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72 convicted of terrorism from 'Trump 7' mostly Muslim countries
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Planned Parenthood Supporter Who Allegedly Shoved Wet Maxi Pad into Pro-Life Activist’s Mouth Arrested
[BREITBART] A woman in Ashland, Oregon, who allegedly assaulted a pro-life activist by shoving a wet sanitary napkin into his mouth has been incarcerated
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!

Good. That is unacceptably rude, in addition to being assault and battery.
Valerie Starushok, 21, approached the pro-life activist on January 27, the day of the March for Life, in front of a Planned Parenthood
...has received federal funding since 1970, when President Richard Nixon signed into law the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act. It is sometimes described as the gynecololgical wing of the Democratic party.
facility and "struck him in the face with a wet sanitary napkin," says an Ashland police report. Starushok also allegedly yelled profanities at the activist as the video shows:

"Eat this [expletive] pad, you c**k face!" Starushok allegedly shouted at the activist.

The pro-life activist is heard in the video saying he would have to call police. The activist said the woman caught him off-guard and "shoved her bloody maxi pad into [his] mouth."
Hold hard there -- wet sanitary napkin is not at all the same as bloody maxi pad. The latter is not merely disgusting but, depending on the woman in question, may be a serious health hazard.
NBC affiliate KOBi5 reports Starushok turned herself in to police and was lodged in the Jackson County jail on one count of harassment.
Posted by: Fred || 02/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of all of di tings dem wi champ on
Or spread peanut butta an jam pon,
Or deep-fry wid bacon,
Nuh serve wi Jamaican
Nuh pvssyclaat napkin or tampon!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 02/12/2017 1:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Somebody did that to me, they'd be spitting their teeth out like chiclets
Posted by: Frank G || 02/12/2017 9:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Complete agreement. In the end either the perp or I would be on the pavement.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/12/2017 10:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Sounds like assault with a deadly weapon.

All she faces is 'harassment'? Must be Oregon.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/12/2017 11:00 Comments || Top||


Panic setting in among Hispanics over deportations
[The Hill] Hispanic organizers are struggling to tamp down panic in their communities as federal authorities begin to implement President Trump's executive orders on immigration.

One of the first cases to receive national attention, the deportation of Arizona resident Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos, has put undocumented and mixed status communities on edge.

"It's fair to say we’re all extremely troubled by the deportation action we saw take place yesterday in Arizona," said Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza.
Your organization doesn't even believe in the validity of the United States as a nation. Who cares what you think?
"The first deportation [after] his executive order is of a working mom with two U.S. kids," she added.

On the campaign trail, Trump initially promised to enact a deportation force to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants, starting with dangerous criminals.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the deportation of Arizona resident Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos

they keep downplaying (or omitting entirely) that this illegal alien stole an American citizen's SSN, thereby committing another crime and creating a hardship for, yes, A REAL AMERICAN CITIZEN
Posted by: Frank G || 02/12/2017 7:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Your organization doesn't even believe in the validity of the United States as a nation. Who cares what you think?

ABCCBSNBCCNN and the jackass party all care greatly. Me? Not so much. In fact, I'm getting damn sick and tired of hearing them spout their racist nonsense.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/12/2017 15:19 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Gen. Hal Moore dies; depicted in film 'We Were Soldiers' about LZ X-Ray
[Stars & Stripes] Retired Lt. Gen. Harold G. "Hal" Moore, the American hero known for saving most of his men in the first major battle between the U.S. and North Vietnamese armies, has died. He was 94.

Joseph Galloway, who with Moore co-authored the book "We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young," confirmed Saturday to The Associated Press that Moore died late Friday in his sleep at his home in Auburn, Alabama.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2017 07:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Watched the DVD again last night in his honor
Posted by: Frank G || 02/12/2017 7:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Spent an afternoon on a staff ride with him discussing terrain and it's influence on maneuver as a young company commander. Brilliant tactician, grounded in common sense and plain language, easy manner and charismatic command presence. I was honored!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/12/2017 12:15 Comments || Top||

#3  "That whup-whup-whup is burned in our brains." Gen. Hal Moore, in first 16 seconds of the documentary trailer on this site:
http://intheshadowoftheblade.com/
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/12/2017 14:37 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
United Flight 455 pilot goes crackers with political rant at gate
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5/AP) -- A United Airlines pilot was removed from a plane bound for San Francisco International Airport after a bizarre rant about politics and her divorce.

