If you are having trouble staying awake at night, here is more helpful news on Syria:
Russian Flights Over Iraq and Iran Escalate Tension With U.S.
WASHINGTON — Russia is using an air corridor over Iraq and Iran to fly military equipment and personnel to a new air hub in Syria, openly defying American efforts to block the shipments and significantly increasing tensions with Washington.
American officials disclosed Sunday that at least seven giant Russian Condor transport planes had taken off from a base in southern Russia during the past week to ferry equipment to Syria, all passing through Iranian and Iraqi airspace.
Their destination was an airfield south of Latakia, Syria, which could become the most significant new Russian military foothold in the Middle East in decades, American officials said.
Fortunately, Obama and Kerry are all over this:
The Obama administration initially hoped it had hampered the Russian effort to move military equipment and personnel into Syria when Bulgaria, a NATO member, announced it would close its airspace to the flights. But Russia quickly began channeling its flights over Iraq and Iran, which Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, said on Sunday would continue despite American objections.
“There were military supplies, they are ongoing, and they will continue,” Mr. Lavrov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies. “They are inevitably accompanied by Russian specialists, who help to adjust the equipment, to train Syrian personnel how to use this weaponry.”
There will be weapons, there will be advisers, get over it. At least we know where they stand.
As to Iraq, they couldn't enforce a closure of their airspace anyway but what is their position? Not helpful...
American diplomats raised the issue with the Iraqi government on Sept. 5, hoping that the Iraqis would follow Bulgaria’s example and declare their airspace off limits to the Russian transport planes.
The Iraqis responded that they would look into the matter, said an American official who declined to be identified because he was talking about diplomatic communications. But more than a week later, the Iraqis had yet to take action.
...
Compounding [Iraqi Prime Minister] Abadi’s challenge are his efforts to maintain good relations with the United States, Iran and Russia. While about 3,500 American advisers have been sent to help the Iraqis combat the Islamic State, Iraq also has received military support for that fight from Iran, which like Russia is backing Mr. Assad. Iraq also is buying weapons from Moscow, which Mr. Abadi visited in May.
With few aircraft, Iraq’s ability to defend its airspace is extremely limited. But it could tell the Russians that they do not have the clearance to fly through Iraqi airspace and ask for American help in detecting and discouraging Russian flights.
Yeah, because Obama is ready and willing to shoot down Russian transport planes over Iraq.
An expert comments on the Iraqi politics:
“Since Maliki relinquished the premiership, power and authority in Iraq have become increasingly diffused with various players now exercising unilateral power over the use of force,” Ramzy Mardini, a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council, a research group in Washington, said in a telephone interview from Erbil, Iraq.
“Neutrality is the best Washington can hope for in Baghdad,” Mr. Mardini added. “Iraq is not a dictatorial state like many of the U.S. allies in the Middle East. Iraq is still a fragile state whose leaders are exposed to politics. In the discourse of Iraqi politics, forcing Abadi to side with the U.S. against Assad is like realigning him with the Sunni axis against the Shia one.”
"Neutrality" seems to mean "taking the Russian's side" since Iraq's airspace remains open and unsecured.
More on the diplomatic front:
On the same day that the administration approached Iraq and other nations about the Russian flights, Mr. Kerry called Mr. Lavrov and warned the Kremlin not to vastly expand its military support for the Syrian government. Mr. Kerry said it would fuel the conflict and might even lead to an inadvertent confrontation with the American-led coalition that is carrying out airstrikes against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, in Syria, the State Department noted in a statement about the call.
“It appears now that Assad is worried enough that he’s inviting Russian advisers in and Russian equipment in,” President Obama said in a meeting with troops at Fort Meade, Md., last week. “And that won’t change our core strategy, which is to continue to put pressure on ISIL in Iraq and Syria, but we are going to be engaging Russia to let them know that you can’t continue to double-down on a strategy that’s doomed to failure.”
But those warnings do not appear to have swayed President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who appears determined to create new facts on the ground in Syria.
Geez, Putin not taking Obama seriously on Syria - who could have guessed that Putin the Red would ignore Barry Red Line? The Times closes dramatically:
“This is the most important Russian power projection in the region in decades,” said Stephen J. Blank, an expert on the Russian military at the American Foreign Policy Council, “and it will enhance Russia’s influence throughout the Levant.”
