Hi there, !
Today Sat 02/03/2018 Fri 02/02/2018 Thu 02/01/2018 Wed 01/31/2018 Tue 01/30/2018 Mon 01/29/2018 Sun 01/28/2018 Archives
Rantburg
531719 articles and 1856013 comments are archived on Rantburg.

Today: 71 articles and 219 comments as of 15:58.
Post a news link    Post your own article   
Area: WoT Operations    WoT Background    Non-WoT        Politix   
Southwest State Confirms The Death Of Burhakabo Military Commander
Today's Headlines
Headline Comments [Views]
Page 4: Opinion
1 16:32 gorb [] 
1 19:17 Iblis [] 
3 15:52 JohnQC [2] 
0 [1] 
0 [1] 
0 [] 
8 19:04 newc [] 
0 [] 
4 20:58 Skidmark [] 
4 18:14 Glenmore [] 
12 23:59 JohnQC [] 
8 16:13 newc [] 
5 19:42 Anguper Hupomosing9418 [] 
Page 1: WoT Operations
7 17:50 Glenmore [1]
1 01:45 g(r)omgoru []
0 []
4 14:05 Blackbeard Phusoter1724 []
0 []
2 18:45 trailing wife []
3 10:48 Frank G [1]
0 []
1 08:56 Woodrow [1]
5 12:52 Zenobia Floger6220 []
0 []
0 []
0 [1]
0 [3]
0 []
Page 2: WoT Background
8 20:54 Skidmark []
1 11:04 rjschwarz []
0 [1]
4 11:05 rjschwarz []
0 [1]
6 12:44 Herb McCoy7309 []
0 []
0 []
0 []
0 []
0 []
0 [1]
0 [1]
0 []
0 [1]
0 []
0 []
4 19:35 Anguper Hupomosing9418 [1]
2 02:00 g(r)omgoru []
0 [1]
6 11:25 Raj []
Page 3: Non-WoT
2 19:17 charger [1]
4 21:29 3dc []
4 21:05 Whiskey Mike [1]
2 13:22 g(r)omgoru [1]
7 21:30 Zhang Fei [1]
0 []
5 22:12 Zhang Fei [1]
7 22:29 Frank G []
0 []
1 07:08 Besoeker []
5 20:59 Zhang Fei [1]
0 []
2 17:34 Skidmark []
10 12:50 Sock Puppet of Doom [1]
0 [2]
Page 6: Politix
9 23:53 JohnQC [1]
13 18:50 lord garth []
9 19:41 Anguper Hupomosing9418 []
6 19:41 Regular joe [2]
5 17:14 PBMcL []
20 19:48 charger []
8 17:53 Skidmark []
-Lurid Crime Tales-
Rod Rosenstein Is Shirking His Duty to Supervise Robert Mueller
[National Review] Let’s say I’m an assistant United States attorney in, oh I don’t know, Montana. I get to work one morning and I say to myself, "Self, you know what would be really interesting?

Why, to ask Barack Obama some questions." Sure, there are a lot of people who’d like to do that ‐ Obama’s a very interesting guy. But see, I’m not just "a lot of people." I’m a federal prosecutor, just like Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Thanks to this nifty federal grand jury we’ve empaneled here in Montana, I’ve got subpoena power, just like Mueller. Let’s back up a bit. After my weekend column, it occurred to me that a hypothetical was in order, to demonstrate the sorts of things a self-absorbed, unrestrained prosecutor can do.

My column argued not only that President Trump should refuse to be questioned by Mueller’s alpha-prosecutors, but that it would be wrong for Mueller to seek to interview the president of the United States unless he can first show cause that (1) a serious crime implicating the president has been committed and (2) the president is possessed of testimony that is both essential to proving the crime and unobtainable by alternative means. In response, some commentators who were sympathetic to this standard wondered how it would be enforced.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/31/2018 10:29 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A no limits investigation is too broad and can end up encompassing everything.

He is a drag on the department as it is.
Posted by: newc || 01/31/2018 12:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Rod Rosenstein Is Shirking His Duty to Supervise Robert Mueller

Define "duty" . . . .

