Holtzclaw, whose father is white and mother Japanese, was accused of assaulting or raping 13 women, all black, while he was on the job. Court records identify his race as “Asian or Pacific Islander.”
@ #2, Yeah so why would the jury be void of any color(except white)? 🙄
From the DailyBeast article…
” It is worth noting that while the city population is nearly 40 percent minority, the jury panel is all white.”
Tbonetylr
8 years ago
The White Man Oklahoma Cop Crimes against poor minority women(who’d a thunk it) setnaffa condones are as follows…
“…Holtzclaw, a 28-year-old former Oklahoma City police officer, is a sexual predator who prosecutors say used his badge to rape at least 13 women over a seven-month period. The victims of his increasingly brazen pattern of attacks, prosecutors say, included an underage girl and a grandmother. Ranging in age from 17 to 57, all but one are black and all live in the same poverty-stricken, predominantly African-American neighborhood in the northeast section of the city.
They were picked because they were black and poor. They were picked because the perpetrator thought nobody would give a damn. Two days after the jury began its deliberations, there was a growing unease about the potential for a not-guilty verdict.”
@6, 7, & 8, if you’d entice me to click on your usual Eggheaded links it might help by including an opinion along with the part in the article you’re referring to you EGGHEAD # 2 🙄 Were you just spouting off in a sexist manner(Hillary appearance) @8 or are you going to tell us how the GOP so-called(cough, cough, GOP line-up of cough, cough) men look now ❓
Tbonetylr
8 years ago
Banksy is the Best
“The street artist Banksy has depicted Apple Computers founder Steve Jobs as a Syrian migrant in a new work at the Jungle migrant camp in Calais, France. On Banksy’s website, the latest mural is presented with the caption: “the son of a migrant from Syria.” Jobs’s biological father was a Syrian immigrant, but he was adopted and raised by Paul and Clara Jobs.”
@11, K-poper IU does sexpedowork for her “Uncles”
K-pop sweetheart mired in pedophilia controversy
IU accused of sexualizing 5-year-old book character in song lyrics http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20151110001035
“The song “Zeze,” written from the viewpoint of the orange tree, includes lyrics that some claim are sexually suggestive, such as: “Zeze, hurry and climb up the tree / kiss the leaves,” “If you hurt the tree, bad, bad,” “Take the youngest leaf here / Pick the only flower / Climb up me / Climb up me,” “You’re very naive / but certainly sly,” “You might seem transparent like a young child / but something about you is dirty” and “tomorrow night, will you come see me again.”
tbonetylr
8 years ago
K-popers do lots of sexwork for their bosses and I think ‘Oh My Girl’ tried to get stopped as a publicity stunt to turn around its barely known status to widely known. Back to the sexwork, Jang-seok-woo(Open World CEO) made males and females do it for him and he got 6 years in jail for it. He even threatened his victims to sign “settlements” before court after they made initial statements. The Judge only said “Don’t do it again”(make threatening phone calls). It’s not uncommon for K-popers to be as young as 13 or 14 and with their costumes and “props” USA Immigration can put 1 and 1 together. 🙄 Some of these young girls are too young to watch their own music videos according to S. Korean laws 🙁
Watch the Oh My Girl track titled “Closer” http://laist.com/2015/12/11/oh_my_girl_lax.php
Get Your Ava Duvernay Doll Now. They sold out in 17 minutes but they’re making more so be patient…
“When it was announced on Sunday that a Barbie doll created in the image of Selma director Ava DuVernay would be mass-produced, Twitter exploded with enthusiasm.”
@1: Typical media sensationalism to inflame race relations in an effort to get more viewers. Titling the article Asian-American Rapes Black Women would not be a source of click bait. Just another sad example of how far journalism has fallen in this country.
Citing the anti-Italian discrimination he faced as a poor kid growing up in Hoboken, Sinatra spoke out against racial and ethnic prejudice as early as the 1940s.
He was also known to work with black artists, like Count Basie, Quincy Jones, and, of course, Sammy Davis, Jr., when such partnerships were frowned upon.
In 1945, he made a short film, “The House I Live In,” about the evils of religious discrimination.
“Look, fellas, religion makes no difference,” he tells a group of boys in the film, “Except maybe to a Nazi, or somebody that’s stupid.”
@21, is angry because there is a woman(not in subservient mode or bikini) and black man( ❗ period( both playing prominent parts in the movie. EGGHEAD is a pure F*** ❗
Tbonetylr
8 years ago
Egghead should also be nicknamed LIAR(as GI Korea even copies/quotes his LIES), in this most recent LIE of EGGHEADS he states that there has been a StarWars “leak” but of course he can’t prove that 🙄
If he could he’d link to the supposed ” leak” for which the EGGHEAD claims STMF ❗
tbonetylr
8 years ago
Gi Korea would have you believe anything/anyone(including chickenhead/EGGHEAD so why he calls out the mainstream media is funny 😆
What does everyone (except Tbone) here think about Kasich?
I didn’t realize he was running again this year. I don’t know why he can never seem to gather steam?
Tbonetylr
8 years ago
@28, Did you give up wanting to know about your gal Fiorina after I informed you about how she’s been shamed with her LIES/reliance on fake Planned Parenthood video 🙄
Why don’t you do a search lazy and tell us all about your new wannabe hero Kasich 😆
Tbonetylr
8 years ago
GOP Bigots Go Bonkers after Muslim judge swears oath on Koran instead of Bible: ‘She should be arrested!’
After video of the New York Law School graduate was posted online by community activist and litigator Mohammed Mujumder, enraged commenters swarmed his Facebook pageto express their outrage, with one writing, “Another piece of shit Muslim. Trying to take over this country.”
Mixed in with racist memes accusing President Barack Obama of being a Muslim were concerns that Walker-Diallo might institute Sharia law from her East New York City bench.”
Tbonetylr
8 years ago
Rep. Steve King Worried Two Muslim Congressmen Haven’t Renounced Sharia Law
What ever happened to the GOPers NEVER ending claim for “religious freedom” in America?
Steve King is. a GOPer who wants to restrict “religious freedom,” please help us out here Liz or setnafa 😈
Or does that just count for the right-wing evangelical radical extreme GOPers insurgency(War at all costs/pro-birth but NON-LIFE WACKOS ❓
He doubled down in a Newsmax interview today when Steve Malzberg asked him about his remarks.
King said he was just trying to make a larger point about how the U.S. shouldn’t be trying to assimilate anyone who won’t renounce Sharia law, which blatantly contradicts American law.”
Liz
8 years ago
Kasich has been around a long while. He isn’t “new”, he ran a while back (2000).
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea’s Supreme Court sentenced a Canadian pastor to life in prison with hard labor on Wednesday for what it called crimes against the state.
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North Korea jails Canadian pastor for life with hard labour AFP North Korea sentences Canadian pastor to hard labor for life Reuters Top Asian News 12:58 p.m. GMT Associated Press Sponsored Hyeon Soo Lim, who pastors the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, was given the sentence after a 90-minute trial. He had been in detention since February.
Light Korean Presbyterian Church? Is there a Heavy Korean Presbyterian Church? Does the Heavy KPC have a lower movement rate in comparison to the Light KPC? What is each unit’s armament and disposition? Which unit is most likely to violate GO1, and end up wandering around Songtan, looking for the legendary Chickenhead Bar and Grill?
@28- Liz I like Kasich the best out of all of them. He does not pander to ideological extremists, is articulate, can work with Democrats when needed and has proven he can govern a large state effectively which also happens to be an important swing state for any Presidential candidate to win. So all in all he is everything the Republican Party is basically not looking for. 😐
tbonetylr
8 years ago
What’s Wrong With Ya’ll? You missed the stars/stripes article on the GOP so-called debate last night 🙄
Fiorina & Cruz released Top Secret info 😳 Fiorina can’t just stop at lying about Planned Parenthood…she has to lie about the Internets, Terrorism, The Generals/Stanley McChrystal, and Putin 🙁
Factless GOP Debate
Another GOP presidential debate, another battle with facts http://www.stripes.com/news/us/another-gop-presidential-debate-another-battle-with-facts-1.384351
Original post…William Douglas/McClatchy Washington Bureau/Tribune Content Agency/December 15, 2015
“The Republican presidential candidates negotiated a minefield of national security and foreign policy concerns and dilemmas in their latest debate Tuesday night.
But it was rocky terrain for several as they slipped, slid and suffered stubbed toes in their encounters with the facts.
Foreign policy and national security issues dominated the two-hour CNN debate. Throughout, the nine Republicans presidential candidates made claims and statements worthy of re-examination.
CRUZ AND SYRIAN REFUGEES: Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas asserted that President Barack Obama wants to bring in “tens of thousands” of Syrian refugees. His administration only began moving toward mass resettlement after increased pressure from the European and Middle Eastern nations bearing the brunt of the refugee crisis. The administration has pledged to admit at least 10,000 Syrians in the fiscal year that began in October. Advocacy groups called the figure a drop in the bucket compared to the millions of displaced Syrians seeking refuge. And these are not new cases — they’ll come from 18,000 cases already referred by the United Nations and that are at varying stages of the screening process, which typically takes around two years to complete.
RUBIO AND U.S. ALLIES: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s claim that U.S. allies have lost trust in the United States is vague. Certainly, U.S. allies such as France, Turkey and Saudi Arabia have made clear their displeasure with Obama’s policy toward Syria, but they are still part of the U.S.-led coalition to fight the Islamic State and cooperate closely on a number of other counterterrorism and diplomatic initiatives.
TRUMP AND THE NUCLEAR DEAL WITH IRAN: Donald Trump called the nuclear deal forged between Iran, the United States and five other world powers “disgusting” and complained that the Tehran government would “get $150 billion.”
According to Politifact.com, Iran does gain significantly under the nuclear deal, but the $150 billion figure is actually the ‘dollar value of Iran’s foreign assets that the U.S can unfreeze’ as part of the nuclear deal.
RUBIO AND DEFENSE CUTS: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio lamented the declining strength in both force and funding of the Navy and the Air Force. That looked past the fact that he and two other candidates on the stage — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz — were in office when Republicans signed off in recent years on the so-called budget sequester that slashed government spending across the board to reduce debt and deficits.
“If you listen to folks up here you’d think they weren’t even there,” complained New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, touting his executive branch experience.
The Budget Control Act of 2011 called for automatic across-the-board spending cuts, beginning in 2013, as a disincentive. They would occur only if lawmakers couldn’t find their own compromise on cuts. They didn’t.
In Feb. 26, 2015, testimony before Congress, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus warned that three years of sequestration have meant a “continued decline of our relative warfighting advantages in many areas.” Rubio and Paul were in the Senate when the Budget Control Act passed. Cruz was elected in 2012, but has been in office for three “sequester” budgets.
