Even Setting Aside Benghazi...

Libya is in chaos following the 2011 ouster of Qadaffi, an effort which Hillary promoted eagerly although the US led from behind. So how in the world does Hillarity! 2016 manage to shift responsibility for that onto Bush?

Or maybe Dour John will bail her out with a UN deal, the same way our diplos have pacified Syria, because we all know ISIS is easy to talk to. I think hope is Hillarity!'s plan right now.

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[geezer]

uno

[DrJ]

zwei.

[henry]

Drei martini is Hillary's plan.

[Janet - I wish my family had a poncho]

at Instapundit ~ "YEAH, WELL, I THINK AMERICANS SHOULD IGNORE OBAMA’S PRONOUNCEMENTS WHEN IT’S IMPORTANT, TOO: Rasmussen: Plurality of Democrats think Obama should be able to ignore court rulings if it’s “important.”

Maybe it is Obama, his administration & their followers that are the "sovereign citizen" movement?!?
"The government says these are extremists who believe they can ignore laws and that their individual rights are under attack in routine daily instances such as a traffic stop or being required to obey a court order."

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/02/20/obama-administration-finally-finds-terrorists-it-can-hate-you/

[Janet - I wish my family had a poncho]

The lawless "sovereign citizen" movement sounds like the activists of the left...that are free to vandalize property, kill dogs, riot, hold up traffic, harass businesses & their customers,...

No prosecutions for THEM because they are "activists".

[Marlene]

Janet,thanks for the link. A few days ago the Bangor Daily News had an Orlando Sentinel story about the "sovereign citizen" threat in central Florida. So,the media is running with the narrative.

[Janet - I wish my family had a poncho]

So,the media is running with the narrative.

Exactly, Marlene. from the PJ link -

"Never heard of the “sovereign citizens” movement? No problem! That’s because they just invented it! But don’t worry — you’ll be hearing plenty once the Democrat-Media Complex fog machine cranks up."

[Old Lurker]

Cross posting because I want to:

Last night Clarice opined that most senior government employees would not likely disobey a court order. She and I both know a number for whom that is indeed true.

But I think there are plenty who would be happy to do so, and who do do so, and who Obama knows will do so and those people are hard at work doing so. The higher level culprits are confident this DoJ will not charge them with anything, and unlike W, Obama can be trusted to pardon them when the time comes. You and I would worry about being bankrupted by the legal fees getting to that point, but there are enough prog billionaires happy to cover those bills.

At the lower level, all the agencies are populated by plenty of foot soldiers lacking the IQ and values and character and who are more than willing to turn the cranks on the shredders as instructed. At that level I am sure many of them think their job is to facilitate the redistribution they hope to accomplish and that they are just doing their part in stiffing the man.

[jimmyk]

And today's NYT has a big photo array of pouting rich prep school kids holding up signs denouncing white privilege.

[Miss Marple]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/scott-walkers-cowardice-should-disqualify-him/2015/02/20/2ee9fbf6-b900-11e4-aa05-1ce812b3fdd2_story.html?wprss=rss_dana-milbank

From end of last thread. They are really scared of Walker and infuriated at Guiliani.

I think it is funny.

[Miss Marple]

http://thefederalist.com/2015/02/20/sure-obama-loves-america-his-america/#.VOibwbqqo0Y.twitter

[henry]

Miss M, their fear will go to 11 next week. Right to Work special session (big public push so they wouldn't punt it to next year) means unions delende est. This will include the end of the state's version of "pay union wages on any project with state funding" which does wonders for big budget items like highways.

[Extraneus]

I think you're right, OL. As an added bonus, they get to make believe they're doing it for ... the Constitution.

[peter]

feeling quite underwhelmed by the "new" New York Times magazine. This won't save Pinch's butt.

[Miss Marple]

Steyn explains the real point of last week's "violent extremism" conference.

http://linkis.com/www.steynonline.com/TjifQ

[Captain Hate]

Watching Pinch sink the family garbage scow has been fun.

