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Trump: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops.
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
The Walls are Closing In ‐ but Not on Trump
A revealing short excerpt:
[American Thinker] As an interesting aside, FISA judges are appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts. As the Washington Post reports, "Roberts is single-handedly choosing the people who get to decide how much surveillance we’re subject to."

Where has he been on alleged FISA abuses? A Title 1 warrant was issued against Carter Page, reserved for "an agent of a foreign power." This allowed the FBI to spy not only on Page, but anyone he was in contact with and anyone they were in contact with. That would cover the entire Trump campaign and most of Washington D.C. If Page was a foreign agent, why is he on cable news shows rather than in prison?

How can Justice Roberts preside over a possible Senate impeachment trial if he is a material witness into the abuses that started the impeachment inquiry?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/29/2019 06:21 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If Page was a foreign agent, why is he on cable news shows rather than in prison?

He was an agent alright, just not an agent of the foreign variety.

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/29/2019 6:30 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, rapist, led genocidal 'caliphate,' died in tunnel
Belt your socks on, dear Reader. This one’s a doozie.
[Jpost] Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a rapist. Like most jihadists, his main motivation was murder and genocide, combined with far-Right religious hatred. In Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, the organization and "state" that he led, he was able to exploit various strands of followers to create the closest thing the Middle East has seen to a short-lived, Nazi-style country.

He spent his days as leader raping women the group had kidnapped while his men died on the front lines. Like Hitler, he enjoyed the good life while his Sunni soldiers suffered under the bombs of the US-led coalition and struggled to stop the rising tide of Shi’ite militias and Kurdish fighters arrayed against them.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/29/2019 01:58 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Abu Bakr Baghdadi (Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali) should go down in history recognized as a Caliph of true islam, equal to the Rashiduns, Umayyads and Turkic caliphs. Any 'moderate muslims' that deny his status as a representative of islam are either mistaken or just hiding their beliefs.

History is full of such muslim leaders, their followers were all motivated by rape and bloodlust justified by their psychopathic doctrines. Modern islam is only different from old islam in that it has guns instead of swords. Let this bastard's death be a symbol of things to come for all islam.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/29/2019 5:46 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ nailed it best obit I've seen of the guy
Posted by: jpal || 10/29/2019 9:57 Comments || Top||

#3  History is full of such muslim leaders, their followers were all motivated by rape and bloodlust justified by their psychopathic doctrines.

I think armed robbery is also a component.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/29/2019 14:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Armed robbery and destroying anything deemed un-Islamic. There was a fair amount of that going on.
Posted by: jpal || 10/29/2019 15:34 Comments || Top||


Washington Post Calls al-Baghdadi ''Austere Religious Scholar''
"Adolph Hitler, former vegetarian artist and writer..."
"Benito Mussolini, former school teacher and socialist journalist..."




Related: They’ve been having fun on Twitter with this.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 10/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Josef Stalin, austere seminarian and fancier of Georgian financial institutions

Robert Mugabe, austere Jesuit student and liberation movement leader

Che Guevara, austere medical student who provided cadavers along with cutting them
Posted by: Lex || 10/29/2019 1:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Sandmann is coming for you!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/29/2019 1:44 Comments || Top||


#4  Remember next time you buy at Amazon.

Posted by: 3dc || 10/29/2019 6:52 Comments || Top||

#5  So, going forward, rapist / murderers can say "Judge, I was just being austere."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/29/2019 8:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Attila the Hun, noted equestrian and champion of the outdoor lifestyle, recently died during his tour of Europe…
Posted by: magpie || 10/29/2019 9:43 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: Angens Turkeyneck2026 || 10/29/2019 10:42 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Is China Going Broke and Taking the World With It? Trade war and finance - China Uncensored
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/29/2019 10:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  One of the interesting take aways is while China imports and world exports to China have slowed, imports to the US have remained constant with slow growth. Companies have moved to Vietnam, India and Korea from China and are exporting to the US from there.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/29/2019 10:37 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm sure we can survive without China.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/29/2019 11:00 Comments || Top||

