another;
B) The individual is at least age 18 years.C) There is evidence of conduct disorder with onset before age 15 years.D) The occurrence of antisocial behavior is not exclusively during the course of schizophrenia or a manic episode.
ASPD falls under the dramatic/erratic cluster of personality disorders.[8] In the DSM-5, the diagnosis antisocial personality disorder is kept, but it is no longer on another axis as the other mental disorders.[9]

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2014 5:06 Comments || Top||

#3  He's probably off smoking weed dreaming of the old days with his choom gang. To quote Garbo: "I vant to be alone." The affairs of state are just too heavy. I didn't sign on for all these problems. I never thought it would be work; like a job. I was in it for the glamour, the state dinners, the Hollywood circuit, the deification of me.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/23/2014 7:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Our Fearless Leader is waiting for Steiner to save him.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 08/23/2014 7:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Malignant narcissism

Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/23/2014 8:50 Comments || Top||

#6  fairly or unfairly, that Obama is not capable of rising to the occasion,

Fairly or unfairly????? WTF?????????
He has never risen to any occasion in his life, how could noting that be unfair??
Posted by: AlanC || 08/23/2014 8:59 Comments || Top||

#7  This guy has been handed everything in his life. All given to him, never really worked for any of it. And all it did was reinforce his basic narcissist's delusion that he got everything he wanted because he deserved it.

Holder is the other way around - got handed it all, and knew it was because of his skin color, not his skills. So he sees everything as a racial issue, and lashes out at everything as a racial slight. Projection.

And then there's Valjar...

We have mentally ill people in charge.
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/23/2014 9:52 Comments || Top||

#8  This malignant narcissist would have been impeached long ago were he not black (he chose to self identify with the black race. He is also white). No one wanted to deal with the cities that would burn and the killings that would ensue if he were impeached. So citizens just hang on until 2014 and 2016 hoping things will get better after the elections and power will shift. The demonrats, meanwhile are out there assiduously working to make sure that the power does not shift and that their leftist nightmare continues with Hillary or the fake Cherokee.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/23/2014 10:09 Comments || Top||

#9  The Palace Guard media is trying to regain some semblance of credibility so that they can set us up for the next screw job ("Don't worry, Elizabeth Warren/Hillary will clean up this mess!").

Their criticisms of Obama are true (except for that weaselly "fairly or unfairly" bit.), but they're not really concerned about Obama here, they're worried that he'll drag them down with him.
Posted by: charger || 08/23/2014 10:37 Comments || Top||

#10  JQC, you're wrong about one bit.

Obumble would never have been impeached cause the Demonrats control the process through the Senate.

That the 'pubs with their RINO leadership control the House is irrelevant.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/23/2014 11:17 Comments || Top||

#11 
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2014 12:01 Comments || Top||

#12  If only chairman Stalin knew.

Once is a tragedy, twice is a farce. You, the Permanent Party Propaganda Machine, made him, you live with what you made. It's just unfortunate that the rest of use get stuck with the result too.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2014 12:09 Comments || Top||

#13  Perhaps we actually do get the type of governance we deserve.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2014 12:11 Comments || Top||

#14  When things get tough and not going his way he hides. His arrogance has alienated him from even the most radical of liberals. His blind following of Valerie J has proven him to be a wind bag with no real substance. We, America, is in a critical place in history. The absolute weakest president in history, in some of the most dangerous of times.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 08/23/2014 12:52 Comments || Top||

#15  Gee. Next they will discover that he is not a very interesting person, just an interesting position surrounded by interesting people.

Perhaps even a bit...boring. Oh they will say it was the years in office and constant racism, but he is just not very interesting.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/23/2014 13:27 Comments || Top||

#16  "Vero Possumus".
Posted by: Frank G || 08/23/2014 14:28 Comments || Top||

#17  49pan,

in some of the most dangerous of times

much of the danger of these times is a result of the incompetence and venality of Obutch and his coterie of vile socialists. If we had a competent admin. we could have ameliorated the danger and moved well forward.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/23/2014 15:36 Comments || Top||

#18  Agreed!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 08/23/2014 20:28 Comments || Top||

#19  Poor Media, so confused at why their shiny, sparkly turd stinks to high heaven. Perhaps a few of them are starting to realize a turd is still crap and stinks like all crap.