And I think that Trump should be given the same treatment as Hillary when she was questioned. Softball, unrelated questions. No witnesses, no recordings, no notes.
Posted by: gorb || 01/31/2018 13:01 Comments || Top||

#3  My understanding is that McCabe did the questioning if one can even call it that. It was not under oath, notes were not taken, and no video was made. One has to wonder if the "interrogation" was instead a skull session to exonerate her and flesh out the plan to take down Trump. No wrath like that of a scorned and rejected woman lefty dem candidate.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/31/2018 15:52 Comments || Top||


Scott Powell: Subverting the Electoral Process
[American Thinker] In his Gettysburg Address, Lincoln reminded Americans that they were uniquely privileged to have a new birth of freedom that was contingent on "government of the people, by the people, and for the people." That was then. What about now?

Every week brings new revelations and details about a cabal in the federal government whose actions border on conspiracy. The evidence suggests that specific high-level officials in the Justice Department and the FBI colluded together to violate the law in unprecedented ways for the singular purpose of subverting the will of the people both before and after the 2016 election.

The United States is now at a defining moment. Will there be a restoration of the rule of law, or will Washington’s elite continue to give cover and a pass to fellow members of the Ruling Class (in the sense used by Angelo Codevilla)?

The question: Is there sufficient decency and courage in the midst of Washington’s swamp to compel the pursuit of justice wherever in the Ruling Class it leads and then to prosecute the lawbreakers -- whoever they are?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/31/2018 07:45 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Lawmaker: FBI Memo Will ‘Shock Americans,' Warrant Removal of ‘FBI, DOJ Officials'
[FreeBeacon] A classified memo alleging abuses by the FBI and Department of Justice in its handling of a surveillance operation against President Donald Trump and his associates will "be shocking to many Americans" and likely prompt the removal of "a high number" of senior officials in these agencies, according to one member of Congress who has viewed the highly classified document.

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines late Monday to declassify the hotly contested memo, which outlines alleged surveillance abuses by senior FBI and DOJ officials pursuing what many have described as partisan campaign against Trump.

Following that decision, the president has several days to decide whether he will allow the memo to be released to the American public or kept classified.

Rep. Sean Duffy (R., Wis.), speaking about the decision, said allegations in the memo "will be shocking to many Americans and warrant the removal of a number of high [level] FBI and DOJ individuals as well as at least one of those individuals being prosecuted," according to comments made in the lawmaker's podcast, an advanced copy of which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

"There is a lot of smoke blowing around the FBI, the DOJ," Duffy said during a chat with his colleague, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R., N.Y.), on national security issues and Trump's upcoming State of the Union address.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I doubt anyone who reads the Burg will be greatly "shocked."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/31/2018 6:45 Comments || Top||

#2  The most disgusting thing will be the reactions of the Dems and progs in the media and population.

They will spin and cheer and shrug as part of their stupidity that still doesn't realize that their own weapons can be turned against them.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/31/2018 7:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Enough talk - release the damn thing already.
Posted by: Raj || 01/31/2018 9:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Most of the Burgers have been reporting on this and other Zero era malfeasances for oh...eight years now.

None of this is a surprise. We've been pointing to this all along.

I marvel at the MSM's ability to bury such a monumental story...thank goodness the internet doesn't allow that forever. If you said it or printed it or whatever, its out there, it never goes away and it will come back to bite you in the butt.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 01/31/2018 9:39 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 Enough talk - release the damn thing already.

This.

I'm starting to get a whiff of "Squirrel!" from all this crap.
Posted by: charger || 01/31/2018 11:01 Comments || Top||

#6  Enough talk - release the damn thing already.

Gotta wait five days.
Posted by: gorb || 01/31/2018 13:03 Comments || Top||

#7  A certain segment of voters will not believe the memo, the evidence, or anything that shows their party in a bad light.

It would be nice if they'd move to Canada (or any other country for that matter) so they could be happy again.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/31/2018 15:53 Comments || Top||

#8  #7 rjschwarz: Why Canada?????? We've got enough problems as it is. Surely we don't need more. Where the heck are all the Hollywood types that said they'd move up here if DJT got elected? No sign of 'em so far . . . . . and I was looking forward to showing them what a real Canuckistanian winter could be like. *SIGH *
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 01/31/2018 16:01 Comments || Top||

#9  There's a good chance that SOMETHING in the memo could reveal sensitive information about FBI techniques and be of use to other opposition forces. Damned if you do, Damned if you don't.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/31/2018 18:11 Comments || Top||

#10  Waiting for charges, not holding my breath.
Posted by: Woodrow || 01/31/2018 18:58 Comments || Top||

#11  My apologies, I said Canada because of the big movie presence up there but we both know they'll never actually move so you're safe.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/31/2018 23:55 Comments || Top||

#12  I'll prepare myself. OK, I'm ready, shock me.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/31/2018 23:59 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
this is why we stand for the national anthem
[CNN] video clip from President Trump’ State of the Union last night.