Well, Obama's strategy is to have the US abandon the region and create a power vacuum. Like nature, politics abhors such things.
That'll show em!
Posted by: Thomas Collins | September 14, 2015 at 11:45 AM
"but we are going to be engaging Russia to let them know that you can’t continue to double-down on a strategy that’s doomed to failure.”
I'm surprised President Merde Touch didn't add "such as they eperienced in Georgia, Crimea and the Donbass" for emphasis.
Posted by: Rick Ballard | September 14, 2015 at 11:47 AM
Let's see: Bums taking over big city streets. Murder rates up. Russkies asserting themselves. Did I enter a time machine and end up in the late '70s?
Posted by: Thomas Collins | September 14, 2015 at 11:47 AM
Thomas Collins,
When are the Winter Olympics? How's our hockey team? It's our only hope.
Posted by: Miss Marple | September 14, 2015 at 11:49 AM
--...you can’t continue to double-down on a strategy that’s doomed to failure...--
Where's Laff Trac?
Posted by: Celestial Ignatz | September 14, 2015 at 11:57 AM
#SmartDiplomacy
Posted by: Beasts of England | September 14, 2015 at 11:57 AM
I abhor the Vacuum in Chief.
Posted by: Celestial Ignatz | September 14, 2015 at 11:58 AM
The Arnold is the new host of the Apprentice.
Posted by: glasater | September 14, 2015 at 12:00 PM
I abhor the Vacuum in Chief.
Perfectly natural.
Posted by: henry | September 14, 2015 at 12:01 PM
"Your fired!" = "Get Out!" or "hasta la vista"?
Posted by: Threadkiller | September 14, 2015 at 12:07 PM
You're fired...
Posted by: Threadkiller | September 14, 2015 at 12:08 PM
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | September 14, 2015 at 12:09 PM
Father Jonathan Morris in the news
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3232865/I-think-m-going-die-62-year-old-recalls-horrifying-moment-mauled-savagely-pit-bulls-priest-offered-rites-owner-ordered-attack.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus
Posted by: Miss Marple | September 14, 2015 at 12:09 PM
...baby.
Posted by: Threadkiller | September 14, 2015 at 12:09 PM
"Stick around..."
Posted by: Threadkiller | September 14, 2015 at 12:14 PM
2018 in PyeongChang, South Korea, Miss Marple. It is unclear whether the NHL players are going to participate in the 2018 Olympics. So the US may be relying on our college yute (which worked out OK in 1960 and 1980).
Posted by: Thomas Collins | September 14, 2015 at 12:15 PM
I abhor the Vacuum in Chief.
Well, we already had President Hoover. Maybe he's President Dyson.
Posted by: Eric in Boise | September 14, 2015 at 12:19 PM
Funny that the Euros are closing their borders suddenly. I am getting great Schengenfreude out of it. Maybe Arnie can help out the Austrian government by doing some PSA's urging the illegals to visit some other country. "Hasta la Vista, Mohammed."
Posted by: matt | September 14, 2015 at 12:21 PM
ALas, too late. I was hoping they were in 2016.
Well, time to think of something else to get people moving.
Laura Ingraham pointed out this morning that this strategy of getting just enough electoral votes (I think pioneered by Karl Rove) leaves one without a clear victory.
I personally think that a Reagan landslide is possible again but not only do you have to have people PO'd at the dems, you have to offer them an obvious better choice and explain why they wi,l be better off.
Using my IRS example, I would point out how these bureaucrats siphon off so much money from the federal budget, and how the pensions are way overboard compared to those of people in the private sector.
Show how it could be used to pay down the debt, show how the IRS is used to harass people, ask if we wouldn't be better off with a smaller, cheaper IRS.
This, of course, only works for those who pay taxes. For the ones who do not, and who are content to live as welfare clients, we will have to think of something else.
Posted by: Miss Marple | September 14, 2015 at 12:21 PM
"I let him go..."
Posted by: Threadkiller | September 14, 2015 at 12:22 PM
Maybe he's President Dyson.
He never loses the ability to suck.
