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Benghazi Victim’s Uncle on Hillary Clinton: “At Least We Know She Tells HER Family the Truth” (Video)
Jim Hoft Oct 22nd, 2015 1:33 pm 3 Comments
Michael Ingmire, uncle of Sean Smith who was killed in Benghazi, went on The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson after the morning session of the Benghazi hearing with Hillary Clinton.
Earlier today Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) nailed Hillary Clinton by producing docmentation that Hillary Clinton told her family the truth but lied to the American public just an hour before about the attack.
Hillary Clinton told the American people the night of the Benghazi attack that it was a reaction to a Youtube video.
At 11:00 that night – after she told the public it was a reaction to a YouTube video – she wrote her family and told them it was an Al-Qaeda attack.
She knew it was a terror attack from the start.
FoxNewsHate rallies the base:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/10/23/hillary-clinton-gave-us-glimpse-her-soul-at-benghazi-hearings-and-it-was-chilling.html
The base then rallied, it votes for Marco Rubio, a Sheldon Adelson sponsored production, ground invasion of Iran is launched, resulting in bigger government, more regulations, and higher taxes.
P.S. you also have the option of voting libertarian.
They’re rejecting all of Sheldon’s candidates. Rubio is going nowhere. And it is the base that is doing the rejecting.
You must be loving this.
the base
The direction that this base is being rallied toward is still developing. I posted the other day (with article references supporting it) that 40% of the Republican primary electorate are Evangelical Christians.
But should your base feel insufficiently rallied, a Nazi reference usually works. Bonus points for mentioning Neville Chamberlain’s name too:
http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/yesterday-the-nazis-tomorrow/
The base doesn’t like illegal immigration plain and simple. Despite all the rallying. Without them it’d already be open borders.
That’s not true. If the base wanted open borders and lots of illegal immigration, the US would be white as a snowfield and there would be a wall as high as the Empire State Building on the southern border.
Not sure we disagree. But kicking up stench from the base stopped it a year or two ago when the gang of eight tried ramming it down America’s throat.
No, we don’t disagree, I was just being facetious. In other words, if the citizens want it, they can’t have it. If they don’t want it, they’re gonna get it in spades.
Frankly, I’m almost at the point of give the elites what they want, on steroids. Ju Jitsu. Or like letting go of that rope in a tug of war so the opposite side falls all over each other and injures themselves badly.
Bush had a super majority for 6 yrs - what did the GOP do about illegal immigration then?
but this time is different….eh?
Do you even understand what a super majority means?
You gotta be one of the most ignoramus posters in this blog.
No that’s not a compliment!
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepoliticalsystem/a/Supermajority-Vote.htm
Dont fear the truth. Fox-drone.
Actually, a majority want a path to citizenship for illegal aliens.
“Actually”, they don’t.
CBS News/New York Times Poll. Sept. 9-13, 2015. N=1,261 adults nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.
“Which comes closest to your view about illegal immigrants who are living in the U.S.? They should be allowed to stay in the U.S. and eventually apply for citizenship. They should be allowed to stay in the U.S. legally, but not be allowed to apply for citizenship. OR, They should be required to leave the U.S.” Options rotated
Stay, apply for citizenship: 58%
Stay, not apply for citizenship: 10%
Be required to leave: 27%
Unsure/No answer: 5%
http://pollingreport.com/immigration.htm
“Apply” for citizenship and “a path” to stay aren’t the same. Apply, get out.
Nuance my friend. Learn it.
neo cons love: resulting in bigger government, more regulations, and higher taxes.
See Reagan, Bush, Bush….
That some dude went to jail for this while she was lying would be enough for the media to derail any other candidate. For Hillary they ignore it.
That media ignoring part is frightening for democracy and makes me wonder what they’ll also ignore when it is Hilary’s NSA doing the spying or her CIA doing the droning.
So you say Hillary is responsible for killing 4 Americans.
So, no problem with Bush/Cheney allowing 3,200 to be killed on 9/11?
Let me see 4/3200 = .00125
So Bush/Cheney should have been knighted for killing 800 x as many people?
You Bible thumpers are nuts.
Read and learn:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_new_american_century
And would someone here like to explain how and why World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed?
‘Let me see 4/3200 = .00125′
I see, we are now judging candidates by how many (or is it few?) people they are responsible for killing. What a change from “make the railroads run on time” and “fill in those potholes”. What I find interesting is, how did we go from a no-fly zone to Tomahawk missiles?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_2011_Libyan_Civil_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_in_the_war_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%93present%29
Notice that the republicans don’t have a problem with Hillary destroying Libya. And 200,000+ dead in Syria, who cares?