[Rick Ballard]

After reading TM's links I'm left with the strong impression the UN sees Libya as a self-financing, never ending Oil For Food program. They won't fund or allow Sisi to resolve the issue because they want a jobs program for absolutely useless UN bureaucrats. I suppose Gaza is the UN "success" model.

[Danube on iPad]

Schadenfreude bonanza concerning Ronan Farrow and the disaster that is MSNBC:

http://www.nationalreview.com

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: jimmyk | February 21, 2015 at 09:58 AM

too funny ... wonder if they were getting some extra credit for showing up.

Posted by: Rick Ballard | February 21, 2015 at 10:23 AM -

the administration would be all for it as long as they got a cut.

[Miss Marple]

henry,

Been scanning the Twitter posts, and I think you are right.

They are scared of Walker, big time. It is amazing.

Also, the attack on Guiliani is so over-the-top that LIV's will start asking, "What's so bad about what Rudy said?"

Also, the press has outed itself as nothing but Obama Defenders, at all costs. Just amazing.

[Janet - I wish my family had a poncho]

The Steyn link is fantastic.

[GMax]

BTW Zero tumbled big time yesterday back down to 44% approval in Gallup. Did you see any headlines trumpeting this? Any mention at all other than by MOI? Cuz we got a raft of he is rising in the polls stuff didn't we?

[rich@gmu]

agree that the Steyn link is fantastic. I mostly ignored the Hate Conference this week but he summed it up nicely.

[Jane]

Did anyone see Steven Hayes on Fox this morning talking about Hilary's campaign machine that is probably illegal? I'm trying to remember the name of it (I think it began with a "c")

[rich@gmu]

The Clinton Foundation ... ?

[Danube on iPad]

I think the Clintons figure that if your corruption is sufficiently huge, brazen and out in the open no one will believe it is corruption. It's just breathtaking.

[Marlene]

That graphic for "stop extremist violence in your community" is ridiculous. It looks like a middle school level PSA announcement.
"Only you can prevent forest fires."
"Buckle up for safety."
"Don't be a Litterbug."
"Clean your plate,children around the world are starving."
"Hug a terrorist."

[lyle]

So a prayer was offered up at this week's violencappalooza--a Muslim prayer. No other prayers from other faiths were offered up. But president Hussein isn't a Muslim, nossiree.

[henry]

Marlene, you forgot

"Sing like Barney to Bears"

[rich@gmu]

Strassel has a write up in the wsj ... quote

>>>This is the baseline scandal of the Clinton Foundation—it’s a political group that gets to operate outside the rules imposed on every other political player.<<<

I think I started banging this drum during her last coronation. All the majors are writing up stories about it so my guess would be the op research is starting to drip regarding the Foundation.

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: Danube on iPad | February 21, 2015 at 10:55 AM -

It's racked in something like 2 billion from anyone and everyone ... all "legal".

[Jack is Back!]

Feel good story of the day.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2962916/Osceola-County-cops-flock-autistic-boy-s-birthday-party-mom-Ashlee-Buratti-revealed-none-classmates-turned-up.

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: lyle | February 21, 2015 at 11:01 AM -

Steyn's grand finale was that it was the official lie of the week and it was done to humiliate us by participating in the lie.

[Jack is Back!]

Jane,

Did anyone see Steven Hayes on Fox this morning talking about Hilary's campaign machine that is probably illegal?

When the DOJ & FEC are part of the criminal enterprise, who is going to stop it?

[Ignatz]

The letter Steyn quoted in the middle of his column is exactly right.
Further to the point, moderate muslims don't condemn radical muslims for the same reason moderate communists, also known as liberals in the west, were reluctant to condemn radical communists or would only condemn them tepidly and pursue feckless policies they knew would not effectively counter them.
They don't like the specific crimes of the radicals but they enjoy the general tidal forces the radicals generate for their preferred politics. They imbecilicly believe they can arrest those tidal forces at just the right spot when needs be.
Of course those of us who are not imbeciles realize that the moderates are usually the ones first arrested and put up at Hotel Gulag or the Bagdhadi Ritz and many will die there firmly believing their moderation was in the service of a just cause that had been perverted by their brothers, the radicals. If only they could talk to them one more time before the executioner approaches they could make them see they really want the same thing and it's all just a big misunderstanding amongst friends....whack!