Posted by: Some Guy | September 14, 2015 at 12:25 PM
"Did I enter a time machine and end up in the late '70s?"
Enjoy the anti-anti communism Comrade Collins.
Posted by: rich@gmu | September 14, 2015 at 12:27 PM
Thank you Some Guy. I was afraid it was going to be left to me to say how much he sucks.
Now if you would just draw the connection between Brady, Beauty Queens, Balloons and Blowing, our work here is done.
Posted by: Old Lurker | September 14, 2015 at 12:29 PM
Surprised it hasn't escalated to a strongly worded letter and demarche ...
that'll show them.
Putin is probably laughing at what Clinton really thought about Zero and passing around the good stuff.
Posted by: rich@gmu | September 14, 2015 at 12:36 PM
"...we both feel integrity, such as, that of healthcare in the America of the U.S. and therefore. Yes. Thank you."
Posted by: Some Guy | September 14, 2015 at 12:38 PM
lol, OL!!
Posted by: Beasts of England | September 14, 2015 at 12:40 PM
The Donald is hammering on health insurance deductibles being horribly high so there is that point to resonate with people.
Posted by: glasater | September 14, 2015 at 12:45 PM
Our preezy is so flexible; he and Lurch are beginning to look like the statue of Laocoön and his sons
TK - either "Auf Wiedersehen, baby" or "Servus"
Posted by: Frau Nebenan | September 14, 2015 at 12:45 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/09/14/cnns-tapper-looks-to-ignite-exchanges-between-candidates-at-wednesdays-gop-debate/
Tapper is more lefty than people realize; got his start on Salon.
I sure hope candidates don't fall for this, but some probably will.
Posted by: Miss Marple | September 14, 2015 at 12:47 PM
"Servus"?
Isn't that what our Federal Government says to us?
Posted by: Old Lurker | September 14, 2015 at 12:47 PM
Haven't caught up in weeks... The son of my late eye doctor, who was also the announcer at Cameron, played against Moses Malone in hs, he was awestruck.
Posted by: Strawman Cometh | September 14, 2015 at 12:48 PM
Has McTurtle sold us out yet today?
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone | September 14, 2015 at 12:48 PM
I simply don't get the Administration strategy. They do not want to commit US anything Isis, so why get overly bothered if Putin sends his cannon fodder instead? Yep, Putin is happy to spike the football against Obama, but Obama can ignore it. He's ignored worse...
Really, all Kerry is doing is advertising US lack of resolve. I guess that's how they do things in the France of Kerry's dreams.
ISIS vs Iran vs Assad vs Putin is the Iran Iraq was of the new milennium. It's a pity that someone actually might win this thing.
Posted by: Appalled | September 14, 2015 at 12:48 PM
The Daily Mail has been helpful regarding the "migrant" issue, but they sure do like the Paliwood pics.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3233641/Hungary-braces-massive-surge-30-000-migrants-just-one-day-Serbia-attempts-huge-push-neighbour-introduces-tough-new-laws-jailing-illegal-immigrants.html
Btw, isn't it interesting how many of the men are clean shaven? Did they make it all the way up from Syria in one day, or just pack their shaving kits and mirrors? Lots of people are so well-dressed, too, with so little luggage. The smiling swimmers all have matching life jackets.
Posted by: Extraneus | September 14, 2015 at 12:56 PM
What a red line in the sky might look like.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | September 14, 2015 at 12:59 PM
Aw.
The kitten too precious to leave behind: Syrian refugee brings his beloved pet with him as he makes successful journey across the Mediterranean
They're ok leaving their mothers and sisters and grandparents, though.
Posted by: Extraneus | September 14, 2015 at 01:00 PM
Revealed: SECOND passenger claims Aylan Kurdi’s father was working with people smugglers and was driving the boat on which his son died
Posted by: Extraneus | September 14, 2015 at 01:02 PM
http://freebeacon.com/issues/study-obamacare-penalizes-hospitals-serving-low-income-medicare-patients/
Obama hates old people. The elderly poor are just the top of the iceberg.
Posted by: Miss Marple | September 14, 2015 at 01:04 PM
Ex,
One thing you can say about kitty boy is that he probably is not Muslim. Cats are unclean.
