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April 25, 2013

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henry

The smoke coming out of a smoking gun is the result of chemicals used for warfare. Civilized warriors use rail guns* to accelerate their projectiles.

*powered by attached wind turbine farm.

George Ditter

There is a story about a lawyer who thought his wife was cheating on him so he hired a private detective to do surveilance. After a few days the private eye showed with some film. The lawyer watched as his wife got into a car with the neighbor, drove to a motel, got out,went to a room, the neighbor got undressed, the wife got undressed and just then she turned out the lights. "Oh my gosh" the lawyer exclaimed "reasonable doubt!" I'm glad the Administration is only looking for "conclusive proof."

Jane on Ipad

Let's count all the red lines in the Obama administration.

NK

"Don't call my bluff!"... indeed.

Captain Hate

Hagel sounds just as dumb as I expected.

Jack is Back!

OT: CCW Guy Stops Another Guy on Stabbing Spree.

DoT on iPad

Loon alert:

"Practically the moment the two bombs tore through the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing or maiming hundreds of people, media personality Alex Jones declared that Americans will not be told the truth by their government. He elaborated further in the hours and days to come, posting photos of Navy SEALS and security personnel whom he claimed may have had something to do with the bombing as part of a government 'false flag' operation to frame right-wing individuals and patriot groups opposed to the fundamental changes President Obama has brought to the United States."

narciso

The Baathists don't need to use chemical weapons, re Hama rules, besides what we do target their chemical weapons depots, how would that work?

pagar

"an official said, the White House must determine who used them and whether they were used deliberately or accidentally."

"Or accidentally???? How would one determine that they were used accidentally?

narciso

But they were going to do this, on their own, that's reassuring;


http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/25/as-expected-tsarnaevs-discussed-bombing-times-square-sources-say/

James D.

Well, DoT, I agree Jones is a loon, but when he says " Americans will not be told the truth by their government" he's 100% right.

matt

Obama gives America the finger. LUN

peter

Every Obama promise comes with an expiration date, as someone smarter than me once said.

NK

I agree with that completely Matt...well said.

maryrose

Happy Birthday Mark! Hope you are having a great day!
Imagine being a Syrian rebel. First you watch Obama intervene and help topple a government in Libya without approval of Congress. Then observe him sending aid money and some weapons while 20,000 of your Syrian people are slaughtered by Assad. With proof of red line being crossed, Obama still waffles while more civilians are killed. We now know why he wanted a dove like Hagel When this blows up and it will, he has flunky Hagel to blame. Meanwhile Syrians are running for their lives as Clinton once declared Assad "a compromiser" Bammy foreign policy a complete and utter bust.

AnnSpencer

HB,Mark

Speaking of fingers, Matt:

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matt

Most poison gases leave plenty of residue when parts per billion can be detected by today's sensor technology.

Our CBW detection capabilities are the most advanced in the world. All they need is a SF/NEST type on the spot with a backpack to collect and analyze composition and concentration.

We are very sophisticated in this as are a number of other governments. and how does one accidentally use chemical weapons?

Maybe a round got triggered, but otherwise these are among the most securely held weapons in anyone's inventory. And dictators in that part of the world are known to use whatever is available.

maryrose

matt:
We need an investigation is just mumble speak for how long can we delay in making a decision to act. When faced with the hard decisions Bammy either:
A: Goes to bed
B. Has a smoke
C. Votes present
D. Ignores it and hopes it goes away.
E. All of the above.

Gus

At what point DO we act??? Obama might just as well keep his YAPPPPING CAKE HOLE shut, because he is a impotent P.O.S..
On the other hand, imagine some "rightwing" group bombed a U.S.MOSQUE.

Then Obama would become oh-so manly.

centralcal

Ann! If you watched the dedication, you saw Barry completely overwhelming Barbara with chatter during a very moving rendition of Battle Hymn of the Republic. All other POTUSes/FLOTUSes were reverently listening - and there was Barry yammering away at Barbara. I think that may have been when your posted photo was taken.

maryrose

cc:
Obama has no manners and does not know how to behave at a solemn event. He is just crass and clueless.

