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1 Hello!

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at May 20, 2015 08:03 AM (01ktV)

2 And there was rejoicing.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 20, 2015 08:03 AM (B0IEg)

3 OK.

Posted by: HH at May 20, 2015 08:03 AM (Ce4DF)

4 But no Vic

Posted by: Golfman at May 20, 2015 08:03 AM (fQAkR)

5 Dang. Worse than the DMV.

Posted by: Case, Mors Semper Tyrannis at May 20, 2015 08:04 AM (1uTkE)

6 How to explain that curious blind-spot over Iran?
http://preview.tinyurl.com/mpcc39r

Posted by: Hill lied, Huma plied! at May 20, 2015 08:05 AM (PQNzC)

7

DAY 925

538 to go (611 to Inauguration Day 2017)

Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, Mao-suits, McCain's, McConnell's, machiavellian Mississippi mudslingers, McAuliffe's, Maduro's, MIRV's, Mexifornians, menacing Mozillan 'mo's, Mugwumps, Monrovian microbes, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, microaggressors, minions, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri, malfunctioning Moron microsites and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:05 AM (St6BJ)

8 My coffee is getting cold.

Posted by: USA at May 20, 2015 08:05 AM (tfM+W)

9 Wait here

How bossy.

Mornin' 'rons.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 20, 2015 08:05 AM (7ObY1)

10 Start the morning with some gun pr0n
http://hk-usa.com/product/pistols/

Maid Otoya firing an M82
https://youtu.be/CHgv8xoIHM8

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 20, 2015 08:06 AM (B0IEg)

11 Any bets on how soon Emma Sulkowitz is announced as Kristin Gillibrand's new millennial outreach coordinator?

Posted by: MTF at May 20, 2015 08:06 AM (TcePY)

12 11 Any bets on how soon Emma Sulkowitz is announced as Kristin Gillibrand's new millennial outreach coordinator?
Posted by: MTF at May 20, 2015 08:06 AM (TcePY)

Bedbugs, i.e. vermin. Of the bipedal variety.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:07 AM (St6BJ)

13 will Ace be allowed to joke in the camps or will everyone have to be very serious all the time? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: MTF at May 20, 2015 08:08 AM (TcePY)

14 The mattress from Hellraiser II is far more sanitary.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 20, 2015 08:08 AM (B0IEg)

15
So the real military power inside the ISIS glove is Iran.

Not surprising at all.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:08 AM (St6BJ)

16 Morning, all. Story at 520 on the ONT.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 20, 2015 08:08 AM (zF6Iw)

17 Hill lied, Huma plied!
(See 'Benghazi'.)

Posted by: Hill lied, Huma plied! at May 20, 2015 08:08 AM (PQNzC)

18 "Wait here"
ok

Posted by: m at May 20, 2015 08:08 AM (WIUGG)

19 Works every time.

Posted by: Gem at May 20, 2015 08:09 AM (c+gwp)

20
Great link from the ONT at American Thinker on the nature of Islam vs Judeo-Christianity?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:09 AM (St6BJ)

21 Quora is becoming a problem for me. It's fairly addictive.

Posted by: MTF at May 20, 2015 08:09 AM (TcePY)

22
Ignore the question mark at 20.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:09 AM (St6BJ)

23 Morning, y'all.

Looks like my company is going to take advantage of California stupidity and start marketing a grass spray paint.

Posted by: DangerGirl at May 20, 2015 08:10 AM (ohWrE)

24 Columbia has become a joke. Parents should demand a refund on tuition. Or a new Tempurpedic.

Posted by: USA at May 20, 2015 08:10 AM (tfM+W)

25 Hey Anna, I think that spider on your desk was just an advance scout:

http://tinyurl.com/mw8r63c

Muahahahahahaha!

