[DuffelBlog] On the first day of leave, my dependa gave to me,
A preheated MRE.
On the second day of leave, my dependa gave to me,
Two safety briefs, and a preheated MRE.
On the third day of leave, my dependa gave to me,
Three car payments, two safety briefs and a preheated MRE.
On the fourth day of leave, my dependa gave to me,
Four babies crying, three car payments, two safety briefs and a preheated MRE.
On the fifth day of leave, my dependa gave to me,
Five NJPs, four crying babies, three car payments, two safety briefs and a preheated MRE.
On the sixth day of leave, my dependa gave to me,
Six machine guns jamming, five NJPs, four crying babies, three car payments, two safety briefs and a preheated MRE.
On the seventh day of leave, my dependa gave to me,
Seven trucks a-breaking, six machine guns jamming, five NJPs, four crying babies, three car payments, two safety briefs and a preheated MRE.
On the eighth day of leave, my dependa gave to me,
Eight sergeants screaming, seven trucks a-breaking, six machine guns jamming, five NJPs, four crying babies, three car payments, two safety briefs and a preheated MRE.
On the ninth day of leave, my dependa gave to me,
Nine majors talking, eight sergeants screaming, seven trucks a-breaking, six machine guns jamming, five NJPs, four crying babies, three car payments, two safety briefs and a preheated MRE.
On the tenth day of leave, my dependa gave to me,
Ten helos crashing, nine majors talking, eight sergeants screaming, seven trucks a-breaking, six machine guns jamming, five NJPs, four crying babies, three car payments, two safety briefs and a preheated MRE.
On the eleventh day of leave, my dependa gave to me,
Eleven civilians sleeping, ten helos crashing, nine majors talking, eight sergeants screaming, seven trucks a-breaking, six machine guns jamming, five NJPs, four crying babies, three car payments, two safety briefs and a preheated MRE.
On the twelfth day of leave, my dependa gave to me,
Twelve drones-a-droning, eleven civilians sleeping, ten helos crashing, nine majors talking, eight sergeants screaming, seven trucks a-breaking, six machine guns jamming, five NJPs, four crying babies, three car payments, two safety briefs and a preheated MRE.
[AmGratness] Baby, it’s cold everywhere these days, outside and inside.
The #MeToo movement has put flirting and romance into a deep freeze. Men across the country fear the ramifications of holding a door open for a woman, let alone pouring her a Christmas cocktail. There’s ice, ice baby in feminists’ veins.
What’s a man to do if he’s walking in a Winter Wonderland by himself? (In this case, Rod Stewart and Michael Bublé hang out together). And what’s a lonely gal to do, when logs on the fire fill her with desire? I wrote in 2016 about the leftist meltdown in "Baby, It’s Dumb Outside," but since then things have regressed even further. I knew the lefties weren’t the brightest bulbs on the tree, but this year they don’t even know how to put the plug in the socket.
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Women who don't like men as they are...men are bigger and stronger than women, except for "woke " men with PC in their pants and wussies . There won't be many, if any, babies born to Wussies and snowflakes. Statistically there will be fewer and less lasting marriages among wussies and women who can't face up to the reality that Women just can't get it up themselves and never will.
What does this reality mean? The REAL women who like men and like Babies and CAN raise a functioning happy family will outlast and out produce the #Metoo "woke" left behinds.
Real women will become wives, have husbands , conceive babies in greater numbers, and raise happy families. #Metoo get Snowflakes and their marriages will produce little or nothing. IF they get married, that is.
Its hard being on the far side of Mother Nature...and probably locked out in the historical Cold as well. You #Metoo clowns and "woke" snowflakes are on the wrong side of the Key, as it were.
And you may be "woke" but there is only one Key and you are on the wrong side of it.
No matter how you cut it, you either go with Mother Nature, or you leave no mark at all. And you have to face the facts. Leftist kill their own babies. Lefties are not only dumb, they CAN'T compete. So: Byeee.
[TheOnion] The Democratic Party will retake control of the House of Representatives after gaining a net total of 40 seats in the 2018 midterm elections. The Onion examines the items headlining the Democrats’ agenda as they lead the 116th U.S. Congress.
