If I read the signs rightly, (did you know that I watch the Russian press?) ….what amazes Russian citizens, the everyday Vladimir and Yuri about the supposed Russiagate scandal is that they were of the impression that the intelligence services here in the states were not playing political games as it is commonly known the Russian intelligence services did
Then again, they probably didn’t calculate with James Clapper and John Brennan running the intelligence services here in the States. You may recall the John Brennan is a devout communist.
And for that matter, so is James Clapper, and Jim Comey.
No Small Wonder then that they should be running our intelligence services under what we will call the “Russian model”.
And remember, it was Barack Hussein Obama who appointed these creeps.
Just one more reason why I’m still laughing out loud at the claim that Donald Trump is a Russian asset.
A few thoughts about the Iranian situation as they occurred to me through the day.
# I can’t help but regard the cruise missile death of Terroist and Thug, Qassem Soleimani, as the ultimate in “good guy with a gun” scenarios. The death of Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, is merely icing on the cake.
# No doubt whatsoever what those two were doing in Iraq.
# You may not remember this, but both of these Iranian thugs were labeled, quite correctly, as terrorists by the American government about six months ago. Which makes this a counterterrorism strike. That relabeling of those two as terrorists, shows clearly that there is a good deal more strategy going on here then the White House is admitting, thank God, and certainly more than the Democrats are aware of. Again, thank God.
# I find it amusing in the extreme to watch the Democrats trying to dance around the fact that they are defending Islamic terrorists. Yeah, that’s going to go over well in November.
# Iraqis dancing in the streets of Baghdad would seem to suggest that at least among those, this attack was well-received.
# Did you notice Nancy Pelosi’s initial reaction to the strike? She sounds for all the world like somebody was looking for another excuse to impeach.
# The usual suspects in Congress are complaining that they weren’t consulted before the strike. Perhaps they weren’t consulted, was because the moment they were, Iran would know about it. Aside of course from the idea that Congress was in recess.
# The Usual Suspects on the net are complaining that this is a unneeded escalation. Well, sending pallets of cash didn’t work to calm those dirt scratchers down.
They used the cash to execute attacks on America. nothing and I mean absolutely nothing has worked with these people… Their response is invariably escalation. Eventually the only solution left is an attitude adjustment. Seems reasonable to try something that we haven’t tried yet. Our inaction over a 40 year period, other than butt kissing, is how we got into this situation in the first place. It’s long past time that was over and done with.
# There was a serious message sent by that attack. A message sent to Iran’s revolutionary guard. “We are watching you. We know where you are every minute of every day. We can strike when we feel the need. And with the current Administration, we won’t hesitate to do that.” The argument of course right now is that somebody will spring up to take the place of these two thugs who were killed. Thing is, I can’t imagine that their recruiting efforts are going to be fully successful. They say you never hear the cruise missile coming in. Do you suppose that very many people are really going to be willing to step into that role?
# Yes, of course Iran is threatening retaliation. Only one problem. They are essentially a paper tiger now. They don’t have the leadership to do it anymore, not for quite a while anyway. and while they have a large number of people, they most certainly don’t have a large number of munitions, and as of yet at least, no nuclear capabilities. Given that the pattern with Iran has always been one of escalation, perhaps the best idea is to confront them before they have that capability. and I wouldn’t worry about them responding just yet. if they were going to make good on their threats and any meaningful way that have done it already.
# Face it: if Obama had ordered that attack, every Democrat in the country would be considering him a genius, and singing his praises.
# given the number of protests against the mullahs that have been happening both in Iraq and Iran, it would appear that there’s a large number of people who are dead tired of these thugs and want them getting rid of. Somehow I suspect that their domestic support is nonexistent.
# Why is it Democrats are so interested in bombing Syria, but not a known Iranian terrorist?
# it would appear that John Bolton was right.
# Are the Iranian mullahs writing the Democrat talking points?
# Soleimani didn’t kill himself… rather like Epstein.
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Is the Speaker of the House, one Nancy Pelosi, a/k/a San Fran Nan, now taking her military advise from Richard Blumenthal, the phony Vietnam war veteran? So it would appear, from Gateway Pundit:
“The Administration has conducted tonight’s strikes in Iraq targeting high-level Iranian military officials and killing Iranian Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani without an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against Iran. Further, this action was taken without the consultation of the Congress.”
Nan expressed no concerns when our Marines killed some twenty-five members of Solemani’s militia. So she not opposed to killing of low level grunts, just the high paid ones with the fancy uniforms. If killing members of Solemani’s command is kosher, then so is the killing of their commander.
Qassem Soleimani is dead and just as turds turn into stink the ‘rats are play the “but card”, Ben Rhodes:
Agree – no question that Soleimani has a lot of blood on his hands. But this is a really frightening moment. Iran will respond and likely in various places. Thinking of all US personnel in the region right now.
Does the description Solemani’s death ring an historical bell, from Fox News:
An official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that Muhandis had arrived to the airport in a convoy to receive Soleimani whose plane had arrived from either Lebanon or Syria. The airstrike occurred as soon as he descended from the plane to be greeted by Muhandis and his companions, killing them all.
