I've Had Worse News

Not that we celebrate death around here but I'll cheer for justice:

ISIS leader al-Baghdadi believed to have been killed in a US military raid, sources say

Trump will address the nation at 9AM. I doubt it is to announce tonight's starting pitchers.

DO LET ME ADD: My kids have put up with many years of the following type of dialogue:

Eager Learner: "I hate those guys [at the DMV / at the supermarket / reffing the game/ whatever]. They are the worst!"

Pedantic Yet Seemingly Inexhaustible Dad: "OMG don't hate! We aren't haters! OK, yes, we hate ISIS. And Bin Laden, but he's dead. And Kim Il-whoever is running North Korea into the dirt is hate-worthy. That pretty much covers it. Don't be a hater."

I try to keep the list pretty short but I'm always happy to shorten it. If I were a better Christian I'd take a hate-the-sinner sin-not-the-sinner view, but I have other failings I'll focus on before my ISIS-hating rises to the top of my self-improvement list.

BONUS: Here is a transcript of Obama on Osama. Some will wonder whether Trump will also be self-congratulatory.

Comments

[Captain Hate]

From Gaylord's transcript:

Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Didn't he have to be coaxed off the golf course to attend the war room overseeing that? And hadn't he cancelled earlier raids?

[jimmyk]

Plus he had to be given tranquilizers to keep from freaking out.

[Captain Hate]

LOL. From released pictures he looked like a child among adults.

[jimmyk]

There's more swamp to be drained.

Smithsonian Magazine sanctifies Che

[jimmyk]

As John Fund reminds us, Smithsonian Magazine is taxpayer funded.

[MissMarple2]

Carla Babb
@CarlaBabbVOA
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10m
#BREAKING Pentagon to speak immediately after @POTUS
announcement

[jimmyk]

Dan the High Talker gets his $.02 in:

Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
The al-Baghdadi raid appears to be "an unvarnished success" for President Trump, "but it's a success that comes with the aid of people that he has spent much of his presidency questioning and denigrating"

[jimmyk]

The above was Stelter quoting the NYT's Lisa Lerer.

[Captain Hate]

MOAR MENTAL ILLNESS ON TWATTER

@TomArnold

Replying to @DiamondandSilk

I'd like to investigate every crack curve & crevice of you two tons of fun's heavenly bodies. I'll start with intensive oral examination of your naughty bits. So take off all yo clothes & get your big booties butts back into Big Daddy's hot tub. Don't bring Streisand. Too freaky.

[jimmyk]

In comedy, timing is everything:

NewsBusters
@newsbusters
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10m
Epic Take that, Alec: SNL mocks Trump for "bringing back jobs to ISIS" as news breaks of ISIS leader killed in US raid.

https://twitter.com/newsbusters/status/1188435957458112512

[Captain Hate]

Finally something funny on SNL.

[MissMarple2]

Live stream for White House announcement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzn7lVBSq0g

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Clarice, What a gem of a column you have cut to perfection for us today!

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/10/what_would_pierre_delecto_do.html

[MissMarple2]

Catturd
@catturd2

1) Trump says he’s pulling out of Syria making Democrats and warmonger RINOs expose themselves.

2) Trump gets a permanent ceasefire in Syria (yes he did it).

3) Trump clears the path to surprise bomb the hell out of ISIS.

Conclusion ... Stable Genius.

[jimmyk]

Surfing the TV news, ABC guy (don’t know his name) actually gives Trump credit for not just this, but his whole strategy of going after ISIS over the last 2.5 years, taking back the territory they’d held, and seriously hampering their ability to stage attacks on the west. This reporter may be out of a job soon.

[MissMarple2]

I love the President.

[MissMarple2]

They got information!!!

[Jim Eagle]

Congrats, Clarice, on another great Pieces.

I wonder if we will get photos from the Situation Room like we did with Little Boy Zippy and Frightened Hillary?

[sbwaters]

Love the thank yous.

Glad he detailed the dreadful crimes.

Infinitely better than Hillary’s "we came ..."

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--The Kincade fire occurred at about the same time as one of those high-power lines faulted.

