GOP Jindal’s questionable characters kick-off his presidential 2016 campaign at prayer rally…
“Rachel Maddow reports on some of the questionable characters associated with a Louisiana prayer rally headlined by Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, including televangelist Cindy Jacobs ~ a prophet who can bring back the dead and MUCH MUCH more ~ and the anti-gay American Family Association.” http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/questionable-characters-to-join-jindal-rally-388560963701
tbonetylr
9 years ago
GOP campaign(up to 10 participating) starts this weekend and one of the events is to harden the Koch brothers private parts… http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/weekend-events-seen-as-start-of-gop-campaigns-388560963871
“Weekend events seen as start of GOP campaigns
Kasie Hunt, MSNBC political correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about this weekend’s Republican events that seem to be kicking off the 2016 GOP presidential campaign season, including the sold out Iowa Freedom Summit hosted by Congressman Steve King.”
tbonetylr
9 years ago
God this Week. Did you catch Obama’s “secret” reference to his Muslimism during the SOTU address? http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/week-god-12415
“On Rios’ radio program … she did use the opportunity to claim that Obama was spreading Muslim messages in his speech when he used the word “pillar” to describe the foundations of American leadership in the world: “The other thing he said that I caught, he has done this before, you know there are five pillars of Islam, and he used the term ‘pillars’ again in his speech last night.”
It’s probably worth noting that the president did use the word “pillar” in his speech, but last week, Mitt Romney used the same word. Former President George W. Bush referenced “pillars” several times when discussing U.S. policy in Iraq, and former President Ronald Reagan referenced “pillars” while promoting government-sponsored religion in public schools.
One can only wonder whether the American Family Association, a co-host of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s (R) “The Response” prayer rally today, sees secret Muslims everywhere.”
johnnyboy
9 years ago
Another likely candidate for canonization in the Dindu religion……
Fox News outraged at Boehner and Netanyahu’s plan to undermine Obama http://www.vox.com/2015/1/24/7884311/netanyahu-boehner-fox-news
“Yet two prominent Fox News hosts, Chris Wallace and Shepherd Smith, harshly criticized Boehner and Netanyahu on Friday for secretly arranging a Netanyahu speech to Congress that is transparently aimed at undermining President Obama, and set up without the White House’s knowledge.
The White House, State Department, and many foreign policy observers, including prominent former US ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk, expressed outrage over the move. And, in a sign of just how many lines Boehner and Netanyahu crossed, so did the two Fox News hosts…
…Wallace pointed out that Netanyahu might face political backlash in Israel over this “very risky political strategy,” which could damage Israel’s relationship with the United States.
Here is the backstory: On Wednesday, Boehner announced that he had invited Netanyahu to come speak to a joint session of Congress in late February (later pushed to early March) on Obama’s nuclear negotiations with Iran, which both Boehner and Netanyahu oppose, and which Republicans are seeking to blow up by forcing new, deal-killing sanctions on Iran. What made this such a remarkable breach is that Boehner had reached over Obama to make the invitation, which he and Netanyahu kept secret from the White House. That is a major breach in US foreign policy, which is supposed to be unified; things like official visits by heads of state almost always go through the White House.
Perhaps worse, Republicans are letting a foreign leader use the floor of Congress to bash the American president, thus not just allowing but helping a foreign country meddle in American foreign policy. (This is not the first time either. Republicans invited Netanyahu to speak to Congress in 2011, an opportunity he also used to lambast Obama.)”…
ChickenHead
9 years ago
Democrats have never bashed a Republican president or attempted to sabotage successful American foreign policy for political gain… except when they do.
Of course this means so little… as members of both parties would (and do) sell out America in ways large and small… at every possible chance for short-term personal and professional gain.
Sidenote: This was reported in other countries at the time but never got much (any?) real press in the States. I was quite surprised to read about it in a London newspaper and I kept a laminated copy for many years to show people when they did not believe my story.