Captain Hate

Just a normal day at the classroom: http://weaselzippers.us/2013/04/25/ny-middle-school-forces-children-to-ask-same-gender-for-a-kiss-during-anti-bullying-class/

AnnSpencer

CC:

I'm sorry I missed it, but I did see the part where BUSH was in tears at the end and I lost it.

Gus

Where would Barack H. Obama have learned proper behaviors? Mommy the Commie. Communist Grandparents? Liberal Universities? Frank Marshall Davis.
One thing that people need to understand. Obama is not like you. Would you have attended Jeremiah Wrights hate ridden sermons? Would you have donated over $20,000. to aid Wrights hate? Did Obama learn class from Bill Ayers???
Seriously. Think of where you learned to be polite kind and decent. Obama didn't.
I challenge any libtard to say otherwise.

Ignatz

The Arab Spring marches on.
If the increasingly embattled Jordanian government is toppled before Barry is out of office he will have succeeded in surrounding Israel with Salafist maniacs.

Accidents happen.  So does shit.

Well done political speech, saying nothing, asking for investigation, and then it gives away Syrian Government involvement @ the end.
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sailor

I'm with Gus re Obama.

peter

Gus esta en fuego hoy.

libtard

I challenge any libtard to say otherwise.

I don't care. Obama is awesome.

lyle

Where would Barack H. Obama have learned proper behaviors?

He didn't marry into them either, it would seem.

Clarice

narciso:http://www.fbi.gov/washingtondc/press-releases/2013/unsealed-indictment-charges-former-u.s.-federal-employee-with-conspiracy-to-commit-espionage-for-cuba?utm_campaign=email-Immediate&utm_medium=email&utm_source=washington-press-releases&utm_content=218370
"As part of the conspiracy, Velazquez allegedly helped the CuIS spot, assess, and recruit U.S. citizens who occupied sensitive national security positions or had the potential of occupying such positions in the future to serve as Cuban agents. "

Gus

libtard @ 4:01, whomever you are, you made my day. My stomach actually hurt from laughing so hard.
Lyle's comment was funny too.

narciso

Interesting Clarice, considering she started in the seemingly Mmundane department of Transportation, then again Hiss started out in the AAA

Jack is Back!

Clarice,

I wonder if the CuIS happen to use Columbian and DR hookers?

Also, from watching parts of the Bush library opening, it is obvious, no matter what you think of their presidencies, both 43 and 41 are a class act while the others demonstrate their lack of any class (even lower class).

I mean, at a guy's library and museum being opening, iBammy has to make political and campaign points (immigration). The guy only got his manners from some guy in the neighborhood.

narciso

Some indications that detract the notion that they are 'lone wolves'

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-boston-fbi-bomber-20130425,0,6531764.story

lyle

That was me, Gus. I don't often sock-puppet, but when I do I prefer Dos Títere. Stay laughing, my friend.

narciso

Make sure she never gets back here, okay;


http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/25/tsarnaev-mother-i-saw-a-very-interesting-video-that-boston-bombing-was-like-a-really-big-play-paint-instead-of-blood/

Brian

It isn't so much that Chuck Hagel is dumb as it is that he has always been a follower and not a leader; e.g., he always voted whichever way his buddy, Democrat Bob Kerry, told him to vote on major pieces of legislation, and it wasn't just a coincidence that when Bob Kerry got out of the Senate, Mrs. Hagel's little boy, Chucky, got out of the Senate, too, presumably because he had nobody to hold his hand anymore.

On the advice of Michelle, I'm sure, Barack Obama has been careful to consistently appointed people as incompetent as himself; i.e., nobody who would upstage him and reveal him to be a putz.

narciso

Then there are the outfits like ICG,that have a certain perspective on Islamist elements;

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/31/dagestan-chechnya-radical-islam-analysis

Jack is Back!

This guy called Obama is such a phony. Anyone know someone like him in your personal, business or neighbor life? I have and the turn off is instant.

In my professional life we called it "if you cannot razzle and dazzle them with BS then BS them with razzle dazzle".

P.T. Barnum was right but needs to amend his adominition to "A Nation is born every 2 or 3 hundred years".

Captain Hate

On the advice of Michelle, I'm sure, Barack Obama has been careful to consistently appointed people as incompetent as himself; i.e., nobody who would upstage him and reveal him to be a putz.