The power line caused the fire or the fire took out the transmission line.--

Most likely is the third option; the transmission line started the fire. The power lines had been deactivated hours before the fire started so they had no juice to start a fire. PG&E says it noted a remotely sensed fault in a transmission line in the area. Shortly thereafter a fire was reported that would become the Kincade fire.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--If they don't change the current liability rules over who started a fire, California will be devoid of electricity.--

I suspect the state would be more likely to take over PG&E and make it even worse before they would let it off the hook.
If something isn't done the state may have more of a problem than just no electricity. Homeowners insurance is becoming increasingly difficult to get and increasingly expensive with many people paying two or three times what they did just a year or two ago. Many have to get homeowners insurance that doesn't cover fire from a private insurer and then sign on to the state's very expensive fire insurance government run version designed as a fallback for uninsurables.
Quite a few escrows are being held up over this issue.

[Jim Eagle]

More proof that the MFM are an enemy of the people.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/19/cnn-bigwig-calls-hounding-delusional-senate-republ/

[MissMarple2]

HA! Didn't notify Congress until our troops were out!!

"Washington is a leaking machine!"

[hrtshpdbox]

If there's something newsworthy next Saturday night, and the President gives a presser about it on Sunday morning, then we know the fix is in - Chris Wallace has been denied his Fox platform by executive decree.

[Jim Eagle]

Just when you thought the PC/Diversity crowd couldn't get more ridiculous, Seatlle decides that the study of Math is racists.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/mathematics_a_tool_of_racial_oppression_seattle_public_schools_committee_says.html

[MissMarple2]

https://twitter.com/Scavino45/status/1188451497421561856

Picture of President and others watching the operation. Thread with other information, too.

[MissMarple2]

The operation started at 5PM yesterday. He didn't tell most people in Congress due to leaks. They got intelligence, plans, HOW ISIS GOT STARTED.

No one injured except canine ("or as I say, a dog"). Listed the Americans and Jordanian that ISIS brutally killed by name. Will be calling American families.

Operation had been planned for 3 days. (Which means since before he went to South Carolina.)

Left on Twitter is full of juvenile comments. Claim that Scavino's photo of President and people watching the raid is staged, for example.

[Captain Hate]

ChadPergram

When asked if he notified Pelosi of al-Baghdadi operatoon, Trump says no, citing concerns about leaks. But multiple Congressional sources on the other side of the aisle were notified last night. Fox can find no Dems who were notified.

LMAO!
Posted by: Tami at October

Boy, did I serve under the wrong
President!
Posted by: Ambassador Stevens at October 27, 2019 10:14 AM (Ed8Zd)

[MissMarple2]

That is golden that he said that.

I want to know what information they got from that compound.

[Jim Eagle]

The comments on the photo at 9:57 are not just juvinile but vile, unhinged, moonbat worthy.

If Gen. Kelley couldn't handle a little factional tension in the WH how does he handle confrontations with the enemy?

[Jim Eagle]

From AOS book thread, my new name for Biden: CACAFUEGO

gard Hawks 📚🦅
@HaggardHawks
CACAFUEGO is a 16th century word for a blustering, over-confident braggart. It literally means ‘fire-shitter’.

297
3:27 AM - Oct 18, 2019

[Jane]

What a GREAT victory! Intelligence committee has not been briefed on Syria in over a month. Apparently something more serious is going on.

Speaking of which, Ratcliff just said: "Our one goal in this impeachment should be to find out if the "whistleblower" testimony was "organic" or "orchestrated".

Boy do I love him.

[Narciso]

I have never heard that one, but it seems appropriate

[Captain Hate]

Clapper: BaghdadiS Death Could Galvanize ISIS

Chamberlain: Hitler Is Unifying His Wounded Nation.
Posted by: Zod at October 27, 2019 10:33 AM (XzT/D)

[MissMarple2]

Anyone who thinks President Trump isn't in control should be mocked and then ignored.

What we saw in that speech was a demonstration of a leader in complete control.

He has known about this planned raid for 3 days. They have been tracking the guy for a week. He has been asking about getting Al-Baghdadi for 3 years.

The press recognized it. They were mostly human in the question and answer session.

I am very interested in our ability to watch the raid in real time.

[MissMarple2]

https://t.co/yJ0VKdNxHP

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 27, 2019

Video of complete speech at link.

[Jane]

"Clapper: BaghdadiS Death Could Galvanize ISIS "

He must be referencing bin Laden's death. Oh right, it didn't happen.

[Captain Hate]

I still can't believe the Rear Admiral is openly calling for a military coup. I done even think the loon prosecutor has gone that far, although I've avoided lurking at that overflowing litter box recently.

