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27 Houthis reportedly killed in S. Yemen ambush
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
What Really Happened To Harry Reid? Part 3
[PowerLineBlog] Subsequent to the news story about Larry Reid's arrest, Elliott discussed with several others who had been present on New Year's Eve his belief that "Larry" had been Larry Reid. They, too, recognized Larry from the newspaper photograph. One of those who had been present at the AA meeting called Las Vegas's Channel 8 to tell them about Larry Reid's account of fighting with a family member, but that person said that whoever he spoke with at the television station told him they were not interested.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 04/07/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Personally speaking, light on the salt on this one - I have little, if any, doubt that Reid got his ass handed to him by somebody other than a big freakin' rubber band on his 'exercise equipment' in his, ahem, bathroom. If Larry's left-handed, there's your answer.
Posted by: Raj || 04/07/2015 0:42 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder if a roll of coins (denomination determined by the size of the hand) or brass knuckles were involved? That was a lot of damage for a bare or empty hand even if Harry is getting old and fragile.
Posted by: tipover || 04/07/2015 1:56 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm hoping for Round Two when Larry gets out
Posted by: Frank G || 04/07/2015 9:23 Comments || Top||

#4  They could make a mint showing it on Pay Per View.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/07/2015 9:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Not going Pay Per View unless there's blood !
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/07/2015 9:30 Comments || Top||

#6  It does answer a lot of questions about why Harry hasn't been going after anyone or making a big deal about it.

It also makes a perfect cover story as Harry comes out looking like a hero for not going after his drunk brother.

What is strange is an AA councelor relating stories about AA meetings. Isn't that strictly forbidden even if the info is totally juicy stuff?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/07/2015 10:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Even his brother Larry can't stand him?
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/07/2015 10:56 Comments || Top||

#8  So were Harry & Larry working on their Three Stooges routine for the talent show and they thought Moe really did poke Curly in the eyes and do no harm, and just make people laught? (Well, I could be made to laugh in this case...)
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/07/2015 11:55 Comments || Top||

#9  He needed to get his ass kicked
That slug.
Posted by: newc || 04/07/2015 13:52 Comments || Top||

#10  As Harry doesn't run in 2016, who cares?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 04/07/2015 15:54 Comments || Top||

#11  As long as...
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 04/07/2015 15:54 Comments || Top||

#12  Larry for President in 2016.
Posted by: gorb || 04/07/2015 16:55 Comments || Top||

#13  Don't think any of them was a counselor (life coach is different,) but I've been told it's against the rules. Then again, distaste for the Reids there is probably pretty intense.
Posted by: Pappy || 04/07/2015 17:16 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Kurds Accuse Turkey's Erdogan of 'Constitutional Dictatorship'
[AnNahar] The co-chair of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's main Kurdish party has accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
of wanting to set up "a constitutional dictatorship", vowing his movement will strongly oppose moves to impose one-man rule.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/07/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well whaddaya know, TURKEY PRESIDENT ERDOGAN = POTUS OBAMA!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/07/2015 0:18 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
The Champ: Iran sanctions can be reimposed if Tehran violates nuclear deal
[Jerusalem Post] WASHINGTON - US President Champ said in an interview released on Tuesday he is confident sanctions against Iran could be reimposed if Tehran violates an agreement to restrict its nuclear program.

Champ told National Public Radio (NPR) that US and European negotiators are trying to reach a deal with Iran in which sanctions could be reimposed without a UN Security Council vote, where Tehran-ally Russia would have a veto.
Ahhh yes, NPR providing all sides of the issues from our panel of commentators - a communist, a socialist, a liberal, and a progressive.
"We are absolutely convinced we can do it again," Obama said of the international sanctions, which have crippled Iran's economy.

He said a reimposition of sanctions would be triggered by a finding of the International Atomic Energy Agency that Tehran had broken the agreement.

After reaching a framework deal last week, negotiators face an end-of-June deadline to reach a final agreement meant to prevent Iran from being able to build a nuclear weapon.

