Allahpundit puzzles over the Reuters account of a raid in Yemen that was botched by Trump because he didn't... what?
The grim Reuters allegation is this:
U.S. military officials told Reuters that Trump approved his first covert counterterrorism operation without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup preparations.
As a result, three officials said, the attacking SEAL team found itself dropping onto a reinforced al Qaeda base defended by landmines, snipers, and a larger than expected contingent of heavily armed Islamist extremists.
So now Trump is expected to weigh in on the appropriate level of ground support?!? And maybe eyeball some satellite photos? As Allahpundit notes. General Mattis, now SecDef, has some experience here. Gen. Dunford, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and National Security Advisor Flynn, formerly a Lt. General who oversaw raids like this for a living, were also in the final meeting. Please.
IMHO the Commander in Chief approves these missions, or rejects them, based on the possible rewards and any risks associated with the country in question (Yemen, here), other allies, and US and world opinion. If the Defense Department submitted a half-baked plan after months of effort, well, that's on them. More reasonably, these are dangerous missions and sometimes things happen. E.g., the last known raid in Yemen, Dec 2014, failed to rescue the targeted hostages:
2 Hostages Killed in Yemen as U.S. Rescue Effort Fails
Or in Syria, Oct 2015:
US special forces soldier is killed in Isis hostage rescue mission in Iraq
Almost done. Back to AllahP:
What’s missing from any of the reporting is the suggestion that Defense warned the Trump White House that they weren’t ready to roll but the White House demanded action anyway. Until that evidence is produced, why should we assume that Trump is the negligent party?
OK, into the Bonus Round for outrageous reporting. Here is the Guardian, picked up by The Week:
Saturday's Navy SEAL raid in Yemen — which resulted in the death of an 8-year-old American girl and a U.S. naval officer — had previously been rejected by former President Barack Obama, The Guardian reports. President Trump approved of the raid in his first military strike as commander-in-chief:
[Colonel John] Thomas said he did not know why the prior administration did not authorize the operation, but said the Obama administration had effectively exercised a "pocket veto" over it.
A former official said the operation had been reviewed several times, but the underlying intelligence was not judged strong enough to justify the risks, and the case was left to the incoming Trump administration to make its own judgment. [The Guardian]
Oh, brother. CNN addresses the veto claim specifically:
OL;)
Posted by: Jack is Back! | February 03, 2017 at 09:26 AM
I'll leave that to Gus, Marlene, since I've pointedly tried to ignore everything Broooooce has done since "Born to Run" although there's no doubt in my mind he's said something really really dumb.
Posted by: Captain Hate | February 03, 2017 at 09:29 AM
OL I was totally about to make the same comment about Austrian!
Posted by: JimNorCal | February 03, 2017 at 09:29 AM
Thanks, Skoot, for 8:27. Hadn't seen that yet. Now I'll go read it, to see what I expect from Judy. She should have much more influence than she seems to have, well, in fact, she does.
I told a cloud researcher in 2009 that Judy Curry would lead climate science back into respectability, and so far, I've been right. She's made more progress than most realize.
Posted by: Headed into private forecasting. | February 03, 2017 at 09:31 AM
Everytime I see the Janet Reno's armed panty raid pic I always plan on researching how the shutterbug got that pic.
Law Enforcement doesn't need any extra dicks to trip over when clearing a building.
How did that picture ever come to be?
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 03, 2017 at 09:32 AM
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2017/02/a-clash-of-civilizations-in-colorado.html is very good.
CH-there was a protest at Ga Tech yesterday that supposedly had 1000 attendees to potest the "muslim ban.' The Cox-owned press interviewed outraged Iranian grad students insisting we had no right to inconvenience them or regard them with concern.
If no one has told them they are a guest in this country and that we do not have an obligation to let them define what we need to do to protect ourselves, then go back to iran for your studies. Otherwise, be grateful for the chance to study here and worship here in ways no one gets to do in iran.
Posted by: rse | February 03, 2017 at 09:34 AM
Marlene, your wish is my command!!
Gus was quoted in the Fake News Daily Werker.....