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at May 20, 2015 08:10 AM (nqiq9)

26 Emma Sulkowitz clearly has serious mental issues. What she needs is psychiatric help. Those who are lauding and applauding her are not helping her. They are just enabling her mental illness.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 20, 2015 08:10 AM (7ObY1)

27 24 Columbia has become a joke. Parents should demand a refund on tuition. Or a new Tempurpedic.
Posted by: USA at May 20, 2015 08:10 AM (tfM+W)

Bail of used hay.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:11 AM (St6BJ)

28 Ya know.. the service on this blog has really gone to hell recently.. I have half a mind to cancel my subscription!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 20, 2015 08:11 AM (UpGcq)

29 22

Ignore the question mark at 20.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:09 AM (St6BJ)

he exclaimed. "I'm on my period, you see."

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at May 20, 2015 08:11 AM (yxw0r)

30 Who's holding the beer?

Posted by: Bigby's Punch Bug Blue at May 20, 2015 08:11 AM (3ZtZW)

31 Hey ISIS says they might add zeppelins to their first-class mass transit system.

Story at Weasel Zip.

Zeppelins? How 1930s.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 20, 2015 08:11 AM (7ObY1)

32 If you read nothing else today, read this:

http://tinyurl.com/ReformIslamISIS

American Thinker article outlining his belief
that the 'Islamic Reformation' is upon us.
Spoiler Alert: That is not good.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at May 20, 2015 08:12 AM (xQX/f)

33 29 he exclaimed. "I'm on my period, you see."
Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at May 20, 2015 08:11 AM (yxw0r)

I could use a colon.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:12 AM (St6BJ)

34 But I need to pee!!

Posted by: Weasel at May 20, 2015 08:12 AM (6xtq3)

35 I was told there would be no waiting.

Posted by: Killerdog at May 20, 2015 08:12 AM (vntmB)

36 Wait where?

Over here?

Or over there?

Ain' nobody got time fer this!

I need a refill on my coffee but I have cat-a-lapsy.

Posted by: mindful webworker - waiting at May 20, 2015 08:12 AM (Xh7t/)

37 The way-ay-ting is the hardest part.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 20, 2015 08:12 AM (7ObY1)

38 31 Hey ISIS says they might add zeppelins to their first-class mass transit system.

Story at Weasel Zip.

Zeppelins? How 1930s.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 20, 2015 08:11 AM (7ObY1)

Oh, the sub-humanity!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:12 AM (St6BJ)

39 PayPal to pay $25 million to settle claims.
http://tinyurl.com/kahz8gl

Wonder if I will see any of that lucre even though every time it was offered to me I declined.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 20, 2015 08:13 AM (B0IEg)

40 Morning all. 11 day vacation is over. Haz a major sad.

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 20, 2015 08:13 AM (MY28S)

41
26 Emma Sulkowitz clearly has serious mental issues. What she needs is psychiatric help. Those who are lauding and applauding her are not helping her. They are just enabling her mental illness.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 20, 2015 08:10 AM (7ObY1)

she could never have pulled off this stunt in the 70's. How would she carry a waterbed mattress around?

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at May 20, 2015 08:13 AM (01ktV)

42 WSJ:

Hillary Clinton's State Department Staff Kept Tight Rein on Records

Aides scrutinized, sometimes blocked release of documents requested under public-records law

Posted by: Crosby, Stills, Nash And Young at May 20, 2015 08:13 AM (e8kgV)

43 ISIS, boldly moving from the 6th century to the early 20th century.

Posted by: Citizen X at May 20, 2015 08:13 AM (7ObY1)

44 40 Morning all. 11 day vacation is over. Haz a major sad.
Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 20, 2015 08:13 AM (MY28S)

I've been on vacation for almost 55 years now.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:14 AM (St6BJ)

45 Too late, Emma is the child of TWO shrinks.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 20, 2015 08:14 AM (B0IEg)

46 The differences between Islam and Christianity are pretty basic:

Islam is a religion of hate, retribution, and death.

Christianity is a religion of love, forgiveness, and eternal life.

Simple.

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at May 20, 2015 08:14 AM (nqiq9)

47 she could never have pulled off this stunt in the 70's. How would she carry a waterbed mattress around?
.............
Ba-dum-bump!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 20, 2015 08:15 AM (UpGcq)

48 ISIS can use zeppelins and zip guns, and still win the war. The idiot Liberals and the shitbag Isolationists have decided that the Middle East should be a war-torn slave-trading zone for all of eternity, so they won't fight ISIS no matter how vulnerable they are. Choosing defeat, the coward's way, is now American/Western policy.

