Hi there, !
Today Sun 03/27/2016 Sat 03/26/2016 Fri 03/25/2016 Thu 03/24/2016 Wed 03/23/2016 Tue 03/22/2016 Mon 03/21/2016 Archives
Rantburg
532972 articles and 1859835 comments are archived on Rantburg.

Today: 73 articles and 165 comments as of 22:51.
Post a news link    Post your own article   
Area: WoT Operations    WoT Background    Non-WoT    Opinion       
Paris attacks fugitive Laachraoui named as second Brussels airport bomber
Today's Headlines
Headline Comments [Views]
Page 6: Politix
14 22:11 DarthVader [5] 
0 [4] 
23 21:04 Frank G [6] 
4 19:24 M. Murcek [4] 
3 20:53 Frank G [6] 
2 12:49 NoMoreBS [7] 
Page 1: WoT Operations
2 16:54 Shipman [1]
0 []
4 23:56 Zenobia Floger6220 [3]
0 [2]
0 [1]
0 [2]
1 13:52 Sninenter Scourge of the Faith6107 []
0 [7]
0 [4]
1 16:37 Shipman [1]
0 [1]
0 [1]
2 17:00 Shipman [4]
0 [5]
0 [5]
2 23:26 gorb [7]
0 [7]
4 20:40 Fester Thrimble9033 [4]
0 [2]
0 [6]
0 [2]
0 [4]
0 [1]
0 []
0 [4]
0 [1]
0 [2]
0 [3]
0 []
0 [3]
0 [1]
0 [4]
0 [5]
Page 2: WoT Background
2 23:05 Procopius2k [2]
2 18:10 Procopius2k [1]
1 14:53 rjschwarz [2]
0 [3]
5 22:24 rammer [5]
8 17:47 rjschwarz [3]
0 [3]
1 09:16 Wardoof [1]
2 09:20 Skidmark [2]
1 07:53 Bobby [2]
5 17:03 Shipman [5]
6 17:09 Shipman [3]
4 17:27 g(r)omgoru [3]
0 [5]
1 00:15 Besoeker [4]
0 [2]
0 [4]
2 19:20 M. Murcek [2]
0 [6]
1 17:13 Shipman [8]
2 11:10 Glusogum Unomble5785 [1]
5 22:22 Black Charlie Bourbon1513 [4]
Page 3: Non-WoT
0 [4]
6 21:06 Frank G [5]
7 22:41 DarthVader [8]
12 23:29 trailing wife [5]
2 11:12 Jusoter Jereque8230 [4]
8 17:43 JohnQC [6]
5 13:21 Skidmark [4]
2 14:51 Barbara [4]
3 20:17 swksvolFF [4]
0 [7]
0 [5]
Page 4: Opinion
10 22:15 Black Charlie Bourbon1513 [6]
-Land of the Free
Obama Says he's Not Ashamed of His Presidency
Only because he hasn't been paying attention
Posted by: Hupomoth Thaiting6973 || 03/24/2016 01:24 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No true narcissist is ever ashamed of their actions.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/24/2016 8:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Or Sociopath.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2016 9:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Ashamed? Why would he be ashamed of something he considers a success?

We haven't been watching incompetence but malevolence.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/24/2016 10:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Yeah, but to be that malevolent I think you must be a sociopath and therefore you would suffer no shame and no guilt.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/24/2016 12:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Everybody else is...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/24/2016 12:43 Comments || Top||

#6  "Obama Says he's Not Ashamed of His Presidency"

Normal people are . . . .
Posted by: Barbara || 03/24/2016 14:41 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm sure James Buchanan felt the same way about his time. All that fussing and fighting didn't start on his watch. Oh, wait never mind.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/24/2016 15:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Why am I feeling ashamed of his presidency?
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/24/2016 17:39 Comments || Top||

#9  Alan, I really think it's huge lack of a serious education, little time spent reading during the important years and a FUBAR family background.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/24/2016 17:40 Comments || Top||

#10  He did at least give the North 4 more years to industrialize.

Andrew Jackson was the only President who could have prevented the War Between the States. On John C. Calhoun long after the nullification kerfluffle , "I should have hung bastard when I had the chance"
Posted by: Shipman || 03/24/2016 17:45 Comments || Top||

#11  So when a real human being who is kind of a buffoon but not a sociopath starts winning presidential primary elections the sociopaths start going NUTS!
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/24/2016 19:27 Comments || Top||

#12  Doesn't make any sense; must not have translated well from its original Austrian.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2016 20:07 Comments || Top||

#13  We haven't been watching incompetence but malevolence.