"Springstone is "competent" enough, to play backup rhythm guitar in the JOM band."
or
"I thought Springstone was killed in a RAPPER drive by".
Posted by: GUS | February 03, 2017 at 09:34 AM
TK,
Looks like it was a photographer who was with the family prior to the fed sshowing up.
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-04-22/news/fl-elian-photographer-20100422_1_cry-elian-gonzalez-haunted
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | February 03, 2017 at 09:35 AM
Meanwhile we are still paying for these attacks on America.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-03/un-official-admits-global-warming-agenda-really-about-destroying-capitalism
"Figueres admitted that the Global Warming conspiracy set by the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, of which she is the executive secretary, has a goal not of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity, but to destroy capitalism. She said very casually:"
Posted by: pagar, a bacon, ham and sausage supporter | February 03, 2017 at 09:40 AM
Ahhh. Thanks, MM.
It was a Seal Pub goon...
He probably pointed to the closest as he readied his lens.
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 03, 2017 at 09:41 AM
...closet...
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 03, 2017 at 09:42 AM
...seal pup...
Jeebers.
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 03, 2017 at 09:43 AM
That's a good question, TK. I had assumed it was taken by a family member and printed in a Cuban expatriate friendly gazette and the propagandist media felt obliged to run it even though it made Lurch Reno look almost as bad as Waco.
Plus it enabled Reno's Barney Fife, Stedman, to state like an idiot that the picture showed the storm trooper with his finger outside the trigger guard so that young Elian wasn't traumatized; at which point he should've been kicked in the crotch and told "ya know, even though I have that on film, I still don't know if I hit both of them or only one".
Posted by: Captain Hate | February 03, 2017 at 09:45 AM
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/1/neil-gorsuch-nomination-never-trumpers-were-wrong-/
Charlie Hurt was one of the few reporters who figured out Trump and his supporters early on.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | February 03, 2017 at 09:46 AM
Marlene: But...students at all the Portland high schools are being allowed to protest today.
Civic activism is part of the national required curricula and pushed independently by NGOs in the 50 states. They encourage a disregard for history and action.
Molding soldiers for the future.
Posted by: sbw | February 03, 2017 at 09:46 AM
Miss Marple, the LIBTARD LEFT tried to make Elian Gonzalez out to be OH SO HAPPY to reunite with UNCLE FIDEL.
I'm sure David Koresh and the 20 some CHILDREN that were killed would have enjoyed CUBA to burning to death.
Janet Reno (Chelsea Clinton's Father)had a military style raid to capture a LITTLE BOY.
What MEMORY does that LITTLE BOY have of AMERICA???
Posted by: GUS | February 03, 2017 at 09:47 AM
sbw,
I will bet a lot of those NGO's are funded by George Soros.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | February 03, 2017 at 09:48 AM
Cap'n good for you in making peace with Mrs. Cap'n.
The Lurker house has no such dissidents, but my wife and I had a very interesting conversation the other day about what was making her "blue" recently.
It was quickly determined that without her realizing it, she had become depressed by the overwhelming, universal, profane, crass, but shallow waterfall of pure hatred that was washing over her from Facebook. After discussing it she promptly saw that Facebook (heretofore a fun place for her to share grandmother and dog stories and pictures with her pals). In conjunction with that, the Trump Hating media everywhere was creating for her two obvious pressures.
The first was, as we all know here, that our enemies advance by creating the false impression that EVERYBODY agrees with them and therefore how can any individual not be worried that they are out of step?
The second is at a personal level. Her Facebook friends included dozens and dozens of people she has thought of as real friends her whole adult life, and whose friendship she has genuinely enjoyed. But she notes two things: the first is that friends who might see things the way she does have simply gone dark; that leaves in place post after post of pure venom but from people she thought of as friends.
She is depressed because of both things. Is she truly out of step with the whole world? And more cutting and depressing, how could she have been so very wrong about the qualities of those she thought of as friends who for decades have had friendly disagreements about political things, but always in a civilized and friendly way that protected the relationship.