ChickenHead
9 years ago
Hey Johnnyboy… who cares?
It’s just another case of blacks behaving blackly.
If black Americans killed black Americans at the same rate other Americans killed other Americans, America’s murder rate would drop to 147th in the world… and all the “terrible gun violence statistics” that are so frequently sited in hopes of banning the 300,000,000 private firearms that are never used in a crime would drop to background noise.
I am passing the point of afrofatigue and approaching afroannoyance.
…which seems to be the goal.
If Obama, through his partnerships with Sharpton, Holder, the liberal media, et al., intended to drive a wedge in race relations, it appears the plan is succeeding.
..but it is unclear what the purpose of the plan is…
…as once the racism on both sides is fanned to the point whites and blacks will not work together as Americans, the black community will still have 73% of children born out of wedlock, a four year high school graduation rate in the 60-70% range, just over half the median income of white households… etc… etc… etc… and they will have substantially less good will of white people willing to give them the benefit of the doubt in most situations.
And good will, and good relations, is important… as whitey will still be running the plantation for at least a few more generations… more if the black community wants to whine instead of change for the better.
…plus there will be Mexicans willing to work harder for less money with a better attitude, adding to black unemployment, misery, and hopelessness.
Who knows where this is going… but it sure seems it is (unnecessarily) going the wrong way.
But it was nice to see the cop put the butterfingered brother down as he was fumbling his gun.
Copcams rock for so many reasons.
johnnyboy
9 years ago
I’m surprised it isn’t an outrage in the media yet.
I think they have been scouring the comments sections of the local reporting to gauge people’s feelings on it before they put their neck out with wall to wall coverage of another case that ends up being no case.
Most people seem to agree the officer was in the right.
I doubt the guy was going to shoot the officer. Likely he just made a mistake in a split second decision by turning and picking up the weapon. Probably just instinctively trying to hold onto something with value.
The officer shouldn’t have to wait to find out though. That split second could have been his death in a situation that he didn’t create, and didn’t deserve to die for.
When resisting arrest and running from the police……..well…….don’t resist arrest and run from the police.
ChickenHead
9 years ago
“don’t resist arrest and run from the police”
That is excellent advice…
…but the problem started long before it got to that point.
Better advice in this situation would have been…
Don’t go downtown to hassle your old lady in a public place.
Don’t take your weapons with you when you go downtown to stir up trouble that doesn’t require a weapon.
If you must stir up trouble, don’t consume drugs or alcohol beforehand.
If you consume drugs or alcohol, stay home and stir up trouble next time.
If you leave your house, leave the drugs at home.
…and, more fundamentally…
Getting rich and fukkin’ fine hoes ain’t a plan… it is the result of a plan.
…hmmm… you can quote me on that one.
This advice crosses all racial, ethnic, and class barriers.
There is no shortage of dipshyts turning small trouble into big trouble because they just couldn’t go without a dime bag of weed in their pockets… and then they run, resist, or get caught.
“Most people seem to agree the officer was in the right.”
It would take a real thug-lover to complain about a cop shooting a guy fumbling a gun around in his hands after maybe trying to pull it out to use it. Even whitey-hating “civil rights activists” and “community organizers” might have felt that…
I want the Patriots to win Super Bowl XLIX so that the NFL’s hapless Mr.
“ignorance is no excuse”
“I hold head coaches responsible”
“protect the shield”(while he hides behind it)
“for the integrity of the game”(though money is above all including cheating, assaulting players wives/GF’s, using HGH, player head trauma, promotion of alcohol and players return after DWI manslaughter, gun & knife use/killings etc…)
Roger(do nothing) Goodell eats it again just for $$$ thus being the 1st Super Bowl team with an asterisk next to the winning New England Patriots ~ all thanks to do nothing wimp R. Goodell.
