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An Open for Tuesday
by coldwarrior ( 122 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at October 7th, 2019 - 9:09 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
Apologies for yesterday – something must have been happening at Travis AFB because our Wifi was completely wiped out (I was away on Saturday). Not just ours – the folks across the street who have a completely different wifi provider didn’t have it either.
It’s been my experience that when Travis is in the the middle of something important, wifi gets jammed all over the place.
Tuesday’s Gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iExsbDuVqeE
Greta Thunberg sings Swedish Death Metal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kD1zubg3cA
HOW DARE YOU!!!
Hearing from Rasmussen on Twitter that there will be an announcement from Hillary Clinton at 10:30 today (assuming Eastern). Oh dear God – someone tell me that the b***h is not going to run, that it’s just to endorse Biden or Warren for President.
quote of the day
“How much blood-soaked history must the Left leave in its wake for us to understand? This is a war and the stakes are real, material, physical. They want us supplicating, enslaved or dead. They want our guns, our faith, our freedoms. Everything. They despise us and despise our country.”
First Monday in October
will RBG show up?
So Avenutti is now suing Stormy Daniels for legal fees to the tune of $2 million. Uh, I seem to recall him saying when asked that he was representing her “pro bono”.
If anything, she should sue HIM for malpractice.
Pittsburgh’s own Larry Junstrom if 38 special and founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd has died.
rain of lead wrote:
Clarence Thomas didn’t. He’s apparently ill.
And Ilhan Omar has filed for divorce
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ilhan-omar-files-for-divorce-report
coldwarrior wrote:
This is becoming tedious.
Where’s Keef?
As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!). They must, with Europe and others, watch over…..the captured ISIS fighters and families. The U.S. has done far more than anyone could have ever expected, including the capture of 100% of the ISIS Caliphate. It is time now for others in the region, some of great wealth, to protect their own territory. THE USA IS GREAT!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1181232249821388801
He’d better be right. Even Israel is nervous.
The U.S.’s decision to pull troops back is a particularly worrying development for Israel, as it confronts a robust Iranian presence on its border with Syria. Israeli officials have expressed concern about Iran’s ability to transport advanced weapons from Iran through Iraq and Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel has been carrying out strikes to rollback Iranian entrenchment in the region.
“I prefer that American troops will be in the area, because they will influence it and they are our best allies,” said Jacob Nagel, head of Israel’s National Security Council from 2016 to 2017 and a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “If you want to confront Iran in Syria, you have to be there.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-begins-pullback-from-northern-syria-clearing-way-for-turkish-offensive-11570439862?redirect=amp#click=https://t.co/39Hn9jpPTz
@ eaglesoars:
We can act in the area within 16hours if needed.
Time to get out.
coldwarrior wrote:
I’m sure you won’t be surprised to hear I’ve been digging. MAYBE the Kurds at risk are PKK – commies/marxist, in which case who gives a flying…Our Kurd allies are in Iraq and are not at risk. Still concerned about the SDF tho.
Doc appt, bye
@ eaglesoars:
PKK are savages.
No one bitched when Bush Sr let Saddam massacre the kurds.
BREAKING — U.S. effectively shuts down Northern Syria airspace to Turkey, according to Pentagon statement to Anadolu.
Turkey has been expelled from Joint Air Operations Center, and surveillance and reconnaissance data aren’t shared with Ankara
———-
‘effectively’. Looks like we just stopped sharing data with them.
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1181279940001636353 (this guy is a Turkish reporter for a middle eastern outlet)
And I expect all the BDS assholes to stick to their BDS guns
Israeli Scientists: Cure for Insulin-Dependent Diabetics Within 5 Years
https://gellerreport.com/2019/10/israeli-scientists-diabetics.html/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
@ eaglesoars:
Not very kosher…
but we already knew this
https://lidblog.com/solar-power-pollution/
Energy Company Says Their Solar Power Program Is Increasing NOx Pollution
@ rain of lead:
And right on cue, the town where I live started building a solar farm across the street from the prison where I work.