When the reality dawned, she discovered how much better the world looked when she went at Facebook with an ax unfollowing all but those who wanted to talk grandchildren, dogs and gardens...
Anybody else noted this phenomenon?
Posted by: Old Lurker | February 03, 2017 at 09:49 AM
GUS: I've been saying for years HERE, that VIOLENCE is COMING.
On the left? Certainly. And the first step in meeting it is a firm application of justice. Not Holder/Lynch justice, but the kind of justice the Constitution intended.
Bill Ayers wanted to foment over-aggressive reaction to add fuel to the flames. Trump will meet their incendiary actions firmly, which means we won’t have to fulfill Ayers’ fondest dreams.
Posted by: sbw | February 03, 2017 at 09:50 AM
Gus,
I sat right in my living room and watched that Waco raid on live TV. They deliberately pushed into the walls with some sort of tank-like thing.
I find it very interesting that we NEVER see video of that raid which ended up burning alive helpless people who were supposedly victims.
It was disgraceful and that incident was responsible for the rise of so many right-wing militias, who came to a fairly reasonable conclusion that the government was out of control and out to get them.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | February 03, 2017 at 09:52 AM
http://www.danielpipes.org/17223/linda-sarsour-the-left-latest-star
I'VE PRETTY MUCH IGNORED OR BLOCKED THE VENOMIZERS ON MY PAGE, OL..TELL HER SHE'S WELCOME THERE ANY TIME.
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | February 03, 2017 at 09:52 AM
Waco was my first introduction to how gutless the GOP in Congress was in going after rogue actions by an administration. Unfortunately it wasn't an isolated event.
Posted by: Captain Hate | February 03, 2017 at 09:53 AM
OL, FACE BOOK was fun and frivolous when LIBTARDS were in power. When dissent was RACIST, libtards ruled the roost. Look at the road we've gone down in 8 years.
We haven't gone from "To Sir with Love", from Crayons to perfume....we've gone from MARRIAGE being ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN..per BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, to PERKY KATY COURIC lecturing us on the JOYS of CHILDREN TRANNIES.
OH, and you can STFU if you disagree....
Posted by: GUS | February 03, 2017 at 09:54 AM
I THINK THIS HAS BEEN POSTED, BUT JUST IN CASEhttps://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2017/02/02/cant-close/
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | February 03, 2017 at 09:55 AM
KK said before I got out of bed:
We don't know yet who the men in black were last nite. Looked alot like the crew that was in DC for the "protest" on Inaug Day.
Looks like standard issue Soros riot gear:)
Posted by: Buckeye | February 03, 2017 at 09:57 AM
OL,
I've shut off my Facebook notifications and am thinking of just terminating it entirely. I don't know if I mentioned it but there was a good post at AoS (unlinkable here) pointing out how nasty comments at Zuckerberg probably worked against Queen Stumbling Drunk on November 8,
Posted by: Captain Hate | February 03, 2017 at 09:59 AM
TK
Sorry about your dog and the trauma for the kids.
At some point, a new puppy is likely indicated:)
Any updates on the vascular repair?
Posted by: Buckeye | February 03, 2017 at 09:59 AM
I'm heading down to Marquete U. to watch some LAX.
One last thought.
When Clinton/Rodham/Gore killed dozens at WACO, did the DISGUSTING LIB PRESS tell us an AMERICAN GIRL was killed in a "botched" raid?
And weren't the Branch Davidians JV?????
if THAT doesn't illustrate the filth of the MFM nothing will.
Posted by: GUS | February 03, 2017 at 10:01 AM
http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/02/yet-another-media-meltdown-turns-out-to-be-totally-wrong/#ixzz4Xc3GlRAS
It occurs to me the media is now going crazy, too.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | February 03, 2017 at 10:03 AM
It was disgraceful and that incident was responsible for the rise of so many right-wing militias, who came to a fairly reasonable conclusion that the government was out of control and out to get them.
The thing about it is, none of it had to happen, and it was ALL the government's fault. They could have arrested Koresh at any time - they had opportunities when he was outside the compound on his own, going about his business.
But they wanted something big and exciting for the cameras...and they got it.
