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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Congress Just Defied Obama's Shadow Government, Obama's Thugs Are Going Down
[Angry Patriot] The Obama administration has proven time and time again that they are dishonest crooks. It looks like his "shadow government" is finally going to meet their match!

According to the Wall Street Journal, Congress is now putting a full investigation forward to find out who all was involved with the "unmasking" of President Trump and his associates during the transition. Congress is taking this case SERIOUSLY. Obama and his cronies, like Susan Rice, better run for cover. Three subpoenas have been issued so far, and we are expecting to see more.

It is a sad attempt at a setup. Susan Rice, Obama, and the rest of their friends went out of their way to get information from President Trump and his associates via wiretapping. Susan Rice ILLEGALLY leaked information to the press, causing havoc and distrust in our system.

The left wants nothing more than to see President Trump fail, but it isn’t going to happen. Trump is going to work with Congress to weed out these traitors. The American people don’t deserve this!

The patriots of this country deserve a political system that doesn’t commit shady, backdoor acts, like Obama and company. The past eight years have been horrific.

It is going to take a lot of work to get our country back to one-hundred percent, but President Trump is on the right track. He is working to secure our borders and keep people that would harm us OUT!
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/01/2017 08:49 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It is going to take a lot of work to get our country back to one-hundred percent

Yeah, 50 years of falling is a lot to recover.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/01/2017 9:30 Comments || Top||

#2  I'd love to be 10% as confident as the article author, but I don't see the GOPe buffoons in Congress actually finding out anything at all, much less squeezing any of these miscreants until they roll on the whole 0butth0le cabal.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/01/2017 11:14 Comments || Top||

#3  I'll believe it when the first criminal indictments are handed out.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/01/2017 11:17 Comments || Top||

#4  But.. but... there's CAPITAL LETTERS! And EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!

Y'know, you used to see this frentic hyperbole on smeared, badly mimeographed paper.

Isn't technology wonderful?
Posted by: Pappy || 06/01/2017 11:37 Comments || Top||

#5  you used to see this frentic hyperbole on smeared, badly mimeographed paper

I just sniffed the pages.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/01/2017 13:52 Comments || Top||

#6  Obama's Thugs Are Going Down.

I'll believe it when I see it. Wake me when they're all wearing orange jump suits.
Posted by: PBMcL || 06/01/2017 15:57 Comments || Top||

#7  The word mimeograph just reopened a memory of preparing the entire OCONUS training package and movement orders for my Marine Corps Reserve unit using the one dilapidated machine that worked in build 218 of the Washington Navy Yard in 1972....God that was an ordeal
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/01/2017 19:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Finally, the hope and change one might be able to believe in, albeit a slim chances for anything to happen. I guess I've watched too many of these hearings where Obama, Holder, Lynch, the FBI, and others covered for the Obama-Clinton machine.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/01/2017 21:12 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Al Jazeera Tweets‐Then Deletes‐Anti-Semitic Climate Change Cartoon
[Free Beacon] Al Jazeera English quickly deleted a Twitter post on Wednesday that featured an anti-Semitic portrayal of a Jewish man commenting on climate change.

The tweet, which was captured by numerous Twitter users before it was deleted, featured a caricature of a Jew saying that the "climate change scam is working out perfectly for our long term Talmudic plan of world domination!"
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/01/2017 02:30 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lose the mustache an it looks more like a Mohammad than a Moshe.
Posted by: Flineting Gleaper2936 || 06/01/2017 3:36 Comments || Top||


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'This is not OK': Navratilova renews call to rename Margaret Court Arena
[Guardian] Martina Navratilova has stepped up her call to rename Margaret Court Arena in Melbourne in an escalating row with her fellow former world No1, who said this week that tennis is "full of lesbians" and that transgender children were the work of "the devil".

Court, the 74-year-old Australian tennis champion turned pastor, also claimed that an Australian programme tackling homophobic bullying in schools was the work of a "gay lobby" that was trying to "get [into] the minds of children".

Czech-American Navratilova, who married her long-term partner Julia Lemigova in 2014, has led calls for the Australian Open court to be renamed following Court’s comments. "We celebrate free speech, but that doesn’t mean it is free of consequences ‐ not punishment, but consequences," Navratilova, an 18-time Grand Slam champion, wrote in an open letter published by Fairfax Media.

"We should not be celebrating this kind of behaviour, this kind of philosophy. The platform people like Margaret Court use needs to be made smaller, not bigger."
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/01/2017 07:59 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "We should not be celebrating this kind of behaviour, this kind of philosophy. The platform people like Margaret Court use needs to be made smaller, not bigger."