#3  ..did before. Doesn't seem to enter into the minds of those profiting globalists.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/29/2019 11:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Hence #TheGreatDecoupling.
Posted by: charger || 10/29/2019 14:33 Comments || Top||

#5  Ugh, these "China Youtubers" seldom know what they're talking about. They just like reveling in "insider knowledge" about China, of which they have very little. The world isn't going anywhere.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 10/29/2019 16:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Obviously, they haven't read Sun Tzu.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/29/2019 16:44 Comments || Top||

#7  Or Boyd.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/29/2019 17:08 Comments || Top||

#8  This is terrible! How will we survive without low quality manufacturing, lead tainted goods and an endless stream of IP theft?
Posted by: Iblis || 10/29/2019 18:38 Comments || Top||

#9  By Thriving?

Trump has realised that until internal Tariffs are less than external tariffs, then the economy will just export jobs.

Lower income taxes, raise tariffs for a vibrant economy for all (not just globalist importers).
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/29/2019 19:52 Comments || Top||


Why the 'Woke' Corporations Back China
Sultan Knish
Think there’s a contradiction between ’woke’ corporate titans like Apple and Disney silencing anyone opposed to China’s crackdown on protesters in Hong Kong?

It’s not hypocrisy, it’s synergy.

The same forces that made the major brands scattered around your kitchen, living room and garage broadcast their support for gun control, gay marriage and illegal immigration are fueling their support for the People’s Republic of China pulling another Tiananmen Square in Hong Kong.

The lefties in Beijing and Berkeley used the same set of ideological tools to force companies to toe the party line. They roped off access to an appealing customer base, the population of mainland China, urban millennials with huge amounts of disposable income, in exchange for ideological compliance.

Communist China is one entangled oligarchy which mingles political party and company. Sound familiar?

The CEO of Nike sits on the board of Disney. The CEO of Disney until recently sat on the board of Apple. The CEO of Apple sits on the board of Nike. Good thing we have a "free market economy" isn’t it?

Disney, Apple and all the rest have no problem understanding their Chinese Communist counterparts.

ESPN smears democracy protesters in Hong Kong for the same reason that it celebrated Colin Kaepernick. There’s a fundamental contradiction in principles between supporting a Communist police state and denouncing American police officers, but a perfect synergy of political expediency.

Disney, ESPN’s parent company, has embraced identity politics from the top down, even as its head honcho, Bob Iger, remains whiter than vanilla ice cream, not because it really believes in this stuff. The Chinese Communist Party believes in One China. Its American counterparts believe in A Thousand Genders. Lefty power in China is built on unity and solidarity. Lefty power in America is built on divisive minority coalitions. But it’s only a difference if you focus on the means rather than the ends.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/29/2019 01:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  "It's all about the Benjamins, baby"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/29/2019 4:29 Comments || Top||

#2  It's all about the parties they get access to.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/29/2019 6:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Wait until they discover NBA is a medium to stealth insert social justice culture into Chinese cities; kidneys are gonna roll.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/29/2019 15:47 Comments || Top||


Economy
Chicago Mayor Learning that Eventually, You Run Out of Other People's Money
[PJMedia] Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is dealing with a 12-day-old teachers strike that features a contest between the most radical union in the U.S. and one of the nation's most radical mayors.

It's not going to end well for her.

When the strike began she told the teachers "there is no more money." All that did was whet the appetite for battle by the teachers who are now almost certainly going to get almost all of what they want.

...Chicago Teachers Union president Jesse Sharkey and vice president Stacy Davis Gates said that the union’s most recent proposal asks for an additional $38 million in funds over the city’s last offer.

...Sure, why not? It's only $38 million. And that's Lightfoot's problem. The city is facing an $800 million budget shortfall and the union is perfectly willing to exacerbate it. Not their problem and not their money. They apparently don't see why the city council can't just slap a few more cents on the dozens of taxes that residents are already paying. Piece of cake.

