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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Superhero Putin Battles Zombies in Upcoming Mobile Game

A roving horde of the living dead -- followers of an evil cult headed by Russian mystic Rasputin -- attack a press conference and target Russian President Vladimir Putin for termination. With the help of an American sidekick, alcoholic and aggressive American tough-guy Mike, the Russian politician battles the infinite host of zombies with wit, style -- and a pen.

Putin plays the superhero in a new mobile phone game, "You Don't Mess With Putin," due to be released around Halloween this year. The role is perfect for the steely Russian president
Posted by: 3dc || 10/06/2013 19:32 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I went to My Obama App! and picked out the one which gives me the distance to pin, but is wrong by a factor of around 3. Also got the one which canges my ring to "I'm a Racist!"

All that for $89.99 total.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/06/2013 20:43 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Police Remove Vietnam War Veterans at Memorial Wall
[WEEKLYSTANDARD] Via William Jacobson, NBC's affiliate in Washington, D.C. reports that police ordered tourists and Vietnam war veterans who were visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall to leave the memorial at one point on Friday.

After one group of veterans went around the barricade, "the park ranger told them the wall was closed," NBC's Mark Seagraves reported. "Later another group of vets showed up and moved the barricades. At that point, the memorial filled with vets and tourists. That's when police came and moved everyone out."

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall is a black granite outdoor wall on which the names of the 58,272 service members who died or were unaccounted for during the Vietnam war are inscribed.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, suppose USA was conquered by a foreign power. How'd things be different?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/06/2013 1:47 Comments || Top||

#2  That is a great line, G, and someone ought to use it.
Posted by: Perfesser || 10/06/2013 7:57 Comments || Top||

#3  #1 Well, for one thing, the New York Times would be turned into an organ of state propaganda.
Posted by: Matt || 10/06/2013 11:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Kinda think they are already a buncha organs, Matt...hey, wait!
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/06/2013 11:21 Comments || Top||

#5  They could get the same guy who did the Beijing People's Daily Headquarters to do a building for them too.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/06/2013 12:08 Comments || Top||

#6  BHO selects from his target list for Operation Rolling Blunder.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/06/2013 13:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Typical Obama, put hatred and government power against perceived enemies: veterans and the military, reward with government money your cronies -NPR funded nation guard, not.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/06/2013 17:07 Comments || Top||

#8  Grom the difference would be armed resistance and a price would be on the head of the main oppressors
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/06/2013 17:09 Comments || Top||

#9  Soros, Obama, Reid, and the leftist press (editors and publishers), crony capitalists, come to mind as instrumental in providing the money and political cover, as well as the commission of evil acts.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/06/2013 17:11 Comments || Top||


De Blasio Says He's a 'Fiscal Conservative' Raising NYC Taxes
[BLOOMBERG] Bill de Blasio, who won the Democratic mayoral nomination vowing to tax New York's richest residents to pay for universal pre-school, called himself a "fiscal conservative" in a speech to business leaders.

Speaking before 800 executives hosted by the Association for a Better New York today, de Blasio, 52, was interrupted by applause at least 10 times as he told the civic group he would use the mayoralty to fight economic inequality. In a speech to ABNY exactly one year ago, a smaller audience sat in silence.

"I want to pleasantly shock the room and say I'm a fiscal conservative," de Blasio said, responding to a questioner seeking lower hotel-occupancy taxes. "I'm a progressive-activist fiscal conservative, but I'm still a fiscal conservative. We can't talk about tax cuts in any sector until we sort out our financial situation."
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Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The richest ones will leave. Maybe government services should be cut. But nobody will vote for someone that will put the city on an even keel.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/06/2013 0:27 Comments || Top||

#2  The richest ones will make the adjustments recommended by their oh so clever tax lawyers to pay no more than they did before, because living in NYC is fun when one is rich. The middle class will pay more taxes, and the poor will not be the ones to benefit from the enriched government coffers. No matter what promises were made.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/06/2013 1:52 Comments || Top||

#3  "fiscal conservative"

So Attila the Hun and Ghangiz Khan were also, looting to fill the coffers of their form of government.