Jarret the ferret probably has input into that as well. Every really bad supervisor I've ever had lived in constant fear of his/her subordinates upstaging him/her while not realizing that having the subordinates look good reflects well on the supervisor.

Jack is Back!

CH,

The Peter Principle on steroids.

Gus

Brian, Obama picks no one that isn't a YES MAN.
Being competent does not enter into the equation. Obama's sycophants do as they are told.

Threadkiller

"Jarret the ferret"

Gus

Capn' Obama is renowned for bragging that "I got game". He is well known for telling friendly libtard reporters that he knows more about policy, than those who are involved in that particular policy. Obama has obvious psychological damage. Narcissism, is the most obvious. Obama thinks his cabinet is merely the means to carry out his wishes. That would be ok, if that was possible. These Gov Depts. are huge and spend hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars. Obama cannot possibly have his lazy assed finger on the pulse of such a large govt. BUT HE THINKS HE CAN.

Jack is Back!

Okay, Ladies and Gentlemen,

We have little over 2 hours until the NFL draft begins and I have never seen a year of such slim pickens. So who is the first to go and who is the first QB to go. Bonus points in 2015 for the first of the top 5 QB's to go to the Arena Football League or the CFL.

I go with Joekel as number 1 and Geno Smith as the first QB over Barkley. I think Nassib is the first to go to the other leagues.

jimmyk

They body pulled from the water off Providence was confirmed to be Sunil Tripathi. Not clear what happened yet.

Brian

Duh Gus, Gus @ 5:08

Really? Then how would you explain Hillary Clinton? If what you say is true, she should he held blameless for Benghazi.

Gus

What policy decisions did Rodham make Brian?
What penalty has Rodham paid for allowing people to be killed on her watch??
Why did Rodham do the MOVIE TRAILER song and dance at Andrews in front of the coffins?
Rodham was given the Sec of State job, so she would shut up and go away. She did. People died.
I have extreme inside knowledge of what I speak.
Rodham has ZERO SKILLS BRIAN. Show me otherwise. She was just another celebrity given a high profile fly about job. She did NOTHING of consequence...ZERO. She just flew about running her mouth. RESET!!!!!!

Rick Ballard

Now, Gus. The doubling she made to the GLBT/NAAMBLA hiring quota at State have to count for something.

Ignatz

If you disagree with Evil Anne she will call you lots of names and tell you you're stupid.

Fortunately, OTOH, if you agree with Evil Anne she'll call you lots of names and tell you you're stupid.

Must be what having a spitting cobra as a pet is like, except a little less charming.

Mark Folkestad

Since I really did close out the old thread, I'm doing a copy and paste to repeat it. Thanks, everyone.

Shall I close out this thread by repeating my thanks for the many birthday greetings? I'm zonked, and will be taking a short nap so I'll have the strength to dig into the Chinese buffet. There was one question of a birthday present. Only God can give the one I want, and I don't think that He's going to. But the rest of you can say a prayer for my poor, troubled Susan.

Purely by accident, three weeks overdue, with my name having been chosen months before, I was born on the Feast Day of St. Mark. I attach no symbolism or significance to that.

narciso

Well as I pointed out earlier, she is rather incurious, she was led by Huma into celebrating an Eid dinner, in the wrong month,

narciso

Do they have P.F. Chang's up there in Minnesota, Gus.

Brian

Duh Gus Gus @ 5:30

Hmmm, some people might say that, along with Panetta and Obama, Clinton has systematically, deliberately and spitefully succeeded (1) in undoing all of the accomplishments of GW's administration in the Middle East, (2) in completely destabilizing the entire Middle East, and (3) in shattering alliances which could have hindered Iran from getting nukes. Obama didn't do that all on his own without a lot of help from Clinton and Panetta and Napolidumbo to a lesser extent.

This is an administration of chronic screw-ups, and they've been a disaster, both overseas and domestically. Incompetence not only has something to with it. Dayum son, it has EVERYTHING to do with it

Gus

I would have to say that makes her a YES MAN Brian. She did what she was told. And partied like a Rock star.
Hilary Rodham is worthless. She stayed married to a guy who wouldn't even bang her, for power and money. She has no talents at all.
Good post Brian. Btw. Most of what Obama and Rodham have brought our foreign policy is by things the DON'T DO. Such as looking out for our strategic interests and our Allies. In the M.E. they were mainly. Jordan, Israel and Egypt. All went to shit, because of laziness, and liberalism.