[Miss Marple]

Progress! Micro apartments!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/realestate/micro-apartments-tiny-homes-prefabricated-in-brooklyn.html?smid=tw-nytimes

[lyle]

I despair for my country deeply today.

[Neo]

OMG .. yet another Whitewater scandal

[Threadkiller]

There is no way Obama Clinton is guilty of anything.

If his eligibility her foundation involvement was really an issue that was criminal in nature, her his opposition research would have exposed this in 2007.

She He had the most to lose.

(That is how it works, right?)

[Porchlight]

feeling quite underwhelmed by the "new" New York Times magazine. This won't save Pinch's butt.

The newbie who was given a prominent role in the reboot, Jake Silverstein, is an acquaintance of mine. He was a second (maybe third) stringer at Texas Monthly before the Times hired him, if that tells you anything. Nice guy, okay writer, very little insight, almost no experience. It warms my heart that he represents the best the Times could find.

[Captain Hate]

the op research is starting to drip regarding the Foundation.

What has the commiecrats most worried about Walker is he won't use the Top Men approved consultants, who've considered this beneath the clean toga crowd's tut tutting, when he runs his campaign. It's called playing to win.

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: Ignatz | February 21, 2015 at 11:10 AM-

the useful idiots ...

Yuri Bezmenov talked about it in 1984.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLqHv0xgOlc

[Old Lurker]

Maybe the whole running for president thing is nothing but a money scam?

[Threadkiller]

Just maybe, OL. ;-)

[henry]

OL, which Arkansan are you referring to, Hillary or Huckabee?

[Jane]

Naw that's not it. It involves an election operation that people believe was also at work in 2012.

My steal trap mind is a sieve.

[Porchlight]

I pray Walker doesn't ever hire Top Men for anything.

[Old Lurker]

Henry, the Clintons think about six zeros bigger than Huck.

[henry]

OL, they certainly reap six zeros bigger.

[narciso]

that John Lee Anderson piece takes a shot of BHL, but oddly doesn't point at the policy makers, or even Anderson's week reporting back at the beginning of this fustercluck.

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: Old Lurker | February 21, 2015 at 11:34 AM -

the Clinton Mode of Production ... can't wait for when Chelsea is deemed qualified ...

Jane-

Is it Catalist?

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/10/exclusive-how-democrats-won-the-data-war-in-2008/27647/

[narciso]

that was a David 'Abbott' Kirkpatrick special.

[GMax]

Moody's downgrades Russian bonds to JUNK status. Interest rates for Ruskie bond issues to soar. Its ok though, Vlad has lots of petro dollars, right? Ukraine silverware to auctioned to pay for it?

[rich@gmu]

BHL?

[Old Lurker]

He does have lots of gold, GMax.

[rich@gmu]

GMax-

we'll get a long cut-and-pace about the BRICS and petrodollars yada, yada, yada peppered with thinly veiled anti-Semitism thrown in for good measure.

[narciso]

a little more context:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/02/suicide-bombings-by-islamic-states-province-rock-libyan-town.php

the Bear will feed for a while longer, as long as there is a spare picnic basket,

[narciso]

Bernard henry levi, friend of DSK, the late massoud, patron of the dustup in North Africa

[henry]

Oh my, Rev Wright's daughter convicted of fraud. Fed charges of stealing from a jobs program.

[Miss Marple]

My daughter has 2 dogs, one a very small chihuahua Pomeranian mix. Last summer when I came home from the groomer with my dog, the two small dogs were outside and 2 hawks were circling over them. I of course went insane, screaming and waving my arms.

