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-Lurid Crime Tales-
The Mark of Soros: Charlotte, North Carolina
By Clarice Feldman

[AMERICANTHINKER] Tomorrow night we’ll see the much-awaited matchup one-on-one "debate" between Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Walter Q. Gresham ...
and Donald Trump. Her staff is working with the debate commission to erase height and stamina advantages of her opponent. They asked that the debate be by seated opponents which was refused as was their effort to allow her to stand on a hidden stool. Her podium will be lowered though so when the camera sweeps from candidate to candidate viewers might not notice he is considerably taller than she.

Outside of the debate hall in Charlotte, North Carolina, another drama is taking place. Apparently "Black Lives Matters" needs a translation: To most of the rioters it means New Free Nikes Matter. As the first child in the family and the daughter of a small businessman who grew up in a working class community, I’m with John Schindler who tweeted this week, "Like Pier Pasolini, I am always on the side of the police, unless proven otherwise. Class matters. Order matters, Criminal filth does not."

The media airbrush the mayhem, if not actually inciting it by biased coverage. They did it in the Trayvon Martin case as American Thinker’s Jack Cashill detailed this past Friday.

In Charlotte they have regularly referred to the thugs as "protestors" and failed to fully publicize how awful their behavior has been. Here are some examples you won’t see on your news programs: Rioters attacked an elderly homeless man and beat a helpless man in parking garage and pulled off and stole his pants to further humiliate him.

Reports are in of stealing and looting on a significantly large scale, hijacking cars and trucks and terrifying their occupants, blocking streets and threatening to spread the mayhem outside the city limits. BLM would in a lawful society be subject to criminal racketeering and conspiracy charges, Instead, Attorney General Loretta Lynch defended the demonstrators as people exercising their constitutional rights to peaceful protest to create change. "We hear your voices and we feel your pain."

It’s unsurprising that the attorney general is not acting as she should. We just learned this week through late released documents of Hillary Clinton’s emails that the president who had asserted he first learned of her illegal use of a private unsecured email server int he newspapers had himself sent her mail on it using a pseudonym. It shows how unserious they all are about national security and the rule of law. We also learned this week that the FBI had granted immunity to five of Hillary’s closest aides. Or, as the Mark Twain of Twitter, Iowahawk, David Burge, said: "Breaking: FBI gives Clinton immunity in Clinton investigation". Add this to the unprecedented and grossly improper meeting between Lynch and Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is...
before FBI head Comey announced his decision, we know the fix was in from the outset.

You have no Department of Justice. You have no FBI.

What of the local police? In Los Angeles cops have been told to run away from armed suspects. In Charlotte, as in the prior cases of race riots in recent years, the DOJ has sent in troops which in the past stirred up the crowds, interfered with standard police operations and did what they could to keep the embers lit, innocent men prosecuted on no basis and moving us closer and closer to federal control of local policing -- by the most lawless of lawmen,
Posted by: Fred || 09/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The mark of Soros? Is it the mark of the Beest such "666" or some such thing?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/26/2016 8:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Arnie Palmer is taken from us and Soros stays on. There really is no justice on this side.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/26/2016 8:22 Comments || Top||

#3  One thing I don't understand about Soros. He's messed with USA and EU --- but the ruling classes there are fellow travelers. He messed with Israel, but Israel doesn't like to annoy USA ruling class - they're annoyed enough because we refuse to commit national suicide. But Soros also messed with Russia - how come he's still alive?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/26/2016 12:15 Comments || Top||

#4  how come he's still alive?

Food tasters?

Geiger Counters at the dinner table?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/26/2016 12:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Did I read that most of the arrested thugs in Charlotte are from out of state?