Green New Deal:
Being pushed by whiny millennial representatives who expect to just be handed a livable planet in the year 2060.
Healthcare:
Plan to introduce a broadly popular Medicare for all bill to slowly water down into a series of giveaways to big pharma.
Trump:
Still don’t like the guy!
Grandstanding To Go Viral On Social Media:
Members will be limited to one impassioned speech with viral video potential per month.
Corruption:
Committed to looking like they’re tackling political corruption.
Criticizing Nancy Pelosi:
Expected to be a top priority until approximately 10 years after Pelosi dies.
Immigration:
Following Senator Chuck Schumer’s lead in demanding that a border wall they regard as useless, unnecessary, and morally bankrupt receives no more than $1.6 billion in funding.
Infrastructure:
If there’s one thing they can agree with Republicans on, it’s that America’s crumbling bridges and roads are the perfect political bargaining chip.
Election Reform:
Party leadership is already doggedly working to ensure that the wave of true progressives taking office in January never happens again.
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From 1990 to 2010 the Al Thani ruling family of Qatar was the Muslim Brotherhood's source for funds and support. Since 2010 Turkey has been the Brotherhood's main sponsor, but Qatar remains important to its financing. The Clinton greed-factory and the Dems favorite ThinkTank, the Brookings Institution, have operated from Qatar for years, and they were well aware of its ruling family ties to the Brotherhood.
BLUF:
[Breitbart] "Wells Fargo ... sent large portions of our job duties to India branch of Wells Fargo," the American worker wrote in the federal complaint. The worker said she trained workers in India for three months in order for the bank to swiftly outsource her and hundreds of U.S. workers’ jobs.
Wells Fargo executives told the Observer that the bank would not certify that more American jobs would not be outsourced to foreign countries in the near future.
The bank announced months ago, as Breitbart News reported, that about 26,500 workers at the multinational bank would be laid off by 2021.
Wells Fargo has consistently imported foreign workers through the H-1B visa program to take high-paying, white-collar U.S. jobs. Between 2015 and 2017, Wells Fargo tried to import nearly 400 foreign workers to take jobs in the U.S.
Cheap, foreign labor is the most prominent driver of multinational corporations outsourcing American workers’ jobs to third-world nations. Emphasis added
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My last job in the US was in WF IT in Charlotte, NC. Morning staff meetings included me, 12 IT guys from India, and 5 IT guys dialing in from India.
[DW] To avoid the possibility of offending non-Christians Germany's integration commissioner sent out holiday cards without a mention of the word "Christmas." DW's Erkan Arikan, a Moslem, considers the courtesy unnecessary.
Every year at Christmas, I encounter people who are particularly zealous: "Merry Christmas! Oh, no, you're not celebrating. I mean, happy holidays!"
Yes, as a German with Ottoman Turkish heritage who comes from a conservative Moslem family, I did not grow up celebrating Christmas. For my family, the holiday was just a long weekend. We watched the Four Hills Tournament ski competition, Little Lord Fauntleroy and, of course, Three Wishes for Cinderella. That was Christmas for us.
Now, I ask myself every year why people are so careful to not wish me a Merry Christmas. I, too, look forward to the holiday season: That's when the people around me think about their religion at least once a year.
I enjoy the contemplation and the deceleration. Christmas grounds people, at least those with whom I deal from day to day. It's a nice feeling. Every year, my family and I are happy to receive Christmas cards from our friends, just as we likewise, send out Christmas greetings ‐ not because we have to, but because it is a form of decency to respect the religion of others.
Integration, Migration and Refugees Commissioner Annette Widmann-Mauz was acting with honorable intent when she omitted "Christmas" from this year's holiday cards; her aim is to not hurt, offend or exclude people who do not celebrate the Christian holiday. But the word does not offend me: I, too, would like to have a Happy Christmas!
Non-Christian parents know that Germany's heavily Christian calendar generally overlooks the holidays celebrated by their religions. Our family has one strategy for this.