Champ said a nuclear deal could help strengthen moderate elements in Iran.
Iranian 'moderates' this time is it ?
"If they are shown to have delivered for their people, presumably it strengthens their hand vis-a-vis some of the hardliners inside of Iran," he said.

Posted by: Besoeker || 04/07/2015 06:20 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "can" =/= "will"

This is Kerry's and Zero's Legacy™
Posted by: Frank G || 04/07/2015 9:25 Comments || Top||

#2  you can keep your sanctions if you like your sanctions.
Posted by: airandee || 04/07/2015 11:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Have by Congress declare Iran as the Tea Party, then we'll see some action!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/07/2015 12:27 Comments || Top||

#4  IIRC FREEREPUBLIC Artic = the Bammer admits that Iran will have "Near-Zero" breakout time on dev a de facto NucBomb at the end of the Nuclear Deal's timeline.

Again, AFAIC this is just more proof to me that POTUS Obama + OWG Globalists desire Shia Iran to be the Principal-Leader, or One of Them?, of any future ME, Islamic/Muslim, andor Persian Gulf OWG Global Federal Union(s).

The prob for the Globies + US-Allies/West are the NON/ANTI-IRAN, SHIA MUSLIM NATION = SUNNI MUSLIM GOVT-STATES WHOM AS A CLASS WANT THEIR OWN NUKES IFF IRAN GETS 'EM; as well as NUKES-WMDS HAPPY NGOS i.e. WANNABE NUCLEAR ISLAMIST HARD BOYZ + OTHER NON/ANTI-MUSLIM MILITANT GROUPS.

Again, thus far I've seen nothing to indicate that those whom wish to use the GWOT to forcibly impose SECULAR MARXISM-COMMUNISM-SOCIALISM on the US-World are able to control or defeat the Hard Boyz = God/Faith-based Socialists-Govtists = Theo/Deo-Socialists-Govtists.

THE PRIORITY IS US-WORLD SOCIALIST-GOVTIST ORDER, NOT NATIONAL SECURITY, where Politicos cannot confirm or deny that the so-called "BIG[GEST] GOVT" = NOT-YET-OFFICIAL OR NEAR-SOVIET/COMMUNIST/TOTALITARIAN, ANTI-DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM-GOVTISM.

Where Amerika has to be saved from Americans.

The Global Jihad will be allowed by the Globies to continue until US-World Socialist Order + OWG is achieved - HWAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG???

[ISLAMIST BANNERS/FLAGS FLYING OVER THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, + ISLAMERIKA here].
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/07/2015 21:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Iff the OWG Globies miscalculate, the last proverbial "mountain of skulls" they see will be their own + those of their loved ones.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/07/2015 21:54 Comments || Top||


Israel recognition not part of Iran deal: Obama
[Iran Press TV] US President Barack Obama says recognition of Israel cannot be a part of the nuclear agreement with Iran. Obama said in a Monday interview with NPR that requiring Tehran to recognize Israel is a "fundamental misjudgment".
Posted by: Fred || 04/07/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  Why would they do that? They get everything they want from you anyway. Like an abusive boyfriend that keeps getting the girl to give him anything he wants because he knows she will still "Love Him" regardless.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/07/2015 0:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Nice touch.

So what did Iran give US besides the finger?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 04/07/2015 0:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Meanwhile, "FAST-N-FURIOUS 7" FANS, not to be outdone by Israel = Right to Exist ...

* DIALY STAR LEBANON > NUCLEAR DEAL MUST ENSURE [Pan-Arab = Sunni?] ARAB SECURITY: SAUDI ARABIA.

* WAFF > [Daily Sabah] SHOULD ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR BOMBS BE INSPECTED?

VERSUS

* WAFF > [Daily Sabah] WEST, TURKEY WELCOME IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL; ISRAEL, GULF FUME.