No reason it can't be both, Alan
Posted by: Frank G || 03/24/2016 20:52 Comments || Top||

#14  Why would he be? He has achieved his goal. Bring the US down.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/24/2016 22:11 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
The Latest: Obama welcomes ‘new beginning’ with Argentina
[WASHINGTONPOST] President Barack Obama
I inhaled. That was the point...
says his trip to Buenos Aires "is a new beginning" between the United States and Argentina
...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita...
Obama is being honored at a state dinner in Argentina by President Mauricio Macri. He says the world has noticed Macri’s eagerness to re-engage Argentina with the world community.

Macri says Argentina recognizes Obama’s visit as a gesture of friendship. He says Argentina developed with the same values as the U.S.

The dinner is taking place at Latin America’s biggest cultural center, overlooking the Buenos Aires waterfront.
Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Probably another message given behind closed doors.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2016 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Careful Macri, Obama does not like American values and ran his very campaign on changing them.

Again, its all good around fellow commies right?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/24/2016 20:34 Comments || Top||

#3  "I look forward to a compromise on the Malvinas"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/24/2016 20:53 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Full text of the speech Sanders chose to deliver somewhere other than at AIPAC
[IsraelTimes] Bernie Sanders was the only presidential candidate who opted not to speak at AIPAC’s 2016 conference, citing campaign commitments elsewhere. Here’s the address he says he would have delivered
Since I posted links to the texts of the speeches Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton made to AIPAC the other day, I thought I'd post the Bern's for comparison. I suspect he decided not to go after he wrote the thing, choosing to avoid the predictable AIPAC reaction.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/24/2016 01:05 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


John Kasich Lone GOP Candidate Preaching Tolerance of Muslims
[PJ] Gov. John Kasich of Ohio on Tuesday cautioned against monitoring Muslim-Americans after the attacks in Brussels, saying that such a step would create division and harm the country’s ability to gather intelligence.

His comments came after one of his rivals, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, called for law enforcement "to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized."

Mr. Kasich told reporters in Minneapolis, "We are not at war with Islam; we’re at war with radical Islam."

"In our country," he said, "we don’t want to create divisions where we say, ‘O.K., well your religion, you’re a Muslim, so therefore we’re going to keep an eye on you.’" He added that "the last thing we need is more polarization."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2016 00:29 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They get polarized if we watch them and keep them from attacking us.

We get polarized if we don't watch them and they attack us.

Choose.
Posted by: gorb || 03/24/2016 1:26 Comments || Top||

#2  It must have been so polarizing for the Japanese and Germans back in the Forties
Posted by: charger || 03/24/2016 1:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Elect Ted, and see how he switches.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2016 4:12 Comments || Top||

#4  He's running in the wrong primary.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/24/2016 8:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Like kicking anthills.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2016 9:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Thats why Ted isnt popular in the senate. He doesn't change from his core values. Unlike spineless McConnell and McCain and Gang Of 8 Rubio. All Kasich is doing now is making sure that the race goes to Trump by dividing the anti-Trump vote, so he can get a job in the Trump administration. Shame of it is, Trump is going to lose bigger than anyone since Mondale based on the latest RCP polls.
Posted by: Flating Noodleman1816 || 03/24/2016 11:02 Comments || Top||

#7  The ugly truth. Trump loses massively to Clinton and that is before the progressive and liberal media goes after Trumps already historically massive negatives - Trump backers are suicidal. Cruz is close but still loses - Cruzers can argue, but when the press gets done, Hillary will probably beat him.

Here is the kicker: Kasich wins vs Clinton. WTF? Is Kasich going to be the establishment guy that steals the nomination if Trump does not win it outright?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html

Clinton +11%

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_kasich_vs_clinton-5162.html

Clinton +2%

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_kasich_vs_clinton-5162.html

Kasich + 6.6% <-shocker
Posted by: Knuckles Ebbinerong4882 || 03/24/2016 11:10 Comments || Top||

#8  Why do we have so many Democrats running for the Republican nomination?
Posted by: Unomock Fillmore1957 || 03/24/2016 11:54 Comments || Top||

#9  I wish I could see into the future the way Knuckles and Flating do. I wish I was clairvoyant like that. I wouldn't bother with politics. I'd make my fortune on Wall Street. Then I could buy and sell the politicians like Soros does.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/24/2016 12:11 Comments || Top||

#10  We're going to harm our country's ability to gather intelligence by gathering intelligence? Sounds like donk logic to me.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/24/2016 12:17 Comments || Top||

#11  Why do we have so many Democrats running for the Republican nomination?