When I celebrate the end of Ramadan with my daughters, they get presents, as they do at Christmas, but without the tree or the nativity scene. Yes, I know that the holiday is about more than just presents. But that is how Christmas is celebrated at our place. If anyone askes, I simply respond that we Moslems also celebrate the birth of Jesus. He is also an important prophet in our religion.
WHAT ABOUT RAMADAN?
Instead of excluding me from German traditions out of fear of insulting me, it would be much nicer if Christians would show awareness of the holidays of my religion. I've never had a non-Moslem congratulate me on the end of Ramadan or on the Eid a-Adha.
We could all generally be more considerate of the beliefs and traditions held by the people around us. But I would like to continue to receive Christmas greetings, cards, and gifts.
I'm a fully fledged member of society. And I don't live between two cultures, but withtwo cultures.
In my view, this is an enriches ‐ and by no means creates an obstacle to ‐ integration.
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I have learned to say "hello" in many different languages per their customs, and try to use a perfect accent. Wonderful ice breaker meeting someone this way.
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A man of the world should be able to both greet and curse the natives in whatever their barbaric tongue.
As for holiday greetings, it's not that complicated. When someone says Happy $INSERT-HOLIDAY-NAME-HERE, the proper civilized response is to say, "Thanks! You, too!"
[WND] Growing up in suburban Washington, D.C., during the 1950s and early ’60s, my family would often drive into our nation’s magnificent, shining, marble-hewn capital city, where my dad worked as an aeronautical engineer for the Defense Department, and we’d visit all the storied monuments and federal edifices from the White House to the Capitol to the FBI’s headquarters. Even while in elementary school, I remember reading little biographical books about the exploits of the FBI and Secret Service.
These people were my heroes.
That’s why it caused me such profound sadness to watch former FBI director James Comey bragging publicly ‐ to gales of audience laughter ‐ about how he tricked, entrapped and ultimately ruined the life of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a 33-year military veteran, former Defense Intelligence Agency director and, briefly, a Trump adviser.
For a moment, put aside all the other moving parts of the Flynn story, including most recently the beyond-bizarre sentencing hearing before Judge Emmet Sullivan. Let’s just zoom in on one thing ‐ Comey’s comments in his MSNBC interview with Nicole Wallace ‐ because they reveal a whole dimension of the never-ending Mueller drama that is normally hidden from view.
Comey was interviewed in front of a live audience. You can see the relevant excerpts by watching the first 30 seconds of this video.
The fired ex-FBI director openly boasted about how, in January 2017, he took advantage of the brand-new, still-forming Trump administration and intentionally violated all the usual standards and protocols in arranging an ambush meeting by two FBI agents of a too-trusting Gen. Flynn. Then-FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe played his part in setting-up Flynn by phoning the general, all buddy-buddy, and explicitly advising him not to bother bringing an attorney. As everyone now knows, Flynn followed this malevolently misleading "advice," which has led directly to his personal, professional and financial destruction.
Even though, by all accounts, the two FBI agents interviewing Flynn at the White House did not believe he had lied, Mueller ultimately decided to put the big squeeze on Flynn ‐ in an effort to get to his real target, President Donald Trump ‐ as he has done with so many other people whose broken lives are now casualties of the ever-metastasizing investigation.
During the MSNBC interview, Wallace, wondering aloud how on earth FBI agents could just stroll into the White House and grill a senior staffer there, asks Comey: "It’s hard to imagine two FBI agents ending up in the State Room. How did that happen?"
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump reacted Monday to critics who had rallied around former U.S. envoy Brett McGurk, noting that he was the Obama administration official responsible for sending pallets of cash to Iran for U.S. hostages.
McGurk, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2015 as special envoy to the international coalition fighting the so-called "Islamic State" (ISIS), resigned his post over the weekend in protest against President Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria. Though McGurk had been due to leave his post in February, his resignation provided more fodder for Trump’s critics in the wake of Secretary of Defense James Mattis’s resignation Thursday.
Trump initially responded by accusing McGurk of "grandstanding," adding that he had been appointed by Obama and that Trump did not even know him. That, in turn, led to more criticism.
