SPOKANE, Wash. Former U.S. ambassador Ryan Crocker is facing hit-and-run and intoxicated driving charges in Washington state, authorities said Thursday. Crocker has served in the Middle East for 30 years, and survived the 1983 bombing of the US embassy in Lebanon. He had retired, but for some months returned to service as ambassador to Afghanistan. His last day as ambassador was 13 July. ? PTSD ?
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How wonderful that America really puts forth a person with high integrity and honor as Ambassador to represent our country in a good light. This type of behavior just doesn't happen, these are deep rooted IMO, I don't think PTSD.
With the way the MSM loves to project highlights such as Todd Akin, I'm sure this Ryan Crocker story will be swept under the rug with Obama seeking him out.
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As long as he was an ambassador he probably had a driver. Probably forgot how to hold his liquor and drive at the same time.
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I liked the comment that stated: yes, we ARE better off today than we were four years ago, because today we ONLY have 60 days left of Obama while four years ago we had more than 1300.
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Actually, 4 years ago, Obama had not yet been elected, and things could have turned out differently.
This time around, the electorate gets to choose its poison, in an era where declining economic prospects for a free people seem inevitable for years to come.
#3
Nope, I'm not better off than 4 years ago. Many friends and neighbors are worse off too. In fact the entire nation except for those in Washington are worse off.
There are two things you are not allowed to call Michelle Obama. One is angry black woman. The other is generous host, at least when the guests for the White Houses kids state dinner (well, lunch, actually) are concerned:
The menu: Kale Chips from the New York winner were placed on each table ahead of the appetizer, which was Quinoa Black Bean and Corn Salad from the Arizona winner. The entree was Yummy Cabbage Sloppy Joes from the Kansas winner, accompanied by Baked Zucchini Fries from the North Carolina winner. Dessert was two recipes: A Strawberryana Smoothie from the Hawaii winner; and a Summer Fruit Garland from the South Dakota winner, which was chunks of fruit on a wooden skewer.
Um...probably not. I'm around Bong's (euphemism for East Bengali's/Bangladeshi's) all the time when I am in India and there are things even they won't eat.
They eat mostly rice, subzi and chappatti's.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man ||
08/24/2012 7:33 Comments ||
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Okay, you got us there, a Bangladeshi kid pro'ly would eat a Strawberryana Smoothie...
Posted by: Steve White ||
08/24/2012 7:35 Comments ||
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These little kids are a WH food experiment. Sort of along the lines of Let's see if Mikey Will Eat It, He'll Eat Anything". Next comes the Soylent Green. Where's the closest Subway or Burger King?
If they have to put 'Yummy' in the name, you know it isn't. But it does give you a nice taste of what four more years of Obamanomics will bring when no one can afford hamburger.
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Four thousand years of history and several tens of thousands of years of prehistory full of famine, starvation, and want. In a relatively microscopic period of time, we're now bitchin about an epidemic of obesity, something that up till this time only afflicted the 1 percent of the 1 percenters.
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Michelle Obama has already become the icon for "angry black woman" whether she or her admirers will admit it. Not that there's anything wrong with that...
#18
Hope they showed the ganger banger rap video about killing people and passed around the 15 inch stick from the person they wanted to save that raped to death a small child who by the way was an illegal the rapist!
Maybe you think you are funny somehow. I think you are just annoying.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
08/24/2012 19:28 Comments ||
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And with mostly defective, $$$-busting Wind farms + Solar Panel arrays, etc. taking up much of the arable land, OWG America = Amerika is going to grow all this food HOW, AGAIN?
#2
Prior to the Civil War a U.S. General accurately predicted that a civil war would erupt between the states and in hind sight his pridictions of the massive number of casualties was also accurate. For his wisdom and foresight, he was asked to resign for such crazy predictions which he did. Soon after the civil war commenced, and years later history his predictions.
America is now facing the type of threats from within from which so many of the fore fathers fought against beyond. There are too many who continue to hold those values within that will not allow themselves to come under the thumb of the mandates of similar tryanical regimes developiing domestically conguering, dividing and ruling against American principles by man made mandates.
Many of us will forever be until death do us part, "One nation, under God, Indivisible".
#4
Me: President Obama, Who Made Judge Fear Civil War, Should Resign.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
08/24/2012 9:23 Comments ||
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Tribalism is all about subjugation. Either you subjugate them, or absent the rule of law, they will eventually subjugate you. The country of Liberia was not established as an experiment, the founders knew what outcomes would result. Liberia was established as a solution. Native tribal governance simply does not work in modern, western society. We are a few thousand years beyond it.
#5
Sadly for the Dem Hatriots the storm has remained pretty minimal and the predicted path has been trending west. At the moment, none of the computer models indicate the center passing within 70 miles of Tampa.
Posted by: lord garth ||
08/24/2012 9:11 Comments ||
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Katrina paid big Dem dividends. They're just hoping for more of the same. Misery merchants, etc.
If that's the Dem's motivation (which I don't doubt for a moment)they've made three basic miscalculations that won't allow them much gain from it -
The first is while Tampa's current mayor is an alarmist partisan Dem also, he appears to be marginally more capable than that moron Ray Nagin.
Second, there isn't anyone named Bush in the WH to lay federal blame on if things go south.
And lastly, the biggest one of all - worst case scenario is a glancing blow to Tampa from a Cat 3, not a Cat 1 direct hit. There is a huge level of nastiness difference there.
#8
For a bunch of godless superstition haters, seem to have the gaiaic revenge and olde tyme religion prayers going on; from the party who prayed for North Carolina to get hammered so to save unemployment statistics.
#10
as of the 2pm EDT 2-24 updates it is possible the storm will be close enough to Tampa for heavy rain, 20-35mph wind and 1-2 feet of rise in Tampa Bay near the downtown
that will not stop the RNConvention but will soak the occupiers and anarchists and other hanger-ons.
Posted by: lord garth ||
08/24/2012 14:03 Comments ||
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#11
"Biden is headed to Tampa in the Dems hope that he will somehow disrupt the convention, as opposed to going to Charlotte...where they KNOW he will disrupt the conventon".
#12
Leno also noted that Florida was well prepared for a hurricane since so many business's windows are already boarded up
*rimshot*
Posted by: Frank G ||
08/24/2012 14:37 Comments ||
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speaking of Charlotte, NC, one of the models (the GFS-AVN) indictes that the storm may produce flooding in the vicinity of that city on Wed or Thurs (8-29/30) next week
Posted by: lord garth ||
08/24/2012 14:37 Comments ||
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I want it to be cold, windy and wet outside the conventin so that all those anarchists are as uncomfortable as possible.
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