Idiocy and the erosion of the faith in our system continue
After a hard-fought and often nasty campaign, Georgia’s Secretary of State Brian Kemp has won the race to become the state’s next governor over House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams.
Kemp eked out a victory with fewer than 70,000 votes separating him from Abrams. Quixotic Libertarian candidate Ted Metz picked up just over 37,000 votes.
Kemp has declared victory in the race. His campaign manager Cody Hall told the media:
"Based on counts released by the Secretary of State’s office, Brian Kemp’s margin is so large that the number of provisional ballots and overseas ballots will not change his Election Day victory," Hall said. "Simply put, it is mathematically impossible for Stacey Abrams to win or force a run-off election.
"Peach State voters made a clear decision at the ballot box. Brian Kemp will now begin his transition as governor-elect of Georgia. He will work every day to keep our state moving in the right direction."
Naturally, Abrams has refused to accept the results. She claims that there are still votes to be counted, and she believes that those votes can push her over the edge. Her campaign said so in a statement.
"These counties also represent heavily-Democratic leaning constituencies, and the majority of those votes are anticipated to be for Stacey Abrams," the statement read. The campaign also said absentee ballots could make a difference.
"Across our state, folks are opening up the dreams of voters in absentee ballots, and we believe our chance for a stronger Georgia is just within reach," Abrams said Wednesday morning.
The race has gotten national attention ‐ largely because if Abrams wins, she will become the first African-American female governor of any state. Part of the attention stems from the accusations of voter suppression. Those claims relate to federal regulations for clearing voter rolls of inactive names, a rule that is outside of Kemp's control.
Even former Vermont governor Howard Dean has weighed in:
She should not concede. The election was almost certainly stolen by a candidate who supervised his own "election" We don't like the results so you stole it.
Eat a dick, Dean. You and all your hellspawn of a party.
[The Hill] Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is being considered to replace outgoing Attorney General Jeff Sessions, according to multiple reports.
ABC and CNN both report that sources close to the selection process have told them that Christie, a longtime friend of President Trump's who endorsed the former real estate magnate's White House bid after dropping out of the 2016 campaign, is on the president's shortlist.
Christie served as a U.S. Attorney in New Jersey between 2002 to 2008 and was considered a contender for attorney general during the 2016 transition.
A representative from the White House tells The Hill that they "have no personnel announcements at this time."
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (R) is also reportedly on the president's shortlist.
Trump announced Sessions's resignation on Wednesday.
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Schumer's thinking about now -
Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
[Freebeacon] A Syrian national extradited to the United States was sentenced to life in prison for making bomb components that were used in IED attacks against American soldiers fighting in Iraq.
Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah, aka Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Ahmad, 41, of Syria, was sentenced for several terrorism-related crimes including conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction and conspiring to destroy U.S. property with explosives, the U.S. Department of Justice announced late Wednesday night.
Alahmedalabaloklah supported an insurgent group in Iraq and supplied parts for remote controlled IEDs that were used in roadside bombs. The insurgent group, the 1920 Revolution Brigades, was tied to 230 attacks against American soldiers and property.
He designed and supplied the components to the Iraqi group between January 2005 and July 2010.
U.S. military personnel during a search and seizure weapons mission discovered a IED-switch making factory in Baghdad. U.S. soldiers seized numerous items used to detonate IEDs, and over a thousand of Alahmedalabaloklah's fingerprints and palm prints were discovered in that cache, according to the DOJ.
"Alahmedalabdaloklah sought to harm American soldiers by conspiring with others to construct and supply improvised explosive device (IED) parts for bombs that were used in Iraq. He will now serve the rest of his life in prison," said Assistant Attorney General John Demers. "The National Security Division will continue to bring to justice those who seek to harm American servicemen and women who bravely risk their lives in defense of our nation."
Alahmedalabdaloklah moved to China and continued to support the 1920 Revolution Brigades by providing components for IEDs. Alahmedalabdaloklah was detained in Turkey in May 2011 while traveling and extradited to the United States in August 2014.
"We owe a debt of gratitude to all American military personnel serving overseas. Protecting and ensuring justice for them is a priority that cannot be overstated," said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Strange. "Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah used his specialized engineering expertise to target our service members using IEDs, and his life sentence reflects the gravity of that choice. The U.S. attorney's office is deeply committed to prosecuting terrorist offenses, wherever they may occur."
Alahmedalabdaloklah who was found guilty by a federal jury on March 16 filed four post-trial motions including court dismissals and all were denied on Tuesday.
[Breitbart] Democrat Rashida Tlaib danced wearing the Palestinian flag at a victory party in Tuesday evening, after she won a largely uncontested race for the open seat in Michigan’s heavily Democratic 13th congressional district.
Tlaib is one of two Muslim women elected to Congress on Tuesday, along with Ilhan Omar, who replaced outgoing Rep. Keith Ellison in Minnesota’s 5th congressional district. Ellison was the first Muslim elected to Congress. Both Tlaib and Omar have extreme anti-Israel views. Tlaib is the first Palestinian-American elected to Congress.
"I've fallen, and I can't get up!"
[Zero Hedge] - 85-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has reportedly been hospitalized after fracturing three ribs in fall at court.
She went to George Washington University Hospital early this morning, according to emailed statement from Supreme Court.
As a reminder, Ginsburg broke two ribs in a fall in 2012, has had two prior bouts with cancer, and had a stent implanted to open a blocked artery in 2014.
We would imagine the 'Left' is about to start panicking since the GOP's gains in the Senate during the Midterms will ease any SCOTUS nominees going forward (heaven forbid).
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She may be the exception to my belief that when one is one the floor grasping for breath, one does not say "Please Lord, just one more day of work".
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This place, how do you guys do it? Reading here is fun.
Posted on Rantburg yesterday: "And Ginsberg, tick-tock"
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I hope she has the wit and wisdom to retire gracefull.... What am I saying? She will be trying to hold onto her position from the ICU out of partisan impulses and pure personal vanity.
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Brezhnev lasted a good decade in very ill health, was brought back from near death several times, and finally died. RBG ... may profit from his example.
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RBG: "It only hurts when I jerk to the left, so....pretty constant pain"
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Israeli troops surrounded the family home of the Palestinian terrorist responsible for the deadly shooting attack in the Barkan industrial zone last month, Palestinian media reported Wednesday afternoon.
In early October 23 year-old Ashraf Walid Suleiman Na’alwa shot dead Kim Levengrond-Yehezkel, 29, of Rosh Ha’ayin, and Ziv Hagbi, 35, from Rishon Lezion. He is also suspected of shooting a third woman, seriously injuring her.
According to Palestinian official news agency WAFA, a large number of IDF troops surrounded the Na’alwa family home in the West Bank village of Tulkarm, firing stun grenades and breaking down the doors of the home in order to enter.
[WAPO] In the quixotic battle against old age, some people use skin care and spin class.
That’s not enough for Emile Ratelband, a 69-year-old who feels like he’s in his 40s. The Dutch pensioner is asking a court in his hometown of Arnhem, southeast of Amsterdam, to change his birth certificate so that it says he took his first breath on March 11, 1969, rather than on March 11, 1949. The judges heard his case on Monday and promised they would render a verdict in the next several weeks.
Ratelband sees his request as no different from a petition to change his name or the gender he was assigned at birth ‐ and isn’t bothered that this comparison might offend transgender people, whose medical needs have been recognized by the American Medical Association. It comes down to free will, he maintains.
"Because nowadays, in Europe and in the United States, we are free people," he said in an interview with The Washington Post. "We can make our own decisions if we want to change our name, or if we want to change our gender. So I want to change my age. My feeling about my body and about my mind is that I’m about 40 or 45."
Being in his 40s would make his life much better, he explained.
For one, it would boost his dating prospects. "If you’re 69 on Tinder, you’re outdated," reasoned Ratelband, who has seven children and is now without a partner. His friends urge him just to modify his age on dating apps. "But I don’t want to lie," he said. "If you lie, you have to remember everything you say."
[The Independent] Prejudice towards Muslims and foreigners is rising in Germany, a study has revealed.
More than 44 per cent of Germans believe Muslims should be banned from immigrating, compared to 36.5 per cent in 2014, the Competence Centre for Right-Wing Extremism and Democracy Research found.