...The federal government can put Social Security and Medicare on the credit card for as long as demand for U.S. Treasuries is high. States and municipalities don’t have that luxury. There is an upper bound to what even the most progressive mayors and governors can grant the lobbies that mobilize voters for their campaigns. But it’s a glass ceiling. Public sector unions are eager to break it.

...Chicago reached that "upper bound" years ago and residents have been voting with their feet. In their eagerness to sate the appetite for tax dollars, public unions' ever-escalating demands have made Chicago the only major city of the top five to lose population over the previous decade.

So with the prospect of having to pay the extortionate demands of teachers, Lightfoot is facing the reality that other U.S. mayors have known for decades. In her case, she probably can't understand why her ideological allies are treating her this way. They're on the same side, aren't they? They're brothers and sisters in the struggle for social justice, right?

The idea that Lightfoot "means well" isn't good enough for the union. Good intentions can still lead to hell. For Chicago's long-suffering taxpayers, they're already there.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/29/2019 04:10 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any bets on how soon she'll take after the one and starts blaming the previous mayor*?

*His being a Jew, albeit a renegade one, should play well to her Woke/Wakandan constituencies.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/29/2019 4:32 Comments || Top||

#2  They apparently don't see why the city council can't just slap a few more cents on the dozens of taxes that residents are already paying. Piece of cake.

Well yeah. Then you put on a stern face and tell people if they want to live in your awesome city, they'd better pay their fair share. And then you call them racists for leaving.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 10/29/2019 6:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Current Chicago pension debt is about $150,000 per family unit.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/29/2019 6:48 Comments || Top||

#4  They'd be best to heed that discussion in The Sun Also Rises:

“How did you go bankrupt?"
Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/29/2019 8:02 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Dem Position on Impeachment: 'I Killed my Parents, and Now I Ask for Mercy on the Grounds That I'm an Orphan'
It's Spengler
[PJMedia] That's the canonical definition of chutzpah -- shameless effrontery -- and it summarizes the Democratic position on the attempted impeachment of President Trump. The Hillary Clinton campaign paid for the Steele Dossier, assembled out of bits handed to ex-MI6 spook Christopher Steele from his Russian intelligence sources, and the FBI used this concoction to obtain FISA warrants to bug the Trump presidential campaign. Now, THAT's foreign interference. And those facts aren't in dispute. When the Trump Administration tries to get the truth out of foreign governments about their involvement in nefarious activities in the US, the Democrats scream, "Impeachment!"

...For the record, I don't care whether there was quid pro quo with Ukraine or not. If President Trump used military aid as a bargaining chip to persuade the government of Ukraine to investigate foreign subversion of our political system, he was doing his job as Commander-in-Chief to protect this country from its external enemies. The parade of striped-pants cookie-pushers from the State Department feeding information to closed-door Democratic Party kangaroo courts in the House of Representatives is irrelevant. Trump is fighting a mutiny by the US intelligence community. If the mutineers succeed, it will be the end of the republic. If a cabal of bureaucrats nestling in the bowls of our $80 billion a year intelligence bureaucracy can bring down an elected president of the United States, the republic is finished.

The impeachment issue is a load of baloney, period. No less a Constitutional scholar than Prof. Alan Dershowitz wrote (on the website of the Gatestone Institute):
    So, the question remains: did President Trump commit impeachable offenses when he spoke on the phone to the president of Ukraine and/or when he directed members of the Executive Branch to refuse to cooperate, absent a court order, with congressional Democrats who are seeking his impeachment?

    The answers are plainly no and no. There is a constitutionally significant difference between a political "sin," on the one hand, and a crime or impeachable offenses, on the other.

    Even taking the worst-case scenario regarding Ukraine -- a quid pro quo exchange of foreign aid for a political favor -- that might be a political sin, but not a crime or impeachable offense.