Posted by: LincolnTf at May 20, 2015 08:16 AM (2cS/G)

49
Maybe we can bribe a dozen or so toddlers to pee on that mattress.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:16 AM (St6BJ)

50 I've never known a shrinks kid to have even a fighting chance at normalcy.

Posted by: MTF at May 20, 2015 08:17 AM (TcePY)

51 You fly in my zeppelin, yes? Is like magic carpet riding. We look down upon Islamic caliphate, yes? Oh look, my friend Abdullah looks like ant down there. Hello Abdullah! Fatima, say ululululululu to Abdullah! He looks like ant down there, yes?

Posted by: Citizen X at May 20, 2015 08:18 AM (7ObY1)

52 Very flattering pic of Lindsey in the side bar...he should use it on his campaign fliers.

Posted by: BignJames at May 20, 2015 08:18 AM (HtUkt)

53 8
My coffee is getting cold.

Posted by: USA at May 20, 2015 08:05 AM (tfM+W)

So is my wine.

Posted by: Nip Sip at May 20, 2015 08:18 AM (0FSuD)

54 @10 When I saw Maid Otoya humbly loading magazine with 50 BMG cartridges topped with honorable big solids, I nearly spat out a mouthful of Schaefer's on the bar!
But when she opened fire, I sprang a boner out of respect for her force-multiplication.

Posted by: Hill lied, Huma plied! at May 20, 2015 08:18 AM (PQNzC)

55 EMT will be up any minute, amirite?

Posted by: Gwyneth's steaming hooha at May 20, 2015 08:20 AM (Cz/08)

56 30 flippin' degrees here this morning. Where the heck is my globull warming?

oh...sorry...morning folks

Posted by: wing at May 20, 2015 08:21 AM (gd8Or)

57 Waiting..............

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 20, 2015 08:22 AM (MY28S)

58 I think I might've seen a figure of a matress-carrying woman in a Heironymous Bosch painting once.

But there was a lot of crazy allegorical shit in there

Posted by: Bigby's Punch Bug Blue at May 20, 2015 08:23 AM (3ZtZW)

59 the retarded spring, along with weekly stories about countries falsifying temperature data, is slowing the start of this years AGW crusade season. Never fear though, it'll come.

Posted by: MTF at May 20, 2015 08:24 AM (TcePY)

60 The idiot Liberals and the shitbag Isolationists have decided that the Middle East should be a war-torn slave-trading zone for all of eternity...

Actually, history kind of decided that.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at May 20, 2015 08:24 AM (O7MnT)

61 Must be hard to carry that mattress around. I wonder if she will switch to a large wooden cross after graduation.

Posted by: Gwyneth's steaming hooha at May 20, 2015 08:24 AM (Cz/08)

62 53 So is my wine.
Posted by: Nip Sip at May 20, 2015 08:18 AM (0FSuD)

Fucking potato soup. Oh wait, vichysoisse.

Never mind.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:24 AM (St6BJ)

63 The ? on 20 intrigues me.

Posted by: Corona at May 20, 2015 08:25 AM (4ugDk)

64

About the closest image I can conjure with the fool carrying the mattress is Woody Allen trying to play a cello in a marching band in "Take the Money and Run."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:25 AM (St6BJ)

65 Iran now has 2 warships traveling with it's aid-to -Yemen vessel. I'll take "Things Obama will do nothing about." for $1,000 Alex.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2015 08:26 AM (Fc2w8)

66 63 The ? on 20 intrigues me.
Posted by: Corona at May 20, 2015 08:25 AM (4ugDk)

Actually, the question mark turns any sentence into Jewish elocution.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:26 AM (St6BJ)

67 65 Iran now has 2 warships traveling with it's aid-to -Yemen vessel. I'll take "Things Obama will do nothing about." for $1,000 Alex.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2015 08:26 AM (Fc2w

Sayeret Matkal divers could "fix" that problem,

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:27 AM (St6BJ)

68 Woman saddled with mattress is out of Dante, pretty sure. It's a curse.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 20, 2015 08:27 AM (xq1UY)

69 52 >> Very flattering pic of Lindsey in the side bar...he should use it on his campaign fliers.