Posted by: James D | February 03, 2017 at 10:06 AM
Cap'n, thankfully I never joined FB myself. So it did not occur to me (or her) the impact it was having on my better half.
Posted by: Old Lurker | February 03, 2017 at 10:09 AM
An older Cashill link:
http://mobile.wnd.com/2007/04/41176/
He has updated it over the years.
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 03, 2017 at 10:13 AM
Buckeye, thank you.
I have to run, I will give an update when I return this evening.
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 03, 2017 at 10:14 AM
Zuckerberg has its benefits such as staying in touch with relatives and I wouldn't have Teddy without having met the breeder there after Maggie died. But like other online sites, I'll just quietly leave when the benefits are outweighed by the negatives.
Posted by: Captain Hate | February 03, 2017 at 10:16 AM
Queen Stumbling Drunk
I'm stealing that one CH:)
Posted by: Buckeye | February 03, 2017 at 10:17 AM
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-presidents-right-to-say-youre-fired-1485732801
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | February 03, 2017 at 10:21 AM
Don't use Amazon since I never buy anything over the internet.
Never been on FaceBook so I don't know what I'm missing,
and I couldn't pick Lady Gaga out of a Police Line-up.
Good Morning!
Posted by: daddy | February 03, 2017 at 10:21 AM
Before the election, and the press had most convinced Queen Stumbling Drunk was getting elected, firearms sales took off like the proverbial "hockey stick".
I suspect with the Soros funded rabble rousing since the Inauguration, ammunition sales will follow.
Posted by: Buckeye | February 03, 2017 at 10:22 AM
Don't use Amazon since I never buy anything over the internet.
Never been on FaceBook so I don't know what I'm missing,
and I couldn't pick Lady Gaga out of a Police Line-up.
Trust me daddy, your not missing a thing.
Posted by: Buckeye | February 03, 2017 at 10:24 AM
I don't know, Buckeye, Lady Gaga in a police lineup seems like something I wouldn't want to miss.
Posted by: jimmyk | February 03, 2017 at 10:30 AM
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/federal-workers-signal-app-234510
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | February 03, 2017 at 10:33 AM
http://vesselnews.io/viral-video-u-s-marine-reveals-truth-trumps-travel-ban/
This is rather chilling.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | February 03, 2017 at 10:34 AM
Old news, Clarice...I posted that last night but it did not garner any attention!
Seems troubling to me for sure.
Posted by: Old Lurker | February 03, 2017 at 10:37 AM
Clarice,
If you ask me their worry isn't about being asked to violate the law; their concern is that they will have been discovered to already doing it themselves.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | February 03, 2017 at 10:37 AM
Good
The Hill
The Hill – Verified account @thehill
Top publications pull out of White House Correspondents' Dinner parties http://hill.cm/vODqmjv
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Posted by: lurkersusie | February 03, 2017 at 10:40 AM
Another jackass
Mediaite
55m55 minutes ago
Mediaite @Mediaite
CNN Guest: Berkeley Rioters Were Actually Secret Right-Wingers Affiliated With Breitbart https://t.co/HSF0Bodkun
Posted by: lurkersusie | February 03, 2017 at 10:44 AM
Robert Reich: "I have never seen them before"
Weren't the fire-throwers completely covered from head to toe entirely masking their identities?
Posted by: DebinNC | February 03, 2017 at 10:48 AM
i believe cia invested in Signal early on. should not have a problem unencrypting. but why should these govt morons bother encrypting 'uh, trump sux' messages?
https://pando.com/2015/03/01/internet-privacy-funded-by-spooks-a-brief-history-of-the-bbg/
Posted by: 86 | February 03, 2017 at 10:49 AM
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/02/despite-dem-boycott-scott-pruitt-wins-committee-approval-to-run-trumps-epa/
Posted by: Clarice Feldman | February 03, 2017 at 10:49 AM
Stumpy Reich is really challenging my non profanity pledge.
Posted by: Captain Hate | February 03, 2017 at 10:55 AM
Just watched Lurkersusie's 10:44 link to see who it is that is claiming the rioters in Berkeley were "Right Wingers"s organized by Milo's supporters.

