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That certainly is, g(r)omgoru -- you are already on your way to your room, I assume. ;-)
Non-artistically speaking, would he not carry his lance on the right side? I can't imagine it would do any good on the left, that hand already being occupied by the shield.
[Free Beacon] Retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters told Fox Business’ Trish Regan on Tuesday that German police "really screwed up" anticipating and preventing the Berlin terrorist attack on a Christmas market.
German authorities are still looking for the person who drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday night, killing 12 people and injuring 48 others. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack the following day, calling the truck driver a "soldier."
German police had arrested a suspect but had to release him, citing insufficient evidence. Regan expressed concern on her show that the suspect who German police had in custody Tuesday morning was not the same person who carried out the attack Monday night.
"It sounds as though there’s still concern they haven’t gotten the right guy," she said.
Peters responded that Germany did not have the right person and would not charge him.
"The German police really screwed this one up, Trish," Peters said. "They actually had very specific warnings about a Christmas market in Berlin being attacked, possibly with a truck."
He continued to explain that this attack was "absolutely an act of Islamist terror."
"It was not a lone wolf attack," he said. "There was planning behind it, a cell probably. Maybe a large cell because this guy, I mean, they didn’t go after a Christmas market in the old, medieval center of Nuremberg or Munich, where it’s hard to the get a truck in. They picked the Breitscheidplatz in Berlin, where broad avenues and wide feeder streets come together, and you can maneuver a truck. Even somebody who doesn’t know how to drive it can maneuver a truck into that Christmas market."
Regan then asked how this attack was missed and what German Chancellor Angela Merkel was doing during the time of the attack.
"So, how did they miss it, is that what you’re getting at?" she asked. "I mean, what’s going on with Angela Merkel? She obviously missed one big thing, in that she welcomed her refugees into the country, more than a million of them, and now they find themselves with real security threats."
Peters said that where Merkel was at the time of the attack was "ironic."
"Trish, last night when this went down, Angela Merkel got word of the attack while she was at a celebration dinner or event for the integration of refugees, so it was very ironic," he said.
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Peter lost all credibility when he loudly announced he was voting for Hillary.
If I were to shun all those who chose Mrs. Clinton over Mr. Trump, or for that matter chose anyone or no one over voting for Mr. Trump, I would have to divorce Mr. Wife. As happens at least half the time, we made different choices. But he's a good man who made the best decision he could based on the information he had. I can't fault him for that. After all, he voted for George W. Bush in 2000, though he strongly dislikes the man, while I fell for Al Gore -- and have been grateful ever since that I lost. Here's hoping that Mr. Wife and Col. Peters both come to be grateful their candidate lost this time.
[The Hill] Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh says President Obama will create "unrest and disunity" often after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20.
"Obama is going to call [NBC's] Chuck Todd -- take his pick -- [CNN's] John King, [CNN's] Wolf Blitzer ... and they will not be able to wait," Limbaugh said on his Tuesday program. "They'll give Obama as much time as he wants to rip into Trump and to warn the American people.
"He's going to try to create all kinds of unrest and disunity and so forth."
Obama has said that he would speak out after leaving office if he believes it is warranted.
"As an American citizen who cares deeply about our country, if there are issues that have less to do with the specifics of some legislative proposal or battle, but go to core questions about our values and our ideals, and if I think that it's necessary or helpful for me to defend those ideals, then I'll examine it when it comes," Obama said during a press conference in Peru on Nov. 21.
Traditionally, former presidents have refrained from publicly commenting on their successors' job performance. Obama and Trump have also been publicly civil to each other during the transition despite their stark differences. During a press conference Friday, Obama said the two have had "cordial" talks.
"Obama is going to do it [criticize Trump] from Washington," Limbaugh predicted. "And he's going to do it within hours of whatever Trump does. And he's going to do it on major cable news.
"And the media is going to be 100 -- 1,000 percent behind Obama."
The Obamas plan to live in Washington when his presidency while their younger daughter finishes school.
Limbaugh has been a strong supporter of Trump since the billionaire announced his candidacy in June 2015.
#5
I dunno. Anyone heard much about The Elders™ lately?
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Well said P2K.
Disclaimer - I do not listen to Rush or really anyone as part of my daily schedule. The snippits I heard from Rush were more explanatory than booster. My schedule usually had snippits from Glennlivit and howdy. Hope he has a swim buddy.
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"Obama is going to do it [criticize Trump] from Washington," Limbaugh predicted. "And he's going to do it within hours of whatever Trump does. And he's going to do it on major cable news.
I suspect Limbaugh's prediction will be proven correct.
I also suspect that the era in which ex-presidents honored the tradition of keeping their mouths shut once out of office is over. That perennial pest Jimmy Carter led the way, and Bill Clinton has run his mouth, too, from time to time.
The Democrats just LUVS them a good bullshit artist, and I figure they'll use Obama on a weekly-- or even daily-- basis to comment on nearly every move Trump makes.
One might wish the guy would just fade away quietly and STFU after January 20th, but I don't think it's going to happen.
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The way the Marxists and Muslims see it somebosy's got to try to keep those cop killing and Trump supporter assaults fires burning. That's why the most important person domestically will be a jack boot Attorney General. After you drain the swamp, you gotta deal with the snakes.
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The Democrats just LUVS them a good bullshit artist, and I figure they'll use Obama on a weekly-- or even daily-- basis to comment on nearly every move Trump makes.
Yeah, like ESPN has Herm Edwards as an expert commentator.