So does this mean Soros DOES have a brown shirt legion to do his bidding in the US.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 09/26/2016 15:05 Comments || Top||

#6  What would be the constitutionality of a law that said rioting and looting in a state other than your residency gets an extra couple of years in jail.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/26/2016 16:06 Comments || Top||

#7  Interstate criminality, rjschwarz? And if they got paid for it, it would constitue interstate commerce as well, right? Someone could have a lot of fun with that.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/26/2016 17:46 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
The Russian jihad cometh: Part I
By Leon Aron

In June, three suicide bombers entered Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, where they killed 45 people and wounded 229. Although only one of the terrorist was from Russia (the other two were Uzbek and Kyrgyz), it is almost certain that that their last words to one another were in Russian. It is estimated that between 5,000 to 7,000 Russian-speaking jihadists have made Russian the second most popular language of Daesh, after Arabic.

That Russia is becoming widely-spoken is indicative of the explosive internationalization and the vastly expanded recruitment patterns of jihad based in Russia and former Soviet Central Asia. Behind this development is a confluence of broad demographic, religious, and political trends that have swept across Russia and post-Soviet space in the past two and a half decades — and that continue to be present today.
Posted by: ryuge || 09/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So now it's Russia's fault that former Soviet Republics produce Jihadis? Well, I guess, if you can believe that Israel's defending its citizens from Korananimals mistreatment of Palestinians harmed US efforts in Iraq...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/26/2016 1:52 Comments || Top||


Europe
It's Time, Mr. Trump: NATO Should Expel Islamist Turkey
[PJ] On September 11, Turkeyish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used a less than two week-old government decree to sack 28 elected mayors, of whom a dozen were arrested for "actively engaging in acts of terrorism."

These firings represents a miniscule fraction of the government officials, including the military, who have been accused of conspiring to remove Erdogan from office in July.

In mid-July, Turkey’s major cities experienced a brief period of violence as members of the Turkish military tried to depose Erdogan’s government. Erdogan regained control of the country the next morning. He delivered a televised speech before civilian crowds at Istanbul's airport, and pro-coup soldiers surrendered to government forces.

President Erdogan has attempted, with less than a wisp of evidence, to pin blame for the coup on the Gulen movement. Run by U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, the movement has a favorable attitude towards secularism. It promotes interfaith dialog between Muslims, Christians, and Jews, and stands against racism and anti-Semitism. The recently sacked Turkish mayors were also accused of ties to Fethullah Gulen.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/26/2016 07:57 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Should have dissolved NATO when Turkey refused to provide air bases and a launching point for drives into Northern Iraq.

Should disolve it now and form something more along the lines required to stop the new threats in the world and not specifically stoke the Russian paranoia.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/26/2016 12:13 Comments || Top||

#2  It's time, Mr. Trump, to withdraw from NATO and the UN and begin addressing problems within our own borders.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/26/2016 16:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, we could always send them guns and ammunition. We're very good at guns and ammunition.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/26/2016 16:55 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
New Black Panther Chairman: Hillary ‘Not The Great Champion Of African-Americans'
[Breitbart] NEW YORK - Babu Omowale, the national chairman for the People's New Black Panther Party, is not excited about the candidates in this year's presidential election, stating that neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump represent the interests of African-Americans.

Omowale reserved most of his invective for Hillary Clinton, declaring she is "not the great champion of African-Americans" before criticizing Bill Clinton's criminal justice policies.

The New Black Panther Party leader also slammed President Obama on race relations, stating America's first black president "has not done anything for the black community."

Omowale was speaking on "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio," this reporter's Sunday talk radio program broadcast on New York's AM 970 The Answer and NewsTalk 990 AM in Philadelphia.

Asked about his attitude toward Hillary Clinton, Omowale said:

"Hillary Clinton is not the great champion of African Americans. If you look at your history when her husband was president in the '90s, there were more African Americans to be locked up in this country than any other time because of some of the laws that he signed into law. Specifically, the drug laws of cocaine.

"So if a black man has a couple grams of crack versus a white man having a couple of grams of powder cocaine, black men where receiving sentences three and four times longer than that of his white counterparts. So we look at these as unjustifiable laws that were implemented up under the Clinton regime.

