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tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

Rudy G. Black Shades of 50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDxQrAy0D3o

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

‘Anonymous “Hacktivists” strike blow against ISIS’
But why can’t governments(i.e. USA) around the world do this?
http://anonhq.com/anonymous-hacktivists-strike-blow-isis/
“Anonymous has just struck a massive blow against ISIS recruiting efforts. Hacktivists recently took control of dozens of Twitter and Facebook accounts that had been openly used by ISIS to expand their influence and recruit new members.

The above video explains the attack was coordinated by “Muslims, Christians, Jews” alike. They are “hackers, crackers, Hacktivist, phishers, agents, spies, or just the guy next door… students, administrators, workers, clerks, unemployed, rich, poor.” They are also “young, or old, gay or straight… from all races, countries, religions, and ethnicity. United as one, divided by zero.”

An important point made by the video is that “the terrorists that are calling themselves [the] Islamic State (ISIS) are not Muslims.” Anonymous further directs a threat to ISIS itself:

We will hunt you, take down your sites, accounts, emails, and expose you…
From now on, no safe place for you online…
You will be treated like a virus, and we are the cure…
We own the internet…
We are Anonymous; we are Legion; we do not forgive, we do not forget, Expect us.

The following are some of the Twitter handles that had been brought down by Anonymous and RedCult team in #OpISIS are listed below:

Anonymous states that the Facebook accounts listed below appear to be in close contact with ISIS. We are advised to “keep a close eye” on them.

This is just the beginning iteems. Anonymous warns that there will be “more to come.” In fact, even as this article is being typed, more accounts are being taken offline.”

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

Obama Mocks Mitch McConnell(GOP Senate Majority Leader) For Taking Credit For Improving Economy
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obama-mocks-mitch-mcconnell
“President Barack Obama on Friday laughed off Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) recent suggestion that positive economic signs could be connected to the GOP’s sweeping victory in the 2014 midterm election.

“Our Republican leader in the Senate, as he was coming in, after trying to block every single thing that we have done to strengthen the economy, starts looking at jobs numbers, says you know, it is getting better because we just got elected. And people are feeling more optimistic,” he said in a campaign-style speech at the DNC Winter Meeting in Washington.

“Which — okay. I didn’t know that’s how the economy worked, but maybe,” he chuckled, grinning from ear to ear. “We’ll call some economists.”

Last month on the Senate floor, newly minted Majority Leader McConnell said, “The uptick [in economic data] appears to coincide with the biggest political change of the Obama administration’s long tenure in Washington: the expectation of a new Republican Congress.”

Obama added on Friday: “Now that their predictions of doom and gloom and death panels and Armageddon haven’t come true — sky hasn’t fallen, Chicken Little’s quiet — the new plan apparently of congressional Republicans, and this is progress, the new plan is to rebrand themselves as the party of the middle class. Not making this up.”

Andy
Andy
9 years ago

Ground opens up an a man and a woman fall into a 3m hole in Yongsan:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f91_1424517282#comment_page=2

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

Wei-Hock(Willie) Soon and climate change denier(for the money) caught

GOP, energy companies, and the Koch brothers cooking the science books…

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/us/ties-to-corporate-cash-for-climate-change-researcher-Wei-Hock-Soon.html?_r=0
“For years, politicians wanting to block legislation on climate change have bolstered their arguments by pointing to the work of a handful of scientists who claim that greenhouse gases pose little risk to humanity…”]

…But newly released documents show the extent to which Dr. Soon’s work has been tied to funding he received from corporate interests.

He has accepted more than $1.2 million in money from the fossil-fuel industry over the last decade while failing to disclose that conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers. At least 11 papers he has published since 2008 omitted such a disclosure, and in at least eight of those cases, he appears to have violated ethical guidelines of the journals that published his work.

The newly disclosed documents, plus additional documents compiled by Greenpeace over the last four years, show that at least $409,000 of Dr. Soon’s funding in the past decade came from Southern Company Services, a subsidiary of the Southern Company, based in Atlanta.

Southern is one of the largest utility holding companies in the country, with huge investments in coal-burning power plants. The company has spent heavily over many years to lobby against greenhouse-gas regulations in Washington.

Dr. Soon also received at least $230,000 from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation. (Mr. Koch’s fortune derives partly from oil refining.) However, other companies and industry groups that once supported Dr. Soon, include Exxon Mobil and the American Petroleum Institute.