...Every American should read carefully this interview with Prof. Angelo Codevilla, a former top staffer at the Senate Intelligence Committee (the interview was conducted by my friend David Samuels of Tablet Magazine). The power and capacity to abuse power of America's intelligence services has grown to the point that it endangers our freedoms. Make no mistake: If they can railroad the president of the United States and members of the cabinet, they can do pretty much anything they want to you. Defend your freedoms. Support President Trump.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When you undermine the legitimacy of the government and the appearance of representation, don't be surprise if it all collapses. Are you getting the same advice from Deep State that was caught 'pants down' when the old Soviet Union collapse?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/29/2019 8:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Ref #1: Are you getting the same advice from Deep State that was caught 'pants down' when the old Soviet Union collapse?

An unwillingness to believe. We'll always have Studebakers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/29/2019 8:26 Comments || Top||

#3  BLUF: This is an attempted palace coup by a self-styled praetorian guard. That our would-be guardsmen are buffoons and incompetents -- Strzok and Ohr rather than Shock and Awe, Shumer instead of Sun Tzu, Brennan instead of Lenin -- is small comfort. The next band of conspirators will learn from these clowns' mistakes and perform the next coup with great skill and subtlety.

It is imperative that the Attorney General and Dunham succeed in getting convictions and prison terms for every performer in this Shitshow: Brennan. Clapper. Comey. The swinging Three's Company trio of Page-McCabe-Strzok. The foreign "plumbers" Steele, Halper and Mifsud. Their co-conspirators Glenn Simpson and his employee Nellie Ohr and her husband Bruce.

And that Clinton and Obama be forced to testify about what they knew and what they ordered as part of this attempted coup.

All of this must come out in a trial at law, because we no longer have a press corps that will honestly, accurately and fairly report any of this.

The only hope for is now resides in the courts.

We are watching the death struggle of the Republic. That it is so ridiculous - a reality-show buffoon vs characters out of a 1960s sitcom parody of spies - should not distract us from the gravity of the event.

David Goldman is right. If this succeeds, we as a democratic republic are f---ed.

There will be no mechanism by which the American people can ensure that the political elite - not just in Congress but across the executive branch, dozens of states and major US cities, and of course their brownshirts across what used to be called the press corps - that these new Jacobins be prevented from continuing the mischief and ruin that they have long perpetrated on us:
Feeding the Chinese crocodile while they line their pockets.
Enabling monopolists and market manipulators to dominate entire sectors of our economy.
Flooding the low end of our labor market with imported helots.
Launching pointless wars without end.
Slandering and silencing anyone they wish by smearing them with false charges of rape, assault, racist behavior, or even thought crimes.

Kill this tendency. Stop this coup. Put the conspirators in prison and expose their puppet masters for all the world to see.

Before it happens again, with truly intelligent and competent leaders directing what will not be a Shitshow but an actual coup.
Posted by: Lex || 10/29/2019 10:00 Comments || Top||

#4  I agree 100% with the bolded sentence and don't really see why it should be considered a crime. It's not as if Trump was trying to make himself rich or falsify anything.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/29/2019 10:08 Comments || Top||

#5  For the record, I don't care whether there was quid pro quo with Ukraine or not. If President Trump used military aid as a bargaining chip to persuade the government of Ukraine to investigate foreign subversion of our political system, he was doing his job as Commander-in-Chief to protect this country from its external enemies.

I posted the same sentiment here a few days ago. The Democrats make it sound like a terrible, terrible thing but my question is: What law does that violate?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/29/2019 13:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Twenty Years Too Early, Ten Years Too Late and the Relic From Rome
BELMONT CLUB
"I still say Kayla should be here, and if Obama had been as decisive as President Trump, maybe she would have been," Marsha Mueller said, referring to the death of her daughter at the hands of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. "After Kayla's death, the Muellers became outspoken critics of the American government's handling of its foreign hostages. They had been encouraged to keep her captivity secret, and discouraged from attempting to free her or pay a ransom."

