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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Melania Trump to visit Ghana, Malawi, Kenya, Egypt in October
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Probably won't hear much about this, unless it's to criticize her clothes.
Posted by: Fred || 09/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why?
Why not ANY North American Indian reservation?
Why not Appalachia or any former coal mining town?
Why not the lowland communities of the Southeast?
Why not the failed city/states in the US?

How many votes in Ghana?
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/27/2018 5:44 Comments || Top||

#2  This is very likely about a future UN position.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/27/2018 6:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Why not the failed Democrat-led city/states in the US?

Security concerns
Posted by: Frank G || 09/27/2018 7:35 Comments || Top||

#4  She launched the campaign in May to focus on overall child well-being, with an emphasis on opioid addiction and online behavior.

I don't think opioids or troll posting are problems there, maybe eating albinos.

Clueless.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/27/2018 9:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Good will outreach Skid.
Posted by: Woodrow || 09/27/2018 13:24 Comments || Top||

#6  Definitely goodwill, as Woodrow says. Probably booked as a listening tour. And it’s a nice demonstration of President Trump’s confidence in her ability to manage the touchy heads of minor Third World countries. Can you imagine the disaster Mrs. Obama would have made of such a trip in her arrogant, English-only ignorance?
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/27/2018 13:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Don't blame her from wanting to be out of Washington DC right now.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/27/2018 22:55 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Soetoro sez he'd work on global warming if he were president again
[Breitbart] INTERVIEWER: First of all, what everyone is curious about, if you were president once more for a day, what would you have done and why?

OBAMA: You know, the truth is if I would president for a day I would do much because the nature of the U.S. presidency, although it is obviously is an extraordinarily powerful position, you stand atop a big ocean line. Steering that ship takes a lot of people and a long time, even if there is a move of a few degrees. So, in one day, I would say hello to all the staff at the White House that I miss. But, obviously, if I had a longer stretch of time, there was a lot of unfinished business when I left. That’s the nature of democracy, you take the baton from the person behind you and you run your race, then you have pass it on and you haven’t done everything you would like to do. The single highest priority that I see globally is the issue of environmental sustainability and climate change.

Obviously, Paris Accords were an important step in the right direction, but it was only a first step and so much more work needs to be done. The good news is technology is accelerating faster than we might have expected, and I’m confident that if we’re able to create an effective ridge over, let’s say over the course of 25-30 years with more efficiency and deployment of existing technology, that we could get to a point were new technologies take us where we need to go. But, that requires a level of political and social commitment on the part of all of us: businesses, the non-profit sector, each of us individuals, that right now is not forthcoming. Unfortunately, we have a U.S administration that deals differently around these issues.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/27/2018 05:26 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thank the gods he's gone!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/27/2018 6:50 Comments || Top||

#2  That shit talking jackass never worked a day in his life.
Posted by: Jeremiah Elmutch1261 || 09/27/2018 8:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Deep in the Bunker under the Reichskanzlei White House the Führer President Obama was disheartened that the German American people had failed him in the struggle election.
Posted by: magpie || 09/27/2018 9:18 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 So true. The dream is still there. The lust for power and adulation is craved by this man. In my opinion he will if he hasn't already returned to his drug of choice. No happy ending for this man.
Posted by: Dale || 09/27/2018 13:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Bad boy Barry, a bloviating blowhard bass-turd.
Posted by: Woodrow || 09/27/2018 13:18 Comments || Top||

#6  And so it begins.

All part of the fall-back plan developed almost two years ago.
Posted by: Bobby || 09/27/2018 13:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Obummble should get off the stage and quit plaguing the America people. The last 8 years seemed like 40.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/27/2018 14:15 Comments || Top||

#8  Damn Bourgeoise Jerk.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/27/2018 23:11 Comments || Top||

#9  That is the one scenario under which the climate might actually become a genuine problem.
Posted by: Iblis || 09/27/2018 23:37 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Judiciary Committee Talking to Two Men Who Think They Assaulted Ford
The Senate Judiciary Committee is talking to two men who think they may have been the one who assaulted Christine Blasey Ford, one of the women accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault.

Ford wrote a letter in July to Senator Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the committee, detailing the alleged assault. Kavanaugh and a classmate, Mark Judge, trapped her in a bedroom at an alcohol-saturated party when they were both minors in high school, she said. Kavanaugh then pinned her to a bed and tried to take off her clothes before she managed to escape, she claimed.

However, the unidentified men in question told the committee in separate interviews that they, not Kavanaugh, were the one who had the encounter with Ford in the summer of 1982 that is the basis of her claim, the committee wrote in a timeline of the investigation.

One of the men produced a detailed, written statement about his recollection of the [event]

Well, forgive me, but I think Christine had "encounters" with hundreds of men
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/27/2018 01:58 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ford will testify to the committee on Thursday about her accusation.

Lay down your bets!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/27/2018 2:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Incidentally, where was Kavanaugh when Skripal was poisoned?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/27/2018 2:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Obviously Bill Clinton attended the wrong high school.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/27/2018 6:14 Comments || Top||

#4  2018/09/27 @ 03:45 THURS

I am Spartacus.
I admit I am the one who tried to take advantage of Christine Blasey Ford way back then.
And I am willing to testify under certain conditions.
Of course my recollection of the details is vague considering my state of intoxication.
And the incident was not a big deal to me.
I have moved on to bigger and better things.
Posted by: boomerc || 09/27/2018 7:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Beyond the statutes of limitations. Yep, the I'm Spartacus moment played against the pawns of the Left.
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 09/27/2018 7:11 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/27/2018 9:38 Comments || Top||

#7  One wonders of the list of Alumni who had not boinked Ford would be shorter. Much shorter.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/27/2018 9:53 Comments || Top||


Kavanaugh Releases Summer Calendars And Suddenly Julie Swetnick Appears
...Now, suddenly there’s a third victim out there! Michael Avanetti has grandly announced he has a client who has absolute PROOF that Kavanaugh is a partier and a rapist, and dumps this on Twitter.

