Bombs Away!

We're going nuclear in the Senate, we're going conventional in Syria - what a way to end the week.

The "Putin's stooge Trump is bombing Putin's puppet Assad" storyline confuses me, but I never claimed to be smart enough to be a progressive.

Philip Klein of the Washington Examiner tries to square Trump's campaign rhetoric with his current bellicosity. His conclusion:

For now, it's fair to say, that though both the act of attacking Syria itself and the failure to get Congressional approval contradicted numerous Trump statements, Trump's action was consistent with the general "I'm gonna be a badass but don't want to spend money building other countries while our airports fall apart" ethos of his campaign.

David French provides background and describes some of the ways this could end badly. 

Comments

[henry]

I am informed by Tweet from my governor: #NationalBeerDay.

Yes, beer is good.

[Faster Fascist]

How is Craig Murray even a factor for anything.outside his UK myopia, Narco?

He can only see things based.on Scots Indy. He's as retarded as US conservatives.

[narciso]

A very sober look at the matter:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/caution-syria-policy-must-reflect-the-complex-reality-on-the-ground/article/2007584

[Barbara]

"Barbara, the #NeverTrump people proved "virtue signaling" is not exclusive to Social a Justice Warriors."

Henry,

I completely agree with your comments. Trump is not one of the cookie cutter Republicans or presidents for that matter. Either these pundits don't have a clue or they're more worried about the title of their next book and whether they'll be invited back as a political analyst if they don't say something colorful and critical about the President.

[UKrain]

He's hardly cookie-cutter so good on that.

But he's so crooked he has to screw his pants on.

He's independent, though.

Just ask Putin..lol

[narciso]

I have made Guzman's category error plain

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/06/mosul-has-become-history-s-greatest-hostage-crisis.html

[narciso]

He was the kind of fool joscelyn was referring to.

[Janet 🚬]

I don't want to be sucked into foreign entanglements.

Let Syrians fight for their own country.
Syrian men are sittin' in Europe collecting welfare or trying to come here.

I just don't want them coming here.

[Janet 🚬]

Refugee Resettlement Watch
14 hrs ·

"I told WND's Leo Hohmann that there is no refugee "ban" happening now. Trump admitting 900 a week is not a ban, yet open borders Left/refugee contractors using "ban" to raise money and create controversy.

Trump has to understand they will never love him, so he must not cave on refugees now."

http://www.wnd.com/2017/04/163-syrian-refugees-entered-u-s-in-last-6-days-all-muslim/

[Jack is Back!(On his iPhone)]

Off to bed.

Frederick brings his science fair project to the Diocesan STEM Fair tomorrow representing his school. All the way toHicksville. Thank God it's a weekend but sometimes that means more traffic.

Slaaplekker, totmorgen.

[Momto2]

JIB - RE: that guy on Twitter - all of those people probably don't follow him. I don't! I read it when someone I do follow re-tweeted it to expose his cluelessness! I loved some of those responses. I don't imagine he is having a good day :)

[Janet 🚬]

"The United Nations is still hand-selecting refugees for distribution into more than 300 U.S. cities and towns. It currently has about 10,000 refugees in the pipeline destined for the U.S. The Trump administration is also honoring an agreement negotiated by the Obama administration to take at least 1,300 refugees from Afghanistan and other Muslim nations off the hands of Australia.

“The State Department and its contractors are still bringing them in, and he could have done a 120-day moratorium without announcing it to anybody,” Corcoran said. “Internally, just stop it for four months with exceptions for extraordinary cases, so there’s no analysis of the extreme vetting because they’re still coming and they’re coming without extreme vetting.

“I’m very frustrated.”"

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2017/04/163-syrian-refugees-entered-u-s-in-last-6-days-all-muslim/#OFKP5PVtTE37osGF.99

[Account Deleted]

So the lame asses calling this "revenge" or "an act of aggression", on what do they base these assessments?

Revenge for what act specifically?

Aggression to seize what territory, resources, or enact some kind of conquest-related victory?

Did we invade a foreign power like say Hitler invaded Poland? Wasn't that considered aggression?

We went into Vietnam under a phony Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and blew a lot of people and shit up. That was aggression, was it not, even though the pretext was halting the aggression of communist North Vietnam against the South?