Let's review three principles that are not part of the Socialist-Marxist manifesto -
Thou shall not covet. Thou shall not bear false witness. Thou shall not steal.

BTW - universal pre-school aka Head Start has been shown to have no significant effect upon populations once they've reached the third grade. Just another AGW type Leftest hype that chooses to ignore reality.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/06/2013 8:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Ramping up for his post politics career of stand-up comic.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/06/2013 8:57 Comments || Top||

#5  the Assoc for a better NY has very few actual businesse invovled; most of the executives at the Blasio event were from probably from public do-good type groups or private businesses that advocate for do-good causes
Posted by: lord garth || 10/06/2013 9:12 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm a progressive-activist fiscal conservative…

At first glance that may seem like a contradiction in terms. It’s not unlike Howard Dean routinely claiming to be a deficit hawk. The key, of course, is they want the ability to choose who has to pay for their spending and who gets special treatment. If you need further information consult your Progressive handbook for the term “Fairness”.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 10/06/2013 10:30 Comments || Top||

#7  That's the Donk strategy--call yourself what you are not and call your enemies what you are!
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/06/2013 16:30 Comments || Top||


Obama calls on Congress to stop 'farce' and end shutdown
[Al Ahram] President Barack Obama on Saturday called on the lower chamber of Congress to "stop this farce" and end the US government shutdown by unconditionally approving a federal budget. "Take that vote. Stop this farce. End this shutdown now," Obama said in his weekly radio and video address.
Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You are the Farce. So we should stop you.
Posted by: newc || 10/06/2013 0:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Freudian projection is significant characteristic of the Left.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/06/2013 8:06 Comments || Top||

#3  end the US government shutdown by unconditionally approving a federal budget. everything I want"

FIFH
Posted by: AlanC || 10/06/2013 9:00 Comments || Top||

#4  The House of Representatives can end the farce by voting for Articles of Impeachment. Now. They have the votes. I don't give a $#!** what the Senate might do with that, they are all bought and paid for anyway. Sometimes, isn't it the "thought" that counts?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/06/2013 12:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Impeachment would definitely upset things for the rest of Champs term. Would keep him busy and off balance and give the rest of us breathing space. Anyway, he doesn't really seem to get (or doesn't believe in) the notion of the "separation of powers."
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/06/2013 16:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Consider the source
Posted by: Dale || 10/06/2013 16:29 Comments || Top||

#7  And Americans call on the president to stop his bulls%it and work with the elected officials.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/06/2013 16:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Obama, It's called negotiation, you thug. Scumbag.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/06/2013 17:01 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Man Dies After being Shot by Crossbow
Or, as Piers Morgan would call it, an AR15. Surely the founding fathers did not anticipate this when they conceived of the Second Amendment,
Posted by: Matt || 10/06/2013 12:24 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Was the crossbow painted black? Did it have a magazine?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/06/2013 12:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Another senseless killing by an assault weapon!!!

Ban ALL projectile firing weapons!! (Rifles, pistols, bows, crossbows, staplers...)

Orion
Posted by: Orion || 10/06/2013 13:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Indoors, too. New Orleans. Of course.
Posted by: RandomJD || 10/06/2013 13:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Crossbows used to be the WMD of Middle Ages, some Pope even forgiven Christians to use it on each other.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/06/2013 13:49 Comments || Top||

#5  "Shot through the gut, and you're to blame..."
Posted by: Raj || 10/06/2013 14:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Three months of very expensive medical care to try to save him. I wonder how a similar situation will be handled next year.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/06/2013 14:07 Comments || Top||

#7  No, you don't, Glenmore. Death Panels.
Posted by: Barbara || 10/06/2013 14:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Won't somebody think of the children!?!?!?!
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/06/2013 16:56 Comments || Top||

#9  It isn't necessarily the bolt that kills you, it's the poison on the bolt that does the damage.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 10/06/2013 18:05 Comments || Top||


Government
Towns, States Are Ponying Up to Keep National Parks Open
[WSJ] Local Governments Look for Ways to Make Sure Federal Attractions Don't Close; Tusayan's $325,000
This is what it looks like when taxation isn't theft.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  America not dead yet?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/06/2013 1:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Not brain dead, anyway.
Posted by: Perfesser || 10/06/2013 7:58 Comments || Top||