The poll found more than one in two (55.8 per cent) said the number of Muslims made them feel like strangers in their own country, while 43 per cent gave the same answer four years ago, the Die Welt newspaper reported.
It also showed more than one in three Germans believe foreigners only come to the country to exploit the welfare state and 35.6 per cent feared Germany had already been "dangerously watered down" by foreigners.
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Islamophobia - taking someone at their word when they announce their intentions to cut your throat and rape your daughter and objecting strenuously to that idea.
[Wash Insider] On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron listed the United States a threat to Europe alongside China and Russia. Speaking in a radio interview at Verdun, a major World War I battle site, Macron said, "We have to protect ourselves with respect to China, Russia, and even the United States of America." He went on to explain, "We will not protect the Europeans unless we decide to have a true European army."
There are two key takeaways here.
For one thing, Macron, with his strong language against the U.S. and talk of a European army, is clearly positioning himself to fill German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s shoes in European leadership.
Since Merkel’s announcement that she was stepping down from party leadership of the Christian Democratic Union and that she would not seek reelection, a clear successor in Germany and the E.U. has yet to emerge. Macron, elected as a centrist and a clear rejection of Marie Le Pen’s far-right politics, could be a good fit for the role and solidify a post-Brexit E.U.
Aside from signaling his own ambitions, Macron’s words are also a clear warning to President Trump about his treatment of key U.S. allies in Europe.
A sticking point in his relationship with the U.S. is Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, known as INF, with Russia. That agreement, originally signed by Ronald Reagan and his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, paved the way for both countries to cut down their nuclear arms in one of the most successful arms control deals in history.
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I dunno Frenchy, better men than thou hast gone down in flames after picking a fight with Trump. Don Surber maintains The Trumpenfreude List on his blog. Ninety-some names of those who have achieved infamy and misfortune after tangling with Trump. Coincidence? Karma? Who can say, but the list keeps growing.
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#6 Fight's on. 50% tariff on all French products. --Blackbeard Creretle1983
Something far simpler: Tell him that if he is a Man, and not a bag of smelly farts, then dissolve NATO!
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There are still a lot of Euro countries feeling threatened by Russia and don't wish to become client states. No need to break up NATO. That only accomplishes what France and Germany want. Better to economically squeeze them. They depend on our imports to fund their economy.
Please tell me why we are subsidizing first world countries? We left the post-WWII world of feeble Euro states back in the 80s when just the combined population and GDP of the Western nations exceeded ours. Two attempts at cultural suicide in the 20th Century and now the latest in importing a huge non-assimilating population engaged in out populating the natives. You can not save them. You can only allow them to drag us down with them. Conserve your limited resources elsewhere.
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With some luck German politics is about to change. Friedrich Merz, who might become the next CDU party boss, is a free market, conservative, US-friendly competent politician. He hasn't said anything about Trump yet and would deal with him on a non-emotional matter of fact level.
Macron has just defended Pétain. Lovely.
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Macron has just defended Pétain. Lovely.
Posted by European Conservative.
[Wash Examiner] The three major U.S. stock indexes climbed Wednesday after Democrats won a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives while Republicans kept their majority in the Senate.
The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 2.1 percent to 26,180 while the broader S&P 500 added 2.1 percent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq rose 2.6 percent.
The post-election rally, while sizable, is nonetheless unlikely to signal the end of market volatility fueled by President Trump's escalating tariffs, which include duties on $250 million of Chinese imports, and rising interest rates as the Federal Reserve works to maintain economic stability.
It may indicate, however, that some investors were concerned about the possibility of a larger "blue wave," Justin Waring, a strategist with the chief investment office of UBS Wealth Management, told the Washington Examiner.
"Markets do climb the wall of worries," he noted. From an investment perspective, "the real risks of a blue wave were that Democrats could capture the Senate, too."
But even that wouldn't have had any significant impact on the loosened regulations or the GOP-led tax cuts that fueled the market's animal spirits, Waring said. "When you have the presidency, you have veto power, and even if Democrats won every Senate seat, they wouldn't have had enough to override a veto."
The markets had largely anticipated a Democratic victory in the House, where a new majority may step up oversight of businesses including large financial institutions. Other industries, like pharmaceutical manufacturers, could also be under greater scrutiny, while bipartisan support for data privacy legislation may threaten top technology firms.
[The Federalist] The Wall Street Journal has reported that President Trump is considering former D.C. circuit judge and former California Supreme Court justice Janice Rogers Brown to succeed Jeff Sessions as attorney general. Assuming that becomes necessary at some point, it is important that the president pick someone who will continue the important work Sessions has already undertaken during his tenure at the Department of Justice in matters such as criminal justice reform and illegal immigration.
It will also be important, in this time of great partisan crisis, that the president pick someone with deep principle and courage, someone like Ed Meese, who held the post during the Ronald Reagan years. Brown meets both of those qualifications and would be an inspired choice.
I have had the pleasure of knowing Brown for years and witnessing, up close, her distinguished career in California. From her more than ten years of service on the California Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, to her service as legal affairs secretary to Gov. Pete Wilson, to her outstanding leadership as a deputy attorney general in California, it’s clear that Brown is an incredible public servant. Janice Rogers Brown is a former United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court from May 2, 1996, until her appointment to the D.C. Circuit. She retired from the federal bench on August 31, 2017. Wikipedia
[Independent] Benjamin Craig Matthews accused of making more than 40 threatening calls from same phone number. A man has been arrested after being accused of making threatening phone calls to CNN. There appears to be only one way to settle this.
Benjamin Craig Matthews, 39, from Mountain Home, Arkansas, faces multiple counts of making terrorist threats and harassing communications.
He also allegedly made death threats against a CNN host, Don Lemon.
[Independent] At least 12 people have been killed and around a dozen more injured in a mass shooting at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, police have said.
A sheriff’s sergeant died after being shot and the gunman was found dead inside the Borderline Bar & Grill, Ventura County sheriff Geoff Dean confirmed.
At least 30 shots were fired, police told the Los Angeles Times. Witnesses said a man fired several shots from a handgun before throwing smoke bombs into the crowded bar. A man who said he was in the bar told ABC news he saw a man shoot into the crowd.
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Smoke grenades, plenty of ammo, appeared 'Middle Eastern' by some reports (although 24-hour rule applies), took out bouncer first.
So well planned.
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Borderline Bar and Grill:
For over 25 years, The Award Winning Borderline Bar & Grill of Thousand Oaks has stood as the Ventura County's Largest Country Dance Hall & Live Music Venue. With over 2,500 square feet of wide open dance floor, Borderline has provided a haven for country line dancing folks of all ages equiped with pool tables, games, HDTV's, and a full bar & dinner menu open till 2am 5 nights a week.
The Borderline Bar & Grill first opened its doors in the late 80's, in beautiful Malibu Ca. alongside the infamous Pacific Coast Highway and has since moved to Thousand Oaks Ca. in 1993.
Since the doors have opened in '93, the "Giant Cowboy Hat" & "Disco Ball Saddle" have stood as a tribute to the original Borderline, centered above the dance floor and accompanied by the famous "BORDERLINE - Where your boots meet the beach" banner.
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Was the shooter a Marine combat veteran? PTSD?
Police had good response time. They did a good job. RIP for the 29 year veteran of the PD who was first in and got shot and killed. Sympathies for his family and son. His dad was a hero.
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I did a search for David Ian Long and the images that showed up were victims and one white guy. At first I thought the white guy was the shooter but he was just the reporter writing the story.
One neighbor who knew Long said he was a veteran who suffered from PTSD. She said, "I don't know what he was doing with a gun." Others said Long lived at the home with his mother.
His gun, which appears to be a .45-caliber handgun, was purchased legally, according to ABC News. AP reports that he also deployed a smoke device.
The Daily Mail says he is a Marine and he committe suicide after killing the first sheriff who came through the door. They have photos of him in uniform — he’s white.
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I think we have a lot of veterans who spent way too much time in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. We should leave those shit holes to their own devices, defend our own borders, and then bring factories back to America so young men can get good jobs.
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Adam Housley, a former Fox reporter, has been an independent investigative reporter. A niece might be motive alone, sending a message to back off. Trey Gowdy also lost a nephew killed & Eric Bollinger's son who never did drugs had an untimely overdose. Papadoupolis was warned to stay in the open as anyone challenging the Deep State is a threat. I really don't believe in coincidences and now with all the other Fox peeps being threatened and doxxed.
