The Company We Keep
A question on the Internet: “Could you post a link substantiating your headline that the ‘KKK endorse(s) Romney‘, thanks. ~Ed”.
Answer: “Obviously he wouldn’t make that public, but we have clues this is highly likely if not definite. His admiration for Cleon Skousen and his support by the John Birch society, combined with the use of “keep America American” motif shows how he’s a favorite of these folks.”
So is Romney endorsed by the KKK? So someone says, but “obviously he wouldn’t make that public.” Candidates can’t really be responsible for who endorses them. But fortunately, som of them have made it public. The Communist Party of the USA has endorsed Barack Obama for President in 2012 as shown here and here. He also has the nod of Hugo Chavez, as noted by the Chicago Tribune and numerous other media outlets. “”I hope this doesn’t harm Obama,” Chavez said, “but if I was from the United States, I’d vote for Obama”.
Fidel Castro hasn’t endorsed Obama, but his niece Mariel has. “Mariela Castro, niece of Fidel Castro and daughter of President Raúl Castro, told CNN she wants President Obama to be reelected in an interview set to air Monday. ‘As a citizen of the world, I would like him to win,” Castro told Christiane Amanpour. “Seeing the candidates, I prefer Obama.’” She had something further to say to Obama on matters of espionage.
Castro also said the United States should release five Cuban intelligence operatives in exchange for Alan Gross, a USAID contractor serving a 15-year sentence for allegedly bringing satellite phones and computer equipment to members of Cuba’s Jewish community without a permit. The so-called Cuban Five were arrested in 1998 and accused of espionage and other crimes; the Cuban government says they were sent to spy on Cuban exiles in the United States, some of whom have been tied to acts of terrorism against Cuba including the 1976 bombing of an airliner that killed all 78 people aboard.
The Moscow Times describes why Putin wants Obama to win. The main reasons given are cooperation on missile defense and a Obama’s willingness to forgive Russia for its invasion of Georgia.
Obama’s decision to improve relations with the country and establish strong ties with Medvedev despite Russia’s war with Georgia in August 2008 was essential. The diplomacy of pressing the “reset” button with Russia proved important for alleviating the Kremlin’s fear of NATO expansion and the region’s destabilization in response to Washington’s strategy of regime change in several countries.
Since 2009, the two sides have cooperated by signing and then ratifying the new START treaty, imposing tougher sanctions on Iran and working to stabilize Afghanistan. Not only did the Kremlin provide overflights and overland transportation, but it also recently approved NATO’s use of the Ulyanovsk airport as a transit point for soldiers and cargo to and from Afghanistan.
But Obama doesn’t have a corner on the dictator endorsement market. For example, Robert Mugabe has not endorsed Obama. Mugabe hates the President for the most peculiar of reasons: Obama’s support of gays. The Zimbabwe Mail reports:
HARARE – United States President Barack Obama has come under heavy criticism from President Mugabe’s party Zanu-PF over his open support to legalise same sex-marriages …
President Robert Mugabe last year told British Prime Minister David Cameron “to hell with you” over his calls to respect gay rights.
“Nature is nature. It has created male and female,” Mugabe told thousands of supporters at his 88th birthday celebration at a stadium in the eastern border town of Mutare.
Other members of Mugabe’s party took turns calling Obama names. Legislator Kudakwashe Basikiti said Obama is a messenger of the devil. “The sentiments by Obama are the worst form of Satanism. Zimbabweans should be wary of such stances. It’s shocking because even the Bible discourages homosexuality,” he said.
The Bible! There’s the influence of Romney again. Things are getting more and more suspicious.
A comprehensive list of all those who’ve endorsed Barack Obama is available on Wikipedia, although it has managed to omit some of the entries noted above. There may be some odd characters among them, but by and large they are upstanding and mainstream figures whose endorsements indicate the main thrust of his support. Most important of all the list of Obama endorsers contains lots and lots of celebrities, among them, the Dos Equis Man. And if Obama’s got The Most Interesting Man in the World in his corner — apart from the Castro and Chavez, then Mitt had better find something to top that. Who knows but that he might.
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Nobody wants nobody that nobody sent.
Obama is a messenger of the devil.
I approve of this message.