FIORINA AND OBAMA’S GENERALS: Former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina said that she would bring back a series of knowledgeable retired generals, including David Petraeus and Stanley McChrystal, who retired early because they told Obama things he didn’t want to hear.
Obama accepted McChrystal’s resignation in 2010 after he and his aides mocked civilian government officials, including Vice President Joe Biden in an article in Rolling Stone magazine. McChrystal was not directly critical of the president or the president’s policies.
Petraeus retired from the military to become CIA director after he was passed up for the job as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or Chief of Staff of the Army, as many had expected. (He later resigned from his position at the CIA after his extramarital affair became public).
FIORINA AND PUTIN: Fiorina said she “knows” Russian President Vladimir Putin. It’s not the first time she has said that in a debate and on the stump. Fiorina did meet the Russian leader before the two spoke at the APEC CEO Summit in China in 2001, according to Factcheck.org. The two met for 45 minutes, according to the Daily Beast.
CRUZ AND ‘RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM’: Cruz accused Obama of not uttering the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism.” It’s a frequent criticism of the president by Republicans, who say it’s emblematic of his alleged failure to understand the real threat to the United States.
“America is at war,” Cruz said. “Our enemy is not violent extremism. It is not some unnamed malevolent force. It is radical Islamic terrorist. We have a president who is unwilling to utter its name.”
This has been rated true by the fact-checking website Politifact, which says Obama tends to use ISIL for the Islamic State and calls its members “thugs” and “killers.” The president has said that he does this to isolate the group. Earlier this year, Obama said its members were “desperate for legitimacy.”
“They try to portray themselves as religious leaders … holy warriors in defense of Islam,” Obama said during a summit on violent extremism Feb. 22. “That’s why ISIL presumes to declare itself the ‘Islamic State.’ And they propagate the notion that America — and the West, generally — is at war with Islam.”
Obama also likes to stress that the United States is “not at war with Islam,” similar to what former President George W. Bush said after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“This great nation of many religions understands, our war is not against Islam, or against faith practiced by the Muslim people. Our war is a war against evil,” Bush said in January 2002.
FIORINA, THE INTERNET AND TERRORISM: Fiorina said she would ask Internet companies to monitor social media to protect against terrorists. But companies have already been asked to do that and say they already cooperate with law enforcement and that any messages that promote terrorism violate their usage rules, according to NPR.
Obama referred to the issue again in his speech to the nation Dec. 6.
“I will urge high-tech and law enforcement leaders to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice,” he said.
Congress is also considering a proposal that would require companies to report knowledge of terrorist activities to the government. But one major problem is that companies often rely on users to flag possible inappropriate content in part because of the amount of content they have. It’s true they could do more by using programs to identify images of terrorism as they do with child pornography.”
Liz
8 years ago
Thanks for the response, GI Korea. 🙂
[i]”He does not pander to ideological extremists, is articulate, can work with Democrats when needed and has proven he can govern a large state effectively which also happens to be an important swing state for any Presidential candidate to win. So all in all he is everything the Republican Party is basically not looking for.”[/i]
Spot on. That pretty much sums it up. 🙁
tbonetylr
8 years ago
@28 & 37 Kasich Lovers
LIz says…Kasich ran for the 2000 presidential election aye ❓ Well, let’s put that into perspective…He quit in the summer of 1999 before the Iowa straw poll…in sum that’s like him quitting this past July for the 2016 election. 😆
GI Korea says…”Kasich can work with Democrats when needed(“God” forbid) 😆
What, do yo mean if the Dems ain’t African American, Hispanic, or Asian ❓
Kasich wants a federal agency to promote “Judeo-Christian values” 🙄 I thought he was a GOPer ❓ How much will this gov’t agency cost, he forgot his radical insurgency GOPer party ain’t for gov’t and gov’t spending 😈
Kasich is Anti-Islam given the times because he wants the gov’t to promote a specific religion, he quickly forgot about the separation of church & state 🙄
Kasich fights for “freedom of religion”(HUH?), since when and how when he wants the U.S. gov’t to only promote 1 religion ❓
Kasich says he’s for the equality of women…
😆
Kasich is affiliated with a Super PAC 🙁 Ya’ll know what that means aye ❓ Kasich is HAPPY with Citizens United 🙁
Kasich does not believe in polls ❗
Thank Goodness Kasich WON’T win ❗
Kasich on Abortion:
In June 2013, Kasich signed into law a state budget which included anti-abortion measures such as mandating any woman seeking an abortion to have a trans-abdominal ultrasound, and barring abortion providers from entering into emergency transfer agreements with public hospitals.[73] The bill stripped some $1.4 million in federal dollars from Planned Parenthood by placing the organization last on the priority list for family-planning funds.[73][74] The bill also provided funding to crisis pregnancy centers, which do not provide abortion referrals.[74] Under the budget, rape crisis centers could lose public funding if they counseled sexual assault victims about abortion.[74] Since 2011, Governor Kasich has signed 16 anti-abortion measures into law.[75]
In 2015, Kasich said in an interview that Planned Parenthood “ought to be de-funded” but said that Republicans in Congress should not force a government shutdown over the issue.[76]
Kasich on Drugs:
Kasich expressed opposition to medical marijuana in 2012, saying “There’s better ways to help people who are in pain.”[105] In a 2015 interview with radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, Kasich said he was “totally opposed” to the legalization of recreational marijuana in Ohio and equated marijuana and heroin, stating: “In my state and across this country, if I happened to be president, I would lead a significant campaign down at the grassroots level to stomp these drugs out of our country.”[106][107] When asked whether, if elected president, he would federally enforce marijuana laws in states which have legalized marijuana, Kasich characterized it as a states’ rights issue and said that “I’d have to think about it.”[107]
Kasich on Cabinet Diversity/Racism:
Upon taking office in 2011, Kasich received criticism for appointing an initial all-white cabinet of 22 members.[152] Responding to criticism for not appointing any black, Hispanic, or Asian Cabinet members, Kasich said: “I don’t look at things from the standpoint of any of these sort of metrics that people tend to focus on, race or age, or any of those things. It’s not the way I look at things… I want the best possible team I can get.”[152] Shortly afterward, on February 2, 2011, Kasich made his first minority appointment to the Cabinet, naming Michael Colbert, a black man, to lead the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.[153]
tbonetylr
8 years ago
Liz LOVES Fiorina and her LIES about U.S. military Generals
Shall I show ya’ll how McChrystal said Obama was correct and Bush was WRONG 😆
I wonder how many of the people who froth about “mandating ultrasounds for abortions” know that an ultrasound is already a medical requirement for an abortion? It’s also a medical requirement for a D and C, removal of an IUD, pretty much removal of anything in there.
Liz
8 years ago
Just to add: I mean removal of an embedded IUD…if it goes up and becomes embedded in the uterus.
Liz
8 years ago
I’m not sure why anyone would think I like Fiorina. I can’t think of any female politician I would like to see as president.
I will say the military (at least the USAF, the only branch I’m familiar with) has too many generals. The units are shrinking and the rest of the jobs are being cut, but they never cut the generals. I know one general who is only in charge of about 40 people. He basically goes to the meetings other generals can’t go to if their schedules don’t permit it.
I’m not so worried about generals as I am about the ops tempo and decline in manpower overall.
setnaffa
8 years ago
@44, once we get our military down to 1936 levels, Obama will be pleased…
setnaffa
8 years ago
Stalin purged the Red Army, too…
Liz
8 years ago
“once we get our military down to 1936 levels, Obama will be pleased…”
Yeah. I’m pretty sure we must be down to Jimmy Carter levels now. Worse, considering the increasing number of commitments we have around the globe.
The move was widely expected. It is a sign of how much the economy has healed since the Great Recession. The central bank believes the U.S. economy is strong now and no longer needs crutches and that the move “marks the end of an extraordinary period” of low rates designed to boost the recovery from the Great Recession.
setnaffa
8 years ago
(AP) In a prepared response to President Obama’s assurances of “no credible threats of terrorism against the homeland”, the Council on American Islamic Relations today rejected the concept that Muslims are responsible for next week’s terror attack.
tbonetylr
8 years ago
@44, “I’m not sure why anyone would think I like Fiorina.”
Like Kasich your lazyazz asked what anyone knew about Fiorina, when I linked to her lies about Planned Parenthood you said nothing except suggest the Planned Parenthood CEO is “dishonest” without any info/link/quote about her so-called “dishonesty” 🙄
tbonetylr
8 years ago
@50, “Muslims are responsible for next week’s terror attack.”
If you believe they are responsible, please explain ❓ 😆 🙄
tbonetylr
8 years ago
@44, 45, & 47
Yes, I’ve heard your bandwagon EGGHEAD anti-women rhetoric before. There has been “Manpower” reduction in the workforce for decades(think robots). So, where and why should more manpower be deployed. So you’re not only anti-Obama but also Jimmy Carter aye ❓
Jimmy Carter is one of my favorite presidents simply because he’s a man of peace. Worse for you(better for me) is that he was a warless president. Can’t say that for many now can you. 😎
You’re like so many here, nothing but a WAR DOG for WAR HAWKS ~ USA military–industrial–congressional complex. 🙁
Americans have been at war sometime during 171 years of the years since 1776. That’s 72% of American history, and leaves only 66 warless years behind. Thank you Jimmy Carter for giving me 4 of them, the only American president that has given me warless/peaceful years ❗
Jimmy Carter – A President Of Peace: ‘We Never Dropped A Bomb… We Never Went To War’ http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/poll-presidents-carter-reagan-215537
“During his ten-year service in the US Navy as an engineer and officer, Carter attended graduate school, majoring in reactor technology and nuclear physics.
In 1952, he risked his life to dismantle a nuclear reactor when he was ordered to lead the clean up of a nuclear accident caused by melted fuel rods at Canada’s Chalk River Laboratories.
As US President from 1976 to 1980, Carter established an energy policy that cut US oil imports by half. (Reagan dismantled most of Carter’s policies.)
Aside from the eight people who were killed during a hostage rescue mission during the Iranian Revolution, no American or any other national was killed under the banner of an American war.
Considering that millions of people lost their lives in the wars before and after Carter’s presidency – the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan – the fact that the Carter administration did not wage war on any country makes it unique in American history.”
tbonetylr
8 years ago
@48 “And apparently having 40% of the country unemployed and not counted as “in the workforce” was enough”
Must be all those dismembered, PTSD, and homeless WAR DOG Vets aye ❓ I guess that’s what happens to volunteers who want to servicethemselves by following WAR HAWKS in badly fought wars/invasions 😈
tbonetylr
8 years ago
WARDOGS to Defy Obama?
Rep. Mike Pompeo Urges Military To Defy Obama On Gitmo Closure http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rep-mike-pompeo-urges-military-defy-obama-gitmo-closure
Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo sent a letter to the Joint Chiefs of Staff with 15 congressional signatures urging them to “seek appropriate legal advice before following any executive order to transfer Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) detainees to the United States.”
