Hi there, !
Today Wed 01/30/2019 Tue 01/29/2019 Mon 01/28/2019 Sun 01/27/2019 Sat 01/26/2019 Fri 01/25/2019 Thu 01/24/2019 Archives
Rantburg
533575 articles and 1861534 comments are archived on Rantburg.

Today: 70 articles and 148 comments as of 4:41.
Post a news link    Post your own article   
Area: WoT Operations    WoT Background    Non-WoT    Opinion       
Bombs kill at least 19 outside cathedral in southern Philippines
Today's Headlines
Headline Comments [Views]
Page 6: Politix
11 19:08 Bright Pebbles [8] 
1 07:55 Bobby [1] 
3 11:14 g(r)omgoru [5] 
3 20:21 SteveS [7] 
12 17:43 magpie [6] 
15 15:27 ruprecht [2] 
1 08:29 Frank G [1] 
2 11:32 M. Murcek [3] 
Page 1: WoT Operations
10 17:51 Ebbavirt Clunk4147 [14]
0 [2]
2 07:39 Frank G [1]
0 [1]
0 []
0 [7]
0 [3]
0 [11]
0 [1]
0 [1]
2 08:32 AlanC [3]
0 [4]
0 [7]
0 [6]
0 [2]
0 [4]
0 [4]
0 [2]
4 10:01 M. Murcek [7]
Page 2: WoT Background
0 [7]
4 20:55 charger [7]
2 19:49 trailing wife [5]
0 [7]
0 []
0 [8]
0 [1]
2 16:40 Raj [7]
0 [5]
0 [3]
Page 3: Non-WoT
0 [12]
2 17:09 Unaviling Ghibelline2407 [10]
5 13:21 Thing From Snowy Mountain [4]
1 07:28 Besoeker [5]
1 08:29 Raj [6]
0 [6]
2 17:41 Unaviling Ghibelline2407 [6]
3 12:42 DarthVader [5]
3 11:20 Deadeye B. Hayes9160 [4]
2 11:53 g(r)omgoru [5]
0 [4]
6 14:25 charger [8]
0 [10]
0 [7]
1 11:00 Injun Bucket8891 [9]
3 10:36 M. Murcek [4]
0 [6]
3 08:45 AlanC [3]
0 [4]
3 17:05 Anomalous Sources [11]
4 08:26 Procopius2k [7]
0 [2]
4 10:15 M. Murcek [4]
Page 4: Opinion
4 12:01 lord garth [9]
3 08:34 Raj [2]
1 09:24 Matt [2]
8 21:40 Chese Threreth4665 [12]
2 15:09 Abu Uluque [4]
0 [1]
6 20:17 Ebbavirt Clunk4147 [6]
6 12:48 Bobby [8]
1 02:16 Besoeker [2]
0 [1]
-Lurid Crime Tales-
POTUS Wants To Know Where Hillary's Indictment Is after Roger Stone's Arrest
[Daily Caller] President Donald Trump responded Saturday to news of his confidant Roger Stone’s Friday indictment with a list of Democrats and justice officials he wants to see in trouble for alleged lying.

"If Roger Stone was indicted for lying to Congress, what about the lying done by [James] Comey, [John] Brennan, [James] Clapper, Lisa Page [and] lover, [James] Baker and soooo many others? What about Hillary [Clinton] to FBI and her 33,000 deleted Emails? What about Lisa [and Peter Strzok’s] deleted texts [and Anthony Weiner’s] laptop? Much more!" Trump wrote Saturday.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/27/2019 02:32 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mueller only wants republican scalps.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/27/2019 2:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Crickets chirping
Posted by: 3dc || 01/27/2019 19:37 Comments || Top||

#3  Where is Hillary's indictment?

An Australian buddy asked me this the other day. If random foreigners are asking this, you gotta believe more than a few Americans are wondering too.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/27/2019 20:21 Comments || Top||


Florida Commission Finds Probable Cause to Investigate Gillum for Ethics Violations
[NATIONALREVIEW]
Posted by: Fred || 01/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He still has an FBI investigation going on, for whatever that's worth anymore
Posted by: Frank G || 01/27/2019 8:29 Comments || Top||


Rep. Maxine Waters facing new legal questions over campaign mailers
[FOXNEWS] Rep. Maxine Waters
U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 27.155548964211473 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the 12 black women currently serving in the United States Congress, is a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 42.153495576121124 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was brighter she'd be a Communist...
'>Comrade Maxine Waters
took the helm of the Financial Services Committee this month after easily winning re-election as part of the Democrats’ House takeover. But according to the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Democrat’s post-election filing ‐ which has prompted fresh calls for a full audit ‐ her campaign may have some financial issues of its own to sort out.