Actually, Obambus could play this text, come on in his sonorus tones and approve the message, and it would increase his approval rate.
And when the Devil comes for his due, will there still be some advocate on our behalf?
Romney is not Daniel Webster. But perhaps enough remains in America for the remnants to collectively send the devil away, but not without cost.
W:
That sort of reminds me of the Charlie Daniel’s Band old classic rocker.
But I’m not sure that the Devil has actually come out and endorsed The Won; might not be politically correct to do so…so close to the election.
In spite of everything that divides the country, there are still a few things everyone can agree on in:
Minnesota
The Black Community
Annapolis
Maybe it’s not the same thing as “the simple things that everybody’s known and felt–the freshness of a fine morning when you’re young, and the taste of food when you’re hungry, and the new day that’s every day when you’re a child.” Maybe what we call have in common today is YouTube.
wretchard -
Now that is funny. The MIMITW makes me laugh as he strikes me as the Most Metrosexual Man In The World. He is rather like Obama in that he sings his own praises – see the “We are the ones we have been waiting for…” sentiments from ’08. I find that whole thing rather ….. precious…. ‘special’ as it were. [Channel the old SNL "Church Lady" for a mental sound effect]
I apologize for the lengthy cut’n'paste Wretchard – but this must be read.
How many have not been implemented?
please delete
They left out Don Black. He’s the agent who runs “Stormfront” ensuring Man’s Fourth Dynamic engram is never quite audited off of this planet.
Meanwhile, Our Favorite Law Center has decided a Christian fundamentalist church (formerly a socialist vegetarian cult) is linked to the recent Mohammed movie, itself a meaningless platform for intelligence fraud. Their “link” is an ex-Marine, naturally, since Airmen and Seabees don’t carry the same melodrama.
Rude caricatures like “Castro” and “Chavez” help ensure communism never gets anywhere (at least not in one hemisphere), and they provide balance for imaginary KKK endorsements on the Republican side.
We are supposed to vote in this environment?
We are expected to believe “state-controlled news” mainly emanates from Iran and China?
Baobao has a point. Hell, the FBI’s been caught running these dimwit ‘terror plot’ guys, and more than a few racist groups. Hal Turner of the Turner Diaries notoriety turned out to have worked for them. Which is why I find certain Twitterers about ‘extremists motivated by racist Kremlin agitprop’ quite amusing. Don’t they mean U.S. taxpayer funded agitproppers?
Wretchard@5: Effing squids (re: the Annapolis link).
(USMA 1980)
Is there an air gap between “Not Uncle Joe”‘s nose and Baobo’s anus? Or perhaps vice versa?
Remember the old USSR? Where everybody knew that Pravda and Izvestia were just full of lies and govt propaganda? Where the Soviets circulated ”samizdat”, mimeographed underground sheets that told the truth to people who weren’t sucked in.
See any modern parallels? Are we part of our very own ”samizdat”?
Not that it’s a huge deal because it doesn’t change the meaning of the post, but there is no “the KKK.” The last national Klan broke up on 1944. Currently there are at least 5 regionally based Klan organizations.
Biblical themes in the Obama milieu:
Samson and his jaw bone of an ass: Obama and Biden, Obama and Axlerod, Obama and Obama. Bringing down the pillars of the temple: Holder and the Justice Department, Bernanke and the US Dollar.
Oh never mind, this is too easy.
woody wilson was a klan fan
Richard Cranium 10,
When it comes to synchronized stupidity the Army Cadets can’t hold a candle to Navy Mids.
In re. your #11, there are holes down which you do not bother to chase the rabbit. If wretchard ever gets Toque revived we will be able to rate reputations or block trolls.
Well, Romney has Mike Rowe. A guy who celebrates real work. But Romney has that vote sewn up already. What Romney needs is someone whose endorsement would be the like a new iphone, a fashion statement. Is Honey Booboo available?
Anyway, in the spirit of fair play, I wanna give Obama a new campaign slogan:
Math is hard. Facts are racist.
Think it will play?
No?
How bout:
I, for one, welcome our new Benghazi overlords.
Anyway, if Obama wins another term, are you ready for the storm?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QWY_xcw5V8
“Is there an air gap between “Not Uncle Joe”‘s nose…” hey Richard, way to not engage in ad homenem and actually engage the point. Not.
