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Hezbollah operative killed in drone strike in southern Syria
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Hillary Clinton took more cash from Harvey Weinstein than any other Democrat
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 05:28 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When Bill was away with Mr. Epstein?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 8:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Just from Harvey, or from everybody?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 9:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Rogues Gallery of Billary's best buds:
- Weinstein
- Epstein
- Weiner
- Giustra
- Marc Rich

How much $$$$$ did those obscene characters funnel in total into the Clinton Global Grift Initiative?

Can their victims claw some of it back?
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:20 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Joe Biden finally admits he WASN'T arrested trying to visit Nelson Mandela: Campaign says he was only separated from a congressional delegation meeting the ANC leader
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They left the hotel without him.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 11:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Plugz was diverted: found some interesting sniff-targets among the locals
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Prolly confusing Mandela with Ghandi. To be fair, they're both short brown guys.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/27/2020 15:57 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ "Yeah, it was Gandhi, my bad. The Muslim guy"
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2020 17:50 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Omar's Accuser Takes Out Suicide Insurance
[AlphaNewMN] ] My name is Abdihakin Osman Nur and I live in Minneapolis Minnesota. I am an American citizen. I am the person who spoke to the media and said that Ilhan Omar married her brother and made legal papers for him to stay in America.
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I would like to inform the public and the government of the USA. If anything were to happen to me and my safety that Ilhan Omar and her team will be responsible. I also ask for the support of the American people in case I’m set up or something happens to me because I have talked.

Thanks for your help and understanding.

Abdihakin Osman Nur
Posted by: Mercutio & Lord Garth || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  fyi

on his facebook page, Nur closes this with

"God Bless America"
Posted by: lord garth || 02/27/2020 7:52 Comments || Top||

#2  America Has A Con-woman In Congress, But Where’s The Law?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 9:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Again, not the Bee!
Posted by: SteveS || 02/27/2020 10:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Omar has other things to worry about.
Trump administration launches new unit to strip US citizenship from foreign-born terrorists, criminals
The Trump administration is establishing a new section within the Justice Department to deal with the process of removing citizenship from foreign-born individuals who fraudulently obtained citizenship by failing to disclose past convictions for serious crimes -- including terrorism and war crimes.

The section, which will be within the DOJ’s Office of Immigration Litigation, will be dedicated to denaturalizing those who had failed to disclose they had been involved in criminal activity on their N-400 form for naturalization. It requires the government to show that citizenship was obtained illegally or "procured by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation."
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Untervehr7098 || 02/27/2020 10:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Not Bee? *Wow*
Posted by: magpie || 02/27/2020 11:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Very wise.

Although it says much about the state of the republic that we can witness this with barely an eye blink.
Posted by: charger || 02/27/2020 14:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Wow. This + Bergoglio's Lent guidance means I've lost twice today.
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:21 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
AOC Has Warning For Migrants Caravans: Mike Pence literally does not believe in science.It is utterly irresponsible to put him in charge of US coronavirus response as the world sits on the cusp of a pandemic.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 10:47 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What does AOC know about science? Could she tell a test tube from a telescope?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/27/2020 11:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Another leader unburdened by the constraints of religious morality.

A test tube is for shots; a telescope is for boiler makers.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2020 11:26 Comments || Top||

#3  She gives hard working waitresses a bad name.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 02/27/2020 12:14 Comments || Top||

#4  This alcoholic applauds your imagery!
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 12:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Funny that her warning is to Migrant Caravans. If she's the big scientists she should tell them to stay home.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2020 12:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Frankly, I'm amazed she hasn't gargled bleach or drunk draino. I'm not sure how people that reality challenged survive.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/27/2020 13:51 Comments || Top||

#7  ...her kind support my theory that earth is an intersection of two different universes.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 15:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Silentbrick, she's just a kid. Tide pods are the fashion these days.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2020 16:24 Comments || Top||

#9  Okay, so I got 5 bucks she can't eat a whole tide pod.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 02/27/2020 18:09 Comments || Top||

#10  I believe “ mixology” and craft beer brewing are considered hard sciences in her circles.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 02/27/2020 18:40 Comments || Top||


Obama steps into the presidential race for the first time to demand South Carolina TV stations pull 'despicable' Republican ad using his voice that attacks Biden because it 'takes my words out of context'
[MAIL] Former President Barack Obama is sending a cease and desist letter to television stations in South Carolina demanding that a Republican-backed, anti-Joe Biden attack commercial be taken down.

The super PAC, Committee to Defend the President,' began airing the ad earlier this week as South Carolina prepares for its Democratic presidential primary on Saturday.

Obama, however, wants it pulled down because it relies on audio and quotes from his 1995 book, 'Dreams from My Father,' in a 'misleading way,' says a spokeswoman for the former president.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 05:38 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "You can keep your doctor..." Mr. Mislead Himself
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 8:36 Comments || Top||

#2  I never took anything he said 'in context'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/27/2020 8:51 Comments || Top||

#3  There have been lingering questions about the actual author of 'Dreams from My Father.'