It happened Saturday before United Flight 455 left from Austin, Texas.

The pilot got passengers’ attention when she boarded the plane in her street clothes.

"She shows up dressed like a civilian and asks to us to take a vote to see whether she should change into her uniform or fly as is," said Pam O’Neal, who was aboard the flight.

Passenger Randy Reiss tweeted, she "asked if we were ok with her flying like that... then says "sorry I’m going through s(sic) divorce.""

She then used the plane’s overhead PA system to rant about President Trump and Hillary Clinton -- calling them both "a‐holes" and then ranting about her divorce. That’s when passengers began tweeting to United to get a new pilot.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2017 08:11 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wonder why she's getting a divorce?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/12/2017 8:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Husband to judge: I TOLD you she was nuts !
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2017 8:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Now your divorced and unemployed. Good job!

Any bets on her going for three and becoming homeless?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/12/2017 8:42 Comments || Top||

#4  PSM?

The fact that she ranted about HRC as well as DJT is interesting in that it points to general loony tunes rather than the Feminist variant.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/12/2017 9:19 Comments || Top||

#5  something is missing here: aircrew have to present id to the gate agent, who confirms that not only they are who they say they are but also working that flight. so how did Madame Fruitcake get past that checkpoint?
Casual Flightcrew Day?
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 02/12/2017 9:41 Comments || Top||

#6  I also wonder if alcohol might have been involved.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/12/2017 9:59 Comments || Top||

#7  Casual Flightcrew Day?

May she was deadheading.
(to the outer planets)
Posted by: SteveS || 02/12/2017 10:35 Comments || Top||

#8  #3 Now your divorced and unemployed. Good job!

Any bets on her going for three and becoming homeless?
Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-02-12 08:42


CF,

This may have been someone being crazy like a fox - if she was being tagged to provide support for the Soon To Be Ex, that's a quick way out of it without a court sanction afterwards.

Or she's crazier than a shiathouse rat. Either one.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 02/12/2017 10:44 Comments || Top||

#9  Now she doesn't have to fly anymore but they can't terminate her, will get sympathy of the court, will receive LTD paid counseling through her employer's healthcare program AND will get awarded a job stress related disability claim.

If her bag is short of some rocks, I'm sorry. If not, her few minutes of fame were brilliantly played.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/12/2017 11:12 Comments || Top||

#10  It happened in Austin so I guess it was liberal contamination by contact.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 02/12/2017 11:47 Comments || Top||

#11  Now she doesn't have to fly anymore but they can't terminate her, will get sympathy of the court, will receive LTD paid counseling through her employer's healthcare program AND will get awarded a job stress related disability claim.

If her bag is short of some rocks, I'm sorry. If not, her few minutes of fame were brilliantly played.
Posted by Skidmark


I'll go with "brilliantly played" for $600. Alex.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2017 12:58 Comments || Top||

#12  TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome). On a range of I to V, a TDS Level IV. Level V is when the patient is babbling incoherently, frothing at the mouth and a danger to themselves and others around them.

Elizabeth Warren hit Level V in Congress last week until Mitch McConnell made her STFU.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 02/12/2017 13:09 Comments || Top||

#13  Mickey mouse went before the judge and asked for a divorce from Minne. The Judge said, "Sir, you can't get a divorce on the grounds that your spouse is mentally ill. " ,"Your honor I didn't say she was mentally ill, I said she was fucking Goofy."
Posted by: Jeasing Creque5352 || 02/12/2017 21:48 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
UNSC welcomes election of a new Somali president
The UN Security Council on Friday welcomed the conclusion of the electoral process in Somalia and the election of a new president in the country.

On Wednesday, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, former prime minister in Somalia’s transitional federal government between 2009 and 2010, was elected the new president of Somalia.
Welcome to your job, sir. Here is your oath of office, a listing of your numbered accounts, and the code phrase for your international force personal protection package...
In a presidential statement adopted here, the 15-nation Security Council welcomed the political and security progress in Somalia since 2012 and underscored the need to maintain the momentum towards democratic governance in Somalia.
Because boy howdy we've had some impressive momentum towards democracy in Somalia, yessiree Bob, impressive...
It underlined the importance of the timely and transparent appointment of ministers and cabinet positions in consultation with the Somali parliament, according to the statement.

