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Obama's ugly bid to snub voters and tie Trump's hands
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/30/2016 10:03 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Obama is just having a temper tantrum!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 12/30/2016 12:27 Comments || Top||

#2  If he was really "going to remain in charge" after leaving office, one would expect a good deal more subtlety, no?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2016 12:43 Comments || Top||

#3  , one would expect a good deal more subtlety, no? No. Not from this venal, evil, little scum, subtlety is not only not in his makeup it is unlikely to be in his vocabulary.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/30/2016 17:29 Comments || Top||

#4  AlanC, Obumbles probably says it with the "b".
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 12/30/2016 18:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Subtlety doesn't work with a song & dance for the partisan drones.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/30/2016 21:19 Comments || Top||

#6  At first Obama would blame Bush if anything went wrong.

After a while Obama then started blaming Congress and the Republicans.

When Hillary lost, blame Russia rather than himself, and oh, by the way, give no credit to Trump or the American people for winning one for the Don.
Posted by: Maggie Ebbineger9957 || 12/30/2016 22:20 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Grace Mugabe slammed after dropping R18 million (1.4m USD) on new diamond ring
[SA] Grace Mugabe is having a grand oll’ time at the expense of the country’s starving population. A Roman Catholic priest from the St Johns Parish reportedly called Batty Bob Mugabe’s wife "loveless" after she reportedly "acquired" a diamond ring valued around $1.35 million.

Father Rungano made the comments while delivering a sermon at the funeral of a woman who passed away while travelling from SA to Zim.

"There is a lot of corruption in this country and if people had love for each other, we would not be seeing someone buying a ring worth millions whilst the nation is hungry," Rungano reportedly said.

Read the full report by NewZimbabwe.com
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/30/2016 07:14 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some people make expensive annual pilgrimages to Hawaii at taxpayers expense, others buy jewelry. On balance, I'd reckon jewelry is the better buy for the taxpayer.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/30/2016 7:30 Comments || Top||

#2  ...and retains value as long as DeBeers maintains a near monopoly on the market.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/30/2016 8:16 Comments || Top||

#3  You can't polish a turd, and bejeweling a - whatever - probably works no better. Mainly thinking of the Hawaii junketeers in this instance...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/30/2016 13:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Grace under pressure haiku

Oh shiny bauble
A rock to support my house
A ring of power
Posted by: JHH || 12/30/2016 14:30 Comments || Top||


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John Bolton: ‘The Two-State Solution Is Dead'
[Breitbart] Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Thursday, "Just as a matter of empirical reality, the two-state solution is dead. That’s about the only thing John Kerry came close to getting right yesterday."

Bolton was discussing out-going Secretary of State John Kerry’s anti-Israel speech delivered Wednesday, as reported by Breitbart News:

Lame-duck Secretary of State John Kerry blasted the Israeli government at the State Department on Wednesday, and attempted to defend the Obama administration’s decision to let an anti-Israel resolution pass at the UN Security Council last week.

Kerry delivered his remarks in the midst of a diplomatic fight with Israel, in which President Barack Obama stands accused of working with Palestinians secretly to undermine Israeli security, overturning decades of American foreign policy precedent in the process.

As for the now-infamous failure of the United States to veto the recent anti-Israel UN resolution, Bolton said, "The notion that this is simply consistent with prior U.S. policy, which is the Obama administration line, is flatly incorrect."

Bolton continued, "The failure to veto this Resolution 2334 reverses fifty years of American policy, ever since the 1967 war between Israel and the surrounding Arab states, which ended in the iconic Resolution 242, the so-called Land for Peace Resolution."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/30/2016 01:05 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In a War somebody Wins and somebody Loses. that is why they call the things War.

You win by breaking your adversary and taking away his capability and his will. You break him..permanently. You crush him and his will. OR you kill him and keep killing him until you take everything he has. You castrate him and take his wife and family and don't give anything back.

You don't negotiate with him. If he wants it, you piss on it and even if you yourself don't need it, you dump on it just because he wants it.