"So no. Hillary Clinton would not be a representative of the black community. Nor would Donald Trump be a representative of the black community. As far as black people are concerned, we really do not have a representative in this 2016 election year."
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/26/2016 05:01 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The American people anxiously await your write-in candidate.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/26/2016 5:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Just needing more of those SorosBucks...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/26/2016 8:46 Comments || Top||

#3  ...stating that neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump represent the interests of African-Americans.

Methinks Babu Omowale (that can't be his real name) hasn't figured out that, in an ideal world, you don't want the government or politicians 'representing your interests'.
Posted by: Raj || 09/26/2016 11:04 Comments || Top||

#4  America's first black president "has not done anything for the black community."

How can you say this Babu! IMO, Baraq did almost as much for 'black community' as Ulysses S. Grant
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/26/2016 11:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Why link to Grant? Grant was good for African Americans while they have declined in every measurable category under Obama.

"President Ulysses S. Grant supported Radical Reconstruction and enforced the protection of African Americans in the South through the use of the Enforcement Acts passed by Congress. Grant suppressed the Ku Klux Klan, but was unable to resolve the escalating tensions inside the Republican party between the Carpetbaggers and the Scalawags (native whites in the South)."
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/26/2016 12:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Because Jim Crow was a response to what's been going under the reconstruction, read your history - focus on "oath of allegiance". Just as what's coming is a response to what's been going under Obama.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/26/2016 12:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Weren't blacks originally given the right to vote (under Grant??) but the Democrats removed that right when they later had control of congress?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/26/2016 12:21 Comments || Top||

#8  They were the only ones voting because voting required oath of allegiance to the Union. So, for a few years, former slaves ruled the South. Then, what Grant expected happened and whites started swearing. And once they had the power back, 100 years of Jim Crow.

p.s. You might look up "The original KKK"

pp.s. Why the f*ck an Israeli born in SovU have to lecture you Americans on your own history?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/26/2016 12:30 Comments || Top||

#9  Can't we all just get along?
Posted by: Raj || 09/26/2016 12:39 Comments || Top||

#10  Why the f*ck an Israeli born in SovU have to lecture you Americans on your own history?

Because the U.S. public school system hasn't taught history - actual history and not the fairy tales they have today - for a very, very, long time. To my school post-civil war history was all about the carpetbaggers.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/26/2016 13:00 Comments || Top||

#11  It's the Zero year concept of socialism. Destroy the past, fabricate a future. See - Venezuela
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/26/2016 13:50 Comments || Top||

#12  So the White Democrats figured out things while Grant was president and Grant in a democracy was unable to prevent Them. I don't see how that is Grant's fault. The situation of African Americans has gotten worse under Obama and it actually is his policies at fault. I don't see the connection and I think it's rather rude to go on the way you did over an honest question.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/26/2016 15:17 Comments || Top||

#13  You miss the point completely.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/26/2016 15:21 Comments || Top||

#14  That's because you never made it clear what your point was.



Posted by: JHH || 09/26/2016 15:58 Comments || Top||

#15  "Everyone understands in his own way" - Vladimir Vysotsky.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/26/2016 16:12 Comments || Top||

#16  if a black man has a couple grams of crack versus a white man having a couple of grams of powder cocaine
popularist background on the drug preference

Noteworthy origins Grom.
I enjoy the deflections.

Posted by: Skidmark || 09/26/2016 17:06 Comments || Top||

#17  g(r)omgoru "You miss the point completely."

Clearly, Which is why I asked, hoping for clarification, not pontification.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/26/2016 17:29 Comments || Top||

#18  Backlash: then & now.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/26/2016 17:38 Comments || Top||


Alan Dershowitz: I Warned Hillary About ‘Bigoted' Sid Blumenthal
[Daily Caller] Retired Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz says he has personally warned the Clintons about the toxic influence of adviser Sidney Blumenthal.

Dershowitz revealed his warning about Blumenthal during the first episode of "The Jamie Weinstein Show" podcast, where he also opened up about his relationship with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the state of American politics and the lessons he learned over his successful career.

