Jen Psaki: Obama's Strategy In Iraq, Which Is In All Ways Perfect, May Need to be Adjusted

The White House had previously sworn on the Bible that their strategy was perfect and flawless.

Now they continue to make that same point -- but Jen Psaki acknowledges we may have to "adjust" the perfect plan.

The White House has altered its language in defending their strategy against the Islamic State, finally admitting that they must "adapt" its strategy.
Jen Psaki, White House communications director, dismissed Sec. Ash Carter's comment that Iraqi soldiers "showed no will to fight," directly contradicting the vice president’s words. The allegation undermines the White House strategy to equip and train Iraqi soldiers so that U.S. involvement can remain minimal.
"They've taken on this fight; they're continuing to, but we need to adapt our strategy too and adapt to the type of equipment that we’re providing as time goes on and as ISIS adapts," Psaki said Wednesday morning on CNN.
In total, Psaki mentioned "adapting" six times in a four-minute interview, despite downplaying losses by claiming the fight against IS will have "good days and bad days."

When do we have the good ones? Video of the hapless babbling fool Jen Psaki at the link.

In addition, you will be happy to know that the Obama White House is taking the fall of Ramadi with an increased sense of urgency.

Previously, the White House had called the sacking of the capital of the Anbar Province a "tactical setback."

Today, it acknowledges that the setback was more serious than that.

Why, they even go so far as to call it, using a passive-voice-style double-negative construction, a "not unsubstantial setback."

"I think there are a variety of contributors to what happened in Ramadi," press secretary Josh Earnest said when asked about Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s contention that the Iraqi army showed no "will to fight" and essentially ran from Ramadi. "The first is that there -- the Iraqi security forces, who were fighting in Ramadi, and have been fighting in Ramadi for a year and a half, didn’t have the benefit of the training of the United States and our coalition partners. There were clearly, as the Iraqis have indicated, some military command and planning problems that occurred. And we saw a pretty effective tactic used by ISIL. And all of that led to a not unsubstantial setback in Ramadi."

Obama is a not uncatastrophic president.

Let's talk about this "lack of a will to fight" comment.

While there may be merit to it -- I'll need more than the Obama Administration's spin of events before saying -- it has to be noted that the Obama Team's first, best, and only response to any failure is to claim that it's someone else's fault.

The only thing this Administration actually does is shift blame.

Now, we could talk about why American planes are only making thirteen airstrikes a day in Iraq and Syria. (For comparison, we made 800 per day in Operation Iraqi Freedom, and more than 1300 per day in Desert Storm.)

We could ask, if the US is only bringing air power to this fight, why we are bringing so damned little of it-- almost as if Obama wants to be seen as if he's "trying something," but in fact is set upon losing the war (as usual).

Such talk would bother Obama, who has maintained, since he came into office, that he has not made a single mistake, except for failing sometimes to communicate how awesome his decisions and policies are. (No really -- the press was always asking Bush if he made mistakes. They've only asked Obama a couple of times, and Obama always says no, not one mistake, but he allows his communications may be better.)

So the Iraq forces just lost a major town, and the US forces were doing, basically, doodly-squat while it happened.

So of course Team Obama must go into overdrive insulting the Iraqis.

Andrew McLean writes:

Toxic Nation: After Ramadi, USA Shows Itself to be the Worst Kind of Friend
These remarks constitute the latest evolution of administration talking points on our failing campaign against the Islamic State. Shortly before Ramadi fell, U.S. officials were complaining to the press that its coverage of the war was biased against American efforts. In particular, the officials wanted television news to stop recycling old B-roll footage of IS from 2014, showing the fighters moving in mass formations of vehicles. The argument was that because our bombing campaign was so successful, IS could not and did not operate "in broad daylight" like that anymore.

The only wars this administration cares about are publicity wars.

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With Carter's questioning of the courage of the Iraqi forces, the administration’s spin has evolved from "everything is going great," to "this is not a big deal," to "it's not our fault--it's those cowardly Iraqis who can't get it done."
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We refuse to share any risk with our Iraqi partners, and then call them cowards in public when they fail. As a strategic matter, who will want to fight alongside us in the future after a display as pathetic as this?
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[I]t is a strange sort of strategy that is based on an expectation that, "over time," we will have any friends left, if our leaders continue to find it politically expedient to belittle allies after sending them out to die alone. The only thing being degraded in the campaign against the Islamic State is American prestige.

Everything is Awesome Update: The Obama Administration Theme, suggested by Bob's House of Flannel Shirts.

Posted by: Ace at 04:56 PM

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1 Barry is flexible. Oh, so flexible. Like Gumby.

Posted by: Reggie Bodyman Love at May 27, 2015 04:58 PM (NPgvx)

2 We are in the best of hands.

Posted by: Penfold at May 27, 2015 04:58 PM (Fbt5B)

3 Adjusted like my nutsack.

Posted by: Brenda Jenner at May 27, 2015 04:59 PM (RJMhd)

4 The White House had previously sworn on the Bible that their strategy was perfect and flawless.

Now they continue to make that same point -- but Jen Psaki acknowledges we may have to "adjust" the perfect plan.

Whenever I hear a product characterized as "new and improved," and especially as "completely redesigned," I always take that as an admission that the earlier version was the suck.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2015 04:59 PM (oKE6c)

5 "Obama doesn't give himself enough credit for his foreign policy successes" --- said Jen Psaki a while back.

The reports all laughed.
But she got promoted.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2015 05:00 PM (1d2wm)

6 Hmm, it's almost like they have no strategy at all!

Posted by: dantesed at May 27, 2015 05:00 PM (88xKn)

7 Everything is awesome. Everything is cool when you're part of a team.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at May 27, 2015 05:01 PM (vgIRn)

8 Corgis called.

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 27, 2015 05:02 PM (lIiq2)

9 >>We refuse to share any risk with our Iraqi partners, and then call them cowards in public when they fail.

The recently did this with Israel, too --- they outed Israel's plans for pre-emptively striking Iran and then called them chickenshit for not striking Iran.

Because in addition to being incompetent they are assholes.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2015 05:02 PM (1d2wm)

10 So Obama is finally pivoting back to jobs? In Iraq.

Posted by: flounder at May 27, 2015 05:02 PM (ecDRv)

11 re 1: Gumby has more backbone than Obama. And Pokey is more attractive than Moochelle, at least in a pants suit

Posted by: mallfly at May 27, 2015 05:02 PM (qSIlh)

12 The White House had previously sworn on the Bible that their strategy was perfect and flawless.

Ah, that's where they hosed us. We should've made Obongo swear on the Koran, or a copy of Das Kapital.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2015 05:03 PM (oKE6c)

13 "t is a pstrange psort of pstrategy"

Posted by: Jen Psaki at May 27, 2015 05:03 PM (VAsIq)

14
Whenever I hear a product characterized as "new and improved," and especially as "completely redesigned," I always take that as an admission that the earlier version was the suck.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2015 04:59 PM (oKE6c)

New Coke

*mic drop*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 27, 2015 05:04 PM (ba0Bt)

15 Looks like the JV just moved up to the varsity.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2015 05:04 PM (oKE6c)

Posted by: Jen Psaki at May 27, 2015 05:04 PM (VAsIq)

17 The plan was perfect.

And now it will be even more perfect!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 27, 2015 05:04 PM (wtvvX)

18 This whole situation reminds me of the time I fought Babs McNeil with a pillow while at a sleepover in the 6th grade.

Posted by: Jen Psaki at May 27, 2015 05:04 PM (oFCZn)

19 Or how about the air strikes made during a war that most can agre we won?

Like WWII-I wouldn't use Dresden as an example but something where we demonstrated a real will to win.

Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 05:04 PM (RJMhd)

20 well, to be fair, the Arabs are not big on winning wars and fighting cohesively. Just ask the Israelis.

Unless they're jihadin'. Then they have the will to fight.

Which is a bit of a problem.

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 27, 2015 05:04 PM (AkOaV)

21 Ludwig von Mises says that price controls can work, presuming your goal is to cause shortages.

I'm sure the Obama admin's strategy works along similar lines: it's succeeding, just not the way you'd expect, since you're a dumb tea bagger.

Posted by: mallfly at May 27, 2015 05:04 PM (qSIlh)

22 Ah, that's where they hosed us. We should've made Obongo swear on the Koran, or a copy of Das Kapital.

Posted by: Jay Guevara

SWEAR TO ME!

Posted by: the Dark Knight at May 27, 2015 05:05 PM (VAsIq)

23 So we give them some different types of equipment to drop for ISIS when they run. Where is going to come from after the military budget has been decimated?

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 27, 2015 05:05 PM (GpgJl)

24 Obama has a strategy. It is to do nothing.

and blame republicans.

Like in Baltimore, Detroit, Cleveland, Ferguson, Chicago. Do as little as possible and blame republicans.

Posted by: Lysandar Bellingrade at May 27, 2015 05:05 PM (MMeLW)

25 Adjusted slightly? As in, "VagiSIL is not in Baghdad!" type of adjustment?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 27, 2015 05:05 PM (AylSc)

26 That stupid scrunt will spend the rest of her life wearing a jackass head.

Posted by: maddogg at May 27, 2015 05:06 PM (xWW96)

27
I don't have to outrun ISIS, I just gotta run faster than most of my platoon

Can we put the chicken in the barrle more often?
Asking for a friend

Posted by: Achmed Mustaffa Mohamed at May 27, 2015 05:06 PM (q+zA9)

28 In total, Psaki mentioned "adapting" six times in a four-minute
interview, despite downplaying losses by claiming the fight against IS
will have "good days and bad days."
When do we have the good ones?

I have high hopes for January 20, 2017.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2015 05:06 PM (oKE6c)

29
Did Psacky pshow her sweater puppies to the press to distract from the words pshe was psaying?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 27, 2015 05:06 PM (ba0Bt)

30 Although if you could isolate the hive of ISIS nothing deserves the Dresden treatment more.

Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 05:07 PM (RJMhd)

31 Pstop picking on the President's pstrategy. It makes him psad.

Posted by: Jen Psaki at May 27, 2015 05:07 PM (VAsIq)

32 Man the next president is going to have a full time job just earning the trust back from our allies.

Posted by: wrg500 at May 27, 2015 05:07 PM (S+el1)

33 Pusssackee

Posted by: maddogg at May 27, 2015 05:08 PM (xWW96)

34 If that's a successful strategy by their standard, I'd really hate to see them fail.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at May 27, 2015 05:08 PM (0HooB)

35 Ace disagreeing with Drew over FP? I like it.

Posted by: Mister Magic at May 27, 2015 05:08 PM (nbgPm)

36 Please please stop this soap opera, our people died for this.

Posted by: FCF at May 27, 2015 05:08 PM (kejii)

37 Jen interviewed by the spawn of the "spaccimm".

Posted by: redenzo at May 27, 2015 05:08 PM (WCnJW)

38 Clown show.

Posted by: Feh at May 27, 2015 05:08 PM (Y4Gbv)

39 Obama to Psaki to Harf. It's like the Tinker to Evers to Chance of International Incompetence.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 27, 2015 05:09 PM (2cS/G)

40 ISIS is "intending to do harm in the region."

Wow, understatement much?
And really - "intending"????

Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2015 05:09 PM (1d2wm)

41 If a leftard had been piloting the Titanic the maiden voyage would have been deemed a success.

Posted by: maddogg at May 27, 2015 05:09 PM (xWW96)

42 Perfecter.

Posted by: Garrett at May 27, 2015 05:09 PM (O7Hke)

43 That stupid scrunt will spend the rest of her life wearing a jackass head.

Wearing, or giving?

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 27, 2015 05:09 PM (lIiq2)

44
Pusssackee

Posted by: maddogg

Say it like James Bond saying Pussy Galore

Posted by: Bruce at May 27, 2015 05:09 PM (8ikIW)

45 Clown show? That is insulting to clowns.

Perhaps we should call it the Minion Strategy. "Bananas!"

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 27, 2015 05:09 PM (AylSc)

46 President Obama's strategy is simply too nuanced for you mouth-breathing tea-baggers to grasp.

BTW, can anyone tell me why my insurance rates have gone up?

Posted by: Donna Brazile at May 27, 2015 05:10 PM (QyBQv)

47
The problem is simply the Democrat Party.

As long as we have a Democrat Party, they will purposely lose wars and throw away victories.