Pompeo told the Center for Security Policy’s Frank Gaffney yesterday that the letter was a way of telling service members that members of Congress “have their back” if they choose to defy an executive order meant to close the detention facility.
“It’s unconscionable to put our military leaders in this position, where the commander in chief asks of them something that is unlawful,” Pompeo told Gaffney. “And my intention was not to put pressure on those amazing soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, but rather to inform everyone that you can’t ask folks in the military to execute an unlawful order. And I hope that they understand that there members of Congress that have their back in the event that they choose to make a decision that comports with their duty.”
What, Center for Security Policy’s Frank Gaffney? But who is Frank Gaffney again?
Islamophobe Frank Gaffney doesn’t believe Obama is a Christian, either.
Frank Gaffney: Obama ‘Playing For The Other Team,’ Committing ‘Treason’ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frank-gaffney-obama-playing-other-team-committing-treason
“Frank Gaffney is alleging that both the Obama administration has been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood, but has since been enjoying the attention of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
In recent days, Gaffney has been promoting the story of Phillip Haney, a former Department of Homeland Security employee who claims that the Obama administration pulled the plug on an investigation that he was conducting that he claims could possibly have caught the San Bernardino terrorists. It’s hard to tell what of Haney’s story is true since DHS has stayed mum on it other than to tell Fox News that his tale has “many holes.” Haney mentioned in an interview with Sandy Rios this morning that he also locked horns with the Bush administration, but did not provide details.
But in any case, Gaffney has latched onto Haney’s story to promote his narrative that, as he told Indianapolis talk radio host Greg Garrison last week, President Obama is “playing for the other team” and that it is “indisputable” that the president is committing “treason.”
“What I believe this proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt — and I think this is also just the tip of the iceberg, by the way — is that the Obama administration is … well, they’re playing for the other team,” Gaffney told Garrison. “And this is an extraordinarily dangerous thing for this country to be experiencing at a moment like this, I think it’s contributing, frankly, to the mortal peril we’re facing from these jihadists.”
It is, he said, an “increasingly indisputable fact that this president is providing aid and comfort to enemies of the United States. And that is the definition, as you know, of treason.”
tbonetylr
8 years ago
Rubio Skipped Vote On Defense Bill He Attacked Cruz For Voting Against
Hypocritical of these GOP radical insurgency member president wannabees, aye ❓
Rubio attacked Cruz for voting against annual bills to authorize military spending, but missed one of those votes on Oct. 7, 2015.
Marco Rubio is going to have trouble defending his absences. AND, we’re still waiting for an “affair(s)” that Rubio allegedly had goes public. http://www.buzzfeed.com/christophermassie/rubio-skipped-vote-on-defense-bill-he-attacked-cruz-for-voti?utm_term=.xlZnb715X#.eaorvEQ9B
“Rubio attacked Ted Cruz during Tuesday’s CNN debate for voting against the annual bill that authorizes military spending for the following fiscal year, but Rubio missed this year’s vote to campaign in New Hampshire.
“Three times he voted against the Defense Authorization Act, which is a bill that funds the troops,” the Florida senator and Republican presidential candidate said. “It also, by the way, funds the Iron Dome and other important programs and I have to assume that if you vote against it in the Senate, you would also veto it as president.”
One of Cruz’s “nay” votes came on Oct. 7, in a vote Rubio missed. The bill passed 70-27, despite Rubio’s absence.
Rubio, who also missed a procedural vote that led to the bill’s passing, told CNN at the time that, while he would do “everything possible to be present for any vote,” being a presidential candidate meant that he was going to miss some.”
President Obama is a secret Muslim conspiring to destroy the United States and isusing the Justice Department to squelch anti-Muslim speech. Liberals are covertly working with radical Islamists to transform the country into a radical socialist state while Muslims are pouring over our borders. Hillary Clinton is not only a liar and criminal, she is likely blackmailing the FBI director and other authorities to keep out of prison.
All these theories and many more were featured Monday at the Nevada version of the Center for Security Policy’s “National Security Action Summit” at the International Peace Education Center in Las Vegas, a meeting hall owned by the Unification Church. It was everything its chief organizer, noted anti-Muslim extremist Frank Gaffney, could have hoped for…
The day wrapped up with a series of appearances from GOP presidential candidates, who themselves managed to pile on with more extremism…
That was especially the case with Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, whose 15-minute video message ran earlier in the day. Cruz also had praise for Gaffney, who he described as a “patriot” who “has been attacked over and over again for having the courage to stand up and speak the name ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ of the enemy that is waging jihad against us.”
…The day’s events ended with the Senator Rick Santorum and the videotaped messages from fellow GOP candidates Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson, giving Gaffney and the CSP exactly what they wanted: a stamp of approval from mainstream political leaders of all the conspiracy and extremism that came before it.”
tbonetylr
8 years ago
Liz & setnaffa & any other of you WARDOGS. What is it do ya’ll want Obama to do that Obama isn’t already doing ❓ 😆 🙄
setaffa, look to see what Cruz said about your war on a faith 😎
How the GOP looks more like Obama on war than it thinks
The fifth Republican debate of 2015 revealed friction between the candidates and highlighted their priorities around issues of protecting America against threats both at home and abroad, including ISIS, the Internet, and immigration. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article50012315.html
“Sure, it was a Republican debate, but President Barack Obama might have fit right in much of the time.
As they did in their latest debate Tuesday, Republican presidential candidates are eager to say they’ll be tougher on terrorists than Barack Obama. And they differ by degrees in emphasis.
But as they grapple with the balance of national security and such things as civil liberties at home and Muslim alliances abroad, they mostly offer variations of the same policies as Obama. Send in special troops to target our airstrikes? Obama’s doing that. Keep our combat troops at home and get the Arabs to fight? That’s Obama’s plan. Stop the targeting of all Muslims lest that drive away potential allies? Obama again.,,”
READ the REST ❗
ChickenHead
8 years ago
In other news that isn’t making news…
Syrian students in Korea are applying for refugee status en masse.
While, technically, students are better than the unwashed middle Eastern masses making Sweden the raape capital… and better than the 90% on chronic welfare in America, intolerant people from a near-failed state unwilling to assimilate really doesn’t strengthen a functioning society.
Please, Korea… learn the clear lessons of everyone else’s failure.
Tbonetylr
8 years ago
@59, Your attempt to know and/or advise a country on foreign policy is hilarious you GOPer EGGHEAD 😆
“Fairly early on in this week’s Republican presidential debate, Ted Cruz was reminded about his recent quote in which he vowed to “carpet bomb ISIS into oblivion,” testing whether “sand can glow in the dark.” Asked whether he’s prepared to decimate a populated city like Raqqa, informally known as the ISIS capital in Syria, the Texas senator hedged.
“You would carpet bomb where ISIS is, not a city, but the location of the troops,” Cruz said, adding, “[T]he object isn’t to level a city. The object is to kill the ISIS terrorists.”
This plainly didn’t make any sense. It’s as if Cruz referenced carpet bombing — indiscriminate bombing of large areas, without regard for collateral damage — without having any idea what it means. To hear the Texas Republican tell it, there’s such a thing as precision, “directed” carpet bombing, which is a contradiction in terms.
The gibberish, however, was par for the course. Writing in the Washington Post, Dan Drezner, a center-right scholar, said yesterday, “When it comes to foreign policy, the GOP’s candidates for president in 2016 are either ignorant or insane.”
The overwhelming bulk of what the GOP candidates had to say last night was pure, unadulterated horses***. […]”
Rape Culture does exist… “Trevor FitzGibbon was Obama’s Communications Director in New Mexico on his original campaign. And that made him left-wing royalty. His PR firm, FitzGibbon Media, represented major left-wing organizations from MoveOn.org to Planned Parenthood, from Color of Change to Everytown. . . . FitzGibbon Media clients included branches of the ACLU, the Bradley Manning Defense Fund, Common Cause, AFL-CIO, DailyKos, American Federal of Teachers, Correct the Record, the Ford Foundation, Brave New Films, Global Zero, Islamic Relief, Planned Parenthood, the Julian Assange Defense Fund, Google, Rock the Vote, the Intercept, Wikileaks, Wikipedia, the Nation and VDay, Eve Ensler’s movement which claims to fight rape. It didn’t seem to bother Eve Ensler that Trevor FitzGibbon was also representing Julian Assange, a progressive rapist. And his latest antics likely won’t bother her either. But while FitzGibbon Media claimed to be so very feminist and progressive, life was hell for the women who worked there.”
Trump military Deferment from becoming a servicehimselfmember of the socialist DOD. Wait, I thought Trump will be the healthiest president ever ❓ He’s never done any drugs/alcohol so how was he ever “deferred?” Trump the Perfect ~ the GOP/GOPers hateful answer for America’s future 😆
tbonetylr
8 years ago
@65, “Julian Assange, a progressive rapist”
I must’ve missed that trial 😈
Naming numerous this/that organizations, then calling Assange a “rapist” without a trial doesn’t bode well for your quacking ‘frontpagemag’
Get back with us when this Trevor FitzGibbon is ever found guilty of anything. Your attempt to connect the “guilty” before trial to Obama is hilarious 😆
tbonetylr
8 years ago
GOPer rhetoric and hate speech leads to U.S. mass shootings, domestic terrorism, and your beloved George Bush started it all with his infamous quote…”BRING IT ON ❗ ❗ ❗ ” GOPers LOVE WAR and KILLING, hence WAR DOGS invading, killing, raping(even GRANDMOTHERS) for WAR HAWKS ❗ ❗ ❗ ❗ ❗
Barry Silver told a local TV station: http://www.wpbf.com/news/boca-raton-father-son-sue-school-district-for-not-teaching-evolution/36999330
“It’s such a magnificent story and it’s being neglected. The students are being deprived of learning from it because certain religious people don’t like the story because it contradicts the Bible and we think it is terrible that children shouldn’t learn the truth about where they came from…”
To put some of these findings about real modern day issues and Trump voters in context, 41% of his voters think Japanese internment was a good thing, to 37% who don’t. And 41% of his supporters would favor bombing Agrabah to only 9% who are opposed to doing that. Agrabah is the country from Aladdin. Overall 30% of Republican primary voters say they support bombing it to 13% who are opposed.”
tbonetylr
8 years ago
@72, Chris Christie and EGGHEAD/GOPer FANTASYSTUPIDITYLAND…
Someone Tell Chris Christie That King Hussein Died In 1999
Chris Christie plans to tell King Hussein of Jordan that he’s “got a friend” in the Oval Office. He may have to wait until he crosses over himself, however. https://politicalwire.com/2015/12/17/quote-of-the-day-1132/
“When I stand across from King Hussein of Jordan, I say to him you have a friend sir who will stand with you to fight this fight,” Christie said during Tuesday’s Republican primary debate, making the case that the president is not trusted by the leaders of Jordan and Saudi Arabia because of the nuclear deal with Iran.