Posted by: DrJ | September 14, 2015 at 01:06 PM
Check out this kid's expression and tell me he doesn't know the cop is a suicidal fool almost ready to be deprived of his head.
Posted by: Extraneus | September 14, 2015 at 01:06 PM
Kerry and obama are kgb agents. Have been for decades. Kerrys pop was probably one too. As was fmdavis, obamas mentor. They are b I th proving to be very "flexible", as obama promised vlad, via dmitri.
Putins move in crimea and eastern ukraine and syria all prove that obama was truthful when he promised clad, via dmitri, thatbhe would be able to be mkre flexible in his 2nd term.
The current so called refugee crisis has been engineered by putin aand erdogan to destabilize europe.
Worse lies ahead for the west and freedom loving people everywhere.
Posted by: reliapundit - the astute blogger | September 14, 2015 at 01:06 PM
I notice he doesn't have a puppy. Funny, that.
Posted by: Miss Marple | September 14, 2015 at 01:07 PM
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_cats
Posted by: Threadkiller | September 14, 2015 at 01:08 PM
MissM, he got hungry.
Posted by: henry | September 14, 2015 at 01:10 PM
Jake Tapper - "In 1992, Tapper served as a campaign press secretary for Democratic congressional candidate Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (PA-13) and later served as her congressional press secretary.[10]"
Marjorie is Chelsea Clinton's mother-in-law.
Posted by: Janet | September 14, 2015 at 01:11 PM
Because the donbass repo team (810 marines, 98 and 75 airborne are effective.
Posted by: narciso | September 14, 2015 at 01:15 PM
I've already recounted tapper's part in the 'stolen election' narrative.
Posted by: narciso | September 14, 2015 at 01:17 PM
If you go too far in supporting Assad, Vlad, model UNs all over the US will be passing resolutions expressing concern.
Posted by: Thomas Collins | September 14, 2015 at 01:21 PM
Useful idiots, volodya can't believe how they internalized desinformatya.
Posted by: narciso | September 14, 2015 at 01:21 PM
MM,
With zerocare one becomes a slave to the government is how I view it.
Posted by: glasater | September 14, 2015 at 01:23 PM
They were showing the last installment of the expendables and the original team along with Harrison Ford and Gibson were really looking ridixulous, in contrast with the new group like rousey and statham, who is midway in the ranks of action heroes.
Posted by: narciso | September 14, 2015 at 01:26 PM
Yeah, "GOPe" and all that, but there's a new Boston conservative talk station as of today:
http://am1260thebuzz.com/schedule
The station that carried most of this programming went to a Hispanic Christian music format in 2008 and we haven't heard any of these hosts since.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | September 14, 2015 at 01:28 PM
Good Morning.
Woke up to see images on FOX of the Germans and Hungarians placing concertina wire on the top of their border fences.
What are all the arguments again for why building a fence or a wall will not work and can not work?
---People will use ladders?
---Are you going to put crocodiles in the Danube River?
---People will come
herethere anyway?---They're coming for Love?
---Walls won't keep people out?
How come I'm not seeing Geraldo's and Jorge' Ramos's on all the channel's, expelling why walls and fences won't work?
Posted by: daddy | September 14, 2015 at 01:29 PM
Huh, turns out I'm going to be spending a few hours at Dulles this evening. If I had thought ahead, I woulda planned on hopping on the metro for some meet up action.
Better luck and planning, but mostly planning, next time.
Posted by: hit and run | September 14, 2015 at 01:32 PM
Hey, I guess I haven't posted from my phone in a while...
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | September 14, 2015 at 01:33 PM
No dirty Harry or Paul kersey, Reese is the closest analogue on the small screen.
Posted by: narciso | September 14, 2015 at 01:33 PM
daddy,
All good points and I would like to see it brought up in the debate.
Also, comments on the cat story linked above show me Brits aren't fooled by these pics, either.
Posted by: Miss Marple | September 14, 2015 at 01:37 PM
My NFL goat of the week is not Tom Coughlin for his play calling or Eli Manning for throwing an incompletion when kneeling down would have taken another 40 seconds off the clock, or even Steven Hauschka for the worst pooch kickoff in NFL history. My goat is Pete Carroll for running Marshawn Lynch on fourth and 1 with the Seahawks driving toward a game tying FG or game winning TD. Carroll clearly in that situation should have called for a slant pass. . . .