I’m sure our utility bills will go up dramatically.
@ lobo91:
sue. ask them how they’re going to dispose of all the toxic materials when the panels need to be replaced.
Looks like Hannah Wicklund’s still across the pond:
Well coldwarrior, I finally sent my Aunt a email explaining why I refused to give her DNA data. Told her pretty much the whole story, the ball is now in her court. She can confirm or deny whatever she wants. You know of which I speak. Provided she’s still alive. I haven’t heard from her in a while and its been a month or so since the last time she checked my LinkedIn page.
This plan for a Syria exit was given to Trump 18 mos. ago
https://securitystudies.org/end-game-syria-executive-summary/
@ doriangrey:
the plot thickens.
any yinz’s cell # aint workin.
night yinz!
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/10/07/left-wing-minneapolis-mayor-jacob-frey-attempts-to-block-president-trump-maga-rally/#more-173114
wow cali really has become a 3rd world nation
An estimated 600,000 PG&E customers — including some 257,000 in the Bay Area — may be forced to endure power shutdowns starting early Wednesday amid a forbidding outlook for severe fire danger in the form of high winds.
Preemptive outages loom across a “vast” swath of Northern and Central California this week, PG&E warned, adding that a “strong and dry wind event” forecast for midweek could prompt the utility to shut down power in as many as 30 counties in an effort to stave off wildfire risk.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/07/severe-winds-could-trigger-widespread-pge-deliberate-blackouts/
https://spectator.org/whistleblower-lawyer-is-an-ex-hillary-schumer-staffer/
F&F reporting
State Dept has blocked Gordon Sond-somebody – ambassador to EU – from testifying before Congress ‘impeachment’ people. Pompeo is pissed
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/10/07/conservative-outlet-canada-sued-right-cover-debate-won/
It’s National Pierogie Day!!
yinz know what to do!
eaglesoars wrote:
Yes!!!!!
ha.ha.ha.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/24/tesla-carbon-dioxide-mercedes/?fbclid=IwAR1OUnCJ0L4k4DVfFnhmZlm5tm3NNQgauCUIrKiffXAlIocFqg9JHZGVT7g
https://gizmodo.com/whoa-astronomers-just-found-20-new-moons-around-saturn-1838854089
A hilarious parody letter from Trump to Pelosi
“Anyway, I received your requests for documents but I wiped my ass with them. Sorry. Hope you have a Happy Halloween Satan.”
https://twitter.com/M2Madness/status/1180967021363769344/photo/1
Why do I get this feeling that Trump is setting up Turkey…
Is her name even Elizabeth Warren? First, her ‘native american’ story falls apart, then the ‘fired for pregnancy’ story is proven false and now this
Elizabeth Warren’s story of racist grandparents disputed by Cherokee genealogist
The post was headlined, “Did Warren invent the story of racist grandparents?”
After Ms. Warren said in the Globe that her mother told her “nobody came to her wedding at all,” Ms. Barnes looked it up and found that her mother’s friend witnessed the ceremony, which was performed by a prominent Methodist clergyman, not a justice of the peace.
“This marriage does not look like an elopement. It looks very much like a Depression-era marriage ceremony instead,” said Ms. Barnes in an August 2012 post. “Sometimes people didn’t have a lot of money to spend on a wedding so they just obtained their license, got married and then went back home.”
She also found a detailed wedding announcement posted in the local newspaper in Wetumka, Oklahoma.
“If Ms. Warren’s parents eloped due to her mother being ‘Cherokee and Delaware’ and it was such a disgrace, why did they rush back to Wetumka the same day they were married and proudly announce it to everyone?” asked Ms. Barnes. “If there was shame associated with the marriage and it caused so many problems, why was it happily announced in the local paper?”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/11/elizabeth-warren-punts-dna-test-native-american-an/
coldwarrior wrote:
well, this MAY be the short hairs Trump’s got him by
As U.S.-Turkish relations are under scrutiny, there is a new sealed filing in the case of gold trader Reza Zarrab, a former Erdogan ally who implicated him in the largest money laundering scheme of its kind ever charged in U.S. history.