Opinion - moved to Page 4.
Posted by: 746 || 01/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  FU NFL.
Posted by: gorb || 01/31/2018 2:34 Comments || Top||

#2  NoFL 4Me. 4Ever.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/31/2018 6:17 Comments || Top||

#3  There he goes again, 'mansplaining.' [sarc ends here]

Fok a bunch of whiny, lobe-bumping kneelers.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/31/2018 6:33 Comments || Top||

#4  We stand, prepared to march in its defense.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/31/2018 20:58 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Will Security Sector Assistance Work in Afghanistan? – Free Range International
[Free Range International] The Taliban has been busy reminding the United States and her allies in Afghanistan that the moral is to the physical as three is to one. They have done this by side stepping our Security Sector Assistance (SSA) efforts in the Helmand and Nangarhar provinces by hitting the Afghan state where it is weak. Launching two large attacks inside the ‘Ring of Steel’ of Kabul (attacking the Intercontinental Hotel and the checkpoint outside the old Ministry of the Interior) and hitting a western NGO (Save the Children) in Jalalabad, the capitol of Nangarhar province.
Posted by: newc || 01/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He doubts big Army is up to the task of small sector security with the makeup of Afghanistan.
Posted by: newc || 01/31/2018 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2  No. Next question?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/31/2018 5:27 Comments || Top||

#3  To answer some of these shortfalls the US Army is developing Security Force Assistance Brigades (SFAB) that will be tailored to the mission and free up brigade combat teams. This idea, based on sound theory, will not work in practice. It won’t work for the same reasons it’s not working now; limited dwell time in country, high turnover of key personnel and the unwillingness to partner with host nation military units in combat.

SFAB is a cock-up in the making. Big Army's answer to the SF mission of 'Foreign Internal Defense' or Nation Building by another name.

An insurgency cannot be defeated if fed and protected by neighboring border sanctuaries in corrupt countries. I believe we have seen this proven out over the past 75 years in Korea, Vietnam, and throughout Central and Southern Africa.

Using satellite imagery, flying Reapers nose-to-tail up and down the Durand line, using hunter-killer teams and strategic air power to annihilate the enemy 'where two or more are gathered' could work. It worked in the Northern Alliance at the start of the conflict, but then the strategy shifted.

I'm afraid SFAB will end in disappointment.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/31/2018 6:01 Comments || Top||

#4  It worked in the Northern Alliance at the start of the conflict, but then the strategy shifted.
Would much appreciate more info on this topic. So far my readings indicate that only a massive asteroid strike would "work" in Afghanistan.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/31/2018 6:25 Comments || Top||

#5  It worked in the Northern Alliance at the start of the conflict, but then the strategy shifted.

I hesitate to use Hollywood as a learning tool Anguper Hupomosing9418, but spend a couple of hours and go see '12 Strong.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/31/2018 6:43 Comments || Top||

#6  We know the Taliban supporting villages.

They just "simply" have to no longer have Taliban in them.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/31/2018 12:18 Comments || Top||

#7  Vice President Dostum "likes Americans, as long as they go home" & hates the Taliban. The movie gave me a flicker of hope for Afghanistan, too.
Posted by: Jeremiah Gleretle3997 || 01/31/2018 13:48 Comments || Top||



Home Front: Politix
Ji Seong-ho's Tale of Courage: One of the Finest Parts of Trump's SOTU. [VIDEO]
[Victory Girls] Prior to the State of the Union speech, I had never heard of this young man. But after President Trump told the story of Ji Seong-ho and introduced him, I found myself in tears. Especially after he hoisted his crutches aloft. What a great moment!

In case you missed it, Ji Seong-ho is a defector from North Korea, and his story is one of the most harrowing I’ve ever heard.

In March, 1996, when he was just 13 years old, young Ji was badly malnourished, but he joined other boys hopping on moving trains to steal coal. They then would trade the coal for food. Unfortunately, on this day Ji was so weak with malnutrition that he collapsed. He passed out on the tracks, only to wake and find that a train had passed over him. As a result his left leg was hanging by a strip of skin, and three fingers on his left hand were missing.