King Abdullah II is the current, living king of Jordan.
johnnyboy
8 years ago
News on Assange and a tiny bit of backstory on why is avoiding Swedish extradition in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
With the way things are these days, there is no telling whether the allegations against him are true or whether they were cooked up to get him in Swedish custody in order to then get him extradited to the U.S. to face charges for leaking sensitive information.
I’m not for censorship of ideas and comments around here…
…but Tbone is really starting to fall into the category of spam.
Someone pushing their own thoughts through original writing, no matter how misguided or twisted, has its place… but pages and pages of random cut and paste with the intention of being irritating and disruptive rather than debating ideas sabotages good conversation and is little different from spam.
Tbone is not Teadrinker or Tom, who sometimes made valid points through original writing.
For this reason, I would support the quick deletion of Tbone’s lengthy cut and paste posts… as they seem now to be a liability to the popularity of ROK Drop.
Links and small quotes with a definite point which support a clearly written idea should be allowed. All this lazy cut and paste interspersed with nonsensical rambling should just be deleted.
Anyone second this?
johnnyboy
8 years ago
CH,
Ideas –no matter how indefensible, unoriginal, or irrational- are still ideas. He gets on to things that a few of us here agree with sometimes. I just wish he could admit that we do agree on at least a few things.
I disagree with deletion. To me, spam is advertising a product. Most of his posts don’t advertise anything except the occasional misguided ideal or blind hatred. Let the man say what he has to say, whether it adds anything of value or not.
I would say ban him for harsh language and indecency, but then……well, most of us would be gone.
Yougottabekiddin
8 years ago
How about creating a “special, safe” posting area just for Tbone where his enlightened content could be redirected. Then, anyone who cares to read his cut & paste posts could easily do so. That would save quite a bit of time and wear & tear on multiple scroll wheels. Call it “Tbone’s World.”
tbonetylr
8 years ago
EGGHEAD says…”I’m not for censorship of ideas and comments around here…
…but Tbone is really starting to fall into the category of spam. All this lazy cut and paste interspersed with nonsensical rambling should just be deleted. Anyone second this?”
Guess which other GOPer talks out of both sides of his mouth ❓
How Rubio Speaks Out Of Both Sides Of His Mouth
He tells you what he believes and then he tells you what is politically possible, giving him wiggle room to migrate either way. https://politicalwire.com/2015/12/19/what-does-marco-rubio-really-believe/
“He tells voters that he has a personal view on the subject — whether abortion, immigration, Syrian refugees or gay marriage. But he also has a view of what is politically possible. Which, usually, is not what he personally wants.”
“That tactic allows Rubio to offer two right answers to the same question, and lets him carve out wiggle room on topics where none seemed possible.”
Nomad
8 years ago
I used to stop by here quite often to read the discussions but now, when I come to the site and look over on the right-hand side at the comments under the open thread, all I see is one Tbone comment after the other so I move on. Seems like quite a few of the old crowd are no longer commenting either. Teadrinker and Tom, gone. Songtan1, Guitard (sp?), Leon…
Tbonetylr
8 years ago
@79, “I used to stop by here quite often to read the discussions but now,…”
What, you can read but not write(add anything to the discussion), I’m sure we haven’t missed anything now go back to your right-wing GOP radical insurgency readings elsewhere then since you can’t handle the truth/reality ❗
ChickenHead
8 years ago
I would say Nomad nailed it.
The little right-hand side bar is full of Tbone spam and any interesting or thoughtful comments are quickly pushed out of existence,,, which means there is no good conversation started… as many viewers never even see things worth commenting on.
It would be hard to find a better plan to kill ROK Drop if someone wanted to intentionally.
Tbonetylr
8 years ago
I’ve responded to comments(I.e. # 12, 13, 60) provided links to current events throughout with my thoughts/opinions/questions, I’ve answered questions(# 51) and asked them(# 4, 9, 52, 53, 56, 58) – on topic in response to prior comments but they must be too difficult for anyone to answer. 🙄
Perhaps I need to consider my audience(EGGHEAD types) and should therefore dumb down my questions aye 😆
Tbonetylr
8 years ago
@81, I thought you were a computer geek? Or is it the English language you have difficulty grasping ❓ This website already has a spam filter, DUH EGGHEAD ❗
Tbonetylr
8 years ago
You just don’t like losing and if anyone doesn’t feel like commenting to my links it’s because they already feel defeated by the constant GOP lunatics ❗ I’m WINNING and have been for a long time 😎
johnnyboy
8 years ago
Perhaps we are just unfit opponents in a contest that never really existed. What is the prize?
If you truly believe that you are so far ahead of everyone here on intellect, why do you come back and comment religiously? If we were all just uncultured buffoons with no intelligence, wouldn’t the conversation be unfulfilling and a waste of your time?
setnaffa
8 years ago
“It would be hard to find a better plan to kill ROK Drop if someone wanted to intentionally.”
Bring back the contests. Feel free to delete crap comments.
tbonetylr
8 years ago
@85 johnnyboy asks…”Perhaps we are just unfit opponents in a contest that never really existed. What is the prize? If you truly believe that you are so far ahead of everyone here on intellect, why do you come back and comment religiously? If we were all just uncultured buffoons with no intelligence, wouldn’t the conversation be unfulfilling and a waste of your time?”
What conversation? I ask questions and nobody answers them(see comment # 82).
And why do you ask 3 similar questions? I’ll just give an answer that touches on all three very easily. You see, I thought I would just be nice or give the vast majority of GOPers here on RokDrop what they like better…Easy English, you know like the 4th grade level English Trump speak. I don’t know if I can reach such a low level of English for you GOPers here on RokDrop but maybe I’ll give it a try sometime. 😎 You never know, then perhaps ya’ll won’t hate me so much like you do almost everyone else(non-white). 😈
Donald Trump’s speeches are at a fourth-grade level, study finds http://theweek.com/speedreads/584422/donald-trumps-speeches-are-fourthgrade-level-study-finds
The secret to a successful presidential campaign might lie on the simplicity of speech. Case in point: Donald Trump. Trump has been leading in the polls for months now and, according to a Flesch-Kincaid readability test that ranks speech by grade level, he’s been making speeches at a fourth-grade level. The two candidates speaking at the highest grade levels — Mike Huckabee and Jim Gilmore — are struggling in the polls. The Boston Globe reports:
Communicating complex ideas with low-level language is a sign of brilliance rather than ignorance.
Certainly, many here have had professors (and textbooks) that made difficult concepts easy to understand through simple English… as opposed to professors who made simple concepts not understandable due to their desire to appear smarter than they were through complex speaking.
Trump’s goal is to communicate his real message, not obscure it with flowery speaking.
Complaining that he speaks too simply while he obviously gets his message out better than many other candidates is laughable…
…but most of the other candidates would rather just try to sound smart than actually have people fully understand the contents of their counterproductive messages.
So that makes sense.
johnnyboy
8 years ago
What would you like to talk about, tbone?
Tbonetylr
8 years ago
EGGHEAD Won’t Be Admitted to 5th grade English anytime soon, he’ll have to be held back 😎
ChickenHead
8 years ago
That statement would have a lot more impact if it was expressed in a grammatically correct sentence.
Asian police officer, convicted of raping black women, labeled as white by civil rights groups
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/10/us/oklahoma-daniel-holtzclaw-trial/
Holtzclaw, whose father is white and mother Japanese, was accused of assaulting or raping 13 women, all black, while he was on the job. Court records identify his race as “Asian or Pacific Islander.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/10/the-most-horrific-cop-rape-case-you-ve-never-heard-of.html
“White Cop Convicted of Serial Rape of Black Women”
Why would anyone try to play the race card here? That’s just sick.
BTW, who’s looking like the JV? http://www.stripes.com/news/navy/navy-s-newest-ship-uss-milwaukee-breaks-down-at-sea-1.383637
May not have been the most auspicious name for a ship… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Milwaukee_%28C-21%29
@ #2, Yeah so why would the jury be void of any color(except white)? 🙄
From the DailyBeast article…
” It is worth noting that while the city population is nearly 40 percent minority, the jury panel is all white.”
The White Man Oklahoma Cop Crimes against poor minority women(who’d a thunk it) setnaffa condones are as follows…
“…Holtzclaw, a 28-year-old former Oklahoma City police officer, is a sexual predator who prosecutors say used his badge to rape at least 13 women over a seven-month period. The victims of his increasingly brazen pattern of attacks, prosecutors say, included an underage girl and a grandmother. Ranging in age from 17 to 57, all but one are black and all live in the same poverty-stricken, predominantly African-American neighborhood in the northeast section of the city.
They were picked because they were black and poor. They were picked because the perpetrator thought nobody would give a damn. Two days after the jury began its deliberations, there was a growing unease about the potential for a not-guilty verdict.”
Black lives matter: http://homicides.suntimes.com/
Who is killing whom? https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_murder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2013.xls
Hillary looks so tired lately…
@6, 7, & 8, if you’d entice me to click on your usual Eggheaded links it might help by including an opinion along with the part in the article you’re referring to you EGGHEAD # 2 🙄 Were you just spouting off in a sexist manner(Hillary appearance) @8 or are you going to tell us how the GOP so-called(cough, cough, GOP line-up of cough, cough) men look now ❓
Banksy is the Best
“The street artist Banksy has depicted Apple Computers founder Steve Jobs as a Syrian migrant in a new work at the Jungle migrant camp in Calais, France. On Banksy’s website, the latest mural is presented with the caption: “the son of a migrant from Syria.” Jobs’s biological father was a Syrian immigrant, but he was adopted and raised by Paul and Clara Jobs.”
http://m.nydailynews.com/entertainment/theater-arts/banksy-depicts-steve-jobs-syrian-refugee-article-1.2462609
K-Pop group Oh My Girl detained at LA airport on suspicion of being sex workers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35071156/k-pop-group-oh-my-girl-detained-at-la-airport-on-suspicion-of-being-sex-workers
@11, K-poper IU does sexpedowork for her “Uncles”
K-pop sweetheart mired in pedophilia controversy
IU accused of sexualizing 5-year-old book character in song lyrics
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20151110001035
“The song “Zeze,” written from the viewpoint of the orange tree, includes lyrics that some claim are sexually suggestive, such as: “Zeze, hurry and climb up the tree / kiss the leaves,” “If you hurt the tree, bad, bad,” “Take the youngest leaf here / Pick the only flower / Climb up me / Climb up me,” “You’re very naive / but certainly sly,” “You might seem transparent like a young child / but something about you is dirty” and “tomorrow night, will you come see me again.”