You clearly don’t understand English enough to know what “this” is. What an EGGHEAD! Hey EGGHEAD, why don’t you provide a link that shows democrats(to defy a republican president) invited a foreign leader to speak to congress without the president’s permission instead of creating your own meaning of “this?”
Here, let me guide you and any other dummy/non-university educated EGGHEAD understand what exactly “this” is, all you have to do is answer the question below…
When have Democrats let a foreign leader use the floor of Congress to bash a republican president, “thus not just allowing but helping a foreign country meddle in American foreign policy?”
Even Foxnews(Chris Wallace and Shepherd Smith) understands what “this” is but of course EGGHEAD is too stupid to understand and can’t resist flapping his tongue in the wind.
If you can’t first speak to the topic at hand before going on with your usual diatribe perhaps you shouldn’t embarrass yourself knowing you CAN’T prove me wrong(EGGHEAD)!
The White House is saying the president doesn’t want to meet with Netanyahu because he doesn’t like to appear with foreign leaders during re-election campaigns.
“The brewing standoff also stood in stark contrast to a White House visit by British prime minister David Cameron, who is also running for re-election but appeared alongside Obama last week as they both warned of the dangers should Congress pass new sanctions authorisation that they insist could derail the Iran talks.
The UK elections on 7 May are eight weeks further afield than the Israeli elections, and Cameron also visited Washington two month earlier than Netanyahu’s planned trip. But the British prime minister’s official state visit to Washington was still widely interpreted as a boost to his electoral prospects back home.”
“Cameron also admitted to calling senators directly during his stay, urging them not to vote for proposed legislation that would authorise fresh economic sanctions on Iran if nuclear talks fail but the White House argues will cause them to fail and risk war instead.”
I guess we need to determine what the real issue is: that a foreign leader takes the floor of Congress without being invited by the president or that a foreign leader tries to sway our own foreign policy.
ChickenHead
9 years ago
Rumor has it that “U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will face charges for desertion”.
So far, the Obama administration’s strategy is unclear…
– negotiate with terrorists
– fight for the return of a voluntary deserter
– trade 5 known/dangerous terrorists for unwanted deserter
– complete the investigation and sit on it
– don’t communicate the findings
– set a very poor leadership example
I would like to believe his return was negotiated because he has valuable information he picked up over the years, the 5 terrorists can be monitored to discover their contacts, and the report is waiting until all these clever plans come together…
…but this level of elegance and cunning is absent in the Obama administration… and with most of the partisan hacks he has promoted to thinking positions.
Why do they say the DPRK is unpredictable? They do everything to a script.
1. Demand the US and ROK cancel annual training
2. Charm Offensive
3. Make a threat
Next up should be a military skirmish of some sort. Regular as the monsoon season.
Oh, and TBone. I don’t wish you dead, I just see it as inevitable. A man with your level of substance abuse and assorted mental issues? Yeah. Inevitable.
Tell me, is being a pest on this website the only thing preventing you from giving a .38 a blowjob? I mean I mostly ignore your shenanigans and endless attempts to derail conversations, but some days I still wonder why you, a loser with a long rap sheet in the States and Korea even bother with logging in here.
You came here begging sympathy when you got fired and booted from your employer provided apartment, then laughed and said how great your life would be once you went back to the States. But it seems like the States isn’t working out all that well either…
Is Chickenhead the closest thing to a friend you have? The only person who will reply to you to keep the soul crushing loneliness away?
Did you ever stop to think, maybe it’s you? That you are your own worst problem? Because you are.