According to local news site Times Daily, authorities in Tuscumbia, Alabama, say Wesley Glenn Bost, 27, was trying to break into a Waffle House on Sunday when he crawled into the restaurant's ceiling.
Surveillance video shows Bost going into the restaurant's bathroom and tying his jeans to the door, ABC WAAY reports. He reportedly broke the sink and the toilet trying to get into the ceiling.
Then, customers watched as the ceiling appeared to cave in and the man fell out, causing a heap of debris to fall on top of a booth table, as seen in a video shared on Facebook. He fought through patrons and staff to the exit, where he fled the scene. Waffle House- come for the waffles, stay for the entertainment.
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A Waffle House is not usually someplace you want to break into. The patrons just might put a can of whup ass on you. One of our Waffle Houses is next to the fire station. Good place to eat.
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Unusually robust or buxom?
At Waffle House, folks, it's the custom
To tie up your jeans
In the john, by all means,
So's your fall through the ceiling don't bust 'em.
Remember: Don't trust 'em till you've trussed 'em! Cuz ya never know when they'll walk away on their own and trip a waitress. Safety first!
[Daily Caller] President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions Wednesday afternoon and temporarily elevated his chief of staff, Matt Whitaker.
Whitaker will now assume control of oversight of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, Department of Justice spokeswoman Sarah Flores confirmed Wednesday.
More than an average football player. All-American. All Big 10. Also a BS, MBA, and JD. Appointed U.S. Attorney under W. Strong ethics background. Seems like a good Acting AG appointment. A little more swamp draining and getting rid of roadblocks?
Trump should speed along the declassification of FISA and other documents. Air this out and let the public see what kind of crap he has been dealing with.
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Trump waited until he had a lock on confirming the next one before having Sessions step aside. He also waited until it was certain he'd be harassed with subpoenas and nonsense from the House no matter what he did before he acted. All fairly predictable in hind-site.
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Trump should speed along the declassification of FISA and other documents. Air this out and let the public see what kind of crap he has been dealing with. Posted by JohnQC
This may be part of the plan John. If RGB punches out, POTUS will have effectively secured both the Senate and the Supreme Court. These are necessary in order to drop indictments and gain convictions. Empty GITMO cells are waiting.
Although the 300m target may be Bath House Barry, if I were Hillary Rodman Clinton, James Comey, or John Brennan, I'd be a bit concerned right now.
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No, having a permanent independent Imperial Censor that can impose his/her view of The Law™ is not part of the U.S. Constitutional tradition... Mueller is no Cincinnatus. ...Unless he is viewed as a tool of the Belt-Way Establishment™ against an uprising of the underclass led by Trump.
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I don't think much of special counsels (SC) either. They give far too much power to unelected officials. Appointments of special counsel members seem to be under the sole control of whoever heads up the special counsel. Mueller and Rosenstein should have recused themselves as they were both suspects as well as investigators. I think most people in flyover land see this SC for what it is.
[Breitbart] Breitbart News Editor in Chief Alex Marlow, along with co-hosts Andrew Wilkow of the Wilkow Majority, David Webb of the David Webb Show, and Rick Ungar of the Steele & Ungar show were joined by special guest Ann Coulter on Tuesday night for special live coverage of Election Night 2018 on SiriusXM Patriot. (Interview begins above at time-code 2:05:40.)
Coulter seemed optimistic, despite the GOP being in imminent danger of losing the House of Representatives.
"I always figured the House was lost," said Coulter, "I was worried about the Senate, and wow, we did not lose the Senate."
"We held seats, picked up seats," said Coulter excitedly, "The Senate is the important body, as the Kavanaugh hearings just demonstrated. We can still confirm the judges, Trump isn’t being removed from office, and this temporary [Democrat] control of the House, I mean, that’s the way things go."
"How many seats did Obama lose in his first midterm election?" Reminisced Coulter, "It was like 63, it was a blowout."
Coulter added that she was glad to get rid of "deadwood" Republicans in the House.
"It’s never good for Democrats to have control of anything, don’t get me wrong."
"I’m glad to see a lot of those Republicans go ‐ and also, now Trump can’t sit around blaming the admittedly useless congressional Republicans. So, maybe someone will remind him that he’s the Commander-in-chief, and he doesn’t need Congress to build the wall."
"Just build the wall and put lots of judges on the courts ‐ and you’ll guarantee your reelection," said Coulter, as advice to President Donald Trump.
Coulter closed her interview by reminding our hosts what the future will be like under Democratic Party leadership in the House.
"The annoying thing ‐ and I mean, it’ll be annoying to Trump, but I think he should get over it," laughed Coulter, "It’s going to be fantastic, and will guarantee his reelection ‐ what we’re going to see is a lot more of Maxine Waters and Adam Schiff."
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This was largely Paul "Eddie Munster" Ryan's fault, and while there was incompetence on his part I would not rule out overt sabotage on his part also.
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A lot of weak candidates were the ones that lost - too many chicken-sh*ts retired rather than run in a tough climate, and the local parties picked squishes and poor candidates to replace them. Don't overlook the gerrymandered court-ordered Dem-favorite map in PA that cost the GOP enough seats in that state alone to otherwise swing control of the house (net gain of 4, margin of control for the Dems is 4).
A lot of this can be corrected in 2020, especially after the Democrats do nothing but endlessly follow idiots like Maxine Waters in fruitless and vindictive "investigations" of Trump. And the Democrat looney left base will push for impeachment of Kavanaugh and Trump, which will make dumping the Democrats easy to do in 2020.
Make that looney socialist in Brooklyn and the hate filled psycho Maxine Waters the faces of the Democrat Party for the next 2 years.
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I agree, for the most part. The Senate has much more visibly acted in the defense of their voters. The House has acted like cowards and idiots for the past two years. I don't know what these idiots thought would happen to them if they just dithered and sat there doing literally nothing. They should have freaking repealed Obamacare! At the very least.
[X22 Report] The elections went as planned, it was not about getting the house and senate it was about getting the senate, the investigations are complete, they are now in the hands of the senate, the FISA declas will bring down the house. The deep state is in a panic, this is not what they thought was going to happen, they believe they have the control in the house but this will be short lived. Stay strong, fight, fight, fight. "The first casualty of any military engagement is the plan."
[AnNahar] US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday abruptly shelved plans to meet a top North Korean official in New York, the latest twist in diplomacy to secure a potentially landmark peace deal.
The talks between President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's top diplomat and the North Korean delegation, which had been due on Thursday, "will now take place at a later date," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said.
"We will reconvene when our respective schedules permit," she added in a statement.
State Department officials gave no further reasons for the delay in the meeting, although North Korea has stepped up its demands that the United States lift sanctions.
[AnNahar] On a good day, it takes Mohammad less than three hours to drive from Ghazni to Kabul. But preparations for the hair-raising journey through Taliban ...Arabic for students... -infested areas can take weeks.
Road trips are a dangerous, and often deadly, activity in Afghanistan.
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[Guardian] The Therapeutic Goods Administration failed to consider the therapeutic uses of alkyl nitrites ‐ including their use in receptive anal sex ‐ when they proposed to ban the inhalants, LGBT health advocates have warned.
The TGA will meet sexual health physician Vincent Cornelisse and community health advocate Daniel Reeders on Thursday after the pair made a submission warning a ban would criminalise the practice of an estimated 90,000 adult gay and bisexual men who use the inhalant during intercourse.
After its interim decision in September, the TGA is conducting consultation on its proposal to ban alkyl nitrites, which has triggered a backlash over its discriminatory impact on gay and bisexual men.
Cornelisse, Reeders and three other co-authors have made a submission arguing that in its interim decision, the TGA failed to properly weigh the risks and benefits of alkyl nitrites, commonly referred to as "poppers". Amyl nitrate is the most common form of the drug.
Poppers dilate the user’s blood vessels, helping receptive sexual partners comfortably enjoy anal sex. The proposal would list alkyl nitrites in schedule 9, along with the most serious drugs and effectively criminalise possession and use.
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Money to be made selling "Keep Your Drug Laws Off My Bunghole!" T-shirts...