* SAME > [Hurriyet] REPORT; TURKEY'S ARMY INACAPABLE OF HANDLING THE SYRIAN SITUATION, as it is currently only capable of PROJECTING ONLY LIMITED OR SELECTIVE LIGHT/MINOR MILITARY POWER OUTSIDE ITS BORDERS.

Lebanon? Iraq? Yemen? IRAN?

* ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS > EXPERTS: IRAN WILL BE "THREE WEEKS AWAY FROMA NUCLEAR WEAPON".

* SAME > "EGYPT IS PREPARING FOR WAR WITH ISRAEL".

Pro-Israel, Egyptian Nuke Scientist, Defector Nana Hasad.

* NEWS KERALA > TOP US [House] DEMOCRAT [Adam Schiff] SAYS YEMEN CRISIS HAS CAUSED AL-QAEDA RESURGENCE IN SOUTHWEST ASIA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/07/2015 0:35 Comments || Top||

#4  So what did Iran give US besides the finger?

Their solemn promise to use nukes only against Zionist Entity?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/07/2015 5:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Tehran to recognize Israel is a "fundamental misjudgment"

Sorry, the "fundemental misjudgement" took place in Nov, 2008.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/07/2015 9:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Their solemn promise to use nukes only against Zionist Entity?

At least until Mr. Obama is safely ensconced outside of the Beltway.
Posted by: Pappy || 04/07/2015 17:21 Comments || Top||


Government
When Bill Clinton Praised the Virtues of the Nuclear Deal With North Korea
[The Weekly Standard] It's worth watching President Bill Clinton hail the virtues of the nuclear deal with North Korea, in this video from October 21, 1994:

The video's more relevant now that President Barack Obama has announced his very own nuclear deal with another tyrannical regime, Iran.

"Before I take your questions, I'd like to say just a word about the framework with North Korea that Ambassador Gallucci signed this morning. This is a good deal for the United States," Clinton said at the press conference.

"North Korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program. South Korea and our other allies will be better protected. The entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons.

"South Korea, with support from Japan and other nations, will bear most of the cost of providing North Korea with fuel to make up for the nuclear energy it is losing, and they will pay for an alternative power system for North Korea that will allow them to produce electricity while making it much harder for them to produce nuclear weapons.

"The United States and international inspectors will carefully monitor North Korea to make sure it keeps its commitments. Only as it does so will North Korea fully join the community of nations."
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/07/2015 06:49 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Worked out well, didn't it?

Just remember the track record dhimocrats have with "deals" with evil states.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/07/2015 10:39 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm a little confused. The left wants to take guns away from the sane but give them to the insane. In this case substitute nukes for guns. The vast army of the goofy make no friggin sense.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/07/2015 11:08 Comments || Top||

#3  No, given the "status quo" on the Peninsula + NE Asia NOKOR SSSSHHHHH .... PCCCCCC needs Nukes to deter overlord Beijing/China + help empower reunification efforts wid SOKOR.

Lest we fergit, it wasn't that long ago when the CCP Party Congress wanted to debate formally annexing NOKOR as a new Chinese province, versus to continue treating NOKOR as a "un-annexed", Chinese province wid autonomy e.g. Hong-Kong Model.

THE PROB FOR THE US-ALLIES IS HOW TO INDUCE DE FACTO INTER-KOREAN REUNIFICATION WHILE PREVENTING A DESPERATE NOKOR FROM STARTING A MAJOR, NUKE/MAD-POSSIBLE "ANTI-CHINA" US-CHINA WAR ON THE PENINSULA + NE ASIA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/07/2015 21:26 Comments || Top||



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3Govt of Pakistan
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1Jamaat-e-Islami
1Jamaat-e-Ulema Islami
1Moro Islamic Liberation Front
1Thai Insurgency
1al-Muhajiroun (East Africa AQ)
1al-Qaeda in North Africa
1al-Shabaab
1Ansar al-Sharia
1Arab Spring
1Govt of Saudi Arabia
1Govt of Syria
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  27 Houthis reportedly killed in S. Yemen ambush
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  Joe Biden demanded Porosheno sack Kolomoisky
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