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-Lurid Crime Tales-
O'Reilly says GOP shooting ‘prophecy' came true; gunman ‘deeply enmeshed in the far left'
[Wash Times] Author Bill O'Reilly says he accurately predicted the kind of political violence that unfolded this week when an armed gunman attacked congressional Republicans in Alexandria, Virginia.

The former Fox News Channel star told One America News Network’s Patrick Hussion Thursday evening that he made prophetic warnings months ago as activists began a "resistance" movement against President Trump, saying that a new media paradigm, a "no-rules" culture and violent rhetoric by cultural influencers created a toxic atmosphere ripe for bloodshed.

"The first rule in journalism when I was in Boston University was seek the truth. Gone. Now, we have an ideological media, both on the left and the right," Mr. O'Reilly said. "On the left, because of Donald Trump’s election, they’re so hateful in the media and in the real ideological precincts, that all rules are out the window. We saw that with the comedian [Kathy Griffin] holding the head, with other people saying vile things about Donald Trump, with the ’resistance’ movement -- that ’we’re not going to support anything the president does no matter how good it might be for the country -- we’re not going to support it. And, indeed, we’re going to try and destroy him at every turn.’"

The pundit said it was those components, which he talked about on "The O’Reilly Factor" prior to leaving Fox, that led to 66-year-old gunman James Hodgkinson shooting Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise and three others on a baseball field.

Mr. Hodgkinson, who died of wounds suffered in the resulting shootout with police officers, was a former volunteer for Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders’ presidential campaign. His social media pages were filled with anti-Trump and anti-GOP content.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is it possible that Hodkinson was a patsy much as Oswald most likely was?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/18/2017 10:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Possible but not probable.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/18/2017 12:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Not really a patsy I think, more of a raging dumbass.

However, the left's ranks are full of fucktards like that.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/18/2017 20:57 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Seven Percent Of Americans Think Chocolate Milk … Comes From Brown Cows
[Hot Air] The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy conducted a survey of more than 1,000 adults 18 and over in April of this year. They uncovered some shocking facts about how people think about ‐ and drink ‐ milk.

First off, 48% of respondents said that they aren’t sure where chocolate milk comes from. Um, guys, it comes from cows ‐ and not just the brown kind.

Still, 7% of people ‐ and remember, this survey talked to actual, grown-up adults ‐ still think that chocolate milk only comes from brown cows. Actually, chocolate milk gets its flavor and color from cocoa beans.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2017 07:44 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Disavowing the contributions of the non-white bovines, are we?

RAAAAAACIST!
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/18/2017 7:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Ovaltine,
Nestle's Quik,

and my Mom's favorite...Bosco!!!
Posted by: AlanC || 06/18/2017 8:12 Comments || Top||

#3  You've got to be kidding. People actually think this? I'm thinking it's more like this: You can dismiss the seven-percent figure as a function of the margin of error and trolling by respondents, as some people probably found the question so amusing that they answered “brown cows” just to mess with the pollster. Where the heck do they think chocolate Boost or Ensure protein drinks come from; chocolate soy beans?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/18/2017 9:34 Comments || Top||

#4  I wonder how many thing baby oil comes from babies?

If peanut oil comes from peanuts...
and coconut oil from coconuts...
What does baby oil come from?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/18/2017 9:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Planned Parenthood?
Posted by: The peanut gallery || 06/18/2017 9:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Go to your room peanut.

And I am so stealing that one!
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/18/2017 10:03 Comments || Top||

#7  Everyone kmows they just feed the coes cocoa beans and sugar water.
Posted by: gorb || 06/18/2017 11:14 Comments || Top||

#8  Wow, the ignorance of you guys, it comes from the same place the white milk comes from, the grocery semi-truck!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/18/2017 12:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Stainless steel tanker trucks, you've seen them on the interstate, right, right?
Posted by: magpie || 06/18/2017 12:51 Comments || Top||

#10  Ignore the animal in the graphic. Bad milking choice.
Posted by: Blackbeard Craviting9861 || 06/18/2017 13:15 Comments || Top||

#11  Ignore the animal in the graphic. Bad milking choice.

It is possible to get a kind of milk from that beast. Whether it would go well with a bowl of corn flakes is another matter.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 06/18/2017 14:56 Comments || Top||

#12  I suggest that the 7% attempt to milk that beast.