But, voting for treason is sure better than voting for those horrible Republicans.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 27, 2015 05:10 PM (0cMkb)

48 Just a little tweak. Or twerk.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 27, 2015 05:10 PM (W5DcG)

49 The plan is perfect. It is the most perfect plan ever devised to destroy America, and civilization. Have no doubt that ubama's sugardaddy soros has been promoted to demon first class by satan. And ubama hisself has been advanced to crack sniffer/licker to serve d.f.c soros while d.f.c. soros gets reamed by olla for-effing-ever.

Posted by: Eromero at May 27, 2015 05:10 PM (go5uR)

50 When do we have the good ones?

The Kurds have given us good ones.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 27, 2015 05:10 PM (evdj2)

51 At least the Minions build stuff.

Posted by: Feh at May 27, 2015 05:10 PM (Y4Gbv)

52 32 Man the next president is going to have a full time job just earning the trust back from our allies.

Posted by: wrg500 at May 27, 2015 05:07 PM (S+el1)

Not possible. Regardless of the next President's character (or lack thereof, to make provision for a Democrat President), no one in his right mind will trust the U.S., because the Idiocracy could reassert itself in the next election.

The Ukrainians trusted Clinton, gave up their nukes, and now are being bent over the kitchen table. I can't imagine the lesson is lost on many world leaders.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2015 05:11 PM (oKE6c)

53 It's failure all the way down...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 27, 2015 05:11 PM (h4vJk)

54 Any bets that the Air Force and Navy turned in a plan that would have destroyed ISIS infrastructure and oil producing capabilities, only to have it shot down by the White House?

Posted by: Colorado Alex at May 27, 2015 05:11 PM (10ydV)

55 so far as the Dems are concerned, Bush's policies were doomed to failure. What's going on now merely proves their point and has nothing to do with them.

Posted by: mallfly at May 27, 2015 05:11 PM (qSIlh)

56 Video of the hapless babbling fool Jen Psaki.

Could you be more specific, please.

Posted by: dantesed at May 27, 2015 05:11 PM (88xKn)

57 he only gives a shit because Frontline was kinda criticizing him last night while giving equal time to those who said he was perfect and it was all Bush's fault.

Posted by: X at May 27, 2015 05:12 PM (xGNLA)

58
Man the next president is going to have a full time job just earning the trust back from our allies.

Posted by: wrg500 at May 27, 2015 05:07 PM (S+el1)

It'd be easier to just tell our allies that no matter what, a Donk will eventually be elected President, and they should just expect to be brutally dorked in the squeekhole with sand in the lube starting the day after the inauguration.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 27, 2015 05:12 PM (ba0Bt)

59 At least the Minions build stuff.

Bah
nan
na!

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 27, 2015 05:12 PM (lIiq2)

60 Video of the hapless babbling fool Jen Psaki at the link.

Alas, not wearing a tight, plunging top.

Posted by: typical disgusting Moron at May 27, 2015 05:12 PM (ZtFr+)

61 I've worked for people like this. When things are going well, it's all "we" and often "I'. But when things are in the shitter it's always "you".

People who can't admit they are ever wrong even in the face of overwhelming evidence they are are always the weakest people.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 27, 2015 05:12 PM (g1DWB)

62 So what does that f*cking brain surgeon Harf have to say? Inquiring minds and all.......

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 27, 2015 05:12 PM (QyBQv)

63 Lose slowly enough to dump the problem on someone else. This is the Obama Doctrine.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 27, 2015 05:12 PM (evdj2)

64 HA! You stupidheads! A "good" day for our holy god-king is when our Islamist allies against America are winning! Oh......and those dirty JOOOOOOOZ getting nuked.

Posted by: Jen Psucki at May 27, 2015 05:12 PM (sCHw2)

65 What I do not grok is why the GOPe congress keeps propping EarLeader up. Do they fear even greater world unrest if they oppose Barry's illegal stuff or are they just cravenly lining their own nests and don't give a damn about the damage to the U.S. and world?

Posted by: PaleRider at May 27, 2015 05:13 PM (dkExz)

66 There is a decent military strategist in the ranks of ISIS.

We targeted a physics expert and he was killed.

ISIS has some Chechens in the North, Syrian areas- and there are old Saddam officers, but I still think there is something else.

(Ukraine is getting completely ignored right now.)

Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 05:13 PM (RJMhd)

67 Wow. Stop the presses. Rick Santorum is announcing his candidacy holding a lump of coal which proves he's all authentic and stuff.

We are saved.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 27, 2015 05:13 PM (g1DWB)

68 re 54: "would have destroyed ISIS infrastructure and oil producing capabilities"

but think of all the pollution that would create!

Posted by: mallfly at May 27, 2015 05:14 PM (qSIlh)

69 Do they fear even greater world unrest if they oppose Barry's illegal stuff or are they just cravenly lining their own nests and don't give a damn about the damage to the U.S. and world?

Short answer is yes

Posted by: wrg500 at May 27, 2015 05:14 PM (S+el1)

70 Not sure if the Minions built anything that worked correctly. Ergo they are this administration.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 27, 2015 05:14 PM (AylSc)

71 Is this Eastasia or Oceana, or Eurasia we are at war with?

Posted by: Yo! at May 27, 2015 05:14 PM (q+zA9)

72 I've worked for people like this. When things are going well, it's all "we" and often "I'. But when things are in the shitter it's always "you".
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Tell me about it.

Posted by: Erwin Rommel at May 27, 2015 05:14 PM (QyBQv)

73 63 Lose slowly enough to dump the problem on someone else. This is the Obama Doctrine.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 27, 2015 05:12 PM (evdj2)

I fear that that's exactly the plan. If the SHTF the day after the inauguration, every leftard in the country will be screaming it's the new President's fault. Assuming he's a Republican, of course. Otherwise, they'll tee up Bush again.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2015 05:14 PM (oKE6c)

74 >>Rick Santorum is announcing his candidacy holding a lump of coal.....

Whaaaaat? That's illegal - or will be soon

Posted by: EPA at May 27, 2015 05:15 PM (1d2wm)

75 >65
What I do not grok<

Uh.......wut?

Posted by: Spelling Nazi at May 27, 2015 05:15 PM (sCHw2)

76 "Whoa camel, whoa!"

Posted by: Yosemite Shamim at May 27, 2015 05:15 PM (+jijM)

77 My apologies for the setback that occurred in your mouth.
I had a perfect plan to deal with that.
Clearly, that plan is in need of some adaptations. .

Further apologies that it was not an unsubstantial setback. It had been awhile.

Posted by: Barackhenaten I at May 27, 2015 05:16 PM (O7Hke)

78 I've worked for people like this. When things are going well, it's all "we" and often "I'. But when things are in the shitter it's always "you".
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Yeah, we know what you mean.

Posted by: The Kulaks at May 27, 2015 05:16 PM (QyBQv)

79 "War of Northern Aggression" my ass! You Rebs fired on Ft. Sumter and got the ass-kicking you deserved!

Posted by: unprovoked Molotov cocktail--tee hee at May 27, 2015 05:16 PM (VAsIq)

80 72 I've worked for people like this. When things are going well, it's all "we" and often "I'. But when things are in the shitter it's always "you".
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Tell me about it.
Posted by: Erwin Rommel at May 27, 2015 05:14 PM (QyBQv)
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So does this mean, we let HIM down again?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 27, 2015 05:16 PM (QyBQv)

81 Rick Santorum is announcing his candidacy holding a lump of coal

Did he get that in his Christmas stocking?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 27, 2015 05:17 PM (W5DcG)

82 Obama talking points-- Our Russian reset strategy worked out great. Arab Spring was a roaring success . Libya couldn't have turned out better. We expected Yemen to fall to the terrorists exactly as we had planned. We have China right where we want them. Iran will be nuclear free for at least the next six months which is better than anyone else could have done.

Posted by: Cruzinator at May 27, 2015 05:17 PM (BoJzR)

83 "Obama doesn't give himself enough credit for his foreign policy successes" --- said Jen Psaki a while back.

The reports all laughed.
But she got promoted.

-
If you want to stand out in the Obama administration, you have to crawl on your belly like a reptile.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at May 27, 2015 05:17 PM (XUKZU)

84 MH, this time its the Iraqis he abandoned that let Gaylord down.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 27, 2015 05:17 PM (AylSc)

85 Washington Times : Pentagon not happy with Obama's Strategy.

http://tinyurl.com/oue3mq7

Posted by: Lysandar Bellingrade at May 27, 2015 05:17 PM (MMeLW)

86 Holy shit, Rick Santorum just squeezed the lump of coal and produced a diamond!

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 27, 2015 05:17 PM (2cS/G)

87 re 80: absolutely, we think we're so smart because we know who to eat with a knife and fork!

Posted by: mallfly at May 27, 2015 05:17 PM (qSIlh)

88 You Rebs fired on Ft. Sumter

We asked you nicely to leave

Posted by: wrg500 at May 27, 2015 05:18 PM (S+el1)

89
Not keeping up with Yemen, the Shia are winning this right.

the horde will know

Posted by: Yo! at May 27, 2015 05:18 PM (q+zA9)

90
Obama's Strategy In Iraq, Which Is In All Ways Perfect, May Need to be Adjusted

Gee, this is not unlike "The science is settled (but we have to figure out where all that tricksey heat is hiding"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 27, 2015 05:18 PM (95CzI)

91 So does this mean, we let HIM down again?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Well, someone sure as hell did. Unless, of course, he regards this as success. Which he might.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 27, 2015 05:18 PM (QyBQv)

92 If the SHTF the day after the inauguration, every leftard in the country will be screaming it's the new President's fault.

Republican president being sworn in **hand on bible**
"So help me God"

MFM: Quagmire!!!!!!

Posted by: pep at May 27, 2015 05:18 PM (LAe3v)

93 >>Rick Santorum is announcing his candidacy holding a lump of coal which proves he's all authentic and stuff.

Tell him not to move. Our hazmat team is eroute to dispose of that icky coal.

And arrest him.

Posted by: EPA at May 27, 2015 05:18 PM (sQzB6)

94 The bueatiful and all loving people of Brattleboro towards all persons of all color would like to welcome everyone to attend the 11th Annual"We Hate Bush Day Parade". There will be floats, clowns, food and other events. Thank You and we hope to see you here in the most "Friendly Town in America' according to Rolling Stoned Magazine.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at May 27, 2015 05:19 PM (lNSdJ)

95 So does this mean, we let HIM down again?

It goes without saying.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 27, 2015 05:19 PM (evdj2)

96 Psaki: "We need to adapt and adopt a new adaptation, because we're all about adapting to circumstances as they need to be adapted to."

OK.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2015 05:20 PM (oKE6c)

97 Finally, a Third Party with a message. Rally around, Carbonites!

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 27, 2015 05:20 PM (2cS/G)

98 "The allegation undermines the White House strategy to equip and train Iraqi soldiers so that U.S. involvement can remain minimal."

Left behind in Ramadi was a galaxy of cutting edge modern equipment bought for the Iraqi army by Uncle Sugar, all the way up to M1 Abrams tanks.

As for "training", let us remember how the George W. Bush administration dumped _fifty billion bucks_ into "training" the Iraqis, which is a staggering amount of money relative to the small size of the new-generation Iraqi army. It didn't accomplish a damn thing.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 27, 2015 05:20 PM (noWW6)

99 Not keeping up with Yemen, the Shia are winning this right.

I think the Saudis are still playing airborne whack-a-mole.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 27, 2015 05:20 PM (evdj2)

100 Now, we could talk about why American planes are only making thirteen airstrikes----

Surprised they could muster that many crop planes for Operation Back 9.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 27, 2015 05:20 PM (QyBQv)

101 Uh.......wut?
Posted by: Spelling Nazi at May 27, 2015 05:15 PM (sCHw2)

grok is not a spelling error.

Posted by: Lea at May 27, 2015 05:20 PM (lIU4e)

102 His minions are getting reality all over Obama's beautiful plans.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at May 27, 2015 05:20 PM (XUKZU)

103 Not keeping up with Yemen, the Shia are winning this right.

Yep, and Iran is telling KSA to stay out of it or...

Posted by: wrg500 at May 27, 2015 05:20 PM (S+el1)

104 re 80: absolutely, we think we're so smart because we know who to eat with a knife and fork!

Posted by: mallfly

*ahem* "We know *whom* to eat..."

Posted by: Grammar Police at May 27, 2015 05:20 PM (VAsIq)

105 Santoriom Hates persons of color and never has held any position of authority unlike Presdent Oblama............

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at May 27, 2015 05:21 PM (lNSdJ)

106 Psaki: "We need to adapt and adopt a new adaptation, because we're all
about adapting to circumstances as they need to be adapted to."