His younger brother brought him to a hospital in a cart. Then things got even worse. Not only did Ji lose his leg and left hand to amputation, he underwent the surgery without anesthesia. Here’s his story:
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/31/2018 09:55 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Why Didn't Democrats Stand - Or Even Clap - For This SOTU Line?
[Townhall] It's typical for lawmakers to resist clapping during the president's annual State of the Union address when he mentions policies they oppose. But, when the president touches on issues that are clearly bipartisan, both sides of the aisle usually acknowledge it with at least a golf clap. For instance, supporting our military, investing in infrastructure, combating the opioid crisis, and a budding economy can typically be considered bipartisan issues.

Well, the Democrats did stand for some of those things during President Trump's first State of the Union speech, but when it came to the following line, some of these lawmakers, particularly members of the Congressional Black Caucus, remained seated.

Related: American Thinker - The Shabby, Sophomoric Behavior of Democrats at the SOTU
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/31/2018 07:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Because they are communist ideologues ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/31/2018 7:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Pelosie Frowns When Trump Calls to ‘Summon The Unity We Need to Deliver’

Or was she simply trying to dislodge a piece of steak au poivre.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/31/2018 7:22 Comments || Top||

#3  ...The Narrative demands that they not acknowledge the truth under any possible circumstances, because to do so might suggest that the voters are actually better off than they've been told they are. And if the voters ever figure that off, well then....

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/31/2018 7:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Because the mask is off. They only follow the rituals so as not to show that they believe in one party rule. True Leftists.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/31/2018 8:09 Comments || Top||

#5  I too believe in a 'two party system' unless of course, the other is the communist party.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/31/2018 8:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Dems are so dumb they have to sit on their hands lest they accidentally clap at good news.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/31/2018 11:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Why did tardive dyskinesia pop into my mind?
.
Posted by: OregonGuy || 01/31/2018 14:35 Comments || Top||



John Ligato on Salvaging the FBI
[Wash Times] The FBI is experiencing its greatest crisis in our history. J. Edgar Hoover may have kept "intel" files on enemies but never attempted a government coup. Recent leadership at headquarters allowed politics to seep into our DNA, and field agents were smeared with the same brush.

What happened and, what can we do to regain our reputation? The Bureau is about to take some major hits to its legacy and Director Christopher Wray is the only individual who can limit the damage. It’s called leadership.

Several ongoing investigations into alleged FBI wrongdoing may result in years of a continuing news cycle of negativity and a further erosion of the Bureau’s reputation. Mr. Wray has expressed a hesitancy to act in the meantime. Why?

If Mr. Wray does not take action, there may come a time that the FBI can never fully regain public trust. I had been spoiled by the excellent leadership in the Marine Corps. Marine NCO’s and officers led from the front, but recent FBI leadership actions have involved self-serving back room deals and secret societies.

Related: Hot Air - Paul Ryan: It’s Time To “Cleanse” The FBI.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/31/2018 06:53 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: WoT
Terror in the Water: Maritime Terrorism, Mines, and Our Imperiled Harbors
Posted by: newc || 01/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is a threat we dread and almost just left be after the last conventional Naval battles ended.

But I doubt it is for just Naval Battles anymore.

Author expresses concern that we have not been focusing enough of this threat.

It is a worthy defense measure to open up the forum.
Posted by: newc || 01/31/2018 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Not gonna happen. Mine warfare is where naval careers go to die. It will never get any attention until the next big shooting war when a whole bunch of warships are sunk by next-generation mines that can tell the difference between a cargo ship and specific US warships.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 01/31/2018 12:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Sensors are the future.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/31/2018 12:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Remember this?
9/11 - Bin Laden Brother In Boston Bought Dolphin Submarines In Florida For His Brother

Posted by: Woodrow || 01/31/2018 18:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Next generation mines will crawl ashore like drone alligators or robot SEALS.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/31/2018 19:42 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Shoshana Bryen: No Breaks for Israel
[American Thinker] Israel’s red lines in Syria’s civil war have included returning fire against any entity that fires into Israel (whether Syrian, rebel, Hizb’allah, or Iranian); not permitting Iran or Hizb’allah or any of their Shiite proxies in Syria to establish permanent bases within a specific distance of the Israeli Golan border; and not permitting weapons beyond a certain level of lethality and sophistication to move from Syria to Hizb’allah. To enforce those lines, the Israeli Air Defense Force is suspected of carrying out attacks on a "scientific research center," artillery positions, a "munitions factory," and more. The Israeli government rarely confirms such strikes, but acknowledges that the Russians are informed of Israeli activity when necessary in an agreed-upon effort to limit the damage and not engage Russian forces themselves.