Course, reality is hard for delusional vermin. Which is why they go rabid eventually.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/23/2014 21:47 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
The polio challenge
[DAWN] ALL eyes are on events in Islamabad, and many political and other leaders have weighed in with their opinion on what shape the future should take. They seem, however, to have forgotten one crucial thing: the possibility of any future at all depends on the population being healthy and able. And it is precisely here where Pakistain is heedlessly, and despite all warnings from several quarters, barrelling down a path that will surely lead to disaster.

We refer, of course, to the spectre of polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
that not only is not being brought under control, but whose incidence is increasing rapidly. In the eight months that have elapsed so far this year, 117 new polio cases have been reported across the country, giving Pakistain the damning distinction of being the country worst hit by the crippling virus. Most of these cases were reported from Fata and KP, where the public mindset and issues of both accessibility and potential violence have made matters very difficult for the vaccinators. But polio has also reared its head in Punjab and Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, which until last year were considered free of the virus, and Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
alone accounts for 10 of the total number of cases.

On Thursday, officials in Islamabad sought answers from provincial governments as to why there was such a persistent increase, pointing out that over two months had elapsed since the World Health Organisation recommended sanctions against unvaccinated travellers leaving the country. The answers — if any are forthcoming — will be unpalatable. Despite the escalating risk, Pakistain is simply failing to keep up with the polio challenge. Nowhere are we seeing the sort of push that is needed, such as a sustained campaign to change the mindset of naysayers, a watchful eye being kept on people flooding out of the troubled northwest and the strict enforcement of travel requirements. True, hundreds of thousands of doses have been administered, but that has clearly not been enough. What will it take for our health administrators to wake up?
Posted by: Fred || 08/23/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Pakistan should start a 'polio lice bucket challenge' to increase awareness and fundraising. Stare into the camera, remove the turban and fill the bucket with lice from your head.
Posted by: Airandee || 08/23/2014 7:32 Comments || Top||


Banana republic
[DAWN] So it has come to this: a firebrand
...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
demagogue and a fire-breathing holy man leading a few thousand supporters can bring the country's capital to a halt, disrupt thousands of lives, and push the system to the brink.

All this to satisfy their swollen egos and their vaulting ambitions. While this sorry drama is being played out in Islamabad, the rest of the country is being held hostage. Imran Khan
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Posted by: Fred || 08/23/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Death by a thousand cuts
[DAWN] While the TV cameras are inevitably focusing 24x7 on the Islamabad protests, the electronic media is allowing very little time and space to add background to the unfolding saga.

After having won the national elections decisively over a year ago and comfortably forming governments at the centre and Punjab on its own with a stable majority, the next major hurdle for the PML-N was the appointment of the new army chief. So what went wrong?

Well, if there was hope that a handpicked army chief would follow the policies of the government it was soon clear that this wasn't always to be. From relations with India, including the Most Favoured Nation status issue, to taking the lead on Afghanistan, Sharif seemed to concede ground.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 08/23/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
PKK: Terrorists or allies?
Posted by: ryuge || 08/23/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Depends on where you are.
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/23/2014 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  President Bashar al-Assad: Dictator or ally ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2014 8:13 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Michael Ledeen: Gaza Defeat Threatens Hamas and Iranian Regime
Why can't Hamas abide by the ceasefire? Because of the possible consequences of defeat for themselves, the Qataris and the Iranians.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/23/2014 10:40 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel fired rockets to justify airstrikes
Uri Avnery
[ARABNEWS] The war was over. Families returned to their kibbutzim near Gaza. Kindergartens opened up again. A cease-fire was in force and extended again and again. Obviously, both sides were exhausted. And then, suddenly, the war came back.

What happened? Well, Hamas launched rockets against Beersheba in the middle of the cease-fire. Why? No why. You know how the "terrorists" are. They can't help it.

