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ISIS release execution photos of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan
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A few observations from my dotage...
  1. Taking the road less traveled probably takes you someplace you didn't want to go.

  2. Thinking outside the box leaves you on the tabletop, not on the subject.

  3. If you learned everything you need to know in kindergarten, you stopped paying attention at age six.

  4. What's the difference between coloring outside the lines and scribbling?

  5. If you Question Authority and the answer is pretty reasonable, what do you do then?

  6. Are the Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy actually soulless? Why are the Minions of Heterodoxy more likely to have souls?
Posted by: Fred || 05/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  1. but useful avoid patrols and traffic.

2. useful when the subject is not something you should be boxed with in. For example socialism.

3. True. But at least the minimum of kindergarten must be learned or become adult toddler a spoiled rude Snowflake progressive brat ist.

4. Easy! Intention.

5. You think a better question. Or about your life go back much wiser.

6. All have souls, but few are willing to believe it know and appreciate.
Posted by: Albemarle Clomock6738 || 05/16/2016 2:32 Comments || Top||

#2  As an astute observer of adventure, my wife reports that the majority of my 'less traveled' off-road excursions end up at a dump.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/16/2016 8:39 Comments || Top||

#3  One thing I've noticed when I'm trying to avoid a long line of traffic is that it usually turns out that all those cars are going where I want to go.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 05/16/2016 12:04 Comments || Top||

#4  He who hesitates is lost, just remember to look before you leap.
Posted by: AlanC || 05/16/2016 14:48 Comments || Top||

#5  I always find the road less traveled in strange cities always seems to turn into MLK Blvd.
Posted by: Shipman || 05/16/2016 16:35 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Fitzgerald: Bathroom decree is Obama at his worst
In which the author questions the Emperor's decree abolishing the most intimate right to privacy...
[BOSTONHERALD] There was a time when candidate Barack Obama was still properly in awe of the office he sought, and of the opportunity it offered to uplift Americans by the power of his example.

As Robert Frost might have put it, he was fast approaching a point where two roads diverged, and had he chosen the one less traveled by, what a difference it might have made in the kind of president he has become.

But to paraphrase the Greek poet Bion, Obama did not acquire the office; it acquired him, until he became what he is now, an imperious, self-absorbed emperor whose timid sycophants dare not let him know his garments are on fire.

How tone-deaf our 44th president has become.

Can he not see himself as others see him?

Forget him scolding Cambridge cops for having “acted stupidly” before he had any facts; erase from your mind the image of him doing the wave with Raul Castro, a Communist dictator, while Brussels was under ruthless assault by terrorists; forget how days later he was dancing the tango in Buenos Aires while the world remained traumatized by those bloody attacks; forget how he continued his golf game after learning New Hampshire journalist James Foley had been beheaded by ISIS.

He seemed so above it all.

Now, as the sun begins to set on his incumbency, he wades into the explosive issue of permitting transgendered individuals to decide which bathrooms they want to use, flagrantly ignoring the obvious dynamics of throwing everyone together in an atmosphere that’s intensely personal.

Make no mistake, it’s not the least bit hateful for anyone to feel uncomfortable, embarrassed or fearful upon seeing a conflicted interloper walking through the bathroom door of his or her own choice.

But Obama is now urging schools around the nation to embrace that scenario as normal.
Posted by: Fred || 05/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe we should segregate bathrooms by plumbing.

Complete with images of Penises and Vaginas on the
doors. If you have one of these you come here and if you have one of those you go there!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/16/2016 1:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Fitzgerald: Bathroom decree is Obama at his worst

Very bold assumption indeed. IMA placing no bets.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/16/2016 1:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Homosexuals reproduce by gaining access to children to induce them into homosexuality. This President is audaciously supporting the gay community in that depraved effort. Period.
Posted by: Percy McCoy7690 || 05/16/2016 1:40 Comments || Top||

#4  I can see it now. Woman sits and man pees thru her legs. Well, no pee on the toilet seat!. :):):):)
Posted by: Dale || 05/16/2016 7:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Ah, another Intolerable Act. We (though apparently the Marxist do not) know how that turned out.

I do find it somewhat amusing to observe -

that people who want to ban assault weapons are happy to have them in the ladies room and those who support concealed carry are against it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/16/2016 8:00 Comments || Top||

#6  The left believes it's necessary to teach men not to rape AND that men should have free access to women's restrooms.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/16/2016 8:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Well, personally, I'd think destabilizing foreign countries and causing almost a million deaths is "Obama at his worst". But, what do I know?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/16/2016 9:11 Comments || Top||

#8  Would you want your daughter in a bathroom which the likes of Bill Clinton have access to?

Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/16/2016 10:25 Comments || Top||

#9  This dumbazz is so arrogant that he thinks us poor hicks in the sticks can't take a dump without his guidance.
Posted by: Tennessee || 05/16/2016 10:56 Comments || Top||

#10  ^^^^^^^^

;)
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 05/16/2016 12:10 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Besoeker || 05/16/2016 12:46 Comments || Top||

#12  Yeah, Mr. B!!!
Posted by: Dale || 05/16/2016 17:11 Comments || Top||

#13  Besoeker's pic for snark of the day!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/16/2016 17:35 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 05/16/2016 19:00 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Roger Stone: Trump Will Win One-Third of Bernie Sanders Supporters
[Breitbart] Veteran political strategist was a guest Sunday on John Catsimatidis’ New York AM 970 radio show "The Cats Roundtable," and the two discussed presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s future in the general election.

"Look, I think Bernie Sanders has to get some of the credit for this. In essence he’s the outsider in the Democratic Party. In some ways, he and Trump have a great deal in common, particularly their rejection of these enormous globalist trade deals like NAFTA and TPP and TPA, that either have, or will, destroy the U.S. job market," Stone, a former Trump adviser, said.

"I think that gives Trump a real entrée to almost a third of Bernie’s supporters in a general election," he then added. "I don’t mean his hard-left, ultra-liberal supporters, but I mean the blue-collar Democrats in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York who feel left behind by the new world order economy, who realize that the manufacturing base in this country has been destroyed by these internationalist deals."

"So Trump, I think, can build on what Bernie has achieved," Stone predicted.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/16/2016 07:53 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And Clinton will win a bunch of Republicans - several prominent ones have already announced preference over Trump.
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/16/2016 8:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Anyone capable of voting for Hillary...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/16/2016 9:01 Comments || Top||

#3  And Clinton will win a bunch of Republicans - several prominent ones have already announced preference over Trump.

Yeah, but I don't believe Lindsey Graham is gonna sway that many Republicans.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 05/16/2016 12:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Establishment types might go for Hillary. Who the Hell knows what goes on in those dark, dank, closed little minds?

The conservative vote will siphon toward Gary Johnson, or just abstain altogether. Not all of it, but more than McCain and Romney pissed away. I'm already getting Johnson emails that I never signed up for.
Posted by: Iblis || 05/16/2016 16:49 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
An improved police
[DAWN] A MILITARISED law enforcement -- such as that we have been witnessing in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
for nearly three years -- may improve the situation in the short term, but it is not conducive to a sustainable peace.

Fortunately, the apex committee in its meeting in Karachi on Thursday is developing a new strategy which aims to enhance the strength and capabilities of the city’s police force.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 05/16/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan



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Two weeks of WOT
Mon 2016-05-16
  ISIS release execution photos of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan
Sun 2016-05-15
  ISIS kill 16 Real Madrid fans in massacre at supporters club headquarters
Sat 2016-05-14
  Rebels kill at least 75 Quds Brigade militants north of Aleppo
Fri 2016-05-13
  Top Hezbollah commander in Syria Mustafa Badreddine killed by Israel, group says
Thu 2016-05-12
  ISIS says it's behind Iraq blasts that killed over 90
Wed 2016-05-11
  Bangladesh executes top Jamaat leader Motiur Rahman over '1971 war crimes'
Tue 2016-05-10
  US airstrike kills ISIS 'Emir of Anbar Province' in Iraq
Mon 2016-05-09
  78 militants killed in latest air and ground raids of Afghan forces
Sun 2016-05-08
  Suspected bombers die in Soddy security operation
Sat 2016-05-07
  ISIS Big Wig dies in US airstrike
Fri 2016-05-06
  Appropriate: 200 Taliban recruits nabbed from sheep trucks in north of Afghanistan
Thu 2016-05-05
  Somali commandos raid ISIS base,12 fighters killed
Wed 2016-05-04
  IS Kills U.S. Service Member in Northern Iraq Attack
Tue 2016-05-03
  Key Taliban group member Qari Zubair killed in Badakhshan
Mon 2016-05-02
  Drones hit Daesh bomb factory in Syria


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