No indication what the filing is about
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1181646990410690560
Oh, look what’s leaked from Atkinson’s testimony.
Now, however, there is word of more evidence of possible bias on the whistleblower’s part. Under questioning from Republicans during last Friday’s impeachment inquiry interview with Atkinson, the inspector general revealed that the whistleblower’s possible bias was not that he was simply a registered Democrat. It was that he had a significant tie to one of the Democratic presidential candidates currently vying to challenge President Trump in next year’s election.
“The IG said [the whistleblower] worked or had some type of professional relationship with one of the Democratic candidates,” said one person with knowledge of what was said.
“The IG said the whistleblower had a professional relationship with one of the 2020 candidates,” said another person with knowledge of what was said.
This is Byron York, one of the reliable ones
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/whistleblower-had-tie-to-democratic-candidate
@ eaglesoars:
Odd that Schiffty didn’t mention this. Looks like the Republicans are learning to leak!!
BuzzFeed is pissed that Kavanaugh acted like a Supreme Court Justice
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/10/08/the-nerve-of-this-man-buzzfeed-busts-brett-kavanaugh-for-acting-like-a-supreme-court-justice/
Quelle Horreur!! You mean Kavanaugh sat and listened to the arguments with the proper judicial temperament? I’m pretty sure the other justices weren’t jumping up and down screeching, either. Was the Notorious RBG awake, by the way?
https://pjmedia.com/trending/did-former-dni-james-clapper-implicate-barack-obama-in-trump-spying-scandal/
“It’s kind of disconcerting now to be investigated for, you know, having done our duty and done what we were told to do by the president,” Clapper added.
It looks like Clapper may have just confirmed that Barack Obama was directly involved in the Trump surveillance scandal, and that Clapper and others in the intelligence community were acting on his orders.
@ rain of lead:
I saw that. And Samantha Powers is out there claiming that the unmasking requests with her name on them are “lies.”
There must have been some serious panic attacks happening on Wednesday, November 9th; and they were SO sure they were going to be able to “drive” him from office within 6 months before it all came to light. When it didn’t – we got the Mueller investigation.
still betting on an outcome of zip,zero,ziltch and nada.
the big wheel keeps turnin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfyEpmQM7bw
@ The Barbarian:
“….her testimony is, they may be under my name, but I did not make those requests,”
Well Ms. Powers, if that’s true how come you haven’t been screaming to high heaven to get to the bottom of how your authority was used without your permission?
maybe she just happened to leave a bunch of signed blanks lying around
rain of lead wrote:
That’s the $64,000 question, isn’t it? And I notice Susan Rice was on that crap Colbert show talking about Trump’s mistake in Syria. This from the woman who LIED on five different Sunday shows about an uprising that killed our Ambassador and three others. Whenever I see that photo of Obama and Hillary at the plane standing by the coffins of those brave souls, my blood pressure reaches dangerous levels.
https://study.com/academy/lesson/dantes-inferno-ninth-circle-of-hell-punishments-description.html
rain of lead wrote:
the thing is – he said the same thing to Anderson Cooper back in May – and nobody caught it
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=383655
Rumor has it that the media (Canadian, British) are sitting on a story that Canada’s top facial darkening-makeup model Justin Trudeau was fired from a school he was teaching at for sleeping with a 17 year old.
eaglesoars wrote:
of 2018
Clapper: Obama Ordered The Intelligence Assessment That Resulted In Mueller Investigation
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/07/24/clapper_obama_ordered_the_intelligence_assessment_that_resulted_in_mueller_investigation.html
@ rain of lead:
They’re not sitting on it. Canada won’t let them publish so they’ve been leaking all over twitter like dogs peeing on fire hydrants
Side bet say’s it was a male that Trudeau hit on.