It's all the hormones. I mean, have you LOOKED at her hand lately? Big as a house.

Posted by: pep at May 27, 2015 05:21 PM (LAe3v)

107 Republican president being sworn in **hand on bible**
"So help me God"

MFM: Quagmire!!!!!!

Posted by: pep at May 27, 2015 05:18 PM (LAe3v)
"Grim milestone!"
"Cycle of violence!"
"War for oil!"

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2015 05:21 PM (oKE6c)

108 As for "training", let us remember how the George W. Bush administration dumped _fifty billion bucks_ into "training" the Iraqis, which is a staggering amount of money relative to the small size of the new-generation Iraqi army. It didn't accomplish a damn thing.

$50B could have bought a private merc army with it's own airforce.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 27, 2015 05:21 PM (evdj2)

109 What I do not grok is why the GOPe congress keeps propping EarLeader up. Do they fear even greater world unrest if they oppose Barry's illegal stuff or are they just cravenly lining their own nests and don't give a damn about the damage to the U.S. and world?

I've wondered about that myself. Just how weak do you need to be to not even defend yourself against baseless accusations of racism? Sure, TFG's historic all right: he's the worst president I've ever seen, and I've seen some bad ones, starting with LBJ.

The GOPe has plenty to back up their actions to prevent the TFG's fundamental transformation of our great nation. All they need to do is recite the Constitution and say that even the president has limits to what he can do, as does everyone who takes the oath of office.

But noooooooo. I can't understand much of what goes on in DC these days. Normal people don't do the crazy things we all see daily. Either they're all sleazy scumbags who have no business in power or the DC mafia is far more powerful that I had even dreamed. In either case, #WASTF and voting isn't stopping the decline.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at May 27, 2015 05:21 PM (0HooB)

110 The clown car in the White House will, of course, be ignored in favor of the spectacle of Rick Santorum announcing a run for President in front of George Snuffleupagus. Media rules.

Posted by: MTF at May 27, 2015 05:21 PM (LISuA)

111
http://registry.thebump.com/jennifer-psaki-gregory-mecher-july-2015/10734870

Want to split the spoon 378 ways?

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 27, 2015 05:21 PM (kdS6q)

112 >>So does this mean, we let HIM down again?

Apparently this time it was the Iraqis.
But Jen assures us that they're aware that this has been "an issue in the past" and they're going to be sure the Iraqis have access to training and equipment.

If you've ever wondered how a community organize would discuss a real war (not a war on poverty/racism/whatevs) just watch the linked video.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2015 05:22 PM (1d2wm)

113 The German people let me down. Fuck them. - A. Hitler

Posted by: Future Soetoro Quote at May 27, 2015 05:22 PM (NPgvx)

114 It's all the hormones. I mean, have you LOOKED at her hand lately? Big as a house.

Posted by: pep at May 27, 2015 05:21 PM (LAe3v)/i]

Oooh, the imam told us what she's been doing ...

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2015 05:22 PM (oKE6c)

115 Mary Cloggenstein - In case you missed it, cartoon:

http://tinyurl.com/q7ushxz

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 27, 2015 05:22 PM (QyBQv)

116 Oops.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2015 05:22 PM (oKE6c)

117 So, Rick Santorum's desperately trying to prove he's a carbon-based life form?

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at May 27, 2015 05:22 PM (VAsIq)

118 As for "training", let us remember how the George W. Bush administration
dumped _fifty billion bucks_ into "training" the Iraqis, which is a
staggering amount of money relative to the small size of the
new-generation Iraqi army. It didn't accomplish a damn thing.>>>

Was the training done by the teachers unions?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at May 27, 2015 05:22 PM (wrS2o)

119 Grump928 is correct when all of this money could have spent to help children of color in this cuontrty !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at May 27, 2015 05:22 PM (lNSdJ)

120 Not keeping up with Yemen, the Shia are winning this right.

Couple weeks ago Shia rebels shelled a KSA border town.

Posted by: wrg500 at May 27, 2015 05:22 PM (S+el1)

121 Mr Gumby:
http://tinyurl.com/qc93chf

re 104: oops, should have been "how to eat" -- from that video of Hitler that's been parodied about 1100 times

Posted by: mallfly at May 27, 2015 05:22 PM (qSIlh)

122 The amount of ordnance that we are giving the jihadis makes the drone we gifted to Iran look like a big nothing burger.

Posted by: Garrett at May 27, 2015 05:23 PM (O7Hke)

123 "Rick Santorum is announcing his candidacy"

Dan Savage promoted for years the use of the word "santorum" to describe a particular unpleasant byproduct of, um, homosexual male intimacy.

Now, "Santorum" is a synonym for "Republican presidential aspirant who willingly agrees to be interviewed by George Stephanopoulos".

I can't decide which of the two meanings is worse.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 27, 2015 05:24 PM (noWW6)

124 Is have to say I am just s disgusts with military leadership

They should either complain loudly that they aren't being allowed to perform or quit in protest

From petraeus to carter Hamm to mc crystal. I understand civilian control of the military but I find their silence dishonorable

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 05:24 PM (zOTsN)

125 On the brights side, what's good for General Dynamics is good for America!

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 27, 2015 05:24 PM (evdj2)

126 t is a strange sort of strategy that is based on an expectation that, "over time," we will have any friends left, if our leaders continue to find it politically expedient to belittle allies after sending them out to die alone. The only thing being degraded in the campaign against the Islamic State is American prestige.

By the time Obama is finished, America will have no allies left, and a whole lot of enemies.

Posted by: rickl at May 27, 2015 05:24 PM (zoehZ)

127 Couple weeks ago Shia rebels shelled a KSA border town.

Posted by: wrg500

Yeah, bitchez!

Posted by: Shia LeBeouwiaf at May 27, 2015 05:24 PM (VAsIq)

128 Yemen is an absolute mess.

Trying to figure out the sectarian stew there is a nightmare.

The Sauds are doing what they can and they lost a few border guards. Then there was the mosque bombing in Saudi something like 28 killed, suspects arrested all them were Saudis.

There has been in the past a prediction that if the Saudi oil fields go under China's economy goes sideways in about five days.

So that's interesting like a heart attack. The Saudi Air Force might be half decent but their ground troops...I have no idea.

Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 05:25 PM (RJMhd)

129 Sure, Obama's failed in making the world love us...and muzzies are slaughtering infidels around the world...

BUT

the abortion spice and gay marriage herb must flow.

Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at May 27, 2015 05:25 PM (ymkGW)

130 The problem with the clusterfuck of an administration is that it does not suffer from any setbacks, humiliations or policy disasters because it has the media in its back pocket and acting like a spirit squad and has as its "opposition" quite possibly the most useless collection of political hacks, back benchers and DIABLOS this country has every seen.

The best we can hope for is to endure this cocksucker and his pissants for the next two years and hope he doesn't get another shot at the Supreme Court.

Posted by: Kreplach at May 27, 2015 05:25 PM (kGXRK)

131 Posted by: torquewrench at May 27, 2015 05:20 PM (noWW6)

That's seven years ago asshole when none of these problems existed. You're a broken pitiful record .

Posted by: Cruzinator at May 27, 2015 05:25 PM (BoJzR)

132 Ugh. Santorum announcing Presidential bid. Stay tuned for endlessly repeated abortion and other social wedge issue questions. 24/7

Posted by: JoeF. at May 27, 2015 05:25 PM (gV9bF)

133 you know there are people who want to know why the Jews can't go killing each other like that.

Posted by: mallfly at May 27, 2015 05:26 PM (qSIlh)

134 By the time Obama is finished, America will have no allies left, and a whole lot of enemies.

Posted by: rickl at May 27, 2015 05:24 PM (zoehZ)

No wonder Obongo is semi-retired. He's already ticked that off his "to do" list.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2015 05:26 PM (oKE6c)

135 It was a perfect plan, but ISIS refused to follow it.

Oddly.

Posted by: Grey Fox at May 27, 2015 05:26 PM (a42f0)

136 If someon from the DoD, some one high level, quit in protest and held a press conference the press would have to cover it.

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 05:27 PM (zOTsN)

137 I think its time for another speech in Cairo.

C'mon TFG, I dare you.

Posted by: MTF at May 27, 2015 05:27 PM (LISuA)

138 No plan survives contact with a Democratic administration.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 27, 2015 05:27 PM (evdj2)

139 No plan survives first contact with reality.

I *hate* reality.

Also, planning.

Posted by: Presn't Obama at May 27, 2015 05:27 PM (VAsIq)

140 "Lose slowly enough to dump the problem on someone else. This is the Obama Doctrine."

I think you nailed it.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 27, 2015 05:28 PM (LA7Cm)

141 McChrystal voted for Obama IIRC I think I read that in The Rolling Stone article. He later did come out and try to triangulate Obama, he was essentially fired.

Petraeus that's obvious in hindsight.

Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 05:28 PM (RJMhd)

142 >>It's all the hormones. I mean, have you LOOKED at her hand lately? Big as a house.

Elephantitus of the Pregnancy. Either that or she's having a Handbaby, too.

Posted by: Garrett at May 27, 2015 05:28 PM (O7Hke)

143 They ought to re-issue that Sly and the Family Stone hit, Hot Mess in the Summertime.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at May 27, 2015 05:28 PM (XUKZU)

144 Dempsey should hang his head in shame.

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 05:28 PM (zOTsN)

145 Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 05:25 PM (RJMhd)

The thing is, this isn't really a war between countries as we think of war in the west. This is a sunni v shia war that has gone on for over a thousand years.

Posted by: wrg500 at May 27, 2015 05:28 PM (S+el1)

146 I just want limitless power and authority and Reggie stroking me.

Posted by: Presn't Obama at May 27, 2015 05:28 PM (VAsIq)

147
Jennifer Psaki and Gregory Mecher's Baby Registry
Arrival date: July 18, 2015 (52 days) Location: WASHINGTON, DC

Dreft Baby Laundry Detergent - 150 fl oz = $36.97

A 150 oz jug of Scent Free name brand detergent is $5 on the Friday sale at the supermarket.

Baby stuff is such a racket.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 27, 2015 05:28 PM (kdS6q)

148 The thing is, this isn't really a war between
countries as we think of war in the west. This is a sunni v shia war
that has gone on for over a thousand years.

Posted by: wrg500 at May 27, 2015 05:28 PM (S+el1)

OK. Let's have a steel cage match, and we've got the winner.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2015 05:29 PM (oKE6c)

149 We have to survive another year and change without the open outbreak of world war. Don't bet on it.

Posted by: MTF at May 27, 2015 05:29 PM (LISuA)

150 And nothing in the news about any delays on delivering F-16Q Block 52s to Iraq.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 27, 2015 05:29 PM (AylSc)

151 OK. Let's have a steel cage match, and we've got the winner.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2015 05:29 PM (oKE6c)

Iran gets a nuke and you'll have one.

Posted by: wrg500 at May 27, 2015 05:30 PM (S+el1)

152 144 Dempsey should hang his head in shame.

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 05:28 PM (zOTsN)
==========================

Don't get me started on that dishonorable POS.

Posted by: MTF at May 27, 2015 05:30 PM (LISuA)

153 Isn't Santorum a big proponent of giving ex-cons the right to vote?

Posted by: Garrett at May 27, 2015 05:30 PM (O7Hke)

154 >>It's all the hormones. I mean, have you LOOKED at her hand lately? Big as a house.

Can't say I was checking out her hands, but I did notice some other parts looking larger.

Posted by: Achmed the Goatfcuker at May 27, 2015 05:30 PM (/Ho8c)

155 144 Dempsey should hang his head in shame.
Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 05:28 PM (zOTsN)

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at May 27, 2015 05:30 PM (BLFGI)

156 So that's interesting like a heart attack. The Saudi Air Force might be half decent but their ground troops...I have no idea.

Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 05:25 PM (RJMhd)

I'm standing by my prediction that Saudi Arabia falls to ISIS before the end of 2016, perhaps even by the end of this year.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at May 27, 2015 05:31 PM (10ydV)

157 "And nothing in the news about any delays on delivering F-16Q Block 52s to Iraq. "

There was an article a few days ago that the Iraqis can't fly the F-16. So they'll just park them somewhere.

Maybe ISIS has some qualified pilots. Depending on spare parts and maintenance the Iraqis can't do either.