Jack is Back!

narciso, its Mark F up in Minnesota. Gus is in the banana belt of Wisconsin.

Gus

Narciso, they do have a P.F.CHANGS at Mayfair Mall in Milwaukee.

Extraneus

Anne is apparently still relatively sober.

Jane on Ipad

I love George Bush!

sbwaters

The visual of Obama yammering to Barbara during the national anthem sent me into gales of laughter. Remember Slapshot?

Imagine Barbara turning to Obama and repeating the last 12 seconds of this 34 second clip.

I'd die laughing. You go Barbara!

Skoot

narc, There is a PF Changs in Maple Grove,Mn -- north Minneapolis suburbs.

Brian

And you're still juvenile, Extraneous. Grow up, you asshole.

Threadkiller

http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2013/04/25/should-i-vote-for-marco-rubio/

Jack is Back!

TK,

Because of all the vitriol and politics involving immigration, we need to realize that Jed being sort of in the background and quitet has a chance. Not that I support him but he can be a factor in 2016. Its too early but not early enough to speculate.

Jack is Back!

Jed = Jeb Grrrr!

hit and run

BriAnne -- aren't you more comfortable usually posting on some dead thread three TM posts ago or so . . . responding to someone 12 or more hours after they posted, and everyone's already left?

It's been your M.O. but maybe just unintentionally.

Welcome to the fresh thread. Just remember, be who you are. It's all we ask.

Jack is Back!

Mr. Big Talk is now in the position to do what he said he would do if Syria crossed the red line. I am going for the odds he chickens out becasuse he is a complete phony, idiot and did I say an asshole.

Ray Guy couldn't do better.

matt

I am still looking for a grown up candidate, thank you. Not much to see out there at present as the Republicans seem to fall over each other with their foolishness. maybe one of the Governors, but even there it has become diminished expectations.

Reagan used a lever to get the country back on track. I don't see anyone with the gumption or street smarts to do so again. Thus we seem to left with candidates past their sell by date; candidates who watch the tell tales too much, and simply poor candidates.

hit and run

How do you rate Walker, matt?

Brian

Marco Rubio has been in conflict on the immigration issues ever since the Honorable Governor Jan Brewer submitted her legislation on those issues in Arizona, and his vacillations are understandable.

I suspect that he is in a quandary, unable to separate his loyalties to Latinos in the Democrat Party from his instincts to do the right thing on those issues as prescribed by Republicans.

I don't trust his judgment on those issues. He is being too subjective, instead of objective. It's tough to criticize him, 'cause I like him, but he is [not] doing the job that he is being paid to do. To represent Republicans - not Latinos, most of whom are Democrats. I'm for impeaching him if he doesn't clean up his act and reach a compromise with his conscience.

henry

Hit, Walker is doing well but we need some of his initiatives to clear the WISC before he has results to brag about (job growth, lower taxes, etc.). Politically he is as tough as anyone out there, he just smiled and let a national attack wash past him. However he will generate a Palin level panic response from the national media if he runs -- the real question is whether Duke & Duke can borrow some spine from him.

Brian

I reiterate; hit 'n run is a retard. Nuff said.

DoT on iPad

First four draft picks will be OTs, followed by a DT.

Happy birthday, Mark.

hit and run

That's who you are. That's all we ask.

maryrose

Hit and Run: Have I told you lately how much I enjoy you and your posts? I always end up laughing or smiling. You are a really thoughtful and fun human being.
CH: or anyone:
What do you think Cleveland's chances are of coming out of this draft with some decent pics? Please do not hold back in your comments. We have been through this year after year so we are immune to any jeering or jokes about our team.

Clarice

Wait a minute, maryrose, I loved hit first. Mud wrestle!!!