The Citizens for Waters report to the Federal Election Commission from Dec. 11 lists $183,022 in debt to her daughter Karen Waters, who is in charge of distributing "slate mailers."

The mailers have faced scrutiny since 2010 because the campaign, beginning in 2004, has paid Waters’ daughter or her public relations firm Progressive Connections to produce, print and mail the sample ballots. Watchdog groups have raised questions about the propriety of campaign funds financially supporting a family member, as well as Waters raising contributions in excess of federal limits through an unusual process. Since 2004, the campaign has paid the younger Waters almost $1 million, based on previous news reports.
Posted by: Fred || 01/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good. It's been 50 years waiting for Republicans to play Ethics Hardball.
Posted by: Unaviling Ghibelline2407 || 01/27/2019 2:00 Comments || Top||

#2  "Progressives" have no problems with money. They have a big problem with you having money...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/27/2019 11:32 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Willie Brown: Sure, I "dated" Kamala Harris. So what?
[SF Chron] The biography rehab begins
Posted by: Frank G || 01/27/2019 07:10 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Yeah, I porked her!"

/so good, I get to use it twice in one weekend!
Posted by: Raj || 01/27/2019 7:22 Comments || Top||

#2  #HIMTOO
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/27/2019 7:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, at least you didn't let down the people who want an inbred gummint class...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/27/2019 9:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Both have the MORALS of alley cats? GREAT elected officials?????
Posted by: ranture || 01/27/2019 9:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Wonder if she snuck off to the men's room with Willie while he did his blow?
Posted by: Snesh Ghibelline3658 || 01/27/2019 9:42 Comments || Top||

#6  This is totally different than the traditional Hollywood casting couch where a woman trades sexual favors to get a leg up (heh) over the competition. Totally different. No, really.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/27/2019 10:21 Comments || Top||

#7  #4 GREAT elected officials?????

With all the Dem election-rigging in CA, one has to wonder if anyone is really elected in CA.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/27/2019 10:41 Comments || Top||

#8  What? You expected him to show remorse? You know that's not the Democrat way. He wants everybody to know he was banging a hot chick (if you consider Doberman Pinschers hot).
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/27/2019 10:43 Comments || Top||

#9  ...mens room...blow...

A lot of freight there...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/27/2019 10:47 Comments || Top||

#10  Harris is the only one who, after I helped her, sent word that I would be indicted if I “so much as jaywalked” while she was D.A.

The sex couldn't have been that good.

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al || 01/27/2019 15:06 Comments || Top||

#11  Same as in hollyweird.

Those acting whore themselves out and those behind the scenes abuse their positions in exchange for sex favours.

and both sexes do both roles.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/27/2019 19:08 Comments || Top||


Dershowitz on Mueller move against Roger Stone: 'Trump is the target'
[Washington Examiner] Robert Mueller is trying to force Roger Stone to "flip" and incriminate President Trump by indicting the veteran Republican operative on charges that leave him facing the prospect of dying in jail, according to Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz.

"The obvious purpose of indicting him on these obstructing and false statement charges is to put pressure on him to flip. That's the goal," said Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor emeritus.

"Will he flip? Nobody knows the answer to that. Michael Cohen said he would take a bullet for the president, and he's become his opponent," he said. "[Stone] said recently he would never cooperate and testify, and I take him at his word. But when he's told by his lawyer that he's facing essentially spending the rest of his life in prison, you never know what people will do."

Stone, arrested in a dramatic FBI raid before dawn on Friday, has vowed not to turn against Trump. But the 66-year-old operative now faces a long sentence if convicted of five counts of making false statements, one count of witness tampering, and one count of obstruction of an official proceeding.

Dershowitz said more than a decade behind bars is likely if Stone’s convicted on all counts. "If you do them consecutively rather than concurrently, it's probably more than 10 [years] and he's no youngster. You're talking about dying in prison," he said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/27/2019 02:52 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bobby's graphic moved from comment section to story.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/27/2019 7:55 Comments || Top||


Cong. Mark Meadows: If Obama could send money to Iran, Trump can find money to build the wall
[Washington Examiner] House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, R-N.C., said Saturday that if President Barack Obama could send money to Iran as part of the 2015 nuclear deal, President Trump should be able to find money to build the wall along the southern border without being blocked by the courts.

"Listen, if President Obama can send $1.8 billion to the Iranians ‐ I can tell you I didn’t appropriate that ‐ certainly finding a few billion dollars for border security on our southern border is something that this president can do legally and without a challenge," Meadows told Fox News in an interview.