I have no idea who Baobao is, or if he is even Chinese. I haven’t seen enough of his comments to even guess. I am not Russian. But any sort of reality that casts anyone who ever happened to be anti-Russian or part of the Anti-Russia Please Give Us More Money America lobby in a bad light, i.e. a certain tie eating Soros protege who went to Columbia, is to be immediately discounted as crimethink by certain types here. Oceania must always have been at war with Eurasia, never mind that bit of cooperation after 9/11 or the logistical lifelines still winding their way through landlocked Central Asia via Russian Railways to our troops. Never mind Russia buying drones from Israel and possibly opening Azeri air space to the IAF or at least ‘civilian’ Israeli flights. Russia is eternal enemy no. 1 as Mitt Romney’s advisors hath decreed and no amount of reality can break that Narrative. We are constantly told about the Left’s unshakeable narratives but not those of the ‘Right’.
Returning back to the topic of this thread, my point is some of the people who purport to be anti-Islam ‘provocateurs’ who made this Innocence of Muslims film might’ve been working for intel agencies, or Walid Shoebat’s terrorist cousin, or even the Muslim Brotherhood itself since at least one able commenter has already pointed out how the vids were reposted in Egypt the eve of the 9/11 anniversary.
Whoever ‘they’ were they picked for a ‘patsy’ this Nakoula fellow who isn’t even legally permitted by the terms of his parole to upload a video on the web, who naturally goes to prison as soon as the video starts pissing people off months after its release for parole violations. J. Christian Adams of PJM naturally tells us no, this is not an example of the U.S. government turning to censorship or police state tactics, the guy just violated his parole. And the pro-BigSis jackasses on Twitter like @ReginaldQuill won’t even ask why Nakoula and not somebody else. But shouldn’t Adams as a responsible journo be asking why a guy who couldn’t legally upload a video to the web was chosen for this very task? Couldn’t the dimwitted alleged Copt, alleged Jewish by turns grifter have at least found somebody else to upload the vid for him?
Of course I know all respectable commenters and PJMers think conspiracy theories are all for people who hate America. I made this point to ‘Josh’ in a prior thread regarding 9/11. Putting the official 9/11 narrative in stone and defending it to the death hardly honors the dead on that day. In fact it probably makes the Saudis and ISI happy that Righties must insist with a straight face that just 19 hijackers could’ve pulled off such a coup solely on their own and managed to get 3 of those 4 airliners on target (ok the Pentagon is a big target, but how good of pilots would they have had to be to not miss the Towers or have to make a second pass?) without any ground control.
Sorry, I have a brain like Edward Jay Epstein, and I’ll use it even if it points to…shock, horror! Conspiracy. Including the Kennedy Assassination. Because anybody who accepts official narratives at face value is at best intellectually incurious and at worse is brain dead.
And regarding Skousen’s extensive lines about ‘discrediting the Founding Fathers’ these days you find more vitriol and accusations of being a terrorist directed toward George Washington in MIAC reports and Homeland Security training videos than you do on…Russian English-language TV. So it would seem the main threat to our freedoms STILl comes from within rather than without. A fact those warning about ‘Lubyanka’ spawn ‘trolling’ here ought to consider. Maybe they should be more worried about the ‘cognitive dissonance’ Cass Sunstein brigades who pretend to be right wing but furiously denounce anyone who doesn’t like more wars, BigSis, or the Federal Reserve.
EOT for me.
Oh, dear. Viktor is back. Or should I say “Mr. X”? Clever fellow.
Read somewhere freerepublic that you can tell who the rulers are because we’re forbidden to talk about them.
Remember, we’re all flying on instruments right now. Seat of the pants flying can do you harm
That video shows candidates dancing. That’s harmless enough, but soon they will make politicians (or anyone) say things that were never spoken. People won’t suspect anything if it’s done to the right scapegoats.
I have no idea who Baobao is, or if he is even Chinese.
I don’t know either sometimes. But my girlfriend is Chinese, which proves we are not gay like that poster implied. I have never even met you before.
I think theOnion’s humorous piece pretty much nails it.