GOP & Hate group(American Family Association/AFA). The AFA is Anti-Jewish but the Repubs(RNC chairman Reince Priebus and dozens of other Repubs) are being hosted by the AFA on a trip to Israel. Hehehehehe!!!!! Oh and they’re Anti-Mormon(Mitt Romney), Anti-Muslim, Anti-Gay, Anti-black man etc…
‘U.S. NGO: Evangelical ‘hate group’ funding Republican National Committee trip to Israel
Evangelical political operative planned 9-day freebie trip for national committee members, on behalf of the conservative Christian AFA group which blasts Muslims, gays. SPLC rights group staffer: Our issue is not with the trip, but with the ‘heinous beliefs’ of those sponsoring it.” http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.639330
“Bryan Fischer, the AFA’s director of issue analysis, has said that black people “rut like rabbits.” Moreover, in a September essay, he wrote: “We are a Christian nation and not a Jewish or Muslim one.” On a video segment on MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” last Friday, Fischer was seen blasting gay activists as “jack-booted homo-fascist thugs,” and depicting Islam as “an Ebola virus that is lethal and deadly.”
RNC chairman Reince Priebus sent out the invitation for the trip – whose expenses from New York to Israel are entirely covered – to all 168 RNC members in November. More than one-third accepted, and they will be joined by about three dozen other guests, said David Lane, the man behind the initiative.”
“Religious bigotry haunts group hosting RNC” http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rnc-has-decision-make-about-israel-trip
Rabbi Jonah Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center, talks with Rachel Maddow about the American Family Association’s record of religious bigotry and intolerance that calls to question the RNC’s judgment in accepting a trip to Israel with them.
What’s more, this story is about more than just Fischer. The man who will personally lead the AFA/RNC trip to Israel is a man named David Lane, who works on an AFA project called the American Renewal Project. Lane is a controversial figure in his own right, having said in 2012 that he wouldn’t support Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign because of the candidate’s religion.
These are the folks the Republican National Committee is choosing to pal around with? As Rachel put it on the show last night, “I have to say, it’s kind of hard to believe that they will go ahead with this trip…. What will it mean to the Republican Party going forward if they go on a trip, to Israel, with a group that advocates that America is by Christians and for Christians only?
It’s not too late to cancel.”
tbonetylr
9 years ago
General Cambell(Afghanistan) says everything is now a secret, including spending.
‘Top commander moves to classify data used to track Afghan spending’ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/29/top-commander-moves-to-classify-data-used-to-track/
A top military commander has moved to classify data that previously let a federal watchdog track the billions the U.S. government is spending on Afghanistan’s security forces, leaving investigators incapable of accounting for taxpayer funds for the first time in six years.
John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), is calling the action “unprecedented.”
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-secrecy-over-us-spending-in-afghanistan-391256643905
“New cloak of secrecy over US spending in Afghanistan
Senator Claire McCaskill(Armed Services Committee) talks with Rachel Maddow about a new U.S. policy to classify information about how, and how much money is spent in support of the Afghan security force, and what questions she has for the new nominee for Secretary of Defense.”
F*** the DOD
johnnyboy
9 years ago
This sends a bad message to any overseas intelligence contacts.
Also, Mohammad Gulab, the man who helped protect Marcus Luttrell from the Taliban, is still fighting to get a green card while facing death threats from the Taliban in Afghanistan.
I’m sure they could find a couple dozen green cards laying around for these men and their families. They seem to have an abundance ready and waiting to hand out to around 4 million people who don’t deserve them.
Liz
9 years ago
“I’m sure they could find a couple dozen green cards laying around for these men and their families. They seem to have an abundance ready and waiting to hand out to around 4 million people who don’t deserve them.”
I’m sure you’re right. Jesus, that sucks. Bad message indeed. This is how we treat our friends.
GOP Jindal’s questionable characters kick-off his presidential 2016 campaign at prayer rally…
“Rachel Maddow reports on some of the questionable characters associated with a Louisiana prayer rally headlined by Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, including televangelist Cindy Jacobs ~ a prophet who can bring back the dead and MUCH MUCH more ~ and the anti-gay American Family Association.”