The council members also called on President Farmajo and his government to give urgent attention to the immediate risk of famine, to take active steps to prevent it, and to address the consequences of the severe drought in Somalia.
Because the whole problem with famine in Somalia is that no one has been paying attention to it...
The country’s new president will have to deal with multiple challenges facing the country including security threat from extremist group Al-Shabab and the severe humanitarian situation.

UN statistics show that five million Somalis — more than 40 percent of the country’s population — do not have sufficient food.

Besides, Somalia was one of seven Muslim-majority countries whose citizens were banned from entering the United States for 90 days by a now-suspended Trump administration executive order.
Wait...
Posted by: Steve White || 02/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  UN statistics show that five million Somalis — more than 40 percent of the country’s population — do not have sufficient food.

Perhaps the issue is too many Somalis rather than not enough food?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/12/2017 9:23 Comments || Top||


Europe
Cars set alight in Paris suburb during anti-police protest
Protesters against police violence have set a cars on fire during a rally in the Paris suburb of Bobigny, which followed a police officer’s assault on a 22-year-old man. An RTL van set on fire by the protesters could be seen burning in the live footage.

Dozens of young people have occupied an empty lot in Bobigny in the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis department. Some of the protesters have been carrying banners saying “Justice for Theo,” the name of the young man who was sexually assaulted by a police officer with a truncheon.

Hundreds of people gathered in Bobigny not far from the courthouse earlier today to protest police violence, Le Parisien reported. The demonstration began peacefully, but turned violent at around 3pm local time.

“We decided to organize this gathering. The announcement has been running on Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat… it made some noise, it shows how much people can’t stand this situation anymore,” one of the organizers said, according to France Bleu Paris.

During the protest, demonstrators threw projectiles at police officers and set fire to cars and trash cans.

“Several vehicles, including a media truck, were set on fire and police officers had to intervene to rescue a young child trapped in a burning vehicle,” a prefecture statement said, according to Reuters.

A video submitted by an RT France’s reporter shows brutally smashed store windows and groceries thrown out of counters and fridges lying all over the store floor. Le Monde also reported of other cases of vandalism on the streets of the suburban town.

The 22 year-old man, identified only as Theo, was attacked with a baton during what police later said was an ID check in Aulnay-sous-Bois (another Paris suburb), on February 2. A CCTV camera footage shows a police officer “applying a truncheon blow horizontally across the buttocks with a truncheon” and after that Theo’s pants “slipped down on their own," a police source cited by AFP said.

Judging by eyewitness accounts and the video, “there are insufficient elements to show that this was a rape,” the source added.

One of the police officers was charged with rape and three others with aggravated assault. The case is currently under investigation.

Theo believes that the police officer used the baton “on purpose,” television station BFM quoted him as saying.

After a search, Theo was handcuffed and taken to a police car, where officers again insulted him, spat at him and gave him beatings. At the police station, another officer saw his injuries and he was sent to the hospital where he was treated for an anal tear.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is it Car-B-Que season already?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/12/2017 11:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Is it Car-B-Que season already?

Well, it's rather cold in Europe (because of the AGW) right now.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/12/2017 11:23 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Blacklisting accelerates in Erdogan's Turkey
As the Instapundit says, it wasn't a failed coup, it was a successful purge. A purge has consequences, just as an omelette has broken eggs.
On 1 September, the life of Ahmet and Fatma Özer*, married teachers from Istanbul, changed dramatically. Accused of being sympathisers of Fethullah Gülen, both were fired. On the same day Ayse Yilmaz*, a law student, received a text informing her that her father, a civil servant, had been detained for alleged involvement in terrorism and coup plotting. “It was the day we were blacklisted,” Fatma recalls. “The day we were erased as citizens.”