'Herd Reduction', don't you see.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/18/2017 15:28 Comments || Top||

#13  Yep. Herd reduction of the 7%.
Posted by: gorb || 06/18/2017 15:33 Comments || Top||

#14  It is possible to get a kind of milk from that beast. Whether it would go well with a bowl of corn flakes is another matter.
Posted by Zhang Fei


Corn flakes and taste test be damned. Surviving the extraction would be the challenge.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2017 15:56 Comments || Top||

#15  Yogurt comes from sick cows.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 06/18/2017 16:43 Comments || Top||

#16  So Almond milk is Asian tears?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/18/2017 18:59 Comments || Top||

#17  You've got to be kidding. People actually think this?

Even more believe in the socialist Magic Money Tree(tm).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/18/2017 20:44 Comments || Top||


Europe
Sweden's terror travellers: in stats
[TheLocal.se] Almost one in five who have travelled from Sweden to join bad boy jihadi groups in Iraq and Syria is younger than 19, according to a new report.

Sweden's security services Säpo estimates that around 300 people travelled to Iraq and Syria to join bad boy groups between 2012 and 2016. Researchers at the Swedish Defence University have looked more closely at 267 of them for a study on imported muscle which sheds unique light on a key debate in Europe.

They found that a total of 18 percent of people who left Sweden to fight for jihadi groups were 19 or younger, compared to 60 percent who were aged between 20 to 29. Most of them were men (76 percent) and 24 percent were women, but the number of women taking part in the armed conflict rose from only a handful in 2012 to making up around 40 percent of imported muscle in the conflict zone in 2014 and 2015.

Three quarters were Swedish citizens and 34 percent were born in Sweden. Those born abroad came from a total of 38 different countries, states the report, primarily Northern Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East. However some came from former Yugoslavia and Russia. "In this aspect, it is not a homogenous group but rather a multi-ethnic one," write report authors Magnus Ranstorp and Linus Gustafsson.

Four in five lived in one of four of Sweden's 21 counties: Västra Götaland in western Sweden, the capital Stockholm, Skåne in the south and Örebro in central Sweden. More than 70 percent lived in an area of Sweden considered socioeconomically vulnerable. "It is clear socioeconomic aspects are contributing factors alongside group- and peer influences, ideological factors and local recruitment drives," write the authors, whose aim is to present facts and figures about the Swedish jihadi fighters in Iraq and Syria.

"For the first time we have exact figures ‐ not estimates ‐ about Swedish citizens who have left for Syria and Iraq since 2012 to join jihadist terror groups. We can say with confidence where they come from, how old they are and the proportion of men, women and kiddies," said Ranstorp, research director at the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish Defence University.

"This report is unique in that it also provides an analysis of what we know about imported muscle from other European states."

The number of imported muscle has dropped since the start of the conflict. A total of 98 first-time travellers are thought to have left Sweden in 2013 compared to five last year. Two in five have returned to Sweden, as of September 2016, while 49 of the 267 people part of the report are believed to have died in the conflict.

Some of the past years' terror attacks in Europe have involved imported muscle returning home, but the report states that so far, this is unusual: "The reality so far indicates that very few of the returnees intend to commit terrorist acts in Sweden or Europe, in that their focus is primarily aimed at the conflict in Syria and Iraq. Important to say is that both the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
and al-Qaeda affiliated groups have officially declared that Europe is a legitimate target, so that it cannot be excluded that future terrorist plots will involve returnees loyal to these organizations and movements."

Read the report, 'Swedish Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: an analysis of open-source intelligence and statistical data', here.
The report, in English, is a PDF file containing a mere 138 pages.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/18/2017 00:30 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  Lot of word salad. What words aren't used? Islam or Muslim
Posted by: Frank G || 06/18/2017 10:55 Comments || Top||

#2  They are using both jihadi and jihadist, which are uniquely Muslim concepts, Frank G, and ISIS and Al Qaeda, which are uniquely Muslim groups. And this article showed up in The Local-Sweden, which mostly pushes happy articles about charming local customs and vacation spots, and how to cope with expat depression, though they've been carrying some local WoT articles that I haven't seen elsewhere.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/18/2017 17:55 Comments || Top||


European Muslims need more than demonstrations to fight extremism
[DW] Hundreds of Moslems have spoken out against terrorism in a Cologne demonstration. DW's Shamil Shams believes while it is a good step, Moslems living in the West need to do a lot more to cast off the "extremist image."