Then I hauled off and ole Greenteeth right in the knee...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=952h-AJ3Bcg

Also, check out the debunking AGW charts in my nic.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 20, 2015 08:27 AM (hWqbq)

70 BRB.

Gotta get my mattress.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 20, 2015 08:28 AM (659DL)

71 But just think about how much money we're saving by allowing ISIS to run rampant throughout the Middle East! The budget should be balanced any day now...

Posted by: LincolnTf at May 20, 2015 08:28 AM (2cS/G)

72 Israeli police damage Palestinian's car......

http://tinyurl.com/m4nwov6

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 20, 2015 08:29 AM (Zu3d9)

73 Funny video of Iowa Dems trying to name a Hillary accomplishment:

http://tinyurl.com/kcqczxm

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at May 20, 2015 08:29 AM (BZAd3)

74 69 Posted by: GnuBreed at May 20, 2015 08:27 AM (hWqbq)

"I'm a faithful follower of brother John Birch,
and I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church,
and I ain't even got a garage -
You can call home and ask my wife!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:29 AM (St6BJ)

75 Iran now has 2 warships traveling with it's aid-to -Yemen vessel. I'll take "Things Obama will do nothing about." for $1,000 Alex.

Don't fall for it. They are practically begging for us to board and be embarrassed. The thing is probably loaded with MREs they stole in Iraq.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 20, 2015 08:29 AM (659DL)

76 Columbia is just bound and determined for there to be lots of zeroes on the check to Nungesser, isn't it?

I would presume that at least a few of Columbia's counsel were at graduation and that then began injecting the heroin into their eyes during the commencement address.

Seriously, when the suit against you is based on you not following your own guidelines about harassment and you send out an email saying hey don't bring large objects to graduation and everyone on the planet knows to whom that is directed and she shows up with the mattress and you let her through with it?

You're nudging up on summary judgment in favor of plaintiff is what you're doing.

Posted by: alexthechick - Oh please intervene SMOD at May 20, 2015 08:29 AM (mf5HN)

77 Funny video of Iowa Dems trying to name a Hillary accomplishment:

http://tinyurl.com/kcqczxm

She has a uterus and she married Bill; those are the only accomplishment Dems care about.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at May 20, 2015 08:30 AM (O7MnT)

78 Green Lindsey has that Carter smile going for him. That should win him a lot of GOP support.

Posted by: Gwyneth's steaming hooha at May 20, 2015 08:30 AM (Cz/08)

79 I pity anyone of the male persuasion that winds up having to work side by side with Emma Sulkawhatever in whatever field she finds work. That's one cuckoo beeyotch.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 20, 2015 08:30 AM (nvS9t)

80 So....does Mattress Girl bring that thing everywhere? Like when she wants to get laid? It must be filthy by now.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 20, 2015 08:30 AM (Zu3d9)

81 "He's a furly dangerous man."

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 20, 2015 08:30 AM (659DL)

82 Conservative former state AG (and fellow Domer) John Suthers wins Colorado Springs mayoral runoff 68-32%. Good guy.

Won't necessarily stop the creeping blue shift in the state, but will reinforce and grow our bastion of red down here.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at May 20, 2015 08:31 AM (yxw0r)

83 Then I hauled off and ole Greenteeth right in the knee...

Crap. Try again

Then I reached out and kicked ole Greenteeth right in the knee

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 20, 2015 08:31 AM (hWqbq)

84 1bulwetweft: "Islam is a religion of hate, retribution, and death.
"Christianity is a religion of love, forgiveness, and eternal life.
"Simple."

The aspect I find most telling:

One way of believing promotes truth, from the commandment to not bear false witness, to the outpouring of the Spirit of Truth. The other has takkiya, it's called, right? Lying is perfectly fine if it helps spread the cult and undermine the infidels.

Just because someone claims to follow Christ doesn't make them genuinely trustworthy, but how could one ever trust anything said by a follower of Muhumid, even one who claimed to be reformed?