Maybe because the GOPe became Donk Lite long ago. Their only bitch is that they're no longer at the controls.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/24/2016 12:30 Comments || Top||

#12  I can't believe anyone on this site, especially contributors, believes the polls. Shame on you.
If Trump is the best we can do then vote Trump. If we get Cruz, then vote Cruz. Vote for the best person available.
Anyone would be better than Hillary.
Posted by: jvalentour || 03/24/2016 12:43 Comments || Top||

#13  #NeverHillary agreed.

The problem is she should not even be there. She should be indicted. The Obama InJustice Dept refuses to prosecute. Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed had nothing on this bunch of corrupt bureaucrats. They are Chicago machine all the way. Rostenkowski, George Ryan, Blagojevich, Mel Reynolds, the Crouthers family, all of them the Chicago Democrat contemporaries and forebears of Obama.

Posted by: Snatch Angaing1897 || 03/24/2016 13:34 Comments || Top||

#14  Yes, its absolutely amazing how polls always narrow as the real election comes close.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/24/2016 13:35 Comments || Top||

#15  Polls have been fairly accurate in predicting the rise of Trump. Why would they not be as considered for his fall? Its the media that is shaping all this.
Posted by: Grinert Bucket6117 || 03/24/2016 13:36 Comments || Top||

#16  The only poll that counts is the one on election day.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/24/2016 14:04 Comments || Top||

#17  At what point can we start calling Kasich a Democrat? I mean he came in 4th in a 3 person race in Arizona because his policies are so out of line with the base.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/24/2016 14:46 Comments || Top||

#18  The only poll that counts is the one on election day.

With rampant voter fraud like this event back in 2012, that's what I'm worried about the most.
Posted by: Dar || 03/24/2016 14:59 Comments || Top||

#19  Kasich and his supporters need to feel continuous heat for why they haven't folded their campaign. All he's doing at this point is taking up space (and votes) that belong elsewhere--he can't win, and if the "establishment" were to attempt to install him at a brokered convention there would be outright rebellion.
Posted by: Crusader || 03/24/2016 15:49 Comments || Top||

#20  Someone did not get the memo.
Posted by: newc || 03/24/2016 16:50 Comments || Top||

#21  It's sort of like those preachers who designate a date of the end of the world which then comes and goes, but they still believe what they have to say.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/24/2016 16:59 Comments || Top||

#22  GOPe rumor says if they can get to a contest convention, nobody with a first ballot majority, then Kasich gets the VP nod with Walker as a compromise Presidential nominee.

Im not sure how that works. Walker would be a good president in all likelihood, and he could beat Hillary simply be not being as abrasive as Trump. But he did sell out in his campaign by hiring establishment guys to run it and they ran him into the ground. Who is to day Rove and company wouldn't repeat that in the general election.

The GOP needs a giant enema, and right now, that appears to be what it is getting in Trump.
Posted by: Sholuter Uloluck2920 || 03/24/2016 20:53 Comments || Top||

#23  Kasich: "I'm not dead yet. I'm getting better. I feeel happy"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/24/2016 21:04 Comments || Top||


American Muslims defy Cruz's call for surveillance
[ORLANDOSENTINEL] A few miles from Disneyland is a place most tourists never see. The signs along the thoroughfare suddenly switch to Arabic script advertising hookah shops, Middle Eastern sweets and halal meat.

At a run-down strip mall in the neighborhood known as Little Arabia, flags from a half-dozen Muslim countries flap in a stiff breeze. Flying above them is a giant American flag.

After Sen. Ted Cruz called for increased surveillance of Muslims in the U.S., many people in this community and others like it either challenged the Republican presidential candidate or dismissed his comments as mostly meaningless rhetoric.
Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The key word is "increased" surveillance. Believe it or not, currently there is ongoing targeted surveillance in muslim communities. Problem is the FBI's Civil Rights division appears to have more clout then their CT division. Perhaps, Cruz will clarify.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 03/24/2016 14:10 Comments || Top||

#2  How come nobody has mentioned a moritorium on building new mosques or expanding old ones. Is that a touchier subject than stopping immigration?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/24/2016 14:44 Comments || Top||

#3  According to wiki, The overall number of mosques in the United States quietly rose from 1,209 in 2000 to 2,106 in 2010, an increase of 74%. Through 2014, a building boom for mosques has been going on.