Media Having Trouble Finding Right Angle On Obama’s Double-Homicide
http://www.theonion.com/articles/media-having-trouble-finding-right-angle-on-obamas,2703/?fb_action_ids=10151212654030862&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map={%2210151212654030862%22%3A477642622409}&action_type_map={%2210151212654030862%22%3A%22og.likes%22}&action_ref_map=[]
The Iranians were not duped by the above article–that is we have not seen the Iranian reprinting the above article as fact. However, they did reprint as fact an earlier Onion piece and even suggested that it was their own reporting.
By Michael Martinez CNN
The Onion dupes Iran’s news agency
Story said Ahmadinejad preferred to Obama in US poll
http://www.ksbw.com/news/The-Onion-dupes-Iran-s-news-agency/-/1852/16781434/-/v1vep6z/-/index.html
6. R Daneel
Thank you for posting that, because I was going to.
Cleon Skousen wrote that in the late 1950s. He made Nostradamus look like an amateur, as far as I’m concerned. Just compare what America was like in the 50s to what it is today, and it’s pretty obvious that the Communists are winning.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
I don’t see a mention of banks, but I can’t help wondering whether some of the big bankers are really stealth Communists, working to collapse the system from within. After all, they went to the same schools that have been infiltrated and taken over by Communists, and were subjected to anti-capitalist propaganda as students.
White House Hack Attack
Chinese hackers break in to White House military office network in charge of the president’s nuclear football
AP
BY: Bill Gertz
September 30, 2012 8:33 pm
Hackers linked to China’s government broke into one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive computer networks, breaching a system used by the White House Military Office for nuclear commands, according to defense and intelligence officials familiar with the incident.
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A Chinese military paper from March stated that China is seeking “cyber dominance” as part of its efforts to build up revolutionary military capabilities.
“In peacetime, the cyber combat elements may remain in a ‘dormant’ state; in wartime, they may be activated to harass and attack the network command, management, communications, and intelligence systems of the other countries’ armed forces,” wrote Liu Wangxin in the official newspaper of the Chinese military on March 6.
“While great importance is attached continuously to wartime actions, it is also necessary to pay special attention to non-wartime actions,” he said. “For example, demonstrate the presence of the cyber military power through cyber reconnaissance, cyber deployment, and cyber protection activities.”
http://freebeacon.com/white-house-hack-attack/
Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine
Network Security Breaches Plague NASA
By Keith Epstein andBen Elgin on November 19, 2008
http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-11-19/network-security-breaches-plague-nasa
Repeated attacks from abroad on NASA computers and Web sites are causing consternation among officials and stirring national security concerns
America’s military and scientific institutions—along with the defense industry that serves them—are being robbed of secret information on satellites, rocket engines, launch systems, and even the Space Shuttle. The thieves operate via the Internet from Asia and Europe, penetrating U.S. computer networks. Some of the intruders are suspected of having ties to the governments of China and Russia, interviews and documents show. Of all the arms of the U.S. government, few are more vulnerable than NASA, the civilian space agency, which also works closely with the Pentagon and American intelligence services.
In April 2005, cyber-burglars slipped into the digital network of NASA’s supposedly super-secure Kennedy Space Center east of Orlando, according to internal NASA documents reviewed by BusinessWeek and never before disclosed. While hundreds of government workers were preparing for a launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery that July, a malignant software program surreptitiously gathered data from computers in the vast Vehicle Assembly Building, where the Shuttle is maintained. The violated network is managed by a joint venture owned by NASA contractors Boeing (BA) and Lockheed Martin (LMT).
Undetected by the space agency or the companies, the program, called stame.exe, sent a still-undetermined amount of information about the Shuttle to a computer system in Taiwan. That nation is often used by the Chinese government as a digital way station, according to U.S. security specialists.
By December 2005, the rupture had spread to a NASA satellite control complex in suburban Maryland and to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, home of Mission Control. At least 20 gigabytes of compressed data—the equivalent of 30 million pages—were routed from the Johnson center to the system in Taiwan, NASA documents show. Much of the data came from a computer server connected to a network that tracks malfunctions that could threaten the International Space Station.