The UN is running out of money and will be broke by the end of the month. Hopefully, Trump had something to do with it
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1181613356630904833/photo/1
Potato & onion pierogies are on the table
coldwarrior wrote:
Cause ya aint got my new number. Broke that phone last month and had to replace it. Got a new phone…
@ doriangrey:
Got it. I’m at work.
huh. well…..
Trump Enlists Trey Gowdy to Help With Impeachment Fight
Donald Trump has enlisted former Representative Trey Gowdy to work with the White House team combating the U.S. House’s impeachment inquiry into the president, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-08/trump-enlists-former-lawmaker-gowdy-to-help-impeachment-fight
Hey! What have you people been DOING??!!
New Update In Criminal Referrals Made Against Those Who Made Questionable Claims Against Kavanaugh
Nine Republican Senators sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday seeking information on the statuses of four criminal referrals the Senate Judiciary Committee sent to the Department of Justice last year regarding suspicious allegations that were made against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
The letter was sent by Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Mike Lee (R-UT), Ted Cruz (R-TX), John Cornyn (R-TX), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Thom Tillis (R-NC), John Kennedy (R-LA) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).
letter at the link
https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-update-in-criminal-referrals-made-against-those-who-made-questionable-claims-against-kavanaugh
@ eaglesoars:
The Dems will demand we pony up even more money.
@ right_wing2:
money for what?
@ eaglesoars:
To save the U.N.
@ right_wing2:
oh.yeah,no, not as long as so many countries haven’t paid their dues
DiGenova on Ingraham
AOC, an incandescent ignoramus
PG&E, utility in California, is shutting down starting at midnight, until the winds die down, perhaps 5 days, in order to avoid wild fires
Oh, yeah, I’d forgotten about this. Obama gave the ChiComms control of a port in Long Beach.
Trump just stomped on it.
TRUMP RIDS MAJOR U.S. CONTAINER PORT OF CHINESE COMMUNIST CONTROL
Under a long-term deal sealed by the Obama administration, a Chinese Communist company was set to control the second-busiest container port in the United States. In an unreported Trump administration victory, the Communists are out after a drawn-out national security review forced a unit of China-based COSCO Shipping Holdings Co. (Orient Overseas Container Line—OOCL) to sell the cherished container terminal business, which handles among the largest freight of imports into the U.S.
It all started with a 40-year container terminal lease between the Port of Long Beach in southern California and Hong Kong. The Obama administration proudly signed the agreement in 2012 giving China control of America’s second-largest container port behind the nearby Port of Los Angeles. One of the Trump administration’s first big moves was to get the Communists out of the Port of Long Beach. After a national security review and federal intervention, the Long Beach terminal business, which handles millions of containers annually, is finally being sold to an Australian company called Macquarie Infrastructure Partners. That essentially kills China’s decades-long contract with the Obama administration.
I’d keep an eye on it tho, Australia is infested with the thugs.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/corruption-chronicles/trump-rids-major-u-s-container-port-of-chinese-communist-control/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=corruption_chronicles
eaglesoars wrote:
well, they were populated by the criminal element during ‘Transportation’
https://pjmedia.com/trending/elizabeth-warren-stands-by-claim-she-was-fired-from-teaching-despite-evidence-proving-she-wasnt/
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2019/10/09/begins-turkish-troops-crossing-syria/
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/lindsey-graham-invites-giuliani-inform-senate-judiciary-committee-concerns-regarding-corruption-ukraine/
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/democrats-fear-of-durham-about-to-reach-panic-level/
https://triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/report-amount-of-marcellus-utica-natural-gas-higher-than-in-2011/
@ rain of lead:
Giuliani took down the 5 families in NYC.
This will be fun
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/08/devin-nunes-lawsuit-against-twitter-could-turn-into-the-companys-worst-nightmare/
A Virginia judge ruled last week that the Republican lawmaker’s lawsuit against Twitter could proceed to trial in Virginia, meaning the company may finally be forced to disclose evidence of bias against conservative users.