Posted by: mindful webworker - see the light at May 20, 2015 08:32 AM (Xh7t/)

85 77 Funny video of Iowa Dems trying to name a Hillary accomplishment:

http://tinyurl.com/kcqczxm

She has a uterus and she married Bill; those are the only accomplishment Dems care about.
Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at May 20, 2015 08:30 AM (O7MnT)

She IS a uterus and signed a Brest-Litovsk (Breast-Lewinsky?) non-aggression/cooperation pact with him.

Are we approaching a "lebensraum in the east" moment for either of them???

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:32 AM (St6BJ)

86 The mattress from Hellraiser II is far more sanitary.
_______________________

Seriously, is that Sulkowicz woman nasty or what? When I read her text messages, I had two thoughts: (1) I need a long hot shower with lots and lots of disinfecting soap; and (2) what a deeply disturbed, attention-seeking little fool she is.

In the Columbia hearing, Sulkowicz testified that she had never discussed anal sex with Nungesser before the "rape." Yet in her pre-"rape" texts (which she has already admitted are accurate), she repeatedly pressures Nungesser for anal sex, which he is resisting. On top of that, Sulkowicz is boasting to Nungesser in the texts about her drunken sexual hook-ups with random strangers, including threesomes. The woman is clearly besotted with Nungesser, and trying desperately to convince him that she is sexually desirable. It's beyond pathetic.

Sulkowicz is destined to get the attention she so obviously craves. But when the public finally learns the sordid facts about her and her phony "rape," the attention she gets is not going to be the type of attention she was hoping for.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at May 20, 2015 08:33 AM (lmdHn)

87 Hillary! - the liverwurst of politics.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 20, 2015 08:33 AM (B0IEg)

88 Italians in both world wars managed to sink or disable capital ships with piloted torpedoes. Not even full submersible, just a torpedo with a little windscreen and a couple of Italians on it. Probably the inspiration for the bad guy in Thunderball.

Not suicide missions either. They swam away to fight again. Plucky Italians.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 20, 2015 08:33 AM (xq1UY)

89 Mark Levin laid out the Levin Doctrine for dealing with IS. If you haven't heard it , take a few minutes and go listen to the podcast. You will not be disappointed. It's in the second hour.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2015 08:33 AM (Fc2w8)

90 "So....does Mattress Girl bring that thing everywhere? Like when she wants to get laid? It must be filthy by now."

Someone needs to genetically cross her with Sandra Fluke and Lena Dunham.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 20, 2015 08:33 AM (VPLuQ)

91 Actually, the question mark turns any sentence into Jewish elocution.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:26 AM (St6BJ)

I just? Got off the phone? With a client? Who is an uptalker? And now? I have to watch? That I'm not doing that?

Gah. Uptalking drives me batty particularly when I don't realize I'm doing it.

Posted by: alexthechick - Oh please intervene SMOD at May 20, 2015 08:34 AM (mf5HN)

92 Hillary! - the liverwurst of politics.

Lawyered up liverwurst.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 20, 2015 08:34 AM (659DL)

93 The matress is a more tasteful accessory than tampon earrings, at least.

Also, I am reminded of my prediction that by 2025 the fashion amongst the young will be to have heavy sticks protruding from their buttocks with lots of *BLING*

Posted by: Bigby's Punch Bug Blue at May 20, 2015 08:35 AM (3ZtZW)

94 84 Posted by: mindful webworker - see the light at May 20, 2015 08:32 AM (Xh7t/)

The salient point I hit leftists with when they give me the moral relativist lie that all religions are violent is that people corrupt religions and kill in their name contra to the teachings of those religions EXCEPT Islam, which actually teaches to kill and subjugate all infidels and non-believers. You are following the precepts by doing so.

And their counterargument is "you're lying and I don't believe you!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:36 AM (St6BJ)

95 Someone needs to genetically cross her with Sandra Fluke and Lena Dunham.

No. You Mengele monster.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 20, 2015 08:36 AM (659DL)

96 The British developed the Chariots and X-craft to sink Tirpitz.
Germans had their own piloted torpedoes. Also the Seehund midget subs.
Japan had midget subs and Kaiten which were human piloted suicide torpedoes.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 20, 2015 08:36 AM (B0IEg)

97 91 Actually, the question mark turns any sentence into Jewish elocution.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:26 AM (St6BJ)

I just? Got off the phone? With a client? Who is an uptalker? And now? I have to watch? That I'm not doing that?