I’ll tell you this; a country that thinks its elected officials can cause this many deaths and no negative consequences will occur is foolish.
The lefties will care about love and peace only when a cuckservative a president.
World War I
World War II
Vietnam
Bosnia
Kosovo
Somalia
Afghanistan
Libya
Syria
Yemen
……
http://isreview.org/issues/26/democrats_war.shtml
““make the railroads run on time””
Bad example — that phrase has an unpleasant historical connotation.
The lefties will care about love and peace only when a cuckservative a president.
World War I
World War II
You’ve got to be kidding me.
Fine. Strike those two.
Vietnam
Bosnia
Kosovo
Somalia
Afghanistan
Libya
Syria
Yemen
Of course let’s strike the 2 most destructive wars we have had in history of mankind.
“we are now judging candidates”
I don’t think it’s a “two wrongs make a right” thing. It’s the hypocrisy of those who said nothing from 2003-ish until 2008 now suddenly becoming militant.
Conversely, there are plenty who screamed bloody murder from 2003-ish until 2008 who are now looking the other way. Also hypocrites.
Partisans suck.
You left out Korea. The fact of the matter is that there hasn’t been much difference between the two parties on foreign policy. The old saying was “politics stops at the water’s edge.” Carter was the guy who has probably done the least amount of international killing since 1945 and he was called a wimp. There was a lot of outrage on the right when he gave the canal back to Panama. Of course, he did enough to be considered a war criminal by some folks knowledgeable about international law. But it wasn’t enough for the GOP.
Clinton deserves as much or more blame for letting it run wild and unchecked for years before Bush got in office. Or are you a truther along with Pete Carroll?.
You Bible thumpers are nuts.
You Bible thumpers are nuts.!!
Bin Laden was against the same bankers that are screwing up our country now. He didn’t fly the planes into blue collar residential neighborhoods.
If it had been the GS tower, would it been a terrorist act or anti-terrorist act?
Maybe Bin Laden was trying to protect us from our bankers.
I have similar thoughts as well.
Regardless whether he was against banksters or not, Bin Laden was NOT directly behind 911 attacks. We just killed a man for the crimes he DIDN’T commit.
America…a banana republic…
She knew it was a terror attack from the start.
That’s what you have? She knew it was a terror attack from the start.?
You don’t think there could be a difference on what you tell your family and what you tell a nation in the context of the gathering and preponderance of evidence? What you tell an entire nation does not necessitate a higher standard of evidence than what you tell your family?
I what world does it not?
So first off, I don’t really care about this hearing. I think Hillary is plenty untrustworthy for lots of other reasons.
Once I found out that a close friend’s father was one of the ones reviewing Huma’s e-mails for the State Department, that was enough for me…if there was illegal stuff happening, it would come out in ways other than a hearing.
That said,
It is one thing to say right away “This was a terror attack.”
Yet another to say “It’s too early to be definitive in what prompted the attack.”
And a third to make up a narrative that ultimately proved untrue.
If the bar of evidence is so high for telling a nation, why the false narrative?
If the bar of evidence is so high for telling a nation, why the false narrative?
Really? The Secretary of State is USA’s top diplomat. Diplomat.
Google diplomat and then get back to me about “false narratives” in the fog of war. You might grow up a bit in the process.
“You don’t think there could be a difference on what you tell your family and what you tell a nation in the context of the gathering and preponderance of evidence?”
Or the family as the caskets arrive? Please, she is a POS.
She knew exactly what happened when it was happening. But then Osama Binladen is dead and Gm is alive sounds a lot better than the truth.
She knew exactly what happened when it was happening.
Right. Just as you “know” exactly what happened when it was happening.
How neat and clean. And perfect. Keep reading your propaganda.
Benghazi Hearing: Hillary Clinton Ignored 600 Requests for More …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLutnL8H3H8 - 172k - Cached - Similar pages
15 hours ago
The coverage of her testimony on NPR yesterday afternoon was as softball as their coverage of the seven years of total failure that is the Obama administration.
Read the Salon website for more of this “progressive” narrative.
Yes, Bush/Cheney was 8 years of total success.
9/11, Iraq, Total collapse of the economy. Yes, quite a definition of success.
The only successful ones were the right-wing pundits who make millions on spreading the Gospel.
How is this an either/or sort of deal? How can it be that either bush sucked or Obama sucks but it can’t be both?
In case you haven’t noticed, Bush’s brother is polling in the low single digits. Even most of the GOP doesn’t want a repeat of that presidency. When will the left wake up and come to the same realization about their elites?