Set the Wayback Machine to 18 April 1943, from Warfare History:
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, intended to press ahead with his morale-boosting visits to forward units in the South Pacific in April 1943, despite dire warnings from subordinates of possible enemy ambushes. He had no idea that the Americans had plotted through a military operation codenamed Operation Vengeance to intercept and shoot down his transport bomber aircraft.
The 60-year-old mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack in Decem- ber 1941 knew his forces needed a psychological boost in the face of a string of defeats at the hands of the U.S. Navy in 1942 and early 1943. By the spring of 1943, the Americans had firmly established themselves on Guadalcanal in the Soloman Islands, having defeated multiple attempts by the Japanese over a six-month period from August 1942 to February 1943 to recapture the island.
War is Hell, and both Soleimani and Yamamoto have been sent there. I dare the ilk of Ben Rhodes, Lying Lizzie Warren and Chris Murphy to find any difference between the two, save I doubt that Franklin Roosevelt signed off on Operation Vengence.
[Former Illinois Governor Rod] Blagojevich, who was a member of Congress during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998, and was quickly impeached and removed as governor in January 2009 just weeks after the accusations against him first emerged
Let it be noted that Blagojevich has more impeachment experience than the average bear.
Blagojevich argues that but if Nancy Pelosi just a few years older and only half a crazy she would have attempted to impeach President Abraham Lincoln:
Can’t you see how a Speaker Pelosi and many of today’s House Democrats would call for the appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate Lincoln for “Confederate Collusion” and bring impeachment charges for abuse of power for offering the top military command to a guy who would go on to become the top military commander of the other side?
And surely, articles of impeachment would be brought against Lincoln by today’s House Democrats for suspending the writ of habeas corpus across the Union as it related to traitors, spies, prisoners of war and Union soldiers.
I confess that I can not construct a counter-factual that conforms to Blagojevich’s. Further, I stipulate there was ample legal basis to impeach and remove Lincoln from office.
However unlike Forty Five, Sixteen did not have limited himself to what was legal. So Mrs. Pelosi not being a total moron and lacking the courage, would have not taken up the fight. Lincoln had a nation to unite and a war to win. If he perceived Pelosi as an impediment, sobeit.
Over at Townhall:
The leader of Iran’s Quds Forces has reportedly been killed in a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad, Iraq.
Of course, the experts are already claiming that this is a worst-case scenario, ignoring that they’ve gotten everything wrong in the past.
As an example… the ones claiming that this is a worst-case scenario, we’re also claiming that we didn’t have any proof that Iran was involved in arranging that little embassy fiasco.
Of course, now, there’s no doubt about Iran’s involvement there.
Addendum: Eric
Among the messages being sent here, is that we haven’t just been tracking these Iranian thugs since yesterday. We can move on them anytime we feel like it. And if you think that’s not going to affect their recruiting efforts, think again. Having your entire military career wiped out by a drone strike does seem to be a deterrent.
Flash from Matt Margolis:
Moments ago, Julián Castro announced on Twitter that he would be dropping out of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.
“It’s with profound gratitude to all of our supporters that I suspend my campaign for president today,” he tweeted.
It’s a measure of how bad things have gotten on the Democrat side of the aisle, that the reason Castro drops out of the race is because he simply wasn’t crazy enough to keep up with the front runners.
A few random points on the events surrounding the upcoming election:
# So, Obama has tossed Biden under the bus. Seems to me obvious Obama is most concerned about his supposed “Legacy”. apparently Obama considers that Joe Biden is too conservative for the Democrat Party these days. He’s probably right, but never mind the idea that many consider Obama himself to be too conservative for the Democrat Party these days. Apparently, lunacy is the coin of the realm… As is the art of the LIE… Since Obama is now in the process of backing Elizabeth Warren.
# Speaking of Fauxcahontas, I see her brother having a dispute about her ability to tell the truth. I suppose that at some point in the distant future somebody might be able to successfully explained to me why we should take This woman’s word for anything, but I doubt it. A few years back this would have ended anybody’s political career. these days the Democrats seem to regard being caught in a bald-faced lie to be a badge of honor.
# I see where a little over 90% of Virginia’s county’s thus far (by any reasonable measure a majority)… have decided to declare that they are second amendment sanctuaries. in other words they have opted to declare publicly that they will support the Constitution as written. While this hasn’t come up overmuch in the presidential campaigns oh, I can’t imagine that it won’t in the near future. Just remember friends, if they’re this hell-bent on removing your guns from you, it’s likely because they want to do something that you would shoot them for.
#Joe Biden has come out and said publicly that he will not testify before the Senate even if he is subpoenaed.it strikes me that this would likely result in a contempt of the Senate citation, which I believe is something of a new thing for former senate members and particularly for former vice presidents. That little oddity aside, let’s examine this. Why if Biden has nothing to hide, why wouldn’t he stand up on the world’s biggest stage and exonerate himself?