[Jane]

Under Trump Isis has gone from 30,000 members to 6,000 members. (Under Obama it went from 0 members to 30,000 members.)

Go ahead democrats, keep trying to embarrass yourself.

[Jane]

Democrat leadership has been silent all day.

[GUS]

Clapper needs a bullet to the head.

[Captain Hate]

If you see a backhoe in Fort Marcy Park, Clapper's disappearance is imminent.

[Marlene]

Good Morning! The military canine is going to be famous. Hope it recovers and visits the White House!

[henry]

Strikes me getting chased down by dogs is not the Islamic ideal. No virgins for Baghdadi?

[GUS]

Is Rodham going to speak at al Baghdadi's funeral.

I don't feeeeeeeeeel in no ways dead, pass the hot sauce.

[MissMarple2]

Holy shit this is real

Washington Post Obituary for Baghdadi

"Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48"https://t.co/rF8B3ZCbCa pic.twitter.com/VNbAMvvWbZ

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) October 27, 2019

Links go to screen cap and link to paper.

[GUS]

I heard al Baghdadi's last words were.......WAHHHHHHH WAHHHHHH SAVE ME JOHN BRENNAN WAHHHHH BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.

[Marlene]

James Foley's parents live in New Hampshire. They have a foundation and keep his legacy alive by holding events. They held a James Foley legacy run about a week ago. President Trump is going to call all the families.

[MissMarple2]

Chuck Woolery
@chuckwoolery

Watching the Sunday Shows. They are saying that Trump took all the credit for Al Big Daddy. He didn't give enough credit to the special forces who accomplished the mission. My question? Did they even watch? He did. I saw and heard him say it, over and over.

[GUS]

Hey Chuck Woolery, al Baghdadi is going to need a little more than BLUE EMU.

[Marlene]

Ha,Gus. I had to chuckle when Trump said there was more than enough DNA for testing.

[MissMarple2]

Olivia Awaken
@olivia_awaken
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Trump: "After the mission was accomplished, we took highly sensitive material and information from the raid, much having to do with Isis origins, future plans...things that we very much want." #Isis #Baghdadi
THANKS OBAMA

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That was what made my ears perk up, especially the "much having to do with ISIS origins."

[Jane]

Of course they didn't watch. Jeff Zucker sent out a memo.

[GUS]

I saw a comment on the FOX NEWS site, where some PUSSY LIBTARD, mentions that "Trump, never having been much of an athlete, is not familiar with the term BULLETIN BOARD MATERIAL"

These fuckers are retarded. They have no idea what they are saying.

[Jim Eagle]

That WaPo obit for Baghdadi is a spoof, right?

If not, then I hope their building and every Amazon warehouse catches fire.

[Jim Eagle]

Chuck Woolery: If the MFM didn't have a negative thing to say about Trump they wouldn't be able to say anything about him.

[MissMarple2]

Jack,

I have quit most mainstream press links on Twitter, TV as well.

I think they are evil. I don't know who controls them (Soros, China, democrats, whatever) but they do NOT care about this country and I am tired of even reading what they have to say.

I watch this guy's podcast around noon:

https://twitter.com/SirHublife/status/1188468616473141250

You can always find a link on his Twitter page. He is pretty free with the four-letter words but he has good contacts and understands Trump better than most.

I also watch Dan Bongino's pod cast, available on YouTube and comes on around midday. He is very good at explaining all of the investigative and police type stuff associated with the coup.

I just can't take the regular media any more. They are awful.

[hrtshpdbox]

Trump callously allowed a dog (man's best friend) to be put in the line of terrorist fire, and that dog was injured; it's the worst thing that's happened on earth since Mitt put the family dog on the car roof. An example of man's inhumanity to beast this severe is, must be, an impeachable offense.

[Buckeye]

Need a couple of MOABs for Washington Post.

While they are at it, NYT, CNN, MSNBC......well, it is a long list.

[Captain Hate]

They revised it, Jack, after comments like these

"Austere painter at helm of Deutsches Reich dies at 56"

“Eclectic and charismatic youth guru Charles Manson dies at 83.”

[JimNorCal]

.

[JimNorCal]

Ouch!

[Captain Hate]

"Business leader Ted Bundy dead at 42."

Noted Physician Josef Mengle dead at 67.

Trump Kills Professor Baghdadi In Student Loan Default Case

World renowned child entertainer John Wayne Gacy died peacefully in his home at age 52.