The situation in Syria is out of control and a biological agent was used in open warfare with confirmed military intel confirming who did what when and to whom.

Creating a disincentive for the long-headed Opthamologist to stop dickin' around with nerve agents, which could easily be captured by ISIS were he to ultimately lose the war and his arsenal---- makes common sense.

But to call it aggression? What kind of a dumb bunny must one be to conflate this military action with some kind of jingoistic incursion into harm's way for the sake of fun and profit?

The naysayers in the media speak out of turn and way too soon from both sides of the UniParty's media circus. At times like this, when the Commander in Chief acts, PUNDITS need to reach down deep for a bigger set of balls that it requires to delay their *REACTION* until they have been apprised of the facts.

What possible motive for "revenge" could POTUS have for launching the mission?

I am amazed at the high school level behavior of the media talking heads. Cool or not cool seems to be the calibrating spectrum for nearly every one of them-- in this case even Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter.

"I hope he's not...." Seriously? I hope they're not superimposing their experience at playing Candyland- Extreme Edition, with the Commander in Chief and the Joint Chiefs trying to manage a brutal and desperate geopolitical situation which our last round of leaders under the Rat and Candleface Kerry *EXACERBATED* and blew up.

A major explosive device is a good way to put out a fire that has raged too long out of control.

In this hyper-feminized media world where homosexual males get center stage on tv and skirts with face jobs vy for million dollar ratings jobs, the dirty, gritty and grisly business of protecting their coiffed asses does not quite fit with the fake news takers inside their shallow "click here" "rewards" "my convenience" hamster cages in which they live and engage in random and fruitless breeding behaviors.

The entire lot of them are disgusting and provide no reliable value about most happenings of the day.

The commentary is going along from the punditry as if the CIC heard the gas story on the news and dialed up the Joint Chiefs and said "Let er rip."

Good lod, that isn't how this goes.

Ask questions if you are in the media. Call somebody. At least read a [redacted] book about military strategy.

Nuts!

[Account Deleted]

And that syphilitic hag Hildo Clintoona can kiss my rosy red ass.

I don't care one whit what she thinks about ENNYTHING.

You got beat you cheat. Now STFU. Don't you have a book to write or a tunnel to dig?

[Account Deleted]

Feels good to channel my inner_GUS. ;)

[daddy]

as this been linked yet? UK DailyMail: EXCLUSIVE: Cybersecurity experts who were first to conclude that Putin hacked presidential election ABANDON some of their claims against Russia - and refuse to co-operate with Congress

CrowdStrike is also refusing to testify in public to the House Intelligence Committee on what it knows and declined to speak to DailyMail.com...

CrowdStrike was hired by the Democratic National Committee to investigate suspicious network activity last May. In June it declared that the committee had been hacked by the Russian government, starting a firestorm over the campaign.
CrowdStrike, based in Irvine, California, is also the only group that the DNC allowed to directly examine its servers.
Not even the FBI has been granted access to the servers

A long in-depth article. Nice to see that some news outfit, even if it's British, is interested in following this story.

However CrowdStrike is proving hostile to further scrutiny of its methods, DailyMail.com can disclose.
Last month, CrowdStrike's co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch and its president Shawn Henry turned down an invitation to testify before the House Intelligence Committee about Russian interference in the U.S. election.

[James D.]

Ask questions if you are in the media. Call somebody. At least read a [redacted] book about military strategy.

But, but, but...that's, you know, work! It's hard! You can't expect media employees do actually, you know, investigate stuff.

[daddy]

I cannot tell a lie---It was the ghost of George Washington!

High winds bring down cherry trees near Jefferson Memorial

[Clarice Feldman]

daddy, I was driving into Md to visit my mother when the storm was at its peak--I felt like the guys in the old Ernie Kovacs shtick where they say ,"It's not a fit night out for man nor beast," open the door and get pummeled with buckets of water. Really something--high winds and tons of water. Luckily no trees fell in my path--a common occurrence in my neighborhood when we have high winds.

[Janet 🚬]

CrowdStrike's co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch and its president Shawn Henry turned down an invitation to testify before the House Intelligence Committee about Russian interference in the U.S. election.

a reminder - "Farkas serves on the Atlantic Council alongside Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder of CrowdStrike, the third-party company utilized by the FBI to make its assessment about alleged Russian hacking into the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Alperovitch is a nonresident senior fellow of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council."