Trump announced Friday that a deal to temporarily end the partial government shutdown, which then was in its 35th day, had been reached. The agreement included no money for a wall along the southern border, as the president has demanded, but reopened shuttered agencies through Feb. 15.

Republicans and Democrats have until then to negotiate a broader immigration deal, in which Trump wants to include wall funding.

The president said that if a deal cannot be reached, he would declare a national emergency to circumvent Congress and build the wall.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/27/2019 02:50 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think we have to realize that certain political persuasions have a lot of trouble with the B word, and even more with the actual amount. What's a C-5 or 4 crammed to the gunnels with currency? Kind of like their new found morality against the existence of billionaires. Well, unless it's the Castro brothers, or Chavez' daughter, to pick but 2 of many.
Posted by: Cesare || 01/27/2019 9:26 Comments || Top||

#2  According to the USAID website, the US government between 2009 and 2016 dished out approximately $3.3 billion to Mexico in foreign aid. Those were the years when Baraq was in office. That figure does not include Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Stop all that nonsense and you'd have a significant down payment on the wall. As I said before, Democrats squander $5.7 billion every morning before breakfast. It's not the money that's stopping them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/27/2019 10:58 Comments || Top||

#3  It's not the money that's stopping them.

Of course it's the money - the money they're personally going to lose by losing elections without illegals to vote for them.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/27/2019 11:14 Comments || Top||


Coulter: ‘No question' Pelosi outplayed Trump
[The Hill] Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter late Friday continued to blast President Trump's decision to end the 35-day partial government shutdown without securing funds for a border wall, saying he was outmaneuvered by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

"We thought, ’Hey, maybe this guy’s wacky enough, he won’t care what the elite say, and he’ll build the wall.’ That was what put him in the White House. He has got to build the wall," Coulter said on Los Angeles radio station KNX.

"There’s no question but that Nancy Pelosi got the better of Donald Trump."

Coulter on Friday afternoon called Trump "the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States" after he announced that he would support reopening the government with obtaining funds for a border wall.

The immigration hard-liner has repeatedly pushed Trump to immediately start construction on a wall and she said shortly before the shutdown began in December that she would not vote for Trump again in 2020 without a border wall.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/27/2019 01:46 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This bloviating creature adds absolutely nothing for the good of the order.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/27/2019 1:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump has more in the cards in border battle
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/27/2019 2:16 Comments || Top||

#3  President Trump Knew When to Fold
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/27/2019 2:20 Comments || Top||

#4  My guess is someone in the Air Traffic Control and TSA unions or hierarchy received a phone call.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/27/2019 2:27 Comments || Top||

#5  And Trump thought he got rid of all the nagging women after his two divorces.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 01/27/2019 6:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Lee out played Grant at Spotsylvania, the Wilderness, and at Cold Harbor too. Lee's problem was that Grant didn't give up like his predecessors and go back to the swamp. He keep dogging Lee. We all know how that story turned out in the end. Let's see if Trump keeps dogging.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/27/2019 8:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Nancy Pelosi did come out ahead, at least in the short term. But she had a far stronger hand, controlling the branch of government that initiates and has final say over finance bills. The President can't force Congress to finance anything. That's just how it works. Taking it further would have been a good thing, in my opinion, because it would have readied the country for a talk on how we need to get government out of all of the stupid and controlling activities it is in, but it would have given everybody in the country a lot of short term pain because the government has wormed its way into controlling so many productive industries in this country. Even new freaking beer labels have to be approved by the government. As long as the conversation was going to stay about the wall and not about how much government we have, we couldn't beat Nancy Pelosi with the hand we had been dealt.
Posted by: Vernal Hatrack2366 || 01/27/2019 8:52 Comments || Top||

#8  With Coulter taking pot shots at Trump about nearly everything, she might as well be a Rino or Dem.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/27/2019 10:36 Comments || Top||

#9  Yes, ideological purity in theory and practice. Fine for those who are paid to subvert the practicalities of everyday life for us poor schmucks.

Ann Coulter, who's in your wallet?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/27/2019 10:50 Comments || Top||

#10  TDS Ann?
Posted by: Flusogum Slemble9878 || 01/27/2019 11:06 Comments || Top||

#11  Ann Coulter Talks About ‘True, Loyal Friend’ Bill Maher
Posted by: Frank G || 01/27/2019 11:46 Comments || Top||

#12  Wars are not one or lost in one battle... Unless you are a fanatic and try to plug up the enemy's cannon with your soldiers' bodies. Pelosi "Won" this one, now what can she "Win" from that Victory?
Posted by: magpie || 01/27/2019 17:43 Comments || Top||


Meghan McCain: I Hate America Without My Father's Leadership
[Breitbart] Meghan McCain, co-host of ABC’s The View and daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), told CNN’s Van Jones in an interview broadcast Saturday that she hates the United States without her father’s leadership.
Interview follows:

Finally out of the closet is she ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/27/2019 01:37 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She hates America for moving on without a McShame dynasty. She gets paid absurd money to bloviate on TV. It's unlikely that would happen anywhere except in America.