Music-lover Iosif Stalin, Dead at 74

Jeffrey Dahmer, trailblazing haute cuisine chef, dead at 34.

[Tom R]

Has it been established yet whether or not Trump’s decision to withdraw US forces from Syria was a deception to lull ISIS into a false sense of security and expose themselves? I read that the US had been surveilling the ISIS compound for 2 weeks. How comes only for past two weeks and not longer? Perhaps it’s only been for the past two weeks because we didn’t know for certain where the ISIS leader was until he dropped his guard?

[MissMarple2]

The Situation Room then, and now.
I like now. #Baghdadi pic.twitter.com/s6ll4CTuPx

— Alana Mastrangelo (@ARmastrangelo) October 27, 2019

Photos at the link. I like now, too.

[jimmyk]

“Trump causes death of 3 children in reckless, selfish pursuit of glory”

[MissMarple2]

Tom R.,

He said (I think) that the two weren't connected, although I may have mis-heard that.

Go to the video and listen to the questions and answers. It's in there somewhere.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Recommend some rock salt with this but it does give a picture of the staggering corruption that is the Ukraine;
The Plundering Of Ukraine By Corrupt American Democrats.

[Bela1]

There isn’t a damn thing those disgusting creeps like Tom Arnold or Chuck Woolery can say or do to diminish the fact that this President truly cares about the men & women put into harms way to protect us! Many of these same idiots have selective memories. For Chuck to even say he took all of the credit is to admit just how deranged he has become. They are out of their minds & need to be crushed anytime one of them opens their stupid mouths with such nonsense.

Some complaints I’ve heard already is why would Trump describe in such detail what happened on a Sunday morning. President Trump explained it perfectly & provided examples of the evil ISIS has accomplished. It might bring discomfort to some but I’m glad Trump explained what happened, how & why. Much of the successes of this mission will go on deaf ears or be ignored. The public has been fed so much BS & lies for so long that they need reminding.

God bless this President & God bless our troops! God bless the canines trained to assist our forces too.
Take care

[MissMarple2]

Devin Nunes
@DevinNunes

Pravda media for the Dem/Socialists finally ask one too many idiotic questions ...
@LindseyGrahamSC
exits stage left... Pravda media seem bitter and disgusted that Baghdadi is dead...

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

You're misinterpreting Chuck, Bela.

[Momto2]

So proud of our great military and our Commander-in-Chief!

[Narciso]

Yes tsarev has got the crux of the matter, thats why they are yelling firtash, like 'handing out speeding tickets at indy 500.'

[JimNorCal]

CH 10:44 LOL

[Narciso]

Ay dios mio (see that level of face palm has to be in another language)

[Jane]

Did you guys see Pelosi's statement?

Petty as the day is long. She complained because Russia knew before she knew among other things. I can't believe she didn't say Trump did it to distract from impeachment.

Well there is always tomorrow.

[MissMarple2]

“America and the world are safer today with the leader of ISIS dead.” -@VP pic.twitter.com/NfuMeRMzoE

— GOP (@GOP) October 27, 2019

Clip of VP Pence on Face the Nation at the link.

[Bela1]

Ugh ....or the ones Chuck Woolery heard ..
For the Sunday talk shows Chuck refers who claim Trump took all the credit ...
I hate typing from my tiny phone

Sorry guys

[Momto2]

I made the mistake of reading a few Twitter comments on the successful operation (I knew better) and all I could think of were David's words from Psalm 35.

...smiters whom I do not know gather together against me,
They slander me without ceasing.
Like godless jesters at a feast,
They gnash at me with their teeth.

No victory or accomplishment will EVER be acknowledged or allowed to stand without their dishonest and vicious comments.

[Bela1]

I saw Iggy ... tried to fix
I think it’s time for a new phone & eyeglasses :D
Have a good one

[Buckeye]

"But Trump didn't inform Speaker Pelosi!"

No shit Sherlock, he wanted this to succeed.

[Tom R]

The low-IQ lefties are convinced that photo of Trump in the situation room was staged. They claim the raid actually started around 3:30pm and its an established fact (to them at least) Trump was playing golf at that time.

[MissMarple2]

Sebastian Gorka DrG
@SebGorka

What, no smug comments this morning, Mattis, Kelly, McRaven?

Not going to lecture us on how you’re better than our Commander-in-Chief @realDonaldTrump
?