Despite the fact that the turnout in the Moslems against terrorism rally in the German city of Cologne
...a lovely city in Germany. They invented perfume there...
Cologne was not as big as expected,
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists


Home Front: Politix
Steve Scalise Can't Defend Himself But MSNBC Is Back To Attacking Him Anyway
[Daily Caller] Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise is still hospitalized and in serious condition but liberal MSNBC host Joy Ann Reid didn’t let that stop her from portraying Scalise as an extremist just three days after an angry left-winger shot Scalise and tried to assassinate dozens of Republican congressmen in Alexandria, Virginia on Wednesday.

Reid had NAACP board member Rev. William J. Barber II -- a prominent liberal who spoke at at the Democratic National Convention last July -- on her show Saturday morning and the two quickly set about attacking Scalise, who is physically unable to defend his record.

"There’s a whole country out there and a lot of people, at least in my Twitter timeline, and it’s a delicate thing, because everybody is wishing the congressman well and hoping that he recovers, but Steve Scalise has a history that we’ve all been forced to sort of ignore on race," Reid claimed.

"He did come to leadership after some controversy over attending a white nationalist event, which he says he didn’t know what it was," Reid said.

The liberal host appeared to be referencing the fact that Scalise allegedly spoke to a white nationalist group as part a series of talks he gave about tax legislation in 2002. "I didn’t know who all of these groups were and I detest any kind of hate group," Scalise said three years ago, adding at the time that "as a Catholic, I think some of the things they profess target people like me." Democratic Rep. Cedric Richmond, who is black, dismissed the accusations of racism and said: "I don’t think Steve Scalise has a racist bone in his body." Reid did not note that Scalise has repeatedly condemned the group.

"He also co-sponsored a bill to amend the Constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman. He co-sponsored the House healthcare bill, which as you said would gut healthcare for millions of people including three million children and he cosponsored a bill to repeal the ban on semiautomatic weapons," Reid continued, bashing Scalise for holding mainstream Republican positions. "Because he is in jeopardy and everybody is pulling for him, are we required in a moral sense to put that aside in the moment?"

Carter answered that they’re required to hope Scalise recovers but that the Republican "should not go forward being homophobic" because one of the Capitol police officers who saved his life was a lesbian. Neither Carter nor Reid noted that the officer was a member of Scalise’s security detail.

Carter also asserted that "the only way you can get to civility, is you must start with the establishment of justice. you must provide for the common good and you must provide the general welfare" and that Republicans "have to have a change in the trajectory of policy."

Reid promoted the segment in a Twitter post that said Scalise "was shot by a white man with a violent background, and saved by a black lesbian police officer, and yet..." and included a screenshot of a one-sided MSNBC graphic on Scalise’s record.

Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2017 04:36 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From the statements made by Ried and Barber, one might conclude that Rep. Scalise may have actually been targeted.

Just out of very idle curiosity, have there been any updates on the Seth Rich murder, or the whereabouts of James Hodgkinson on 10 July of last year ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2017 4:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Oooooohhhh.... *That's* an interesting question, Mr. B!
Posted by: Bobby || 06/18/2017 11:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Just out of very idle curiosity, have there been any updates on the Seth Rich murder

There's a very nice bicycle rack in front of DNC headquarters that's named for him.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/18/2017 12:56 Comments || Top||

#4  There's a very nice bicycle rack in front of DNC headquarters that's named for him.

A bicycle rack for James Hodgkinson? That didn't take long.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2017 13:25 Comments || Top||

#5  There's a very nice bicycle rack in front of DNC headquarters that's named for him.
Posted by: Pappy


And an email server room
Posted by: Frank G || 06/18/2017 14:08 Comments || Top||

#6  A bicycle rack for James Hodgkinson? That didn't take long.

No. A bicycle rack named for Seth Rich.

I'll surmise, though, that Mr. Hodgkinson's van, computer user account(s) and perhaps even his residence have all been helpfully cleaned out.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/18/2017 22:48 Comments || Top||


Hannity on the Media: ‘What We're Seeing Now Is This Unelected Fourth Branch of Gov't Looking for Retribution'
[Breitbart] Friday on Fox News Channel’s "Hannity," host Sean Hannity used his "Opening Monologue" to criticize the media for what he said was an effort to overturn the results of last November’s presidential election.

[Lengthy] Transcript as follows:
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2017 04:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The primary goal of the Deep State is regime change. 'Retribution' is simply a welcomed by-product fed to the water carrying media.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/18/2017 4:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Send a copy of the Declaration of Independence to every GS-11 and above, SES personnel.

Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/18/2017 9:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Time Warner continues to finance the NY play that shows the President being killed in an open air venue. Control of the media is important to such coups.
Posted by: Ebbagum Turkeyneck9893 || 06/18/2017 17:08 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
ESTHER GOLDBERG: The Sexual Ambiguity of James Comey
I just couldn't resist
James Comey is not old school. He’s to Eliot Ness as the original Batman was to the original Superman. The latter openly fought for truth, justice, and the American way because he wanted to give back to the planet that had given him a home. The former was a confused vigilante, motivated by the dark desire to revenge his parents’ deaths at the hands of bad guys.

Comey is Petula Clark singing "Feelings." In his Senate testimony he described how his duties caused him "a whole lot of personal pain." He was often "confused and concerned" about things, sometimes even "honestly concerned." More than the facts, he spoke of his "impression," "reading," and "sense" of the facts. Something Loretta Lynch asked him to do "gave [him] a queasy feeling."

That’s not how Joe Friday talked on "Dragnet." Or Clint Eastwood. When Clint shot a bad guy, all he felt was a slight pressure on his trigger finger.

Comey talks the way girls talk.

My impression, sense, and reading of Comey -- my gut feeling -- is that he’s got a lot of girlish qualities. Others picked up on this as well, in a subconscious way, as the twitter sphere erupted with Comey-as-victim-of-sexual-harassment memes.

The media as well. "Elle compared Comey’s one-on-one meeting with President Donald Trump to a terrible date," noted Breitbart. "The former FBI director’s boss tried to seduce him. When the seduction failed, his boss fired him," wrote the Los Angeles Times.

Like many operatic heroines, Comey had "confidantes" through whom he could convey his personal narrative, via leaks to the media. Thus we learn how he prepared for his date with the president. "Before going to the dinner, Comey practiced Trump’s likely questions and his answers with a small group of his most trusted confidants," they told The Washington Post.

Anyone with a teenage daughter will recognize this scenario. "What’ll I say if he wants to go all the way?" she asks her convened BFFs. "How do I say no without turning him off?" Or, as Comey’s confidants would have it, how could he preserve "his own moral compass, but at the same time... [not] inflame his commander in chief."

Well, this is traditional - isn't it?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/18/2017 03:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ooops, here's the link.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/18/2017 3:29 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't know or care about any sexual ambiguity which Comey may or may not have. However, I am concerned about his conflicts that result from his loyalty to the previous corrupt admin. and the Clintons.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/18/2017 10:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Did Bill romance him TOO?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/18/2017 11:03 Comments || Top||


Twitchy: George Takei sees ‘universe' making social justice statement with Scalise shooting
An Asian-American who became famous under a Norse name and can divine what the universe has in mind. Impressive.

Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 06/18/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "The Stupid is strong with this one..."
Posted by: PBMcL || 06/18/2017 1:44 Comments || Top||

#2  "His career is dead, Jim!"
Posted by: PBMcL || 06/18/2017 9:02 Comments || Top||

#3  So the universe wasn't making a statement when Islamic toss you over the edge of a 10 story building?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/18/2017 9:05 Comments || Top||

#4  One reason I don't take much notice of the MSM is they report this stuff like it is real news.
Posted by: phil_b || 06/18/2017 21:12 Comments || Top||



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Sun 2017-06-18
  Afghan forces recapture Tora Bora in Nangarhar
Sat 2017-06-17
  Taliban rejects report on Kandahar bombing that killed UAE ambassador, diplomats
Fri 2017-06-16
  Army takes over Mosul’s Old City entrance, IS trapped
Thu 2017-06-15
  SDF capture former IS member known as Jihadi Jack
Wed 2017-06-14
  Senior Republican politician and several aides shot at baseball practice near Washington
Tue 2017-06-13
  Taliban’s military commission chief killed in Helmand drone strike
Mon 2017-06-12
  London Police Chief: Terror Victims Show How Diverse We Are
Sun 2017-06-11
  Libyan group says it has freed Gaddafi son Seif al-Islam
Sat 2017-06-10
  Islamic State claims it killed two Chinese in Pakistan
Fri 2017-06-09
  Nearly 70 dead in Al-Shabaab attack on Puntland military base
Thu 2017-06-08
  Syrian government, rebel forces fighting in Aleppo
Wed 2017-06-07
  Iran's parliament and Khomeini mausoleum attacked by gunmen
Tue 2017-06-06
  Shaboobs go into that good night softly after attempt to raid KDF camp
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  Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE sever ties to Qatar over 'terrorism'
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