Marshall took the arguments under consideration and sought to determine whether the facts supported keeping the case in Virginia. At one point, he asked Twitter to provide to him under seal information on the users managing the anonymous accounts and their locations, the number of Twitter users in Virginia, and the amount of revenue earned by the company in the state.
Rather than comply with the court order, Twitter gave the judge the middle finger and refused to provide the information demanded by the court. The judge responded by allowing the trial against Twitter to proceed in Virginia, a move that could wreak havoc not just on Twitter’s bottom line going forward, but also its entire business model. As a result of Marshall’s order, the case will now proceed to trial, and Twitter will be subject to full-blown discovery by Nunes and his legal team.
oh…snap…
rain of lead wrote:
not enough popcorn……..
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/snowstorm-to-unload-up-to-2-feet-of-snow-lash-north-central-us-with-blizzard-conditions/ar-AAItNEX?page=6
@ eaglesoars:
morning eagle
@ rain of lead:
boy. I wonder how many people would LOVE to write amicus briefs in support of Nunes. Thousands.
eaglesoars wrote:
And they made this announcement, by the way, while people in the Bay Area were at work. They had a detailed map of the shutdown zones, but their website crashed because they “didn’t anticipate” that the traffic would be that high. You have made an announcement that is impacting 1.6 million households in California, and you didn’t “anticipate” that people would be coming to your website? Geez Looeez. Someone took to their Twitter account and said – hey idiots, post the maps by county on Twitter.
Where I live, there was a swatch of municipal area that would not suffer a shutdown. A small swatch. And I happily live in it. I sent the Football Savant Offspring out for water, ice and some soft drinks. He said the lines at the gas stations were dreadful, the corner store was packed and the discount grocery stores had lines at checkout. He went to Raley’s and told me that the water aisle looked like a war zone.
Home Depot sold out of generators and flashlights in EVERY store from Gilroy to Chico by 5:00 p.m.
if this pans out, this is the biggest medical news since forever.
They seem to have cured cervical cancer in mice. 100%.
This is one of the really deadly ones, too.
Scientists discover ‘cure’ for cervical cancer after breakthrough using gene-editing technology
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7553057/Australian-scientists-discover-cure-cervical-cancer-using-gene-editing-technology.html
@ The Barbarian:
But I thought it was pre-planned??
@ eaglesoars:
My guess is the only sh**ing of the pants in San Francisco won’t just be the homeless on the street. There’s going to be plenty of that in the Twitter Legal Dept. on Market Street.
@ eaglesoars:
It had been “hinted” as a possibility. They made the announcement that it would definitely happen at about 10:00 a.m. yesterday, and added about seven or eight Bay Area counties to the mix, including mine.
The Barbarian wrote:
not enough. I would love to see @jack living on the streets. arrogant, totalitarian bastard.
The Barbarian wrote:
well, I can see they have a practical problem – predicting the weather. How far out can they know with any certainty?
@ The Barbarian:
do you have a plan for no power for 5+ days?
I finally got around to watching last week’s episode of “How to Get Away With Murder” last night (it went downhill in the past season, so it’s no longer Friday morning “must see TV” while I’m getting ready for work). So now they are going after the evil that is ICE and the detention centers.
It makes me sad, because I do love Viola Davis, but I deleted it from the DVR.
step 1
eat or trash all food in the fridge
step 2
fill all tubs and sinks with water
step 3
call out of work
@ The Barbarian:
Sue PG&E for the fires…so now they limit risk.
Cause…effect.
effing told ya
Eating Chocolate Is Good for Your Brain and Other Body Organs, Scientists Say
https://www.theepochtimes.com/eating-chocolate-is-good-for-your-brain-and-other-body-organs-scientists-say_2876107.html
@ rain of lead:
Where there is ice, there is civilization
@ rain of lead:
Actually I have power, so we’re good. The “wind event” that sparked this is supposed to subside Thursday afternoon, and PG&E is going to do some inspections of the power lines (which accounts for the other two days). There seems to be most concern about the lines in the populated areas near the Sierra foothills.
coldwarrior wrote:
The State of California was really happy to point the finger as soon as possible at PG&E, but looked around confused when it was also pointed out their horrible land management and kow-towing to the Sierra Club had a lot to do with giving that fire something to burn.