The Justice and Development party (AKP) government accuses Gülen, an Islamic cleric who lives in the US, of organising the bloody coup attempt on 15 July. However, the extent of Gülen’s involvement remains unclear. Nevertheless, those who have expressed even the slightest sympathy with the cleric’s views, or who have made use of his businesses – which include a bank, schools and media organisations – have found themselves accused of coup plotting, like the Özer and Yilmaz families.

On 20 July last year the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, declared a state of emergency, enabling him and the AKP cabinet to bypass parliament and rule by decree. The crackdown on possible coup plotters has since been turned into an all-out witch-hunt not only against alleged Gülen sympathisers but also leftists, Kurds and anyone critical of the government.
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Posted by: Steve White || 02/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  I feel about Turkey the way I feel about California:

The geography is valuable; too bad that the majority of people occupying it suck.
Posted by: charger || 02/12/2017 13:56 Comments || Top||

#2  DITTO #1!!!!!
Posted by: AlanC || 02/12/2017 17:14 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
White House Has Interviewed Carl Higbie for Press Secretary
[Washingtonian] Carl Higbie has interviewed for the position of White House press secretary, according to two senior administration officials familiar with the matter.

"Well, I can say that I’ve offered my services," Higbie confirms for Washingtonian when reached by phone. "I haven’t heard back from the administration yet. I’m honored to be even considered for this." Higbie says he has spoken with "a number of people" in interview rounds for the post.

Higbie interviewed for the position on Thursday, according to the sources. Higbie declined to confirm this. On Twitter Friday night after this story was originally published, Higbie said he has had no formal interviews.

Higbie, a former Navy SEAL, is close with the Trump family, particularly Eric Trump, whom he met in the green room after appearing on the Kelly File last year. He was one of the first official surrogates for the president on the campaign trail. He was also spokesman for the Great America PAC, which purported to earmark donations "from the grassroots" for the Trump campaign.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2017 08:03 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Higbie was on FOX this morning and denied being interview for, or offered the job.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2017 8:09 Comments || Top||

#2  I checked out the Washingtonian main web site, it's very much a far left organization. Which lead me to believe that this is fake news designed to disrupt DJT.

I have not been able to find any corroborating news or article to support the Washingtonian article that does not refer back to the Washingtonian as a source.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 02/12/2017 12:45 Comments || Top||


Government
Killer Turkey Assessment - Let's Talk About Those F-35 Kill Ratio Reports From Red Flag
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/12/2017 01:04 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Long article on how the modern Red Flag works and how the numbers may or may not be as teh awesome as the original article implied.

Still doesn't seem like a bad showing for the F-35 so... yay?
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/12/2017 1:06 Comments || Top||

#2  30 years ago I would not have been nearly as skeptical of this kind of story. However, in the course of the last decade or so I've shot right past skeptical into deeply cynical territory.

Lies, damn lies and statistics, or something like that.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/12/2017 9:24 Comments || Top||

#3  OK, do we accept the notion that the Air Force is willing to lie about this in order to get their way? (Kind of like the Navy and LCS?)
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/12/2017 9:54 Comments || Top||

#4  I don't think the military would lie. I do think they're as susceptible to "group think" as any other organization.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/12/2017 10:51 Comments || Top||

#5  When you have the Air Force general in charge of F35 project coordination recorded saying that 'any officer who is not willing to do anything necessary to secure funding is a traitor and should resign' (and he used those words), I don't think lie is too strong a word.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/12/2017 11:13 Comments || Top||

#6  After one stint consulting at Naval Air about their new logistics system I feel confident in saying that at the top levels the distinction between political and military gets very very hazy.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/12/2017 11:37 Comments || Top||

#7  If I read the article correctly, Red Flag is mainly set up so the Killer Turkey is shooting fishes in a barrel! The trick here is getting the fishes to stay still long enough to be shot.

So Red Flag is basically meaningless. F-111 anyone?
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 02/12/2017 12:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Given our current SecDef, I wonder how many USAF generals are willing to jeopardize their career by falsifying how well the F-35 did. SecDef Mattis doesn't strike me as someone easily fooled and isn't likely to tolerate generals (of any branch) lying to him or pushing an agenda contrary to the best interests of the US Military.
Posted by: Chantry || 02/12/2017 18:55 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Netflix Announces New Series 'Dear White People'
[TOWNHALL]
Posted by: Fred || 02/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Endearing yourself to your people,
So pallid and fearful and feeble,
You've blocked them in corners
And mocked them as foreigners
And tossed them a hat like a steeple.