Posted by: Lysandar Bellingrade at May 27, 2015 05:31 PM (MMeLW)

158 We have to survive another year and change without the open outbreak of world war. Don't bet on it.

We are in one now. Just now one wants to call it that.

Posted by: wrg500 at May 27, 2015 05:31 PM (S+el1)

159 Reagan inherited the same Shia sunni "civil" war and managed to contain it and increase our prestige and authority

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 05:31 PM (zOTsN)

160 155 Well, that didn't work. Tried to line through everything after "hang."

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at May 27, 2015 05:32 PM (BLFGI)

161 What does The Horde think it would take to shake the MSM's purple-veined throbber for Obongo, and actually turn on him? Or, for that matter, to do the same thing for the population as a whole?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2015 05:32 PM (oKE6c)

162 It's all the hormones. I mean, have you LOOKED at her hand lately? Big as a house.

Have you ever seen her and Brucella Jenner in the same room together?

Just sayin'.

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 27, 2015 05:32 PM (lIiq2)

163 There was an article a few days ago that the Iraqis can't fly the F-16. So they'll just park them somewhere.

Maybe ISIS has some qualified pilots. Depending on spare parts and maintenance the Iraqis can't do either.

Posted by: Lysandar Bellingrade at May 27, 2015 05:31 PM (MMeLW)

My guess is that they'll go to Iran.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at May 27, 2015 05:33 PM (10ydV)

164 Seriously fucking pathetic and dishonorable military leadership at the highest levels

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 05:33 PM (zOTsN)

165 Baby detergent is special. Put a baby in the washer with regular detergent and you're just asking for trouble.

Posted by: Consumer Reports at May 27, 2015 05:33 PM (8ZskC)

166 re 161: a miracle.

Posted by: mallfly at May 27, 2015 05:33 PM (qSIlh)

167 and hope he doesn't get another shot at the Supreme Court.

Posted by: Kreplach at May 27, 2015 05:25 PM (kGXRK)

The next potus will nominate Obama to fill a vacancy.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at May 27, 2015 05:33 PM (OpDDu)

168
Jennifer Psaki and Gregory Mecher's Baby Registry

Mommy's Helper Outlet Plugs, 36 Count

It's not for the baby. It's just when Joe Biden comes over for a visit the little scamp gets into everything.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 27, 2015 05:33 PM (kdS6q)

169 I'm standing by my prediction that Saudi Arabia falls to ISIS before the end of 2016, perhaps even by the end of this year.

Riyadh will be nuke first. What for uprisings in the east of KSA where most of their Shia live.

Posted by: wrg500 at May 27, 2015 05:33 PM (S+el1)

170 "Reagan inherited the same Shia sunni "civil" war and managed to contain it and increase our prestige and authority"

Except for that one truck bomb in Lebanon when we all threw our hands in the air and told Lebanon to work it out themselves.

Posted by: Lysandar Bellingrade at May 27, 2015 05:33 PM (MMeLW)

171 The press they won't cover it.

All you have to remember is Col. Wood at the Benghazi hearing.

He I can even remember the name of the retired Marine who was the person that testified to the fact that they did not scramble FEST that night. They barely let that guy talk.

Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 05:34 PM (RJMhd)

172 What does The Horde think it would take to shake the MSM's purple-veined throbber for Obongo, and actually turn on him? Or, for that matter, to do the same thing for the population as a whole?

A mushroom cloud over Israel.

Even that might not do it.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at May 27, 2015 05:34 PM (0HooB)

173 Isn't Santorum the guy who threw the last presidential election in the final month of the campaign?

Oh, right, that was Perry.

Posted by: bergerbilder at May 27, 2015 05:35 PM (+jijM)

174 "...Sec. Ash Carter's comment that Iraqi soldiers 'showed no will to fight,' directly contradicting the vice president's words."

What? We can't even trust ol' Joe on this? Shocked. Shocked!

Here's my shocked face:

Foreign policy gravitas just isn't what it used to be.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at May 27, 2015 05:35 PM (1CroS)

175 "Isn't Santorum a big proponent of giving ex-cons the right to vote?"

Rand Paul certainly is.

Note that former VA GOP Governor O'Donnell restored felon voting rights, and it's estimated that the additional margin provided by the felon vote was what ensured that O'Donnell was succeeded in office by a Democrat.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 27, 2015 05:35 PM (noWW6)

176
Mommy's Helper Outlet Plugs, 36 Count

I read that as something completely different, and Jen Psaki as a whole lot more interesting.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at May 27, 2015 05:35 PM (10ydV)

177 The media will never abandon their ideology. They'll die first and continue to indoctrinate the next generation of journalists.

Posted by: Lysandar Bellingrade at May 27, 2015 05:35 PM (MMeLW)

178 Actually Iraqis in the US have been training on their new F-16s. Its just in July the first is supposed to be delivered to Iraq. Supposedly the cost per F-16Q Block 52 was in the neighborhood of $160 million each.

Meanwhile AMARG pulled from storage older F-16s, refurbished them, and delivered them to Morocco in about a year. One of those Moroccan F-16s has gone down fighting in Yemen.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 27, 2015 05:35 PM (AylSc)

179 I wasn't forgetting the marine barracks bombing or the men that died there. You enemy gets a vote on what happens too. But no way we're things as fucked up then as they are now

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 05:35 PM (zOTsN)

180 Reagan inherited the same Shia sunni "civil" war and managed to contain it and increase our prestige and authority

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 05:31 PM (zOTsN)

The religious conflict was kept pretty well tamped down by the "strongmen" that were overthrown in the arab spring.

Posted by: wrg500 at May 27, 2015 05:36 PM (S+el1)

181 Edit: hell I can't even remember

(I can remember a quote from him in regards to not scrambling FEST--"the tyranny of distance ")

Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 05:36 PM (RJMhd)

182 To shock the MSM from their love fest of Gaylord. I fear a dirty weapon right outside the NBC studios in NYC might not even shake it.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 27, 2015 05:36 PM (AylSc)

183 So ShitMidas strikes again.Much more of his success, and we'll all be ululating 5 times a day.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 27, 2015 05:37 PM (bo7G7)

184 In order to tell the truth, we must destroy the truth.

- Motto of the mainstream media

Posted by: The Great White Snark at May 27, 2015 05:37 PM (XUKZU)

185
Jennifer Psaki and Gregory Mecher's Baby Registry

Dropcam Pro Wi-Fi Wireless Video Monitoring Security Camera - $194.99

The boys over at the NSA going in dutch on that one.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 27, 2015 05:38 PM (kdS6q)

186 Should've all been fired when they didn't have someone on alert to cover the ME on 911, especially in light of the riots in Egypt.

Heads should have rolled

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 05:38 PM (zOTsN)

187 >>> Reagan inherited the same Shia sunni "civil" war and managed to contain it and increase our prestige and authority

"Except for that one truck bomb in Lebanon when we all threw our hands in the air and told Lebanon to work it out themselves."

What Reagan did brilliantly was to keep the Iran-Iraq War going for as long as possible.

As for the truck bomb in Lebanon, the one that killed hundreds of U.S. Marines asleep in their racks, it is often forgotten who it was who was the senior military liaison to the SECDEF at the time, who said that leaving the Marine gate guards with unloaded weapons wouldn't pose any problem.

Answer: Colin Powell.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 27, 2015 05:38 PM (noWW6)

188 I said it before and I will say it again. Iraq will be one of Barak Obama's greatest achievements.

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 27, 2015 05:39 PM (TV9BR)

189 >>Except for that one truck bomb in Lebanon when we all threw our hands in the air and told Lebanon to work it out themselves

Which had bin Laden calling us a paper tiger.

Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute was the last sane position we took against Islamic insanity. Yes, he was technically a southerner but blind squirrels and nuts and all that.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 27, 2015 05:39 PM (g1DWB)

190 Al Sharpton asks a question: Is the Texas flooding global warming or God's rebuke?

From WZ.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at May 27, 2015 05:40 PM (XUKZU)

191 The thing is, this isn't really a war between
countries as we think of war in the west. This is a sunni v shia war
that has gone on for over a thousand years.

Posted by: wrg500 at May 27, 2015 05:28 PM (S+el1)
This should have been pointed out long ago, somehow we though that didn't matter.

Posted by: Colin at May 27, 2015 05:41 PM (5L9G0)

192 So ShitMidas strikes again.Much more of his success, and we'll all be ululating 5 times a day.

Well, TFG did say he'd side with the muzzies if the political winds changed, so we can't say we weren't warned.

Also, there's medicine for that now.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at May 27, 2015 05:41 PM (0HooB)

193 It's getting to the point where I'm not sure I can trust the Obama Administration.

My face may start to show more shock soon.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at May 27, 2015 05:41 PM (1CroS)

194 True. But during Reagans term we more or less let iraq and iran destroy each other

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 05:41 PM (zOTsN)

195
Ewok let the Italicans infiltrate the sidebar, looks like.

Posted by: Demon Sheep at May 27, 2015 05:41 PM (ynQIy)

196 Well during Reagan there was also the Iran Iraq war which lasted seven years.

That was started by an invasion into Iranian territory by Saddam, yet now we have young Republicans like Domenench claiming that Saddam was not a destabilizing force in the region. Domenench also completely forgets Saddam's invasion of Kuwait.

Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 05:42 PM (RJMhd)

197 Jackstraw-

It wasn't Lebanon which enticed Bin Laden but Mogudishu. Another abortion brought to you by a Dem who screwed up a good thing.

Posted by: typo dynamofo at May 27, 2015 05:42 PM (i7JE3)

198 "Supposedly the cost per F-16Q Block 52 was in the neighborhood of $160 million each. "

Gawdam. I was thinking $80 large or so apiece. The B-1 was a $200m airplane 30 years ago.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 27, 2015 05:42 PM (LA7Cm)

199 No matter who gets elected in the next election we've got a long way to go to turn this around.

Our formerly close allies uniformly hate us and our enemies are all angling to be next in line to take our negotiators to the cleaners.

Obama has fucked up the world to a fare thee well. Of course, a vibrant economy would go a long way to putting a charge into our influence again. But he's fucked that up as well.

Posted by: MTF at May 27, 2015 05:42 PM (LISuA)

200 You suckers don't know the half of it.

Posted by: Jen Psaki's Nude Patch at May 27, 2015 05:42 PM (2cS/G)

201 Pretty sure bin laden called us a paper tiger when Clinton announced he was going all in the kill a Somali war lord and then fled after Black Hawk Down

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 05:43 PM (zOTsN)

202 From now on, I'm telling my future potential girlfriend that I am not unsubstantial.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 27, 2015 05:43 PM (JO9+V)

203 If one's strategy is to support islam over freedom, then Obama's moves make perfect sense.

Posted by: Null at May 27, 2015 05:44 PM (xjpRj)

204 Although if you could isolate the hive of ISIS nothing deserves the Dresden treatment more.

When exactly did we quit using napalm? Tons of it dropped from B52s - it smells like victory. Nothing better than seeing ISIS members running around trying to peel the burning napalm off - unless it is announcing afterward that we changed the formula, and have replaced part of the gasoline with lard.

Posted by: An Observation at May 27, 2015 05:44 PM (m0cHS)

205 they'll fight when ISIS comes to their tribal areas in the south. They're ceding the north to the Sunni

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at May 27, 2015 05:44 PM (Cq0oW)

206 Quien es mas tonto?

Psaki, or Harf?

Posted by: logprof at May 27, 2015 05:44 PM (wSv9N)

207 >>It wasn't Lebanon which enticed Bin Laden but Mogudishu. Another abortion brought to you by a Dem who screwed up a good thing.

Nope. It was Lebanon that got him started, Mogadishu just put it into overdrive. And this isn't a slam against Reagan whom I view as the best president in my lifetime by far. But his reaction, after sending Bush to Lebanon to view the damage and vow a response and then nothing was a mistake.

Read The Looming Tower or some other good period pieces. He viewed our response in Lebanon as proof that we didn't have the stomach to fight a long war against Islamic militancy.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 27, 2015 05:45 PM (g1DWB)

208 napalm is bad for Global Warming, so it's off limits.

Posted by: Colin at May 27, 2015 05:45 PM (5L9G0)

209 Harf got promoted ya know. She is in charge of strategy with the Iranians.

Does that make you feel good

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 05:45 PM (zOTsN)

210 Napalm has caused Parkinson's in the pilots years later-I think that's what happened-someone can correct me on that.

Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 05:46 PM (RJMhd)

211 re 190: even better, the headline from WZ quoting Sharpton:

Al Sharpton Has A Serious Question About Texas Flooding: "Is It Climate Control Or God's Rebuke?"

