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Gambia now an Islamic republic, says President
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Obama hails 1st global climate pact as 'huge'-TERRORISM, not so much
Good summary of what was approved, including the American team getting "should" instead of "shall". Also this, from The Guardian::
James Hansen, father of climate change awareness, calls Paris talks 'a fraud'
The former Nasa scientist criticizes the talks, intended to reach a new global deal on cutting carbon emissions beyond 2020, as ‘no action, just promises’
Posted by: Sloluth Protector of the Weak7539 || 12/13/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why does anybody ever listen?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 12/13/2015 12:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Blah blah blah. Watch the other hand. This is nothing but a con to take the people's money and hand it to the oligarchy. To the tune of 1 Trillion dollars a year.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 12/13/2015 16:26 Comments || Top||

#3  I look for the middle class (rapidly becoming the poor class) to just say at some point enough is enough. They will be bringing tar and feathers out or worse.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/13/2015 19:33 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
An Encounter In Watertown (MA) Square
In which Rantburg's own Raj has a small but satisfying adventure.
I was going to a client in Belmont yesterday morning to do some year-end tax stuff when I drove through Watertown Square, a huge lefty section of Eastern Massachusetts. I spotted two Bernie Sanders supporters holding signs, with one sign urging people to 'Honk for Bernie'. During a minute at the stoplight, I noticed a number of people in BMW's and Mercedes cars doing just that with huge smiles on their faces while doing so.

I had a different approach. Recalling the opening scene of 'Die Hard With a Vengeance', I rolled down my window and yelled out 'What The Fuck?' and started abusing both of them. Among other things, I yelled out - 'He doesn't have a prayer in hell - he wants a 90% top tax rate - he's a fucking socialist!' The bearded guy says - 'I'm not gonna pay that rate!'. So I yell back - 'That's because you're a BUM - you don't make jack sh*t for money - just look at yourself!'

Yes, I'm just spreading the Christmas cheer!
Posted by: Raj || 12/13/2015 00:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I always wanted to be like Raj, down even to the bike.

Alas and alack, I lack a bike.
Posted by: Shipman || 12/13/2015 7:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Ship , I remember you referring to a bike you rode as your 'Cycle of Poverty'. You finally get off the cycle?
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 12/13/2015 7:23 Comments || Top||

#3  a huge lefty section of Eastern Massachusetts.

Um, Raj, I live in metro-west, lived on the south shore or out here for 45 years. How the hell do you tell the lefty sections from the "regular sections"? I've never figured it out. ;^)
Posted by: AlanC || 12/13/2015 10:33 Comments || Top||

#4  I lived in Watertown in the Summer of '91, then to Woburn. I have to second Alan C's comment.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/13/2015 11:45 Comments || Top||

#5  A Kennedy cousin from Woburn
Presented his midwife a Cuban.
"Let's check on my wife,
Then we'll celebrate life
With a scotch and a smoke for my newborn!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 12/13/2015 16:58 Comments || Top||


Cruz Soars to Front of the Pack in Iowa Poll; Trump Support Stays Flat
[BLOOMBERG] Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has surged ahead to become the latest front-runner in the campaign for the Iowa caucuses, dislodging Ben Carson
... a neurosurgeon who is under the delusion that being brilliant qualifies him to be president....
and opening an impressive lead over a stalled Donald Trump, a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll shows.
The firebrand
...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
junior senator from Texas is backed by 31 percent of those likely to attend the Republican caucuses that start the presidential nomination season on Feb. 1. Trump is a distant second at 21 percent, up slightly from 19 percent in October, but below his peak of 23 percent in August.

Cruz's 21-percentage-point jump since October is the largest surge between Iowa Polls recorded in at least the last five presidential caucus campaigns. When first and second choices are combined, he has the support of 51 percent of likely caucus-goers. The senator's great leap forward comes largely at the expense of Carson, as Iowa's evangelicals appear to have picked the candidate they want to get behind. The retired neurosurgeon, now barely in third-place, is supported by 13 percent, down from the first-place showing he posted in October, when he was at 28 percent.
Posted by: Fred || 12/13/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good.
Posted by: newc || 12/13/2015 0:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Cowboy boots on the ground.
Posted by: Shipman || 12/13/2015 7:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Polls are manipulated? Who'd thunk? "Get on the bandwagon" now! From the news manipulators themselves. Who are you going to believe? And it's Iowa.

I thought we learned the game better at the Rant.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/13/2015 8:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Oh, yes, wasn't he the one who voted for TPA so TPP could get an up or down vote? Seems he is next up for the GOPe splitter strategy.
Posted by: pyromancer76 || 12/13/2015 9:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Unfortunately, winning Iowa is no longer a big deal, and can even hurt your chances.
Posted by: Iblis || 12/13/2015 11:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Never trust polls with less than 1000 sample size even if I really want to believe they are legit.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/13/2015 20:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Obama Dragged To Address Terror Threat, "Kicking & Screaming"
[DC Whispers] Immediately after the San Bernardino terror attack, the President of the United States was said to be initially interested in the events to the point of outright excitement for the opportunity to once again make a call for enhanced federal gun control measures -- which he did.

Within hours of the attack it became clear to federal officials that Islamic terror played an integral role.

Once that was known, Mr. Obama's enthusiasm is said to have "waned considerably." And then when the L.A. FBI office went public with calling San Bernardino a terrorist attack, both Barack Obama and Valerie Jarrett went into "warpath mode."

Jarrett's displeasure was apparently first to make itself known. She was outraged the FBI had done so without first getting prior approval from her. Jarrett was said to be particularly concerned with the proximity of the FBI's terror designation and the president's quick words on calling for more gun control measures soon after the actual San Bernardino terror attack.

