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At least 70 dead as bomb rips through Lal Shahbaz shrine in Sehwan, Sindh
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Chelsea Clinton Calls Arrest of Undocumented Immigrant With 6 Prior Deportations ‘Horrifying'
[Free Beacon] Chelsea Clinton took to Twitter on Wednesday night to air her opinion on the detainment of an undocumented immigrant who has already been deported six times, calling the woman's arrest "unconscionably terrible."

The undocumented woman, who is also a convicted criminal, was arrested last week while she was at a Texas courthouse receiving a protective order after filing abuse allegations against her boyfriend, the El Paso Times reported Wednesday.

The woman was detained after a criminal complaint was filed on Feb. 9 that indicated she had previously been deported from the United States.

Clinton wrote she needed a thesaurus to explain how horrified she was by the arrest.

"I need a thesaurus. What's another word for horrifying? Sick? Awful? Running out of adjectives these days that mean unconscionably terrible," she wrote on Twitter.
The poor darling. How dreadful to be so vocabulary-impoverished.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/17/2017 01:15 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now, when the hubby's business went belly up, she has to go into politics to restore family fortune?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/17/2017 2:17 Comments || Top||

#2  She needs to be Alinskied totally out of even a remote possibility of being elected dog catcher. Only pictures of her a site like this should ever show is the full Howdy Doody Photoshop job...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2017 6:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Chelsea doing her Webb Hubbell impersonation. That really is crass and disrespectful.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/17/2017 6:22 Comments || Top||

#4  ...There are several sources suggesting that it was the abusive ex who turned her in to los Federales,so that's going to be the Official Line on this, not the fact that for all his alleged scumminess, the guy DID turn in a felon.


Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 02/17/2017 7:23 Comments || Top||

#5  No lady, your face is horrifying.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/17/2017 7:57 Comments || Top||

#6  She certainly does have that webb Hubbell likeness.
"Horrified", might apply if you find yourself doing the perp walk after heading up a criminal foundation and then serving time with a bunch of lumberjack dykes in the Graybar.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/17/2017 8:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Big nose, red hail, bad teeth,...
is she really Trump's daughter?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/17/2017 10:24 Comments || Top||

#8  It's horrifying that a national political figure like the Daughter of Hildebeest is openly advocating breaking the law.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/17/2017 11:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Stanford grad needs a thesaurus.
Posted by: KBK || 02/17/2017 12:41 Comments || Top||

#10  So why don't you fund her legal defense, Chelsea?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/17/2017 13:00 Comments || Top||

#11  I hope to God that worthless offspring never holds public office.
Posted by: Crusader || 02/17/2017 13:16 Comments || Top||

#12  Will someone please make a rubber mask of this face. I will buy one to keep by my front door. It will get the Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormon's that come to my door running away to save their souls. She is at least a three bagger.
Posted by: Dopey Phuger3886 || 02/17/2017 14:05 Comments || Top||

#13  To be fair to Chelsea, her audience doesn't really care about any of that stuff. she's just following in her mom's footsteps in telling folks what the want to hear.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/17/2017 14:08 Comments || Top||

#14  Well NOW you understand, but too late. Where were yawl when I was running the TIE CHELSEAS TUBES NOW! Fund? Huh? Huh?

:(
Posted by: Shipman || 02/17/2017 15:24 Comments || Top||

#15  Can't you put something up on the headline if you run her pictures again? Something like NSFD (Not Safe For Dinner/Digestion)?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 02/17/2017 20:33 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Congress approves CRA repeal of Obama gun regulation ‐ with ACLU's blessing
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/17/2017 09:30 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You know it is some real bullshit regulation when the ACLU teams up with the NRA to push back on this.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/17/2017 9:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Searching for some MSM story to confirm the Hot Air story, I had to cross the pond to The Guardian to get the story.

The claim they need donations; I just might reconsider.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/17/2017 13:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Reconsider?
Posted by: Phaper Crugum8267 || 02/17/2017 21:34 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
An apology to David Horowitz: He was right about Bill Kristol
The odious Bill Kristol tweeted today, "Obviously strongly prefer normal democratic and constitutional politics. But if it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state." For those who are not aware of the term "deep state," it refers to the secret services in a dictatorship who overthrow governments, manipulate the press, and otherwise eliminate opponents. I first heard the term in reference to Turkey, whose military and intelligence services overthrew governments they didn't like with depressing regulatory during the postwar period. To speak of a "deep state" in an American context is to say that the United States is turning into a banana republic.