Leaving aside the question of whether Obama ever had a good tactical option at rescuing Kayla Mueller, "decisive" is probably the wrong word to characterize the former president's style. Obama knew what he wanted and valued signaling and appearances in a sincere way. He was always signaling.

...Obama was not indecisive. He simply decided on a different course and held to it. The only problem is it led nowhere. Ironically it was Maureen Dowd in the NYT who most clearly understood this. "Obama ‐ Just Too Good for Us." "'Sometimes I wonder whether I was 10 or 20 years too early,' Obama mused to aides." Persuasion was his sole and sometimes insufficient weapon. Dowd saw Hillary's nomination as the machine politics backlash against the ineffectual idealism of Obama.

...Alas for Hillary the candidate, if Obama came 20 years too early she came 10 years too late.

By contrast, Trump's reaction to Mueller's murder was far more Roman and atavistic. It was frankly tribal. In the video clip below mentally replace Caesar's line upon seeing the head of Pompey, "he was a consul of Rome" with "she was a citizen of the United States" and one gets the sense of what Delta Force conveyed. Not very enlightened, but there it is.
I wonder, could McRaven's outburst on 17th been motivated by service jealousy?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/29/2019 04:35 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wonder, could McRaven's outburst on 17th been motivated by service jealousy?

Not unlike, Monday's post-Baghdadi news...
US AFRICOM says it eliminated 25% of ISIS militants in Libya
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/29/2019 7:25 Comments || Top||

#2  There was a time when being a 'Citizen of Rome' meant the locals didn't screw with them, otherwise very unpleasant consequences. The Romans were known not to worry about carrying out 'group' punishment for the acts of one or a few.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/29/2019 8:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Disagree with Belmont club on this. Obama wasn’t 20 years early. We won’t be ready for all talk no strength to backbit up in 20 years. Maybe 200 years.
Posted by: Rjschwarz || 10/29/2019 9:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Obama was a nullity, a blob, a zilch. An empty vessel into which our virtue-signaling elite poured their hopes for a "global citizen" president.

The ultimate affirmative action beneficiary who couldn't write a legal brief (though he was voted onto the most prestigious law review in a popularity contest), couldn't come up with or lead passage of any significant legislation (though he won multiple elections after each of his opponents self-destructed in scandal), and couldn't articulate or conduct an even minimally competent foreign policy (though he was acclaimed a genius and awarded a Nobel).

Chauncey Gardiner.
Posted by: Lex || 10/29/2019 11:01 Comments || Top||

#5  >after each of his opponents self-destructed in scandal

Funny that eh? Luck or Deep state help?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/29/2019 20:46 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Never Forget -- ISIS Terror Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Was Held at US Prison Camp Bucca in 2009 Until Obama White House Agreed to Let Him Go
[GatewayPundit] Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), transformed a few terror cells on the verge of extinction into the most dangerous militant group in the world in Syria and Iraq.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi or Abu Dua was once held by the US in Camp Bucca Iraq.

But the Obama administration shut down the Bucca prison camp and released its prisoners, including Abu Dua in 2009.
That would be on President Obama’s watch, like so much else.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10891700/Iraq-crisis-the-jihadist-behind-the-takeover-of-Mosul-and-how-America-let-him-go.html
The conclusion one is driven to is that the only way to handle the prisoners we accumulated in that period was to put them all up against the wall and shoot them — since we had no way at that time of predicting which ones were going to become vicious jihadis bent on local and world domination. And, since we are now at another such juncture, we ought to kill all of Iraq’s and the SDF’s jihadi prisoners now, to prevent the next one.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 10/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  Reckoning.

Get your ass out of Martha's Vineyard and prepare to tell the nation what you knew, when you knew it and what made you think you could get away with shitting all over the Constitution and your obligation to defend it.
Posted by: Lex || 10/29/2019 1:56 Comments || Top||

#2  2011: Obama's team had the chance to kill ISIS leader Al Baghdadi -- and they blew it
The U.S. military had the leader of ISIS in its crosshairs years before he became the most wanted terrorist in the world — but the bureaucratic suits in Washington let him get away.