Three days ago I let the dogs out and the two larger dogs came in, but Jack the Clueless was still outside. So I stepped outside to call him just as a hawk was swooping down on him. My sudden appearance startled the hawk and he banked away.

So I have been going outside with the dogs ever since.

Just now, I let them outside and stepped onto the patio. There was the hawk again, sitting in a tall shrub by my bedroom window. I know he is after Jack, and so now I am dealing with a hawk stalker.

As if I don't have enough to do!

[lyle]

Chirrun comin' home to loot, henry?

[rich@gmu]

1206.8 tonnes (metric ton) ranked #6 ...

1206.8*1 000 000 (grams) about 1.21 * 10^9 grams

1.21* 10^9 *(38.71 $/gram) == 47.7 billion dollars ...

damn wonder if he could spare a few grams?

[rich@gmu]

narciso-

thanks. is it in the New Yorker piece about Libya unraveling?

[Old Lurker]

Stealing from a jobs program is a crime in Chicago?

Who knew?

[henry]

Lyle, more likely part of internecine blood letting in the Chicago mayor race. Rahm will not go quietly. Otherwise, this is the Chicago Way.

[Old Lurker]

Don't forget to subtract the shipping costs to get it all to Switzerland, Rich.

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: Captain Hate | February 21, 2015 at 11:31 AM -

would be nice to see them hauled off in chains and their foundation closed ... not going to happen but I can dream and it warms my heart. especially since it is (or at least was) snowing. didn't expect that until later today.

[Rick Ballard]

OL,

He also has some nice real estate with steel mills and coal mines in Ukraine. He just added a rail center and is expressing keen interest in another port.

He also pays interest in rubles for Russian state debt. Petro dollar financing is corporate.

I believe Putin's biggest asset is a firm grasp of reality equal to his brutally thuggish nature. He knows he's facing a facade masking a charade and he knows cowards when he kicks them.

Who wouldn't kick Global Village Idiots? Is there anything immoral about kicking a lying thief?

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: Old Lurker | February 21, 2015 at 12:19 PM -

he can just Fed Ex it to me. I'll handle the rest.

[Old Lurker]

Snowing a lot in DC this Saturday. I wonder, if snow is wasted on a weekend, do government unions requires that workers be given an equal number of days off work? What about teachers?

[Old Lurker]

He has some nice gas wells too, Rick, and long pipes, and stupid buyers at the other end, speaking of Global Village Idiots.

[lyle]

Don't they get double time, OL?

[Miss Marple]

Well, one thing about Putin.

He wouldn't be having some lame seminar in the Kremlin about feeling sorry for the oppression of "violent extremists" and offering them job programs.

[Old Lurker]

Good point, Lyle. I forgot that.

So if it snows on both a Saturday and Sunday, I think they should get Mon-Thur off work, then should be allowed to work from home the following Friday.

[narciso]

yes that's the one:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/unravelling

one of the former Top Men in the Journal, insisted that Volodya was some great improviser, when the evidence shows the opposite,

[rich@gmu]

lol ... Putin channels his inner Palpatine ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CP9dg38cAI

[rich@gmu]

a secret clip from a Hate conference break out session ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFkAAvDkj9k

[narciso]

Considering Ryazan, that's not a crazy comparison,

[Centralcal on iPad]

From someone named Ken Thomas on Twitter:

@KThomasDC: DNC report: Since '08 Dems have lost 69 House seats, 13 Sen seats, 910 state legis seats, 30 state legis chambers & 11 govs.

[Jane]

Jane-

Is it Catalist?

YES YES YES - Thanks Rich!

[Rick Ballard]

Narciso,

It doesn't sound as if Haftar is going to accept the UN proposal for a Libya modeled on the Gaza Pali zoo. I wouldn't be surprised to see joint operations by Egyptians and Libyans under Haftar's command. The only sure thing is the Libyan people will not get the lion's share out of the oil pot.