Way to go, geniuses.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 02/12/2017 2:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Love my Netflix. Won't watch this POS
Posted by: Frank G || 02/12/2017 7:41 Comments || Top||


Shapiro to pro-transgenderism student: ‘Why aren’t you 60?’
[REDALERTPOLITICS] Transgenderism and pro-abortion advocates at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan were shown a contrarian perspective on Thursday during a Q&A session with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro.

After being challenged by a young woman who told him he is invalidating transgender individuals, Shapiro responded by debunking the popular narrative on transgenderism.

"As far as the actual psychological issues at play, it used to be called gender identity disorder; now they call it gender dysphoria," he said. "The idea that sex or gender is malleable is not true. I’m not denying your humanity if you are a transgender person. I am saying that you are not the sex which you claim to be. You’re still a human being, and you’re a human being with an issue then I wish you Godspeed in dealing with it in any whatever way you see fit. But if you’re going to dictate to me that I’m supposed to pretend, I’m supposed to pretend that men are women and women are men, no. My answer is no. I’m not going to -- I’m not going to modify basic biology because it threatens your subjective sense of what you are."

The young woman attempted to make an argument for objective transgenderism by claiming gender is decided in one’s own mind and thus deserves validation from others. Shapiro debunked that claim as well.

"Let me ask you this. I won’t ask how old -- I will ask how old you are, because you’re young enough that it’s probably not insulting to ask you," he asked the young woman.

"I’m 22, so I’m probably a little bit naïve, right?" she said.

"No. Why aren’t you 60?... Why can’t you identify as 60?" he asked.

"It’s not the same as gender. You can’t just...."

"You’re right," he said. "Age is significantly less important than gender. You can’t magically change your gender. You can’t magically change your sex. You can’t magically change your age."

The young woman tried to argue that legal age can be changed, which isn’t true. Eventually, it was accepted that legally or mentally changing your identity does not make you a physically different person. Age and gender are both qualities that cannot be physically changed by self-identification.
Posted by: Fred || 02/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Either Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro. is a brilliant extemporaneous speaker skilled in debate or he has had some speaking practice on the subject matter, or both. Well done.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/12/2017 8:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Does it have a prostate?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/12/2017 9:39 Comments || Top||

#3  ...or did?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/12/2017 9:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Mr. Shapiro literally wrote the book on debating leftists:

How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

He's been at it for a while.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/12/2017 9:45 Comments || Top||



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Sun 2017-02-12
  72 convicted of terrorism from 'Trump 7' mostly Muslim countries
Sat 2017-02-11
  Queens ISIS wannabe pleads guilty to attacking FBI agent with a knife in the name of the terror group
Fri 2017-02-10
  Members of UK sex grooming gang face deportation to Pakistan
Thu 2017-02-09
  Man sentenced to 30 years for ISIS support in Texas shooting
Wed 2017-02-08
  100 Syrian Refugees Rush into Country After Seattle Judge Halts Trump Executive Order
Tue 2017-02-07
  Firing in Afghan consulate in Karachi leaves diplomat dead
Mon 2017-02-06
  Senior Hamas Commander Dies in ‘Work Accident’
Sun 2017-02-05
  Syrian Democratic Forces launch new anti-ISIS operation in eastern Raqqa
Sat 2017-02-04
  Louvre terror attack: Egyptian man, 'who arrived in France in January' shot five times after attacking soldier with machete
Fri 2017-02-03
  ISIS sets ablaze Syria’s largest source of gas as Syrian Army closes on their positions
Thu 2017-02-02
  German Report: Iran Tested Nuclear-Capable Cruise Missile
Wed 2017-02-01
  US: Female Al-Qaeda combatants killed in Yemen raid
Tue 2017-01-31
  ISIS makes another attempt at seizing east Damascus airbase
Mon 2017-01-30
  5 killed, dozens injured in Canada mosque shooting
Sun 2017-01-29
  10 ISIS and Lashkar-e-Islam militants killed in Nangarhar


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