In 2011, a secretive U.S. special operations task force was orbiting a drone above a house in Baghdad, Iraq where they had new intelligence that the notorious terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had bunkered down for a meeting with his top ISIS lieutenants. A call went out from our headquarters and then back to higher-ups in the States: we’ve got him, can we take him out?

It was two weeks before they finally approved the mission. But by that time it didn’t matter when the Iraqis finally stormed the house. The al-Baghdadi I knew doesn’t stay anywhere for two weeks.


2014: The US gov knew where Kayla Meuller, James Foley, and Steven Sotloff were kept prisoner. Obama kept delaying permission for a rescue mission until after they were moved. They were murdered within a few months.
Report: Obama ‘Stalled’ After Being Told Location of ISIS-Held US Hostages
President Obama wasted nearly a month before launching a rescue mission after British intelligence provided his administration the possible location of American hostages held by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), reports The Daily Beast.

The American captives were identified as Kayla Mueller, James Foley, and Steven Sotloff. All three are now dead.
Posted by: Pancho Flerens6518 || 10/29/2019 5:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Camp Bucca was crucial to Abu Bakr's success. It helped him refine his message and recruit his staff. Without the crucible of Bucca, ol Baghdadi would not have been able to attain the "austere religious scholar" title. That said, our DoD didn't learn a thing vis a vis detention policy or operations. What are we doing with the new detainees? Why aren't we filling up GTMO?
Posted by: Tennessee || 10/29/2019 7:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Obama's team had the chance to kill ISIS leader Al Baghdadi -- and they blew it

Much smaller fish. Bin Laden was the high value target (HVT) and media story needed for Soetoro's upcoming re-election. The Bin Laden operation when down on 2 May 2011.

The Camp Bucca was likely a cover for action. Let them get to know one another and release the lot (to include Bhagdadi). Monitoring them individually should produce Bin Laden's whereabouts.

Just my opinion mind you.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/29/2019 7:51 Comments || Top||

#5  The conclusion one is driven to ... to put them all up against the wall and shoot them

I hope the lesson has been learned now. I'm not expecting much though. Good win, but too late and a failure of the system in general. It's not about Obama or Trump. The self-righteous faux-humanist doctrine of catch-and-release is in itself the primary reason there is an islamic state or an al qaeda.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/29/2019 8:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Ref #5: The self-righteous faux-humanist doctrine of catch-and-release is in itself the primary reason there is an islamic state or an al qaeda.

'Catch-and-release' helps sustain the target population, enables tracking, future source development, and guarantees the tenet of Endless Wars.

We don't make kitchen appliances, we make WAR dimmit !

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/29/2019 8:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Maybe we should have implanted a tracking device in every prisoner we released. Somewhere that it would have been difficult to remove.

Oh well. Hindsight is 20/20.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/29/2019 9:45 Comments || Top||

#8 
Posted by: Angens Turkeyneck2026 || 10/29/2019 10:46 Comments || Top||

#9  Actually he was released during the Bush administration.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/29/2019 17:44 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Eight takeaways from the Baghdadi raid
[Jpost] The US raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was executed in the first hours of October 27. It has many similarities with the raid to kill al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in 2011. President Donald Trump’s theatrics have made it sound more interesting. We don’t know all the details, but here are some of the takeaways.
Adds some interesting details to what we already know.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/29/2019 09:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1  The whole changing strategy seems ad hoc. It’s not even clear if Trump discusses it with some senior advisors.

