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Home Front: Politix
Olympus Has Fallen
by Richard Fernandez
Scathing.
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 09/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Excellent! Should be required reading for all who voted for the bugger.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/13/2013 1:44 Comments || Top||

#2  "WHITE HOUSE DOWN" went downhill the moment Jaime Fox decided to fight the bad guys in his Michael Jordan sports shoes.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 09/13/2013 2:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Getting a "no data received" error message from most all pjmedia sites.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/13/2013 4:07 Comments || Top||

#4  It worked for me just now, Anguper Hupomosing9418.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/13/2013 6:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Several sports clichés come to mind:

Putin undressed Obama.

Putin scrubbed Obama's balls with a wire brush.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/13/2013 7:37 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Bob Snore6814 || 09/13/2013 14:25 Comments || Top||

#7 
Come on in, find yourself an empty chair (like Barry!)
Let the fun begin, it's time for some Peeweecare!
Guests? They've shredded the list,
So what if enemies are pissed, (f--- you!)
And tours are canceled, at Barry's Playhouse!

There's a crazy rhythm, comin' from Puppetland
Dirty Harry, Pope Pelosi and Wacko-Bird are the Puppet Band (yeah!)
He's got a couple of talkin' bass,
Re-programmed to kiss his ass -
Golly, it's cuckoo at Barry's Playhouse!

Globey's spinnin', Mr. Bear's grinnin',
'cause Pterry's flyin' high (hello!)
Power is singin', the Picture Phone is ringin',
and the Saudi royal family goes, "Hai!"
Mr. Prompter's roarin', Newshound is snorin',
there's the flashing Magic Screen,
The Cowntess is so pissy, Barry's kinda prissy -
A nuttier establishment you've never seen!
Spend a term with Barry and you'll see what we mean! (Forward!)

Time to evolve, there'll be no more nappin'! (Get up!)
'Cause you've landed in a place where anything can happen -
No civic institution
Will be immune from prostitution!
So let's get sleazy!
Don't be uneasy!
We're actin' Preezy!
At Barry's Playhouse!
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 09/13/2013 20:09 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel’s 20-year nightmare
Twenty years ago today, Israel’s so-called peace process with the PLO was officially ushered in at the White House Rose Garden.

A year or so later, when the death toll of Israeli victims of the massive terror offensive that the PLO organized shortly afterwards reached what then seemed unbearable heights, a popular call went out to “Put the Oslo Criminals on Trial.”

Needless to say, with Shimon Peres, the architect and godfather of the so-called peace process now serving as the president of Israel, nothing ever came of the call.

The demand for an accounting was not unprecedented. There was no reason, on the face of things, for those who made it to be perceived as anything other than reasonably enraged, and as responsible citizens insisting that those responsible for the largest, most destructive strategic error Israel has ever made pay a personal price for their actions.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/13/2013 07:45 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Two decades after the Oslo Accords, few prospects for peace
[Al Ahram] 20 years after the Oslo Accords between the Israelis and the Palestinians, a Palestinian state seems ever more remote
Posted by: Fred || 09/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Islamic failures for peace predate the Oslo Accords, try c. 570 – June 8, 632 AD, then fast-forward.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/13/2013 2:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Taquia failure.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/13/2013 7:24 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Putin Saves Assad's Bacon steps on Farsi Feets
Moreover, in the subtle dance between Russia and Iran, the advantage may have turned decisively in Moscow's favor. It is more difficult now than it was for Assad to play on Russian-Iranian differences to remain in office if Russia one day decides he must step down. Putin will not alienate Iran, but Russia is in a far better position to set the tempo of a transition, by virtue of the fact that it has become the guarantor of the Syrian regime's behavior.
Posted by: Shipman || 09/13/2013 08:10 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


Putin Makes Obama Pay a High Price for Syria Escape
The punchline:
John Kerry can finally say he knows how Richard Nixon felt.

Posted by: Pappy || 09/13/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In a craftily phrased offset, Vlad was actually referencing Kenyan exceptionalism. Hurry someone, fetch the Champ some aspirin and an ice-pack. That eye is beginning to swell.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/13/2013 1:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Game on.
Posted by: Dale || 09/13/2013 4:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Al Qaeda (aka The Rebels/Muslim Brotherhood/Occupiers) will seek revenge as well.
Posted by: Angaimp Panda2522 || 09/13/2013 11:17 Comments || Top||

#4  On Puti?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/13/2013 12:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Perhaps on the United States for "abandoning" them. But also on Putin.

One thing ya gotta realize, AQ is lousy and inept at military actions against any army without zampolits, and Russia probably fired all of theirs back in '96 or something like that.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 09/13/2013 12:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Obama found himself “the dog who caught the car.”

Posted by: Vespasian Chosing3050 || 09/13/2013 12:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Barry Al Qaeda Pompolit, the Lord of the Flies...

Posted by: Bob Snore6814 || 09/13/2013 13:14 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2013-09-10
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Fri 2013-09-06
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Thu 2013-09-05
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Wed 2013-09-04
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