Posted by: Thomas Collins | September 14, 2015 at 01:40 PM
Yes the transit routes do match smuggling paths that local gangsters including the bratva use.
Posted by: narciso | September 14, 2015 at 01:44 PM
Cats are okay by Islam but dogs aren't? Maybe this explains everything...
Posted by: Beasts of England | September 14, 2015 at 01:44 PM
"Obama hates old people. The elderly poor are just the top of the iceberg."
Another example of a lost opportunity. Ads should be running explaining just how Obamacare is screwing the over 65 crowd. This is a huge voting block and these kind of pocketbook issues are exactly what is required to peel off Democrats. They may not care about abortion, but start ripping them off and they will get militant in a heartbeat.
Posted by: Buckeye | September 14, 2015 at 01:46 PM
I guess more accurately, over 64 crowd.
Posted by: Buckeye | September 14, 2015 at 01:47 PM
Fooling some people is painfully simple.
Can't anyone here play this game?
"Judicial Watch said the revelation of the email gap casts doubt on whether Clinton told the truth when she declared under oath, “I have directed that all of my emails on clintonemail.com in my custody that were or potentially or potentially were federal records be provided to the Department of State.”
While JW is of course correct that she is most certainly lying, that sentence is true so long as one person on her staff will say, "yes, yes she did tell us to produce them..."
Posted by: Old Lurker | September 14, 2015 at 01:53 PM
TC, 2 consecutive games where Pete the Poodle(™the late Butch from the Cape) could not gain a yard when the game was on the line.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | September 14, 2015 at 01:54 PM
OL, try that one with the SEC under Sarbox. (I assume someone here can bake a file into a coke for you prison amusement).
Posted by: henry | September 14, 2015 at 01:55 PM
So what happened in the very few hours between Angela Kevorkian's attempted assisted suicide of Germany declaring 800,000 dervishes is, like a dead lawyer, just a good start and the stringing of the concertina and the closing of H&K rifle bolts?
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | September 14, 2015 at 01:56 PM
test
Posted by: daddy | September 14, 2015 at 02:00 PM
Murder has become so common that no one has mentioned the shooting at Delta State U. One confirmed dead, maybe 2.
Posted by: Jane | September 14, 2015 at 02:03 PM
Bah, Typepad's locked me out now 3 times. Humbug@#$
Posted by: daddy | September 14, 2015 at 02:05 PM
So Iran gets $150 Billion. Russia is building up around Latakia, their base in the Med, and our intel analysts have risen up in revolt against their masters for twisting the facts into pretzels, specifically around the misrepresentation of our "war" with ISIS.
One of the driving factors for our leadership on the Iran deal was that the American people are sick of war. I find that not to be true when talking to people and reading relatively unbiased news.
The truth is that the cabal at the top finds any American use of force antithetical to their anti-American philosophy. To them, we are, as a people, never a force for good.
The waging of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was amazingly incompetent. We won the wars themselves but lost the peace.
But now the Leftists have flushed even the small gains made down the toilet. This has to be driven home with the American people. Iran, Ukraine, Syria, and Afghanistan have been unqualified disasters because of the Democrats and their Marxist fellow travelers.
Posted by: matt | September 14, 2015 at 02:06 PM
Tammy can't stand Trump but she'd vote for him over the Mailman's son after hearing that Syrian immigration nonsense on Rove News Sunday.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone | September 14, 2015 at 02:07 PM
Soros is sick of war in defense of the US.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone | September 14, 2015 at 02:09 PM
Twas a link to this Aussie story:
Aussie Agricultural Minister Barnaby Joyce has dismissed Johnny Depp’s suggestion that he would fly down under and assault Mr Joyce, if actress wife Amber Heard is jailed over the illegal entry of the couple’s dogs into Australia in May.
The agriculture minister ordered Depp to remove his two Yorkshire terriers from Australia or face having them euthanized, after they were brought into the country while he was filming the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film in Queensland.