K-popers do lots of sexwork for their bosses and I think ‘Oh My Girl’ tried to get stopped as a publicity stunt to turn around its barely known status to widely known. Back to the sexwork, Jang-seok-woo(Open World CEO) made males and females do it for him and he got 6 years in jail for it. He even threatened his victims to sign “settlements” before court after they made initial statements. The Judge only said “Don’t do it again”(make threatening phone calls). It’s not uncommon for K-popers to be as young as 13 or 14 and with their costumes and “props” USA Immigration can put 1 and 1 together. 🙄 Some of these young girls are too young to watch their own music videos according to S. Korean laws 🙁
Watch the Oh My Girl track titled “Closer”
http://laist.com/2015/12/11/oh_my_girl_lax.php
Bush 43 Returns to save day in 2016 GOP presidential. election campaign and MORE below…
https://www.yahoo.com/tv/snl-recap-chris-hemsworth-will-ferrell-120904928.html
Get Your Ava Duvernay Doll Now. They sold out in 17 minutes but they’re making more so be patient…
“When it was announced on Sunday that a Barbie doll created in the image of Selma director Ava DuVernay would be mass-produced, Twitter exploded with enthusiasm.”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jarettwieselman/ava-duvernay-barbie-interview#.oxBjgwo1A
@1: Typical media sensationalism to inflame race relations in an effort to get more viewers. Titling the article Asian-American Rapes Black Women would not be a source of click bait. Just another sad example of how far journalism has fallen in this country.
StarWars Exclusive Beginning Clip…
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-ot-how-the-new-star-wars-begins/
@16 “Typical media sensationalism to inflame race relations…”
Of course GI Korea NEVER does such a thing 😆
Hey GI Korea why don’t you quote me here…”Chickenhead is an EGGHEAD” since you copied/quoted EGGHEAD on one of his untrue attacks on me ❓
Do you and EGGHEAD have a special type of relationship which you’d like to share with us ❓
For those of you who want to be ahead of the curve, the beginning of the new Star Wars has been leaked.
It is a wonder to see… and you will need to trust me that it will not spoil the experience when you see it on the big screen.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D2i7i1FvZ2s
Sinatra Was Way Ahead of his Time on Civil Rights and he Hated “My Way” in celebration of Sinatra’s 100 Birthday
5 surprising facts about Frank Sinatra
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/5-surprising-frank-sinatra-facts-article-1.2463758
“Sinatra was decades ahead of his time on social issues such as civil rights.
Citing the anti-Italian discrimination he faced as a poor kid growing up in Hoboken, Sinatra spoke out against racial and ethnic prejudice as early as the 1940s.
He was also known to work with black artists, like Count Basie, Quincy Jones, and, of course, Sammy Davis, Jr., when such partnerships were frowned upon.
In 1945, he made a short film, “The House I Live In,” about the evils of religious discrimination.
“Look, fellas, religion makes no difference,” he tells a group of boys in the film, “Except maybe to a Nazi, or somebody that’s stupid.”
Michael Buble has picked up the baton for Sinatra especially in Xmas music, here he is with Celine Dion in “Happy Xmas”
http://www.musictimes.com/articles/57947/20151212/michael-buble-celine-dion-perform-happy-christmas-5th-annual-special.htm
@21, is angry because there is a woman(not in subservient mode or bikini) and black man( ❗ period( both playing prominent parts in the movie. EGGHEAD is a pure F*** ❗
Egghead should also be nicknamed LIAR(as GI Korea even copies/quotes his LIES), in this most recent LIE of EGGHEADS he states that there has been a StarWars “leak” but of course he can’t prove that 🙄
If he could he’d link to the supposed ” leak” for which the EGGHEAD claims STMF ❗
Gi Korea would have you believe anything/anyone(including chickenhead/EGGHEAD so why he calls out the mainstream media is funny 😆
Pentagon Paid Sports Teams Millions For ‘Paid Patriotism’ Events
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/11/05/454834662/pentagon-paid-sports-teams-millions-for-paid-patriotism-events
So there we have it, professional teams could care less about servicethemselfmembers because they/you ain’t serving anyone but them/yourselves ❗ ❗ ❗
The new Taco Belle?
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The new Taco Belle?
She looks in need of my Double Beef Burrito Supreme.
We’ll take your word on that; but does this remind you of someone?
http://new1.fjcdn.com/pictures/Title+goes+blubrlegarble+porting+over+some+old+motifakes+i+made_97fddb_5249468.jpg
What does everyone (except Tbone) here think about Kasich?
I didn’t realize he was running again this year. I don’t know why he can never seem to gather steam?
@28, Did you give up wanting to know about your gal Fiorina after I informed you about how she’s been shamed with her LIES/reliance on fake Planned Parenthood video 🙄
Why don’t you do a search lazy and tell us all about your new wannabe hero Kasich 😆
GOP Bigots Go Bonkers after Muslim judge swears oath on Koran instead of Bible: ‘She should be arrested!’
Hey Bigot EGGHEAD, calm down ❗
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/bigots-go-bonkers-after-muslim-judge-swears-oath-on-koran-instead-of-bible-she-should-be-arrested/
“Following her election last month, Carolyn Walker-Diallo was sworn in as a civil judge for the 7th Municipal District in a Brooklyn Borough hall last Thursday. She chose to take her oath using a Koran instead of a Bible.
After video of the New York Law School graduate was posted online by community activist and litigator Mohammed Mujumder, enraged commenters swarmed his Facebook pageto express their outrage, with one writing, “Another piece of shit Muslim. Trying to take over this country.”
Mixed in with racist memes accusing President Barack Obama of being a Muslim were concerns that Walker-Diallo might institute Sharia law from her East New York City bench.”
Rep. Steve King Worried Two Muslim Congressmen Haven’t Renounced Sharia Law
What ever happened to the GOPers NEVER ending claim for “religious freedom” in America?
Steve King is. a GOPer who wants to restrict “religious freedom,” please help us out here Liz or setnafa 😈
Or does that just count for the right-wing evangelical radical extreme GOPers insurgency(War at all costs/pro-birth but NON-LIFE WACKOS ❓
Iowa Congressman Steve King wants the media to go after congressmen Andre Carson and Keith Ellison to get them to renounce Sharia law.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/steve-king-still-wants-the-media-to-ask-his-muslim-colleagues-if-they-support-sharia/
“Why does this matter to King? Because, he argues, Sharia supersedes all other laws and he apparently has doubts that two men who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution actually believe that.
He doubled down in a Newsmax interview today when Steve Malzberg asked him about his remarks.
King said he was just trying to make a larger point about how the U.S. shouldn’t be trying to assimilate anyone who won’t renounce Sharia law, which blatantly contradicts American law.”
Kasich has been around a long while. He isn’t “new”, he ran a while back (2000).
Not that it’s a bg deal; but… http://www.peoplesniper.com/image/people/1208/why-oughta-trolling-people-pic-1345840340.jpg
Freedom and a little bit of an old flag… http://accordingtohoyt.com/2015/12/15/on-a-far-distant-shore-complete/
‘What about PMS and that time of the month?’ Survey of U.S. Special Forces troops reveals fear of women’s hormones getting in the way of the job
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3361619/What-PMS-time-month-Survey-U-S-Special-Forces-troops-reveals-fear-women-s-hormones-getting-way-job.html
LIFE! Or at least until a nice, fat bribe is paid.
http://news.yahoo.com/n-korea-sentences-canadian-pastor-life-prison-034021370.html
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea’s Supreme Court sentenced a Canadian pastor to life in prison with hard labor on Wednesday for what it called crimes against the state.
Related Stories
North Korea jails Canadian pastor for life with hard labour AFP North Korea sentences Canadian pastor to hard labor for life Reuters Top Asian News 12:58 p.m. GMT Associated Press Sponsored Hyeon Soo Lim, who pastors the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, was given the sentence after a 90-minute trial. He had been in detention since February.
Light Korean Presbyterian Church? Is there a Heavy Korean Presbyterian Church? Does the Heavy KPC have a lower movement rate in comparison to the Light KPC? What is each unit’s armament and disposition? Which unit is most likely to violate GO1, and end up wandering around Songtan, looking for the legendary Chickenhead Bar and Grill?
@28- Liz I like Kasich the best out of all of them. He does not pander to ideological extremists, is articulate, can work with Democrats when needed and has proven he can govern a large state effectively which also happens to be an important swing state for any Presidential candidate to win. So all in all he is everything the Republican Party is basically not looking for. 😐
What’s Wrong With Ya’ll? You missed the stars/stripes article on the GOP so-called debate last night 🙄
Fiorina & Cruz released Top Secret info 😳 Fiorina can’t just stop at lying about Planned Parenthood…she has to lie about the Internets, Terrorism, The Generals/Stanley McChrystal, and Putin 🙁
Factless GOP Debate
Another GOP presidential debate, another battle with facts
http://www.stripes.com/news/us/another-gop-presidential-debate-another-battle-with-facts-1.384351
Original post…William Douglas/McClatchy Washington Bureau/Tribune Content Agency/December 15, 2015
“The Republican presidential candidates negotiated a minefield of national security and foreign policy concerns and dilemmas in their latest debate Tuesday night.
But it was rocky terrain for several as they slipped, slid and suffered stubbed toes in their encounters with the facts.
Foreign policy and national security issues dominated the two-hour CNN debate. Throughout, the nine Republicans presidential candidates made claims and statements worthy of re-examination.
CRUZ AND SYRIAN REFUGEES: Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas asserted that President Barack Obama wants to bring in “tens of thousands” of Syrian refugees. His administration only began moving toward mass resettlement after increased pressure from the European and Middle Eastern nations bearing the brunt of the refugee crisis. The administration has pledged to admit at least 10,000 Syrians in the fiscal year that began in October. Advocacy groups called the figure a drop in the bucket compared to the millions of displaced Syrians seeking refuge. And these are not new cases — they’ll come from 18,000 cases already referred by the United Nations and that are at varying stages of the screening process, which typically takes around two years to complete.
RUBIO AND U.S. ALLIES: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s claim that U.S. allies have lost trust in the United States is vague. Certainly, U.S. allies such as France, Turkey and Saudi Arabia have made clear their displeasure with Obama’s policy toward Syria, but they are still part of the U.S.-led coalition to fight the Islamic State and cooperate closely on a number of other counterterrorism and diplomatic initiatives.
TRUMP AND THE NUCLEAR DEAL WITH IRAN: Donald Trump called the nuclear deal forged between Iran, the United States and five other world powers “disgusting” and complained that the Tehran government would “get $150 billion.”
According to Politifact.com, Iran does gain significantly under the nuclear deal, but the $150 billion figure is actually the ‘dollar value of Iran’s foreign assets that the U.S can unfreeze’ as part of the nuclear deal.