As the oil-industry contributions fell, Dr. Soon started receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars through DonorsTrust, an organization based in Alexandria, Va., that accepts money from donors who wish to remain anonymous, then funnels it to various conservative causes.
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The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, in Cambridge, Mass., is a joint venture between Harvard and the Smithsonian Institution, housing some 300 scientists from both institutions. Because the Smithsonian is a government agency, Greenpeace was able to request that Dr. Soon’s correspondence and grant agreements be released under the Freedom of Information Act.
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sherm
20 minutes ago

Dr Soon is part and parcel of the corporate institution. He just another tiny part of of the stock holder mandated strategy to make as much…
Rick R
23 minutes ago

It’s most disappointing that when shining much need light on such skulduggery, nothing changes. Soon’s conflicts of interest were reported…
emm305
25 minutes ago

“Dr. Alcock said that, aside from the disclosure issue, he thought it was important to protect Dr. Soon’s academic freedom, even if most of…

Though often described on conservative news programs as a “Harvard astrophysicist,” Dr. Soon is not an astrophysicist and has never been employed by Harvard. He is a part-time employee of the Smithsonian Institution with a doctoral degree in aerospace engineering.

Gavin A. Schmidt, head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan, a NASA division that studies climate change, said that the sun had probably accounted for no more than 10 percent of recent global warming and that greenhouse gases produced by human activity explained most of it.

“The science that Willie Soon does is almost pointless,” Dr. Schmidt said.

Dr. Soon has found a warm welcome among politicians in Washington and state capitals who try to block climate action. United States Senator James M. Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican who claims that climate change is a global scientific hoax, has repeatedly cited Dr. Soon’s work over the years.

In a Senate debate last month, Mr. Inhofe pointed to a poster with photos of scientists questioning the climate-change consensus, including Dr. Soon. “These are scientists that cannot be challenged,” the senator said. A spokeswoman for the senator said Friday that he was traveling and could not be reached for comment…”

Want More…?
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/21/climate-change-denier-willie-soon-funded-energy-industry

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

This is very refreshing news.

Dr. Soon is doing important work to insure we get more climate change.

I look foreward to a wonderful warmer world with less air pollution as the need for fossil fuel heating decreases, less agricultural runoff as the longer growing seasons will require fewer chemicals to sustain production, denser forrests, more wild animals, the opening of currently-uninhabitable land, and the cries of alarmist who find the sky does not fall.

Im going to go burn a tire.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

Columba Bush Garnica Gallo — known to her friends as Colu, pronounced Coo-loo — was a restless 17-year-old who wanted to explore life beyond León, her bustling hometown, when she met Mr. Bush, an exchange student and academic underachiever from Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., in 1971.

Jeb is his “own man” .. now meet his own-man-ness foreign policy advisors like Like Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff, George W.’s two homeland security secretaries. And Porter Goss and Michael Hayden, two of George W.’s CIA directors. And Iraq War architects Paul Wolfowitz, Stephen Hadley, and Meghan O’Sullivan(WarHawks hiring WarDogs) etc… etc… etc…

Jeb’s Wife Columba is wary of family business and doesn’t enjoy the spotlight but likes nice things ~

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/us/politics/a-bush-outsider-backing-jeb-but-wary-of-family-business.html?action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article

Coo-loo speaks in heavily accented English and…

“As Florida’s first lady, she had arranged Mass in the governor’s mansion and endured weeks of bad press for a European
shopping spree. She blamed politics for friction in her marriage and as a factor in her daughter’s drug addiction. A run for the White House would expose her to the spotlight as never before.

…Mrs. Bush also found the public spotlight searing. Returning to the United States in 1999 from one of her regular trips to Europe, Mrs. Bush lied to customs officials about her overseas purchases: She said she had spent only $500, but receipts were found for $19,000 in clothes and jewelry. A spokesman for Mr. Bush said at the time that she had under reported the goods because she did not want Mr. Bush to know how much she had spent. (Mr. Bush is known among his friends as frugal with his own clothing, at least.)”

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

Lab rats are used to test pharmaceuticals because the results often apply to humans.

All those scientific studies that found goldfish have 3 second memories apparently apply to Republican voters.

The fact that Bush Part 3 is being considered demonstrates:

1. Republican voters are almost as stupid as Democrat voters.

2. Republican leadership is so void of talent that a Bush, yet again, rises to the top by default.

3. American politics is so meaningless that it matters not who is elected president… as nothing will really change from the overall plan… so neither party really cares who they thrust upon the public.

4. It is all one big joke by the One Percent as they sit around a room lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills and saying things like…

“I bet you twenty million dollars I can get the American public to elect yet another dumbazz Bush.”

