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Pro-Rassoul Faction Declares Jihad On Mansour Clan
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Today's follow-up: A few observations from my dotage....
If I had a dollar for every girl that found me unattractive, they'd eventually find me attractive.

I find it ironic that the colors red, white, and blue stand for freedom, until they're flashing behind you.

Today a man knocked on my door and asked for a small donation towards the local swimming pool, so I gave him a glass of water.

I changed my password to "incorrect" so whenever I forget it the computer will say, "Your password is incorrect."

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

I hate it when people use big words just to make themselves sound perspicacious.

Hospitality is the art of making guests feel like they're at home when you wish they were.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Ever stop to think and forget to start again?

When I married Miss Right, I had no idea her first name was Always.

There may be no excuse for laziness, but I'm still looking for it.

Women spend more time wondering what men are thinking than men spend thinking.

Is it wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly?

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

The grass may be greener on the other side, but at least you don't have mow it.

I like long walks, especially when they're taken by people who annoy me.

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

Sometimes I wake up grumpy; other times I let her sleep.

Money is the root of all wealth.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/17/2016 07:35 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There are three kinds of people in this world.

Really smart people like me and dummies.
Posted by: charger || 05/17/2016 18:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Actually there are only two kinds of people in this world, the ones that divide people into groups and those that like scatter charts.
Posted by: Shipman || 05/17/2016 18:21 Comments || Top||

#3  There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/17/2016 22:34 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Holding instigators accountable
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi prisoner Hadi al-Baqmi broke hearts as he spoke about the influence of instigators. Hundreds of Saudi young men are fighting in battlefields that they were dragged to in a cold-blooded manner via religious sermons or lectures.

Like others, Baqmi was of course wrong in joining these battlefields, for which he has paid 10 years of his life. Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea, one that didn't involve kerosene...
his children grow up apart from him.

Accountability
Lawyer Abdulrahman al-Lahham decided to legally pursue those instigators to protect God’s religion and the country, and defend youths who are being recruited everyday via the internet or preachers’ sermons. Lahham said such cases put an end to holy warriors’ manipulation of young men.

Baqmi asked why his instigator’s fortune has increased, and why the latter gets to brag as he enjoys living in his castle while other people’s sons are dragged to their graves. He asked how this instigator gets to risk the lives of other people’s sons without venturing his own life. These are logical questions.

If the instigator is honest, why is he not among the ranks of young men who are being used to fuel wars? Baqmi says the preacher’s tears were one of the reasons he accepted to be recruited. "I thought he was honest because I saw him cry," he said.

Holding instigators accountable is necessary, as our sons have been pushed to join bloody wars for 30 years now, and are being pursued and imprisoned while instigators remain on the loose. Holding those responsible accountable is legitimate and legal, as justice is the backbone of every country.
Posted by: Fred || 05/17/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Busting the myth of the France's 35-hour-week
[BBC] Editor's Note (24 March 2016): With the French government debating longer allowable work hours, BBC Capital brings back this piece that largely debunks the myth that most French work just 35 hours each week.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/17/2016 09:41 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What about government workers?
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/17/2016 11:07 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Priority Boarding on the Lolita Express
h/t Instapundit
...Steyn wondered: How well do you have to treat women when you're running against the Clintons?

Trump's relationships with his lady friends seems an odd line of attack for the Times, given that Mrs Clinton's husband has been credibly accused of rape by Juanita Broaddrick, groped Kathleen Willey's breasts on the day she learned of her husband's death, dropped his pants to Paula Jones and told her to "kiss it" - and was recently revealed to have made, according to flight logs, at least 26 trips on the Lolita Express, the private plane of convicted pedophile and alleged sex-slave trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Mark then moved on to what to him is the broader issue - the corruption of the republic:

I was talking about corruption in this country, which gets in my nostrils, the stink of corruption, the stench of corruption, the sense that laws apply to some people and not to others.

Who is the embodiment of the descent into banana republic status? Hillary Rodham Clinton.

...He bashed conservatives like Max Boot and P.J. O'Rourke who say they would likely vote for Clinton because of concerns over Trump's foreign policy. "Hillary is the embodiment of corruption and therefore the death of the republic," he argued...