Can you say ungrateful? I knew ya could...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/27/2019 6:23 Comments || Top||

#2  So, what country are you moving to?

The Rich and Entitled can choose. The rest of us have no other place that you haven't already corrupted.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/27/2019 7:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Meggie Moo
Posted by: Frank G || 01/27/2019 8:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe she and Moochelle can co-host an NBCCBSABCCNNMSNBC "news" show.
Posted by: Bubba Thud2675 || 01/27/2019 9:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Well we hate you and your family's stain on the national stage.

Move to Venezuela you dumb bitch.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/27/2019 9:44 Comments || Top||

#6  I always thought the networks missed a great chance when one or more of them didn't put together the Megyn Meeee & Meggie Moo Show...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/27/2019 9:52 Comments || Top||

#7  You really miss your Father hating on America; you are just expressing your stress of having to replace that emotional need he fulfilled for you.
Posted by: Airandee || 01/27/2019 10:02 Comments || Top||

#8  Leadership? You mean having friendsssssssch who make enemies look benign? You mean voting to keep BathHouseCare on life support? Flesh that thought out for us, Megg...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/27/2019 11:04 Comments || Top||

#9  Fat blond cow is free to leave but I suspect she makes too much money with the other rabid moon bats on The View to actually tear herself away from it. Too bad.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/27/2019 11:06 Comments || Top||

#10  Alleged ISIS Photo Controversy Engulfs Sen. John McCain

Leading from behind in Syria with some group (???)of rebels?
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/27/2019 11:06 Comments || Top||

#11  McCain's rudderless leadership?
Posted by: gorb || 01/27/2019 11:54 Comments || Top||

#12  Could it be that, without daddy around, good jobs become harder to get?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/27/2019 11:56 Comments || Top||

#13  Aaahhhh....just tying to improve her ratings. Nothing else matters to a monumental ego.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/27/2019 12:51 Comments || Top||

#14  Very dry Megs, and crumbly. Very crumbly. I'm afraid the toasted acorns were a complete flop.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/27/2019 14:36 Comments || Top||

#15  She had value to the lefty media as a token conservative with high-value name. Now as an admitted lefty she's worthless. Not particularly bright.
Posted by: ruprecht || 01/27/2019 15:27 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
30[untagged]
9Commies
5Islamic State
5Govt of Pakistan
4Taliban
3Sublime Porte
2al-Nusra
1Arab Spring
1Govt of Qatar (MB)
1Govt of Syria
1Hezbollah
1Houthis
1Boko Haram (ISIS)
1al-Shabaab (AQ)
1Moslem Colonists
1Muslim Brotherhood
1Narcos
1Human Trafficking
1Govt of Pakistain Proxies

Bookmark
E-Mail Me

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

Merry-Go-Blog











On Sale now!


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

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

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

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

Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2019-01-27
  Bombs kill at least 19 outside cathedral in southern Philippines
Sat 2019-01-26
  ‘SOS’ call from Chinese embassy in Islamabad keeps law enforcers on their toes
Fri 2019-01-25
  Israel deploys 'Iron Dome' after Syria warns of retaliatory strike on Ben Gurion airport
Thu 2019-01-24
  Iraqi forces eliminate 43 ISIS terrorists along Syrian border
Wed 2019-01-23
  Syria Threatens To Attack Ben-Gurion, Return To Occupied Golan
Tue 2019-01-22
  Taliban attack on Afghan security base kills over 100
Mon 2019-01-21
  Syria war: Israeli jets target Iranian positions around Damascus
Sun 2019-01-20
  Syrian air defence repels Israeli attack in south: State media
Sat 2019-01-19
  Libyan forces say Al-Qaeda commander killed in southern op
Fri 2019-01-18
  Militants stalked Xulhaz through LGBTQ platforms
Thu 2019-01-17
  Pakistan Releases Senior Taliban Jihadi Days After Arrest
Wed 2019-01-16
  Iran launches satellite into space
Tue 2019-01-15
  Explosions, gunfire erupt at Kenyan hotel in possible terror attack
Mon 2019-01-14
  Sudan Opposition Call for More Protests 'To Shake the Tyrant's Throne'
Sun 2019-01-13
  Report: Nasrallah suffers heart attack


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.
18.216.32.116
Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:
WoT Operations (19)    WoT Background (10)    Non-WoT (23)    Opinion (10)    (0)