“No way, man. Not after I lost 20 million last time when you said you could get the American public to vote for an unknown black man with an Islamic terrorist name, domestic terrorist ties, a history of anti-Americanism, a foreign scumbag for a father, a leftist slut for a mother, a completely obscured background filled with mediocrity, and an angry whitey-hating gorilla for a first lady. Boy was I a sucker. But I will bet you 5 million that radical feminists will rally around Hillary as if she is some kind of feminist icon even though she rolled over and sucked it up like a good little biitch after her husband got his balls publicly hummed by a fat intern.”

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

little brown ones

“In 1988, the elder Mr. Bush ran for president, and his daughter-in-law got a painful introduction to national politics. Mrs. Bush, who became an American citizen so she could vote that November, later said she had found herself “trembling” after he referred in public to her children as “the little brown ones.” While she moved quickly to defend Mr. Bush, describing his reference as a term of endearment, the phrase hung over the children and their mother for years.”

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

term of endearment

Reminds me of a young American I met recently who clearly doesn’t like black people said he will soon become the god father of a “half-breed” and will buy the little one a shirt that says “half-breed” on the back.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

NYC cops have never killed an unarmed white man while Fran has lived there(see video)…
Fran Lebowitz: When Giuliani was mayor an unarmed black man was killed every 5 minutes
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/fran-lebotwitz-when-giuliani-was-mayor-an-unarmed-black-man-was-killed-every-5-minutes/
“Lebowitz said that when Giuliani ran for mayor of New York City in 1993, his ads said “vote for me and it’ll be 1952 again. He is just soaked in nostalgia. That’s what he meant when he said Obama doesn’t love the country the way we love the county.”

“What does it mean,” Maher asked, “that Republicans want to go back to an era, the Fifties, where America was run by socialism?”

“You mean economic policy,” Lebowitz replied. “The New Deal. That’s not the part they miss. They miss — you know, what is behind Giuliani’s comments, and we’re not allowed to say this, but it’s racism. We now live in a society where it’s worse to call someone a racist than to be one.”

“And yet they say the most racist things,” Maher said. “Ben Stein, last year, said ‘Obama is the most racist president we’ve ever had.’ And I thought, even more than the eleven who actually owned slaves?”

“Andrew Jackson killed Indians by hand — just because they were Indians,” he continued. “Ethnic cleansing was just the thing to do.”

“What happened to Giuliani? He was the mayor of a liberal city. He used to be a moderate Republican.”

“No,” Lebowitz interjected, “when Giuliani was the mayor, every five minutes an unarmed black guy was getting shot in the back. It was always a different excuse from the cops — ‘he had something in his hand, I thought it was a gun,’ and it was a candy bar. It was a key chain.”

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

“vote for me and it’ll be 1952 again.”

“They miss — you know, what is behind Giuliani’s comments, and we’re not allowed to say this, but it’s racism. ”

No, Tbone. It isn’t racism they miss.

It is that in 1952, poor and ignorant people knew their place. They didn’t scream as if their opinion was equally valid to the educated and successful… and the media didn’t pay attention to them because the majority of Americans had enough education and life experience to recognize the bullshyt.

Now, with America dumbed down and conditioned to be helpless, the poor and ignorant can say anything they want and far too many people will agree with them… especially since the government has worked hard to kill self-sufficiency and encourage dependence…

…and a theme you will hear over and over from the loud and uneducated poor is: What will society give me.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

EGGHEAD: “It is that in 1952, poor and ignorant people knew their place. They didn’t scream as if their opinion was equally valid to the educated and successful.”

You are a f***** racist, and would like to go back to the KKK days of 1952 and before Selma and voting rights act of 1965, You’re truly are and EGGHEAD!!!

EGGHEAD: “and the media didn’t pay attention to them because the majority of Americans had enough education and life experience to recognize the bullshyt.”

So the Freedom of Information Act wasn’t ever needed because(YOU EGGHEAD)…”the majority of Americans had enough education and life experience to recognize the bullshyt.”

EGGHEAD: “Now, with America dumbed down and conditioned to be helpless,”

You’re correct America can’t stop starting unjust wars and the military can’t seem to win any of them.

EGGHEAD: “the poor and ignorant can say anything they want and far too many people will agree with them”

Again, you just don’t like anyone saying things you don’t agree with and you think people have less of a right to speak(when you don’t agree) but more of a right to buy guns at gun shows without background checks etc… etc… etc…

Setnaffa
Setnaffa
9 years ago

Tbone is so predictable. He gets high off sterno, goes to the local library, cuts and pastes huffpo/du/kos talking points intact into rokdrop, gets his ears boxed, and screams raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacism.