Posted by: mallfly at May 27, 2015 05:46 PM (qSIlh)

212 " Quien es mas tonto?

Psaki, or Harf?"

There's not a dollar's worth difference between them.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 27, 2015 05:46 PM (LA7Cm)

213 The Hill is helping us out with this headline:

Dems hope for Cruz, fear Bush

Linked on Hot Gas.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at May 27, 2015 05:46 PM (XUKZU)

214 Ricardo, yeah some middlemen got a real nice bonus on those 36 F-16s for Iraq.

Saudi Arabia only paid $112 million per Eurofighter it bought in 2005.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 27, 2015 05:48 PM (AylSc)

215 AL SHARPTON HAS A SERIOUS QUESTION????

Posted by: Al Sharpton at May 27, 2015 05:48 PM (JO9+V)

216 I lasted until the 59 second mark of "Everything is Awesome".

I dare you to top that.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at May 27, 2015 05:48 PM (1CroS)

217 Ill take your word for it. I see it that way myself. Mentioned the 241 Marines KIA on Memorial Day thread and noted that it was one of Reagan's worst failings that we tucked tail and ran.

That and the fact that while there we saved Arafat.

Posted by: typo dynamofo at May 27, 2015 05:49 PM (i7JE3)

218 Al Sharpton asks a question: Is the Texas flooding global warming or God's rebuke?

It's God's tears. Because Blue Bell is closed.

Blue Bell closes - it starts raining. Rained every day since.

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 27, 2015 05:49 PM (lIiq2)

219
What does The Horde think it would take to shake the MSM's
purple-veined throbber for Obongo, and actually turn on him? Or, for
that matter, to do the same thing for the population as a whole?

A mushroom cloud over Israel.

Even that might not do it.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at May 27, 2015 05:34 PM (0HooB)
A mushroom growing in NY, Chicago, or LA would be needed.

Posted by: An Observation at May 27, 2015 05:51 PM (m0cHS)

220 Yep, his reaction to the Marine Barracks bombing was a mistake, still Reagan' s learning curve on the proper response to terrorism would have been much more rapid then Clinton's.

Reagan would have ha a more proper response to the Khobar Towers attack, the first World Trade Center attack, the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania an the attack on the USS Cole.

We do this moral equivalency thing all the time and it's a damn mistake.

Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 05:52 PM (RJMhd)

221 No matter who gets elected in the next election we've got a long way to go to turn this around.

It could be done quickly.

President Boy's first FP move would be to withdraw from the UN and kick them out of NYC. The next thing would be to establish ties with India and begin forming a new organization of countries who value freedom. Granted, there wouldn't be many of them, but we need to start somewhere.

Then I'd renegotiate all our trade treaties and remove China as the Most Favored Trade nation. There is no sense in funding our enemy.

Grab the world's attention to prove we're serious, show some strength and we can return to our role as the world's beacon of freedom.

And we'd never enter into a conflict we didn't mean to win quickly.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at May 27, 2015 05:52 PM (0HooB)

222 The Bin Laden quote is from an interview with Jon Miller of ABC news

He said the weakness of the American soldier as a paper tiger was proven when we fled Beirut after two explosions and again after we fled Somalia

I was wrong. It was both.

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 05:54 PM (zOTsN)

223 >>What does The Horde think it would take to shake the MSM's
purple-veined throbber for Obongo, and actually turn on him?

I have no idea anymore. Maybe never?

There have been so many moments where I thought "They must see that he wears no clothes now!!" --- Fast and Furious, AP/Fox's James Rosen phones tapped/Snowden revelations/Benghazi/ISIS beheadings ---and yet the clownshow continues.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2015 05:54 PM (4U1/7)

224 And we'd never enter into a conflict we didn't

treat like Dresden.

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 27, 2015 05:54 PM (lIiq2)

225 >>Ill take your word for it. I see it that way myself. Mentioned the 241 Marines KIA on Memorial Day thread and noted that it was one of Reagan's worst failings that we tucked tail and ran.

To be accurate, he also threw Vietnam into the same mix when looking at the US. His premise was that all you had to do was hit the US a few times and our resolve would falter.

Psychopath that he was, it seems he may have been on to something. I can distinctly remember Bush saying in the weeks and months after 9/11 that this was a fight that would likely last the rest of our lives and the country seemed pretty united. Without saying it he was saying this was a war of civilizations. It was only a couple years later the left was saying we had been fighting too long and needed to come home.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 27, 2015 05:55 PM (g1DWB)

226 Someone above said it best. the Shia will get serious about fighting when ISIS starts attacking the Shia cities.

BUT Will ISIS attack the Shiite Iraq? Or will they attack Sunni Jordan, or go for the big target, Sunni Saudi Arabia? Medina and Mecca. A treasure trove that dwarfs the mythical cave of Ali Baba.

There is a reason KSA is building a huge wall across the Iraqi border. It isn't to provide jobs to under-employed Pakistanis, Filipinos, and Indonesians.

Posted by: rd at May 27, 2015 05:57 PM (Hf9yr)

227 As long as there continue to be Democrats the United States will remain a faithless friend and a feckless foe.

Posted by: The Truth, the whole Truth etc. at May 27, 2015 05:58 PM (6jKOp)

228 Our friends are running from us
Our enemies are laughing at us
Our Military is shaking it' collective heads
And many of us are crying.

Way to go Fredo

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 27, 2015 05:58 PM (rDqRv)

229 Obama has been Commander in Chief for eight years now--he owns the present.

Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 05:58 PM (RJMhd)

230
Canary Mission: Radicals Exposed

Very cool!

https://goo.gl/HJcOFx

If only we had something like this 35 years ago, there might not be a pres. obama.

Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 27, 2015 05:59 PM (iQIUe)

231 I picked the 4th of July as the day Baghdad falls.

What's a big Iraqi Shia city

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 05:59 PM (zOTsN)

232 172 What does The Horde think it would take to shake the MSM's purple-veined throbber for Obongo, and actually turn on him? Or, for that matter, to do the same thing for the population as a whole?

A mushroom cloud over Israel.

Even that might not do it.

-BackwardsBoy

Are you kidding? The media would have raptures of joy over that. Maybe, just maybe they might respond with slightly less wishy-washy condemnation if every Western capitol was nuked, but even then I have my doubts. And they'd shriek like the souls of the damned if we responded to such an attack, changing position so fast they might actually snap their own necks.

Posted by: nnptcgrad at May 27, 2015 05:59 PM (iF4ab)

233 70 percent of Iraq is Shia.

Baghdad should have a great nunber of Shia

Sunnis are vast minority.

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 06:02 PM (zOTsN)

234 161 What does The Horde think it would take to shake the MSM's purple-veined throbber for Obongo, and actually turn on him? Or, for that matter, to do the same thing for the population as a whole?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2015 05:32 PM (oKE6c)

Obama going all James Holmes at the White House Correspondent's dinner and mowing down about 300 of them?

Short of that, IDK.

Posted by: Golfman at May 27, 2015 06:02 PM (48QDY)

235 229 Obama has been Commander in Chief for eight years now--he owns the present.

Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 05:58 PM (RJMhd)

He'll never own any train wrecks. If Sushi and Malaria get knocked up and end up as crack whores (which I very much hope does not happen, btw), look for Obongo to start backwatering on paternity.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2015 06:02 PM (oKE6c)

236 Well hell the Democrats are all about nuance and complication until a Republican is trying to win a war.

If a republican is in charge it's all simple again and they can revert to their LCD scapegoat logic.

Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 06:03 PM (RJMhd)

237 Let's talk about this "lack of a will to fight" comment.

*points at gutless wonder in White House*

*then at voters that put him there*

Posted by: Methos at May 27, 2015 06:03 PM (ZbV+0)

238 Are you kidding? The media would have raptures of joy over that.

======

TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR: MUSHROOM CLOUD

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at May 27, 2015 06:03 PM (Cq0oW)

239 "Like WWII-I wouldn't use Dresden as an example but something where we demonstrated a real will to win."

Ya, I wouldn't either, but I sure enjoyed boning my fat wife in front of aliens, so the firebombing of Dresden has that going for it.

Posted by: Kurt Vonnegut at May 27, 2015 06:04 PM (jsYc/)

240 And now for something completely different, let me traumatize you with this quote from Lena Dunham " I stopped wearing the nude patch after the first season of Girls. There's not one guy who works on that show who hasn't seen the inside of my vagina." http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lena-dunham-amy-schumer-comedy-797861

Posted by: Grimaldi at May 27, 2015 06:04 PM (NFFeM)

241 Harf just got failed upward to Kerry's personal spokesperson. If I was Psaki's husband I would want an DNA test and harf just got promoted to main squeeze. F'K up F'K forward.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 27, 2015 06:04 PM (Nt4sW)

242 234- Nah, they'd write up a massacre as being "Reporters disappoint Obama yet again" and grovel at his feet.

Posted by: nnptcgrad at May 27, 2015 06:04 PM (iF4ab)

243 Are you kidding? The media would have raptures of joy over that. Maybe, just maybe they might respond with slightly less wishy-washy condemnation if every Western capitol was nuked,

Some would have raptures of joy. Most would burn to a cinder.

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 27, 2015 06:04 PM (lIiq2)

244 >>What does The Horde think it would take to shake the MSM's
purple-veined throbber for Obongo, and actually turn on him?

I have no idea anymore. Maybe never?

There have been so many moments where I thought "They must see that he wears no clothes now!!" --- Fast and Furious, AP/Fox's James Rosen phones tapped/Snowden revelations/Benghazi/ISIS beheadings ---and yet the clownshow continues.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2015 05:54 PM (4U1/7)

225 >>Ill take your word for it. I see it that way myself. Mentioned the 241 Marines KIA on Memorial Day thread and noted that it was one of Reagan's worst failings that we tucked tail and ran.

To be accurate, he also threw Vietnam into the same mix when looking at the US. His premise was that all you had to do was hit the US a few times and our resolve would falter.

Psychopath that he was, it seems he may have been on to something. I can distinctly remember Bush saying in the weeks and months after 9/11 that this was a fight that would likely last the rest of our lives and the country seemed pretty united. Without saying it he was saying this was a war of civilizations. It was only a couple years later the left was saying we had been fighting too long and needed to come home.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 27, 2015 05:55 PM (g1DWB)

I am beginning to wonder what our response will be when Washington DC and Manhattan are nuked. (Not IF, when.)

If the WTC towers were only enough to get the Democrats to fight Islamic Terrorists for about two years, I do not see them ever fighting this war for civilization to victory.

Posted by: rd at May 27, 2015 06:04 PM (Hf9yr)

245 What city will they fight for?

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 06:05 PM (zOTsN)

246 235 Jay

LOL!

Thanks for the laugh I needed it.

Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 06:05 PM (RJMhd)

247 22
Ah, that's where they hosed us. We should've made Obongo swear on the Koran, or a copy of Das Kapital.

Posted by: Jay Guevara

SWEAR TO ME!

Posted by: the Dark Knight at May 27, 2015 05:05 PM (VAsIq)

Some people just want to watch the world burn.

Posted by: Alfred who joined ISIS at May 27, 2015 06:05 PM (jsYc/)

248 The American Soldier is not weak.

The American Soldier's civilian leadership is.

Don't get it twisted.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 27, 2015 06:06 PM (OsWis)

249 It is not enough to kill ISIS members; however they and the rest of the Jihad can be stopped almost immediately. Inform them - and follow though - that US weapons are all coated in Pig Fat and that any death they cause is an unclean death. This ISIS will fear. Its why I use Silver Bullet gun oil in all my weapons. That needs to be the Conservative strategy - it has worked in the past and will work in the future.

Posted by: An Observation at May 27, 2015 06:07 PM (m0cHS)

250
Tornado on the ground near Canadian, TX

Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 27, 2015 06:08 PM (iQIUe)

251 >>I am beginning to wonder what our response will be when Washington DC and Manhattan are nuked. (Not IF, when.)