Just couldn't resist, even after saying...guessing...that the whole raid was a bit ad hoc.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/29/2019 17:54 Comments || Top||


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How America's justice system is beginning to crumble
[American Thinker] We Americans have long prided ourselves on the fairness of our system of justice. It remains the best in the world. But, just like a strong and magnificent bridge across a wide river, corrosion can set in. If not monitored and repaired, the bridge can suddenly collapse. Likewise, if we ignore the warning signs, if we do not address the inequities in our justice system, the public will reach a point when there is so little respect for the law that its enforcement will cease to be effective. The danger is that we might become a lawless society, and that will lead to becoming a failed state. Chaos and disintegration could follow.

Hyperbole? Here are seven warning signs, present today, that we ignore at great peril.

Plea Bargains Coerce the Innocent to Plead Guilty

One of several defects in the current system of plea bargains is that prosecutors can coerce innocent people to plead guilty to a lesser charge, because otherwise, they may risk years in prison. Such coercion can also entice people to give false testimony against other defendants to help the prosecutor in related cases. Innocent people can also plead guilty, to spare family members who might otherwise be threatened with prosecution.

Costly Attorney Fees Enforce Injustice

Another reason why innocent people may plead guilty to lesser charges is because even if the prosecutor has a weak case, the defendant's legal fees can bankrupt him and his family.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/29/2019 06:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You just noticed?

For a start, remove immunity of 'public servants' from obvious criminal acts violating fundamental rights of citizens.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/29/2019 8:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Beginning? The rot has been there for quite a while. The war on drugs and activist judges have only accelerated it.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/29/2019 8:12 Comments || Top||

#3  For second if a prosecutor or cops knowingly uses false evidence they should serve the time instead of the accused. I don't care if you *know* the perp is dirty you just can't do that.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/29/2019 10:06 Comments || Top||

#4  Better late than never.
Maybe the public will start paying attention and actually demand reform. Beginning with the plea-bargain strong arm tactic that's abused by nearly every prosecutor in this country.
Posted by: Lex || 10/29/2019 10:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Every vote counts.
Every opinion does not.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/29/2019 11:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Hell, you could make a case that it started with Marbury vs. Madison and "judicial review".

But it's been happening for generations, and the clutch of decisions in mid-2015 is what finally convinced me that the rules were not even going to be a figleaf anymore.
Posted by: charger || 10/29/2019 14:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Lex is exactly right on the plea bargain bullshit. scare you with big sentence or take it whether guilty or not. Been there don't that worst mistake of my life.
Posted by: chris || 10/29/2019 18:53 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
CNN Uncovers Evidence Hero Dog Sniffed Dozens Of Butts Back In College
No worse than Joe Biden
[Babylon Bee] Everyone praised the classified "Hero Dog" for taking down ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Everyone, that is, except CNN, who quickly searched through the dog's internet history and college yearbooks. Sure enough, CNN found a picture of the Hero Dog partying at obedience school. In the picture, the dog is seen sniffing a butt without consent.

"Oh yeah, good old [redacted]? He was nuts!" said one German Shepherd who attended Old Yaler Obedience School with the hero dog, according to a CNN report. "He was always sniffing any butt he could find. Cats, dogs, humans, you name it. He didn't have a preference. He identified as pansniffual."

Troubling reports from classmates indicate that the dog sniffed all these butts without consent. The dog wrote cryptic things in his college yearbook, apparently referring to different butt-sniffing maneuvers such as the Surprise Sniffarooski and the Canine's Triangle.

The dog has issued a statement: "I like butts. I've always liked butts. I still like butts, but I never sniff butts to the point of excess. Who's a good boy? I am."

Democrats immediately called for the dog to be court-martialed and for the death of Baghdadi to be overturned.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/29/2019 04:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hook her up with Rep. (D-CA) Katie Hill.
Posted by: Pancho Flerens6518 || 10/29/2019 6:33 Comments || Top||

#2  He taught Biden how to sniff?
Posted by: Lex || 10/29/2019 10:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Democrats immediately called for the dog to be court-martialed and for the death of Baghdadi to be overturned.

Nice finish.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/29/2019 17:21 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ I liked it
Posted by: Frank G || 10/29/2019 20:32 Comments || Top||



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