Problem is, he had all the credibility of Tawana Brawley at this point. Plus he isn’t funny anymore. Kinda like the third hour of babysitting a two-year-old with a loaded diaper.

I keep hoping he has the balls to ask for help. Or has friends who are willing to keep him alive. I will start praying for him tonight. Not because I am some sort of saint; but because I don’t like to see dogs or addicts abused by others.

MTB Rider
MTB Rider
9 years ago

I’m a bit surprised GI Korea hasn’t posted this yet:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/02/south-korean-memoir-150204113909930.html

Retired politicians love to write memoirs. Sometimes it seems that writing a memoir after retirement is part of the job description of leaders of modern states. These memoirs usually come with a political agenda, and also include a good deal of self-justification.

This is all well and good, but in some cases, retired politicians might divulge things that are best kept confidential. It seems that the recently published “President’s Time”, the memoir of Lee Myung-bak, president of South Korea from 2008 to 2013, was a book that crossed too many lines, and provided the general public with information that they were better off without.

What’s going on with this book? Dr. Lankov mentions the “Cash for Summit” deal the norKs tried to pull and Lee, Myung-Bak turned down, and that LMB said that the Chinese have had just about enough of the DPRK, but all this is fairly public knowledge. Is anyone following this locally? Thoughts?

Leon LaPorte
Leon LaPorte
9 years ago

Setnaffa: Instead of praying for one person, how about tossing in some prayer for the end of cancer, poverty and world peace? You know, really make it count!

I look forward waking up in such a world. I only have to wonder why your god waited all this time to fix these things (and tbone) and why YOU didn’t think of it before. Seems you are both lacking on empathy.

Denny
Denny
9 years ago

New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says transgender Americans should be allowed to serve openly in the military

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2964875/New-Defense-Secretary-says-transgender-Americans-not-prohibited-military-service.html

Denny
Denny
9 years ago

Air Force captain, 30, shoots herself dead ‘after being sexually assaulted in Afghanistan’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2964297/Air-Force-Reserve-family-suspect-sexually-assaulted-Afghanistan-shoots-dead.html

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

Setnaffa, I was hoping Tbone would tell us more about how any comment about the poor and uneducated becomes “racist”.

Perhaps, in the liberal mind, all the poor and uneducated are people of color?

Why that sounds like…

…raaaaaccciiiissssmmmmm!

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

“Air Force captain, 30, shoots herself dead ‘after being sexually assaulted in Afghanistan’”

A more accurate headline would be:

Air Force captain, 30, shoots herself dead for seemingly no reason so her heartbroken family contrives something external to blame other than her shaky business plan, recently broken-up boyfriend, chronic depression and anxiety, and her “long tobacco and alcohol abuse history”.

What’s the percentage of girls that pretty in the Air Force who don’t have serious issues?

“New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says transgender Americans should be allowed to serve openly in the military”

The most impressive part of the article is “There are an estimated 15,500 transgender service members”

It goes on to say there used to be 15,501 but Guitard got out.

Leon LaPorte
Leon LaPorte
9 years ago

“New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says transgender Americans should be allowed to serve openly in the military”

I get it. This is how they will get “women” who at least have a chance of completing the ranger course.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

Here is a question…

If a man and a woman are both drunk, the man is automatically at fault because the woman “couldn’t consent”.

What about a man and a tranny?

What if the tranny was pushing?

I wonder if uniformed generals, elected officials, and Harvard-educated career bureaucrats sat around contemplating these issues with serious faces… not realizing that drunk E3s beat them to it by almost two decades.

Hmmm… maybe they DID contemplate these things over beer 20 years ago. That’s why it is happening so quickly.

You would think the military would have better things to do than fret over trannies.

Hmmm… unless it’s a ploy to send them into combat against ISIS.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

“I guess it is easier to pin blame on males than except what there are actually facts available that could explain why…”

Huh? First the never ending then/than and now the except/accept???

If I were to bet I’d bet that it’s a rape(GANG or is that GANGNAM Sytle ~ except the hate is on females and I often sense female hate on the ROKDROP) via a MALE/servicethemselvesso/selfcalledmember(s). You’re flapping just like your claim of others.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

chicken/EGGHEAD says…”Setnaffa, I was hoping Tbone would tell us more about how any comment about the poor and uneducated becomes “racist.”

Answer this EGGHEAD, what if Obama were Muslim?

You’re just like racist Rudy G. or Sarah Palin who said “he’s(Obama) not like us” and “he’s not one of us.”

President Reagan is more like Obama than Sarah Palin/Rudy G. yet chicken/EGGHEAD chooses the side of racists.