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I think they are behind the initial AIDS cases.
Why? Poppers knock out your bodies immunity completely for about 1 hour. This as the same point where foreign blood comes into play...
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Two Islamic State members were arrested in west of Mosul, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
In a statement, Maj. Gen. Saad Maan, spokesperson for the ministry, said Nineveh police, in collaboration with citizens, “managed to arrest two Islamic State members, wanted for judiciary.”
The militants, according to Maan, “were hiding from security troops since the liberation operations in the province.”
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi military has announced running into a mass grave that includes human body parts of more than 30 persons, some of whom were candidates at the previous parliamentary elections, carried out in 2014.
In press remarks, Cap.Karim al-Obeidi, from the Iraqi army, said “military and police forces seized a mass grave in Badush region, northwest of Mosul, depending on reports from eyewitnesses.”
Obeidi added that troops “found body parts of more than 30 victims.”
Some of the victims were recognized. “They were former parliamentary candidates for the elections carried out in 2014. They were kidnapped by Islamic State members, after the group gained control on the city in June.”
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[American Thinker] The most hilarious coverage of the midterms was MSNBC’s handling of Andrew Gillum’s losing campaign for Florida’s governorship. The 90% of the media that hates Trump and his supporters really, really wanted Andrew Gillum to win: he’s a radical leftist who is charismatic, articulate, and very left wing. Oh, and he is black, which means he has the potential to drive black turnout to Obama-like levels.
MSNBC reported a Gillum victory before voting even started. Erik Pederson and David Robb of Deadline.com noticed a bit of wishful thinking at the Peacock Network’s cable propaganda outlet, MSNBC Monday night:
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What we are up against: A neighbor (Caucasian, dem) of mine was aghast that I voted for DeSantis. I said, "Gillum is a commie, I don't vote for commies ever." The guy sputtered "Gillum's not a commie, he's a black guy!" Luckily some Wild Turkey neat prevented the onset of an irony-induced migraine...
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You're responsible for the nasal coffee spitting Murcek.
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The U.S.-led Coalition jets have carried out a series of Arclight airstrikes against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... ’s last bastion, east of Euphrates, leaving tens of bandidosLions of Islam killed.
The strikes came in response to attacks by the bandidosLions of Islam against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) sites, earlier on the day.
In a statement, SDF said "fierce confrontations broke out between our troops and Islamic State members in Hajin city, in the wake of an attack carried out by he bandidosLions of Islam against our forces, who managed to repel the attack after inflicting huge losses on them."
However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... "the bandidosLions of Islam managed to reach to our troops in another region using heavy machines and booby-trapped vehicles. But the forces repulsed the attack, killing many of them, while the rest bravely ran away."
The statement also indicated that the Coalition "carried out 27 strikes against Islamic State in Hajin city, leaving 49 members killed, locations and weapons destroyed."
SDF had announced suspending its operations against Islamic State after the Ottoman Turkish army targeted the troops sites in regional areas, west of Kurdistan.
The last stronghold of Islamic State in east of Euphrates include each of al-Bagouz, Hajin, al-Shaafa, al-Soussa, abul Khater and abul Hassan regions.
In September, each of the Coalition and SDF announced the launch of operations, east of Euphrates.
SDF controls 28 percent of the Syrian lands, becoming the second controller of lands, after the regime forces, which control around 60 percent.
[IsraelTimes] US-led coalition air strikes against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group killed 20 of the jihadists Wednesday as they attacked an oil field in eastern Syria, a monitor says.
"Coalition air strikes killed 20 IS fighters during their attack on the Tanak oil field" where US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces are based, says the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
[AnNahar] At least 45 Islamic State group fighters have been killed around their last enclave in Syria despite a pause in a two-month Kurdish-led assault, a monitor said on Wednesday.
A Kurdish-led alliance backed by Washington announced the pause in its offensive in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor last week in protest at Turkish shelling of Kurdish areas along the northern border.
But waves of US-led air strikes since Monday have killed 28 jihadists, including during an abortive IS assault on Tuesday on an oilfield north of the enclave, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Syrian Democratic Forces killed another 17 IS fighters while defending their base in the village of Al-Bahra just outside IS-held territory on Monday, the Britain-based monitoring group said.
Alliance spokesman Kino Gabriel had stressed that the pause in offensive operations did not mean SDF fighters would not defend themselves.
The SDF launched its offensive against the IS enclave around the Euphrates valley town of Hajin on September 10.
But after making slow progress, they suffered a major setback last month when IS took advantage of sand storms to launch a series of counter-attacks.
By the end of the month, they were back at square one with all of the territory they had won recaptured by the jihadists.
The Hajin enclave is the last significant remnant of the "caliphate" IS proclaimed in 2014 across a vast swathe of Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
The rest has all been lost to offensives by multiple alliances on both sides of the border.
Outside the Hajin enclave, the group's operations are confined to sleeper cells and to hideouts in unpopulated desert and mountain areas.
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[FrontPageMagazine] Terrible headline in the linked article.
Orwell wrote, in a time of universal deceit, speaking the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
Until last week, I'd never heard of Amy Wax. She is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School who landed in hot water after she co-authored a Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed last August 9 with Larry Alexander, who teaches law at the University of San Diego. Under the headline “Paying the price for breakdown of the country's bourgeois culture,” Wax and Alexander began their piece by listing some of the sociocultural pathologies currently plaguing America – low job skills, widespread opioid abuse, inner-city gang violence, one-parent homes, and high-school and college students who lack basic skills. They went on to attribute these problems to “the breakdown of the country's bourgeois culture.”
They recalled the precepts by which Americans lived in the mid twentieth century: get married before you have kids; try to avoid divorce; get educated; work hard; be patriotic, neighborly, charitable, respectful, and law-abiding. Yes, they admitted, mid-century America was hardly perfect. There was racism; there were rebels who broke the rules. But the rules themselves were good. They resulted in “productivity, educational gains and social coherence.” Now they're gone, replaced in many subcultures by “antisocial habits,” “rap culture,” “anti-assimilation ideas,” an obsession with group identity, and other destructive forces that do a terrible job of preparing young people for responsible adult lives.
Every word of that op-ed was sheer common sense. (As NYU professor Jonathan Haidt observed, Wax's concerns about the black subculture were expressed in the 1960 by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who at the time “was roundly condemned as a racist” but whose analysis is now echoed by countless sociologists.) Yet the op-ed was widely seen as scurrilous. The very next day, the Daily Pennsylvanian ran an interview with Wax in which she declared that “Anglo-Protestant cultural norms” were “superior” to others. “I don't shrink from the word, 'superior,'” she said. “Everyone wants to go to countries ruled by white Europeans.” She underscored that Western norms “aren’t just for white people” but “can help minorities get ahead.”
Again, pure fact. But her Penn Law colleagues were outraged. Five of them, writing on August 20, accused Wax of waxing nostalgic for bigotry and exclusion. Ten days later, in an open letter, thirty-three Penn Law profs condemned Wax for affirming the superiority of Western culture – although the letter presented only assertions, no arguments. (One of the signatories told Wax to her face that her words of praise for the West were “code for Nazism.”) There were demands for Wax's firing, or at least her removal from academic committees. But she survived. More at the link
[HuFFPoo] It’s a testament to how U.S. election rules tip the scales for white, rural voters who support the GOP.
Democrats may be ecstatic that they retook the House of Representatives, but their decisive victory conceals a harsher reality: It took a landslide in the popular vote to get them here, and they are projected to lose seats in the Senate.
Those facts speak to just how far the U.S. election system is tilted in the Republicans’ favor. Through a combination of fundamental factors and partisan gerrymandering, Republicans on Tuesday retained their grip on the Senate and many state houses without a national majority.
Because the process of redrawing political maps will not begin until after 2020, House Democrats will have to defend their gains on the same, skewed playing field. Ahead of Tuesday’s election, various forecasts posited Democrats would have to beat Republicans by roughly 5.5, 7, or even 11 points in the general vote just to win a slim majority of seats in the House.
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Through a combination of fundamental factors and partisan gerrymandering, Republicans on Tuesday retained their grip on the Senate
By "fundamental factors and partisan gerrymandering", we mean the fact that each state gets two Senators as spelled out in the Constitution: The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote.