The claim is true, as initially reported by the Wall Street Journal, which broke the story of the cash ransom for American prisoners in 2016:
The Obama administration has refused to disclose how it paid any of the $1.7 billion, despite congressional queries, outside of saying that it wasn’t paid in dollars. Lawmakers have expressed concern that the cash would be used by Iran to fund regional allies, including the Assad regime in Syria and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, which the U.S. designates as a terrorist organization.
The U.S. delegation was led by a special State Department envoy, Brett McGurk, and included representatives from the Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to U.S. and European officials. The Iranian team was largely staffed by members of its domestic spy service, according to U.S. officials.
Revolutionary Guard commanders boasted at the time that the Americans had succumbed to Iranian pressure. "Taking this much money back was in return for the release of the American spies," said Gen. Mohammad Reza Naghdi, commander of the Guard’s Basij militia, on state media.
Critics also argued that paying ransom for hostages would endanger Americans by creating a financial incentive to kidnap and imprison more of them.
In 2012, McGurk withdrew his nomination to be ambassador to Iraq over an affair with a Journal reporter.
[The National Interest] One of the most widely used weapons of the twentieth century was the predecessor to the legendary AK-47 rifle. Developed at the end of the nineteenth century for the Czar’s armies, the Mosin Nagant infantry rifle ended up becoming the standard issue weapon of the new Soviet Union. An unassuming but accurate and reliable weapon, the "Mosin" served well into the twenty-first century, making it one of the few weapons to see continuous service over the span of three centuries.
In the late nineteenth century, Russia’s large land army grew increasingly dissatisfied with its arsenal of obsolete rifles. The standard issue rifle was the Berdan II , a single-shot rifle that fired the 10.7x58mmR bottle-neck black powder cartridge. This arrangement greatly limited the firepower of Russian infantrymen, who needed to load a fresh cartridge after every shot. The Berdan II was also large and heavy, weighing 9.3 pounds with an overall length of 51 inches.
New technologies promised a huge technological shift in small arms already underway in the West. A move away from black powder to more modern propellants would produce higher chamber pressures. This in turn would allow higher projectile velocities while at the same time allowing for a reduction in the size of the bullet. A fixed steel magazine could hold up to five metallic cartridges, eliminating the need for reloading after every shot. The result would be a smaller, lighter, faster-firing rifle.
Moved to Opinion because its About describes it as a satire site.
[TheMideastBeast] Santa Claus is being held by ISIS fighters in Raqqa, as the Islamic State is demanding an ’Islamic Christmas’ be adopted by Saint Nick.
"For too long, this red-suited infidel has passed over the houses of countless Muslim children to deliver gifts to these non-believers," said one ISIS fighter in a video delivered to Al Jazeera’s North Pole correspondent. "Every year of my childhood, I left out a class of goat’s milk and a serving of baklava hoping he would, just once, bring me presents. But I got nothing. At least the Jews get to light candles and shit."
Santa’s capture came after an ISIS stakeout of a Christian home in Raqqa, as fighters were waiting beside the home’s fireplace when Santa emerged to deliver the family’s presents. In the recorded video, which showed a bound Saint Nick, ISIS demanded that Santa bring toys to Muslim children rather than Christians, wear a green suit instead of red, and shout ’Allahu Akbar’ rather than ’Ho, ho, ho,’ while flying from house to house. They additionally demanded that Mrs. Claus dress more modestly, but noted approvingly that Santa’s beard is already sufficient.
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Kind of surprised that ISIS didn't produce a video a few weeks ago saying they'd captured santa. Screw up Christmas for the kids in the western world just because they are first class wankers.
[CarolineGlick] President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s sudden announcement Wednesday that he is removing U.S. forces from Syria shocked many. But it shouldn’t have come as a surprise, because the move is consistent with key aspects of Trump’s military and foreign policy.
Trump promised to bring the 2,000 U.S. Special Forces home from Syria in April. When his announcement sparked opposition from the Pentagon and from key allies, Trump said that he would give the Pentagon six months to complete its mission to defeat so-called "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.... " (ISIS) forces in Syria.
Seven months later, he announced the troops will be coming home.
Trump’s decision will have negative consequences. But it will also have positive consequences. Only time will tell if the positive implications of the move will outweigh the negative ones. But it is important to set out both to consider the wisdom of his decision.