I think it’s pretty clear that you’re the racist when you side with Rudy G and would like to take back America to the 50’s when black people had less rights and the KKK was conducting lynchings nightly or when Rudy G’s NYC cops killed unarmed black men every 5 minutes but somehow never killed an unarmed white man. You, Rudy G. and Sarah Palin…Same Same Same etc…etc…etc…

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

One of the best performances last night at the 87th Academy Awards…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqGGYJxVRFI

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

“Answer this EGGHEAD, what if Obama were Muslim?”

Mooch’s face would be thankfully obscured from view?

Obama would get thrown off a building next time Reggie Love sleeps over?

His daughters would have a hard time enjoying seex with their cliitorus ground off with two rocks?

Am I close?

Oh, and Islam is not a race.

Denny
Denny
9 years ago

ISIS will not join Boko Haram due to RACISM

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-nigeria-schoolgirls/will-racism-keep-isis-teaming-boko-haram-n307786

“The Arab world is incredibly racist,” explained a U.S. intelligence official. “They don’t see black Africans as equivalent to them.”

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

“ISIS will not join Boko Haram due to RACISM”

Anti-white racism aside, why would they want to join?

They haven’t had a hit since A Whiter Shade of Pale.

Setnaffa
Setnaffa
9 years ago

Leon’s been sniffing tbone’s reflective belt I see. That’s good. They both need friends.

CH, you have a good point. I have been trying to figure out how everything is raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacism in tbone’s world. And then he claims Obama=Reagan and Giuliani=Palin.

Maybe it’s “New Math”. I was old enough to miss that in school. I had to slog through the stuff where 2+2=4 every time.

Seriously though, I am still surprised at the number of folks who go overseas, discover it’s not like living at Grandmother’s House, and never get over that first epiphany. One doesn’t need to go very far to find friends or enemies. You can make them everywhere. And ethnic Koreans are no more racist toward American blacks than American Blacks are toward Whites in downtown LA, Chicago, Philly, St. Louis, etc.

In the meantime, may I request you all have a pleasant day?

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

“Leon’s been sniffing tbone’s reflective belt I see. That’s good. They both need friends.

CH, you have a good point.”

setnaffa has zero substance, the only thing he does is follow(copy) in EGGHEAD’s(ZERO answer) footsteps.

Here setnaffa, just look at what an EGGHEAD your leader(who FAILED to answer a simple question by asking multiple questions) is..

“Answer this EGGHEAD, what if Obama were Muslim?”

EGGHEAD is a F***** EGGHEAD with no answers(and setnaffa wants to human centipede him)!!!

johnnyboy
johnnyboy
9 years ago

I know I didn’t answer your question, but what about my question?!?!?!?!?

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

“Answer this EGGHEAD, what if Obama were Muslim?”

I answered that perfectly.

There are many correct answers. If I had any idea what point you were trying to make in your drunken rambling, I would certainly give the answer you were looking for… in such a way as to make it unsuitable for your argument, of course.

If you want a very real answer, try this…

If Obama were Muslim, he would never have been elected. Many liberals and minorities are Christian… or distrustful of Islam and would have voted for Hillary.

Leon LaPorte
Leon LaPorte
9 years ago

“If Obama were Muslim…”

At least most sane people now accept that Slap Yo Nappy Mammy & Slap Happy Granpappy Obammy isn’t a sekrit mooslim. Hell, the guy couldn’t even sneak a cigarette let along pray 5 times a day.

But we all know he doesn’t love America, thanks to Rudy.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

“But we all know he doesn’t love America, thanks to Rudy.”

It is unclear if Obama loved America even before Rudy spoke. Obama has not demonstrated the characteristics other politicians do when they want to prove how much they love America. Of course the other politicians may simply be acting… but that does not change the fact that Obama does not do these things… and doesn’t even see to care.

You may argue or request examples for any of these. I can support them convincingly.

Off the top of my head…

– not putting his hand over his heart during the national anthem… not required by law… but suggested by law… and certainly disrespectful. That alone is an arrogant shytbag thing to do… especially when running for office in America. If you cannot show some respect toward America with a traditional activity, you should not be in office. It is not sucking a diick. It is putting your hand over your heart for the nation you wish to represent with the same level of manners you might shake hands with someone you meet.

– openly speaking against American Exceptionalism… which really is a cornerstone of “loving America”. One of the reasons America succeeds is because people BELIEVE it is special and will succeed… just as American currency, currently valued at about negative 18 trillion dollars, is valuable… because the rest of the world believes in American Exceptionalism even if Obama does not.