I can almost understand the craze for generators.
But FLASHLIGHTS? We live in Earthquake country. It’s absolutely ridiculous that you don’t already have enough flashlights.
Adult Wednesday Addams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYQE9dh6f78
Oh noes!
United Nations — The United Nations is running a deficit of $230 million, Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday, and may run out of money by the end of October. In a letter intended for the 37,000 employees at the UN secretariat and obtained by CBS News’ Pamela Falk, Guterres said unspecified “additional stop-gap measures” would have to be taken to ensure salaries and entitlements are paid.
“Member States have paid only 70 percent of the total amount needed for our regular budget operations in 2019. This translates into a cash shortage of $230 million at the end of September. We run the risk of depleting our backup liquidity reserves by the end of the month,” he wrote.
To cut costs, Guterres mentioned postponing conferences and meetings and reducing services, while also restricting official travel to only essential activities and taking measures to save energy.
@ yenta-fada:
The UN has become a third world grievance forum against the West, particularity the US.
Get them out of the US. They can set up shop in Mogadishu, great hotels and restaurants.
@ RIX:
There is no need for turtle bay. The UN leeches can telecommute from their home sewers.
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/hillary-throws-down-the-gauntlet/
Be very careful of what you wish for, Hilary.
real world politics in the gaming world
Blizzard done CENSORED Up! Hearthstone Player BANNED for HK Protest!
angry joe show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osko6JZqOnk
@ rain of lead:
Rugby and mushing are the only sports I can still watch with any sense of fun/participation. I’m not worried about mushing but if this crap hits rugby then western civilization has ended
Well, he tried to help. Trump was asked if he was worried about ISIS ‘escaping’ and said “they’ll be escaping back to Europe”
Yep. They left it all on us and Trump gave them the chance to incarcerate them, but WE were supposed to eat their shit.
Here, have some ketchup
@ coldwarrior:
One element of that election that Clinton has not considered is that there was indeed some hesitation on voting for Trump by a lot of conservatives that weren’t all that convinced he’d follow through. I know that in California, since the state was not really in play, MANY people didn’t vote for Trump for that reason. THIS time, however, since the Democrats make so much of that popular vote, they WILL be pulling the trigger for Trump. I know of at least 20 people in my sphere that said they didn’t vote for President in 2016 but will be voting for Trump in 2020. I think a lot of moderates will be doing that as well, especially since they’re seeing first hand through Gavin Newsom what a pro-illegal President will do.
Problem solved
Mayor Eric Garcetti Elected to Chair Global Climate Leadership Group
https://kfiam640.iheart.com/content/2019-10-09-mayor-eric-garcetti-elected-to-chair-global-climate-leadership-group/
Well, this won’t ‘save’ me, as this doesn’t address the immune system, but it will save a lot of people
After 5 Years Of Trials, Doctors Create Human Liver From Scratch
https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/10/04/human-liver-created-from-scratch/?sfns=mo
In one day – news of a cancer cure and maybe no more need for human livers for transplant
The Barbarian wrote:
yeah, that and the electoral college
but…but… Trump said ‘pussy’!!
#BREAKING: Source at NBC News with knowledge of matter says
@amanda_m_macias
has been suspended following arrest of former love interest and purported source Henry Frese, a defense intelligence analyst accused of leaking to her. Suspension “procedural,” not discipliary.
https://twitter.com/MatthewKeysLive/status/1182024222324879360
@ eaglesoars:
@ The Barbarian:
The dems have nothing to run on
coldwarrior wrote:
SCOTUS appointments
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/column-1/tucker-drops-the-hammer-on-syria-warmongers-excellent/
The second video with the COL perfectly explains what just happened with Syria/ Turkey
@ eaglesoars:
Will only resonate with their base.
coldwarrior wrote:
I saw it and it was excellent. I take exception to the characterization as ‘warmongers’ people who are sincerely concerned about what happens to the SDF/YPG. PKK affiliates or no, they did fight with us and were the tip of the spear.