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/04/04/video-ex-obama-staffer-who-urged-spying-on-trump-predicted-quick-impeachment-weeks-before-election/

[narciso]

Like they said in red October 'one ping
://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/donald-trump-warned-one-step-10181568?service=responsive

[Clarice Feldman]

Franco,http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/6/syria-has-ridiculously-huge-stockpile-sarin-gas-pe/

where do you suppose Assad got all that Sarin from. I recall giant truckloads of stuff leaving Hussein's Iraq as we invaded.

[Porchlight]

I recall that, too, clarice.

[narciso]

How is it nuclear free if Kim is the only vibe with the weapons

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-s-options-north-korea-include-placing-nukes-south-korea-n743571

Berensons latest shows its not an easy process to develop itm

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Clarice,

I remember that, too.

One would think that people from the former Bush Administration would have spoken up to remind people of that.

Alas, no. They seem to have been struck dumb.

[daddy]

,"It's not a fit night out for man nor beast,"

Clarice,

Sounds like real 'Wrath o' God' Old Testament stuff.

Now why, I wonder, might the Big Kahuna be visiting such stuff on Washington DC?

#WeWillProbablyNeverKnowHisMotivation...

41 degrees here and stifling, so I'm heading up to Flat Top to cool the 3 of us off. To the dogs...

[daddy]

Flat top. We'll just go about a quarter way up and back.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Think I will head to bed.

Nytol!

[DrJ]

We're having an old-fashioned Midwestern thunderstorm here. That doesn't happen often.

Must be global climate change.

[narciso]

The ewok noted this thread, going forward

https://mobile.twitter.com/R_M_Huffman?max_id=849996851059339263

[DrJ]

Wow. If this keeps up, we will get three or four inches of rain in the next hour.

[DrJ]

And like that, the storm is gone. The Pacific storms are like that.

[Captain Hate]

One would think that people from the former Bush Administration would have spoken up to remind people of that.

Alas, no. They seem to have been struck dumb.

Rove's infuriating refusal to push back against the MFM surely was one of the earliest things producing the backlash which led to Trump's popularity. Even now, the cat has their tongues and they've learned nothing.

[narciso]

Rthere are some like Michael doran and Fred fleitz who were very perceptive but gerson pass, rove takes too long to make a point, even when self evident, frum is just too for words.

[Clarice Feldman]

Nytol.

[narciso]

Welcome to the party

Http://www.weaselzippers.us/333140-obama-wrote-america-is-a-racist-society-in-an-unreleased-manuscript

[narciso]

So there was this news

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/04/07/scientists-discover-atmosphere-around-distant-earth-like-planet.html

Also tomorrow is the premiere of Phillip Meyer's. The son on a&e

[Threadkiller]

The Trump Administration was right that sarin gas was used by a dictator?

Or was it a bizzare false flag of sorts?

I don't care. Not one fucking bit.

Assholes that cowardly kill anyone deserve punishment. Anywhere.

Is Trump making a war with peaceful towelheads? Puhlease...

Send the bombs. Send more bombs. Slaughter the cavemen. I don't give a shit. Rand Paul wants congressional authorization? Screw him too.

Ragheads want to kill Americans. Period. That is enough.

Scare the shit out of these dune-cruisers to the point that they wipe with both bare hands.

But, BUT!! AMERICA NEEDS TO BE FIXED IN 100 DAYS!!!!!!!!

Grow up.

Speaking of grow up. How is it impossible to ignore one dip-shit name-changing troll?

DrJ is a prissy controlling train wreck watcher, so I understand why he is weak. "What did I miss so I can promptly denounce and BLOCK! (Or at least pretend to block because I still hope my name is mentioned because I am a virtuoso beyond the pale.)"

But everone else? Scroll on by the sicko or engage him. Insider club speak of "how do I block, killfile, narcisolate this plague on blog-humanity?" does jack squat.

To me it is a quest to engage the prick while pretending to be above him.

The few who have consistently explained how they use troll blockers while, simultaneously, don't complain about the trolls, must be exhausted.

#Ignore.

That was and is easy.

[narciso]

Well its a little more complicated than that, you have shia alawites supported by Iran versus sunnis in the idlib area, the latter us where the first of papa mateen's parishioners blew thenselves up.