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/questionable-characters-to-join-jindal-rally-388560963701
GOP campaign(up to 10 participating) starts this weekend and one of the events is to harden the Koch brothers private parts…
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/weekend-events-seen-as-start-of-gop-campaigns-388560963871
“Weekend events seen as start of GOP campaigns
Kasie Hunt, MSNBC political correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about this weekend’s Republican events that seem to be kicking off the 2016 GOP presidential campaign season, including the sold out Iowa Freedom Summit hosted by Congressman Steve King.”
God this Week. Did you catch Obama’s “secret” reference to his Muslimism during the SOTU address?
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/week-god-12415
“On Rios’ radio program … she did use the opportunity to claim that Obama was spreading Muslim messages in his speech when he used the word “pillar” to describe the foundations of American leadership in the world: “The other thing he said that I caught, he has done this before, you know there are five pillars of Islam, and he used the term ‘pillars’ again in his speech last night.”
It’s probably worth noting that the president did use the word “pillar” in his speech, but last week, Mitt Romney used the same word. Former President George W. Bush referenced “pillars” several times when discussing U.S. policy in Iraq, and former President Ronald Reagan referenced “pillars” while promoting government-sponsored religion in public schools.
One can only wonder whether the American Family Association, a co-host of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s (R) “The Response” prayer rally today, sees secret Muslims everywhere.”
Another likely candidate for canonization in the Dindu religion……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDgmjPAsnFA
Muskogee OK police officer shoots armed man.
Both sides do NOT do this, only repubs…
Fox News outraged at Boehner and Netanyahu’s plan to undermine Obama
http://www.vox.com/2015/1/24/7884311/netanyahu-boehner-fox-news
“Yet two prominent Fox News hosts, Chris Wallace and Shepherd Smith, harshly criticized Boehner and Netanyahu on Friday for secretly arranging a Netanyahu speech to Congress that is transparently aimed at undermining President Obama, and set up without the White House’s knowledge.
The White House, State Department, and many foreign policy observers, including prominent former US ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk, expressed outrage over the move. And, in a sign of just how many lines Boehner and Netanyahu crossed, so did the two Fox News hosts…
…Wallace pointed out that Netanyahu might face political backlash in Israel over this “very risky political strategy,” which could damage Israel’s relationship with the United States.
Here is the backstory: On Wednesday, Boehner announced that he had invited Netanyahu to come speak to a joint session of Congress in late February (later pushed to early March) on Obama’s nuclear negotiations with Iran, which both Boehner and Netanyahu oppose, and which Republicans are seeking to blow up by forcing new, deal-killing sanctions on Iran. What made this such a remarkable breach is that Boehner had reached over Obama to make the invitation, which he and Netanyahu kept secret from the White House. That is a major breach in US foreign policy, which is supposed to be unified; things like official visits by heads of state almost always go through the White House.
Perhaps worse, Republicans are letting a foreign leader use the floor of Congress to bash the American president, thus not just allowing but helping a foreign country meddle in American foreign policy. (This is not the first time either. Republicans invited Netanyahu to speak to Congress in 2011, an opportunity he also used to lambast Obama.)”…
Democrats have never bashed a Republican president or attempted to sabotage successful American foreign policy for political gain… except when they do.
http://capitolcommentary.com/2009/08/26/ted-kennedy-goes-behind-ronald-reagans-back-to-the-kgb/
Of course this means so little… as members of both parties would (and do) sell out America in ways large and small… at every possible chance for short-term personal and professional gain.
Sidenote: This was reported in other countries at the time but never got much (any?) real press in the States. I was quite surprised to read about it in a London newspaper and I kept a laminated copy for many years to show people when they did not believe my story.
Hey Johnnyboy… who cares?
It’s just another case of blacks behaving blackly.
If black Americans killed black Americans at the same rate other Americans killed other Americans, America’s murder rate would drop to 147th in the world… and all the “terrible gun violence statistics” that are so frequently sited in hopes of banning the 300,000,000 private firearms that are never used in a crime would drop to background noise.