RUBIO AND DEFENSE CUTS: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio lamented the declining strength in both force and funding of the Navy and the Air Force. That looked past the fact that he and two other candidates on the stage — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz — were in office when Republicans signed off in recent years on the so-called budget sequester that slashed government spending across the board to reduce debt and deficits.
“If you listen to folks up here you’d think they weren’t even there,” complained New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, touting his executive branch experience.
The Budget Control Act of 2011 called for automatic across-the-board spending cuts, beginning in 2013, as a disincentive. They would occur only if lawmakers couldn’t find their own compromise on cuts. They didn’t.
In Feb. 26, 2015, testimony before Congress, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus warned that three years of sequestration have meant a “continued decline of our relative warfighting advantages in many areas.” Rubio and Paul were in the Senate when the Budget Control Act passed. Cruz was elected in 2012, but has been in office for three “sequester” budgets.
FIORINA AND OBAMA’S GENERALS: Former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina said that she would bring back a series of knowledgeable retired generals, including David Petraeus and Stanley McChrystal, who retired early because they told Obama things he didn’t want to hear.
Obama accepted McChrystal’s resignation in 2010 after he and his aides mocked civilian government officials, including Vice President Joe Biden in an article in Rolling Stone magazine. McChrystal was not directly critical of the president or the president’s policies.
Petraeus retired from the military to become CIA director after he was passed up for the job as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or Chief of Staff of the Army, as many had expected. (He later resigned from his position at the CIA after his extramarital affair became public).
FIORINA AND PUTIN: Fiorina said she “knows” Russian President Vladimir Putin. It’s not the first time she has said that in a debate and on the stump. Fiorina did meet the Russian leader before the two spoke at the APEC CEO Summit in China in 2001, according to Factcheck.org. The two met for 45 minutes, according to the Daily Beast.
CRUZ AND ‘RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM’: Cruz accused Obama of not uttering the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism.” It’s a frequent criticism of the president by Republicans, who say it’s emblematic of his alleged failure to understand the real threat to the United States.
“America is at war,” Cruz said. “Our enemy is not violent extremism. It is not some unnamed malevolent force. It is radical Islamic terrorist. We have a president who is unwilling to utter its name.”
This has been rated true by the fact-checking website Politifact, which says Obama tends to use ISIL for the Islamic State and calls its members “thugs” and “killers.” The president has said that he does this to isolate the group. Earlier this year, Obama said its members were “desperate for legitimacy.”
“They try to portray themselves as religious leaders … holy warriors in defense of Islam,” Obama said during a summit on violent extremism Feb. 22. “That’s why ISIL presumes to declare itself the ‘Islamic State.’ And they propagate the notion that America — and the West, generally — is at war with Islam.”
Obama also likes to stress that the United States is “not at war with Islam,” similar to what former President George W. Bush said after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“This great nation of many religions understands, our war is not against Islam, or against faith practiced by the Muslim people. Our war is a war against evil,” Bush said in January 2002.
FIORINA, THE INTERNET AND TERRORISM: Fiorina said she would ask Internet companies to monitor social media to protect against terrorists. But companies have already been asked to do that and say they already cooperate with law enforcement and that any messages that promote terrorism violate their usage rules, according to NPR.
Obama referred to the issue again in his speech to the nation Dec. 6.
“I will urge high-tech and law enforcement leaders to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice,” he said.
Congress is also considering a proposal that would require companies to report knowledge of terrorist activities to the government. But one major problem is that companies often rely on users to flag possible inappropriate content in part because of the amount of content they have. It’s true they could do more by using programs to identify images of terrorism as they do with child pornography.”
Thanks for the response, GI Korea. 🙂
[i]”He does not pander to ideological extremists, is articulate, can work with Democrats when needed and has proven he can govern a large state effectively which also happens to be an important swing state for any Presidential candidate to win. So all in all he is everything the Republican Party is basically not looking for.”[/i]
Spot on. That pretty much sums it up. 🙁
@28 & 37 Kasich Lovers
LIz says…Kasich ran for the 2000 presidential election aye ❓ Well, let’s put that into perspective…He quit in the summer of 1999 before the Iowa straw poll…in sum that’s like him quitting this past July for the 2016 election. 😆
GI Korea says…”Kasich can work with Democrats when needed(“God” forbid) 😆
What, do yo mean if the Dems ain’t African American, Hispanic, or Asian ❓
Kasich wants a federal agency to promote “Judeo-Christian values” 🙄 I thought he was a GOPer ❓ How much will this gov’t agency cost, he forgot his radical insurgency GOPer party ain’t for gov’t and gov’t spending 😈
Kasich is Anti-Islam given the times because he wants the gov’t to promote a specific religion, he quickly forgot about the separation of church & state 🙄
Kasich fights for “freedom of religion”(HUH?), since when and how when he wants the U.S. gov’t to only promote 1 religion ❓
Kasich says he’s for the equality of women…
😆
Kasich is affiliated with a Super PAC 🙁 Ya’ll know what that means aye ❓ Kasich is HAPPY with Citizens United 🙁
Kasich does not believe in polls ❗
Thank Goodness Kasich WON’T win ❗
Kasich on Abortion:
In June 2013, Kasich signed into law a state budget which included anti-abortion measures such as mandating any woman seeking an abortion to have a trans-abdominal ultrasound, and barring abortion providers from entering into emergency transfer agreements with public hospitals.[73] The bill stripped some $1.4 million in federal dollars from Planned Parenthood by placing the organization last on the priority list for family-planning funds.[73][74] The bill also provided funding to crisis pregnancy centers, which do not provide abortion referrals.[74] Under the budget, rape crisis centers could lose public funding if they counseled sexual assault victims about abortion.[74] Since 2011, Governor Kasich has signed 16 anti-abortion measures into law.[75]
In 2015, Kasich said in an interview that Planned Parenthood “ought to be de-funded” but said that Republicans in Congress should not force a government shutdown over the issue.[76]
Kasich on Drugs:
Kasich expressed opposition to medical marijuana in 2012, saying “There’s better ways to help people who are in pain.”[105] In a 2015 interview with radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, Kasich said he was “totally opposed” to the legalization of recreational marijuana in Ohio and equated marijuana and heroin, stating: “In my state and across this country, if I happened to be president, I would lead a significant campaign down at the grassroots level to stomp these drugs out of our country.”[106][107] When asked whether, if elected president, he would federally enforce marijuana laws in states which have legalized marijuana, Kasich characterized it as a states’ rights issue and said that “I’d have to think about it.”[107]
Kasich on Cabinet Diversity/Racism:
Upon taking office in 2011, Kasich received criticism for appointing an initial all-white cabinet of 22 members.[152] Responding to criticism for not appointing any black, Hispanic, or Asian Cabinet members, Kasich said: “I don’t look at things from the standpoint of any of these sort of metrics that people tend to focus on, race or age, or any of those things. It’s not the way I look at things… I want the best possible team I can get.”[152] Shortly afterward, on February 2, 2011, Kasich made his first minority appointment to the Cabinet, naming Michael Colbert, a black man, to lead the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.[153]
Liz LOVES Fiorina and her LIES about U.S. military Generals
Shall I show ya’ll how McChrystal said Obama was correct and Bush was WRONG 😆
Carly Fiorina claims military generals ‘retired early’ after being frank with Obama
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/dec/16/carly-fiorina/carly-fiorina-claims-military-generals-retired-ear/
“One of the things I would immediately do … is bring back the warrior class — Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn. … Every one was retired early because they told President Obama things that he didn’t want to hear.”
— Carly Fiorina on Tuesday, December 15th, 2015 in a GOP debate on CNN
General Keane Refutes Carly Fiorina’s Claim That He Was Forced Into Early Retirement By Obama
http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/16/general-keane-refutes-carly-fiorinas-claim-that-he-was-forced-into-early-retirement-by-obama/
I wonder how many of the people who froth about “mandating ultrasounds for abortions” know that an ultrasound is already a medical requirement for an abortion? It’s also a medical requirement for a D and C, removal of an IUD, pretty much removal of anything in there.
Just to add: I mean removal of an embedded IUD…if it goes up and becomes embedded in the uterus.
I’m not sure why anyone would think I like Fiorina. I can’t think of any female politician I would like to see as president.
I will say the military (at least the USAF, the only branch I’m familiar with) has too many generals. The units are shrinking and the rest of the jobs are being cut, but they never cut the generals. I know one general who is only in charge of about 40 people. He basically goes to the meetings other generals can’t go to if their schedules don’t permit it.
I’m not so worried about generals as I am about the ops tempo and decline in manpower overall.
@44, once we get our military down to 1936 levels, Obama will be pleased…
Stalin purged the Red Army, too…
“once we get our military down to 1936 levels, Obama will be pleased…”
Yeah. I’m pretty sure we must be down to Jimmy Carter levels now. Worse, considering the increasing number of commitments we have around the globe.
@47, it’s lower.
And apparently having 40% of the country unemployed and not counted as “in the workforce” was enough: http://freebeacon.com/issues/omnibus-would-quadruple-number-of-low-wage-visas-for-foreign-workers/
The Federal Reserve (independent) thinks the economy is good. They raised interest rate for first time in a decade.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/16/news/economy/federal-reserve-interest-rate-hike/
The move was widely expected. It is a sign of how much the economy has healed since the Great Recession. The central bank believes the U.S. economy is strong now and no longer needs crutches and that the move “marks the end of an extraordinary period” of low rates designed to boost the recovery from the Great Recession.
(AP) In a prepared response to President Obama’s assurances of “no credible threats of terrorism against the homeland”, the Council on American Islamic Relations today rejected the concept that Muslims are responsible for next week’s terror attack.
@44, “I’m not sure why anyone would think I like Fiorina.”
Like Kasich your lazyazz asked what anyone knew about Fiorina, when I linked to her lies about Planned Parenthood you said nothing except suggest the Planned Parenthood CEO is “dishonest” without any info/link/quote about her so-called “dishonesty” 🙄
@50, “Muslims are responsible for next week’s terror attack.”
If you believe they are responsible, please explain ❓ 😆 🙄
@44, 45, & 47
Yes, I’ve heard your bandwagon EGGHEAD anti-women rhetoric before. There has been “Manpower” reduction in the workforce for decades(think robots). So, where and why should more manpower be deployed. So you’re not only anti-Obama but also Jimmy Carter aye ❓
Jimmy Carter is one of my favorite presidents simply because he’s a man of peace. Worse for you(better for me) is that he was a warless president. Can’t say that for many now can you. 😎
You’re like so many here, nothing but a WAR DOG for WAR HAWKS ~ USA military–industrial–congressional complex. 🙁
Americans have been at war sometime during 171 years of the years since 1776. That’s 72% of American history, and leaves only 66 warless years behind. Thank you Jimmy Carter for giving me 4 of them, the only American president that has given me warless/peaceful years ❗
Jimmy Carter – A President Of Peace: ‘We Never Dropped A Bomb… We Never Went To War’
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/poll-presidents-carter-reagan-215537
“During his ten-year service in the US Navy as an engineer and officer, Carter attended graduate school, majoring in reactor technology and nuclear physics.