Actually Martina, you have it backwards. You are your type make up a tiny percentage of the population, yet you've been allowed to mandate to the rest of us that your lifestyle is perfectly natural and in no way a repudiation of values. YOUR platform needs to be made smaller, not bigger.
Posted by: Crusader || 06/01/2017 13:24 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
"They need to GRILL this SOB on all of his memos!" – Mark Levin on Comey testifying next week
[Right Scoop] They need to grill this SOB. They need to grill this SOB about all of his memos. All of them! They need to find out if this man held information and prior testimony before the House and Senate intelligence committees, as well as the judiciary committees. We need to know if this man kept ’book’ like a mobster, in my humble opinion, on other officials to whom he reported, so he could hold those memos over their heads too ‐ just in case!

It’s not enough to ask for just the memos involving Trump. They need all of his memos! They belong to the federal government which means they belong to Congress which means they belong to us.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/01/2017 03:22 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is he going to be another one of the previous admin. taking the 5th? Or will he invoke "classified reasons" for not giving an honest answer?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/01/2017 15:49 Comments || Top||


Sununu Confronts CNN on Coverage of Trump-Russia Investigation: ‘How Much Crow Are You Going to Eat?'
[Breitbart] Tuesday on CNN’s "New Day," former chief of staff to President George H. W. Bush and former Gov. John H. Sununu (R-NH) pushed back against CNN’s coverage of the Trump-Russia investigation in an interview with co-host Alisyn Camerota.

Partial transcript as follows:

CAMEROTA: Is there anything about the Russian -- investigation connected to the Trump campaign that troubles you?

SUNUNU: Yeah, but the reporting that’s taking place and the exaggeration of the venality and the suggestion -- look, it’s now seven months since the election, and to this day, no one has cited a single piece of evidence. In your last segment, you guys were patting yourselves on the back because you said Clapper had passed the responsibility off to the FBI. But you forget that in the last weeks of the administration, Obama allowed all his intelligence agencies to share their information. And there is no question in my mind that when that happen since Clapper’s group had originated this, that anything the FBI had would have gone back to Clapper. So it is nice for Capper to try and wash his hands of it by throwing it in the FBI’s lap, but he had access in those days to whatever the FBI had. There is nothing there.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/01/2017 02:27 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  " 'What difference, a this point, does it make?' " This Old News to be forgotten in the scramble for new Faux News.
Posted by: magpie || 06/01/2017 16:40 Comments || Top||


Lewandowski To Republicans: Get On Trump Train or Lose Next Election
[Real Clear Politics] Corey Lewandowski warns Congressional Republicans to support President Trump or risk losing their seat in the next election. Lewandowski tells Republicans if you don't get on the Trump train and support the president's agenda, "you have failed the American people."
'Winning' brings with it the responsibility of working hard, accomplishing difficult tasks, and making things happen. I'm not at all certain they're up to it. Sitting back and endlessly carping is much easier.
From his appearance on Wednesday's FOX & Friends:

COREY LEWANDOWSKI, FORMER TRUMP CAMPAIGN MANAGER: President Trump was elected to change the country. And you can get on board that train or you can lose your next election, because - I can promise you this - the Democrats have a different agenda...

It's my recommendation to those Republicans in Congress to get on board, get the final conclusion done on the repeal and replace of ObamaCare, get the massive tax cut - the largest tax cut in the history of our country - get that done, get the infrastructure done, get the wall built. If you do those things, you will get reelected. If you don't do those things, it's because you have failed the American people.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/01/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Republicans. The party of Stupid, where the perfect is the enemy of the good enough.
Posted by: gorb || 06/01/2017 1:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Too True. If you don't get with the Program you WILL be dumped. ( and nobody will feel sorry for you. )

Stupid doesn't live to be old.
2018 is going to be an eye opener.
Posted by: Ebbaimp Gleaper4756 || 06/01/2017 5:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Ditto gorb.

The never trumpers and gope want to sit around in their mahogany libraries and sip their MacAllan 24 yr. old and tut-tut about the crass DJT.

Primary the hell out of all of them.
Posted by: AlanC || 06/01/2017 8:03 Comments || Top||

#4  24 year old MacAllan sounds nice. I have a bottle of the 21 year old which I quite enjoy.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/01/2017 11:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Iblis, I finished my 18 a long time ago....looking for a drinking buddy? ;^)
Posted by: AlanC || 06/01/2017 12:30 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum -- Again
h/t Instapundit
It is imperative we begin emulating the left in its tactics.

A couple of years ago, I suggested a completely different strategy: I wanted to pursue a kinder path. I wanted an end to the speech wars and social media mobs and boycotts and all the rest of it.

But that path has been tried, and it has failed. Passive resistance -- moral resistance -- can only work when dealing with opponents with morality and honor, or who, at least, see you as more than subhuman.

...watch this video of the Empowered Mob demanding more firings at Evergreen college last week, and tell me the path of merely condemning mob lunacy is having any effect at all.

The Empowered, Privileged Mob demanded -- demanded! -- that white people absent themselves from their space, and this is what happened to those who said, "No, that's racist, and teaching class is my job."