Obviously some countries like Pirates importing pets better than others.
Posted by: daddy | September 14, 2015 at 02:09 PM
Of you've seem Amber heard, you'd understand why depp is so agitated.
Posted by: narciso | September 14, 2015 at 02:15 PM
At least 2 Mexicans wounded in Egypt attack are dual American citizens
Posted by: Extraneus | September 14, 2015 at 02:15 PM
--our intel analysts have risen up in revolt against their masters for twisting the facts into pretzels--
Kind of sickening that Barry rode into office on the loudspeaker lie that Bush and Cheney manipulated intelligence to get us into war and then crickets when Barry obviously does manipulate intelligence to minimize the catastrophe unfolding as a result of his lying us out of war.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | September 14, 2015 at 02:18 PM
Playing a pirate, and actually being able to fight like one, are two different things.
My money would be on Johnny Depp getting his scrawny ass kicked.
Posted by: Buckeye | September 14, 2015 at 02:19 PM
As usual 99th story was quite dfferent, curveball was a bnd asset, poorly handled with no ties to chalabi, unlike ameri and ashgeri the heart of the 2007 nie
Posted by: narciso | September 14, 2015 at 02:21 PM
Of you've seem Amber heard, you'd understand why depp is so agitated.
I blame Narciso! He knew I couldn't not not post. It's all his fault@#$ Blame him!
BTW, If you guys do put me in jail, put me in Amber's cell.
Posted by: daddy | September 14, 2015 at 02:22 PM
Maybe I'm wrong about Iowahawk losing his edge:
David Burge @iowahawkblog 33m33 minutes ago
@HillaryClinton "drag a $100 bill through a trailer park, and you'll never know what you'll find." - James Carville
David Burge @iowahawkblog 14m14 minutes ago
Hillary Clinton preaching against rape is like Michelle Obama preaching against golf.
Posted by: Porchlight | September 14, 2015 at 02:22 PM
Stalwart conservative soul that I am, even I will vote for Trump if it can be believed that he will follow through on all his major proclamations. Voting for Republicans to stand up to and defeat Obama's corrupt, twisted anti-American policies and edicts has been a thorough waste of my time and emotional well-being, as well as my hard-earned donations.
At least Trump can afford to lavishly fund his own campaign - I'm all tapped out.
Posted by: BeenThereDoneThat | September 14, 2015 at 02:23 PM
Buckeye, absolutely agree.
I wonder how that house in France is working out for Depp, what with the Muslims overrunning Europe and all.
Bet we see soon he's bought property in the US.
Posted by: Miss Marple | September 14, 2015 at 02:24 PM
Were the Depps supposed to get passports or visas for the Yorkies?
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone | September 14, 2015 at 02:25 PM
narc
Translating your post is keeping my brain agile.
Beats Sudoku any day of the week;)
Posted by: Buckeye | September 14, 2015 at 02:25 PM
Soros is sick of war in defense of the US.
There is some context missing, I think.
BOND: Your international man of mystery days are over Soros. You've manipulated your last Euro.
SOROS: Not as long as I have DublinDave on the payroll.
BOND: Nice try. I gave him a lifetime free pass to the Guinness brewery. He stopped making sense hours ago.
SOROS: Have you been in touch with M?
BOND:(Checks cell) Hmm, 9 missed calls. He usually only does this if he thinks I am busy with someone busty...
SOROS: Do check voicemail...
M: Dammit 007, there has been an infernal shakeup, and now there are Questions In Parliament and a General Strike. We must cave in immediately. Jeb Bush advises we must cave in immediately.
BOND: Um....
SOROS: I am sick of war in defense of the US. Fortunately, so is the US....
BOND: Well then, this is embarrassing. Is there a busty female about?
SOROS: DublinDave took the last one. Hahahahahahahahahahah!
Posted by: Appalled | September 14, 2015 at 02:26 PM
I cannot believe she just didn't take the dogs and go home!
What is the deal? She has risked her dogs because se broke the quarantine laws. Just leave, for heaven's sake!
If they are afraid to take the dogs back because of US law, Depp is rich enough to fly the dogs to some remote port and boat them in by cover of night.
Good grief!