“How is this an either/or sort of deal? How can it be that either bush sucked or Obama sucks but it can’t be both?”
It’s the biggest most insidious lie going. As someone here eloquently stated a few days ago;
“If we have to select between bad and worse, we’ve already lost.”
+1
the neo-cons are bad for the USA. Facts and history, you cant run from it.
We all know this, but some people have faith that the new neo-cons will be different.
Today is the day for those who claim they do not like Hillary (but who constantly carry water for her and post fluff media pieces showing she survived the Benghazi hearings) to tell us a) what they don’t like about her, b) that they won’t vote for her, and c) that others should not vote for her.
It’s simple. For example:
“Hillary is an untrustworthy power hungry liar who would do anything or say anything to get elected. I won’t vote for her and others should not either.”
Heck I’d be satisfied to see the water carriers just say the last sentence.
It’s too bad that American voters are limited to the “choice” of electing neoliberal warmonger Hillary Clinton or whatever neocon warmonger the Likud Party nominates. Here the Breitbart website (Andrew Breitbart was murdered under direct orders from Obama) runs an opinion piece by Marco Rubio:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/22/rubio-hillary-clinton-failed-in-benghazi-overall-foreign-policy/
‘those who claim they do not like Hillary (but who constantly carry water for her)’
That’s funny. Just last night we had a poster say “i don’t really like Hillary, but OOOO! did you see her mop up those evil tea partiers? She’s so awesome, I want to have her baby!”
That’s funny. Just last night we had a poster say “i don’t really like Hillary,
He already knows that. That’s why he wrote that.
That one was a taller tale than Lola saying she’s a libertarian. Lola is a Registered Hypocrite.
Hillary blows away the GOP candidates.
Kinda like having to eat worms instead of dog shet to survive.
“Hillary blows
away the GOP candidates”.So does her NAFTA husband.
NAFTA was all papa bush. I have schooled you on this many times. but you come back for more. wak!
Try again my friend.
Ben, 95% of ‘Muricans carried Hillary’s water by voting for the stooges of her Oligopoly handlers.
Doesn’t Hillary enjoy the aura of inevitability and invincibility?
Today is the day for those who claim they do not like Hillary (but who constantly carry water for her and post fluff media pieces showing she survived the Benghazi hearings)
Yes. Today is the day. Because it’s true. And deep down in your twisted kind of creepy soul, you know it.
Hillary knocked the ball out of the park yesterday.
What this boils down to is liking the Liar because of the presentation, a liar bias.
What this boils down to is liking the Liar because of the presentation, a liar bias.
No. It was the logic and content. The whole “hearing” was the lie.
I can’t stand Hillary, but to my chagrin she came out of that dung heap smelling like a rose. She make the committee look like a bunch a chumps. Which goes to show, one is the stupid party and the other one is evil. What am I saying? They’re both evil.
We’ve all been stupid. What’s the cure?
The first is to want to be cured. The problem is that the same things that make people stupid make them feel good about themselves, which is a great feeling. And if a person feels that he’s wonderful and better than so many others, it’s unlikely that he’s going to think that’s he’s stupid.
As a leftie I am NOT voting for Hillary:
Hillary vs. Trump: I’ll hold my nose and vote Hillary
Hillary vs. Carson: I’ll hold my nose and vote Hillary
Hillary vs. Rubio: I’ll hold my nose and vote Hillary
Hillary vs. Bush: I’ll hold my nose and vote Hillary
In all four matchups I will be voting against Hillary’s opponent, not for Hillary.
Nobody cares Lola.
Grumpy today? It’s Friday, have a beer. I’m buying.
That’s the point Lola. It’s Friday. Nobody cares about your Lolaisms.
Should he state the same stuff tomorrow?
You’re a Lola.
this is what happens when the neo-cons are so pathetic.
McSame/Palin???? really??
It’s interweb….no reason to lie. You will be holding your penis not your nose with the sheer excitement of voting for Hillary.
“Today is the day for those who claim …”
FWIW, I did that weeks ago. Hillary can claim that she “technically” hasn’t been caught for anything, but she’s been dancing too close to the line too long and too often for me. Where there’s smoke there’s fire, and even if there’s no fire there’s death from inhaling all her smoke.
If Trump is the Repub nominee, I can vote for him instead (still waiting on more articulate policies, and just how much self-funding he does). If some other crazy is the nominee, then there are enough other Dems in my commie state to vote for her as a lesser evil to allow me to write in Eliz Warren or Jill Stein.