– coldness to traditional emotional triggers that generally produce a response in those who believe in romanticized love of country. Other politicians could be acting when they get teary-eyed at the jet flyover at the peak of the national anthem… but Obama is noticeably cold to that kind of love-my-country patriotic stuff.

– a tendency to be warm to traditional enemies while slighting traditional allies. If one follows Carter’s failed example of kissing up to American enemies, one does not have to embarrass America by being petty or rude to traditional allies. You might embarrass a fat ugly girl in front of her friends but you wouldn’t do that to a girl, or a nation, you truly loved.

– Obama is against the military. Support of the military, even if making cuts, traditionally demonstrates patriotism and a commitment to American superiority. Reducing a bloated military, cutting fraud/waste/abuse, using the military as a last resort, etc… those are good things. Skipping the funeral of Major-General Harold J. Greene to play golf or calling the Ft. Hood attack “workplace violence” are disrespectful… and those are just two examples from a long list of small disrespectful actions that clearly demonstrate his thoughts on the military as an institution and its purpose of insuring American superiority.

– Obama surrounds himself with agitators and suspect idealists… yet it is unclear if they are doing it to truly improve America or simply to gain money/power/recognition by capitalizing on unrest and dissatisfaction without actually solving any problems. Obviously, Sharpton comes to mind as he has been greatly empowered by Obama. Further, Obama has done more to encourage conflict than build a nation everyone can love.

I bet I can think of ten more.

Leon, when you make fun of those who complain about Obama, it is amusing when you are right… but not every complaint about Obama is invalid.

He is not a Muslim… but you can be sure his time in Indonesia created some Muslim sympathies… as Indonesian Muslims are some of the best. But those romantic ideas might not translate well in dealing with a Middle Eastern variety. He is right in separating a War on Terror from a War on Islam… but he is wrong in trying to avoid mentioning the terrorists are Islamic… or pushing not Islamic non-terrorists to start policing their own (with the bonus of further fracturing the Islamic world just as his policies have fractured America along race and class).

Do you want to debate any of my points?

Denny
Denny
9 years ago

Stephen Smith Thinks Kurt Busch’s Domestic Violence Case Is Being Ignored Because He’s White

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/02/23/espn_s_steven_a_smith_thinks_nascar_driver_kurt_busch_s_domestic_violence.html

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

EGGHEAD is an IDIOT STUPID Mother F***** who doesn’t know anything nor does his same followers.

Now, what you IDIOT STUPID Mother F***** followers are about to witness is something you’ve seen before but will see again. The good news for you is that I might not be able to school you in how EGGHEAD/IDIOT lies to you and you STUPIDLY FOLLOW the IDIOT STUPID Mother F***** time and time again simply because…he’s white and Obama is black or is that Muslim?

EGGHEAD IDIOT STUPID Mother F***** said…

“It is unclear if Obama loved America even before Rudy spoke. Obama has not demonstrated the characteristics other politicians do when they want to prove how much they love America. Of course the other politicians may simply be acting… but that does not change the fact that Obama does not do these things… and doesn’t even see to care.”

Below is video evidence that nobody else can prove that Obama loves America any less, but of course ALL YOU IDIOT STUPID MOTHER F****** behold to your HUMAN CENTIPEDE in last place(that means he eats the shyte of you and me directly from your behind and mine.

EGGHEAD is a RUDY G. follower and the other idiots are as well who follow EGGHEAD IDIOT!!!

Now, scroll down below what I quote to see the FANTASTIC video…
http://www.towleroad.com/2015/02/jon-stewart-rips-rudy-giuliani-.html
“Jon Stewart ripped into former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani and comments he recently made questioning President Obama’s patriotism. Giuliani, speaking at a Republican dinner featuring Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker at Manhattan’s 21 Club said, “I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible things to say, but I do not believe that the President loves America.” The true measure of how bad Giuliani’s comments are, as Stewart points out, is that Giuliani had to preface that he was about to say something horrible about President Obama to a rabid Republican audience that “came to hear” Giuliani spew “horrible Obama stuff.”

Attempting to back-track, Giuliani did the rounds on a number of news programs, saying at one point that he was not questioning the President’s patriotism. Cue Stewart: “Actually that is literally what you did.”

But maybe what Giuliani is trying to tell us is that Obama is not capable of love of country because he is a robot sent from the future sent to destroy America by giving us healthcare. Or maybe Giuliani thinks that he is the only one who truly loves America because of what he went though on 9/11. Oh wait, we can debunk that too: “You know, you’re not the mayor of 9/11, right?” Stewart asks. “You don’t own 9/11. You don’t own anything but the unique willingness to crassly exploit it.”