Robert Reich is the guy making those claims. He is insane.
Posted by: daddy | February 03, 2017 at 10:56 AM
The Senate Dem boycotts seem like humanitarian gifts imo. Being forced to listen to Ed Markey for more than 2 min. qualifies as torture.
Posted by: DebinNC | February 03, 2017 at 10:56 AM
Good morning!
RG is still active on Twitter - retweeting funny political things and talking sports. I also hope he is just taking a break and will return.
One of the Milo interviews had a video of the rioters carrying a big banner. It said, "Become Ungovernable" - so I think that is the Soros message they are after. I shiver to think how this would be going if we had a "go -along-to-get-along" "that's not who we are" type in the WH.
I'm picking up a new foster dog this afternoon. A B&T 1 year old - it appears they bred her to get puppies then dumped her on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere. I'll post a photo when I have her safely here.
Posted by: Momto2 | February 03, 2017 at 10:57 AM
From Clarice's 10:49 link on EPA Nominee Pruitt making it out of the Committee's vote, which the Dem's had chosen to boycott. Who doesn't love to see these words being flung back in their faces:
“Let me make clear to everyone what just happened,” said Sen. John A. Barrasso III (R.-Wyo.), the committee’s chairman.
“Yesterday, the minority members of the committee chose to boycott our business meeting because they do not support the nomination of Scott Pruitt,” he said. “As we pointed out yesterday, elections have consequences and a new president is entitled to put in place people who will advance his agenda, the agenda that the people voted for when they elected him president.”
Posted by: daddy | February 03, 2017 at 11:03 AM
It's ridiculous for committee Dems to justify their boycott of Pruitt using the "He didn't answer our questions thoroughly enough" excuse when, if they were in their committee chairs with Pruitt right there in front of them, they could ask away at will.
Posted by: DebinNC | February 03, 2017 at 11:07 AM
I miss RG too.
Posted by: DebinNC | February 03, 2017 at 11:09 AM
it appears they bred her to get puppies then dumped her on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere. I'll post a photo when I have her safely here.
Someone who would do that doesn't qualify as human. Those people should be killed.
Posted by: James D | February 03, 2017 at 11:09 AM
Facebook was affecting me much like your wife, OL. I use it to keep up with nieces/nephews who live far away and to participate in active animal rescue sites.
I have been angry, depressed, and sadly disappointed in *so* many so-called "friends". I found I could stop seeing their posts without unfriending them. So I have "turned-off" dozens of people. If I think of them, I can search in my friends and see if they have calmed down or if they are still posting their insulting lies.
I have, so far, ended only one relationship -( another lady who works with the same dog rescue )- which was painful and shocking to me. She posted a nasty diatribe about Trump voters and I told her I was one and said, "Do you feel that I'm that way?" She did not step back, apologize or anything. In fact - she rather ramped up her tone. So, in spite of years of cooperation, late night swapping of dogs, helping her transport, etc. it was more important to make her politcal point. Sad.
Posted by: Momto2 | February 03, 2017 at 11:11 AM
Me too, Deb. Please come back RG.
Posted by: daddy | February 03, 2017 at 11:11 AM
A small point...
The picture at Clarice's 10:49 -
What's with the water bottles? I thought Dems were against plastic water bottles. Why don't they each bring their own reusable drink container?
Save the planet!! Who pays for the water bottles? Let them bring their own drinks.
Posted by: Janet S. | February 03, 2017 at 11:13 AM
The UC Berkeley blogs attributed the violence, not to UC students, but a group of about 150 off-campus anarchists.
There are also some claims that some non-violent UC Berkeley students hung around the riot scene. Their continued presence opened the university to, what they see as, unwarranted charges. So UC Berkeley is also revising student advisories such that UC Berkeley students should flee any riot scene, lest they and the university be blamed.
There has been some "chatter" about Project Veritas having undercover video connecting the violence to Soros' son, who is a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley.
Posted by: Neo | February 03, 2017 at 11:13 AM
I miss RG, too. I don't even know what happened that he left. (No one needs to tell me.)