Something for attorney Sidney Powell to possibly have a look into? Legal standing ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 8:55 Comments || Top||

#4  You didn't write this.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 8:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Sit and spin, buckey.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/27/2020 9:18 Comments || Top||

#6  "The voter requires care and feeding:
He can't be entrusted with reading
My book all alone
But must always be shown
That his own lying eyes are misleading.
Yes, indeed. Securely root him in context osmunda fiber, protect him from facts overfeeding and outside agitation chills, and he'll do fine, just fine."
Posted by: Ho Chi Fillmore8050 || 02/27/2020 9:26 Comments || Top||

#7  What Obama said was meant to distract the idiots and true believers from his true policies. This is very similar to Trumps' tweeting strategy in which everyone was up in arms about tweets and ignored the fact that McConnell got so many judges into position that the 9th circuit is now leaning right.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2020 9:47 Comments || Top||

#8  "Who ya gonna believe, me or my lying voice?"
Posted by: SteveS || 02/27/2020 10:05 Comments || Top||

#9  Get back to work, Zero. You took your book advance and haven't even produced a single chapter. Quit grifting.

Or at least get Ayres on the job again
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:36 Comments || Top||

#10  Hiya, Lex. Been real busy with, uh, business. Lots of business. To tell ya the truth, I was kinda hopin' you might be available to work with me after, uh, the election and all that. Looks like you're workin' pretty cheap here! Say, have you ever noticed how nicely "please, please, don't go!" meshes with "In the Heat of the Night?" Alexa, uh, play Ray Charles...
Posted by: Ho Chi Obama8050 || 02/27/2020 19:07 Comments || Top||

#11  F you and your pagan pig moon goddess.
Posted by: Woodrow || 02/27/2020 20:07 Comments || Top||

#12  Ho-ho, Ho Chi O!
$150 per sound bite sound good?
I'll have my girl call your (big-Mike) guy tomorrow
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 20:13 Comments || Top||


ABC suspends reporter for telling the truth about ABC
[CNN] ABC News said on Wednesday that it had suspended a veteran correspondent after the journalist was secretly recorded on video by a right-wing activist group leveling criticism against the network and making disparaging comments about President Donald Trump.

"Any action that damages our reputation for fairness and impartiality or gives the appearance of compromising it harms ABC News
[and reduces our ability to deceive the public]
and the individuals involved," an ABC News spokesperson said in a statement on Wednesday.

Posted by: lord garth || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He also admitted to being a socialist and even went out of his way to omit the qualifier "democratic" when doing so.
Posted by: charger || 02/27/2020 15:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Any action that damages our reputation for fairness and impartiality or gives the appearance of compromising it harms ABC News

Isn't this your reporters' and producers' M.O.?
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:26 Comments || Top||


Mike Bloomberg's OTHER cash gusher: How he has donated billions to politicians, campaigns and charities - and is now raking in endorsements in return
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Democratic candidate worth $61 billion has spent billions through Bloomberg Philanthropies and other donations

  • Series of people and organizations he has helped have endorsed his presidential candidacy

  • They include actors Ted Danson and Sam Waterson , who are both on board of ocean conservation charity which Bloomberg donated to

  • John Cougar Mellencamp backed him after recording a song for a 2017 anti-coal documentary

  • Rhode Island's Gina Raimondo was first governor to endorse him; her 2014 election was helped by $1 million from Bloomberg-backed groups

  • Virgin Islands congresswoman Stacey Plaskett endorsed him after donations to help the island recover from tropical storm damage

  • In Pennsylvania, he is hoping to win the state primary with series of endorsements and has given to anti-gun efforts and other campaigns

Maybe that explains the smell?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sausage, that's how it is made.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 2:55 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 5:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Getting crowded down in the fourth circle.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2020 8:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Most corrupt era since the Robber Barons.
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Since when has donated been a synonym of bought?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/27/2020 17:25 Comments || Top||


House candidate in Arizona suspends campaign after drug overdose
Good idea.
[CNN] A combat veteran running for US Congress in Arizona suspended his campaign on Monday after a relapse and drug overdose.

"Today, I have suspended my campaign for the US House of Representatives and am seeking treatment for substance abuse disorder. I will fully cooperate with local authorities on any matters arising from my recent relapse and overdose," Chris Taylor, a Safford, Arizona, city council member, told CNN in a statement. The Arizona Republic reported Monday that Taylor was suspending his campaign after a heroin overdose last week.

"I'm not going to hide from this. I'm not ashamed of what happened. I wish to sincerely apologize to the amazing people who have supported me," Taylor said.

He added, "I don't know what went wrong. I recently relapsed after having so many solid years in sobriety. I have to figure out where I went wrong."
Poor man. I hope he figures it out.
Taylor, a father of two, said, "The only thing I can do is face this head on in complete humility and put one foot in front of the other so that I can get the help needed to be the father and husband that my family deserves. I'm human and I have never pretended to be anything but."