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Posted by: Fred || 08/23/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Our leftards are more psychotic than yours.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/23/2014 2:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Ref your #1; I've seen absolutely no evidence of that, and I've been watching them for decades. Please stop making such braggadocious claims.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2014 5:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Uri Avnery
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/23/2014 5:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, that's one narrative. It happens to be the Arab narrative. Take with plenty of salts.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/23/2014 7:34 Comments || Top||

#5  JQC, look up the author. Arabs, mostly keep mum.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/23/2014 10:39 Comments || Top||

#6  File under the Left's loathing of success.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2014 10:45 Comments || Top||

#7  Yea, but the moron lives in Tel Aviv, P2k!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/23/2014 10:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Uri Avneri, born 10 September 1923) is an Israeli writer and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement.

A member of the Irgun as a teenager, Avnery sat in the Knesset from 1965–74 and 1979–81.[1] He was also the owner of HaOlam HaZeh, an Israeli news magazine, from 1950 until it closed in 1993.

He is famous for crossing the lines during the Siege of Beirut to meet Yassir Arafat on 3 July 1982, the first time the Palestinian leader ever met with an Israeli. Avnery is the author of several books about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including 1948: A Soldier’s Tale, the Bloody Road to Jerusalem (2008); Israel’s Vicious Circle (2008); and My Friend, the Enemy (1986).

Yes, another self hating jew...

Will it be too late when Jews start hanging traitors?
Posted by: Hotspur666 || 08/23/2014 21:59 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Assad Policies Aided Rise of Islamic State Militant Group
[ONLINE.WSJ] Islamic State, or ISIS, Gained Momentum Early On From Calculated Decision by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to Go Easy on It
Posted by: Fred || 08/23/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Yep. If he, and the rest of Alawites just knelt and bend their neck---to make it easier to chop through, things would've been better.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/23/2014 2:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Yep, this article is dumb.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/23/2014 8:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Could just as easily said that Obumble and his policies or lack of them also aided the rise of ISIS.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/23/2014 10:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Lets cut to the chase. It's all the fault of the Germans!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/23/2014 10:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Geez you guys. You all take dumb pills today????

IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!!!



Do I need the {/sarc} tag??
Posted by: AlanC || 08/23/2014 11:13 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2014 12:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Just get the right Bush. If Iraq had been made into a parking lot in the First Gulf War, how much of this have evolved?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2014 12:13 Comments || Top||

#8  What a bullshit article.

So this is Assad's fault? The Assad who Obama and McCain wanted to pinprick air strike so bad? Team Not-Assad with whom was promised US material, training, and arms?

And the *cough* unexpected behavior of ISIL (despite our intrepid reporter's twits about ISIL rampaging a mostly Christian city) further enforces my humble suspicion that ISIL gassed those people.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/23/2014 17:07 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
ISIS - What is the answer ?
[Ozzie Saffa] Well, to be frank, I don't know what the answer is.

But, here are my thoughts.

The solution to ISIS needs to come from the Arabs themselves. There's been enough misguided "Western" intervention into this region without accomplishing much - apart from spending tons of money and costing countless Western lives.

You'd think the West would have learned by now that Islamic regions need a strong dictator in place to keep the peace by the rule of violence.

But no. They're still talking about imposing "democracy" where democracy can never thrive. Ever. It would have done so by now were it possible.

Currently, America has the weakest, most stupid, disinterested, laziest president in its history. Obama has managed to blow up the Middle East with his infantile, closeted view of life and his pro-Muslim tendencies.

His tiny affirmative action mind can't compute, that not everyone listens when he speaks. He is a nobody - just another useless idiot.

To make matters worse, Obama is surrounded by equally infantile liberal progressive bed-wetter academics, who have never worked a real job in their lives. Their outlook of life and the world is primitive and out of touch - yet they make decisions that impact everyone on earth. That cabal of fools includes Madam Hilary Clinton when she was Secretary of State (and now replaced by the equally stupid John Kerry), and all together they have helped create this mess with their idiotic "democracy-pushing" nudge in the ME region by encouraging the Arab Spring.

Shortly after Obama assured the world that the seas would no longer rise, and the sun would shine forever, and peace, love and democracy would come to the Middle East, Tunisia, Egypt and Libya were burning - all their strongmen removed, with America deciding who got the spoils. In Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood got the nod, and were then ousted by the people and the army after their killings started and Sharia law was imposed.
A lengthy rant of already knowns, but nonetheless accurate.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2014 06:17 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't know what the answer is either. Since USA is entering one of its periods of isolationism, and Europeans are worthless (when at their best), I know who's getting stuck with the mess.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/23/2014 11:27 Comments || Top||

#2  ....and Europeans are worthless (when at their best), I know who's getting stuck with the mess.

and what shall we do with them Heinrich ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2014 11:55 Comments || Top||

#3  ISIS - What is the answer ?