Watch Stewart school Giuliani”

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

Guys, we need to change up our tactics.

Tbone has figured out you all follow me because I’m white.

He also seems to be figuring out that Obama is a black Muslim.

We need to get a new plan before Tbone slips out of his straight jacket again.

Also, this Saturday, is it my turn to be at the front of the human centipede or is that next week?

Andy
Andy
9 years ago

South Korea Constitutional Court legalizes adultery

SEOUL, South Korea – A South Korean court on Thursday abolished a 62-year-old law that bans extramarital affairs, ruling that the law suppresses personal freedoms.

The ruling by the Constitutional Court could potentially affect thousands of individuals who faced adultery charges since Oct. 31, 2008, a day after the court previously upheld the adultery ban. Current charges could be thrown out and anyone given a guilty verdict would be eligible for a retrial, according to a court official, who didn’t want to be named, citing office rules.
Prosecutors have indicted more than 5,400 people on adultery charges between November 2008 and January this year, according to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office.

Under the law having sex with a married person who is not your spouse was punishable by up to two years in prison. Nearly 53,000 South Koreans have been indicted on adultery charges since 1985, but prison terms have been rare.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/02/26/south-korea-constitutional-court-legalizes-adultery/?intcmp=latestnews

MTB Rider
MTB Rider
9 years ago

North Korea wants more money for Kaesong:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/02/26/north-korea-demands-higher-wages-for-workers-employed-by-south-at-joint/

Well, they claim they want higher wages for their workers, but since very little of the money actually goes to the workers, the norKs just want more money.

Let’s see:
1. Standard complaints about the Annual Training
2. Demanding more money for Kaesong
3. Renaming ships to get around UN sanctions

Next up should be some minor military action. It’s been a while since the last skirmish over the NLL, so I think I’ll call a sports book and lay down a few bucks there.

setnaffa
setnaffa
9 years ago

I’m afraid that tbone probably hasn’t figured out the Daily Show was comedy… but now he sounds like Tom used to sound and Tom sounds like an American…

Something in the water?

johnnyboy
johnnyboy
9 years ago

Climatologists find way to explain their models being wrong in order to hold over funding for another 5 years (or possibly longer if need be).

http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/scientists-now-know-why-global-warming-has-slowed-down-and-it%E2%80%99s-not-good-news-for-us/ar-BBhZW8r?ocid=mailsignout

“Despite the continued increase of greenhouse gas emissions from us, rise of global surface temperatures has been easing since 1998.

Two new studies published this week examine the origins of the“pause,” and, surprisingly, suggest that it may persist for years even in our notably warming world.

The first study, published on Feb. 26 in the journal Science, looked into likely causes. “It appears as though internal variability has offset warming over the last 15 or so years,” Byron A. Steinman, lead author of the paper and assistant professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, told Quartz.

That internal variability is found in the natural cycles of temperature change that occur over years or even decades in the oceans, like El Niño and La Niña. There are others, like the “Atlantic multidecadal oscillation” and the “Pacific decadal oscillation,” which Steinman said are leading culprits for the warming slowdown.

The paper, which was co-authored by Michael E. Mann and Sonya K. Miller of Pennsylvania State University, found an oceanic tug-of-war between the two systems. Sometimes the ocean cycles worked together to suck heat or burp it skyward—sometimes their push-pull led to a draw.

The second study, published on Feb. 23 in the journal Nature Climate Change, took up the question of how long our warming break might last.

Chris D. Roberts and colleagues at the Met Office Hadley Center in Britain looked at the pause’s possible lifespan. Using a suite of climate models, they estimated that there is good chance, up to 25%, of it continuing until the end of the decade.

More troubling are the odds that the end of the hiatus, whenever it does happen, will be followed by a five-year period of accelerated warming. This could mean that global surface temperatures rise at twice the normal rate of 0.36°F per decade. They put the chances of that warm burst at up to 60%.”

In other words, “We were wrong, but give us 5-10 years. Then we will be doubly right, and you will all be sorry you doubted us.”

I’m not saying I know for sure one way or the other. I’m just saying I don’t think GW pushers do either, and they often will act as if it’s a done deal and anyone who questions them is a world is flat, dinosaurs were put here by the devil kind of person.

Even the comments section on MSN isn’t buying this one.

setnaffa
9 years ago

Maybe they just thought the temperatures were rising because they wanted to sexually harass their employees?

setnaffa
setnaffa
9 years ago

Denny hangs out in a rough crowd.

setnaffa
setnaffa
9 years ago

Next Presidential Election, can we please choose a contest between people who are not craven, pusillanimous, feckless, gormless community activists or lawyers? Can we choose people who have shown their character by honestly running a successful business, not just suckling on the government’s hind teat their entire career? Can we find people who refuse to identify themselves as victims?