I want Israel to WIN. Keep up on the Settlements.They WORK, Do it again and keep doing it until you own it ALL.
Posted by: Captain White1315 || 12/30/2016 5:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Its been dead since '48 when the Arabs et al failed to destroy Israel. The neighbors didn't give a flip for the Paleos till they realized they were never going to get the land back they lost in '67, even then, they treated them as the threat they were. See - Black September.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/30/2016 8:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Never a peep about Mexican settlements in the southwestern United States. It's the same thing, you know. It's the same with Arab settlements in Europe for that matter. You get your people out there in sufficient numbers to push the native population aside and dictate the agenda. I'll give the Palestinians credit for recognizing what's happening which is more than I can say for Americans and Europeans.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/30/2016 12:29 Comments || Top||

#4  "I was bred and born in the briar patch, Brer Fox," he called. "Born and bred in the briar patch."
Posted by: KBK || 12/30/2016 23:15 Comments || Top||


Government
Leaked Snowden Document Hints At Why Feds Are So Sure Russia Hacked Election
[Huffpoo] U.S. intelligence officials appear certain that Russia was responsible for interfering in the presidential election -- though they haven’t fully detailed how they know. But a classified document leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden reveals that they’ve tracked Russian hacking before and that the information they gleaned may have helped this time around.

Russian hacking also occurred in the case of Russian journalist and American citizen Anna Politkovskaya, who was gunned down in 2006 in her Moscow apartment after writing articles critical of the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Five men were convicted of her murder, but it’s still a mystery who ordered the killing.

A year before she was murdered, Politkovskaya’s email was hacked by Russian intelligence using malicious software not publicly available, according to an NSA document leaked by Snowden to The Intercept. Not only does the document reveal that U.S. intelligence knew about the hacking of Politkovskaya’s email, it also shows that the NSA is adept at tracking cyberattacks by Russian intelligence.

The classified internal NSA entry indicates that the NSA was able to use "intercept signals" to pinpoint the source of the attack. The attacks on Politkovskaya’s email account resemble the hacks of Democratic National Committee emails during the campaign that were damaging to Hillary Clinton, and the NSA could have used the same tactics to track the source as it did in Politkovskaya’s case.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/30/2016 06:07 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One does not hunt squirrels in a peach orchard. May we then conclude a connection between the crafty squirrel and the type of tree he inhabits? Tracking the 'hacker' has long been a source of knowledge regarding the hacker's requirements and information shortfalls.

Tracking the foibles and proclivities of democrats, what could possibly be gained from such an endeavor ? [sarc off]

For those who believe in coincidences, the assassination of Politkovskaya occurred on 7 Oct 2006, Vladimir Putin's birthday.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/30/2016 6:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Is there any kind of interference that has been alleged other than hacking and releasing Shrillary et. al. e-mail?

If so the "problem" is that truth that was hurtful to the Dems got out. So from that I conclude that the truth is anathema to the Dems/Progs/Left, true?

I think I've found the major problem with our countries politics.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/30/2016 7:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Is there any kind of interference that has been alleged other than hacking and releasing Shrillary et. al. e-mail?

HRC won the popular vote. Yet another Russian failure.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/30/2016 7:51 Comments || Top||

#4  ...actually, a Soviet vs Russian success cause we didn't purge our institutions of their useful idiots when the wall came down.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/30/2016 8:14 Comments || Top||

#5  I think the real hacking took place in Detroit and other bastions of the democratic party.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 12/30/2016 8:37 Comments || Top||

#6  I think the real hacking took place in Detroit and other bastions of the democratic party.
Posted by BrerRabbit


Not a great deal mentioned about Russian hacking until HRC lost the election. Strange, very strange.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/30/2016 8:40 Comments || Top||

#7  "HRC won the popular vote."

Actually, she didn't, Just that California and New York was so overwhelming democrat that it made it seems like it. On a state by state basis, she lost the popular vote!

The electoral college system works like it's supposed to!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 12/30/2016 12:33 Comments || Top||

#8  Hey there BrerRabbit et al.
"Democratic" is an adjective. "Democrat" is a noun.

It's the Democrat Party.
Posted by: Thert Protector of the Chinese1357 || 12/30/2016 13:23 Comments || Top||

#9  I found wild boar sausage potatos and vodka bottles in the ballot box!
Posted by: Crinegum Ulaigum2776 || 12/30/2016 13:53 Comments || Top||

#10  For Thert Protector of the Chinese1357: you are right about the formation of various parts of speech from a root, but wrong in your conclusion. From the DNC website About:

Since 1848, the Democratic National Committee has been the home of the Democratic Party, the oldest continuing party in the United States.

Today we are millions of supporters strong, fighting for progress and helping elect Democrats across the country to state government, Congress, and the White House.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/30/2016 17:04 Comments || Top||



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