If so damn many of them weren't immigrating to the U.S., they wouldn't need all these mosques.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/24/2016 17:38 Comments || Top||

#4  The "rest of us," also known as members of no particular politically favored minority, have been told for years that "if we are not doing anything wrong, we have nothing to worry about" with respect to loss of privacy, heightened scruitiny, etc. Interesting...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/24/2016 19:24 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Champ regime Engaged in Secret Talks to Pay Iran Nearly $2 Billion
[Free Beacon] The Obama administration has spent three years engaged in secret talks with Iran that resulted in the payment of nearly $2 billion in taxpayer funds to the Islamic Republic, with more payouts likely to come in the future, according to a recent letter issued by the State Department and obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.

The administration’s disclosure came in response to an inquiry launched in January by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.), who was seeking further information about the Obama administration’s payment of $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds to Iran, which many viewed as a "ransom payment" for Iran’s release that month of several U.S. hostages.

The administration’s official response to Pompeo was sent earlier this week, just days after a Free Beacon report detailing a months-long State Department effort to stall the lawmaker’s inquiry.

"We apologize for the delay in responding," Julia Frifield, an assistant secretary for legislative affairs, states in the letter’s opening.

Obama administration officials first began talks to settle a number of outstanding legal claims leveled against the United States by Iran in 2014. The administration predicts that more taxpayer-funded payments are likely to be granted to the Islamic Republic in the future, according to the letter.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Jarret is behind this. Iranian agent.
Posted by: Vortigern Big Foot5474 || 03/24/2016 10:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe one of the smarter people here can explain why our judicial system allows nations with whom we don't have diplomatic relations can avail themselves of redress in our courts?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 03/24/2016 12:49 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
32[untagged]
14Islamic State
4Taliban
3Govt of Pakistain Proxies
2Govt of Syria
2Houthis
2al-Shabaab
1Govt of Saudi Arabia
1Haqqani Network
1Hezbollah
1Hizb-i-Islami-Hekmatyar
1ISIL-K
1Islamic Jihad
1al-Qaeda in Arabia
1Jaish al-Islam (MB)
1Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh
1Narcos
1al-Nusra
1Arab Spring
1Govt of Iran
1Govt of Pakistan

Bookmark
E-Mail Me

The Classics
The O Club
Rantburg Store
The Bloids
The Never-ending Story
Thugburg
Gulf War I
The Way We Were
Bio

Merry-Go-Blog











On Sale now!


A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
Click here for more information

Meet the Mods
In no particular order...
Steve White
Seafarious
tu3031
badanov
sherry
ryuge
GolfBravoUSMC
Bright Pebbles
trailing wife
Gloria
Fred
Besoeker
Glenmore
Frank G
3dc
Skidmark

Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2016-03-24
  Paris attacks fugitive Laachraoui named as second Brussels airport bomber
Wed 2016-03-23
  Hamas stages military exercises to test Gaza readiness
Tue 2016-03-22
  IS attacks at Brussels airport, metro, at least 34 dead, 200 injured
Mon 2016-03-21
  Yemen govt, rebels, agree on ceasefire: Officials say
Sun 2016-03-20
  Al-Qaeda claims attack on Algerian gas plant
Sat 2016-03-19
  Suicide bomber attacks shopping area in Istanbul
Fri 2016-03-18
  Kurds preparing to liberate Raqqa
Thu 2016-03-17
  11 Shaboobs slain as Punties continue cleanup
Wed 2016-03-16
  ISIS executes 50 for desertion in Anbar
Tue 2016-03-15
  Hamas commander killed in 10th tunnel cave-in this year
Mon 2016-03-14
  Syrian rebels renew chemical attacks in Aleppo
Sun 2016-03-13
  Dozens dead after explosion rocks Turkish capital
Sat 2016-03-12
  US adds Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin members to list of global terrorists
Fri 2016-03-11
  US strikes IS group chemical weapons capabilities: Pentagon
Thu 2016-03-10
  Afghan woman kills 25 Taliban rebels to avenge her son's murder
Wed 2016-03-09
  Infighting among Taliban leaders leave 26 dead in Herat province


Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
3.144.35.148
Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:
WoT Operations (33)    WoT Background (22)    Non-WoT (11)    Opinion (1)    (0)