I’ll wait.

Along with the 63 million Americans who chose him.

And not you.

[Captain Hate]

Meghan McCain gifts us some Twitter:

From the Girl whose Father brought you an Armed Islamic Resistence in Syria comes the Most Powerful Statement Ever...
Posted by: Movie Trailer Guy at October 27, 2019 12:17 PM (rSy9P)

556 And moar Meggie Mac:

"Kayla Mueller, for whom the mission that killed Baghdadi was named after, was from Prescott, Arizona. I hope you will take a moment to watch this video of my Dad talking about her life, death, and work. Thinking and praying for her family and loved ones."

Someone on Twitter responds:

"And thank you Mr. President for making this happen."

Someone else:

"Thank you @realDonaldTrump."

I'm sure that steamed the princess.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 27, 2019 12:17 PM (ptqGC)

[henry]

Trump didn’t inform Pelosi....

Did Schiff bar the SCIF door to Trump’s messenger?

[MissMarple2]

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_
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7m
BREAKING: Speaking this morning on CBS "Face the Nation," Obama's Jt Chiefs Vice Chair James Winnefeld bashed Trump for "piling humiliation" on ISIS after lethal raid on its kingpin:"If you look back at the bin Laden raid, we treated his body with respect that is due under Islam"
======================
No one who cut non-combatants' heads off, was a serial rapist, and burned a Jordanian pilot alive in a cage deserves any respect.

As far as I am concerned the remnants of his body should be fed to hyenas.

[Buckeye]

The energy Pelosi is having to put into gaming Trump's next move is really taking a toll on her. She looks half dead.

[GUS]

Why would POTUS DJT inform Pelosi of anything?

[Buckeye]

Leland Vittert is doing his best to prove he is bigger wuss than Gillian.

[jimmyk]

Just got to Clarice's fine "pieces." Can someone remind me, regarding this:

We do not know how Judge Emmet G. Sullivan will dispose of this motion, but he was deeply offended at the prosecutorial misconduct revealed only after the conviction and death of Senator Ted Stevens and his inability to punish those FBI agents and Justice Department lawyers involved.

Why couldn't he punish them? Why couldn't they be charged with crimes? Statute of limitations? It didn't seem like it was that long. Or was it some ridiculous sovereign immunity holding?

[jimmyk]

"If you look back at the bin Laden raid, we treated his body with respect that is due under Islam"

The dude blew up his own body. I know that's very Islamic, but it still hardly seems respectful. Not to mention that he blew up 3 of his children.

[clarice]

David Burge
@iowahawkblog
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1h
Adolf Hitler, Austrian vegan activist and landscape painter, dies at 56
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[JimNorCal]

Remember when Clinton was under threat of impeachment he started an entire "wag the dog" war. Did Pelosi utter a peep?

[Narciso]

Thats his minions would go on to sodomize ambassador stevens, good grief they are more tone depth than pete townsend.

[Jim Eagle]

Gen. Winnefeld is an Obama retread. What would you expect him to say?

“At least we’re buried him at sea before he could blow himself up”.

[Narciso]

Its like that guatemalan guerilla who was married to that dippy anerican, he said 'i want to be like che' the guatemalan army said we can oblige.

[Captain Hate]

@TimMurtaugh

A lot is being made of the @washingtonpost's now-changed headline of al-Baghdadi's obit.

But how about this from the body of the obit itself?

"... an austere religious scholar with wire-frame glasses and no known aptitude for fighting and killing."

"despite the group's extremist views and vicious tactics, Mr. Baghdadi maintained a canny pragmatism as leader"

And

"a shy, nearsighted youth who liked soccer but preferred to spend his free time at the local mosque"

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--"If you look back at the bin Laden raid, we treated his body with respect that is due under Islam"--

If muslims are reasonable people with a religion of peace why would we have to worry about inflaming them?
If Bin Laden was not a real muslim why would we have to respect islamic protocol in his burial?
If Bin Laden was not a real muslim wouldn't real muslims rejoice in seeing the remains of the man who brought so much shame to real muslims and real islam treated as though he were not a muslim?

[henry]

@SpeakerPelosi

The death of al-Baghdadi is significant, but it does not mean the death of ISIS. @realDonaldTrump must present the American people with a clear strategy to confront ISIS.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Q: Where did al-Baghdadi go when he died?

A: Everywhere.