Though he has endorsed Clinton for president, Dershowitz spoke about the threat he believes the "repressive" left poses to the Democratic Party.

"You call them progressive, I call them repressive," Dershowitz said. "There’s nothing progressive about that fringe. They want to stop free speech on campus, they don’t want to hear opposing ideas that are different from theirs, they create this concept of intersectionality, which is a code word for anti-Semitism."

Asked whether he worries that one the the leaders of the "repressive" left, anti-Israel author Max Blumenthal, is the son of top Hillary Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal, Dershowitz said he was deeply concerned about it.

"It is worrisome to me," he said. "What’s worrisome to me is that Sidney Blumenthal circulated his son’s [Max’s] writings, despicable writings. You know, they [the Trump campaign] wouldn’t use the words to attack David Duke. I will use those words to attack [Max] Blumenthal. He is a despicable anti-Semite and a horrible person and he should be marginalized completely. "
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/26/2016 04:19 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is this the same guy who represented celebrity Claus von Bülow (murder trial of his wife), O.J. Simpson (murder trial of his wife, Nicole and her friend), and WJC's buddy, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein (sex with minors (a.k.a. pedophilia) at his Caribbean island hide-away)? In it for the money?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/26/2016 9:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Got to agree with him on some of the things he says. If I were a murderer I wouldn't hire him because he endorsed Hillary. I would assume he suffers from bad judgement.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/26/2016 9:13 Comments || Top||

#3  None so blind... And who, Professor, will protect us from the bigotries of Hillary Clinton, bigotries which led her to find the open prejudices of both Mr. Blumenthals to be perfectly acceptable? If you had yourself on the stand, sirrah, you would tear yourself to pieces. There is no place in Hillary Clinton's party for Zionists anymore, nor individual opinion; but as long as she wins, that thought will not trouble her.

And if she loses, she will blame it on the good professor and his fellows, whether Jewish or otherwise.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/26/2016 20:05 Comments || Top||

#4  ...I'm sure it will be along the lines of 'a second set of keys to the strawberry locker'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/26/2016 22:55 Comments || Top||


The FBI Investigation of EmailGate Was a Sham
[Observer] NSA Analyst: We now have incontrovertible proof the Bureau never had any intention of prosecuting Hillary Clinton.
HT: Weasel Zippers
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 09/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  “It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.”

J. Edgar Hoover
Posted by: Herb Johnson7035 || 09/26/2016 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Was there ever a question?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/26/2016 1:46 Comments || Top||

#3  I suspect there was an admonishment from Bill Clinton to Loretta Lynch at Sky Harbor airport to 'save the president.' But only a guess.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/26/2016 5:40 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 Was there ever a question? Alas grom, I've got to admit I was suckered in--my naivete got the best of me. I started to get suspicious when Obama said there was not a scintilla of evidence prior to any investigation. Later, we found that he too lied because a POTUS pseudonym showed up in Hillary's garden patch server emails according to her body-woman Huma. Hillary then said with great certainty that there was nothing to see and that she would not be indicted. That is probably the only thing in her life she has not lied about. (After all, I should have known better--she lies about everything, the time of day, the day of the week, her severe illness, video tapes, Benghazi, Bosnia, her husband getting BJs in the WH, and on an on. She lied about the emails and during the cover-up.) She then sent hubby Slick to Phoenix to meet with remind Loretta of those things which are important to her. It was confirmed when , shortly after, Comey all-but-indicted her and then said it couldn't be done. This came right out of left field. So yeah, I guess I was naïve and suckered. Wasn't everyone?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/26/2016 8:48 Comments || Top||

#5  I guess I was naïve and suckered. Wasn't everyone?

Simply because none of us wished to believe it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/26/2016 8:50 Comments || Top||

#6 
Obama’s Conflict Tanked the Clinton E-mail Investigation — As Predicted

Stasi-like, no?

Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 09/26/2016 9:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Hillary couldn't be proven without the president being proven guilty as well and that would mean impeachment was called for and that was not going to happen as well.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/26/2016 10:08 Comments || Top||

#8  What little regard I had remaining for the FBI... and it was minuscule, is totally gone.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/26/2016 16:22 Comments || Top||

#9  I never say I told you so, and I don't like people who do. But, I TOLD YOU SO.
Posted by: regular joe || 09/26/2016 16:37 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Giuliani: U.S. Should Reject Two-State Solution Until Palestinians Give Up Terror
[Breitbart IS] TEL AVIV - Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, an adviser to Donald Trump, said on Saturday night that the U.S. should oppose a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict until the Palestinians can prove they are capable of renouncing terror, and also expressed his hope that the next president will nullify the Iran deal.

Giuliani was addressing the Israeli American Council (IAC) following four intense days of debate prep with Trump ahead of the Republican presidential nominee's face-off with Democratic contender Hillary Clinton Monday night.

"You can make peace between the two of them, but you can’t treat them the same," said Giuliani, slamming attempts at moral equivalence between the two sides.

"The United States should reject the whole notion of a two-state solution in Israel, or maybe it should restate it: It should be a two-state solution when the Palestinian Authority demonstrates that it can be a state, and not a homeland for terrorism," he added.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Silk purse from sow's ear? Most unlikely.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/26/2016 4:57 Comments || Top||

#2  That would also mean shutting off the money from Iran to Palestine.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/26/2016 8:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Lots of neighboring countries are unfriendly without requiring one to care for the other. Israel should build walls and force Jordan and Egypt to take care of the Palestinian Arabs.

The rest of the world should be asking why Arab nations are unwilling to help their own. Refugees from Syria, Palestinians. They have room and wealth and yet expect the West to care for their own.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/26/2016 15:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Is there a neighboring country the Paleos haven't been kicked out of?
The only reason anyone gives a rat's patoot about them is as a way to annoy the Israelis.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/26/2016 17:02 Comments || Top||

#5  As far as I know they've been booted out of all direct neighbors and a few like Libya and Tunisia that are a bit further afield. The rest got the point and didn't let them in.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/26/2016 17:32 Comments || Top||

#6  The PLO has been driven out of Jordan and Lebanon. The Palestinians are still there, and as lawless in their enclaves as ever. They have been driven out of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait though, I think.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/26/2016 20:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Paleos wore out their welcome in Kuwait.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/26/2016 23:31 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
conferences - Weighing Terror Threats against Global Mandates.
PARIS -- The decision by the international Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) to cancel its biennial Scientific Assembly in July -- just 12 days before it was to start in Istanbul -- is a cautionary tale for any conference organizer with a strong international mandate.

Founded in 1958, COSPAR’s principal mission is to promote global cooperation in space. Its Assemblies typically attract more than 2,000 participants, forcing the organization to select venues four years in advance to secure conference centers.

But while the choice of Turkey -- a rising space power at the crossroads of Europe and Asia -- might have seemed merely adventurous when the decision was made in 2012, by 2016 it had begun to appear risky.

The Assembly was scheduled for July 30-August 7.

On June 21, reflecting the abundance of caution to which any American receiving U.S. State Department travel advisories becomes accustomed, NASA advised its employees and contractors -- including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory -- that it would not sponsor travel to Istanbul for COSPAR.

COSPAR President Lennard A. Fisk, a former NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications, did not accept NASA’s rationale and, with the COSPAR board, decided to push forward with Assembly preparations.

On June 29, a terrorist attack at the Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport left 45 people dead and more than 230 injured. Still, Fisk reasoned, the airport’s security apparatus had succeeded in keeping the terrorists from the airport’s terminal. The meeting was maintained.

On July 14, a terrorist attack in Nice, France, during a a Bastille Day celebration killed 86 people and left 434 injured. Fisk and COSPAR persisted. "We cannot let terrorists dissuade us," he would say later.

The July 15 attempted military coup in Turkey was the last straw. Fisk wrote COSPAR members on July 18 saying the Assembly had been cancelled.