I just wish he'd come back.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | February 03, 2017 at 11:14 AM
As I heard about the raid in Yemen ..
It was a Obama Administration plan that was delayed waiting for a "moonless night".
Posted by: Neo | February 03, 2017 at 11:15 AM
If we all go silent...then who will speak the truth?
I'm for engaging on social media. We have all been polite & quiet for too long. The left screams their beliefs from the rooftops...but we go quiet.
Not any more.
If nothing else, make them answer questions.
Even if you know the answer....make THEM tell you.
Is it a ban on ALL Muslims?
Posted by: Janet S. | February 03, 2017 at 11:20 AM
Someone here "challenged" RG in a way he found offensive iirc. Don't remember what it was about, but my take was that RG felt his integrity was being questioned. To quote the great American Rodney King, "Can't we all just get along?"
Posted by: DebinNC | February 03, 2017 at 11:22 AM
OL: Have truly attempted to stop the Facebook drama playing out...spent the week after the election "unfriendliness" the crassness of supposedly long time friends. I certainly understand where Mrs. OL is coming from. Many long long time friends are displaying a side I had never seen (or maybe just ignored). Facebook's newest trip is to send email notifications that such and such posted a new pic or post. At times I click because my favorite part of Facebook was the family photos and wonderful antidotes shared by friends.
CH: Share your angst with your daughter...the day after the "Women's March". My daughter (who lives in Seattle)...posted pictures of her attending the march. Sent her a text which said..."I just saw the pic you posted to Facebook...my opinion...not a good idea...very disappointed". Followed that up with "Let's just hope that you NEVER have to apply for a job with a company with conservative leanings and they check your Facebook page...". Her dad sent her an email expressing his sincere disappointment (he never does that). She removed the post but isn't speaking to us SIGH😕
Posted by: cindyk | February 03, 2017 at 11:23 AM
RG said he will be back soon. Think its because of computer problems he hasn't been around.
Posted by: glasater | February 03, 2017 at 11:24 AM
"Unfriendliness" = UNFRIENDED
Posted by: cindyk | February 03, 2017 at 11:24 AM
"RG said he will be back soon."
He'd better get his butt back soon. He was not granted a hall pass for this absence, so he is officially AWOL.
Posted by: Old Lurker | February 03, 2017 at 11:27 AM
Is it a ban on ALL Muslims?
It's not a Muslim ban. It's a 7 majority Muslim nations 90 day time-out for entrants while a stronger vetting system is put in place. The "90 days" fact never makes it into msm missives.
Posted by: DebinNC | February 03, 2017 at 11:28 AM
Someone who would do that doesn't qualify as human.
James, my biggest revelation when I began fostering dogs was that people can be so heartless and cruel. The stories I read and see would curdle your blood. I can't let myself think about them...I have to focus instead on the great life the dog will have going forward.
The people - somehow, someway, someday they will be held accountable for what they have done.
Posted by: Momto2 | February 03, 2017 at 11:33 AM
The Trump Bulldozer - view from the can't see the forest for the trees front.
Posted by: DebinNC | February 03, 2017 at 11:41 AM
I found I could stop seeing their posts without unfriending them. So I have "turned-off" dozens of people.
I just discovered that the other day. It's helping already.
Posted by: James D | February 03, 2017 at 11:44 AM
Someone here "challenged" RG in a way he found offensive iirc.
All I remember is a bit of squabble with Cecil over "conservative,: but nothing that would cause any rupture.
Posted by: jimmyk | February 03, 2017 at 11:45 AM
Heh
Posted by: TEH WATCHER | February 03, 2017 at 11:50 AM
"Anybody else noted this phenomenon?" on Facebook.
Yes. I think ultimately I want to end it. Our kids are old enough that they've moved on to other social media platforms and FB isn't useful to follow them.
For now, I signed up with enough rightie posters (ForAmerica, Col Allen West, Howard Jarvis **hjta.org highly recommended for CA residents**, ...) that I only see leftie offal occasionally.