This is far from directed at you oxy. This was for the dishonest Lolas abounding here.
Still crickets.
Comment by CalifoH20
2015-10-22 19:23:53
I am a fiscal conservative belonging to no party.
$5 mil for nada??
Thanks GOP….again.
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I know, that could have paid for 1/4 of a weekend getaway for Moochelle Obama.
Benghazi Hearing: Hillary Clinton Ignored 600 Requests for More …
Yea right. Face it. Your unAmerican “side” lost. Big. Here’s how big. In 7 years on this blog, I don’t think I’ve said much good about Hillary at all. 7 years. I never liked the lady. I never liked her husband much. I like Bernie Sanders much better. I hoped Biden would run. But 11 hours under the hot seat with a rogue, off-the reservation Repub Party badgering, lying, and twisting gave Hillary a platform to show her mettle. And she shined while angry, flustered, sweating, sniping agendized idiots took BS shots at her. I and hundreds of thousands and maybe millions have more respect for the lady now. Congratulations. The Repub Party has denigrated into clowns.
Analysis: Clinton turns Benghazi hearing into 2016 plus
CBS News - 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton turned an 11-hour congressional grilling into a campaign call to action on foreign policy, using a make-or-break appearance before the Republican-led Benghazi committee to display a commanding, presidential …
The Benghazi true believers conduct their witch hunt
Washington Post (blog) - 16 minutes ago
Washington has seen witch hunts before — the McCarthy period comes to mind — but never one where the target was a real woman. As with witches, the Hillary Clinton concocted by the Republicans on the House Select Committee on Benghazi does not …
First Read: Hillary Clinton Clears October Hurdles
NBCNews.com - 57 minutes ago
First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day’s most important political stories and why they matter. Hillary’s big 10 days in October. She came. She saw. She — take your pick — conquered/thrived/survived.
Thanks to Benghazi hearing, Hillary Clinton becomes new reality TV star
Reuters Blogs (blog) - 17 minutes ago
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst. If Donald Trump’s candidacy for the 2016 Republican presidential …
The Spectacular, Self-Destructive, Partisan Embarrassment of the Benghazi Hearing
Trey Gowdy Rep. Trey Gowdy arrives before his House Select Committee on Benghazi hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 22, 2015. Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters. For three years, Republicans have struggled to find a political scandal in the …
The Hillary Hearing
The moment Hillary Clinton seemed to realize that her testimony Thursday before the House Select Committee on Benghazi was not going to be a big problem for her or for her campaign came about forty-five minutes in. When the hearing opened, she had …
Today in Politics: A String of Good Days for Hillary Clinton Lasts Through the …
New York Times - 2 hours ago
Good Friday morning. Thursday added its part to a busy week as Representative Paul D. Ryan officially declared his intent to run for speaker of the House. But for 11 hours of the day, cameras, eyes and live-blogs were trained on Hillary Rodham Clinton …
Benghazi Committee Hearing Devolves Into Political Theater
Bloomberg - 3 hours ago
The Democratic presidential front-runner maintained a somber, reflective tone Thursday in the face of hours of hostile questioning from Republicans during her long-awaited testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi. M
Lola,
What country are you located in right now?
He’s in Brazil, I’m in California. What state are you in?
He’s in Brazil, I’m in California. What state are you in?
It’s obvious. HA is in this state or pretty close to it:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/StraightJacket.jpg
Are you sure?
“HA is in this state or pretty close to it:”
Rio
The fact that you knew where to find that photo is troubling.
Ever hear of images DOT google? You can find anything with four types and click. No trouble at all.
Falling housing prices Donk. Falling housing prices.
Maryland Housing Prices Fall Statewide
http://www.zillow.com/md/home-values/
These all publications declared Hillary the winner of the dems debate, too.
This should make you guys happy Rio.
Justice Department Won’t Bring Charges Against Lois Lerner
AP
Posted: 10/23/2015 02:57 PM EDT
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI via Getty Images
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is declining to bring charges against Lois Lerner, the former IRS official at the center of a political controversy over the processing of applications for tax-exempt status.
Federal prosecutors announced their decision Friday in a letter to members of Congress.
A firestorm erupted more than two years ago with an inspector general’s audit that said IRS agents had improperly singled out tea party and other conservative groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status during the 2010 and 2012 elections.
The disclosure set off investigations by the Justice Department and multiple congressional committees.
The House voted to hold Lerner in contempt of Congress last year after she refused to answer questions at two House Oversight hearings. She has since retired.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lois-lerner-charges_562a8275e4b0ec0a3894737a - 243k -
Gee, never saw that coming….