Khan (as in Genghis)

(well since we all seem to get upset with radical chemo therapy for malignant cancers, that leaves the scalpel)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2014 12:05 Comments || Top||

#4  ROE: Both gender, day or night, no check-in, no limit.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2014 12:08 Comments || Top||

#5  I favor Nuclear Sterilization, short and deadly.

Might get some good tissue issue, but not much. God knows we've have had serious reason.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 08/23/2014 12:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Sell unwanted Warthogs to Kurds and arrange for enough pilots to train them/fly them in case Kurds are attacked.

Let Sunni/Shi civil war rage.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/23/2014 12:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Setup SMALL nations that encompass nationalities, rather than bureaucratically convenient lines on a map. Give them defence guarantees.

If one goes islamic malignant use the others to sterilise it.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/23/2014 12:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Look at what Arabs/Pakis are taught re other religions to explain todays problems worldwide!
Posted by: Paul D || 08/23/2014 13:14 Comments || Top||

#9  Kill them with bullets soaked in pigs fat. That is the answer.
Posted by: Charles || 08/23/2014 14:02 Comments || Top||

#10  I watch the State and DOD briefings and I grind my teeth. They are living in a delusional world. They demand the Iraq people works together to eliminate the threat. This cant be further from the reality of life. So we have abdicated our national security to the Kurds and Suni's??? I could really care less if Iraq falls, lives in peace, or divides into ten tribal waring states. The whole ISIS threat is not about them, its about us. Its about the threat they will bring to the United States and Europe. Obama's State putting the destruction of ISIS on the Kurds is like Eisenhower putting the defense against Japan on the Filipino's. Its absurd and will fail. When we marched against Japan we did not pay attention to the Filipino's, we eliminated the threat to America, sorry it was on the Philippine islands, too bad. Now wee need to bring total war to Syria and again to Iraq. Or expect it to show up here...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 08/23/2014 20:25 Comments || Top||

#11  Napoleon said not to interfere when the enemy is self destructing...All muslims, Russians and Europeans are our enemies...You know anyone better than ISIS to wipe out Teheran? Then watch Mudak Moskals and zeropeans get cut to piece by the fanatics...watch Erdogan get really fucked by all sides and Putin swing below a lamp post, as Chinks get mowed down as in their last invasions...
But dont forget to buy shares of:
Posted by: Hotspur666 || 08/23/2014 22:09 Comments || Top||

#12  Problem with that is their intent to come to America. The Muzzies will never defeat them, ever. This week we had two bomb threats with ISIS supporters in America. One in Boston and the other Charlotte. Lets just sit this one out and watch, sure...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 08/23/2014 22:58 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Obama's Racism for Fun and Profit
Ferguson happens a few times every month. More often in the summer when tempers are hot and crowds of bored men and women fill the streets looking for something to do. Teenagers ransack stores. Small cities stretch their budgets in a bad economy to put as many cops as they can on the street.

And then somewhere between the open fire hydrants, the stores that do most of their business in EBT cards and lottery tickets, the check cashing places and furniture rental outlets, something happens.

And it happens a lot more often than you think.

A crowd gathers. Fists rise in the air. The police deploy. The EBT stores, check cashing places and furniture rental outlets roll down their shutters. A tense hour passes before the scene fades away leaving behind a crude graffiti scrawl of a wannabe gangsta and his favorite pit bull, a few faded color photos and some purple candles guttering in the night underneath his portrait.

Not the full scale rioting, looting and curfews. That's the sort of thing that doesn't happen on its own.

It has to be community organized into being.

Fergusons usually happen locally, but when it's convenient then the looting and car stomping go national. The Trayvon Martin case happened in an election year. So did the Michael Brown case.

Maybe we can look forward to another Ferguson in 2016 and every two years after that.

...The old community agitators "negotiated" racial tensions with white liberals. The agitators and liberals profited while the working class populations of both races that they exploited lost out. Obama however negotiates these tensions on his own, playing both the agitator and the liberal at the same time.