"Someone on the take from Saudi princes, someone who's managed to deliver 20% of U.S. uranium into control of the Russians, someone whose husband has been credibly accused of rape and flies around with a known pedophile... and yet Hillary to these guys is who they're going to be supporting in November."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/17/2016 14:04 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


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AC130H Spectre gunships at Djibouti and Sigonella were 'on call' for Benghazi
BLUF: [American Thinker] Hillary Rodham Clinton is unworthy of the presidency and was up to her eyeballs in the Benghazi disaster, the failure to mount a rescue, and the cover-up of the incompetence that resulted in the deaths of four Americans – Ambassador Chris Stevens, Ty Woods, Glen Doherty and Sean Smith. Criminal negligence is not a qualification for higher office.
Posted by: newc || 05/17/2016 02:50 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm still waiting on all the missing Benghazi emails from Clinton's private server.
Posted by: jvalentour || 05/17/2016 8:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Let me see. The successful raid on bin Laden's compound was May 2, 2011. The attack on Benghazi was September 11, 2012, just 12 months later. Coming hot of the heals of the succesful UBL takedown, one might assume the concept of a similar operation was at least discussed in executive channels. One might also assume Clinton participated, or was at least 'info-copied.' Or have I gone too far again.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/17/2016 8:48 Comments || Top||

#3  There is still one major piece of the puzzle missing and that would explain what Hillary Clinton fears most about the Benghazi episode. I am of the belief that with regard to the Clintons you must always 'follow the money.' The Clintons stood to benefit financially in some way from Qadafi's demise. I believe they also stood to benefit in some way from the shipment of arms from Benghazi to Turkish ports. Now, who more than an American ambassador would know where those bodies are buried? Who more than an American ambassador who got religion could be a threat to the Clinton machine?
Posted by: Jack Huputer7145 || 05/17/2016 12:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Consider that the CIA compound defense contractor force HAD a laser designator along with assorted small arms. Its not something a private contractor keeps in his rucksack as a rule, so odds are it was an issue piece of gear by the company or the agency. Be definition does that not speak of QRF contingency planning, and if Sigonella is a 45 min C-130 Spectre flight time away, and when the alert went up someone had the forethought to warm up the alert bird, who would have had reason to stop it? Unless you didn't want the entire reason for the Agency presence in Libya buying up weapons for something to remain unseen.......Remind me again whose idea the Libya fiasco was? QED
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/17/2016 14:08 Comments || Top||

#5  WND has a good take on the story.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/17/2016 16:27 Comments || Top||

#6  I like WWN myself. They have Batboy.
Posted by: Pappy || 05/17/2016 20:38 Comments || Top||

#7  I was thinking this gives more dimension to what Mike K shared with US last week. If this account is so, It changes only QRF structure yet, not it's effectiveness.

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Posted by: newc || 05/17/2016 22:55 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2016-05-17
  Pro-Rassoul Faction Declares Jihad On Mansour Clan
Mon 2016-05-16
  ISIS release execution photos of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan
Sun 2016-05-15
  ISIS kill 16 Real Madrid fans in massacre at supporters club headquarters
Sat 2016-05-14
  Rebels kill at least 75 Quds Brigade militants north of Aleppo
Fri 2016-05-13
  Top Hezbollah commander in Syria Mustafa Badreddine killed by Israel, group says
Thu 2016-05-12
  ISIS says it's behind Iraq blasts that killed over 90
Wed 2016-05-11
  Bangladesh executes top Jamaat leader Motiur Rahman over '1971 war crimes'
Tue 2016-05-10
  US airstrike kills ISIS 'Emir of Anbar Province' in Iraq
Mon 2016-05-09
  78 militants killed in latest air and ground raids of Afghan forces
Sun 2016-05-08
  Suspected bombers die in Soddy security operation
Sat 2016-05-07
  ISIS Big Wig dies in US airstrike
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  Appropriate: 200 Taliban recruits nabbed from sheep trucks in north of Afghanistan
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  Key Taliban group member Qari Zubair killed in Badakhshan


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