More poors being dumped out onto the streets in our Obama-Fed-Goldman Sachs “recovery.”
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/10/23/evictions-throwing-more-families-into-homelessness.html
That your beloved “free market” at work. The “invisible hand” is shoving those renters out the door. Obama has nothing to do with it.
The invisible hand of the “American Free Market” is the Fed. Obama has a lot to do with the current policy.
Of course the Fed’s low interest rate policy has a lot to do with home prices. But rent is another story. It is more correlated with local demand, local employment and wages. Rent and home price trends can diverge.
Rent is NOT another story when interest rate policy drove investors to buy cheap homes to rent, and to create and sell rent-back securities with a business model of 5% rent increase/year.
Landlords can’t raise rents to this degree if there is sufficient vacancy. Tenants wouldn’t accept the higher rents…they would go somewhere else.
The VAST majority of rental homes are still owned by “mom and pop” investors (there were 10MM rental homes before the crash), so collusion is a nice narrative, but simply untrue.
Rental HOUSES maybe, but not multi-family units. Those are now owned by the big boyz.
Donk,
The problem with your false narrative is the houses weren’t “cheap”. They overpaid multiples just like you did.
Our Constitution has a provision for the “general welfare.” Obama, as a political adjunct for the .1%, has everything to do with the 99% losing ground every year, while Yellen the Felon prints more trillions in gambling money for the .1% that owns both parties.
trickle down economics! - - the gift that keeps giving.
not to you
Record Dallas-area home prices fuel scramble for more affordable properties
“Real estate agents say a lack of moderate-priced homes for sale and competition from well-heeled investors have prompted buyers to scramble for homes priced below $250,000.
“There are a lot of buyers that want that price house,” said Jim Fite, CEO of Dallas-based Century 21 Judge Fite Realtors. “The first-time buyer numbers are continuing to rise, and they want those houses.
“The investors want them too and, in my opinion, are overpaying.””
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/residential-real-estate/20151022-record-dallas-area-home-prices-fuel-scramble-for-more-affordable-properties.ece
There was a women on NPR last night covering the global housing / liquidity bubble. Her talking points reflected those which are discussed here. Didn’t catch her name as I tuned in mid-segment, but she laid it out in a fairly concise manner.
It’s kind of cool to see the global MSM coopt the HBB’s longstanding message. The MSM has come a long way from the days when bubbles were routinely poo-pooed.
Is your portfolio positioned to profit from the PBOC-fueled rally? China is presently in the global asset price bubble driver’s seat while the Fed remains mired in policy uncertainty.
Market Snapshot
China rate cut adds to rally fever on Wall Street
By Barbara Kollmeyer
Published: Oct 23, 2015 7:45 a.m. ET
Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet soar in premarket trading
Getty Images
Amazon may rocket on Friday
Wall Street was set to extend a rally on Friday begun 24 hours ago, after stock-index futures surged as China’s central bank cut interest rates and a clutch of heavyweight tech stocks rose in the wake of strong earnings.
Futures for Dow Jones Industrial Average (YMZ5, +0.83%) jumped 163 points, or 0.9%, to 17,568, while those for the S&P 500 index (ESZ5, +0.78%) advanced 17.15 points, or 0.8%, to 2,070.25. Futures for the Nasdaq-100 index (NQZ5, +1.44%) climbed 69.25 points, or 1.5%, to 4,621, as shares of Amazon.com, Google parent Alphabet Inc. and Microsoft Corp. looked set to rally after earnings late Thursday.
…
Attribution: MarketWatch dot com
“China is presently in the global asset price bubble driver’s seat…”
China is having its Jesus take the wheel moment.
Jesus is living rent-free in Chinese communist leaders’ heads.
When will Yellen the Felon join the race to debase by announcing moar QE?
Better hurry and load up your portfolio to the hilt with stocks, just in case.
Got to shake out the shorts again.
This bubble is getting incredibly big. Is it too big to fail?
Definitely still too big to fail. Buy stocks today or get left behind tomorrow when QE4 is invoked in the next economic rescue operation.
Neocons are violent people
Brookings Scholar to Vladimir Putin: Fight Me!
Neocons are violent people
The important thing to remember is that the neocons themselves and their children and grandchildren do not do the actual fighting and dying. That task is given to poor blacks, poor browns, and poor white trash.
“They attacked us on 9/11 because they hate our freedoms”
Narratives like this, and magnetic yellow ribbons, serve to rally the base. Richard Perle does not volunteer with, or donate money to the Wounded Warriors Project. He lives in a villa in the South of France.