You can redraw political maps all you want, but it won't change state borders by a nanometer. And no, the popular vote and national majorities have nothing to do with senators, it's a state thing. Sorry.
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They just don't get it. It's the United STATES of America. The Constitution would never have been ratified by over half if not 3/4 the states if they were to surrender their sovereignty to a centralized powerful government. Certainly 8 of them were not going to end up being subordinated by 5 large states. Today 40 states would just as likely not join any enterprises that would subordinate themselves to 10 major metropolitan areas.
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When they try to move state borders around to facilitate their electorate, then we may have an issue.
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This the same reason that Democratic efforts to get rid of the Electoral College. Small states will never give up the small influence they have .
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And, of course, there is no Election Fraud in the big cities run by entrenched (corrupt) Democratic Party Political Machines, right? Pure as driven snow they are? (/sarc, if it was needed)
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If New Yorkers are gonna call all the shots, I really do want out.
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It is really amazing how many people don't understand that Senate races are decided by the popular vote of the people who live in the state and are registered to vote.
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Anbar (IraqiNews.com) The Iraqi army jets have shelled Islamic State locations, west of Anbar, a security source from the mobilization forces in the province said on Tuesday.
In remarks to Almaalomah website, the source said “the army jets heavily bombarded location where Islamic State members hide in the desert of Hit city, west of Ramadi.”
Information from the intelligence department “enabled the army jets to target these locations, which the militants use to sneak from the desert regions,” the source added. “The militants lost many of these roads due to the tight control on desert areas.”
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) – A senior Islamic State leader was killed Wednesday in an air raid on the Iraqi province of Anbar, a security source was quoted as saying.
Speaking to the privately-owned Almaalomah news website, the source said that the Iraq Air Forces targeted an Islamic State leader and three of his companions on a motorbike between Lake Tharthar and al-Baghdadi district in Hit, west of Anbar, leaving them all dead.
“The IS leader, identified as Raad al-Madloul, was the mastermind of several terrorist attacks that targeted security forces in Anbar,” the source said.
He added that the warplanes also targeted several locations of IS militants in Anbar’s desert areas.
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Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Three terrorists were killed in a security operation carried out in several regions across Diyala, the Iraqi Interior Ministry’s Security Media Center said on Wednesday.
“Joint troops from Diyala Operations Command carried out an operation in several regions including al-Oyoun village, which left three militants killed there,” Brig. Gen. Yahia Rasool, spokesperson of the center, said.
“This came after confrontations with the militants, when of the conscripts was injured,” he added.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) – Twelve members of Islamic State were killed Wednesday in an airstrike on a border area between Diyala and Salahuddin provinces, a security source said.
“Iraqi jet fighters have shortly targeted a group of Islamic State militants in al-Maita basin on the border between the provinces of Diyala and Salahuddin,” the source told Mawazin News.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added that the air raid left 12 IS members dead and five others trapped.
“A security force has gone on a mission to eliminate the remaining IS terrorists,” the source added.
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The pro-government paramilitary troops have announced foiling an infiltration attempt by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... into Baghdad.
A statement by the media service of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said on Tuesday that troops "carried out a campaign after information indicated attempts by Islamic State to sneak through Jurf al-Nasr region to the northeast of the capital."
During the operation, according to the statement, "some tunnels, that the snuffies were going to use during their attempts, were found, in addition to explosives.
Militants usually attempt targeting Jurf al-Nasr region for its strategic location, linking between Baghdad, Babel and Karbala.
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[BBC] A Pakistani Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row has been freed from prison, her lawyer says.
Some reports say Asia Bibi has boarded a plane but its destination was not known.
The Supreme Court ruling sparked protests from Islamists and the government had said it would bar her from leaving Pakistan.
Her husband had said they were in danger and pleaded for asylum.
Pakistan's 'historic' Asia Bibi ruling Why Pakistan's hristians are targeted Blasphemy laws around the world
Asia Bibi, a mother-of-five, was released from prison in the city of Multan, her lawyer Saif Mulook said.
Also known as Asia Noreen, she was convicted in 2010 of insulting the Prophet Muhammad during a row with neighbours.
I feel sorry for the hatred this individual is pumping into her girls
See the article for links.
It's all the rehashed agenda items the Kommies, I mean, Democrats will be using ad nauseum.
[MarieClaire] Our daughters came home from China more than a decade ago. The first time their tiny feet touched American soil, we made a big deal of it. We were so happy about everything they’d inherit as newly minted Americans—our already head-over-heels love for them, every opportunity we could afford, and freedom from China’s oppressive government and its controversial (and now somewhat lifted) one-child policy. The same policy that was, most likely, the very reason they were available to join our family half a world away.
But now I worry that we made a tragic mistake. You did when you chose to be a mother.
I pulled those two beautiful babies away from a rising power and into a damaged democracy. I brought two girls of color into a society where it’s clear that their word and their bodies are worth less than a man’s—and where open, overt racism has become even more likely now than it was a decade ago. And unfortunately, my worries aren’t exactly tinfoil-hat-wearing paranoia. Sounds like tinfoil hat paranoia to me.
Two years ago, I brought my daughters to the voting booth with me, expecting that they’d witness the election of the very first woman president. Instead, we got a guy with multiple sexual allegations made against him, who backs candidates for the highest posts in the land who also have assault and molestation claims against them. #MeToo may have brought the conversation about sexual assault out into the open and helped clear the entertainment industry of some of the worst offenders, but the current administration seems far more willing to promote than prosecute the accused.
Trump promised during his campaign that he would roll back Roe v. Wade, and new Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh’s conservative judicial record makes it seem like he’d be just the man to help do it—no matter his protestations that he considers it “settled law.” The idea that my daughters may lose the right to control what happens to their bodies—especially if they end up with a pregnancy that’s the result of a sexual assault, or one that could do serious damage to their health—keeps me up at night. Settled law is like jumbo shrimp. All the leftist precedents set in federal judiciary upset the settled law at the time, and so abortion will evolve as well. If a legal/societal issue keeps you up at night, you are in serious need of help. You should seek help, rather than writing vapid missives premised on dubious claims.
We are thinking of stockpiling of Plan B pills, just in case my daughters’ right to choose what happens to their bodies disappears. And the irony isn’t lost on me that just as China started to loosen up its one-child policy and allow women there more control over their decision to become a mother, my daughters may lose that right to choose here. Good plan. No reason why society should suffer the demented hateful views you teach them.
We are only two years into Trump’s administration, and even in our bright blue corner of the country, Asian people are accosted on the street by white people telling them to “go back to your own country.” Trump's remarks against their birth country, China, grow ever angrier as the trade war continues. And as part of the Trump administration's war on brown and black people, every few weeks, there’s another news story about an international adoptee being deported back to a country they don’t remember, without a family or a safety net.
And so I fight and protest. I plan and protect. Like many of my fellow adoptive parents, I ordered a passport card for my teen, so she could prove her citizenship wherever she went. I double and triple checked our paperwork, and started hunting for a lawyer to do pricey readoptions so we could add a security-blanket layer of paper proof for our girls. And then I worry that a sheaf of papers can be invalidated with a stroke of a pen—and the government’s brutal separation of child immigrants from their parents isn’t exactly inspiring confidence.
I skip my daughter’s soccer games to march and spend my nights volunteering to get out the vote. I divert money from their college funds toward campaigns that might help save our democracy. And on the very worst days, I start to look at what it would take to leave the country that I love, permanently. And my heart breaks just a little more. I'm sure you reminded them that their experiences growing up are nowhere near as important as your personal political agenda.
I’d sacrifice everything for the sake of my daughters. I just never thought it would come to this.
One hopes your girls will use these experiences to be better mothers to their own children someday.
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we got a guy with multiple sexual allegations made against him, who backs candidates for the highest posts in the land who also have assault and molestation claims against them
That's rich coming from a suspected pedophile - I suspect you, that should be enough.
I skip my daughter’s soccer games to march and spend my nights volunteering to get out the vote.
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Two years ago, I brought my daughters to the voting booth with me, expecting that they’d witness the election of the very first woman president. Instead, we got a guy with multiple sexual allegations made against him, who backs candidates for the highest posts in the land who also have assault and molestation claims against them.