Gah. Uptalking drives me batty particularly when I don't realize I'm doing it.
Posted by: alexthechick - Oh please intervene SMOD at May 20, 2015 08:34 AM (mf5HN)

To be more precise, Jewish conversation is essentially to answer any question with another question. Much like Talmudic studies.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:37 AM (St6BJ)

98 "Also, I am reminded of my prediction that by 2025 the fashion amongst the young will be to have heavy sticks protruding from their buttocks with lots of *BLING*"

My prediction is that by 2025 we will have created the first human "Mr Potato Head", where all parts are removable, and interchangeable .

Sort of Bruce Jenner meets Hellraiser.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 20, 2015 08:37 AM (VPLuQ)

99 >>>> a follower of Muhumid

Those the global warmists?

Posted by: Bigby's Punch Bug Blue at May 20, 2015 08:37 AM (3ZtZW)

100 This Ramadi thing very confusing. The Iraqi army won't fight, but they don't desert and join ISIS either. ISIS kills their captives, but the news media doesn't say who is being executed; sunni or shia.

The Iraqi Army leadership doesn't do anything when the Army won't fight; no generals get fired. But the Sunni claim they don't get weapons or ammunition. The vehicles left behind apparently are inoperative, never used in training or maneuvers; they are just parked.

The news media has reported (once) that high ranking Army officers skim money from pay, operations, and training accounts, and it has been reported that the Iraqi Government (Shia) doesn't trust the Iraq Army (Sunni) and won't supply them with weapons. Yet the Shia militia don't join the army, apparently.

This, to me, sounds like a 'failed state'.

Posted by: Gerry Sitwell at May 20, 2015 08:37 AM (cQTYI)

101 93 The matress is a more tasteful accessory than tampon earrings, at least.

Also, I am reminded of my prediction that by 2025 the fashion amongst the young will be to have heavy sticks protruding from their buttocks with lots of *BLING*
Posted by: Bigby's Punch Bug Blue at May 20, 2015 08:35 AM (3ZtZW)

Wait! Rape Waffles! They look like little mattresses. With butter and strawberry jam, they can resemble the scene of the crime!

Note to self - call Kellogg's.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:38 AM (St6BJ)

102 I believe I just read the stupidest "news" article ever on Yahoo! Basically, the AP tries to compare Ferguson and Baltimore protests to the biker shootout in Waco, attempting to point out the "white privilege" of the bikers not getting rousted enough by the cops.

http://tinyurl.com/mgdjaff

Posted by: Eisenhorn at May 20, 2015 08:38 AM (1li1B)

103 Gah. Uptalking drives me batty particularly when I don't realize I'm doing it.
Posted by: alexthechick - Oh please intervene SMOD at May 20, 2015 08:34 AM (mf5HN)

Western Pennsylvanians do the same damn thing, particularly those around the Pittsburgh area. Went to college there in the 80's and the uptalking drove me to distraction. They also added the word "dintcha" to a statement to make it a question. Arrrggghhh.

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at May 20, 2015 08:39 AM (nqiq9)

104 Japan had midget subs and Kaiten which were human piloted suicide torpedoes.

Note to future generations: Anything that contains the word "midget" and/or "suicide" is not part of a winning strategy.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 20, 2015 08:39 AM (659DL)

105 You'd think there would be at least some students at graduation who are appalled at Emma's antics and parents thinking, "What the hell is wrong with that woman? She's making herself the center of attention on a day which should be about students graduating. " Sure, she gives Columbia publicity, but not the best kind.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2015 08:39 AM (1sJza)

106 This, to me, sounds like a 'failed state'.

Posted by: Gerry Sitwell at May 20, 2015 08:37 AM (cQTYI)

This, to me, sounds like an unqualified success.