The Washington Times is published by the Unification Church, also known as the Moonies. I don’t understand why Republican voters or self-proclaimed Christians would take their direction from a cult like the Moonies, but Drudge Report links to alot of their articles, once again confirming that he is not the libertarian that he claims he is, but just another neocon. Here Newt Gingrich rallies the base:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/20/newt-gingrich-we-are-not-safe/
+1000
You give a +1000 to that? Didn’t you say that you were in the army?
Not all whites who serve in the armed forces are poor. Many come from working class families. And not all poor whites are white trash. There are also plenty of white trash who are not poor. Ted Nugent, for example, is rich white trash.
Nugent is another…… that lives in your empty skull rent free.
Bigger government, more regulations, and higher taxes:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/marijuana/feds-block-push-by-colorado-to-create-bank-for-marijuana-businesses
Kept illegal (because it’s for the children) by a demographic of voters who can’t die soon enough. Which also results in the sale and use of synthetic garbage drugs like spice and bath salts that make people violent and suicidal.
Which is fine, because the money will keep flowing to legal weed states like Colorado, where we will enjoy state tax refunds from this next year.
P.S. and in case you forgot, Sheldon Adelson spent $5 million to defeat a medical marijuana ballot initiative in Florida in 2014.
Sheldon does not want MJ to detract from the booze he serves in his Vegas empire.
Article for the Social Justice Warriors™
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/free-speech-is-flunking-out-on-college-campuses/2015/10/22/124e7cd2-78f5-11e5-b9c1-f03c48c96ac2_story.html
http://bit.ly/1Meatmr
Crater tater Lola baiter.
Dropping science not a hater
If you think your losses come later
Go, my friend, and read the data.
LOL
Data my friend…. data.
Ventura, CA Housing Prices Crater 6% YoY As Price Declines Spread Statewide
http://www.movoto.com/ventura-ca/market-trends/
If you think your losses come later
I’ll try again. Your cadence is off by one beat.
Try:
If you think your loss comes later
Like this:
ProxyServer, ‘think he likes me
I’m Living in his head for free
He’s writing poems for me to see
As he’s watching scenes of Glee.
Lola,
For you…. The only winner here is me…. and I’m living in your head rent free.
I do think of Lola kind of like a Jane Lynch type.
You could empty all of the drug offenders out of prison and it would barely make a dent.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/releasing-drug-offenders-wont-end-mass-incarceration/
You could empty all of the drug offenders out of prison and it would barely make a dent.
You could empty all of the drug offenders out of prison and it would barely make a dent?? Unless one uses mathematics.
According to the Bureau of Prisons, there are 207,847 people incarcerated in federal prisons. Roughly half (48.6 percent) are in for drug offenses.
About 14 percent overall, including state. drop in the bucket, lola
Mighty, Rio and crew are going to have to clean this sh#t up.
“It has gotten to the point to where it is really embarrassing to be an American.”
Putin Vs. Obama: Shall We Compare The Two Leaders Or Will That Be Too Embarrassing For America?
United behind a very strong leader with an 89.9 percent approval rating, Russia is stunning the world with the efficiency with which it is striking ISIS in Syria
by Michael Snyder | End Of The American Dream | October 23, 2015
Have you noticed that the United States and Russia are heading in two very different directions?
United behind a very strong leader with an 89.9 percent approval rating, Russia is stunning the world with the efficiency with which it is striking ISIS in Syria. Of course Vladimir Putin is far from perfect, and there are real questions about what Russia’s true motives in Syria and elsewhere are, but this is a leader and a country that have shown that they can get things done. In the U.S., on the other hand, we are being led by a weak, ineffective con man in the White House that has just a 45.3 percent approval rating. Under Obama, the federal government seems to be inept at just about everything, and this is especially true when it comes to foreign policy.
It has gotten to the point to where it is really embarrassing to be an American. The Russians know this and aren’t afraid to gloat about it. In fact, one Russian commentator even suggested that Barack Obama isn’t “a real man”, and it is hard to argue with that.
As reported by real journalists at “progressive” magazine The Nation:
http://www.thenation.com/article/whats-behind-rights-obama-gay-conspiracy/
Not that there’s anything wrong with having consentual gay sex, but if he was married at the time, it really isn’t fair to Michelle, now is it?
If you’re against polyamory, you’re racist.
United behind a very strong leader with an 89.9 percent approval rating
More right wing love for Putin. They seem to desire a strong Daddy figure. Get Trump to the gym, go on a keto diet and maybe he too can be your He-Man on a horse shirtless.
