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Top Saudi, UAE Commanders among 150 Forces Killed in Yemen Tochka Attack
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
No Christmas presents for the first daughters
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] "They don't want me to waste my energy picking out something they don't want so it'll just be the money," first lady Michelle Obama told a patient at Children's National Medical Center Monday when asked what she was giving her family.

She also divulged what the president will find under the tree.

"He's going to get some workout stuff. It's not going to be very interesting this year, honey. Sorry," said the first lady, according to press pool reports.
Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course they all get a $3 million trip to hawaii from us taxpayers.
Posted by: chris || 12/16/2015 0:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Money as a Christmas gift would be just fine with most kids I know.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/16/2015 5:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Training for life at the trough. Who needs a bust of Churchill or a necklace that won't fit around a cow's neck when cold hard cash can be had instead?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/16/2015 8:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Like everything else with this family, they missed the point of Christmas.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/16/2015 9:31 Comments || Top||

#5  49Pan when they are Muzzie Socialists of course the miss the point of Christmas.
Posted by: 3dc || 12/16/2015 12:10 Comments || Top||

#6  That graphic is a cold shot.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 12/16/2015 14:16 Comments || Top||

#7  It's the thoughtlessness that counts.
Posted by: regular joe || 12/16/2015 16:01 Comments || Top||

#8  Did they get anything for Eid or May Day?
Posted by: charger || 12/16/2015 17:00 Comments || Top||

#9  Saving it for Ramadan?
Posted by: gorb || 12/16/2015 22:41 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Chris Matthews Offended That Chris Christie Called ISIS 'Animals'
[MEDIAITE] Host of MSNBC’s Hardball Chris My Thigh is Tingling! Matthews
... the late Tip O'Neill's former gopher who has magazines with centerfolds of Barack Obama in his bathroom...
went after Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie Monday, arguing that his use of the term “animals” to describe ISIS was anti-Muslim.
I dunno. Sends a tingle right up my leg.
“Republicans now say it’s okay to hate Muslims,” Matthews said, pointing to heated rhetoric from Christie, as well as from his GOP rival Ted Cruz.
Can we chop the heads off takfiri without hating them? Seems like it'd be harder that way...
“I mean, when you hear ‘carpet bombing,’ there’s no way to hear that from Cruz without knowing a lot of regular people that just happen to live in those geographical areas will die because you’re carpet bombing,” he argued.
Yet we did the same thing to Dresden, Hamburg, Duesseldorf, and Tokyo, to mention but a few. It needed done then for the same reasons it does now: we've got the same kind of enemy.
“And also, ‘animals’? I mean, call them what they are, bad people. But what’s this ‘animal’ thing that Christie’s throwing around?” Matthews complained.
"Bad people" is kind of a wimpy description. "Raving lunatics" is closer. The only difference I can see between ISIS and the SS is that the latter had niftier uniforms.
Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Chris thinks calling ISIS animals is anti-muslim? So he equates all of the foul thing ISIS does to Islam in general? Who is the bigot here Mr Mathews.

That has to be the most morally blind thing I've ever read.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/16/2015 0:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Clearly an offense which can only be remedied on the field of honor.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/16/2015 6:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, he thought he was parroting liberal dogma correctly. It's going to be entertaining to watch him climb down from that.
Posted by: gorb || 12/16/2015 6:34 Comments || Top||

#4  What the hell would Matthews call them?

Maybe it is time for one of Patton's colorful quotes:

Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler. Just like I'd shoot a snake!

Matthews wouldn't like that quote either. What team is he pitching for?
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/16/2015 8:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Chris only thinks conservatives are animals, thus the confusion.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/16/2015 9:04 Comments || Top||

#6  So Matthews is cool with caging a person and lighting them on fire, among other war crimes.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/16/2015 9:51 Comments || Top||

#7  The tingle is gone.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 12/16/2015 12:37 Comments || Top||

#8  Relax Chris -- he meant "animal" as in "strong horse."
Posted by: regular joe || 12/16/2015 13:00 Comments || Top||

#9  What are the other choices? Plants? Microbes? What an idiot.
Posted by: Sven the pelter || 12/16/2015 15:10 Comments || Top||

#10  Let's call them "Chris Matthews".
Posted by: charger || 12/16/2015 16:59 Comments || Top||


DNC Chair Encourages Dems to Invite Muslims to State of the Union to Rebuke Trump
[MEDIAITE] The head of the Democratic National Committee is encouraging party members in Congress to invite Muslim-Americans to President B.O.'s State of the Union next month as a rebuke to Donald Trump.

And no, based on Politico's reporting, they don't specifically say it's a rebuke to Trump himself, but it's pretty strongly implied in some of the language they use.

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish...
and Congressman Keith Ellison (one of two Muslims in Congress) wrote a joint letter to House Democrats saying that inviting Muslims to the State of the Union sends a message that "we will not be intimidated by fear into discrimination."

They say, "There could be no stronger expression of support for our American values than sending this message of solidarity through the extension of this invitation."
I think this is a grand idea. I'd be sure to identify each and every Dem in the House that does this, and send pics of that Dem and their 'guests' to all their constituents. You know, just like pols do to advertise what swell guys they are.
Posted by: Fred || 12/16/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Invite thousands of Muslims to the capital and announce there will be no security check because you are confident that Islam is the religion of peace.
Posted by: Airandee || 12/16/2015 6:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Give them unguided tours of the White House while they're there.
Posted by: Halliburton - Foreign Affairs Division || 12/16/2015 7:27 Comments || Top||

#3  This unhinged woman has completely lost her mind and is bonkers nutso. With her at the DNC and Obozo in the WH, who needs an enemy? She ought to be criticizing Obozo for taking the country down the dumper. Pathetic.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/16/2015 9:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Vests optional? I'm sure you can help them skirt security.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/16/2015 9:04 Comments || Top||

#5  President B.O.'s State of the Union
A target-rich opportunity if they can get their sh*t together.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/16/2015 10:47 Comments || Top||

#6  "bring 'clocks'"

Snark of the day week.
Posted by: Frank G || 12/16/2015 12:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Same bitch who wants twenty million tax payer dollars to pay for the democrat convention.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 12/16/2015 12:39 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2015-12-16
  Top Saudi, UAE Commanders among 150 Forces Killed in Yemen Tochka Attack
Tue 2015-12-15
  Breaking: L.A. School District shut down due to credible terror threat
Mon 2015-12-14
  40 die in Damascus airstrikes
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
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  Yemen's Aden governor killed in car bombing claimed by Islamic State
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  Still No Confirmation On Reports Of Mullah Mansour's Death
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  Dozens of Houthis killed in major offensive across border from Yemen


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