[Threadkiller]

In boolean your "more complicated" gets diced down to "caveman" or "not-caveman."

Which ones don't use a goat's head in a surreal fashon? Which ones don't snip clits?

[daddy]

An odd story continues up here in Anchorage.

4 days back Police shut down the Seward Highway just below our home at Beluga Point for 13 hours, due to Police Swat Teams surrounding some distraught guy with a gun shooting at Cops. They never caught him and he is still on the lam.

Tonight, about 4 PM we were all informed that at 7 PM the Seward Highway would once again be closed for a mile each side of Beluga Point. We suspected it was Police locating the gunman, or maybe doing a search for his body under the assumption he had committed suicide.

Wrong. We now learn that President and Mrs Xi of China landed at Anchorage about 6:30 PM and wanted to meet our Governor, so they supposedly all drove in a motorcade down to Beluga Point for some ceremonial meeting. How odd.

It's a gorgeous location this time of year, and with the sun still bright until 9 PM and blue skies and snow on the upper levels it's hard to find a prettier place on Earth. I can't find a picture that does it justice, but in this pic it's the large rocks from the left sticking out into the Fiord. We are told it is named Beluga Point because it is the location from where the Native's used to watch for Beluga Whales to enter the Turnagain in pursuit of salmon, so they would leap in their Kayak's and hunt them. Wiki says archeological evidence shows human activity at Beluga Point between 8,000 and 10,000 years ago.

[Dave (in MA)]

I heard that the Harvard kiddies are forming a "resistance" program that they claim will fight Trump's policies in a manner fashioned after "Dumbledore's army".

I'm not really up on pop culture, so help me out.
"Dumbledore" Which Teletubby is that, the gay one?

[Account Deleted]

I thought all the Teletubbies were homos.

[Account Deleted]

Dumbledore's a Harry Peter character.

[Account Deleted]

er Potter. Sorry.

[Account Deleted]

Well, well well--- we were just mentioning yesterday, I think it was MM and I, about Israel knowing a lot about the Obama spying:

"Smith writes.

‘At some point, the administration weaponized the NSA’s legitimate monitoring of communications of foreign officials to stay one step ahead of domestic political opponents,’ says a pro-Israel political operative who was deeply involved in the day-to-day fight over the Iran Deal.

‘The NSA’s collections of foreigners became a means of gathering real-time intelligence on Americans engaged in perfectly legitimate political activism—activism, due to the nature of the issue, that naturally involved conversations with foreigners. We began to notice the White House was responding immediately, sometimes within 24 hours, to specific conversations we were having.

At first, we thought it was a coincidence being amplified by our own paranoia. After a while, it simply became our working assumption that we were being spied on.’"

Read about the entire disgusting mess:

http://thefederalist.com/2017/04/05/bombshell-obama-spying-scandal-started-long-trump/

[Account Deleted]

"Makes me wonder if Washington is repeating its mistake during the campaign, when its obsession with Trump's personality, with the drama and flamboyance and nuttiness of his circle, with his failure to live up to the standards of the Beltway, misled it into believing he had no chance, his goose was cooked, the jig was up, hello Madame President.

Might it be possible that the hyperventilation and paranoia that seized the imaginations of so many when Trump became the Republican frontrunner never really went away, that he is doing about as well as one would expect from a political neophyte who has never held elective office?

Behind the flurry of zany headlines and interviews and leaks and legislative foolishness is a president implementing his agenda and an America chugging along.

My advice: Do not miss the forest for the tweets."

http://freebeacon.com/columns/trump-delivering-voters/

[Account Deleted]

Fake news:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/us/white-house-kushner-bannon-military-strike.html?_r=0

[Account Deleted]

“We were able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical weapons stockpile.”

Sack-o-ca-ca Susie.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/04/flashback-susan-rice-january-able-get-syrian-government-voluntarily-verifiably-give-chemical-weapons/

[Account Deleted]

Getting Judge Gorsuch on the court: major victory.

I'm savoring it.

[Account Deleted]

Truth bomb: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/04/the_real_metric_for_fixing_health_care.html

[RattlerGator]

Good morning to one and all. This winning? All of this winning? May it continue and may President Trump remain centered, standing tall and strong.

* * *

Getting Judge Gorsuch on the court: major victory.