Mighty, Rio and crew are going to have to clean this sh#t up.
I need to clean up ISIS in Syria? Why? Obama seems to have Putin cleaning it up. (BTW I was referenced 3 times today before I even posted. That’s what you mean by “mighty” right?)
the White House that has just a 45.3 percent approval rating
Not true. Obama is on a roll. And your party is cuckoo.
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You’re living rent free inside their skulls.
The Donald lives rent free in yours.
Because “real men” don’t bother with pesky innocent civilians. Turning entire countries into glass is what sends the thrills up the pant leg.
BTW why are all those refugees heading west toward Austria and not east toward, say, Kiev? Plenty room in Russia.
“BTW why are all those refugees heading west toward Austria and not east toward, say, Kiev? Plenty room in Russia.”
Everyone knows the gravy is thicker in Europe.
Wall Street Journal - Spy vs. Spy: Inside the Fraying U.S.-Israel Ties
Distrust set allies to snoop on each other after split over Iran nuclear deal; each kept secrets
http://www.wsj.com/articles/spy-vs-spy-inside-the-fraying-u-s-israel-ties-1445562074
Is this what Grover Norquist would call shrinking the size of government to where you can drown it in the bathtub? Because to me it just looks like bigger government, more regulations, and higher taxes.
Rallying the base
In which the Breitbart website confirms that it is not libertarian but actually neocon, because this will only result in bigger government, more regulations, and higher taxes:
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/10/23/isis-releases-video-hebrew-not-one-jew-will-left-jerusalem
Warmist Warming Friday:
“In a remarkable turnabout, 59 percent of Republicans now say climate change is happening, up from 47 percent just six months ago.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-23/americans-have-never-been-so-sure-about-climate-change-even-republicans
“In a remarkable turnabout, 59 percent of Republicans now say climate change is happening, up from 47 percent just six months ago.”
Because Adan was always a fair weather coward and quit posting his jive when the going got tough on China. His climate BS was a joke too. And as far as the climate….We broke it.
Strongest hurricane on record heads for Mexico
USA TODAY - 33 minutes ago
MEXICO CITY - Tens of thousands of people were being evacuated Friday from Mexico’s Pacific coast as the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere bore down on the the popular tourist area packing sustained winds of 200 mph.
Featured:Hurricane Patricia: Strongest Storm Ever Measured to Hit MexicoNBCNews.com
“the strongest hurricane ever…”
It’s a beauty for sure. 200 mph wind sustained for 1 minute. Hey wait, Typhoon Nancy in 1961; 215 mph. I guess “probably the second strongest” doesn’t sound so sensational.
2banana was hoping we had storms like this, so he could start accepting science.
It is a record setter for the Mexican Pacific coast. Been reading their media. They’re freaking out over Patricia, big time. Nothing this big has hit them there in recorded history. They’re fearing thousands of deaths.
geez! you think hurricanes are political too?
No, of course not. It is a pretty bad storm, but it’s not the strongest ever as is being played by the media. It is not in my mind proof of a dying planet as posters here hysterically claim.
An unmeasured cyclone hit the same place about 60 years ago and killed a couple thousand. There are stronger storms on record in the west Pacific. The same articles say worst in the history of the world and then cite worse storms in recent memory. I don’t think wind speeds of a cyclone at sea were even measured until recently.
I do not like disaster and death, but I also don’t like fabrication and hysterical manipulation.
But this is the strongest measured hurricane ever to reach landfall just north of Colima Mexico, on a Friday in October. Clearly that tells us something, right?
It tells us that they didn’t measure the last one. Once you start measuring something, all kinds of records are “broken”.
But did that last one make landfall on a Friday in October?
I guess you didn’t get my sarcasm.
the GOP is slow to react. Like the catholic church denying they have a molesting problem.
some overlap there
Hah, the Oil Company Funded Deniers have been slapping Al Gore around because Gore’s prediction of stronger hurricanes from global warming hasn’t occurred. Until now.
Gore, 2005: “… the science is extremely clear now, that warmer oceans make the average hurricane stronger, not only makes the winds stronger, but dramatically increases the moisture from the oceans evaporating into the storm – thus magnifying its destructive power – makes the duration, as well as the intensity of the hurricane, stronger.”
Today: “Patricia Becomes Strongest Hurricane Ever Recorded; Catastrophic Landfall Expected in Mexico Today” 200 mph sustained winds. Not gusts. Sustained 200 mph winds.