...Leftist students cannot be taught anything -- they now routinely scream at professors (you know, the people they're allegedly paying to learn from) that they must SHUT UP AND LISTEN. They come to the university already knowing all there is to know, and in fact are only present to teach their professors; one wonders, then, why it isn't the students being paid, and the professors paying tuition to learn their collective, shouty, expletive-filled wisdom.

...If you're a sadist, and an insecure individual with little credit to his name, you can build yourself up into a Social Justice War-Fighter by constantly attacking others and making them miserable and afraid.

...Do they ever actually suffer for their own choices? Do they ever experience a setback larger than just not getting their way, this week?

No.

And it's time for that to change.

If a sadistic, insecure, submediocre individual enjoys tormenting those he deems enemies, like a child who enjoys pulling the wings off flies, he will not stop -- ever -- unless he is made to feel the same pain himself.

We intended that by passively resisting, they would see us as showing moral courage and would learn from us that ceaseless violence and bullying and collectivized political campaigns run against everyday citizens pursuing no public office are wrong.

But they didn't learn that.

What our self-restraint has taught them is quite the opposite--when we refuse to fight back, they take that as signalling that deep down, we know they're right and that we are the monsters, and thus, our refusal to engage them in the fight they've started does not prove our moral rightness, but instead our moral corruption.

We think: We are showing them a better way by acting in a manner that is morally superior.

They infer: They are submitting to us as if they are our inferiors, therefore they must know that they are in fact our inferiors.

The most important thing to understand about the left: whether it's Ghetto youts rioting in the streets, or professors in the most prestigious universities; they are dumb barbs who neither understand, nor like, the civilization that we've build - they just want to loot it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/01/2017 03:33 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The link to video doesn't work, so here it is
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/01/2017 3:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Leftists are narcissists.
They do not think they have to reciprocate.
Therefore they loot.
However, reciprocation is the fount of civilization.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/01/2017 5:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Evergreen College - Alma Mater and Home of the annual Rachel Corrie Pancake Breakfast™
Posted by: Frank G || 06/01/2017 7:21 Comments || Top||

#4  And it only took "Ace" a couple of years to figure out what's been obvious to any one with brains from the get-go.

Your "Troo Conservative Leadership" ladies and gentlemen.
Posted by: charger || 06/01/2017 18:47 Comments || Top||


The True Feminist Message: Don't Hire Women
h/t Instapundit
Hello, Western employers!

As you may have noticed, today's feminist activists have a great deal to say about how women are and should be treated in the workforce. And yes, I understand how difficult it can be to sift through their rhetoric and tease out exactly what you, as an employer, are expected to do. Fortunately, I think I've finally managed to figure out their underlying message: Don't hire women.

I know how bizarre this must seem. After all, feminists claim to be looking out for women's best interests. And yet, in presuming to speak for all of us, these activists have managed to paint our distaff sex in a very unappealing light. Indeed, if feminists are to be accepted as our spokeswomen and exemplars, the following must be true:

Women don't understand math or science.

...Women are uneducable -- especially by men.

...Women expect to advance in their chosen profession regardless of the quality of their work.

...Women will be unable to work several days out of every month.

...Women will complain about trivial inconveniences and will expect your workplace to constantly cater to their desires.


...Okay: So we all know that none of the above statements are actually true of all women. Most women want to live by the same exact rules that govern men and don't want to be treated as delicate, wilting flowers -- either in the workplace or anywhere else. And that's why, as of this moment, only a small percentage of Western women are actually willing to embrace the feminist label. They understand what feminists are really implying -- and they rightfully resent it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/01/2017 03:21 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:



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Thu 2017-06-01
  Philippines hotel on lockdown after suspected ISIS attack
Wed 2017-05-31
  Kabul Blast in Diplomatic Area Kills 80
Tue 2017-05-30
  Puntland sentences Five militants members to death
Mon 2017-05-29
  52 LNA soldiers die in Tripoli fighting
Sun 2017-05-28
  Russian airstrikes smoke 120 ISIS Bad Guys in Raqqa
Sat 2017-05-27
  Student sentenced to 15 years for planting bomb on London tube
Fri 2017-05-26
  31 Maute group members killed in Marawi gunbattles
Thu 2017-05-25
  Younger brother of Manchester bomber was planning terrorist attack in Tripoli, SDF says
Wed 2017-05-24
  ISIS takes control of its first city in the Philippines
Tue 2017-05-23
  Egypt orders military trial for 48 'Islamic State' suspects over church attacks
Mon 2017-05-22
  Manchester 'explosions': Police warn people to stay away from arena after loud bangs heard at Ariana Grande concert
Sun 2017-05-21
  Police arrest knife-wielding 14-year-old girl in West Bank
Sat 2017-05-20
  Saudi Arabia confirms Yemen’s missile strike on Riyadh
Fri 2017-05-19
  ICJ orders Pakistan to stay Jadhav execution
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  Blasts heard inside Afghan state TV compound in Jalalabad after gunmen attack


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