Aaaaaaand this is one of the main reasons I moved my family far from DC - it was clear in the last few years of Bush's presidency that not only did the Democrats not take terrorism seriously, but that might even want another attack to use is to hammer Bush (as with Katrina). I saw no need to remain in a target city.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2015 06:08 PM (4U1/7)

252 Holy shit, Rick Santorum just squeezed the lump of coal and produced a diamond!

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 27, 2015 05:17 PM (2cS/G)

Unfortunately, he was squeezing it with his butt cheeks.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 27, 2015 06:08 PM (0cMkb)

253 A "nude patch" is probably another one of those thingys I really don't want to know about, isn't it?

As is anything remotely associated to Potato Grrrrl.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at May 27, 2015 06:09 PM (0HooB)

254 "I can distinctly remember Bush saying in the weeks and months after 9/11 that this was a fight that would likely last the rest of our lives and the country seemed pretty united."

I do herein recall an incredibly clumsy incident involving a certain President speaking beneath an enormous MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner which the ordinary Joes and Janes of the nation not unreasonably interpreted as the worst of the war being over with.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 27, 2015 06:09 PM (noWW6)

255
Tornado live:

http://goo.gl/7xjl3

Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 27, 2015 06:10 PM (iQIUe)

256 I am beginning to wonder what our response will be when Washington DC and Manhattan are nuked. (Not IF, when.)

=====

our enemies are savages but they are not stupid. they watch and understand the vagaries of our political system.

they will wait for a republican to win, then proceed before he or she gets fully on the job, preferably within the first 100 days.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at May 27, 2015 06:10 PM (Cq0oW)

257 Where's Canadian TX?

Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 27, 2015 06:10 PM (iQIUe)

258 A nude patch is a fig leaf for the "modesty" of the actor. It's also a courtesy for the other actors, who prolly wish she wore one

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 06:10 PM (zOTsN)

259 The American Soldier is not weak.

The American Soldier's civilian leadership is.

Don't get it twisted.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 27, 2015 06:06 PM (OsWis)

...and lately it's General Officer corps.

But, yeah.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 27, 2015 06:10 PM (V+kmg)

260 "I am beginning to wonder what our response will be when Washington DC and Manhattan are nuked."

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Posted by: torquewrench at May 27, 2015 06:10 PM (noWW6)

261 248 The American Soldier is not weak.

The American Soldier's civilian leadership is.

Don't get it twisted.
Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 27, 2015 06:06 PM (OsWis)

I'm wonder about the O-7's and beyond though.

Posted by: Golfman at May 27, 2015 06:11 PM (48QDY)

262 I just want to leave this here.
http://is.gd/zUZReJ

Think about it, Barry; you're not going to get too many better offers.

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at May 27, 2015 06:11 PM (ZKzrr)

263 Nude patch = pussy pastie

Posted by: logprof at May 27, 2015 06:11 PM (wSv9N)

264 Kerry is the Thad Cochran of the state dept. Ya. bitch we're going to Russia, get your Svetlana on.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 27, 2015 06:11 PM (Nt4sW)

265 that US weapons are all coated in Pig Fat and that any death they cause is an unclean death. This ISIS will fear. Its why I use Silver Bullet gun oil in all my weapons. That needs to be the Conservative strategy - it has worked in the past and will work in the future.

Posted by: An Observation

If they are willing to blow up pizza parlors, they aren't scared of grease.

And, yes, I've read that one and only letter circulated on the internet about the magical power of pork bullets from the Philippine campaign.

Sorry, it's just magical thinking.

And, no, nuking Mecca will not end islam.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 27, 2015 06:11 PM (uctT+)

266 Yeah, but...

but...

60 nation coalition!!

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at May 27, 2015 06:12 PM (BZAd3)

267 Snatch patch is better than nude patch

Posted by: logprof at May 27, 2015 06:12 PM (wSv9N)

268
I am not a harpy, and have never knowingly had sex with any conservative, therefore, I remain pure and virginal unlike all republican women who have all done the mouth thing and occasionally roll over for that other disgusting sex thing.

Posted by: Marie Harf at May 27, 2015 06:12 PM (P330y)

269 Anna Puma @ 182- dirty weapon right outside NBC shake up the lovefest?
No, but it might be what it takes to wake us up. By us, of course, I mean Patriots. The Patriots who will start to take back America from those in control now. It won't be pretty, and it won't be easy. But hey, it's gotta be done at some point.

Posted by: Eromero at May 27, 2015 06:13 PM (go5uR)

270 And, yes, I've read that one and only letter circulated on the internet about the magical power of pork bullets from the Philippine campaign.

Sorry, it's just magical thinking.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 27, 2015 06:11 PM (uctT+)

*ahem*

Posted by: The Sepoy Rebellion at May 27, 2015 06:14 PM (V+kmg)

271 So, opposite of merkin?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at May 27, 2015 06:14 PM (0HooB)

272 Big tornado.

Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 27, 2015 06:14 PM (iQIUe)

273 >>Snatch patch is better than nude patch

Ugh. Dunham seems to excel at getting people to talk about her nasty-ass body.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2015 06:14 PM (4U1/7)

274 The Five-Sided Nuthouse doesn't count anymore.

Those fuckers are only concerned about their pensions.

The fact that Gen Odierno goes along with this bullshit has made me lose any respect I ever had for my former CG.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 27, 2015 06:14 PM (OsWis)

275 Posted by: Marie Harf

You're not being paid to use that mouth for talking, honey. Get back to work.

Posted by: Hillary Rodham-Rodham at May 27, 2015 06:15 PM (tgnRB)

276 Tornado is wide and you can see stuff blowing around.

Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 27, 2015 06:15 PM (iQIUe)

277 If Sushi and Malaria get knocked up and end up as crack whores (which I
very much hope does not happen, btw), look for Obongo to start
backwatering on paternity.

Eh. Swank celebrity abortion spa--whether they want it or not.

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at May 27, 2015 06:15 PM (ZKzrr)

278 267
Snatch patch is better than nude patch

Posted by: logprof at May 27, 2015 06:12 PM (wSv9N)

Snatch block was already taken.

Posted by: flounder at May 27, 2015 06:15 PM (ecDRv)

279 Someone should take a poll of the Girls cast and crew and ask if they wish she wore a patch

And if not would they like one

Over their eyes

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 06:15 PM (zOTsN)

280 A nude patch is a fig leaf for the "modesty" of the actor.

Tuna patch won't work?

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 27, 2015 06:15 PM (lIiq2)

281 253 A "nude patch" is probably another one of those thingys I really don't want to know about, isn't it?

As is anything remotely associated to Potato Grrrrl.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at May 27, 2015 06:09 PM (0HooB)

I'm guessing it's some sort of flesh tone patch that actors wear for nude sex scenes on normal filming rather than porn. So it gives them a little bit of modesty when surrounded by the film crew. Not a surprise that Lena "if you don't look at my cooter and want to fuck it you're a hater!" Doesn't wear it.

Posted by: Buzzion at May 27, 2015 06:15 PM (z/Ubi)

282 And, no, nuking Mecca will not end islam.

It's a start.

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 27, 2015 06:16 PM (lIiq2)

283 and occasionally roll over for that other disgusting sex thing.
Posted by: Marie Harf at May 27, 2015 06:12 PM (P330y)

----

Doggie style?

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 27, 2015 06:16 PM (A98Xu)

284 Shnizz hoodies.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 27, 2015 06:16 PM (2cS/G)

285 Pretty disappointed with the DoD leadership

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 06:16 PM (zOTsN)

286 One thing in Harf's favor- Kerry may have a horse face but I'd bet money he doesn't have a horse cock.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 27, 2015 06:17 PM (Nt4sW)

287 I don't think the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dempsey is being given enough credit for being one of the biggest failures of military leadership in American history.

He deserves more credit.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at May 27, 2015 06:17 PM (BZAd3)

288 I see we have bought into the meme of how horrible Dresden was... LeMay's fire-bombing of Tokyo was far worse in amount of death and damage but it seems to have slipped the public memory.

Perhaps because it was the Soviets that requested Dresden and the apologists seek to shift the blame to the bombers instead?

In war the objective is to make the other guy say Uncle as soon as possible.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 27, 2015 06:17 PM (AylSc)

289 ThunderB,

Those fucks are merely civvies in uniform.

Posted by: SMFH at it all at May 27, 2015 06:18 PM (OsWis)

290 And, no, nuking Mecca will not end islam.

No, but nuking Mecca and telling them that Medina is next if there's another attack probably would.

And personally, I really don't care what they believe as long as they leave me alone. However, recent history has shown that they really won't do that.

At some point, we're going to be forced to defend ourselves from that evil.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at May 27, 2015 06:18 PM (0HooB)

291 Psaki and Harf star in that wacky sitcom "Bitsy and Mitzy's big Washington adventure."
Can't we get this show cancelled?

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at May 27, 2015 06:18 PM (iDtMD)

292 "Where's Canadian TX?"

Panhandle. Between Amarillo and Lubbock.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 27, 2015 06:18 PM (LA7Cm)

293 Doggie style?

Posted by: Seems Legit

That's not it and you know what I'm talking about.

Posted by: Marie Harf at May 27, 2015 06:19 PM (P330y)

294 284
Shnizz hoodies.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 27, 2015 06:16 PM (2cS/G)

Vagina Pashmina.

Posted by: flounder at May 27, 2015 06:19 PM (ecDRv)

295 Pretty disappointed with the DoD leadership
Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 06:16 PM (zOTsN)

get in line

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 27, 2015 06:19 PM (rDqRv)

296 Remain calm!!! All is well!!!

Posted by: Afroman at May 27, 2015 06:19 PM (pv+rE)

297 If Sushi and Malaria get knocked up and end up as crack whores (which I
very much hope does not happen, btw), look for Obongo to start
backwatering on paternity.

Unless the father is a basketball player or hip-hop artist.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at May 27, 2015 06:19 PM (10ydV)

298 Tornado is gone but here comes another...

Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 27, 2015 06:20 PM (iQIUe)

299 "Panhandle. Between Amarillo and Lubbock. "

Sorry, I was thinking of Canyon, Tx.

Canadian is NE Panhandle.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 27, 2015 06:21 PM (LA7Cm)

300 Bruce you close by?

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 06:21 PM (zOTsN)

301 "The only thing this Administration actually does is shift blame."

I'm sure they can assign culpability for that, too.

Posted by: FireHorse at May 27, 2015 06:22 PM (VMA3H)

302 Sorry, I was thinking of Canyon, Tx.

Canadian is NE Panhandle.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill

So in Canadian, TX do they say "eh" with a TX accent? Do they prefer hockey to football?

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the Indestructible at May 27, 2015 06:22 PM (tgnRB)

303 All these cars on the highway. They shd seek shelter.

Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 27, 2015 06:23 PM (iQIUe)

304 "So in Canadian, TX do they say "eh" with a TX accent? Do they prefer hockey to football?"

No, but they do use the word "hoser" a lot.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 27, 2015 06:24 PM (LA7Cm)

305
The IS key tactic is to use several huge VBIEDs coordinated at onceat strategic locations on the field. Air strikes on these mobile bombs are necessary because they are heavily armoured and they destroy wholecity blocks. Iraqi troops will just have to take the pedestrian suicide bombers out themselves, if they can identify them, but the real answer is air strikes on these VBIEDs before they real or penetrate Iraqi armylines.

That IS has been getting their successes by using these coordinated VBIED assaults has been known for over a year.

Posted by: Speller at May 27, 2015 06:24 PM (d49oC)

306 The middle east has a population far above the geography's ability to feed everyone and provide sanitary water. I'd think that some War College graduate somewhere could come up with a strategy to use these facts to our advantage.

Posted by: bergerbilder at May 27, 2015 06:24 PM (+jijM)

307 No, but they do use the word "hoser" a lot.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 27, 2015 06:24 PM (LA7Cm)

Get along li'l hoser.

Posted by: flounder at May 27, 2015 06:24 PM (ecDRv)

308 *ahem*

Posted by: The Sepoy Rebellion

Did the soldiers threaten to stop being soldiers or threaten to stop being Muslims/Hindu?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 27, 2015 06:24 PM (uctT+)

309 Man, there are some gooderns all up and down the Great Plains today and a heckuva storm straddling MS and AL.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 27, 2015 06:25 PM (LA7Cm)

310 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 27, 2015 06:17 PM (AylSc)

--IIRC Hamburg (just the RAF; it was before Pearl Harbor) was worse as well.

Posted by: logprof at May 27, 2015 06:25 PM (wSv9N)

311 The middle east has a population far above the geography's ability to feed everyone and provide sanitary water. I'd think that some War College graduate somewhere could come up with a strategy to use these facts to our advantage.
Posted by: bergerbilder at May 27, 2015 06:24 PM (+jijM)

Nature or G-D sometimes has a way of taking care of these things

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 27, 2015 06:25 PM (rDqRv)

312
Soooo.....as I understand it, the way ISIL won in Ramadi was they drove truck after truck packed with explosives into the Iraqi forces. Also bulldozers with bombs.