Allegations Rachel. You must have known who was running before you went to the voting booth. Don't you get that the left uses allegations that are false to knock out opponents of races or appointments if they can. Naïve? Maybe not; you might be insincere and know exactly what you are doing. It has become a political weapon used to destroy. It is used to skirt due process. Reads like Rachel is on the left and writing a hit piece. How about an article about the dangers and damages caused by false allegations as well? No doubt there are politicians who are guilty of the allegations claimed. But how about those who are not guilty and get destroyed? What has happened to the presumption of innocence? A New Jersey politician (A donk) just got re-elected who "allegedly" was involved in sexual hijinks with underage girls. Why no mention of him in your hit piece? Your outrage seems to be selective.
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What a heartless bitch. She deserved to have her daughters taken from her. But they don't deserve to be sent back to China just because she's a horrible person.
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I'm so sorry, lady. Maybe you should move to China...but leave the girls here.
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Iskip my daughter’s soccer games to march and spend my nights volunteering to get out the vote. I divert money from their college funds toward campaigns that might help save our democracy.
I have heard more compassion from people raising pedigreed show dogs. Did she "buy" the children as pets to appease her vanity? Her "cause" should be her children first... Despicable.
[IsraelTimes] Army launches search for button men who fired on bus traveling from Beit El, showering passengers with glass
Two Israelis were lightly injured Wednesday during a shooting attack near a Jewish settlement in the central West Bank, the Israel Defense Forces said.
The army said the two were on a bus that was fired upon on Route 466 near Beit El, north of Ramallah, and were maimed by glass from a window shattered by the gunfire.
Israeli troops were searching the area for suspects, the IDF said.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said the two injured Israelis, one of whom was the bus driver, were taken to Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus in Jerusalem.
A spokesperson for the Beit El Local Council said the bus was travelling from Beit El to Jerusalem when it was fired upon.
[IsraelTimes] Army says Paleostinians in West Bank city opened fire, hurled Molotov cocktails at troops during pilgrimage to Joseph’s Tomb
Clashes broke out in the northern West Bank city of Nablus overnight Tuesday after Israeli security forces entered the city to escort Jewish worshipers to the Joseph’s Tomb holy site, the army said.
According to an Israel Defense Forces statement, Paleostinians hurled Molotov cocktails at security forces and shot at their armored cars, before troops drove them back with tear gas and live fire.
Inside the tomb, soldiers discovered two makeshift bombs, the army said. Both were defused by sappers.
No injuries were reported, and the army said one Paleostinian involved in targeting troops was tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! and taken in for questioning.
The IDF said the thousand or so Jewish worshipers prayed at Joseph’s Tomb without incident.
Joseph’s Tomb is located inside Area A of the West Bank, which is officially under complete Paleostinian Authority control, though the Israeli military conducts activities there on its own volition. The IDF bars Israeli citizens from entering Area A without prior authorization.
The site is venerated by Jews, Christians and Moslems, and has often been a flashpoint for sectarian violence. Jewish pilgrims are usually only allowed to visit the tomb once a month under heavy-armed guard. During these visits, Paleostinians routinely throw rocks at the troops, and sometimes attack them with Molotov cocktails and gunfire.
Separately, the army said that it arrested eight Paleostinians suspected of "involvement in terror activity" in raids throughout the West Bank overnight Tuesday.
[Hot Air] Has this guy been cursed by a witch so that Democrats now have to lose anytime he campaigns for them in a midterm?
It is not true that every candidate he stumped for over the last four days rolled craps on election night. He swung by Chicago to campaign for Democrats there, then stopped off in northern Virginia to rally the troops for Tim Kaine and House candidate Jennifer Wexton, both winners yesterday. But Kaine’s and Wexton’s races weren’t competitive. Kaine’s was an absolute foregone conclusion and Wexton was heavily favored to oust Republican Barbara Comstock long before O showed up.
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Even as president he had no coattails, what makes anyone think he'd have them now? The DNC should put him on the donate to the DNC circuit and not pimp for specific individuals if they want to make use of him.
[KhaamaPress] A clash broke out between two fictions of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... group in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan, leaving at least six dead or maimed, including civilians.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East in a statement said the incident has taken place in the vicinity of Ghani Khel district.
The statement further added that the turbans of the main Taliban group clashed with the turbans of Tehrik-e-Taliban in 28th Canal of joi Village, leaving two dead, including two civilians.
According to 201st Silab Corps, at least two turbans affiliated with the main Taliban group were also maimed during the clash.
The anti-government armed bad boy groups including Taliban have not commented regarding the incident so far.
Nangarhar has been among the relatively calm provinces in East of Afghanistan but the security situation in some of its remote districts has tanked during the recent years.
He might have been a simple fisherman, or he might have been smuggling weapons and men to Ansar Bayt al Maqdis and other jihadi groups. But now he’s dead. Message sent.
[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian fisherman has been killed at sea by Egyptian fire near the Gazoo border on Wednesday, the fishermen’s union says.
The health ministry in Gazoo confirms that Mustafa Abu Awda, 32, had died but did not give further details.
The union said in a statement that he had been killed by "Egyptian fire."
A fisherman who had been in the same area said Egyptian forces had opened fire on Abu Awad’s boat when it apparently approached or crossed the border.
The union has announced a one-day strike in protest at the killing.
The heavily populated Gazoo Strip is wedged between Egypt, the Mediterranean and Israel, which imposes strict limits on how far Gazoo fishermen can venture out to sea.
The enclave’s land border with Egypt had been largely sealed in recent years, but reopened in May as relations improved between the Egyptian government and Gazoo’s Islamist rulers Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,.
Does this mean the fisherman is not actually dead?
[Ynet] Egyptian military source denied Thursday Paleostinian accusation that Egyptian naval forces fired on a Paleostinian fishing boat and killed a fisherman on Wednesday.
Citing security concerns, the state enforces a naval blockade on the Paleostinian coastal enclave, which is controlled by the Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, Islamist group. Israel currently allows Gazoo fishing boats to venture up to nine nautical miles offshore.
[IsraelTimes] Police say members of Iranian-Arab group expressed support for deadly September assault in Ahvaz, Iran
Three members of an Iranian opposition group were jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! Wednesday on suspicion of having praised those behind a September 22 terror attack in Iran that killed at least 25 people.
Police front man Bjoerke Kierkegaard said that would violate Danish laws and they could face fines or up to two years in prison.
Kierkegaard said all three are members of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz that Tehran has blamed for the deadly attack in the Iranian city of Ahvaz. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... ASMLA has condemned the violence and says it was not involved.
The men were held on preliminary charges ‐ a step short of formal charges.
Denmark’s intelligence agency has said that a police operation on September 28 that briefly cut off Copenhagen from the rest of Denmark stemmed from an alleged Iranian plot to kill an ASMLA activist. The person was not named.
Iran has strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! the allegation, calling it an Israeli conspiracy that sought to harm Tehran’s relations with the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... A series of raids were also made in Denmark Wednesday, Kierkegaard said, adding that the ASMLA remains under police protection out of fears they still may be targeted.
[AlAhram] Ottoman Turkish forces killed a Kurdish YPG krazed killer who fired into The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... from Syria, a Ottoman Turkish security source said on Wednesday, the most recent cross-border clash between Turkey and Kurdish hard boyz east of the Euphrates River.
The krazed killer had fired from Syria's Ras al-Ayn region into Turkey's Sanliurfa province, the source said.
Turkey considers the YPG militia a terrorist organization and an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged an insurgency against Turkey since 1984.
Turkey's military has carried out two incursions into Syria against the YPG militia, both focusing on its presence to the west of the Euphrates River.
President Tayyip Erdogan has signaled an impending operation against YPG forces the east of the river, delivering last month what he said was his "final warning" to those he said endangered Turkey's southern border with Syria.
The YPG spearheads the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in the fight against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Syria. Washington's support for the militia has infuriated Ankara.
Ottoman Turkish forces last month bombarded YPG positions near Ayn al-Arab, Turkey's Anadolu news agency reported. It killed four Kurdish hard boyz last week in a separate cross-border clash in the same region, broadcaster TRT reported.
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[Yahoo] Ted Nugent isn’t happy about the way the midterm elections turned out in his home state of Michigan. The 69-year-old rocker known for his conservative views shared his frustration on Facebook Wednesday.