Posted by: JimNorCal | February 03, 2017 at 11:51 AM
WSJ - Kimberley Strassel has a piece about libs promising to primary any Dem politicos they deem insufficiently progressive. "The original tea party was about making conservatives in this center-right country act like conservatives again. The progressive tea party is about making Democrats in this center-right country act like Bernie Sanders. Have at it." lol
Posted by: DebinNC | February 03, 2017 at 11:52 AM
JOM is essentially my sole social media. Seriously. No FB, Twitter, Reddit, Snapchat, nada. It's the only blog I regularly comment on. I lead a sheltered cyberlife, it appears.
Posted by: lyle | February 03, 2017 at 11:53 AM
I lead a sheltered cyberlife, it appears.
Welcome to the "old farts" club lyle:)
Posted by: Buckeye | February 03, 2017 at 11:56 AM
Momto2, I'm grateful you do what you do. Animal abuse is a gateway to people abuse and a mental illness.
Posted by: Captain Hate | February 03, 2017 at 11:58 AM
I stand with Lyle.
JOM only for me, plus the handful of news gathering sites I visit to read pre-screened stories people like me might like. The good ones I link here and otherwise I follow most of yours.
No need for any other mind clutter for me.
Insulated perhaps? Maybe but I find I just don't like a lot of the other kind of people, so femall.
Posted by: Old Lurker | February 03, 2017 at 11:58 AM
Posted by: Sandy Daze | February 03, 2017 at 12:00 PM
It's not a Muslim ban. It's a 7 majority Muslim nations 90 day time-out for entrants while a stronger vetting system is put in place. The "90 days" fact never makes it into msm missives.
I know. My point was to make THEM explain.
Posted by: Janet S. | February 03, 2017 at 12:00 PM
"Was anyone even arrested at Berkeley?"
Report last night on KPIX TV news (SFO) stated 3 "protestors" were arrested.
The thugs screwed up damaging two banks.
Feds are here.
Whoops.
Mayor of Berkeley has been denying he gave the stand-down order. Says it was the Chief of Police (BKLY). His man boob is in the proverbial wringer.
Rumor was $100,000 in damage was sustained. Rumor because that's what the suits from Cal are saying.
Storeowners on Telegraph Avenue are screaming "Hell no!" Each of the seven stores that were smashed are reporting more than that 100K per store alone. Banks haven't weighed in.
More later.
PS: RG has been MIA. Also noticed CT hasn't posted in a while.
Posted by: Account Deleted | February 03, 2017 at 12:09 PM
(blackquoted & italics in original) For example you could order Trump Coffee K-cups as I do. ;)
Posted by: Porchlight | February 02, 2017 at 09:50 PM (end blockquoted & italics)
or Porchlight, you could go to Veteran-owned
Black Rifle Coffee Company: http://tinyurl.com/z8vmyda
and
order: http://tinyurl.com/h2xavct
their American-made K-cups: http://tinyurl.com/zf549r9
This is the company which someone here (?) linked yesterday which said they would hire 10,000 veterans in response to s---bucks announcement of hiring 10,000 refugees. (BTW-you may have heard in today's news that sb now plans to hire Veterans as well.)
BRCC has many many terribly ribald, irreverent videos promoting the brand. I laughed for hours yesterday afternoon.
BRCC Youtube channel: http://tinyurl.com/h54zof4
They slag off the "hipsters" whom they say have ruined coffee. This vid is one of many, and is, imo, pretty funny (ymmv)(1'23"):
"Hipster Checkpoint"v http://tinyurl.com/znhefo8
Supporting Veterans-owned business, getting and drinking great coffee, fighting back against the coffee-sbucks-industrial-bezos industrial complex...
What's not to like ?
Posted by: Sandy Daze | February 03, 2017 at 12:11 PM
Well, on my Facebook the egregious Hillary supporters have hidden themselves from me, since they are family.
Like I said, I go there about once per month and post a recipe or a puppy video so my classmates in Florida still know I am alive and kicking.
My social media is here plus a couple other webs ties and the Reddit site. I use Twitter, but mainly for finding news stories to post here as well as seeing what Trump and other people in his administration have to say.