I'm savoring it.

Posted by: KevlarKid | April 08, 2017 at 04:07 AM

And so you should, KK. So should we all. Thanks for the compliment the other day; when I was in England you and MaryRose had a bit of a misunderstanding and you felt the need to put out quite a screed. It woke me up right away and I thought then to myself: sometimes a man just has to take a step back, clear his throat, and defend himself. Well done.

* * *

Welcome to the party

Http://www.weaselzippers.us/333140-obama-wrote-america-is-a-racist-society-in-an-unreleased-manuscript

Posted by: narciso | April 08, 2017 at 12:07 AM

Narciso, clearly they are so lacking in self-awareness (as a modern Andy Dufresne might say -- so damn obtuse!) that they will continue to bury themselves in glaring foolishness and empty posturing.

So be it.

I'm heading off for a FloridaBoy drive down to the capital of the Americas. That's My-AMM-uh, dontcha know? Please hold down the fort and limit the influx of riff-raff.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Good morning!

RG, have a great trip!

Here is the transcript of the debriefing on the China summit given by Mnuchin, Tillerson, and Ross.

When you read this, contrast the precise and elevated language compared to the garbage and political platitudes we heard from the previous administration:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/04/08/tillerson-mnuchin-and-ross-debrief-on-china-summit/#more-131053

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The Week in Pictures: Nuke the Gay Whales for Gorsuch Edition.

[Captain Hate]

(as a modern Andy Dufresne might say -- so damn obtuse!)

Perfect line in a classic movie. For all the real life obtuseness of nearly everybody associated on either side of the camera of that, they were almost miraculously able to temporarily overcome it and make an almost perfect work of art. Mrs H will eventually wear a groove in Rt. 71 going to the Mansfield Reformatory to capture images of peeling paint for her composite photographs.

[Old Lurker]

Thanks Iggy. When I am pressed for time I always just skip to your final picture.

[Buckeye]

Well the trigger got pulled on the nuclear option, and I didn't even feel a tremor.

If the Dems want to chop their own balls off to play "oppo" politics, sounds good to me.

Now just gotta figure out which couple of justices I need to start praying for catching a bad case of early onset rigor mortis.

[Clarice Feldman]

Trump thinks he'll get to appoint 4 more SCOTUS justices.https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/261987/

[Old Lurker]

That might require fingers on both hands, Buckeye.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

This has been escalating for several days, andI guess last night went into overdrive.

I have seen these snipey comments onCTH from time to time, about "why is Ivanka in this meeting" and "why is Jared going to that country" etc.

So now, a bunch of these loonies have decided that Ivanka and Jared are globalist (insert anti-Semitic euphemisms) who are going to force Bannon out and Trump needs to get rid of them (his FAMILY) because they cannot be trusted.

Honest to God, I think some of these people are nuts and another group are dems trying to stir up dissent.

On top of that, you have a contingent of YouTube and blog and media types who totally overreacted to that Syrian missile strike and are harumphing off because Trump's foreign policy doesn't match theirs 100%.

People need to get a grip. Maybe with the weather improving they can go outside and do yard work or something. Good grief!

[Captain Hate]

Notorious RBG would be the obvious choice, OL. The Horde aimed their ire at her yesterday in their post Gorsuch celebration, suggesting that the senile witch had surely damaged the left's power grabbing plans by not retiring while the donks had control of the Senate. They further suggested that the crone stuck around to be able to swear in the first woman President and that she could be tempted to step down if an opening in the South African Supreme Court happened.

The Horde was in rare form.

[Old Lurker]

Clarice, if Trump can:

Recast the courts along constitutional grounds

Deregulate the economy

Seriously prune the tax code

Shrink government and drain the swamp

Then I will get out my hammer and chisel and start on Mt Rushmore.

Thing is; he could do all those things.

[Captain Hate]

Errrr I meant Buckeye.

[Old Lurker]

We knew that Cap'n. If there is only one, she's it. And now that the bar is 51, no need to appoint a Lib.

[Man Tran]

Open tabs?

I've had Opera running for about 20 yrs. Average 80 - 100 tabs open, some since the beginning. Hell, I probably have 30 tabs open on my phone.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the sign of an empty desk? :)

[Tom Bowler]

Now just gotta figure out which couple of justices I need to start praying for catching a bad case of early onset rigor mortis.