Posted by: Miss Marple | September 14, 2015 at 02:28 PM
Cats are okay by Islam but dogs aren't?
As I've said before, Beasts, there's something seriously wrong with any religion that proscribes bowser, boobies, beer, and bacon.
Posted by: Eric in Boise | September 14, 2015 at 02:28 PM
Look, guys, here's a newlywed couple that wed right before they left Syria! German honeymoon, they joked.
Aren't they attractive and sweet? Amazingly photogenic, too!
Posted by: Miss Marple | September 14, 2015 at 02:35 PM
Another reason to like Trump: Jethro Bodine Clooney thinks he's an idiot.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone | September 14, 2015 at 02:35 PM
@EiB: to continue with daddy's theme from yesterday: those are a few of my favorite things.
Posted by: Beasts of England | September 14, 2015 at 02:37 PM
General Jack Keane on FOX summarizes ISIS gains while why our Intel folks are alleging that the White House is lying to the American people.
Host Gretchen: Let's move on to this...The Pentagon IG is investigating complaints that Intel reports on the fight against ISIS were manipulated to be falsely optimistic. This reportedly resulted in inaccurate info reaching the highest Govt Officials, including President Obama. What do you make of it?
Keane: I think this is a very serious allegation because of the sources involved. These are Intelligence analyst who worked at Central Command Headquarters, who oversee the War. They work for the Major General who's in charge of Intelligence. And what they are alleging is that whole parts of their intelligence reports were taken out because they painted an adverse light on what was happening to ISIS.
So that our audience can understand, they look at this very comprehensively when they're thinking about ISIS.:
---ISIS Command and Control,
---their ability to conduct freedom of maneuver;
---their initiative, tactical and operational,
---how much territory they control,
---their ability to regenerate their forces, build resiliency,
All those kinds of things. And what they were concluding is that ISIS is pretty much in fairly decent shape given the fact that they've expanded into Syria, they own about the same amount of terrain in Iraq after a year, and they're expanding into seven other countries and they have a worldwide following. Those conclusions did not go over well, and some of those conclusions were changed is what the allegation is.
Posted by: daddy | September 14, 2015 at 02:37 PM
Every invasion movie needs a good romantic subplot, Miss Marple. Good catch! :)
Posted by: Beasts of England | September 14, 2015 at 02:41 PM
Tammy is not a fan of the ignorant prison bint who helped the prisoners escape and went on NBC to blubber away and make excuses for what she did.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPhone | September 14, 2015 at 02:43 PM
Now about amber, she is flexible on certain matters, but she is quite hawt in captain's phrasing. They met on the set of the rum diary, Thompson's Roman a clef and origin story.
Posted by: narciso | September 14, 2015 at 02:48 PM
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | September 14, 2015 at 02:52 PM
--BTW, If you guys do put me in jail, put me in Amber's cell.--
You'll have to identify as a mommy not a daddy for that to happen, but if I understand Miss Heard's proclivities that shouldn't be a problem once you're bunking together.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | September 14, 2015 at 02:57 PM
His avatar suggests the first charity will have something to do with AIDS.
Posted by: Threadkiller | September 14, 2015 at 03:02 PM
Lets see: Doctoring G2 on ISIS while at the same time 100's of thousands of Syrian, Iraqi, Libyan, Afghan and other assorted Muzzie refugees flood Europe. 80% between the ages of 18-25 and male.
Coincidence?
As Rush said today, young men with ample supply of testosterone let loose in society without female companionship will make the UVA frat houses look like Catholic seminaries.
Posted by: Jack is Back! | September 14, 2015 at 03:08 PM
I appreciate the eagerness with which BOzo will welcome the intelligence buttcover being stitched up but I want to see IS play a few innings in Syria against the Repo Team under the Repo ROE rather than BOzo's Pattycake ROE before accepting the NEW! IMPROVED! assessment of their capabilities.
Posted by: Rick Ballard | September 14, 2015 at 03:12 PM
"As Rush said today, young men with ample supply of testosterone let loose in society without female companionship will make the UVA frat houses look like Catholic seminaries."
Tip of the week. Buy stock in German whorehouses.
Posted by: Buckeye | September 14, 2015 at 03:19 PM