#3  It's what's going to happen anyway. We're broke. This is just preview of near future events.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/06/2013 8:07 Comments || Top||

#4  P2K I'll bet you maintenance on all national parks/monuments is less than budget for bunny inspectors.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/06/2013 8:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Feds have claimed jurisdiction, and that there is no legal mechanism for states and towns to keep them open. Also that it would be 'unfair' for some to be open and not all.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/06/2013 9:38 Comments || Top||

#6  ..IIRC there is someplace in the law that if something is abandoned/discarded it becomes 'fair' game to acquisition by others.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/06/2013 11:05 Comments || Top||

#7  So since the Constitution has been abandoned it's fair game?
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/06/2013 11:17 Comments || Top||

#8  The Utah legislature had considered a bill allowing the state to claim eminent domain on Federal lands.

Might be time to reconsider that again.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/06/2013 11:35 Comments || Top||

#9  Abandoned property, open them to bidding.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/06/2013 14:33 Comments || Top||

#10  There is a reason for the 9th and 10th amendments, as this shows
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/06/2013 16:59 Comments || Top||

#11  I think you are talking about Salvage. If you find an abandoned boat or ship with no one on board you can claim it as 'salvage' right?

So who's going to claim the U.S. Constitution as salvage - it's clearly been abandoned for at least the last 5 years... (Sadly..)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/06/2013 18:07 Comments || Top||

#12  Te tide's turning and Americans realise teh Zero's a Cnut (without the awareness of his limitations).
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/06/2013 18:18 Comments || Top||

#13  I think your keyboard is transposing keys there.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/06/2013 18:44 Comments || Top||


Feds to Close Ocean During Shutdown
[BREITBART] Just before the weekend, the National Park Service informed charter boat captains in Florida that the Florida Bay was "closed" due to the shutdown. Until government funding is restored, the fishing boats are prohibited from taking anglers into 1,100 square-miles of open ocean. Fishing is also prohibited at Biscayne National Park during the shutdown.
Time for a regatta!
The Park Service will also have rangers on duty to police the ban. Of access to an ocean. The government will probably use more personnel and spend more resources to attempt to close the ocean, than it would in its normal course of business.
Make them do so...
This is governing by temper-tantrum. It is on par with the government's ham-fisted attempts to close the DC WWII Memorial, an open-air public monument that is normally accessible 24 hours a day. By accessible I mean, you walk up to it. When you have finished reflecting, you then walk away from it.

Posted by: Fred || 10/06/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  FREE TRADE AND SAIORS RIGHTS! didn't we fight a war over that? Oh, my DC guy says the WWII Memorial Barrycades are now wired together so the next Honor Flight Veterans better bring those Bangalores left over from Omaha Beach
Posted by: Griter Crart8496 || 10/06/2013 0:06 Comments || Top||

#2  I,the great Barack of Hawaii, via Chicago, do hereby command that my NPS servants close the Atlantic Ocean in Florida! Let it be so ....

I also command that the NPS servants close all the open air public monuments, which are within and out of my sight (Grand Canyon) for I must enforce the laws of the land ! Let it be so ...


Posted by: Au Auric || 10/06/2013 0:39 Comments || Top||

#3  You know, I've only one explanation for Obama's behavior: he just curious how far he can push you people.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/06/2013 1:50 Comments || Top||

#4  ...until that Lexington Commons moment, cause we're dealing with fools. Once that happens, it's like the detection of a nuke launch. Do you wait to see if its an accident and accept limited but significant casualties or do you take it as a precursor to a full volley at which time you lose your ability to respond fully in kind if you don't launch everything as well. Escalation is rapid and out of real control while deescalation is very hard to pull off. Given the skill of these clowns the latter is probably not an option.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/06/2013 8:05 Comments || Top||