I have to say that those few are enough for information overload some days.
And now, Spicer press briefing at 12:30! Milo will NOT be there as he has been invited to New York for T interviews, or so he says via Gab.
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | February 03, 2017 at 12:11 PM
Sweet story of the day and a reminder of why I love GA so much.
Posted by: DebinNC | February 03, 2017 at 12:13 PM
Not sure which url or which bit of html was screwing with the post, took way too long.
Posted by: Sandy Daze | February 03, 2017 at 12:14 PM
Kev "PS: RG has been MIA. Also noticed CT hasn't posted in a while."
Were they seen rowing across the Hudson River accompanied by their seconds and doctors?
Posted by: Old Lurker | February 03, 2017 at 12:15 PM
I know. My point was to make THEM explain.
Absolutely, Janet. My ham-handed point was that libs should be asked to justify the many erroneous facets of the phrase "Muslim ban".
Posted by: DebinNC | February 03, 2017 at 12:17 PM
Very nice, OL!!
Posted by: Beasts of England | February 03, 2017 at 12:18 PM
Rush Limbaugh cites Robert "Small Ball" Reich saying that "I know what I saw" re outside agitators at the riots.
Suggests on CNN last nite that these thugs were Breitbarters.
Rush asks: "Have you ever seen conservatives or republicans at these riots?"
"Why is a former Dem Labor Sec *NOT* embracing these rioters NOW?"
Posted by: Account Deleted | February 03, 2017 at 12:19 PM
Miss M,
Have you or anyone got the link for Sean Spicers upcoming briefing in few minutes? Its not on TV where I am.
Posted by: daddy | February 03, 2017 at 12:20 PM
Deb,
What a great story!! Inspiring on so many levels, plus sort of funny, too!
Thanks for posting that, and I can see why you like Georgia!
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | February 03, 2017 at 12:20 PM
We're not on social media. I know I'm out of the loop on family related news,but whatever.
I'm always the last to know,but I find out sooner or later.
Momto2,I've mentioned that my sister-in-law used to foster dogs,mostly pit bulls. She moved to a condo and also has been having health issues so she misses taking the dogs. I met several of the pit bulls over the years and they were actually very sweet dogs. They just want to be loved.
Posted by: Marlene | February 03, 2017 at 12:22 PM
daddy,
Here is the link to the press briefing. It hasn't started yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEaLjrCFDfs&feature=youtu.be
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | February 03, 2017 at 12:24 PM
"Heh."
Some antibiotics might help with that.
Posted by: The Infamous Ignatz | February 03, 2017 at 12:24 PM
Rumor was $100,000 in damage was sustained. Rumor because that's what the suits from Cal are saying.
NFW. They're lopping off at least one zero. Whoever is financing this should be on the hook for it.
Posted by: Captain Hate | February 03, 2017 at 12:25 PM
RE: FaceBook
I like using the chat tool. Video chat is so much better than skype freezing up every six seconds.
As for the political nuisance value...
I was posting a lot of stories re sharia creep and jihad to my newsfeed. Got myself unfollowed more than unfriended. If I wanted to communicate with the friends who weren't following me (receiving my newsfeed posts) I had to initiate via chat. Was unfollowed by 8 people who were "friends of friends."
When I post politicall material I enter it as a comment to one particular FBF who has a wide political network on FB. That spares my stuff from going to the puppy and kittykat crowd, really old friends from former lives (h.s., college, employment sitches, former students). And that spares me from hearing how "disappointed" they are in me as a human being.
It also keeps me out of their antagonistic Snowflake nonsense over how their lives are now shit because Trump got elected. Ugh.
My newsfeed is filled with two things: conservative/republican/constitutionalist material and exchanges; and, Oakland Raiders news and trash talk. ;)
Posted by: Account Deleted | February 03, 2017 at 12:28 PM
http://wwd.com/eye/lifestyle/first-lady-melania-trump-taps-interior-designer-tham-kannalikham-to-work-on-white-houses-private-quarters-10775795/
Posted by: Miss Marple the Deplorable | February 03, 2017 at 12:30 PM