Ladies and gentlemen I urge you to consider the words of Thomas Jefferson…
“Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?” –Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, 1782
Jefferson is saying of course that we cannot maintain Liberty absent that conviction. He’s quite right. But just as important…..Underneath that conviction of whence rights come is another conviction… That God exists.
Both historically and currently government itself is the biggest usurper of Human Rights.
Is it any wonder that the Believers in big government have been trying to use the power of government to convince us that God does not exist? To separate the American people from that belief?
The difference between God and government, is that God doesn’t believe he’s government.
Just something to think about today.
Following the mourners Iranian-backed militia attack on the US embassy in Iraq, media luminary Joy Reid took to Twitter to to share her hopes and dreams that the attack would turn into a Benghazi-style slaughter. Sadly for Joy, the Trump Administration shut the Iranian terrorists down stat by sending 100 additional U.S. troops and security used tear gas and rubber bullets to protect the compound.
United States embassy attacked, President deploys our military. This what the government is supposed to do, and is does make a difference. It was happens when the Secretary of State is sober.
To the ilk of Joy Reid, it is ghoulish to root for Americans to die.
Tyler O’Neill over at PJM:
On Tuesday, members of the Iran-backed militia Kata’ib Hezbollah and their supporters stormed the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Hadi al-Amiri, a member of the Iraqi parliament and former head of the Badr Organization with close ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard, took part in the embassy attack.
In all honesty my first reaction was wondering whether or not the Obama fueled terrorist successes at Benghazi had anything to do with this attack.
But then;
“Did you know Badr Corps chief Hadi Ameri, who led today’s raid on the US Embassy in Iraq, was once invited to the [White House] by [Barack Obama]?” asked Iranian news editor M. Hanif Jazayeri. “FYI: Ameri & the Badr Corps get their salary & orders from Iran’s dictator Ali Khamenei.”
Well, if you ever wondered what happened to those pallets of cash…
That’s the reality.
And that’s before we get to talkin how about keeping the government under control.
Three cheers for the security team at that church down in Texas. What happened there is precisely how it’s supposed to go down… the attacker was taking out in mere seconds, leaving some to ask how many more people would have died have there been no good guy with a gun to solve the problem, and those parishioners would have been easy targets while they waited in vain for the police to show up.
Rick Moore passes along his thoughts…
I imagine if you want to find information about the church shooting in White Settlement, Texas yesterday you’re going to have to look quickly because I can think of four reasons why it’s going to disappear quickly from the news cycle.
1. The victim church appears to be predominantly white. We don’t know the race of the shooter but since the victims are white it’s not going to matter since the media and activists will have no racial angle to exploit. Should the shooter turn out to be a member of the “religion of peace” you’ll never hear about him again.
2. The weapon of choice was not a so-called “assault rifle” but was a shotgun. There’s been no national activism aimed at limiting or eliminating shotguns.
3. Joe Biden is on record criticizing the governor of Texas for allowing concealed carry in churches. The media is not going to allow him to be hurt by this nor will they ever ask him to explain his position in light of yesterday’s event.
4. Most importantly, the shooter was stopped by an armed citizen, not professional law enforcement. Although the early reports said the citizen was former FBI, that doesn’t appear to be true. The armed citizen was the former owner of a gun range and training facility, had experience as a reserve deputy sheriff, but was not professional law enforcement. His quick response saved lives but ruined the narrative for the anti-gunners. They’re not going to take this well.
I will add, as several people already have, that the security team in that church had better field discipline then a lot of the shootings involving the police of late.
And has anyone noticed that they haven’t gotten around to releasing the name of the shooter yet? For that matter, any details about him at all?
Gee, I can’t imagine why that would be. (/Sarc)
The Nina Burleigh Award is given, in Al Capp, fashion from time to time as we see fit, the female twit who does her best to keep radical feminism dead. The award is given in honor of the twit who killed feminism. We have a winner, from Professor Althouse
After the 2016 election, [Hanoi Jane] Fonda was initially optimistic that Trump could be flattered into taking on the cause of battling climate change. She wanted to invite several “voluptuous” female activists (including the environmentally minded actress Pamela Anderson) to brief Trump on the dangers of relying on fossil fuels.
Nomination: Ann Althouse
So it’s okay to treat women as sex objects if it’s a means to an end? This belongs in the same category as “I’d be happy to give him a blowjob just to thank him for keeping abortion legal”
I do love snark, and snark is a dish best served cold
I really don’t think I have to add anything to this…
Don Imus the shock jock for the shock jock city. The term legend is over used, but in Imus’ case it was earned. from North Jersey
New York legendary radio personality Don Imus died Friday at the age of 79.
The often controversial Imus hosted “Imus in the Morning” in New York for nearly 50 years. Imus, born in Riverside, Calif. in 1940, was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1989.
Live radio is not for the feeble and the easily discouraged. It is not a career for building 401k’s. Imus took the toughest radio market, conquered it and survived for decades.