I am passing the point of afrofatigue and approaching afroannoyance.
…which seems to be the goal.
If Obama, through his partnerships with Sharpton, Holder, the liberal media, et al., intended to drive a wedge in race relations, it appears the plan is succeeding.
..but it is unclear what the purpose of the plan is…
…as once the racism on both sides is fanned to the point whites and blacks will not work together as Americans, the black community will still have 73% of children born out of wedlock, a four year high school graduation rate in the 60-70% range, just over half the median income of white households… etc… etc… etc… and they will have substantially less good will of white people willing to give them the benefit of the doubt in most situations.
And good will, and good relations, is important… as whitey will still be running the plantation for at least a few more generations… more if the black community wants to whine instead of change for the better.
…plus there will be Mexicans willing to work harder for less money with a better attitude, adding to black unemployment, misery, and hopelessness.
Who knows where this is going… but it sure seems it is (unnecessarily) going the wrong way.
But it was nice to see the cop put the butterfingered brother down as he was fumbling his gun.
Copcams rock for so many reasons.
I’m surprised it isn’t an outrage in the media yet.
I think they have been scouring the comments sections of the local reporting to gauge people’s feelings on it before they put their neck out with wall to wall coverage of another case that ends up being no case.
Most people seem to agree the officer was in the right.
I doubt the guy was going to shoot the officer. Likely he just made a mistake in a split second decision by turning and picking up the weapon. Probably just instinctively trying to hold onto something with value.
The officer shouldn’t have to wait to find out though. That split second could have been his death in a situation that he didn’t create, and didn’t deserve to die for.
When resisting arrest and running from the police……..well…….don’t resist arrest and run from the police.
“don’t resist arrest and run from the police”
That is excellent advice…
…but the problem started long before it got to that point.
Better advice in this situation would have been…
Don’t go downtown to hassle your old lady in a public place.
Don’t take your weapons with you when you go downtown to stir up trouble that doesn’t require a weapon.
If you must stir up trouble, don’t consume drugs or alcohol beforehand.
If you consume drugs or alcohol, stay home and stir up trouble next time.
If you leave your house, leave the drugs at home.
…and, more fundamentally…
Getting rich and fukkin’ fine hoes ain’t a plan… it is the result of a plan.
…hmmm… you can quote me on that one.
This advice crosses all racial, ethnic, and class barriers.
There is no shortage of dipshyts turning small trouble into big trouble because they just couldn’t go without a dime bag of weed in their pockets… and then they run, resist, or get caught.
“Most people seem to agree the officer was in the right.”
It would take a real thug-lover to complain about a cop shooting a guy fumbling a gun around in his hands after maybe trying to pull it out to use it. Even whitey-hating “civil rights activists” and “community organizers” might have felt that…
…wait for it…
…jumped the mudshark.
Buh-dum-bump.
Bill Nye The Science Guy Says Bill Belichick Is Full Of Shyt on Good Morning America Sunday
http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/bill-nye-the-science-guy-says-bill-belichick-is-full-of-1681658679?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
I want the Patriots to win Super Bowl XLIX so that the NFL’s hapless Mr.
“ignorance is no excuse”
“I hold head coaches responsible”
“protect the shield”(while he hides behind it)
“for the integrity of the game”(though money is above all including cheating, assaulting players wives/GF’s, using HGH, player head trauma, promotion of alcohol and players return after DWI manslaughter, gun & knife use/killings etc…)
Roger(do nothing) Goodell eats it again just for $$$ thus being the 1st Super Bowl team with an asterisk next to the winning New England Patriots ~ all thanks to do nothing wimp R. Goodell.
Patriots 28
Seahawks 20
EGGHEAD says…”Democrats have never…”
And blah, blah, blah, WA WONK WA.,,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss2hULhXf04
You clearly don’t understand English enough to know what “this” is. What an EGGHEAD! Hey EGGHEAD, why don’t you provide a link that shows democrats(to defy a republican president) invited a foreign leader to speak to congress without the president’s permission instead of creating your own meaning of “this?”