COSPAR’s experience is an extreme example of issues that confront organizations such as the International Astronautical Congress, whose 67th annual meeting starts this week in Guadalajara, Mexico, and whose 66th meeting last year in Jerusalem was a subject of a safety-related debate.

How should organizations whose reputations are built on their global reach respond to the terrorism issue? Two months after his decision, Fisk concedes there are no easy answers.

Posted by: 3dc || 09/26/2016 11:15 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "How many will we lose vs. the cost of stopping it?"
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/26/2016 16:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Just as well -- it's not like Turkey can afford it just now, with so many detainees to house and arrestees ro find guilty.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/26/2016 20:29 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
How Indonesia put down terrorism - for now
[The Atlantic] Jonathan Tepperman, the managing editor of Foreign Affairs, makes a striking claim at a time when terrorism seems to be spreading: While small-scale attacks occasionally occur in the country, “The big truth is that Indonesia has come close to effectively eliminating the threat of extremist violence” from Islamic terrorist groups.

Tepperman lists five factors behind Indonesia's success. The five factors offer insight into some of the root causes of terrorism and Islamic extremism, but they also reveal the limits of Indonesia as a model — both on its own merits and for other countries.
Posted by: ryuge || 09/26/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Violence erupted between Christians and Muslims,

The whole analysis is suspect. Muslims attacked mainly christian Chinese.
Posted by: phil_b || 09/26/2016 10:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Indonesian's jihadi probably went to fight for ISIS, thus giving Indonesia a temporary break that has little to do with them and their policies.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/26/2016 16:10 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Tomi Lahren's righteous smack-down of Kaepernick (video)
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/26/2016 14:04 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ouch. That's gonna leave a mark.

Oh that's right he'd never listen to criticism of himself.
Posted by: AlanC || 09/26/2016 15:34 Comments || Top||

#2  The very same flag under which so many White Americans gave up their lives during the civil war to free slaves of the south.

That flag?

Seems to me Kaepernick is basically saying that whole civil war / free the slaves concept wasn't such a good idea. I disagree with that.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/26/2016 15:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Actually he should be told his kneeling is perfectly correct. As a slave to his Democrat masters, he is right to show he is unworthy to stand with men during the national anthem. He is simply proving that the invisible slave collar to the Democrats is not only good and tight, but firmly implanted in his thoughts.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 09/26/2016 16:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Prediction: Islamic name change coming very soon.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/26/2016 16:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Prediction: Islamic name change coming very soon.

I could see that. And the same folks that have no problem with his self-absorbed acts now won't even bother to cringe when it takes place.
Posted by: Crusader || 09/26/2016 19:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Is there a name in islam for intercepted pass.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/26/2016 21:14 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
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6Islamic State
3Taliban
2Houthis
2Haqqani Network
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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.
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Sun 2016-09-25
  Washington mall shooting: Bad Guy in custody
Sat 2016-09-24
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Fri 2016-09-23
  100 Russian, Syrian airstrikes hit Aleppo
Thu 2016-09-22
  Islamic State launches chemical attack on US-Iraqi military base: officials
Wed 2016-09-21
  Nigeria: Boko Haram Behead Village Chief, Son
Tue 2016-09-20
  Rahami's wife skedaddled two days before bombings
Mon 2016-09-19
  Police names AFG 'Naturalized Citizen' Ahmad Khan Rahami as NY bomb suspect, UPDATE: Arrested!
Sun 2016-09-18
  Stabbing attack at Minnesota mall leaves at least eight injured
Sat 2016-09-17
  At least 24 killed in suicide blast at Mohmand Agency mosque during Friday prayers
Fri 2016-09-16
  Pakistani Taliban Target Shia Mosque On Eid Day
Thu 2016-09-15
  Russia kills 250 ISIS terrorists near Palmyra
Wed 2016-09-14
  Three French Women Charged over Terror Plots
Tue 2016-09-13
  Mosque attended by Orlando gunman Omar Mateen destroyed in suspected arson attack
Mon 2016-09-12
  Syria Cease-Fire Is Violated After Less Than an Hour


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