[WND] I was thinking about Christmas, but I wasn’t thinking about toys and family gatherings. I was thinking about death and the absence of conscience.
I was thinking about this as I studied the numbers on the U.S. Abortion Clock. (See: www.numberofabortions.com.) As I sat studying the numbers of babies being murdered in real time, I wondered what it could possibly be like in homes where women had just murdered their unborn babies.
Was there joy, sadness, a sense of loss, was there shame and remorse? Worldwide since 1980, there have been 1.5 billion babies murdered, according to the real-time abortion clock. In America alone since Roe v. Wade, the 1973 infamous baby-killing ruling, went into effect, 61 million children have been murdered by abortion.
As I sat writing this commentary Saturday evening, Dec. 22, at 7:40 p.m. Eastern time, there had been 89,901 babies murdered worldwide on this day alone. This year so far, on this same date and time, there have been nearly 905,000 babies murdered by their mothers in the United States.
The murder of children is a society’s final step before completely sliding into the abyss of conscienceless abandon. When a people cease to be concerned about the lives of the most innocent and vulnerable persons on earth, said culture is not long for existence.
[Wash Times] The Women’s March has incited another uproar over anti-Semitism, this time stemming from national co-chair Tamika Mallory’s comment about "white Jews" contributing to white supremacy.
Ms. Mallory weighed in after a Dec. 10 expose in Tablet magazine about a January 2017 meeting of initial Women’s March leaders. The report said that she and co-chair Carmen Perez made critical comments about Jews, while Ms. Mallory said the role of Jews was discussed.
"Since that conversation, we’ve all learned a lot about how while white Jews, as white people, uphold white supremacy, ALL Jews are targeted by it," Ms. Mallory said in a Sunday statement in the New York Times.
Her comment, while apparently aimed at appeasing her critics, instead fueled a fresh round of attacks on the Women’s March, whose leaders have repeatedly been accused of anti-Semitism, which they deny.
At issue are their associations with the Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan and Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh; failure to mention anti-Semitism in their Unity Principles; lack of Jewish women in top posts, and the recent allegation that they pushed out 2017 organizer Vanessa Wruble because she was Jewish, which Women’s March leaders have denied.
The Jerusalem Post’s Lahav Harkov called Ms. Mallory an "open, unabashed antisemite," while Boston Globe columnist Michael Cohen blasted the comment as "deeply ignorant & offensive."
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an idiotic opinion piece at "The Forward" advises Jews to keep supporting the Women's March because somehow white supremacists forced or tricked Mallory, Farrakhan, etc. into being anti Semitic or something like that
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"Tamika? She hot as paprika."
"Her butt be like Mt. Tanganyika."
"A regular heifer."
"While riding the Zephyr
Last week, it sure squeak, but..." "Eureka!"
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[DW] To avoid the possibility of offending non-Christians Germany's integration commissioner sent out holiday cards without a mention of the word "Christmas." DW's Erkan Arikan, a 
[WND] Growing up in suburban Washington, D.C., during the 1950s and early ’60s, my family would often drive into our nation’s magnificent, shining, marble-hewn capital city, where my dad worked as an aeronautical engineer for the Defense Department, and we’d visit all the storied monuments and federal edifices from the White House to the Capitol to the FBI’s headquarters. Even while in elementary school, I remember reading little biographical books about the exploits of the FBI and Secret Service.
[Breitbart] President Donald Trump reacted Monday to critics who had rallied around former U.S. envoy Brett McGurk, noting that he was the Obama administration official responsible for sending pallets of cash to Iran for U.S. hostages.
[The National Interest] One of the most widely used weapons of the twentieth century was the predecessor to the legendary AK-47 rifle. Developed at the end of the nineteenth century for the Czar’s armies, the Mosin Nagant infantry rifle ended up becoming the standard issue weapon of the new Soviet Union. An unassuming but accurate and reliable weapon, the "Mosin" served well into the twenty-first century, making it one of the few weapons to see continuous service over the span of three centuries.
[WND] I was thinking about Christmas, but I wasn’t thinking about toys and family gatherings. I was thinking about death and the absence of conscience.