This has morphed into one of the most quietly effective relationships in the Middle East. Not an alliance, certainly, but the pragmatic leaders of both countries have concluded that each benefits by coordinating with the other.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a full agenda this week, as he went to Moscow for a five-hour meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin after their meeting in Davos. High on the list was Israel’s growing concern about the expansion of Hizb’allah missiles and missile production facilities in Lebanon ‐ facilitated by Iran. "It's no longer a transfer of arms, funds or consultation. Iran has de-facto opened a new branch, the 'Lebanon branch.' Iran is here," wrote IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis. "In Lebanon, Hezbollah does not conceal its attempt to take control of the state."

But on this and other issues, Russia, Syria’s longtime ally, is looking to reduce its exposure. As the shape of the Syrian war changes, Israel may find its working relations with Russia undermined by Moscow’s desire to exercise influence in Syria generally from afar, and by its shifting relations with Iran.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/31/2018 07:36 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
Yes. That'll Work
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/31/2018 16:10 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They're not as stupid as we are.
Posted by: gorb || 01/31/2018 16:32 Comments || Top||


America is waking up to the farce that is feminism
h/t Instapundit
First, there was Dr. Jordan Peterson’s famous takedown of feminist Cathy Newman, whose debate on feminist issues has garnered almost 5 million views on YouTube and almost 75,000 comments to date, not to mention a slew of op-eds.

Now, there's President Trump’s refusal to call himself a feminist.

I have high hopes that America is waking up to the farce that is feminism. "For the first time in decades, if not ever, [feminism’s] tenets are being publicly challenged," writes Corey Schink for Sign fo the Times.

It is long overdue, for we can now expose feminism for what it is: a war on men, on children, and on family.

...feminism serves no purpose today ‐ that's why it has lost its mooring. There's nothing left to fight for. It is simply a home for haters, a home for radicals, a home for those who believe that men are oppressors and that America is a terrible place to live.
Not to mention a home of super entitelment
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/31/2018 14:11 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Clinton presidency cost the feminist movement a generation. Frankly, I'm surprised they survived at all.
Posted by: Iblis || 01/31/2018 19:17 Comments || Top||


Illegal Receives 3 LIVERS Ahead of American Citizens
[TheBlackSphere] No America citizen should have to fight to be put ahead of illegals. But such is the case when Democrats crave new voters.

And that’s why Americans find ourselves in jeopardy. Along with double the crimes committed by illegals, their status notwithstanding, there exist other perils.

As the LA Times reports, illegals can now get on America’s organ donor registry:
Oh. It’s about organ transplants. I was very confused.
Ana Puente was an infant with a liver disorder when her aunt brought her illegally to the U.S. to seek medical care. She underwent two liver transplants at UCLA Medical Center as a child in 1989 and a third in 1998, each paid for by the state.

Just so we are clear, a non-citizen of the United States brought her illegal niece to America. And she received two livers ahead of other citizens. So Puente potentially killed two Americans waiting on livers.

Things went bad for Puente when she turned 21. Because she aged out of her state-funded health insurance and was unable to continue treatment at UCLA.
The article continues,

This year, her liver began failing again and she was hospitalized at County-USC Medical Center. In her Medi-Cal application, a USC doctor wrote, "Her current clinical course is irreversible, progressive and will lead to death without another liver transplant." The application was denied.

The county gave her medication but does not have the resources to perform transplants.

Late last month Puente learned of another, little-known option for patients with certain healthcare needs. If she notified U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that she was in the country illegally, state health officials might grant her full Medi-Cal coverage. Puente did so, her benefits were restored and she is now awaiting a fourth transplant at UCLA.

So now Puente has the potential to kill four Americans, all because she made it to America. Who knows who waited anxiously for the livers that Puente received. Moreso, who know what the cost was to save her life three and soon to be four times.

Anybody think Puente would have gotten transplants if the person in need of the livers were kin to elitist Democrats? And what if Pelosi or Weinstein had to pick up the costs?

Thus the controversies:
Should illegal immigrants receive liver transplants in the U.S.?
Should taxpayers pick up the cost?

Allow me to answer on behalf of Americans. No and no!

The article elucidates both issues:

The average cost of a liver transplant and first-year follow-up is nearly $490,000, and anti-rejection medications can run more than $30,000 annually, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, which oversees transplantation nationwide.