...The black community has been divided between a small elite that runs things, a shaky middle class clinging to government jobs and a vast army of the poor.

...Obama abandoned the black working class as much as he abandoned the white working class. He used their dreams and left behind broken communities SWEATING through the summer and waiting for the next explosion when another wannabe gangsta gets shot in another swing state.

And out of that rioting, the bosses he really represents, the billionaires with a big stake in everything from big banks to subsidized solar power, hope to retain their lucrative grip on the Senate.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/23/2014 06:01 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  After spending yesterday at the beach, Obama said, “This has been fun, but I should really get back...to the golf course.”

~ Jimmy Fallon
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2014 7:33 Comments || Top||

#2  The Democrats usual Modus Operandi; turning incidents into chaos and crises wherever they find them.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/23/2014 7:41 Comments || Top||

#3  tidied non-ascii
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/23/2014 8:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Gracias
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/23/2014 9:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Soros.
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/23/2014 9:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Just Soros?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/23/2014 10:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Not just Soros.

The principal movers behind the scenes in the Ferguson race riots were the Black Panthers and ANSWER.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/23/2014 11:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Joblessness, poverty, shortage of men's belts ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2014 11:39 Comments || Top||

#9  ...well, 10 million illegals tend to reduce job opportunities in the low skill market (at least those remaining after the load shipped overseas).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/23/2014 12:06 Comments || Top||


Columnist Thomas Sowell: 'Politics Are Undermining Law' in Ferguson, Missouri
[Wash Times] Casting blame based on skin color should have ended with Jim Crow. Those of us who admit that we were not there and do not know what happened when Michael Brown was shot by a policeman in Ferguson, Mo., seem to be in the minority.

We all know what has happened since then -- and it has been a complete disgrace by politicians, the media and mobs of rioters and looters. Despite all the people who act as though they know exactly what happened, nevertheless, when the full facts come out, that can change everything.

This is why we have courts of law, instead of relying on the media or mobs. But politics are undermining law.
A most excellent assessment by a superb reporter and writer.

Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One fine point. Politicians might turn the lawlessness into the lawful by passing laws, but: Currently, Politics = Lawlessness
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/23/2014 7:37 Comments || Top||

#2  that's not Brown. That's some Portlandia POS named Joda Cain that killed his Great-Grandmoms last year. Frank G.

Thanks Frank G. for correcting my post earlier this week of a photo of the alleged victim. I was also incorrect in my assessment of Officer Wilson's weapon. Appears it was a SIG .40, not a 9mm.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2014 8:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Rule of law is what seperates the first world from third world. Its a bit shakey in the US at present and in some communities it is discarded in favor of tribal politics. Very sad.

I believe a good President can restore the US economically and regards to our place in the world but race relations will take generations to repair after this administration.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/23/2014 12:30 Comments || Top||

#4  I am very optimistic as well Richard. What is truly amazing is the republic has survived as well as it has under this oppressive bastard and his tribal lieutenants. If we can only make it through the next 18 months or so.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/23/2014 12:34 Comments || Top||

#5  that's not Brown. That's some Portlandia POS named Joda Cain that killed his Great-Grandmoms last year. Frank G.

Looked like Brown at 16 to me. But all the pictures of Brown I have seen are him robbing a store video and what looks like one years old on somebody's t-shirt. Nothing nice and current, like a senior's cap-and-gown photo.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/23/2014 13:39 Comments || Top||

#6  no problem, B - it was all over the web before it was clarified
Posted by: Frank G || 08/23/2014 14:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Should the Pubs win both houses in 2014. Harry Reid would not be the bottleneck (read pain-in-the-a$$) in the Senate. Legislation could be passed in both the House and the Senate. However, without a supermajority in both houses, Obumble has the power of the veto. He is an ideologue and not particularly reasonable. It would appear that gridlock would continue--at least until 2016. The Pubs position would only be slightly better than it is now. What might happen in 2016 is anybody's guess. To get anything done, the Pubs would have to have both houses and the Presidency. That could happen in 2016. The next two years are going to seem like 20 with the present dipwad occupying the Whitehouse.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/23/2014 18:30 Comments || Top||



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