/President Obama.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at May 20, 2015 08:39 AM (fwARV)

107 To be more precise, Jewish conversation is
essentially to answer any question with another question. Much like
Talmudic studies.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:37 AM (St6BJ)

Jews, what can't they do.... I know it's old.

Posted by: Nip Sip at May 20, 2015 08:39 AM (0FSuD)

108 @98 No pipe, though.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 20, 2015 08:39 AM (xq1UY)

109 New ISIS selling point -- Come to the Dark Side (or the 7th Century, take your pick)... We have Kit Kats.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 20, 2015 08:40 AM (hWqbq)

110 *serves lemon bars to the Empress*

Please do not traipse through last night's Open Thread. Had to call in a napalm air strike and Jane D'oh used her flame thrower very heavily.

Good news is Combat Meido Alice is over 3k words.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 20, 2015 08:40 AM (B0IEg)

111 89 Mark Levin laid out the Levin Doctrine for dealing with IS. If you haven't heard it , take a few minutes and go listen to the podcast. You will not be disappointed. It's in the second hour.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 20, 2015 08:33 AM (Fc2w

Yeah, most of last night's show was a keeper. He ripped Bernie Sanders and Alcee Hastings as well. But the Levin doctrine is dead balls-on.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:40 AM (St6BJ)

112 the "white privilege" of the bikers not getting rousted enough by the cops.

So...they shot six of them apparently and took 192 to jail. "Privilege."

And I suppose the Bandidos are white Hispanics.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 20, 2015 08:40 AM (659DL)

113 Defensive gun use in Brazil.

No damn hesitation.

http://tinyurl.com/kvge8mv

A 32-year-old man was killed after trying to rob the house of a civilian police in the Garden Patricia neighborhood in the west of Uberl�ndia. According to the case record, Eliseu Santos Paulo and two other men approached the victim as she entered the home garage, accompanied by the wife. Seeing that one of the bandits was armed, the officer took aim and shot the man who was trying to steal it. There was exchange of fire, and the bandits fled towards Pampulha neighborhood, on the east side of the city.

*that was a translation of the original article. Video at link.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 20, 2015 08:40 AM (fWAjv)

114 Khamanei to Kerry and Obama, "Terms? Of course we will agree to terms. You accept our terms and we will agree to them."

http://tinyurl.com/luv6yxl

Kerry and Obama, "Gee. You guys are swell."

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at May 20, 2015 08:41 AM (BZAd3)

115 So I went to look for news about that Iranian cargo ship... Amusing as hell is NBC's headline:

"U.S. Weighs Military Options as Iran Cargo Ship Nears Yemen"

with Barky calling the shots?? That ship will pass by and be unloaded before he makes a decision.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 20, 2015 08:41 AM (UpGcq)

116 109 New ISIS selling point -- Come to the Dark Side (or the 7th Century, take your pick)... We have Kit Kats.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 20, 2015 08:40 AM (hWqbq)

So skittle-shitting unicorns ain't kosher?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:41 AM (St6BJ)

117 "You're nudging up on summary judgment in favor of plaintiff is what you're doing."

As in the similar _Rolling Stone_ situation.

It looks as though it's going to be necessary for there to be several checks-with-lots-of-zeroes written by different parties. Pour encourager les autres, and all that.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 20, 2015 08:42 AM (noWW6)

118 J.J. Sefton: And their counterargument is "you're lying and I don't believe you!"

Well, there you go. Can't argue with conclusive logic like that.

Posted by: mindful webworker - see the light at May 20, 2015 08:43 AM (Xh7t/)

119 And I suppose the Bandidos are white Hispanics.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 20, 2015 08:40 AM (659DL)

Next time they ask for your Fritos, dammit, you better give them up. They're serious.

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at May 20, 2015 08:43 AM (nqiq9)

120 "Just because someone claims to follow Christ doesn't
make them genuinely trustworthy, but how could one ever trust anything
said by a follower of Muhumid, even one who claimed to be reformed?

Posted by: mindful webworker - see the light at May 20, 2015 08:32 AM (Xh7t/)"
Blaise Pascal made a similar argument about the trustworthyness of Atheists.