In 1952, he risked his life to dismantle a nuclear reactor when he was ordered to lead the clean up of a nuclear accident caused by melted fuel rods at Canada’s Chalk River Laboratories.
As US President from 1976 to 1980, Carter established an energy policy that cut US oil imports by half. (Reagan dismantled most of Carter’s policies.)
Aside from the eight people who were killed during a hostage rescue mission during the Iranian Revolution, no American or any other national was killed under the banner of an American war.
Considering that millions of people lost their lives in the wars before and after Carter’s presidency – the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan – the fact that the Carter administration did not wage war on any country makes it unique in American history.”
@48 “And apparently having 40% of the country unemployed and not counted as “in the workforce” was enough”
Must be all those dismembered, PTSD, and homeless WAR DOG Vets aye ❓ I guess that’s what happens to volunteers who want to servicethemselves by following WAR HAWKS in badly fought wars/invasions 😈
WARDOGS to Defy Obama?
Rep. Mike Pompeo Urges Military To Defy Obama On Gitmo Closure
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rep-mike-pompeo-urges-military-defy-obama-gitmo-closure
Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo sent a letter to the Joint Chiefs of Staff with 15 congressional signatures urging them to “seek appropriate legal advice before following any executive order to transfer Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) detainees to the United States.”
Pompeo told the Center for Security Policy’s Frank Gaffney yesterday that the letter was a way of telling service members that members of Congress “have their back” if they choose to defy an executive order meant to close the detention facility.
“It’s unconscionable to put our military leaders in this position, where the commander in chief asks of them something that is unlawful,” Pompeo told Gaffney. “And my intention was not to put pressure on those amazing soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, but rather to inform everyone that you can’t ask folks in the military to execute an unlawful order. And I hope that they understand that there members of Congress that have their back in the event that they choose to make a decision that comports with their duty.”
What, Center for Security Policy’s Frank Gaffney? But who is Frank Gaffney again?
Islamophobe Frank Gaffney doesn’t believe Obama is a Christian, either.
Frank Gaffney: Obama ‘Playing For The Other Team,’ Committing ‘Treason’
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frank-gaffney-obama-playing-other-team-committing-treason
“Frank Gaffney is alleging that both the Obama administration has been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood, but has since been enjoying the attention of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
In recent days, Gaffney has been promoting the story of Phillip Haney, a former Department of Homeland Security employee who claims that the Obama administration pulled the plug on an investigation that he was conducting that he claims could possibly have caught the San Bernardino terrorists. It’s hard to tell what of Haney’s story is true since DHS has stayed mum on it other than to tell Fox News that his tale has “many holes.” Haney mentioned in an interview with Sandy Rios this morning that he also locked horns with the Bush administration, but did not provide details.
But in any case, Gaffney has latched onto Haney’s story to promote his narrative that, as he told Indianapolis talk radio host Greg Garrison last week, President Obama is “playing for the other team” and that it is “indisputable” that the president is committing “treason.”
“What I believe this proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt — and I think this is also just the tip of the iceberg, by the way — is that the Obama administration is … well, they’re playing for the other team,” Gaffney told Garrison. “And this is an extraordinarily dangerous thing for this country to be experiencing at a moment like this, I think it’s contributing, frankly, to the mortal peril we’re facing from these jihadists.”
It is, he said, an “increasingly indisputable fact that this president is providing aid and comfort to enemies of the United States. And that is the definition, as you know, of treason.”
Rubio Skipped Vote On Defense Bill He Attacked Cruz For Voting Against
Hypocritical of these GOP radical insurgency member president wannabees, aye ❓
Rubio attacked Cruz for voting against annual bills to authorize military spending, but missed one of those votes on Oct. 7, 2015.
Marco Rubio is going to have trouble defending his absences. AND, we’re still waiting for an “affair(s)” that Rubio allegedly had goes public.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/christophermassie/rubio-skipped-vote-on-defense-bill-he-attacked-cruz-for-voti?utm_term=.xlZnb715X#.eaorvEQ9B
“Rubio attacked Ted Cruz during Tuesday’s CNN debate for voting against the annual bill that authorizes military spending for the following fiscal year, but Rubio missed this year’s vote to campaign in New Hampshire.
“Three times he voted against the Defense Authorization Act, which is a bill that funds the troops,” the Florida senator and Republican presidential candidate said. “It also, by the way, funds the Iron Dome and other important programs and I have to assume that if you vote against it in the Senate, you would also veto it as president.”
One of Cruz’s “nay” votes came on Oct. 7, in a vote Rubio missed. The bill passed 70-27, despite Rubio’s absence.
Rubio, who also missed a procedural vote that led to the bill’s passing, told CNN at the time that, while he would do “everything possible to be present for any vote,” being a presidential candidate meant that he was going to miss some.”
@ 55, Gaffney’s ‘Summit’ A Procession Of Extemism–Conspiracism, And GOPer Radical Insurgency Candidates
Islamophobe Frank Gaffney held a “summit” featuring a procession of anti-Muslim speakers and presidential candidate in sync with that poisonous mindset.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/12/16/gaffney%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98summit%E2%80%99-nevada-nonstop-procession-extremism-conspiracism-%E2%80%94-and-candidates
“The Center for Security Policy puts a veneer of normalcy on a daylong program of fearmongering and conspiracy, even as it’s being courted by GOP presidential candidates.
President Obama is a secret Muslim conspiring to destroy the United States and isusing the Justice Department to squelch anti-Muslim speech. Liberals are covertly working with radical Islamists to transform the country into a radical socialist state while Muslims are pouring over our borders. Hillary Clinton is not only a liar and criminal, she is likely blackmailing the FBI director and other authorities to keep out of prison.
All these theories and many more were featured Monday at the Nevada version of the Center for Security Policy’s “National Security Action Summit” at the International Peace Education Center in Las Vegas, a meeting hall owned by the Unification Church. It was everything its chief organizer, noted anti-Muslim extremist Frank Gaffney, could have hoped for…
The day wrapped up with a series of appearances from GOP presidential candidates, who themselves managed to pile on with more extremism…
That was especially the case with Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, whose 15-minute video message ran earlier in the day. Cruz also had praise for Gaffney, who he described as a “patriot” who “has been attacked over and over again for having the courage to stand up and speak the name ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ of the enemy that is waging jihad against us.”
…The day’s events ended with the Senator Rick Santorum and the videotaped messages from fellow GOP candidates Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson, giving Gaffney and the CSP exactly what they wanted: a stamp of approval from mainstream political leaders of all the conspiracy and extremism that came before it.”
Liz & setnaffa & any other of you WARDOGS. What is it do ya’ll want Obama to do that Obama isn’t already doing ❓ 😆 🙄
setaffa, look to see what Cruz said about your war on a faith 😎
How the GOP looks more like Obama on war than it thinks
The fifth Republican debate of 2015 revealed friction between the candidates and highlighted their priorities around issues of protecting America against threats both at home and abroad, including ISIS, the Internet, and immigration.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article50012315.html
“Sure, it was a Republican debate, but President Barack Obama might have fit right in much of the time.
As they did in their latest debate Tuesday, Republican presidential candidates are eager to say they’ll be tougher on terrorists than Barack Obama. And they differ by degrees in emphasis.
But as they grapple with the balance of national security and such things as civil liberties at home and Muslim alliances abroad, they mostly offer variations of the same policies as Obama. Send in special troops to target our airstrikes? Obama’s doing that. Keep our combat troops at home and get the Arabs to fight? That’s Obama’s plan. Stop the targeting of all Muslims lest that drive away potential allies? Obama again.,,”
READ the REST ❗
In other news that isn’t making news…
Syrian students in Korea are applying for refugee status en masse.
While, technically, students are better than the unwashed middle Eastern masses making Sweden the raape capital… and better than the 90% on chronic welfare in America, intolerant people from a near-failed state unwilling to assimilate really doesn’t strengthen a functioning society.
Please, Korea… learn the clear lessons of everyone else’s failure.
@59, Your attempt to know and/or advise a country on foreign policy is hilarious you GOPer EGGHEAD 😆
A foreign-policy party no more
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/foreign-policy-party-no-more
By Steve Benen 12/17/15 04:45PM
“Fairly early on in this week’s Republican presidential debate, Ted Cruz was reminded about his recent quote in which he vowed to “carpet bomb ISIS into oblivion,” testing whether “sand can glow in the dark.” Asked whether he’s prepared to decimate a populated city like Raqqa, informally known as the ISIS capital in Syria, the Texas senator hedged.
“You would carpet bomb where ISIS is, not a city, but the location of the troops,” Cruz said, adding, “[T]he object isn’t to level a city. The object is to kill the ISIS terrorists.”
This plainly didn’t make any sense. It’s as if Cruz referenced carpet bombing — indiscriminate bombing of large areas, without regard for collateral damage — without having any idea what it means. To hear the Texas Republican tell it, there’s such a thing as precision, “directed” carpet bombing, which is a contradiction in terms.
The gibberish, however, was par for the course. Writing in the Washington Post, Dan Drezner, a center-right scholar, said yesterday, “When it comes to foreign policy, the GOP’s candidates for president in 2016 are either ignorant or insane.”