If nothing else, this illuminates the false romanticism of war. If people think this is terrible – and it is – they should learn what happened – or was done – to Poland after WWII. Talk about shafted by your allies.
And here is excellent background on how and we we became allied with SDF/YPG/PKK
The American relationship with the YPG was a direct outgrowth of the greatest blunder of the Obama administration: the effort to reach a strategic accommodation with Iran.
It all began in 2014 with the siege of Kobani, a Kurdish town in Northeast Syria that was surrounded by ISIS fighters. Because the plight of the town was well-reported in the American media, Obama came under political pressure to intervene militarily to break the siege.
Until then, however, he had strenuously avoided involvement in the Syrian civil war. To be sure, he sought to avoid a quagmire, but he also was eager to avoid alienating the Iranians and the Russians.
By now, the negotiations that would lead to the Iran nuclear deal were underway. But Damascus was the close ally of both Russia and Iran, so any American intervention in Syria risked upsetting the new relationship that Obama was attempting to forge with Moscow and Tehran.
This factor is the hidden key to understanding why Team Obama gravitated to the YPG to solve its problems. The group had a long history of cordial relations with the Russians and the Iranians, and, best of all, it had no intention to topple the Assad regime. Every other group that Obama might have used to defeat ISIS had an anti-Assad agend
https://nypost.com/2019/10/08/how-obamas-team-set-up-trumps-syrian-dilemma/
I suspect that the shirt-shredding shrieking about how this will ‘upset the balance in the region’ will settle down just as soon as the YPG come to their senses and make a deal with Damascus. Or get annihilated. Their choice.
Another thing no one is talking about. Altho I admit I don’t know how seriously to take this. This puts me in mind of the PLO training Baeder/Meinhof and the Red Brigade. The PLO held them in utter contempt
YPG trained Antifa
https://www.oann.com/kurdish-militia-trained-antifa-fighters-in-northern-syria/
coldwarrior wrote:
Sigh… As expected, she basically went full denial.
I’m not the only one who smells a rat
Paul Sperry
As Watchdog Probes the DoJ, Justice Delayed Looks Like Toughness Denied
Senators sent a letter formally requesting the inquiry to Justice Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz on Feb. 28, 2018. He is only now closing his probe of the critical matter and preparing a final report for the Senate.
Former inspectors general and department insiders say the long delay runs afoul of federal statutes mandating rapid turnaround of investigations of such “serious” matters. They complain Horowitz has a habit of “dragging out” his investigations and final reports, which has not kept with the spirit of regulations governing the tempo of IG action. These rules, they say, require Horowitz to report his findings “expeditiously.”
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The rules also require IGs to report to Congress any “serious or flagrant abuses” uncovered “within seven calendar days” of discovering them.
Former inspectors general and FBI and other department insiders say the long delays in Horowitz’s reports have allowed FBI Director Christopher Wray and other officials to, in turn, delay cooperation with investigative committees on the Hill.
Wray has argued he is limited in what he can testify about regarding the myriad problems at the FBI – and what action he can take internally – until the IG’s findings are released.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/09/28/with_internal_doj_probes_justice_delayed_looks_like_toughness_denied_120577.html
So they knew about Horowitz’s habits before he was appointed and appointed him in spite of – or because of – them.
This whole charade reminds me of that stupid Q cult on twitter. TRUST THE PLAN. You never are told what the plan is but not to worry, it’s all being taken care of. It blew up when Sessions was finally exposed as exactly the incompetent jackass he appeared to be and not some good guy in disguise who was going to pop up at the last minute yelling GOTCHA! The last nail got hammered with last week’s exposure of Rosenstein as the sniveling worm he appeared to be and not some SEKRET accomplice of the good guys who self-planted inside the enemy camp in order to defend peace, justice and The American Way.
Loathesome me me me.
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1181780231054606336
@ rain of lead: LOL