#5  No, he isn't curious. He feels HE is the one being pushed to the limit. He believes his righteousness is so self-evident that there is no need to respect law, custom, or courtesy. There is nothing he won't hold hostage to extort concessions, which is ok because there is no legitimate reason anyone could disagree with him, fail to sympathize with him, or support his opponents. The only upside is that he is making new enemies where he previously would have encountered no resistance.
Posted by: RandomJD || 10/06/2013 8:21 Comments || Top||

#6  "...until that Lexington Commons moment" is why DHS bought all that ammo.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/06/2013 10:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Symbol of the Resistance:

cut

courtesy of Rantburger jay-dubya
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/06/2013 13:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Why thank you! [modest smile]
Posted by: jay-dubya || 10/06/2013 13:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Like a lot of the shutdown activity, it would seem that it's gonna take more resources to enforce the closure than it would to keep it open. Are they gonna send cops to stop all fishing boats headed out onto the ocean?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/06/2013 15:14 Comments || Top||

#10  The absurdity, ridiculousness and naivette of this administration is astonishing. I hope they don't do anything rash. On the other hand...
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/06/2013 16:22 Comments || Top||

#11  I believe this is calculated and directed. I believe he is targeting traditional conservative Americans in an effort to start a fight. The Veterans, the few that live on govt land, fishermen, and tourists all come from the flyover states he so hates. They will very easily be identified as tea partiers by the liberal press when one group ends up in an altercation with police. Kicking 80 year olds out of their homes, blocking scenic overlooks, and closing an ocean bay show just how far and how absurd they are willing to go to start a fight. Soon they will close all farms that take gov subsidies. The minute one of these groups fight back, he will have his reason to enact marshal law and start down the path he has so wanted for many years.

I am just surprised the park service is dumb enough to try and enforce his mandate. But then his DOJ attacks did not start a fight, his IRS attacks did not start a fight, his NSA attacks did not start a fight, now he is down to the preverbal "kicking puppies and kittens" to try and get a violent response.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/06/2013 16:39 Comments || Top||

#12  "O" goes after "this group and that group". After a while as the groups grow in number, "this group and that group" constitutes a large majority of the people and then the show is over.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/06/2013 17:18 Comments || Top||

#13  I wonder if those National Park folks know the the Nuremburg defense is not accepted.
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/06/2013 17:21 Comments || Top||

#14  Has Obama heard of King Canute?
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/06/2013 17:27 Comments || Top||

#15  #14 Has Obama heard of King Canute?

Judging by the weedhead worldsavers of his vintage I've known, I doubt he knows more than the name and the beach scene, totally out of context. In any case, he'd cast Boehner in that role. O and his bunch would be the rising tide, the inevitable progress of blah blah blah. Striding purposefully onto the stage at his umpteen-thousandth speaking date twenty years from now, he'll still think he's Robin Hood. Rich to the poor. Band of merry diverseniks. Partisan lair in Sherwood Forest. It'll never occur to him that he was the King John of his century. Hey, ya gotta dream.
Posted by: Harcourt Hitler3148 || 10/06/2013 22:03 Comments || Top||



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Sun 2013-10-06
  Abu Anas al-Libi snatched
Sat 2013-10-05
  Boko Haram: 186 killed, 15 arrested as Military raids insurgents' camp in Yobe
Fri 2013-10-04
  Belgium Extradites Nisar Trabelsi to U.S.
Thu 2013-10-03
  Iranian cyber warfare commander shot dead in suspected assassination
Wed 2013-10-02
  Iraq Executes 23 People in Two Days
Tue 2013-10-01
  Drone strike in North Waziristan kills two, injures one
Mon 2013-09-30
  US drone kills three in Pakistan
Sun 2013-09-29
  Boko murders up to 50 students in their sleep
Sat 2013-09-28
  Sudan Arrests 600 over 'Vandalism'
Fri 2013-09-27
  Peshawar Bus Bombing Kills 17 Govt Employees
Thu 2013-09-26
  Syria rebels reject opposition coalition, call for Islamic leadership
Wed 2013-09-25
  AQIM replaces dead emirs
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  Nairobi attack: Kenya's President Kenyatta says siege over
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  Egyptian court bans Moslem Brüderbund activity, confiscates assets
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