I'm not a religious person but there are times when even I can appreciate the value and power of prayer.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Old Lurker,

I firmly believe he will do all of those things.

I foresee a battle with the NeverTrump contingent of conservatives Foreshadowed by this statement from his weekly address yesterday:

"Our decisions will be guided by our values and our goals – and we will reject the path of inflexible ideology that too often leads to unintended consequences."

What are the goals?

"A future of peace, safety, and prosperity – that is our guiding light, and always will be."

Here's the full transcript of his weekly address from yesterday:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/04/08/president-trump-weekly-address-april-7th-2017/#more-131057

[Captain Hate]

So now, a bunch of these loonies have decided that Ivanka and Jared are globalist (insert anti-Semitic euphemisms) who are going to force Bannon out and Trump needs to get rid of them (his FAMILY) because they cannot be trusted

CTH and ZH have a disturbing number of joooooo haters commenting whom I'm surprised the mods haven't jettisoned. It's not a good look for either site.

[Captain Hate]

OL, the Horde also mentioned that Clarence Thomas might decide to retire.

[Davod]

who are CTH and ZH?

[Old Lurker]

Clarence can retire as long as he waits to be last out...

[henry]

Conservative Tree House

Zero Hedge

[lurkersusie]

Wow, 1.2 trillion sitting in a fund.

Man whose ID was used by deported mom Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos reports no problems https://t.co/Ucetl0ik92

Quote from the story:

Andrade said he still doesn’t know what happened to any reported wages Garcia de Rayos earned using his number. Her family said she worked at the park for more than a decade. Andrade said employees at the Social Security office have given him advice, but he hasn’t been able to get solid answers.

“I’m still going to keep looking until I figure it out,” he said. “I don’t want it to just come up and bite me in the ass. Also was this interesting tidbit:

Patricia Raymond, a regional communications director for the Social Security Administration, said in an e-mail Friday that if the agency receives earnings for a name and number that doesn’t match its database, those funds are placed in what is called an Earnings Suspense File.

According to 2015 report from the Office of the Inspector General, that fund had $1.2 trillion in it. About two-thirds of the fund was amassed during the years 2003 and 2012, the report says.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Davod,

Conservative Treehouse and Zerohedge.

Captain is right. For whatever reason Zerohedge has a large number of commenters who wallow in the "Jewish bankers conspiracy" mudhole, and Conservative Treehouse has a group who attribute all thinks bad to jared Kushner and/or Netenyahu.

CTH also has a commenter that is so pro-Russia that I would almost swear the guy IS Russian with superior English skills.

These commenter types are actually why Breitbart got a reputation of being anti-Semitic, which of course the left used to tar Bannon.

I see that Sundance on CTH has a post up telling people to kock it off with the Ivanka and Jared stuff, but he got 500 replies with a fair number insisting that the Kushners are globalist shills and such. These people need to crawl back under whatever rock they have escaped from.

I imagine there are similar type comments on leftist blogs, driven by the Muslim sympathizers. I can't swear to that though, because I don't visit sites like that.

[Janet 🚬]

I'm a huge Trump fan. That said...I'm leery of any photos that come out of the Middle East. Too many times they have been used to manipulate.
And are they real? Green helmet guy, al Durrah, Pallywood, the Turkish child that drowned, etc.

Where are gruesome & tragic pictures of 9/11 jumpers? or children shot in Chicago? or of the babies stabbed in the neck at Gosnell's "clinic"? Where are those photos?
Not a past photo from a family album, but the police scene photo. Blood, guts, crushed skull, ...

The manipulation is just too random...& from my view, it is almost always used for the leftist agenda.

Abu Ghraib photos in all U.S. papers...photos of the mutilated bodies of USA Pfc. Kristian Menchaca and Thomas L. Tucker not shown.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/obama-administration-knew-syria-still-had-chemical-weapons-despite-saying-otherwise/article/2007595

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Ok, if you weren't despairing over our millenials before, prepare to despair;
Garbage Millennial Website: Hillary Clinton Is The Sixth Most Beautiful Woman On Earth

Not in politics. Not in America. But on the entire earth.

Words fail because the gag reflex doesn’t.

[henry]

Miss M, possible Soros rent-a-commenters? It is the usual false flag racism pattern we see with all his group's.

