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Two Islamic State leaders killed in Syria air strike: Observatory
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Conservative Leader: Planned Parenthood Is Just Like Notorious Auschwitz Doctor
[Daily Caller] Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center and chairman of ForAmerica, is calling on Congress to immediately cut funding for Planned Parenthood in light of video surfacing of the pro-abortion group selling baby parts.

"The horrific truth that the top doctor at Planned Parenthood sells the body parts of aborted babies compels Congress to recognize it has been funding a 21st century Josef Mengele," Bozell said in a Tuesday statement, comparing the organization to the murderous Nazi doctor stationed at Auschwitz.

"Anyone or either party who plays politics with this ghastly, inhuman behavior, or fails to exercise his/her responsibility to end taxpayer funding of it, should be condemned as participatory in it," the conservative leader continued.

Bozell believes that there is only one thing for leaders in Congress to do: "defund Planned Parenthood now."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/15/2015 06:04 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, but they won't. As a tax payer, I resent the hell out of having this blood on my hands.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 07/15/2015 12:10 Comments || Top||

#2  The GOP had the White House and both houses of Congress fora bit over two years.

Did they defund PP then?

Nothing meaningful will happen out of this.
Posted by: charger || 07/15/2015 12:27 Comments || Top||

#3  PP's current response: "The video purports to show that we chop up babies and sell their parts. Not true! We chop up babies and donate their parts."

Pope Francis: you've spoken loudly on quite a few issues. Where are you on this?
Posted by: Matt || 07/15/2015 14:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Pope Francis: you've spoken loudly on quite a few issues. Where are you on this?

Apparently he only speaks on "trendy" topics.
Posted by: Crusader || 07/15/2015 16:35 Comments || Top||

#5  I am personally shocked and appalled - that there were people who didn't already know this was going on.
Posted by: Iblis || 07/15/2015 17:46 Comments || Top||

#6  @ you really are a lawyer!
Posted by: Shipman || 07/15/2015 18:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Above aimed at Matt
Posted by: Shipman || 07/15/2015 18:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Yeah, well, the "donate, not sell" argument sounds like a rookie lawyer for PP trying to find something to say. Tell that to a jury, bitch.
Posted by: Matt || 07/15/2015 18:24 Comments || Top||

#9  Oh.. so they Donate the parts of killed unborn babies in exchange for a generous donation to Planned Parenthood (wink... wink... nudge... nudge...).

That makes it all right then... (/sarc)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/15/2015 18:38 Comments || Top||

#10  OK, now PP has put a slightly more experienced lawyer/flack on the job, whose explanation is that PP was chopping up babies for "humanitarian reasons". Yeah, that'll work, as soon as the jury stops vomiting. "Think of all the people who benefitted from the clothes we took from the dead Joos!"
Posted by: Matt || 07/15/2015 19:10 Comments || Top||

#11  The Guardian helpfully adds:

"No candidates seeking the 2016 Democratic nomination responded to a request for comment by the Guardian."

Probably because they can't figure out whether the babies would have voted Democrat or not.
Posted by: Matt || 07/15/2015 19:29 Comments || Top||

#12  Probably because they can't figure out whether the babies would have voted Democrat or not.

Well, they do NOW.

What it sounds like to me is they "donate" their sacrifices to companies for "research purposes" -- and those companies sell the parts for profit.

Now -- how much do Planned Parenthood execs and killers have invested in those companies? How much have those companies donated to Democrats?

How much of the Democrat's devotion to slaughtering babies is just to maintain the cash flow?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/15/2015 19:50 Comments || Top||

#13  More and more I see abortion as human sacrifice. Obviously there truly are times is medically necessary, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the ones that are essentially using it as birth control. This life is too much of an annoyance to you to raise or even give up for adoption, so instead they'll just have them killed.

For those whining about unwanted children, well maybe if there wasn't abortion for birth control, they might think more before they wind up in that position and there wouldn't be such a desire (Not need, because killing a human out of future possible annoyance and having to care for them isn't a need).
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/15/2015 23:00 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
The looming IS threat
[DAWN] AS the Afghan Taliban sat face to face with the officials of the Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
government in Murree last week, its fighters were locked in a bloody pie fight with the self-styled 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....
or Daesh back home. For long, the presence of the Death Eater group in this region was downplayed; many even dismissed it as a purely Middle Eastern phenomenon with little possibility of it making inroads outside that region.

But now the terrorist network has raised its monstrous face in this region, apparently driving out the Afghan Taliban from some of their strongholds in eastern Afghanistan. The IS advance makes the Afghan civil war more complex and brutal as the Taliban struggle to maintain unity in their own ranks. This lends greater importance to the Murree talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government to find a political solution to the crisis in Afghanistan.

Although some of its senior commanders are believed to have been killed in the latest US air strikes in 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, IS continues to expand its tentacles. The Death Eaters pledging allegiance to the Middle Eastern movement have now reportedly gained ground in at least three Afghan provinces marking an escalation in its power struggle with the Taliban. The black flag of IS has reportedly replaced the white ones of the Taliban in swathes of the area.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Africa North
MB theory on peaceful and violent means
[AlAhram] Despite raising the banner of "peaceful means," the actual history of the MB proves that the group has always adopted violence as a fundamental strategy

After the people's revolution by masses of Egyptians from all walks of life on 30 June, supported by the Armed Forces, against religious fascism
...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about...
in the form of Moslem Brüderbund (MB) rule, the leaders of the terrorist group and their followers carried out a series of violent attacks. But at the same time they raised the banner of "peaceful means". They interpret the violence they practice, whether through sabotage at universities or demonstrators shooting at security forces or blowing up power lines which hurts millions of citizens, as "peaceful" protest in response to the overthrow of the MB dictatorship and deposing President Mohammed Morsi.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Muslim Brotherhood

#1  "... book by renowned German philosopher Hannah Arendt..."