[narciso]

I don't think so either, he saw what happened to the person who took the last deal, General Younis, Khattalah was the button man in that instance,

[jimmyk on iPad]

"But president Hussein isn't a Muslim, nossiree."

No, just an a**hole who will figure out any way to stick his finger in there of mainstream America. In this case it happens to be by hosting this ridiculous conference, inviting terrorist sympathizers and Israel-haters, and to cap it off with an Islamic prayer.

[Ignatz]

All this talk of Vlad the Impaler Putin reminds me of Russian Dancing Men;
you only need to listen to the full 10 hours if you are a moderate communist.

[narciso]

yes,jimmy, does it matter if it's a floor wax or a desert topping,

[glasater]

Putin is being underwritten to a certain extent by the Chinese.

Now if only he could p!ss them off...

[Danube on iPad]

"who is going to stop it?"

Probably only the voters. The odor is now being sniffed bybthe media, and I suspect any criminal, or arguably criminal, behavior will be closely examined.

[Carol_Herman]

Libya's mess can be laid at the feet of hillarity. And, it was done at the behest of the french. Who "convinced" our idiots at State, that they'd have everything under control.

Does it matter? It's not as if cruise ships docked at Libya's port. And, violence among arabs is not containable.

The harms come only when we let them in inside our borders.

As to the saud's, who began stirring this violent pot, it was their intent of keeping hostilities out of their kingdom. So, now they have yemen.

As to the media, who needs them? Last night's story was the big fire in dubai. Where one of their high rise buildings went up on smoke. If you saw pictures it's because people living there; and one woman, across the street, who used their cell phones to show pictures.

Big story without any media talkers or writers present.

[rich@gmu]

Posted by: Jane | February 21, 2015 at 12:58 PM -

thought we had talked about it here in the run up to the 14 election ... they had the tools then too but still couldn't whip enough votes to the polls to stem the losses.

[rich@gmu]

all 10 hours Iggy ... yikes!

[AliceH]

For those interested, Free Beacon has this Catalist story on an FEC complaint filed by "a new conservative ethics watchdog called the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust".

[Miss Marple]

HAHA! The press is in full melt-down!

Mark HalperinVerified account ‏@MarkHalperin

To be fair to Scott Walker, he's been so busy governing, he hasn't had time to personally authenticate the President's birth certificate

[rich@gmu]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/us/politics/unease-at-clinton-foundation-over-finances-and-ambitions.html?pagewanted=all

the NYT a year and a half ago started down the road to disentangle the Clinton Foundation. the WaPo had a similar effort. left out is the obviously conflicted role that Huma had and the Haiti money sink ... just as appetizers.

and since Hillary has all the charm of a porcupine the msm is going to have some fun with it ...

[narciso]

Rush in keeping in his MSNBC ban, had a clip of Rosencrantz's show, where he warbling over the 'pop culture' primary.

[rich@gmu]

thanks Alice.

[jimmyk on iPad]

"and since Hillary has all the charm of a porcupine the msm is going to have some fun with it ..."

Nah, if she runs, the msm won't touch the story. They will be too busy sifting through Scott Walker's trash, or tracking down his 2nd grade teacher.

And my 1:09 was supposed to read "stick his finger in the eye...." /autocorrect

[Captain Hate]

I'm sure tuition will be slashed accordingly:

http://weaselzippers.us/214870-barnard-may-cut-language-and-science-requirements-in-favor-of-diversity-required-courses/

[narciso]

and how Red Queen would win it,

[Miss Marple]

https://ricochet.com/obama-deploys-new-logo-defeat-isis/

[Threadkiller]

To be fair to Scott Walker, he's been so busy governing, he hasn't had time to personally authenticate the President's birth certificate

MSNBCers Take On Rudy Giuliani: It's Like Birtherism; Obama Was Born In Indonesia!?

http://www.birtherreport.com/2015/02/msnbcers-take-on-rudy-giuliani-its-like.html

Loons