...What is missing from her statement? Seems that Kavanaugh nor Judge for that matter even touched Swetnick.

Wait what? That’s exactly right folks. Read her statement thoroughly. Nowhere in that statement is anything that even points to Kavanaugh touching her or any other woman for that matter.

So is this proof? Is this the smoking gun that is going to finally crater Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination? Well... a couple of things to consider.

...Take a look. He is asked if Julie Swetnick is accusing Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her. Does he provide a yes or no answer?

...Remember, the FBI conducted SIX deep background checks on Kavanaugh over the years. How in the world did they miss uncovering details of gang rape parties? Swetnick asserts in her declaration that EVERYONE knew and most of Georgetown Prep participated in these parties. If that is true, then why wasn’t this uncovered during Neil Gorsuch’s hearing?

If those gang rape parties really happened, why didn’t anyone call the police?

Incidentally, can Kavanaugh prove that, in earlier incarnation, he wasn't the Roman centurion leading the detail that crucified a certain Judean religious rabble rouser?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/27/2018 01:42 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Notice how each accusation is seemingly more egregious than the previous one...

The leftists are "accelerating commitment" on beating Kavanaugh.

I don't really understand why Roe v. Wade is a hill to die on for the leftists, unless it is to defend the concept that Justices can invent legal precedence without Constitutional merit by quoting laws of other nations or public opinion.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 09/27/2018 10:33 Comments || Top||

#2  If those gang rape parties really happened, why didn’t anyone call the police?

They were too confused and frightened, doncha know? Every last one of 'em.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/27/2018 10:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Starting to feel like the McMartan pre-school trials in the 80s. People starting to believe the impossible.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/27/2018 10:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Ex boyfriend filed restraint order against Swetnick because of threats against him and his family.

The sh!# show continues. The Dems are desperate to stop the Kavanaugh appointment.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/27/2018 11:03 Comments || Top||

#5  There are bigger issues with regard to the Supreme Court than the sub 100 IQ antics at the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings circus going on as we speak.

HERE is, of all things, an Australian blog that discusses the more fundamental issues. Unfortunately, Congress does not have the sense of values or collective level of intelligence to see the big picture.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/27/2018 13:05 Comments || Top||

#6  There landed in Auburn an alien
Who spoke not a word of Australian.
Along came Obama
To translate: "No drama!
I'm fluent in sesquipedalian."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 09/27/2018 14:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Lindsey Graham just blew his top at his Democrat colleagues and called the whole thing a sham. He was quite angry and intense. Dunno what's gotten into him but if that outburst doesn't make it onto the network nightly newscasts, the mask will have clearly dropped to the floor.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/27/2018 17:14 Comments || Top||

#8  Lindsay apparently had a testosterone steroid injection. It was amazing. His Democrat "friends" had to be shocked, and pushed back
Posted by: Frank G || 09/27/2018 19:34 Comments || Top||

#9  Linsay Graham says it well.
Posted by: SR-71 || 09/27/2018 20:15 Comments || Top||

#10  Here is a thought provoking timeline: 1982 - Something may or may not have happened with another 2 (or 4) teenagers at a party, she cannot remember who threw the party, where the
party was held, who she was with or how she got home. She was drinking and said nothing to anyone.
> 1983,
> 1984,
> 1985,
> 1986,
> 1987,
> 1988,
> 1989,
> 1990,
> 1991,
> 1992,
> 1993,
> 1994,
> 1995,
> 1996,
> 1997,
> 1998,
> 1999,
> 2000,
> 2001,
> 2002... She said nothing.
> July 25, 2003: President George W. Bush nominated Kavanaugh
> to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C Circuit...
> She said nothing.
> 2004,
> 2005... She said nothing.
> May 11, 2006: The United States Senate Committee on the
> Judiciary recommended confirmation. Kavanaugh subsequently
> confirmed by the United States Senate... She said nothing.
> June 1, 2006: Kavanaugh sworn in by Justice Anthony
> Kennedy... She said nothing.
> 2007,
> 2008,
> 2009,
> 2010,
> 2011... She said nothing.
> 2012... She remembered 'something' happened in 1982,
> yet doesn't name Kavanaugh, still said nothing to
> authorities.
> 2013,
> 2014,
> 2015,
> 2016,
> 2017 - becomes an anti-trump activist.
> 2018 - now 36 years later, with Kavanaugh's SCOTUS
> confirmation looming, she pens an anonymous letter with
> grave accusations against Kavanaugh regarding foggy
> circumstance that occurred while they were both minors, then
> reveals herself and DEMANDS an FBI investigation before
> testifying to her incredible allegations?·
> This is a page right out of the Democrat
> playbook. Can you say Clarence
> Thomas?He called it “a
> technical lynching!”
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/27/2018 20:19 Comments || Top||

#11  In most of DC it'd be totally unremarkable for a child born in '83 to have walking, talking grandkids by now... not that the camera hogs disgracing themselves today will lose any sleep about how that comes to pass.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 09/27/2018 21:25 Comments || Top||



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