0bama’s cronies in the MSM are trying to racially smear Romney with hear-say evidence (or fabricated evidence). It is 0bama’s old race card tactic – black man against white man. It is gutter politics and it is worn-out!
I will make my observations short:
1. Democrat pollster Pat Caddell noted: “…we’re at the most dangerous time in our political history in terms of the balance of power in the role that the media plays in whether or not we maintain a free democracy or not… the nepotism that exists, where people get jobs—they’re married to people who are in the administration, or in politics…the overwhelming bias has become very real and very dangerous…The corruption in this town is so great… Everybody in Washington seems to almost be on the take…I said, the relationships, when people are making contracts, and their husbands and wives are getting—Jay Carney’s wife works in the government! Now he works—he was the head of the Time Magazine! He was a liar then, and a liar now…if I had more time I’d do all the names…”
http://www.aim.org/video/pat-caddell-the-audacity-of-corruption/
2. 0bama’s axis that controls the MSM seems to be Jay Carney (and his wife Clair Shipman of Good Morning America), David Plouffe who took $100,000 from Iranian groups fronting in Nigeria (and his wife Olivia Morgan who has extensive Hollywood contacts; adviser Mara Shriver a member of 0bama’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities), Ezra Klein (and his associates in the JournoList with who exercises extensive coordination of political news). The entire MSM is corrupt.
2. The Benghazi attack, which killed an American Ambassador and three others, shows 0bama has been out smarted by at every move by terrorists. 0bama is an idiot. All 0bama can do is have Susan Rice repeat lie after lie to cover his incompetence. As of yet there is no indication any terrorists have been killed and its doubtful any real perpetrators have been taken into custody.
Now it appears there is much more to the Benghazi attack and al qaeda is taking credit. The sometimes correct Debka File indicates: “…the murder of American ambassador Chris Stevens on September 11 in Benghazi, Libya, was because the murder was an act of revenge for US-led plans to assassinate the terrorist Abdelmalek Droukdel, Emir of Al Qaeda in the Land of the Maghreb, or Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). According to the details of the story, which Debka says are not fully confirmed, the Americans collaborated with the Libyan, Algerian and Tunisian secret services to kill Droukdel and the entire AQIM leadership, an accomplishment that would have rivaled the killing of Osama bin Laden for the Obama administration. However, Droukdel got wind of the assassination plans, and turned the tables, killing Stevens.”
If any of the latter is true then 0bama has put his election before America’s security and he should be brought before a committee to examine the real evidence. The constant killing of Americans for 0bama’s reelection must stop now!
3. “Rep. Peter King, the New York Republican who heads the House Homeland Security Committee, told National Review that he thinks Rice should resign over the controversy.”
I would go one step further and say the both Rice and 0bama should resign. Joe Biden could temporarily take 0bama’s place and sit on his hands. He maybe dumb but he is not an egotistical liar who launches blundering international campaigns to further his reelection prospects.
4. Is Romney getting the Daily Briefs as is customary for any leading Presidential candidate? Conversely, is 0bama withholding the Daily Briefs to cover up blunders (or to scorch the earth should he lose his faltering reelection bid)? Something is very wrong.
Jeez what a tangled web Obama’s world is.
I have no idea whether the following story is true. I don’t know how to judge it on its merits or on its source. So anyone feel free to malign or bless this piece as suits your mind or heart. Having said that. here goes
http://www.shoebat.com/2012/09/27/innocence-of-muslims-film-was-made-by-terrorists-2/
before commenting it might be helpful to read the freerepublic comments on the piece
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2938467/posts
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Innocence of Muslims Film was Made by Terrorists
September 27, 2012 in Blog, General
Walid Shoebat
When it comes to the film Innocence of Muslims, our government and the media uses a narrative mired in contradictions and false statements provided by the filmmaker, who himself is an untrustworthy source.
If we stick to what can be proven we might obtain the possibility that terror supporters produced the film. Muhammad Al Dura and Pallywood are two cases in point showing the type of stunts used by Palestinian terrorists.
Court documents reveal that Nakoula Bacile Nakoula, producer of the movie Innocence of Muslims, partnered in a scheme with Eiad Salameh, my first cousin.
Eiad is a Muslim terror supporter and is not an Egyptian Copt.