"Real God country family Michiganiacs are heartbroke that more of us want the once great state of Michigan to turn into a California s***hole," he wrote. "Downright insane cultural suicide. Thanks for nothing a**holes."
Democrat Gretchen Whitmer won the race for governor against Attorney General Bill Schuette, a Republican endorsed by President Trump. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, the Democratic incumbent, also won a fourth term. She was in a close race with veteran John James, who also had the support of the president. Republicans will keep control of the Michigan House of Representatives, although they lost seats to Democrats.
Nugent’s post resonated with his right-leaning base, with many commiserating over the outcome. "John James is a fine man and would have served Michigan with dignity, pride, and dedication. The disease of progressivism marches on..." one person wrote.
Another Facebook user added, "Mind blowing and saddening, Uncle Ted. Great states like Michigan turning this way. These people deserve the California disaster they’re voting for. Unfortunately, we reap the damage done by these brain dead sheep."
There were also a handful of people encouraging Nugent to run for office. One comment read, "Actually Ted, i blame you. you could have moved back home, ran for governor and swept the state. as a conservative republican."
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For the most part, I like Ted Nugent. Grew up on his music in the '70's, even though he was one of the biggest assholes in the music business. This statement of his makes me wonder when his last visit to Detroit was.
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I have lived in Oakland County my whole life (north of Detroit in Michigan). It has been a progressive shithole forever. Admittedly I am only in my mid twenties, but still. That's a fair bit of time.
[Townhall] A mob of Antifa activists, known as Smash Racism DC, showed at the home of Fox News' Tucker Carlson. The group also had Carlson's address posted on Twitter but it was removed by the social media giant at the request of the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The group chanted various things at Carlson's door, despite no one answering.
They appear to be angry about the host's stance on various policies, including immigration.
"Smash Racism DC" previously chased Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and his wife out of a restaurant during Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings.
[GatewayPundit] Hours after an Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... mob showed up at the home of Fox News host Tucker Carlson, an affiliated Twitter account published his home address and the home address of his brother Buckley Carlson ‐ along with the addresses of Ann Coulter, Daily Caller’s Neil Patel, and Sean Hannity.
We will not be naming the account or linking to it ‐ but it has not been removed by Twitter at the time of writing this.
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Too bad his lawn wasn't soaked with gas / flammable liquid like that scene in Braveheart and someone threw a match when those assholes were on his property. It would have killed the crabgrass to boot.
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They're intentionally trying to provoke reactions like that Raj. Good job playing right into their hands. Moron.
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#4
He should bring out a big TV and play Blazing Saddles on his lawn while they are there. And the best way to drown out anything such as chanting or yelling is bagpipe music.
#8
First, Twitter suspended the antifa nazis account. Didn't shut it down.
Carlson himself has had Clinton staffer Philippe Reines as a contributor that pulled this crap. Tuck didn't confront him about his arse hand behavior and in fact had him back on. Note to Tucker, if you don't squash bugs they come back.
#17
Let us not answer hate with hate, but with love. Specifically, "Muscrat Love".
And also, propane in the underground sprinklers.
(note:not satire, engineering.)
#23
(1) Adjust the sprinklers a bit and next night they show up make sure its watering time.
(2) Arrange for the family to take a nice vacation away from the madness and work late, let the protesters protest an empty house (with security cameras)
(3) Get a cardboard standup of yourself from a book tour and leave it in one of the windows so they constantly think you are home. Have an intern, friend or someone, move the standup occasionally.
(4) Film them and bring in gutfeld to mock them on air. If at all possible get a producer to get them to come on air, once you have their permission track down their parents and have them on air at the same time.
Damn you for all eternity! I had never heard of the Chicken Dance, and my curiosity got the better of me. It will take days to get that out of my head.
#25
Follow up reports show Tucker's wife was home and was quite terrified - locking herself in the pantry. One of the terrorists nearly broke down the front door, cracking it in the process. This is terrorism. Game over. Take the fokkers down now.
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If Tucker has some HD monitoring cameras one could upload the video to FB and then watch FB auto-identify some of the perps.... just saying....
This is political terrorism. Straight up. At this point a shotgun blast should have come back through the door at these fascists. There have been no repercussions for their terrorist actions, thus they get more emboldened.
Put them down and/or arrest them. Plain and simple.
#29
Any gang stepping onto your property wearing bandanas will be shot.
Any gang members sitting down the street watching you, your wife, your kids piĺe into your car, follow you and your family to a restuarant and then said gang members get into your face, your wife's face and your kids face will be shot.
That is the second amendment.
The mob and one coward Herb McCoy, you are now fully aware.
I was SURE Fred had an Attention Whore graphic in the library, but no... No more Mr. Nice Guy Hopefully it's a permanent revocation. Those two entitlement shi* disturbers should be given strong, written admonishments from the Ms. Huckabee as well.
[HollywoodReporter] The White House is suspending CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta's "hard pass" for what press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders deemed "absolutely unacceptable" conduct in a statement on Wednesday night.
"I've just been denied entrance to the WH," Acosta wrote on Twitter. "Secret Service just informed me I cannot enter the WH grounds for my 8pm hit."
Sanders announced the punishment in a lengthy statement on Wednesday night, several hours after Acosta tussled with President Trump during a feisty press conference.
The White House is punishing Acosta for his interaction with a White House press aide who forcibly attempted to remove the microphone from Acosta's hands as he attempted to ask the president a second question.
"President Trump believes in a free press and expects and welcomes tough questions of him and his administration," Sanders said in the statement. "We will, however, never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern."
Sanders continued: "This conduct is absolutely unacceptable. It is also completely disrespectful to the reporter's colleagues not to allow them an opportunity to ask a question. President Trump has given the press more access than any president in history. Contrary to CNN's assertions, there is no greater demonstration of the president's support for a free press than the event he held today. Only they would attack the president for not supporting a free press in the midst of him taking 68 questions from 35 different reporters over the course of 1.5 hours including several from the reporter in question. The fact that CNN is proud of the way their employee behaved is not only disgusting, it‘s an example of their outrageous disregard for everyone, including young women, who work in this administration. As a result of today's incident, the White House is suspending the hard pass of the reporter involved until further notice."
This is not the first time the White House has attempted to punish a CNN reporter what the Trump administration deems bad behavior. In July, White House reporter Kaitlin Collins was banned from an open press event after she loudly asked questions of the president during a pool spray.
CNN will surely respond to the White House's decision, released late Wednesday. Acosta shared Sanders' statement on Twitter and wrote, "This is a lie."
#4
Day 1 at the WH, they should have suspended all the press access. Then on a one to one interview (see - The Apprentice), picked who would continue to work the WH and who needed new assignments from their employers.
#9
Commie News Network can send someone else. As DeGaulle said, the graveyards are filled with indispensable men.
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CBS has the best video I've seen of the incident that finally cost Acosta his job. Trump answered one question from Acosta and then wanted to call on another reporter but Acosta would not yield the microphone when an intern tried to take it from him.
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[KhaamaPress] The United States has exempted Chabahar Port development and import of petroleum by Afghanistan from the new sanctions imposed on Iran.
a State Department front man has told Rooters that the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has granted an exception to certain U.S. sanctions that will allow the India-led development of a port in Iran as part of a new transportation corridor designed to boost Afghanistan’s economy.
In addition, Afghanistan will be allowed to continue importing Iranian petroleum products, the front man said.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian media broadcasts footage of Israeli security forces surrounding home, a day after IDF issues re-issues demolition orders
Israeli security forces on Wednesday surrounded the home of a runaway Paleostinian man suspected of killing two Israelis in a terror attack in the West Bank’s Barkan Industrial Zone last month.
The Quds News Network published photos and videos of Israeli security forces positioned near the family home of 23-year-old Ashraf Na’alowa, in the northern West Bank village of Shuweika.
Live video footage from the scene shows large numbers of soldiers, along with armored military jeeps and at least one bulldozer in the village, outside Tulkarem.
The army confirmed that it was "currently involved in search operations" for Ashraf, but refused to comment specifically on the operation in Shuweika.
Na’alowa has been on the run since killing his coworkers Kim Levengrond Yehezkel and Ziv Hajbi on October 7 at the factory in the Barkan Industrial Zone where they were employed. A third Israeli, Sara Vaturi, was maimed in the attack.