[JimNorCal]

From the comment section for the current Week In Pictures

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1514006138624057&set=p.1514006138624057&type=3&theater

[JimNorCal]

Lurkersusie: interesting! Of course there is not actual money in the account, right? It's just credit for calculating Social Security wages/benefits

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Janet,

My opinion is that gas was used and it should not be tolerated. I do not believe Trump, Tillerson, or Mattis are going to be manipulated.

If you read Tillerson's comments in the transcript, coupled with the Weekly Standard article, it is obvious that there is gas in Syria. It needs to be prevented from getting into the hands of ISIS or other nut case jihadis because they WILL try to get it into the US and use it.

The best solution would be for Russia to go in and get it out, since (as Tillerson said) they were either complicit in allowing it to remain or incompetent at supervising.

That was the point of the strike. They haven't destroyed the runway but they have destroyed the hangars, fueling capabilities, and about 20 planes.

I do not see President Trump getting sucked into a widening war with US ground troops in Syria (beyond what we have there going after ISIS, which is something he stated had to be done). I do think it is possible that troops from the area (Saudis, Jordanians, etc.) may be used to contain Assad.

The air strike was also a message to China and North Korea, which was extremely important.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

henry,

Quite possible. David Brock's group Correct the Record has people employed to do nothing but push the lefty agenda on sites. They are quite a problem on Reddit.

[Captain Hate]

CTH also has a commenter that is so pro-Russia that I would almost swear the guy IS Russian with superior English skills.

Back in 2008 when Volodya started saber rattling in Georgia, and candidate Zippy began exposing himself as a true international dunce even compared to McRINO, there were a lot of strange trolls that started showing up at Wretchard's site. I called them Crazy Ivans because they all were spreading the same disinformation and weren't fooling any of the regulars.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Zerohedge has always been home to inordinate numbers of Plan 9 From Outer Space types like Ayn Rand and Ron Paul worshippers and weird paleoconservate libertarian hybrids.
Since the editors publish stuff by guys like Paul Craig Roberts who is a brilliant analyst who has regrettably lost his mind, especially regarding Israel, I assume they don't mind too much those type of comments.

It is an unfortunate fact that under the umbrella of the "alt-right" are a number of anti-Semitic nutjobs.
We would do well to condemn them in the opposite manner that the left tolerates and even encourages anti-semitism, often under the rubric of anti-zionism.

[Janet 🚬]

and I don't think people questioning Ivanka's & Kushner's role in the administration should automatically be labeled anti-Semitic.

I question their role & influence.

[Captain Hate]

Don't worry, Janet; your support for Israel is a known quantity.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Anti globalism ≠ anti Semitism.

[Porchlight]

I agree, Janet. I'm not wild about the Ivanka agenda at all. Although it is true there is a lot of anti-Semitism on the alt-right (and the left).

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Saving OL the trouble of even going to the link;

[Momto2]

janet - I understand how you feel. However, there is something else happening all over which seems to be a planned assault. If you look at SM posts and some commenters on Trump supporting sites, the Ivanka/Kushner = evil posts are suddenly everywhere.

It reminds me of Rush's "montage" where he demonstrates the coordination of MSM by playing back the exact same words/phrases used over and over and over again.

[Momto2]

If you see a link to photos of the Swedish truck attack - I recommend you not look. It is like a horror movie - very graphic photos of dismembered people (children) and even a mutilated dog.

No other word ::::Savages::::

[UKrain]

Trump finally had to take the role of Adult in the BanKush squabbles.

It's not a role he savors.

Hey! Can you handle another Trojan Horse in the Court?

Gird thy decrepit loins.

[UKrain]

A shitload rests on Kennedys shoulders.

[UKrain]

Is the Priebus wing winning?

Will Trump go conventional GOP?

[Old Lurker]

Thanks Iggy. You can post that as often as you like.

[Old Lurker]

Those are nice shoes she is wearing.

[Old Lurker]

I am happy to have Trump listen to anybody not of the Swamp.

Good family members can be invaluable. Don't tell my sister or Iggy's brother.

[sbw]

I can kill as fast as you can troll.

[He can't resist babies]

C'mon..

You should be whooping it up.

You bombed some arabs and put another notch on your SCOTUS gun

[sbw]

Or my sister.