He comes from Beit Sahour, Bethlehem and is well known by the FBI and the Arab community as a conduit for Middle Easterners who can obtain authentic, legitimate identifications, from passports to credit cards that include many nationalities. He then places these forms of identification into the hands of dubious characters that are not the real identity.
In fact, I revealed Eiad Salameh way before this whole fiasco erupted—in 2008 and the first reporting on the connection between Eiad and Nakoula was revealed on September 14th, 2012 by the Smoking Gun, which published court documents that prove these two were connected in 2009, as part of a major financial fraud scheme.
The narrative that circulates the media fails to address crucial questions about the mystery of this film.
For example, to date, no one has stepped forward or can confirm for certain that whoever holds an identity by the name of Nakoula Bacile Nakoula is even that man. After all, he held several identifications, including Muslim names. He could have easily presented a valid I.D. when he was arrested, yet he was likely not the man on that I.D.
Such a claim isn’t easily dismissed; if an Egyptian by the name of Nakoula Bacile Nakoula is blamed for angering over a billion Muslims, it would not be that difficult to find the entire family in Egypt, to include brothers, cousins, aunts, siblings wife, wives, ex-wives, mistresses, and pets, et. al., especially since the riots that spanned across 30 nations were sparked in Egypt.
In the Middle East, you are known by your clan. Yet, Egypt cannot produce neither this man’s family or his background?
Besides, why would Nakoula – who claims to be a religious Coptic activist – have extensive connections with Eiad, a man who I know hates Copts and is well-known to be among the best schemers the Middle East produced and has contacts with terror networks?
This terror connect is not devoid of evidence. The Daily Beast reported on Nakoula’s arrest:
The bust came around the time the feds were launching Operation Mountain Express, which would become a huge investigation into pseudoephedrine-dealing involving numerous people of a Middle Eastern background. The authorities initially insisted there were no links to terrorism, but suddenly switched and decided that a chunk of the money was going to Hizbullah.
The Eiad Nakoula connection was likely terror-related.
Nakoula impersonated himself as an Israeli Jew, a thing Eiad also did for years and fraudulently holds an authentic Israeli passport.
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There are further links in this story and it continues.
http://www.shoebat.com/2012/09/27/innocence-of-muslims-film-was-made-by-terrorists-2/
Ryan: We are seeing Obama’s foreign policy unravel on our TV screens
Paul Ryan slammed Barack Obama’s failed foreign policy this week on FOX News Sunday.
The Republican VP nominee told Chris Wallace the “ugly fruits” of a foreign policy of weakness is unraveling before our eyes on our TV screens.
“The Obama foreign policy is unraveling literally before our eyes on our TV screens. And so what Mitt Romney is going to do is lay out a very different vision for foreign policy. One, that is a policy of strength that I would articulate or claim the president’s policy is one of weakness. We’re seeing the ugly fruits of the Obama foreign policy unravel around the world on our TV screens.”
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/09/30/paul-ryan-we-are-seeing-the-ugly-fruits-of-obamas-foreign-policy-unravel-on-our-tv-screens-video/
Pat Caddell Says: Media Have Become “Enemy of the American People”
Roger Aronoff — September 27, 2012
http://www.aim.org/on-target-blog/pat-caddell-says-media-have-become-enemy-of-the-american-people/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AccuracyInMedia+%28Accuracy+In+Media%29
Charles, this isn’t Instapundit. Post your own remarks.
Where there is a need to deflect criticism or hide mistakes a common tactic is to take the simple and make it complex. 0bama is an expert at deflection via making the simple items into complex items.
Here is the link missing from my post:
World View – Report: Libya Attack a Preemptive Response to Planned Assassination of Al-Qaeda Leader
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/09/28/29-Sep-12-World-View-Aftermath-of-Libyan-military-action-sees-big-increase-in-al-Qaeda-activity-in-Africa
Disregard the duplicate number 2. It should be part of number 1.
32. T2costkeeper
That’s a pretty good explanation.
two problems.
one is the source debka which is often incorrect.
the second is that the skill with which the attackers grabbed the intel files.(now that might be explained by saying that the attackers were assisted by an intel agency whose price for help was that they grab the intel files–or something along an explanation posed by Wretchard in an earlier post.)