Surely we can find two people like that in America?

setnaffa
setnaffa
9 years ago

RE: “ISIS is not Muslim”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

Andy
Andy
9 years ago

South Korean police say gunman found dead after killing 3 in 2nd shooting in 3 days

SEOUL, South Korea – A gunman shot and killed three people Friday before he was found dead at a home in a city near the capital Seoul in the second such incident in three days, police officials said.

Shooting incidents are rare in South Korea, which tightly controls gun possession, and the two deadly shootings this week will likely trigger a debate on whether the country should tighten its control on hunting weapons that can be legally owned.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/02/26/south-korean-police-say-gunman-found-dead-after-killing-3-in-2nd-shooting-in-3/

MTB Rider
MTB Rider
9 years ago

Although not Korea or military specific, I thought some of you might be interested:

https://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/leonard-nimoy-dies-at-83-171803235.html

Rest in Peace, Leonard Nemoy.
1931-2015

Tom
Tom
9 years ago

“And a shocking one in three have gone as long as three days without washing or wiping their face or body at all.”

Disgusting British women. That is so disgusting.

Setnaffa
Setnaffa
9 years ago

To be fair, Tom, they may not all be stricyly British women. There are a lot of non-British people living in the UK.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

“4 out of 5 women don’t shower everyday”

Either British women are some filthy lazy biitches or this is an example of the wonders of multiculturalism.

I don’t think i even know a woman who doesn’t shower every day… let alone 80% of them.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

EGGHEAD’s top of head ain’t good enough, he’s an IDIOT without a link.

I gave EGGHEAD etc… a link that showed(via the video method) Obama speaking numerous times about loving America but for some reason the top of an IDIOT’s EGGHEAD should suffice? He and his followers(plus Rudy G being the leader) are complete IDIOTS!!!
The link below is to what I already linked to but for some reason EGGHEAD and his followers are too STUPID to understand the spoken English word
http://www.towleroad.com/2015/02/jon-stewart-rips-rudy-giuliani-.html

Here is more evidence that RUDY G./EGGHEAD and his followers/HUMAN CENTIPEDE followers are too STUPID to know better…Must scroll down to witness multiple videos and many comments…
http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/23/how-does-obama-love-america-let-us-count-the-ways/

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

Saying you love America and demonstrating you love America are not the same thing.

In an example you might better understand…

…it’s like saying, “Yeah man, so like I’m totally clean these day and like I never felt better, man,” and actually being clean, are not the same thing.

johnnyboy
johnnyboy
9 years ago

It looks like the “prosecutorial discretion” aspect of illegal amnesty may hold up in a court of law.

The part that most likely will not be able to stand after court review is the fact that issuing SSN’s and work permits to illegal aliens goes beyond prosecutorial discretion and actually rewrites law. In essence, the president isn’t supposed to be able to create a new class of alien resident.

That the president and administration are bold enough to go for broke on this issue suggests to me that they believed there was a fair chance that congress and the courts would not check his executive over reach.
I think there is a good possibility that they may have been right.

I trust the court system to handle this more than I trust congress to uphold the constitution, but I am glad to see that some in congress are at least attempting to.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/lauretta-brown/dhs-secretary-fails-cite-any-law-authorizing-obama-give-social-security

Setnaffa
Setnaffa
9 years ago

I’m with you CH. Maybe I am just spoiled; but I don’t think i know any American or Korean women who don’t shower every day. Maybe it’s people with substance abuse issues?

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

“Saying you love America and demonstrating you love America are not the same thing.”

Show me how your leader and Rudy G. has “demonstrated” that he loves America more than Obama. You’re such an EGGHEAD chickenhead!!!

Tom
Tom
9 years ago

I say we kick out this illegal immigrant Tbone from South Korea who lives off of welfare. Who’s with me now?

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

Tom, Tbone kicked himself out of Korea by being unemployable, having no friends, and using up all the generosity of others.

With his firings, visa problems, and police interactions, Korea had many chanceds to kick him out years ago.

Korea is very generous to North Americans. If they are scumbags, they take advantage of it. If they are not scumbags, they greatly appreciate it.

It is a good investment… as the opinions of scumbags mean so little.

When Tbone complains about Korea to anyone who will listen, unless they are equal dipshyts, they will not take him seriously… perhaps even believing the opposite.

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