Donor livers are also in scarce supply. In California, nearly 3,700 people are on a waiting list for livers, according to the network. Last year, 767 liver transplants were performed in the state. More than 90% of the organs were given to U.S. citizens.

Donor livers are generally allocated through a geographically based distribution system on the basis of how sick the patients are and how long they have been on the transplant waiting list.

Immigration status does not play a role in allocating organs.

So, if an illegal can get to America, they can jump over citizens in the list for organs, AND get the American taxpayers to fund their transplants.

Do you know any other country where this is possible?

This is incredible, and certainly something Americans need to know when deciding on whom to support. Clearly the Democrats put the lives of illegals over those of citizens.

There is a saying, "It’s all fun and games until somebody loses an eye.". That’s a cautionary tale usually told to children who rough house too much. But that saying certainly applies to organs. Because when you or your loved one needs an organ, you may resent that somebody not only jumped ahead of you, but they will get the organ promised to you, for free.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 01/31/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A blessing for those who love LIVER:
It's not always missed by the giver,
And if not to your taste,
It won't all go to waste
If the butcher just chopped off a sliver.

But yeah, the cost. Oof.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 01/31/2018 1:44 Comments || Top||

#2  So now Puente has the potential to kill four Americans, all because she made it to America. Who knows who waited anxiously for the livers that Puente received. Moreso, who know what the cost was to save her life three and soon to be four times.

But that is the plan! How else can these aging fly-over conservatives be exterminated and replaced with compliant Democratic voters ?

Behold the entitlement classes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/31/2018 6:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Donor livers are also in scarce supply.

Gene Editing Spurs Hope for Transplanting Pig Organs Into Humans
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/31/2018 7:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Did we pay for the operations or the family? Hospitals love being able to charge full rates as opposed to insurance rates.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/31/2018 18:14 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
36[untagged]
7Govt of Iran
4Sublime Porte
4Govt of Pakistan
3Commies
2Govt of Pakistain Proxies
2Palestinian Authority
2al-Shabaab (AQ)
2PLO
1Taliban
1Fulani Herdsmen (Boko Haram)
1Govt of Qatar (MB)
1Govt of Saudi Arabia
1Govt of Syria
1Houthis
1Islamic State
1Moslem Colonists
1Muslim Brotherhood

Bookmark
E-Mail Me

The Classics
The O Club
Rantburg Store
The Bloids
The Never-ending Story
Thugburg
Gulf War I
The Way We Were
Bio

Merry-Go-Blog











On Sale now!


A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
Click here for more information

Meet the Mods
In no particular order...
Steve White
Seafarious
tu3031
badanov
sherry
ryuge
GolfBravoUSMC
Bright Pebbles
trailing wife
Gloria
Fred
Besoeker
Glenmore
Frank G
3dc
Skidmark

Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2018-01-31
  Southwest State Confirms The Death Of Burhakabo Military Commander
Tue 2018-01-30
  Iraqi court sentences Al-Qaeda member to death over executing eight civilians in 2007
Mon 2018-01-29
  McCabe Resigns
Sun 2018-01-28
  Top Houthi leader killed in Sanaa by unknown individuals
Sat 2018-01-27
  Taliban kill 40 63 90 95 with ambulance bomb in Afghan capital Kabul
Fri 2018-01-26
  Mosul clean up continues: 21 turbans permanently unwound, 9 more jugged
Thu 2018-01-25
  Double car bombing kills 33 in Benghazi
Wed 2018-01-24
  Two suicide attackers, Islamic State member killed as troops repel attack in Baghdad
Tue 2018-01-23
  1.5K al-Nusra troops surrounded in Idlib
Mon 2018-01-22
  Tunisian forces kill top aide of Al Qaeda leader in Maghreb
Sun 2018-01-21
  Seven Niger troops killed in Boko Haram attack
Sun 2018-01-21
  Seven Niger troops killed in Boko Haram attack
Sat 2018-01-20
  Lebanon foils ISIS plans to attack places of worship, government buildings
Fri 2018-01-19
  Deso Dogg -- Dead Again
Thu 2018-01-18
  US drone strike leaves 6 militants dead, wounded in East of Afghanistan
Wed 2018-01-17
  Wanted terrorist Abdullah Al-Qalaf killed in eastern Saudi Arabia

Better than the average link...



Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
3.235.76.155
Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:
WoT Operations (15)    WoT Background (21)    Non-WoT (15)    (0)    Politix (7)