Posted by: Grampa Jimbo at May 20, 2015 08:43 AM (V70Uh)

121 106 This, to me, sounds like an unqualified success.

/President Obama.

The system worked.

/Janet Napolitano

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 20, 2015 08:43 AM (hWqbq)

122 "So skittle-shitting unicorns ain't kosher?
"

They could be

http://tinyurl.com/jwxh6jh

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 20, 2015 08:43 AM (VPLuQ)

123 @113

And he went back for another magazine! How did that one guy get out of the garage? He got popped pretty well.

Posted by: Nip Sip at May 20, 2015 08:44 AM (0FSuD)

124 That's Doctor Amy Bishop's House of Rape-Waffles.
I Hop, You Hop, We All Hop...for Rape-Waffles.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 20, 2015 08:44 AM (xq1UY)

125 Dump up.

Posted by: HH at May 20, 2015 08:45 AM (Ce4DF)

126 America 2015

A watergun is a firearm.

SMDH.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 20, 2015 08:45 AM (fWAjv)

127 118 J.J. Sefton: And their counterargument is "you're lying and I don't believe you!"

Well, there you go. Can't argue with conclusive logic like that.
Posted by: mindful webworker - see the light at May 20, 2015 08:43 AM (Xh7t/)

Nearly got into it with the wife last night. I made the mistake of imitating Steven Hawking and she was pissed that I wasn't compassionate enough and that I vote for people that cut funding for research and aid to cripples.

To which I retorted that we have never cut anything ever. We are over $200 trillion in debt. The only thing cut is the rate of spending increases.

She stammered, sputtered, tried to change the argument and mercifully the takeout food guy arrived.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2015 08:45 AM (St6BJ)

128 "Japan had midget subs and Kaiten which were human piloted suicide torpedoes."

There's still a well preserved Kaiten at the Yasukuni Shrine.

One glimpse makes it immediately apparent even to the historically underinformed just what the thing was meant to do.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 20, 2015 08:45 AM (noWW6)

129 "with Barky calling the shots?? That ship will pass by and be unloaded before he makes a decision."

With Barky calling it, we will have a Marine Expeditionary Unit sent in on a humanitarian mission to help unload the damn thing.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 20, 2015 08:45 AM (VPLuQ)

130 That the world isn't rallying to stop the destruction of this world patrimony, just blows me away:

http://tinyurl.com/ly6f4la

But of course the strategy is working.

Nearly forgot.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at May 20, 2015 08:46 AM (BZAd3)

131 And he went back for another magazine! How did that one guy get out of the garage? He got popped pretty well.

Posted by: Nip Sip at May 20, 2015 08:44 AM (0FSuD)

That's what I was wondering. Crappy shot placement as well as adrenaline rush I am assuming. (not talking down his shot placement in that situation)

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 20, 2015 08:47 AM (fWAjv)

132 @130 Heh. That would be the Mennonite solution. Take over unloading, and deliver the actual goods that appear on the bill of lading: medical supplies, staple foodstuffs, aspirin, kids' toys, despite their absence in the actual hold. Then deep-six the munitions outside the breakwall. Friendly smile and a stern nod.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 20, 2015 08:49 AM (xq1UY)

133 Dang 132 is @129. Was there a quick banning in there I missed?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 20, 2015 08:50 AM (xq1UY)

134 Gah. Uptalking drives me batty particularly when I don't realize I'm doing it.
Posted by: alexthechick - Oh please intervene SMOD at May 20, 2015 08:34 AM (mf5HN)

I feel your pain. I've recently realized that I've become one of those people who often doesn't complete sentences, so....

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at May 20, 2015 08:55 AM (0RdKg)

135 Can you imagine what the SCOMAF's presidential memoirs are going to be like? The contortions of logic and reality that are going to be required to spin all of his failures as successes?

It will be a triumph of Dadaist literature.

It will be like Alice in Wonderland. No, Americans in Obamaland. Complete with "First the verdict, then the trial." (Campus rape culture) and "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean."

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at May 20, 2015 09:04 AM (O7MnT)

136 Her sleep number is 86.

Posted by: Corona at May 20, 2015 10:19 AM (4ugDk)

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