Here, let me guide you and any other dummy/non-university educated EGGHEAD understand what exactly “this” is, all you have to do is answer the question below…
When have Democrats let a foreign leader use the floor of Congress to bash a republican president, “thus not just allowing but helping a foreign country meddle in American foreign policy?”
Even Foxnews(Chris Wallace and Shepherd Smith) understands what “this” is but of course EGGHEAD is too stupid to understand and can’t resist flapping his tongue in the wind.
If you can’t first speak to the topic at hand before going on with your usual diatribe perhaps you shouldn’t embarrass yourself knowing you CAN’T prove me wrong(EGGHEAD)!
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/22/obama-declines-meet-netanyahu-during-march-visit-white-house
The White House is saying the president doesn’t want to meet with Netanyahu because he doesn’t like to appear with foreign leaders during re-election campaigns.
“The brewing standoff also stood in stark contrast to a White House visit by British prime minister David Cameron, who is also running for re-election but appeared alongside Obama last week as they both warned of the dangers should Congress pass new sanctions authorisation that they insist could derail the Iran talks.
The UK elections on 7 May are eight weeks further afield than the Israeli elections, and Cameron also visited Washington two month earlier than Netanyahu’s planned trip. But the British prime minister’s official state visit to Washington was still widely interpreted as a boost to his electoral prospects back home.”
“Cameron also admitted to calling senators directly during his stay, urging them not to vote for proposed legislation that would authorise fresh economic sanctions on Iran if nuclear talks fail but the White House argues will cause them to fail and risk war instead.”
I guess we need to determine what the real issue is: that a foreign leader takes the floor of Congress without being invited by the president or that a foreign leader tries to sway our own foreign policy.
Rumor has it that “U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will face charges for desertion”.
So far, the Obama administration’s strategy is unclear…
– negotiate with terrorists
– fight for the return of a voluntary deserter
– trade 5 known/dangerous terrorists for unwanted deserter
– complete the investigation and sit on it
– don’t communicate the findings
– set a very poor leadership example
I would like to believe his return was negotiated because he has valuable information he picked up over the years, the 5 terrorists can be monitored to discover their contacts, and the report is waiting until all these clever plans come together…
…but this level of elegance and cunning is absent in the Obama administration… and with most of the partisan hacks he has promoted to thinking positions.
Any theories on what is really going on?
Right on cue: The North Koreans make threats regarding South Koreans at the Kaesong Industrial Park.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-korea-raises-prospect-detaining-south-koreans-complex-114040432–sector.html
Why do they say the DPRK is unpredictable? They do everything to a script.
1. Demand the US and ROK cancel annual training
2. Charm Offensive
3. Make a threat
Next up should be a military skirmish of some sort. Regular as the monsoon season.
Oh, and TBone. I don’t wish you dead, I just see it as inevitable. A man with your level of substance abuse and assorted mental issues? Yeah. Inevitable.
Tell me, is being a pest on this website the only thing preventing you from giving a .38 a blowjob? I mean I mostly ignore your shenanigans and endless attempts to derail conversations, but some days I still wonder why you, a loser with a long rap sheet in the States and Korea even bother with logging in here.
You came here begging sympathy when you got fired and booted from your employer provided apartment, then laughed and said how great your life would be once you went back to the States. But it seems like the States isn’t working out all that well either…
Is Chickenhead the closest thing to a friend you have? The only person who will reply to you to keep the soul crushing loneliness away?
Did you ever stop to think, maybe it’s you? That you are your own worst problem? Because you are.
This is pretty funny. Thought I’d share. 🙂
https://twitter.com/a_picazo/status/560726720370974720
#YouHadOneJob RT @ilanagain Chris Christie’s PAC is
http://LeadershipMattersForAmerica.Org
— or LMFAO, in acronym form.