Al Ahram doesn't realize that Arendt was Jewish and left Germany at age 27 and besides, she herself rejected being called a philosopher.
Posted by: lord garth || 07/15/2015 14:40 Comments || Top||

#2  They're Muslim -- Mohammed ORDERED them to be violent.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/15/2015 19:51 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Anger Is Making Us Stupid
h/t Instapundit
...Our anger comes from fear. Fear of being bullied into silence. Fear of the IRS coming after us for our opinions. Fear of our businesses being destroyed by small-minded H8ers. Fear of a White House that finds myriad ways to harass and even imprison those who disagree with it. Fear of a media that lies and lies and lies, that covers up non-compliant reality in order to sell a left-wing narrative that will secure their sense of virtue and increase the political influence of their corporate bosses.

When a man like Trump seems to spit in the eye of the people we fear, we rally behind him thinking we're fighting back. We're not. We're following our fear right down the rabbit hole.

You want to win back your country? Here's how. Fear nothing. Hate no one. Stick to principles. Unchecked borders are dangerous not because Mexicans are evil but because evil thrives when good men don't stand guard. Poverty programs are misguided, not because the poor are undeserving criminals, but because dependency on government breeds dysfunction and more poverty. Guns save lives and protect liberty. Property rights guarantee liberty. Religious rights are essential to liberty. Without liberty we are equal only in misery.

These things are true. They're true for white people and black people, male people and female people, straight people and gay people. We should support the smartest, most proven, most statesmanlike candidate who best represents those principles. And we should do it out of -- dare I say the word? -- love. Love for our neighbors, our fellow citizens, white and black, male and female, straight and gay.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/15/2015 14:57 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When the Germans bombed Warsaw, Rotterdam, London, so much outrage was expressed. By the time the war was over, we had bombed just about every major German city. Win first. Then worry about niceties of civilization.

You are at war. You are not even trying. You will either lose or you will take up the tactics that gained your enemy their power and position. After you win, then you can go back to principles. Till then only victory counts otherwise you are just another entry in the history books.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/15/2015 15:34 Comments || Top||

#2  He means tough love, P2k.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/15/2015 15:49 Comments || Top||

#3  I called this the "Walled Garden" theory of democracy.

The nice rules we make for ourselves in our peaceful walled garden make life there very pleasant. But after a while we forget that our rules are artificial. They only apply in the artificial little world we have created for our fat and happy selves.

Outside the walls the old rules apply. The nasty, mean rules that we have intentionally isolated ourselves from. It is not a place of peace or plenty. It is a place of base desires, greed and hunger. And they want what we have.

When we go outside the walls to protect our garden, we can no longer apply the garden rules. If we make that mistake we lose.

The other mistake is when rules we have developed for threats from outside the garden are used inside the garden. For example, when the government uses the Patriot Act to prosecute deadbeat dads.

Either mistake destroys the garden. We are currently making both.
Posted by: Iblis || 07/15/2015 15:56 Comments || Top||

#4  So what are we supposed to do? Vote for Jeb Bush? Now that would be stupid.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 07/15/2015 16:45 Comments || Top||

#5  If being angry and stupid doesn't work, then explain the success of the Left the last seven years.
Posted by: charger || 07/15/2015 18:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Like the analogy Iblis.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/15/2015 18:19 Comments || Top||

#7  No Trump, he's a real conservative, speaking truth to RINOs, he should get a metal, or a building or something.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/15/2015 18:21 Comments || Top||

#8  This is why we have primaries with campaigning effectively underway over a year before anybody actually votes. You can bet that after all this immigration hoopla both RINOs and Dumbocrats are gonna be slinging all the mud they can find at Trump. We'll have to wait and see how he handles it and how much of it sticks. But at least so far he's saying things that none of the rest of them have the guts or the integrity to say.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 07/15/2015 18:33 Comments || Top||

#9  Shipman: you mean the same Trump who's given multiples of my yearly salary to da Hildabeest?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/15/2015 18:49 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
John Bolton: Israel should bomb Iran today .....before it gets too late
[The Right Scoop] John Bolton told Greta tonight that the only way to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is to use military force, and points out that even though Obama has said that's on the table, he never meant it.

So what should Israel do? Bolton says they should bomb Iran today...before it gets too late.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/15/2015 06:28 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, Israel did take out Syria's and Iraq's nuke facilities in the past.

I'm not sure the U.S. would bomb Iran even if they pulled off a 911-like attack or worse--not with the current body politic in D.C.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/15/2015 8:28 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm not sure the U.S. would bomb Iran even if they pulled off a 911-like attack or worse--not with the current body politic in D.C.

But would they bomb Israel or otherwise interfere again to prevent Israel from doing so?
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2015 9:22 Comments || Top||

#3  tw, of course Obama would bomb Israel to prevent an attack on Iran. After all, friends unite to fight mutual enemies.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/15/2015 9:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Traditionally, this administration leaks intelligence. Much neater for Obama for the Iranians to magically intercept a strike.

Don't suppose there is any way to take a couple passenger planes and make a double-wide?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/15/2015 12:39 Comments || Top||



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