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CNN? CNN has something like 750,000 viewers out of 350 million Americans. NBC News is in the lead at the moment, but many of those viewers voted against Mrs. Clinton despite NBC's hard sell, so the former president's pontifications will have less impact than anticipated, I suspect. And if inner city African-Americans see solid gains in jobs and quality of education on President Trump's watch, they'll pay less attention to the Lightbringer, too.
It all depends on President Trump being able to deliver, which is what we are all hoping for.
#13
I think they will try. 'Round the campfire out here was, even if you don't like Trump, him being elected could see a bipartisan support for vigorous reinstatement of checks and balances. That was about four months ago, and does not take into effect the current Missourian 'Show Me' proposed position appointments.
The detractors are currently in their smear the reputation phase. I'm thinking they will do one hundred little poos which the media will whip up into a hundred slurry pies in an overwhelm effort, where no matter what the Trump administration does, it will be so, so wrong, with lit'l Barry there to lecture us from his bunker on hole three.
The fake news bs is just setting the table, and there is the inauguration day pity party, tested and previewed by the electors' day events. What sold, what didn't sell, how it could be sold, sort of like a movie marketing preview. Cabal of the deep thinkers could cross-reference their opinions with massive social media data mining, such as how many people, and where, shit the bed during the airing of the Wisconsin elector protest.
Personally, I think this is all part of a greater wave - Duturte, Modi, Brexit, now Trump. The international collectivists are going to have to do something or else Merkel goes the way of the sand castle at incoming tide, and if Germany flips, the EU will melt.
It was noted that the fake news chaff is being spread in Europe, and I would guess a lot of incoming police are cracking down on suspected terrorists pieces while shadowing actual immigrant on locals crime. I'd go big on Dutch Roses and German Votive Candles.
#14
Time for an alternative media to counter what we currently have. I pay no attention to them anyway. They are failing to reach America. The only reason O appears effective is he gets airtime and all media talks about him. This is fake news propaganda at its best.
[DAWN] OVER the weekend, The Washington Post published a story titled ’In Pakistain, five girls were killed for having fun. Then the story took an even darker twist’. Written by Pamela Constable, the story was a follow-up of a gruesome case of five women from Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... whose lives, it is very strongly suspected, came to an untoward and cruel end four years ago. All of them are said to have been killed on the orders of a jirga, after a grainy video was shared, showing them clapping and singing at a wedding ceremony.
The past few months have seen some new but unsurprising developments in the case. The first of these, reported some weeks ago by the Pak media, relates to a fact-finding mission that told the Supreme Court that the women were, in fact, dead or missing; that the assertions of the elders who maintained they were alive did not appear to be true.
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Holding your breath, are ya?
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'Honor Killings' has a respectable sound to it. It should be called 'Murder of Innocents' or 'Dumb F#cks Killing Their Own Family' or ... unbelievable ...
[DAWN] THE interior minister appeared in a combative mood while responding to the damning indictment of him and his ministry by the inquiry commission report at the presser last week on the Aug 8 terrorist attack in Quetta. But he had nothing substantive to say in his defence. Instead, he himself has raised questions over the impartiality of the judicial investigation.
He certainly has no intention of accepting any responsibility let alone stepping down -- of course, there is no such tradition in our political culture. It is quite apparent that like numerous other commission reports, this one too will perhaps be consigned to the backroom.
Neither will heads roll nor will there be any corrective measure taken to rectify the fault lines in our counterterrorism policy as highlighted by Justice Qazi Faez Isa in his landmark report. The one-man judicial commission was formed by the Supreme Court to investigate the tragedy that had almost completely wiped out an entire generation of senior lawyers in Quetta.
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[Independent] Bill O’Reilly lashed out at efforts to do away with the Electoral College as a racialised effort to quash the "white establishment" in US politics.
The Fox News pundit made his remarks following Donald Trump’s election win was finalised by electors across the country. Mr Trump, who lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by more than 2.8 million votes, achieved a narrow victory through the Electoral College.
Mr Trump continues to claim that he won in an historic landslide, but his 306 to 232 electoral win ranks 48th of the 58 votes in US history.
The unexpected win prompted significant criticism from progressives, as the results are not necessarily representative of the voters’ actual choice ‐ especially due to harsh voter ID laws in states like North Carolina that essentially disenfranchised voters of colour.
But Mr O’Reilly believes efforts to change the system are an attempt to remove white people from political power.
"If the Electoral College were abolished," he said, "presidential candidates could simply campaign in the nation’s largest cities ‐ New York, LA, Chicago, Houston ‐ and rack up enough votes to pretty much win any election."
He claimed the "hidden reason" behind calls to retire the Electoral College are intended to neutralise the "largely white rural areas in the Midwest and South". "Hidden reason ".....?
"The left sees white privilege in America as an oppressive force that must be done away with," Mr O’Reilly added, without acknowledging the spectre of America’s racist past.
#1
The Left wants the Peoples Democratic Republic of America not the United States of America. They want the vitality, wealth and power created by the union of states to squander as they have done in all other socialists failures.
#3
The left may want to take power from the "white establishment", but as we see under President Obama, the establishment is not based on race. Nor is the non-establishment.
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[The Hill] Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh says President Obama will create "unrest and disunity" often after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. 
[DAWN] THE interior minister appeared in a combative mood while responding to the damning indictment of him and his ministry by the inquiry commission report at the presser last week on the Aug 8 terrorist attack in Quetta. But he had nothing substantive to say in his defence. Instead, he himself has raised questions over the impartiality of the judicial investigation.
[Independent] Bill O’Reilly lashed out at efforts to do away with the Electoral College as a racialised effort to quash the "white establishment" in US politics. 