GOP & Hate group(American Family Association/AFA). The AFA is Anti-Jewish but the Repubs(RNC chairman Reince Priebus and dozens of other Repubs) are being hosted by the AFA on a trip to Israel. Hehehehehe!!!!! Oh and they’re Anti-Mormon(Mitt Romney), Anti-Muslim, Anti-Gay, Anti-black man etc…
‘U.S. NGO: Evangelical ‘hate group’ funding Republican National Committee trip to Israel
Evangelical political operative planned 9-day freebie trip for national committee members, on behalf of the conservative Christian AFA group which blasts Muslims, gays. SPLC rights group staffer: Our issue is not with the trip, but with the ‘heinous beliefs’ of those sponsoring it.”
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.639330
“Bryan Fischer, the AFA’s director of issue analysis, has said that black people “rut like rabbits.” Moreover, in a September essay, he wrote: “We are a Christian nation and not a Jewish or Muslim one.” On a video segment on MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” last Friday, Fischer was seen blasting gay activists as “jack-booted homo-fascist thugs,” and depicting Islam as “an Ebola virus that is lethal and deadly.”
RNC chairman Reince Priebus sent out the invitation for the trip – whose expenses from New York to Israel are entirely covered – to all 168 RNC members in November. More than one-third accepted, and they will be joined by about three dozen other guests, said David Lane, the man behind the initiative.”
“Religious bigotry haunts group hosting RNC”
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rnc-has-decision-make-about-israel-trip
Rabbi Jonah Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center, talks with Rachel Maddow about the American Family Association’s record of religious bigotry and intolerance that calls to question the RNC’s judgment in accepting a trip to Israel with them.
What’s more, this story is about more than just Fischer. The man who will personally lead the AFA/RNC trip to Israel is a man named David Lane, who works on an AFA project called the American Renewal Project. Lane is a controversial figure in his own right, having said in 2012 that he wouldn’t support Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign because of the candidate’s religion.
These are the folks the Republican National Committee is choosing to pal around with? As Rachel put it on the show last night, “I have to say, it’s kind of hard to believe that they will go ahead with this trip…. What will it mean to the Republican Party going forward if they go on a trip, to Israel, with a group that advocates that America is by Christians and for Christians only?
It’s not too late to cancel.”
General Cambell(Afghanistan) says everything is now a secret, including spending.
‘Top commander moves to classify data used to track Afghan spending’
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/29/top-commander-moves-to-classify-data-used-to-track/
A top military commander has moved to classify data that previously let a federal watchdog track the billions the U.S. government is spending on Afghanistan’s security forces, leaving investigators incapable of accounting for taxpayer funds for the first time in six years.
John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), is calling the action “unprecedented.”
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-secrecy-over-us-spending-in-afghanistan-391256643905
“New cloak of secrecy over US spending in Afghanistan
Senator Claire McCaskill(Armed Services Committee) talks with Rachel Maddow about a new U.S. policy to classify information about how, and how much money is spent in support of the Afghan security force, and what questions she has for the new nominee for Secretary of Defense.”
F*** the DOD
This sends a bad message to any overseas intelligence contacts.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/30/family-jailed-pakistani-doc-who-helped-nail-bin-laden-in-hiding-losing-hope/
Also, Mohammad Gulab, the man who helped protect Marcus Luttrell from the Taliban, is still fighting to get a green card while facing death threats from the Taliban in Afghanistan.
I’m sure they could find a couple dozen green cards laying around for these men and their families. They seem to have an abundance ready and waiting to hand out to around 4 million people who don’t deserve them.
“I’m sure they could find a couple dozen green cards laying around for these men and their families. They seem to have an abundance ready and waiting to hand out to around 4 million people who don’t deserve them.”
I’m sure you’re right. Jesus, that sucks. Bad message indeed. This is how we treat our friends.