Question from the back of the room - how the FUCK did they get trucks laden with high explosives into the area around Ramadi? Preventing that sort of outcomes was supposed to be Captain Bullshits job, no? I mean, they are Fucking trucks filled with Fucking explosives moving on empty roads in the middle of a desert.

Here is a thought on how to win the war - not a single vehicle moves on any road in Isis controlled territory. Ever. You control the air - use it. You then starve them/defuel/and they die from attrition. ISIL can't exist without taking more cities. They certainly can't live off the land. Plant some mines, and cut their supply lines. Sheesh. Montgomery knew this simple crap back in WWII

.

Posted by: PT Barnum at May 27, 2015 06:26 PM (/EkKm)

313 All of these Upper military guy's have sworn to uphold the Constitution . When does your pension override that Oath?

Posted by: Ben Had at May 27, 2015 06:26 PM (Nt4sW)

314 There is also a Canadian River, which is a tributary of the Red.

Posted by: logprof at May 27, 2015 06:26 PM (wSv9N)

315 But we are flying a minuscule number of bombing runs and the vast majority of those do not drop their ordnance. It's a joke. Theater

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 06:27 PM (zOTsN)

316 I'd think that some War College graduate somewhere could come up with a strategy to use these facts to our advantage.

Posted by: bergerbilder at May 27, 2015 06:24 PM

First; you have to WANT to win.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 27, 2015 06:28 PM (gOixe)

317 But we are flying a minuscule number of bombing runs and the vast majority of those do not drop their ordnance. It's a joke. Theater
Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 06:27 PM (zOTsN)

Yup.
And NO ground controllers.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 27, 2015 06:28 PM (rDqRv)

318 Of course the failure of the Iraqi army is Bush's fault. Between Sr. and Jr, they killed all the Iraqis willing to stand and fight. All that are left are the ones that ran.

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 27, 2015 06:28 PM (6n332)

319 "There is also a Canadian River, which is a tributary of the Red."

Yeah, and Canadian sits on it thusly the name. Now who named that river "Canadian" I have no idea.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 27, 2015 06:28 PM (LA7Cm)

320 But we are flying a minuscule number of bombing runs and the vast majority of those do not drop their ordnance. It's a joke. Theater
Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 06:27 PM (zOTsN)

If you don't have a TACP on the ground in the target area, that's going to happen.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 27, 2015 06:29 PM (V+kmg)

321 Here comes another one...

Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 27, 2015 06:30 PM (iQIUe)

322 290
And personally, I really don't care what they believe as long as they leave me alone. However, recent history has shown that they really won't do that.

At some point, we're going to be forced to defend ourselves from that evil.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at May 27, 2015 06:18 PM (0HooB)

One way or another, this will become a war of extermination. Look at what happens to Jews and Christians in Muslim-majority countries.

Do we passively wait for them to become the majority in Western countries, or do we take pre-emptive action to prevent that from happening?

One thing is certain: Islam is not compatible with Western civilization. There is no possibility of peaceful coexistence. This planet is not big enough for both of us. In the end, one will dominate and the other will be exterminated.

Posted by: rickl at May 27, 2015 06:30 PM (sdi6R)

323
"I [heart] My Schnoodle"

I saw that sticker on a car today.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 27, 2015 06:30 PM (iVfu6)

324 Now who named that river "Canadian" I have no idea.

Probably some Peruvian. They're oblique that way.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at May 27, 2015 06:30 PM (0HooB)

325 "I [heart] My Schnoodle"

#NotAEuphemism

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 27, 2015 06:30 PM (V+kmg)

326 Most recent Stanley Cup for -

- the only team in Texas: 1999
- any team from Canada: 1993

Just putting that out there.

Posted by: FireHorse at May 27, 2015 06:31 PM (wdXFj)

327 Yeah, and Canadian sits on it thusly the name. Now who named that river "Canadian" I have no idea.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 27, 2015 06:28 PM (LA7Cm)

--Maybe it was discovered and named by a frog explorer from Canada.

Posted by: logprof at May 27, 2015 06:31 PM (wSv9N)

328 I am not blaming the pilots.

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 06:31 PM (zOTsN)

329 At some point, we're going to be forced to defend ourselves from that evil.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy

At some point, sure, the general populace will be more inclined to a larger fight.

However, if the Islamic nations and militants take a half-second to note that the West is killing itself, they won't need to try anything dramatic.

Slowly, slowly catchy monkey.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 27, 2015 06:31 PM (uctT+)

330 323
"I [heart] My Schnoodle"

I saw that sticker on a car today.

Posted by: Soothsayer

Not on my car obviously.

Posted by: Bruce Jenner at May 27, 2015 06:31 PM (tgnRB)

331 Posted by: rickl at May 27, 2015 06:30 PM (sdi6R)

Honestly, best case scenario is another ottoman empire type situation.

Have one throat to choke when the jihadists start acting up.

Make the "moderate muslims" control their own internal problems.

Posted by: mynewhandle at May 27, 2015 06:32 PM (AkOaV)

332 315 But we are flying ~~a minuscule number~~ thousands of bombing runs and the vast majority of those do not drop their ordnance. It's a joke. Theater
Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 06:27 PM (zOTsN)

Fixed.

That's what I'm hearing on the news.

Posted by: Golfman at May 27, 2015 06:32 PM (48QDY)

333 I dunno maybe Iraq could rename Baghdad --Obama Town.

That might help.

Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 06:32 PM (RJMhd)

334 One thing is certain: Islam is not compatible with Western civilization. There is no possibility of peaceful coexistence. This planet is not big enough for both of us. In the end, one will dominate and the other will be exterminated.

Seems like I've read about that somewhere before...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at May 27, 2015 06:32 PM (0HooB)

335 "I [heart] My Schnoodle"

I saw that sticker on a car today.

Posted by: Soothsayer

Not on my car obviously.
Posted by: Bruce Jenner at May 27, 2015 06:31 PM (tgnRB)

Thread winner!!!!

Ok, y'all pack it in. Come back and try tomorrow.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 27, 2015 06:32 PM (V+kmg)

336
You hear this?

A woman bought a bunch of grapes from the supermarket around here and when she attempted to eat one at home she reached for a grape and, get this,

a BLACK WIDOW SPIDER bit her hand.

Her hand, a black widow spider bit it.

She wanted a grape, instead SHE GOT BIT BY A BLACK FRIKKIN WIDOW SPIDER AND WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 27, 2015 06:33 PM (iVfu6)

337 "Now whoever named tht river 'Canadian' I have no idea."

Maybe some Arcadians?

Posted by: bergerbilder at May 27, 2015 06:33 PM (+jijM)

338 >>The middle east has a population far above the geography's ability to feed everyone and provide sanitary water. I'd think that some War College graduate somewhere could come up with a strategy to use these facts to our advantage.

Which is why they are coming west and most definitely not assimilating. You don't need to have an advanced degree in military history and tactics to see what is happening. Islam and most definitely militant Islam is growing like a weed everywhere.

Which is why I feel like I live in bizarro world now. We are inviting them to come live with us, turn a mostly blind eye to what they are doing until they attack and then forget all about it in about a minute when they do attack.

I find that difficult to rationalize with a supposedly educated and enlightened society. But then I remember I live in a country that celebrates gentle giants and the Skittles Kid and I remember, bizarro world.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 27, 2015 06:34 PM (g1DWB)

339 She wanted a grape, instead SHE GOT BIT BY A BLACK FRIKKIN WIDOW SPIDER AND WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 27, 2015 06:33 PM (iVfu6)

Same thing happened recently here, but it was a package of lemon bars.

Posted by: flounder at May 27, 2015 06:34 PM (ecDRv)

340 DOJ arrests FIFA officials for what the Clintons do on a daily basis.

Bastards need to find their own word to confuse the meaning of, I guess.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at May 27, 2015 06:34 PM (BZAd3)

341 Once hostilities start no plan is perfect. Except those coming from the Obama administration

Posted by: Chris Mathews at May 27, 2015 06:35 PM (XhzTz)

342
So now Shaw's supermarkets are telling people they're checking their produce to make sure no more dangerous spiders are hiding amongst them.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 27, 2015 06:35 PM (iVfu6)

343 I find that difficult to rationalize with a supposedly educated and enlightened society.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 27, 2015 06:34 PM (g1DWB)

It's not difficult.

We're not an educated and enlightened society.

Or a moral one either.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 27, 2015 06:35 PM (V+kmg)

344 So now Shaw's supermarkets are telling people they're checking their produce to make sure no more dangerous spiders are hiding amongst them.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 27, 2015 06:35 PM (iVfu6)

This was at a Shaw's?!?!

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 27, 2015 06:35 PM (V+kmg)

345 "Here is a thought on how to win the war - not a single vehicle moves on any road in Isis controlled territory. Ever. You control the air - use it."

There are some fundamental problems.

One is that this vaunted "control of the air" is not translating into an adequte number of sorties. Two jets showing up every three hours is not the stuff of legend.

Another is that the Islamic State guys are irregulars, without formal units, able to disperse and blend quickly, hence notoriously difficult to pick out from the air for targeting, especially with limited loiter time on station.

Is that particular Toyota Hilux an Islamic State "technical", with a DShKa mounted in the bed with a tarp thrown over it, or is it a noncombatant civilian family fleeing with their household belongings under the tarp?

Remember, if you bomb the innocent family in error, there will be a media shitstorm, and your career may be ruined, and you may even be brought up on charges.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 27, 2015 06:36 PM (noWW6)

346 >>She wanted a grape, instead SHE GOT BIT BY A BLACK FRIKKIN WIDOW SPIDER AND WAS RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL.

OK, that makes the wolf spider in my coffee mug yesterday seem a lot less upsetting. Thankfully, I avoided any spider contact by seeing it wriggle as I raised the mug to my mouth. Ick.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2015 06:36 PM (4U1/7)

347 I have a theory about DOJs sudden interest in FIFA

They took bribes. But the paid them too. Including a big fat one to The Clinton Foumdation

JEF does not want Hillary

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 06:37 PM (zOTsN)

348 "A woman bought a bunch of grapes from the supermarket around here and when she attempted to eat one at home she reached for a grape and, get this, a BLACK WIDOW SPIDER bit her hand."

It wasn't me. I swear. Bunches of bananas are more my style.

Posted by: Your Friendly Neighborhood Face Sized Spider at May 27, 2015 06:37 PM (noWW6)

349 Well you could blame the media that demands "precision" warfare, who then turn around ante critique certain weapon systems as too "safe" for Americans.

Death by the Couch Class Critics- but only to America!

Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 06:37 PM (RJMhd)

350
here's the feel-good story of the day

link in sig, hopefully

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 27, 2015 06:38 PM (iVfu6)

351 Were those grapes hiding the spiders "organic"? That would help explain; spiders go where there's spider food, and they don't eat grapes.

Posted by: logprof at May 27, 2015 06:39 PM (wSv9N)

352 Do you need forward air controllers if you were to say, make sure no trucks traveled in ISIS controlled territories by bombing the shit out of the roads and the moving trucks. Hi way of death sort of thing

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 06:39 PM (zOTsN)

353 But it was an "organic" black widow. No pesticides.

Posted by: bergerbilder at May 27, 2015 06:40 PM (+jijM)

354
As usual I was a bit fuzzy on the particulars, but I got the gist of the story right.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 27, 2015 06:40 PM (iVfu6)

355 Do you need forward air controllers if you were to say, make sure no trucks traveled in ISIS controlled territories by bombing the shit out of the roads and the moving trucks. Hi way of death sort of thing
Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 06:39 PM (zOTsN)

No, but in that case you can dispense with the TACP if you have great intelligence.

Which we don't.

So....back to FACs on the ground...

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 27, 2015 06:40 PM (V+kmg)

356
Killed a nickel size black hairy spider yesterday, not sure what it was, don't care, its dead.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 27, 2015 06:40 PM (ODxAs)

357 345: "Is that particular Toyota Hilux an Islamic State 'technical', with a DShKa mounted in the bed with a tarp thrown over it, or is it a noncombatant civilian family fleeing with their household belongings under the tarp?"
________

Or both?