Extraneus

Well I tried three times to post a link from Ace of Spades to a Thomas Friedman quote about a carbon tax, but to no avail. I still recommend the link, which exposes Friedman as the idiot we know him to be, but viewers will need to navigate there on their own unless someone else can link it successfully.

maryrose

should be picks..Grr...
My dad, a native New York stater could never root for any of the Ohio rube,his word teams.I would settle for a quarterback to help us for more than just 1 year.

maryrose

clarice: No mud wrestle, because I know you would win. Even though I grew up with 4 brothers I don't think I could take you. I swear to God I almost put in my post this disclaimer
" I know you belong to clarice, but I appreciate you".

Rick Ballard

"However he will generate a Palin level panic response from the national media if he runs -- the real question is whether Duke & Duke can borrow some spine from him."

Henry,

I sincerely doubt his ability to draw the Northeastern early financial support necessary for the run. I also doubt the deeply brain dead Northeasteners who are managing Duke & Duke with consummate lack of ability want anything to do with someone who might actually interfere with their looting program.

The looters want a "kinder, gentler" club member who will do nothing to impede the final plunder of the Republic.

Holly

What do you mean by "we", hit and run creep?

You don't speak for anyone here. You sure as hell don't speak for me.

Incidentally, creep, I dare say that Brian has more fans than you have. He's up front and in our faces. You're a creepy little sneak.

Extraneus

I'll say this: There can never be enough mud wrestling females.

narciso

Well let me try again, in the LUN

rse

OK I have a funny OT story-

I am noticing traffic from a blog but it appears to be in French. I check and it's all written in French. That language is rusty but I can follow along it is an ed discussion and the relationship to socialism. And then I find the cite to the blog with a French sentence that translates as "If you don't mind English, look at ..." Then they pointed out their concerns were clearly global.

Think about talking during the Battle Hymn of the Republic. The war anthem in the war to end slavery and the first Black President could have cared less. That's ignorance and narcissism.

hit and run

Look, I'm not saying I'm omnibenevolent, and maybe polybenevolent isn't exactly the right word, but....

Jack is Back!

henry,

Duke and Duke couldn't borrow salt from a cracker. He is on his own. Good for him because that is the only way to make waves these days. The GOP as we know is sunk unless the Koch and others continue to contribute to this facade.

They send me mail and I put them in the recycling basket. They call me and I tell them to go to hell. They send me emails and I junk them. I don't know how may others do that but if there are more than me than its a trend:)

pagar

I think you got it, Narciso.
Extraneus, thanks!

hit and run

Hi Holly. I will never, ever try to speak for you.

You be who you are, too. That's all we ask.

Jack is Back!

rse,

Send me the French link. I wil translate.

Holly

Asshole

henry

Rick & JiB, Walker does have some national funding access... I just don't know if it is enough. Maybe if the Koch brothers buy a few newspapers and the MSM focuses on an ever more selective audience Duke & Duke won't be an anchor for a decent candidate.

rse

http://h16free.com/2013/04/25/22918-vincent-peillon-aucune-solution-en-rayon-mais-une-jolie-morale-laique

There you go.

narciso

Even reading the 'Hungarian frasebook' version, available through Google Translate, it is unsettling

Extraneus

Holly, I'm not saying that hit isn't an asshole. He is. Although some of us love him anyway. But today's "Brian" is a psycho poster who started out as "Anne" until her crazy rants were too embarrassing even for her.

She/he makes some good points sometimes, usually early in the night, but almost immediately segues into abusive and truly stupid drool. She hasn't been here in a while until recently, so you might not have seen her posts until now.

Anne, would you care to comment, for Holly's benefit? I know it still kind of early.

sailor

Why on earth do any of you respond to Brain/Anne and Holly? They never have anything to say.

Rick Ballard

Henry,

That's encouraging. JEB hasn't purchased any early "most electable" bullshit from NR or the other usual suspects at this point. He just pops up every month to remind us of his existence.

Maybe RSE could do a few pieces on his contribution to No Child Left Undamaged and the Commie Core initiative? Kindly and gently, of course.

Extraneus

In this case, because the real Holly is a valued poster here, sailor. I'm guessing the latest Holly is Anne.

hit and run

Extraneus:
Holly, I'm not saying that hit isn't an asshole. He is.

I'd like to apologize for being an asshole, but I won't. That's just how I role.

narciso

At the heart of our NCLB variant, is Ignite, think of it, like Windows Vista for intellectual endeavour, and you realize the problem.

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