...Last May 15, the perspicacious David Horowitz denounced Kristol in Breitbart as a "renegade Jew." Of course, the headline was employed later to show that Breitbart was anti-Semitic--even though Horowitz was arguing that Kristol had betrayed critical Jewish interests. I responded with a note in this space to the effect that Kristol wasn't a "renegade Jew," just a sore loser throwing tantrum. It was "churlish," I said, to attack a man's religion in that way.

Horowitz was right and I was wrong, and I herewith offer him my apology.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/17/2017 03:51 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Decent people should cross the street to avoid walking too close to him.

Should leave a mark, but in the case of someone like Kristol, prolly won't. Pity that...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/17/2017 6:03 Comments || Top||

#2  For those who are not aware of the term "deep state," it refers to the secret services in a dictatorship who overthrow governments, manipulate the press, and otherwise eliminate opponents.

They generally (but not always) concentrate their regime toppling efforts on foreign governments.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/17/2017 6:27 Comments || Top||

#3  To speak of a "deep state" in an American context is to say that the United States is turning into a banana republic.

Kristol prefers the rule of law being torn down, the courts and bureaucracy being politicized and weaponized, the Constitution being trashed, chaos being generated from the WH in our streets and laws being issued by the WH to suit the ruling party. Sounds a bit like National Socialist Germany in the run up to WWII.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/17/2017 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Power is self rationalizing and self justifying.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/17/2017 10:33 Comments || Top||

#5  A useful idiot. He isn't smart enough to realize that the new regime might not treat him as well as he expects.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/17/2017 11:33 Comments || Top||


Government
New FOIA release: Obama admin knew immediately Benghazi was "direct breaching" terror attack, not "under cover of protest"
[Hot Air] Perhaps the subject of the terror attack on the US consulate in Benghazi will become more academic than political after the 2016 election denied Hillary Clinton the presidency. For now, though, documents continue to emerge that contradict the narrative created by Hillary and the Barack Obama White House about the nature of the attack. Yesterday, Judicial Watch received 54 more pages from its FOIA lawsuits and came across a bombshell buried in them. Notes of a State Department briefing for Congressional aides on the day after the attack show Undersecretary Patrick Kennedy acknowledging that the attack was not a protest gone bad, or even an attack under the cover of protest. It was, Kennedy told the Congressional aides, "a direct breaching attack":

Judicial Watch today released 54 pages of new State Department documents, including a transcript of a September 12 2012, telephone conference call with congressional staffers in which then-Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy admitted that the deadly terrorist assault on the Benghazi Consulate was not "under cover of protest," but was, in fact, "a direct breaching attack."

The exchange comes late in the conversation with Robert Carter, an aide to Rep. Michael C. Burgess (R-TX). Carter asks Kennedy directly whether this involved a protest, and Kennedy says no:
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/17/2017 05:16 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, but it was still caused by the video, right?

I mean, they put the guy in jail, didn't they?

[channeling Pelosi, or maybe Cynthia McKinney]
Posted by: Bobby || 02/17/2017 7:39 Comments || Top||

#2  I mean, they put the guy in jail, didn't they?

Yeah, but they got the wrong guy.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/17/2017 8:58 Comments || Top||

#3  So... how long do I have to wait for criminal charges to be filed?
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/17/2017 9:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Watched "13 Hours" again.
And it left me rabid and slavering just like the last time.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/17/2017 10:22 Comments || Top||

#5  "What difference does it make?"

I'd say the difference between being the President and trying to get lucrative 6 figure speaking engagements in 2017.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/17/2017 10:32 Comments || Top||

#6  "What difference does it make?"

All the difference in the world to Langley...
Posted by: Pappy || 02/17/2017 12:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Is Mr. Nakoula still languishing in jail somewhere?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/17/2017 13:05 Comments || Top||

#8  Mr Nakoula, last we saw of him was last year - homeless somewhere in LA
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 02/17/2017 13:42 Comments || Top||

#9  According to Wikipedia:

In August 2013, Nakoula was released from prison to serve his remaining sentence in a halfway house, and then to be on probation for the next four years.[51] On 26 September 2013, he was released from the halfway house to the custody of Pastor Wiley Drake of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, California.[52] As of November 2015, Nakoula was living at a Los Angeles homeless shelter and working part-time at a pizza parlor.[53]
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/17/2017 17:51 Comments || Top||



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