Posted by: FireHorse at May 27, 2015 06:41 PM (wdXFj)

358 190 Al Sharpton asks a question: Is the Texas flooding global warming or God's rebuke?
From WZ.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at May 27, 2015 05:40 PM (XUKZU)

Or, you know, rain. I'm going with rain.

Posted by: Lea at May 27, 2015 06:41 PM (vmMMi)

359 As usual I was a bit fuzzy on the particulars, but I got the gist of the story right.
Posted by: Soothsayer at May 27, 2015 06:40 PM (iVfu6)

Note to self: Only shop at Roche Bros. from now on.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 27, 2015 06:42 PM (V+kmg)

360 Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 27, 2015 06:40 PM (ODxAs)

Did all her progeny run everywhere?

Posted by: Golfman at May 27, 2015 06:42 PM (48QDY)

361 I meant to do that.

Posted by: Pee Wee Psaki at May 27, 2015 06:42 PM (cIoI4)

362 338
Which is why I feel like I live in bizarro world now. We are inviting them to come live with us, turn a mostly blind eye to what they are doing until they attack and then forget all about it in about a minute when they do attack.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 27, 2015 06:34 PM (g1DWB)

And it's being enabled by Western leaders in both Europe and North America. They could easily put a stop to it, but they apparently don't want to. The southern border could have been locked down after 9/11. Instead, the exact opposite happened, and it's now a free-for-all.

When a terrorist attack does happen, the leaders immediately start fretting about an "anti-Muslim backlash". Instead of focusing on Muslims and their mosques, governments institute universal surveillance of all citizens.

By not stopping Muslim immigration, Western leaders are guilty of the greatest act of treason in all history.

Posted by: rickl at May 27, 2015 06:43 PM (sdi6R)

363 DOJ arrests FIFA officials for what the Clintons do on a daily basis. Bastards need to find their own word to confuse the meaning of, I guess.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at May 27, 2015 06:34 PM
________

They do: "football"

Posted by: FireHorse at May 27, 2015 06:43 PM (wdXFj)

364 Note to self. Only ingest grapes in liquid form

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 06:44 PM (zOTsN)

365 How can ANY troops in Iraq "not be trained" by the USA? Y'all have been there over 10 years now! Trainiing their army the whole time.
Did Obama find some loyalists who still think Saddam is in power and send them to defend Ramadi?
Perhaps the fleeing troops were those trained by Bush... it's all his fault!!

Posted by: 5Cats at May 27, 2015 06:44 PM (EbYrW)

366 The caliphate is upriver from the Shiites. Be interesting when the Mosul Dam falls . . . B/c you just know the caliph hasn't hired the world's best structural engineers

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 27, 2015 06:45 PM (dRXTR)

367 Note to self. Only ingest grapes in liquid form
Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 06:44 PM (zOTsN)

*looks around*

*opens last bottle of 2006 Chateau Montalena Cab*

Word, sista.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 27, 2015 06:45 PM (V+kmg)

368 347 I have a theory about DOJs sudden interest in FIFA

They took bribes. But the paid them too. Including a big fat one to The Clinton Foumdation

JEF does not want Hillary
Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 06:37 PM (zOTsN)

--I wonder how much we'll hear from the MBM about the FIFA-Hillary! ties.

I know the soccer fans in England are having a laugh. They hate Blatter as much as Canadians hate Bettman, mainly because England made a solid effort to land the World Cup and it was sold to Qatar instead. England would be a great host: many of the fans there are literally soccer-mad; it has a moderate climate; and it already would have had the venues in place. Qatar? Not only could an amputee count the number of fans there on his hands and toes but I'm not sure how many fans from other countries want to make the trip.

Posted by: logprof at May 27, 2015 06:46 PM (wSv9N)

369 Not another spider thread.

How many cars have 'spider' in their name.

Fiat 124
Toyota MR2
Porsche
Ferrari
Maserati
Alfa Romero

Posted by: Lysandar Bellingrade at May 27, 2015 06:46 PM (4gofz)

370 Exactly how doesn't having to look at that woman's cooch not constitute sexual harassment?

Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at May 27, 2015 06:46 PM (TV9BR)

371 No single raindrop ever feels responsible for the flood.

Posted by: Some philosopher, somewhere at May 27, 2015 06:47 PM (+jijM)

372 How can ANY troops in Iraq "not be trained" by the USA? Y'all have been there over 10 years now! Trainiing their army the whole time.
Posted by: 5Cats at May 27, 2015 06:44 PM

This is why:

http://tinyurl.com/6ub5avf

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 27, 2015 06:47 PM (V+kmg)

373 Dresden11- G-d will sort them out

Posted by: Ben Had at May 27, 2015 06:47 PM (Nt4sW)

374 JackStraw

I like your water idea, -just joking- but the Iraelis should blow up some dams in Iran and blame it on ISIS--that'll give Iran something else to "build".

Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 06:47 PM (RJMhd)

375 2 types of Muslims: savages who sacrifice their lives at the drop of a hat, and craven chicken shits. We recruit the latter, and ISIS recruits the former.

Posted by: Pee Wee Psaki at May 27, 2015 06:49 PM (XrHO0)

376 If they are willing to blow up pizza parlors, they aren't scared of grease.

I doubt that they realize what they are blowing up.

It worked for the British in India. I see no reason it wouldn't work now.

Mosques in Texas have been chased away by burying a pig on their ground.

Posted by: An Observation at May 27, 2015 06:49 PM (m0cHS)

377 I think being forcd to look at her Cooch certainly creates a "hostile work environment"

Posted by: Thunderb at May 27, 2015 06:49 PM (zOTsN)

378 How can ANY troops in Iraq "not be trained" by the USA? Y'all have been there over 10 years now! Trainiing their army the whole time.
Posted by: 5Cats at May 27, 2015 06:44 PM

This is why:

http://tinyurl.com/6ub5avf
Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 27, 2015 06:47 PM (V+kmg)

??? I figured 5Cats is a troll or a sock? That wasn't s serious post was it?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 27, 2015 06:50 PM (rDqRv)

379 "Do you have any idea how hot it is in here?"

Posted by: JenPsaki's Fun Bags at May 27, 2015 06:51 PM (5buP8)

380 Too bad Bubba hates Obama, 'cause he coud advise Teh One what brainless chicks with big tits are good for.

Posted by: jwpaine at May 27, 2015 06:51 PM (0bXhD)

381 Oops I see that was bergerbilders comment.

Posted by: River Guide at May 27, 2015 06:52 PM (RJMhd)

382
Did you hear this too?

A couple of left wing election organizations are asking obama's FCC to look into Juan Ellis Bush's campaign to see if eh committed finance fraud. This made the "news" today.

See how they do it? A left wing org throws shit against the wall and the "news" reports it, and then the Dumb People have an idea planted in their pea brains = Juan Ellis Bush is committing campaign finance fraud.

*btw, Juan Ellis Bush hasn't even officially declared yet and the Left is already pulling this shit...because they can.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 27, 2015 06:52 PM (iVfu6)

383
dammit fikkin nood

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 27, 2015 06:52 PM (iVfu6)

384
"Smarty glasses. STAT!"
Evolution on Sackof Ramadi:
Victory
Unsubstantial setback
NotUnsubstantial Setback
Temporary Setback
Iraqi Setback
NotUnclustered Fuck
Reality

Posted by: ZBBMcFate at May 27, 2015 06:53 PM (Hj9yW)

385 We could communicate with more bombs.

Posted by: Dave S. at May 27, 2015 06:53 PM (BrxNJ)

386 Beheading: a not unsubstantial injury.

Posted by: t-bird at May 27, 2015 06:53 PM (FcR7P)

387 It's not difficult.

We're not an educated and enlightened society.

Or a moral one either.

We've allowed domestic enemies to infiltrate strategic areas who are adept at emotional manipulation. They lead opinion by disguising it as entertainment, then apply peer pressure using things like Twitter and Facebook.

It's a small but highly effective group that control what we see and hear, with the goal of controlling what we think.

We are literally being led around like farm animals. Instead of being taught how to think for ourselves, we're teaching kids to bow to authority. Bill Ayers didn't go into education for nothing.

And it's not like our enemies didn't brag about it while they were doing it. I hate to constantly bring up the Communist Goals that were read into the Congressional Register back in '63, but if you look at that list, nearly every one of those goals have been accomplished.

It's going to take a complete overhaul of our media and educational system to undo the damage. The form of that overhaul has yet to be determined. What we're doing now isn't working.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at May 27, 2015 06:54 PM (0HooB)

388 It's raining cats and dogs outside

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 27, 2015 06:54 PM (rDqRv)

389 >>JackStraw

>>I like your water idea, -just joking- but the Iraelis should blow up some dams in Iran and blame it on ISIS--that'll give Iran something else to "build".

I can't take any credit for that idea. I think that was a comment where I was responding to someone. But its not a bad idea.

Hell, remember the breathless reports about ISIS capturing a damn and preparing to blow it and flood the local population. Well if ISIS thought it was a good idea and they are the new local population who am I to argue.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 27, 2015 06:56 PM (g1DWB)

390 10 years is a long time for training, some Iraqi soldiers are 1/2 way to retirement already.
And anyone who still thinks it is possible for a good outcome in Iraq is an idiot.
And anyone who wants a Gulf War 3.0 should remember that any soldier who goes over will come back with a 50% chance of claiming service related disability

Posted by: righter at May 27, 2015 06:58 PM (r6HrP)

391 I doubt that they realize what they are blowing up.

It worked for the British in India. I see no reason it wouldn't work now.

Mosques in Texas have been chased away by burying a pig on their ground.

Posted by: An Observation

Jihadis, like the bulk of the connected world, know the word 'pizza' like they know the word McDonalds, or dollar, or any number of western words. More particularly, If I took the time to look it up, would I find halal versions of pizza joints in palestine?

'Worked for the British in India'? As in there were no other ethnicities involved in colonial India? No Sihks? No Hindu? Just Muslims?

Mosques in TX; well, you're going to have to enlighten us all how these mosques have been chased out of TX without a single peep from the ACLU, CAIR, or the current DOJ.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 27, 2015 07:00 PM (uctT+)

392 Hacky-Psaki is the footbag sport of the future!

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 27, 2015 07:02 PM (2cS/G)

393 It's on the ground 2-4 miles north of Canadian, TX.

Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 27, 2015 07:05 PM (iQIUe)

394 And it's back up! And it's down.

Posted by: Bruce But Not Jenner at May 27, 2015 07:06 PM (iQIUe)

395 What does The Horde think it would take to shake the MSM's purple-veined throbber for Obongo, and actually turn on him? Or, for that matter, to do the same thing for the population as a whole?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2015 05:32 PM (oKE6c)

Until the LIVs think that they are actually at risk of dying, ISIS and the rest of the Mohammedans continue to take our lunch money. What makes the LIVs wake up is anybody's guess: mine is NYC getting nuked.

Posted by: Retired Buckey Cop is now an engineer at May 27, 2015 07:07 PM (8+0sF)

396 The mosque was chased off its location when it received a video of a pig being buried there. It moved elsewhere. I got the story from somebody involved.

Take your superior condescending pseudo intellectual attitude and get the fuck off my yard.

Posted by: An Observation at May 27, 2015 07:10 PM (m0cHS)

397 "adapt to the type of equipment"...hmm, to caskets, perhaps?

Posted by: socalcon at May 27, 2015 07:40 PM (vHlQ5)

398 Can we start openly calling Barry and his advisers traitors now?

Posted by: acethepug at May 27, 2015 07:42 PM (WK825)

399 And anyone who still thinks it is possible for a good outcome in Iraq is an idiot.

And they're just brown people anyway, right?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 27, 2015 07:52 PM (rwI+c)

400 "And they're just brown people anyway, right?"

Swarthy. But I'm not really sure where that fits on the color scale. For instance, a lot of Jews are swarthy, but still considered white. Somehow, Islam makes you darker.

Posted by: bergerbilder at May 27, 2015 08:07 PM (+jijM)

401 Well, Carter is a fine one to talk. He basically allowed Joe Biden to cop a feel of his wife in full public view, and laughed it off like a big pussy.

Posted by: Yancey Ward at May 27, 2015 08:08 PM (vTVKC)

402 I failed to be surprised at demorats and Obama stooges speaking stoogery years ago.
Odd how people keep seeking blood out of turnips, eh ?

Posted by: ron n. at May 27, 2015 10:52 PM (YVQn/)

403 Word is Jen Psaki is much better inbed than she looks.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at May 27, 2015 11:55 PM (NaeCR)

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