They're making us look like fools!"

The focus of the White House's ire soon became FBI Director, James Comey.

Some of that conflict was outlined earlier here: BREAKING: Obama/Jarrett Warn FBI Director Over Anti-Muslim Tone

At one point, the president is said to have flung several papers onto the floor of the Oval Office as he sat behind his desk stewing over Director's Comey's now-infamous terrorist attack remarks.

"This was supposed to be a gun issue for us, not some anti-Islamic bullsh*t!"
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/13/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "They're making us look like fools!"

That's because you are fools.

I decided to finally read that copy of the Quran that I had CAIR mail to me on their dime a few months after 9/11. I'm 23 pages in. I understand that the word kufr does not mean nonbeliever, but rather 'those who deny the truth'. Someone explain to me why I should bother to read further.
Posted by: Raj || 12/13/2015 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Someone explain to me why I should bother to read further.
because you'll love the flying donkey story(actually you need to read the hadith as well...yeah I was bored)
Posted by: Classer || 12/13/2015 5:52 Comments || Top||

#3  highly stupid to link san bernadino to gun control

Islamist terrorists had a pipe bomb factory

so you kill 2 campaigns by making it look exploitative of the tragedy

especially as everyone can see that the Islamists would have just used the pipe bombs if they did not have guns
Posted by: anon1 || 12/13/2015 6:05 Comments || Top||

#4  ValJar said: They're [FBI} making us look like fools!"

Easy pickins. Not a hard task to make fools look like fools.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/13/2015 8:32 Comments || Top||

#5  What happens when the imperial staff start worrying about their own safety (and that of their families) over obeying ever more irrational direction from the emperor's inner circle? What happens when they stop obeying the decrees? What happens when self preservation means looking beyond 2016?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/13/2015 8:40 Comments || Top||

#6  During the intense back and forth among speech writers and Jarrett, was a moment where Barack Obama is said to have pointed defiantly at Jarrett and declared, “This is just as much an Israel problem as it is a gun problem! Nobody wants to say it, but it’s true!”

Huh?

Posted by: Matt || 12/13/2015 10:04 Comments || Top||

#7  It's becoming ever more clear how much Obama hates Israel.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/13/2015 11:50 Comments || Top||

#8  Fools and thin skinned petty tyrants.

If they keep going as they are, they won't make it to the end of 2016 to leave peacefully.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/13/2015 11:51 Comments || Top||

#9  He wants to create so much utter confusion, that he'll look Presidential, and the sheepul will want him to stay President, it won't work.

number two. He's a fool , and a traitor.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 12/13/2015 12:10 Comments || Top||

#10  As the end draws nigh, the mask slips more and more and the nature of the ValJar/Champ presidency and its agendas show more and more...
think back to how many at the beginning of his run asked questions that were dismissed as ridiculous that now seem so obvious.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 12/13/2015 15:46 Comments || Top||

#11  I hope ValJar has a huge pile of money to pay for her security. Because she isn't eligible for Secret Service protection post Obammers term.
Posted by: Glearong Lumumba8690 || 12/13/2015 16:07 Comments || Top||

#12  I am way to humble, and to addicted to the 'burg, to believe that I'm the only one that saw through this traitorous clique from day 1.

I'll be pleasantly surprised if a violent revolution does not begin in the next 12 months.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/13/2015 16:51 Comments || Top||

#13  #11. She'll have Quds' forces
Posted by: Frank G || 12/13/2015 17:04 Comments || Top||

#14  @#12

I believe Obumble and his ilk will do everything they can to manufacture one so they can declare martial law and do whatever the heck they want.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/13/2015 17:23 Comments || Top||

#15  Martial Law has the serious risk of resulting in civil war.
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/13/2015 17:42 Comments || Top||

#16  This...uhhemm...article reads like a cheesy fuckin' dimestore crime novel from the '50's.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 12/13/2015 18:15 Comments || Top||

#17  ValJar said: "They're [the FBI} making us look like fools!"

No, you idiot, you're making you look like fools.

BECAUSE YOU ARE FOOLS.
Posted by: Barbara || 12/13/2015 21:23 Comments || Top||

#18  Sorry about the enlarged font in #17, mods.

It was just supposed to be the last sentence. :-(
Posted by: Barbara || 12/13/2015 21:26 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2015-12-13
  Gambia now an Islamic republic, says President
Sat 2015-12-12
  US sez 3 ISIS Top Dawgs die in airstrikes
Fri 2015-12-11
  North Korea claims it has hydrogen bomb; experts skeptical
Thu 2015-12-10
  37 killed in Taliban siege at Khandahar airport
Wed 2015-12-09
  Daesh loses large part of Ramadi
Tue 2015-12-08
  Clash among the supporters of Taliban chief and Mullah Rasool leaves 24 dead
Mon 2015-12-07
  Yemen's Aden governor killed in car bombing claimed by Islamic State
Sun 2015-12-06
  AQIM shares responsibility for Mali hotel killings
Sat 2015-12-05
  Still No Confirmation On Reports Of Mullah Mansour's Death
Fri 2015-12-04
  They're here
Thu 2015-12-03
  Syed Farook is religious, sez Dad
Wed 2015-12-02
  Dozens of Houthis killed in major offensive across border from Yemen
Tue 2015-12-01
  Russia Arms Su-34s with Air-to-Air Missiles in Syria for First Time
Mon 2015-11-30
  Suspected Jihadists Attack Cash Truck in Burkina Faso
Sun 2015-11-29
  Pakistan Airstrikes Kill 17 Militants

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