That liberal know-it-all woman, Vegasjessie, ought to bone up on her history before dishing out lessons. The Ku Klux Klan never took a cotton to Mormons, whom they consider to be an apostate cult that doesn’t even qualify as Christian. Why, they’re held to be even worse than Papists! And that matters a lot to these self-styled Christian warriors. Stringing up Mormon missionaries was one of the KKK’s old pastimes. Politics does make strange bedfellows, but I bet Romney’s chance for their endorsement is only slightly better than Obama’s, which is to say it’s a hair’s breadth away from impossible.
I see this Vegasjessie self-describes as a “Progressive warrior” probably without any idea that the Ku Klux Klan self-described in _exactly_ the same lingo. Funny, given than a large part of her argument is that a Romney slogan is similar to an old Klan slogan. But the Klan were capital ‘P’ Progressives of the Social Gospel variety. Woodrow Wilson, the king Progressive, relied upon and courted the Klan, and proclaimed Birth of a Nation (first film shown at the White House and a homage to the Klan) to be a wonderful masterpiece. Many of the Wilson boys and the New Dealers were Klasnmen or Klan sympathizers (even a Supreme, Hugo Black, whose Separation of Church and State opinion is very dear to Vegasjessie’s heart). The late and lionized Sen. Robert Byrd is of that same old DEMOCRATIC PROGRESSIVE tradition that SHE proudly inherits.
I hate to agree with a tyrant like Robert Mugabe, but the west is so busy pushing their gay agenda they haven’t investigated what “gay” means in African culture: it means sexual harassment and pedophilia.
The rape of women in war, by employers, by teachers, and by neighbors has gotten some attention in medical and feminist circles, but the gay rape of prisoners, of boy soldiers, and of civilians in the civil wars has had little research done. And, of course, if your teacher or employee asks you for sex, you feel obliged to give in, be you a girl or boy. Then there is the problem of recruiting high school boys for sex trafficking. Again, a known problem with girls, but not one well known for boys, but it’s bad enough for the Ugandan clergy to worry about it–and be labeled as homophobes if they do.
BBC link HERE/
One wonders if Mugabe’s harsh reaction is related to his time as a political prisoner, or if it is a reaction to his medical history, of which I’d better keep quiet.
17. Black Bart
You inspired me, and yes, I am as ready as I can be…and yet, except for the instigators who know their game and time, who truly can be ready for exactly how the treachery will be brought?
I dedicate this to our guys in the sand, in whom they (we) today lost two more of our mates from our “Afghani allies friendly fire.”
Ready For The Storm
The waves crash in the tide rolls out
It’s an angry sea but there is no doubt
That the lighthouse will keep shining out
To warn a lonely sailor
And the lightning strikes
And the wind cuts cold
Through the sailor’s bones
Through the sailor’s soul
‘Til there’s nothing left that he can hold
Except a rolling ocean
Oh I am ready for the storm
Yes sir ready
I am ready for the storm
I’m ready for the storm
‘Cause every confrontation seems to tell me
What it really means
To be this lonely sailor
And when the sky begins to clear
The sun it melts away my fear
And I cry a silent weary tear
For those who mean to love me
Oh I am ready for the storm
Yes sir ready
I am ready for the storm
I’m ready for the storm
The distance it is no real friend
And time will take it’s time
And you will find that in the end
It brings you me
Your lonely sailor
And when You take me by the hand
And You love me, Lord, You love me
And I should have realized
I had no reasons to be frightened
Oh I am ready for the storm
Yes sir ready
I am ready for the storm
Yes sir ready
I am ready for the storm
Yes sir ready
I am ready for the storm
I’m ready for the storm
36. Sgian Dubh
I posted that link for the song because the video gave a graphic representation of what a bad storm would be like.
The song was written by Dougie MacLean.
This is him performing it himself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrpUTfSZ71o
Bart and Sgian @ 36&37: As a USCG vet, I often sing that song at our weekly Celtic/folk music sessions here in NH, particularly when a coastie or other military member is KIA or while training. I’ve been singing it far too often lately…I may have to write some new lyrics to “The Parting Glass” to suit these occurences to add a little variety…