Taylor, who enlisted in the US Army in 2007 and served two combat tours in Afghanistan, has been open about his past addiction to drugs.

"The horrors I witnessed on the battlefield came home with me and like many veterans, I didn't know how to cope. I sought help at the VA but fell victim to a government that forgot its promises. I began misusing prescriptions and developed an opioid addiction. It was a long road to recovery," he said in a congressional campaign video.

Taylor also founded a nonprofit, Desert Eagle Addiction Recovery, to help individuals, including combat veterans, with drug addiction, according to his campaign website's biography.

Taylor was seeking the Republican nomination for Arizona's 1st Congressional District, which is currently held by Democratic Rep. Tom O'Halleran. O'Halleran won reelection in 2018 with about 54% of the vote.
Posted by: || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  God, grant him serenity, wisdom, and courage
Posted by: Texhooey || 02/27/2020 20:32 Comments || Top||


SANDERS IN 2011: Promoted editorial arguing that "the American dream is more apt to be realized" in Venezuela than in the U.S.
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bernie's American Dream for sure.
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Untervehr7098 || 02/27/2020 2:02 Comments || Top||

#2  You would think that the true believers would have realized that Venezuela wasn't 'real' or 'true' socialism a lot sooner. Someone should ask Bernie about that. Personally I think he's still betting they'll pull it out somehow if they just eat enough zoo animals and put enough people up against the wall.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2020 9:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Che wearing a Bernie Sanders shirt

http://i0.wp.com/www.bookwormroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Che-wearing-a-Bernie-t-shirt.jpg?resize=480%2C480
Posted by: lord garth || 02/27/2020 12:32 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2020 13:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Bernie's dream is to become Maduro of America.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/27/2020 13:49 Comments || Top||

#6  "You've gotta break a few eggs and slaughter the entire disloyal flock of chickens as a message to others...to make an omelette "
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2020 14:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Send this shithead to Caracas for a year. Force him to scrounge through garbage for his meals and find a hospital that will maintain or replace his heart stent.

Then see if he's completely deranged and still a Marxist. Smart $ predicts yes / lost cause.
Posted by: Lex || 02/27/2020 15:24 Comments || Top||

#8  Now Lex, you know perfectly well that one can only be a real socialist in capitalist society.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2020 15:33 Comments || Top||

#9  A real bourgeoisieshevik, anyway.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 02/27/2020 19:55 Comments || Top||


Turn Out the Lights....The Party's Over
[American Thinker via Lucianne]
Where is Don Meredith when you really need him?
There is something deeply satisfying about watching the ironically named Democratic Party consume itself at every turn. I have tried to summon up some human pity for the carnage -- but frankly I just can’t.

If Joe Biden weren’t a corrupt, crude, shallow, self-righteous fondler of people’s children I could probably muster some sympathy for him. There he stands behind the bright blue podium, almost dizzy under the lights, recounting past accomplishments no one ever heard of.
Channeling Kurt Schlicter there a little bit...
Posted by: Mercutio || 02/27/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As long as human nature exists, nothing that it births and nurtures is ever truly "over".

Specific institutions/mechanisms perhaps, but not the general principle.

The Free Shit Army will always be with us.

The haters of the good and beautiful will always be with us.

If the Democrat party ceases to be an effective vehicle for them gaining the power to enslave, loot, rape and slaughter, they will find another.

The author of this article ain't as smart as he thinks he is.
Posted by: charger || 02/27/2020 15:00 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2020-02-27
  Hezbollah operative killed in drone strike in southern Syria
Wed 2020-02-26
  Gulf Cartel Border City Turf War Kills at Least 20 Gunmen, Innocents in Week
Tue 2020-02-25
  Hosni Mubarak sleeps with the pharaohs
Mon 2020-02-24
  Car drives into German carnival parade, around 30 injured
Sun 2020-02-23
  Last year Hezbollah received ~$700 million in funding
Sat 2020-02-22
   Erdogan confirms the presence of pro-Turkish Syrian fighters in Libya
Fri 2020-02-21
  Missile intercept by #Saudi forces in #Yanbu
Thu 2020-02-20
  Turkey asks NATO to provide air support for the operation in Idlib
Wed 2020-02-19
  Ashraf Ghani declared winner of Afghan presidential poll, Abdullah rejects results
Tue 2020-02-18
  LNA claims to destroy Turkish arms ship in Tripoli harbor.
Mon 2020-02-17
  24 Killed In Brutal Terror Attack On Burkina Faso Church; Local Pastor Targeted
Sun 2020-02-16
  Switzerland Thwarts Major Islamic State Terror Attack
Sat 2020-02-15
  Six Cartel Kidnappers Busted with Mexican Border City Victim in Trunk
Fri 2020-02-14
  US navy ship seizes 150 Iranian-manufactured anti-tank guided missiles after boarding a vessel in the Arabian Sea
Thu 2020-02-13
  Hafiz Saeed sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for terror financing


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