Days after the October 7 attack, the IDF issued a demolition order for Na’alowa’s home, in keeping with the Israeli policy of razing homes of Paleostinian terrorists, which was initially delayed due to an appeal from his family.
On Tuesday, the IDF said it rejected the appeal, and re-issued the demolition orders for part of the home.
A notice distributed by IDF Central Command, Maj. Gen. Nadav Padan said the basement and ground floors of Na’alowa’s home, where the suspected assailant lived, would be destroyed.
Na’alowa’s family has until Sunday to file an appeal with the High Court of Justice against the new order.
Israel says the practice of demolishing terrorists’ homes is an effective means of discouraging future attacks, though it has been criticized by human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... groups as a form of collective punishment and by some analysts as an ineffective deterrent measure.
Several members of Na’alowa’s family have been detained or tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... following the attack. The Israeli military has issued a number of warnings to Paleostinians in the northern West Bank not to assist Na’alowa.
A Paleostinian security official has confirmed to The Times of Israel that Paleostinian Authority security forces are assisting in the search for Na’alowa.
[IsraelTimes] $100 each for 50,000 of the Strip’s poorest families will arrive in the ’next few days,’ Doha says; beneficiaries will be selected with Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,’s help.
Separately on Tuesday, cash-strapped Hamas announced that civil servants would receive the majority of their salaries for the first time in months.
Egypt and the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... have been brokering indirect negotiations that would see Hamas end months of violent protests along the border in exchange for Israel easing its blockade.
In an Israeli-approved deal, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... has started buying additional fuel for Gazoo’s sole power station, allowing planned outages to be reduced to their lowest level in recent years.
Qatar is a longtime ally of Hamas, an offshoot of the Moslem Brüderbund.
[AlAhram] A Nigerian court on Wednesday refused to release a Shia Moslemholy man who has been in jug since 2015 following deadly festivities between troops and his supporters, his lawyer said.
Ibrahim Zakzaky,
...former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Nigeria, he converted to Shi'ism after a visit to Iran, and now is a fiery Iranian sockpuppet. He is also in our archives as Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky,...
who leads the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN),
...the visible expression of Iran's Khomeinist effort. Like the Muslim Brotherhood, spinoff groups are much more violent. One of the spinoffs from the IMN is currently known as Boko Haram...
and his wife, Zeenat, are standing trial on charges of culpable homicide and unlawful assembly.
At the state high court in the northern city of Kaduna, soldiers were on guard, barring access to both the media and the public in a move denounced by his lawyer Maxwell Kyon.
"We find that to be quite troubling because the definition of free trial should include access to the courtroom by the public," Kyon told AFP after the hearing.
"My client was in court today. The court refused to grant him bail."
His legal team had called for his release on health grounds, saying he needed urgent medical care abroad but the court denied the request.
"The court is of the view that we were not able to establish that he is sick, and that even if he is sick the (intelligence services) can provide the medical attention he needs," he said.
The judge acknowledged the defendant had been kept in jug for nearly three years but pledged a "speedy trial" would take place, Kyon added.
Zakzaky was remanded in jug until a further hearing on January 22.
The pro-Iranian holy man's court appearance comes after fresh unrest involving the IMN last week, which human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. groups said left at least 45 people dead.
Soldiers and police allegedly gave the demonstrators a whiff of grapeshot calling for Zakzaky's release in Abuja. The army put the corpse count at six with 400 IMN supporters incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! Zakzaky, who is in his mid-sixties, has been at loggerheads for decades with Nigeria's secular authorities because of his call for an Iranian-style Islamic revolution.
He lost the sight in one eye during the 2015 festivities in the northern city of Zaria, during which soldiers killed more than 300 IMN supporters and buried them in mass graves.
Northern Nigeria is mainly Sunni Moslem with Shia in the minority.
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[The Federalist] Another issue that affects how many women vote is fear of inequality. For two years, activist groups and politicians beat the drum that the Republicans are threatening women’s rights. New Supreme Court justices could mean overturning Roe v. Wade. Free birth control might end with changes in health care. The Me Too movement created an environment of fear that men are predators, especially those in the Republican Party.
The rhetoric of Trump as sexual deviant in chief filled the pages of women’s magazines. Protests, pussy hats, celebrities wailing about the dehumanization of women even as they objectified themselves rained down on female voters, enlivening their allegiance to equality, even when it’s not actually being threatened.
These two issues, along with hatred of Trump, drove these women to vote blue. They despise Trump, and they always have. They voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, 51 percent to Trump’s 45 percent. Some were Never-Trumper Republicans going for other candidates. They are, at the core, elitist. They didn’t like him then, and they don’t like him now. Emphasis added
#6
Men won't put up with their entitled snowflake shit, so they enter into relationships with the State
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11/08/2018 7:40
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#7
RJ's (#4) got it.
That and the constant 'Pre-Existing Medical Conditions' meme.
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11/08/2018 8:24
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#8
Throw money their way and you have their vote. They will never change. Always unhappy. Unhappy without drama and unhappy with drama.To attempt a change in thought will cause alienation among their friends or family. Then at work as well. The plantation suits them.
#9
It's really, really scary to watch the so-called news and the talk shows in the mornings on CBS and ABC. It is truly chilling to watch women like Gail King and Whoopi Goldberg. There is no balance, no objectivity, no morality to any of it. It's just straight up Democrat/Communist propaganda. It's the normalization of globalism and socialism. Get the women to turn off their TVs and some of this nonsense might stop.
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#13
This dread pre-existing condition
Is led without ethics or mission,
All wrapped up in fashion,
Pills, feelings, and passion,
When life is all act, no contrition,
Just gilt and diminished ambition.
Probably this is an interim step in a very long process of several appeals and retrials directed by higher courts, before the Elders of Islam at Al Ahzar university finally provide religious sanction for the final decision. All of this will take years.
[AlAhram] An Egyptian military court in Ismailia has sentenced to death in absentia eight members of the terrorist group ISIS for involvement in 2016 attacks on military personnel and checkpoints, personnel and equipment, which killed 14 military personnel.
The court also sentenced 32 defendants to life, two others to 15 years in prison and acquitted two in the same case.
The defendants were charged with attacking military personnel and checkpoints, murder of 14 military personnel, and the attempted murder of 16 military personnel.
The court said that those convicted have used firearms, explosives and projectiles to carry out their attacks.
In February 2018, the Egyptian army launched Operation Sinai 2018, involving land, naval and air forces, as well as the police and border guards, targeting "terrorist and criminal elements and organizations" in northern and central Sinai, as well as parts of the Nile Delta and the Western Desert.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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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.
[Freebeacon] A Syrian national extradited to the United States was sentenced to life in prison for making bomb components that were used in IED attacks against American soldiers fighting in Iraq.
I blame a sedentary lifestyle. I recommend 10k marathons and a new hobby. 
[Wash Examiner] The three major U.S. stock indexes climbed Wednesday after Democrats won a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives while Republicans kept their majority in the Senate.
[Independent] Benjamin Craig Matthews accused of making more than 40 threatening calls from same phone number. A man has been arrested after being accused of making threatening phone calls to CNN.
[Breitbart] Breitbart News Editor in Chief Alex Marlow, along with co-hosts Andrew Wilkow of the Wilkow Majority, David Webb of the David Webb Show, and Rick Ungar of the Steele & Ungar show were joined by special guest Ann Coulter on Tuesday night for special live coverage of Election Night 2018 on SiriusXM Patriot. (Interview begins above at time-code 2:05:40.)
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[Guardian] The Therapeutic Goods Administration failed to consider the therapeutic uses of alkyl nitrites ‐ including their use in receptive anal sex ‐ when they proposed to ban the inhalants, LGBT health advocates have warned.
[HuFFPoo] It’s a testament to how U.S. election rules tip the scales for white, rural voters who support the GOP.
[BBC] A Pakistani Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row has been freed from prison, her lawyer says.
[Hot Air] Has this guy been cursed by a witch so that Democrats now have to lose anytime he campaigns for them in a midterm?
[IsraelTimes] Police say members of Iranian-Arab group expressed support for deadly September assault in Ahvaz, Iran
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
[AlAhram] A Nigerian court on Wednesday refused to release a Shia 