The overwhelming bulk of what the GOP candidates had to say last night was pure, unadulterated horses***. […]”
Putin praises ‘bright and talented’ Trump
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/17/politics/russia-putin-trump/
Another Amish-Presby-Methodist gone wrong? http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/18/northern-california-man-arrested-for-allegedly-trying-to-join-terror-group.html
US Special Forces for the first time on a secret mission in Libya were embarrassingly told to leave by local commanders shortly after landing
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3365394/US-Special-Forces-photographed-time-secret-mission-Libya-embarrassingly-told-leave-local-commanders-shortly-arriving.html
Life imitates art: http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/2950/9603/original.jpg
Rape Culture does exist… “Trevor FitzGibbon was Obama’s Communications Director in New Mexico on his original campaign. And that made him left-wing royalty. His PR firm, FitzGibbon Media, represented major left-wing organizations from MoveOn.org to Planned Parenthood, from Color of Change to Everytown. . . . FitzGibbon Media clients included branches of the ACLU, the Bradley Manning Defense Fund, Common Cause, AFL-CIO, DailyKos, American Federal of Teachers, Correct the Record, the Ford Foundation, Brave New Films, Global Zero, Islamic Relief, Planned Parenthood, the Julian Assange Defense Fund, Google, Rock the Vote, the Intercept, Wikileaks, Wikipedia, the Nation and VDay, Eve Ensler’s movement which claims to fight rape. It didn’t seem to bother Eve Ensler that Trevor FitzGibbon was also representing Julian Assange, a progressive rapist. And his latest antics likely won’t bother her either. But while FitzGibbon Media claimed to be so very feminist and progressive, life was hell for the women who worked there.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/261172/obama-communication-director-accused-sexual-daniel-greenfield
Trump military Deferment from becoming a servicehimselfmember of the socialist DOD. Wait, I thought Trump will be the healthiest president ever ❓ He’s never done any drugs/alcohol so how was he ever “deferred?” Trump the Perfect ~ the GOP/GOPers hateful answer for America’s future 😆
@65, “Julian Assange, a progressive rapist”
I must’ve missed that trial 😈
Naming numerous this/that organizations, then calling Assange a “rapist” without a trial doesn’t bode well for your quacking ‘frontpagemag’
Get back with us when this Trevor FitzGibbon is ever found guilty of anything. Your attempt to connect the “guilty” before trial to Obama is hilarious 😆
GOPer rhetoric and hate speech leads to U.S. mass shootings, domestic terrorism, and your beloved George Bush started it all with his infamous quote…”BRING IT ON ❗ ❗ ❗ ” GOPers LOVE WAR and KILLING, hence WAR DOGS invading, killing, raping(even GRANDMOTHERS) for WAR HAWKS ❗ ❗ ❗ ❗ ❗
George W. Bush Says “Bring ’em on”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKdbZWNqF00
Trump Supporter of Putin who kills journalists. Who else supports Putin on Rokdrop ❓ EGGHEAD 😆
Florida Student Files Suit against Palm Beach School Board for Refusal to Teach Evolution
Gee, I wonder who will win 😎
An 11-year-old student in Boca Raton, Florida, has filed suit against the Palm Beach school board because public schools in the district refuse to teach evolution as part of the curriculum.
http://www.wpbf.com/news/boca-raton-father-son-sue-school-district-for-not-teaching-evolution/36999330
“Brandon Silver, along with his attorney dad, Barry Silver, filed the 18-page lawsuit late last month.
Barry Silver told a local TV station:
http://www.wpbf.com/news/boca-raton-father-son-sue-school-district-for-not-teaching-evolution/36999330
“It’s such a magnificent story and it’s being neglected. The students are being deprived of learning from it because certain religious people don’t like the story because it contradicts the Bible and we think it is terrible that children shouldn’t learn the truth about where they came from…”
Click on immediate link above to hear the rest ❗
EGGHEAD type Ideology = GOPers and Vice Versa
Republicans Support Bombing Aladdin’s Homeland 30% To 13%
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2015/12/trump-leads-grows-nationally-41-of-his-voters-want-to-bomb-country-from-aladdin-clinton-maintains-bi.html
“Frequently mischievous pollsters Public Policy Polling is out with a new national poll that could spell bad news for Princess Jasmine and Aladdin, if Donald Trump manages to win the presidency. Fully 41% of Trump supporters support bombing Agrabah, the fictional nation in Disney’s blockbuster cartoon, to only 9% who oppose. Things aren’t much better when you ask all Republicans:
To put some of these findings about real modern day issues and Trump voters in context, 41% of his voters think Japanese internment was a good thing, to 37% who don’t. And 41% of his supporters would favor bombing Agrabah to only 9% who are opposed to doing that. Agrabah is the country from Aladdin. Overall 30% of Republican primary voters say they support bombing it to 13% who are opposed.”
@72, Chris Christie and EGGHEAD/GOPer FANTASYSTUPIDITYLAND…
Someone Tell Chris Christie That King Hussein Died In 1999
Chris Christie plans to tell King Hussein of Jordan that he’s “got a friend” in the Oval Office. He may have to wait until he crosses over himself, however.
https://politicalwire.com/2015/12/17/quote-of-the-day-1132/
“When I stand across from King Hussein of Jordan, I say to him you have a friend sir who will stand with you to fight this fight,” Christie said during Tuesday’s Republican primary debate, making the case that the president is not trusted by the leaders of Jordan and Saudi Arabia because of the nuclear deal with Iran.
King Abdullah II is the current, living king of Jordan.
News on Assange and a tiny bit of backstory on why is avoiding Swedish extradition in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
With the way things are these days, there is no telling whether the allegations against him are true or whether they were cooked up to get him in Swedish custody in order to then get him extradited to the U.S. to face charges for leaking sensitive information.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/17/swedish-prosecutors-new-request-question-julian-assange-rape-allegations
I’m not for censorship of ideas and comments around here…
…but Tbone is really starting to fall into the category of spam.
Someone pushing their own thoughts through original writing, no matter how misguided or twisted, has its place… but pages and pages of random cut and paste with the intention of being irritating and disruptive rather than debating ideas sabotages good conversation and is little different from spam.
Tbone is not Teadrinker or Tom, who sometimes made valid points through original writing.
For this reason, I would support the quick deletion of Tbone’s lengthy cut and paste posts… as they seem now to be a liability to the popularity of ROK Drop.
Links and small quotes with a definite point which support a clearly written idea should be allowed. All this lazy cut and paste interspersed with nonsensical rambling should just be deleted.
Anyone second this?
CH,
Ideas –no matter how indefensible, unoriginal, or irrational- are still ideas. He gets on to things that a few of us here agree with sometimes. I just wish he could admit that we do agree on at least a few things.
I disagree with deletion. To me, spam is advertising a product. Most of his posts don’t advertise anything except the occasional misguided ideal or blind hatred. Let the man say what he has to say, whether it adds anything of value or not.
I would say ban him for harsh language and indecency, but then……well, most of us would be gone.
How about creating a “special, safe” posting area just for Tbone where his enlightened content could be redirected. Then, anyone who cares to read his cut & paste posts could easily do so. That would save quite a bit of time and wear & tear on multiple scroll wheels. Call it “Tbone’s World.”
EGGHEAD says…”I’m not for censorship of ideas and comments around here…
…but Tbone is really starting to fall into the category of spam. All this lazy cut and paste interspersed with nonsensical rambling should just be deleted. Anyone second this?”
Guess which other GOPer talks out of both sides of his mouth ❓
How Rubio Speaks Out Of Both Sides Of His Mouth
He tells you what he believes and then he tells you what is politically possible, giving him wiggle room to migrate either way.
https://politicalwire.com/2015/12/19/what-does-marco-rubio-really-believe/
“He tells voters that he has a personal view on the subject — whether abortion, immigration, Syrian refugees or gay marriage. But he also has a view of what is politically possible. Which, usually, is not what he personally wants.”
“That tactic allows Rubio to offer two right answers to the same question, and lets him carve out wiggle room on topics where none seemed possible.”
I used to stop by here quite often to read the discussions but now, when I come to the site and look over on the right-hand side at the comments under the open thread, all I see is one Tbone comment after the other so I move on. Seems like quite a few of the old crowd are no longer commenting either. Teadrinker and Tom, gone. Songtan1, Guitard (sp?), Leon…
@79, “I used to stop by here quite often to read the discussions but now,…”
What, you can read but not write(add anything to the discussion), I’m sure we haven’t missed anything now go back to your right-wing GOP radical insurgency readings elsewhere then since you can’t handle the truth/reality ❗
I would say Nomad nailed it.
The little right-hand side bar is full of Tbone spam and any interesting or thoughtful comments are quickly pushed out of existence,,, which means there is no good conversation started… as many viewers never even see things worth commenting on.
It would be hard to find a better plan to kill ROK Drop if someone wanted to intentionally.
I’ve responded to comments(I.e. # 12, 13, 60) provided links to current events throughout with my thoughts/opinions/questions, I’ve answered questions(# 51) and asked them(# 4, 9, 52, 53, 56, 58) – on topic in response to prior comments but they must be too difficult for anyone to answer. 🙄
Perhaps I need to consider my audience(EGGHEAD types) and should therefore dumb down my questions aye 😆
@81, I thought you were a computer geek? Or is it the English language you have difficulty grasping ❓ This website already has a spam filter, DUH EGGHEAD ❗
You just don’t like losing and if anyone doesn’t feel like commenting to my links it’s because they already feel defeated by the constant GOP lunatics ❗ I’m WINNING and have been for a long time 😎
Perhaps we are just unfit opponents in a contest that never really existed. What is the prize?
If you truly believe that you are so far ahead of everyone here on intellect, why do you come back and comment religiously? If we were all just uncultured buffoons with no intelligence, wouldn’t the conversation be unfulfilling and a waste of your time?
“It would be hard to find a better plan to kill ROK Drop if someone wanted to intentionally.”
Bring back the contests. Feel free to delete crap comments.
@85 johnnyboy asks…”Perhaps we are just unfit opponents in a contest that never really existed. What is the prize? If you truly believe that you are so far ahead of everyone here on intellect, why do you come back and comment religiously? If we were all just uncultured buffoons with no intelligence, wouldn’t the conversation be unfulfilling and a waste of your time?”
What conversation? I ask questions and nobody answers them(see comment # 82).
And why do you ask 3 similar questions? I’ll just give an answer that touches on all three very easily. You see, I thought I would just be nice or give the vast majority of GOPers here on RokDrop what they like better…Easy English, you know like the 4th grade level English Trump speak. I don’t know if I can reach such a low level of English for you GOPers here on RokDrop but maybe I’ll give it a try sometime. 😎 You never know, then perhaps ya’ll won’t hate me so much like you do almost everyone else(non-white). 😈
Donald Trump’s speeches are at a fourth-grade level, study finds
http://theweek.com/speedreads/584422/donald-trumps-speeches-are-fourthgrade-level-study-finds
The secret to a successful presidential campaign might lie on the simplicity of speech. Case in point: Donald Trump. Trump has been leading in the polls for months now and, according to a Flesch-Kincaid readability test that ranks speech by grade level, he’s been making speeches at a fourth-grade level. The two candidates speaking at the highest grade levels — Mike Huckabee and Jim Gilmore — are struggling in the polls. The Boston Globe reports:
Donald Trump Speaks At A 4th Grade Level
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtbTQBx4FDQ
Communicating complex ideas with low-level language is a sign of brilliance rather than ignorance.
Certainly, many here have had professors (and textbooks) that made difficult concepts easy to understand through simple English… as opposed to professors who made simple concepts not understandable due to their desire to appear smarter than they were through complex speaking.
Trump’s goal is to communicate his real message, not obscure it with flowery speaking.
Complaining that he speaks too simply while he obviously gets his message out better than many other candidates is laughable…
…but most of the other candidates would rather just try to sound smart than actually have people fully understand the contents of their counterproductive messages.
So that makes sense.
What would you like to talk about, tbone?
EGGHEAD Won’t Be Admitted to 5th grade English anytime soon, he’ll have to be held back 😎
That statement would have a lot more impact if it was expressed in a grammatically correct sentence.