Today: “22 hurricanes and typhoons that shattered records in 2015″
“2015 Sets a New Record for Category 4 and 5 Hurricanes and Typhoons”
Al Gore is vindicated.
Al Gore lives in a mansion which consumes energy and resources hundreds times more than necessary for one person to survive and then flies across the country and world on carbon spewing jets.
He has no credibility if he doesn’t practice what he preaches.
What a buffoon! Don’t be jealous of Al Gore’s success. You don’t have to be poor and want to save the environment for future generations.
Of course he flies on jets! What is the alternative today?
He could fly commercial where the carbon footprint is shared among all passengers.
That pretty much seals the deal. It would be impossible for 59% or Republicans to agree with something that is not rock solid true. We don’t even need science for this.
That pretty much seals the deal.
It seals the deal that science trumps non-stop elementary school level lying propaganda.
MONTICELLO, Ga. – A lot of people in this small town, an hour’s drive from Atlanta, get their news from talk radio.
“In the morning we have Herman Cain out of Atlanta,” Ms. Pearson said. “Then we have Rush from noon to 3, and then Hannity from 3 to 5, and then — oh, what’s that guy’s name? — the RedState guy, Erick Erickson, from 5 to 7.”
NYT
One event seals the deal?
Have you ever heard of a Poisson Distribution? For things like natural disasters, this is frequently used. The main point is that any particular event is independent of time.
So, if you have a “200 year flood” in year 1, it is just as likely to occur in year 2 as it was in year 1.
The third largest hurricane by wind speed was in 1935 (184 MPH according to WSJ). That singular event proves just as little about global warming as this singular event.
What about the fact that there hasn’t been a hurricane in Florida for a decade. Does that tell us anything about global warming? Many would like to point to that fact as proof that Gore is full of sh*t. However, I would submit that it tells us nothing either.
No, no, no. The survey proves the science. 59% approval!
And if we can just put all of those deniers into re-education camps, we can get that number up to 99.7%!
Article for the Social Justice Warriors™
Self-proclaimed anti-feminist who wrote ‘Why men won’t marry you’ is enraged after elite college cancels her speech:
http://www.businessinsider.com/anti-feminist-suzanne-venker-is-dropped-as-a-speaker-at-williams-college-2015-10
See also:
http://www.picpaste.com/file.jpeg
If you follow the links and saw what this woman wrote, you should hope that she gets completely silenced.
MikeyMite, will you please just admit already that you are a paid employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center?
OK, I read her op-ed. I fail to see what is so controversial about it, unless you consider anyone who doesn’t march step with feminist ideology to be a dangerous radical who needs to be silenced. I guess that would put June Cleaver on the most wanted list.
70%+ of men under 35 are SINGLE. And they won’t be shamed into getting married, because they know marriage has become a raw deal for men. And that’s what she was saying. I guess that dangerous idea needs to be “silenced”.
marriage has become a raw deal for men
Once again Attorneys are destroying America.
That’s what happens when you vote Attorney to be your president. Who you gonna vote next? Oh, I get it another lawyer, Hilary.
Jokes right themselves. Can’t fix this kind of stupid.
70%+ of men under 35 are SINGLE. And they won’t be shamed into getting married, because they know marriage has become a raw deal for men. And that’s what she was saying. I guess that dangerous idea needs to be “silenced”.
The flaw in the writer’s argument is that she assumes, with no evidence, that women are more dissatisfied with this situation than men. She claims that a big issue is female promiscuity. Maybe these women are enjoying lives filled with hookups and FWB arrangements.
and regarding this:
That’s what happens when you vote Attorney to be your president.
The problem must go back to the election of the second president, before women could vote.
Who doesn’t love kitties?
http://www.quickmeme.com/img/21/218163a9e51040d09a03672d85f17764a4b607dad019aed26dfe6d83767a0f95.jpg
When the Great Reset comes, these feminists are going to frantically look for protectors and providers, but alas, they’ll be left to their own devices. And they’ll finally understand, too late, why society for thousands of years has placed the nuclear family as the basic unit of civilization.
feminists are going to frantically look for protectors …..society for thousands of years has placed the nuclear family as the basic unit of civilization.
What?? You said that? That?
If the reset ever comes….. I think you are totally
correct.
The emphasis on the nuclear family is probably fairly recent. The extended family is what’s important in poor countries.
The emphasis on the nuclear family is probably fairly recent. The extended family is what’s important in poor countries.
I think it’s both, but one thing I love about the HBB is that sometimes one finds real wisdom.
Well done.
Bigger government, more regulations, higher taxes:
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/257859-homeland-security-gets-behind-cyber-sharing-bill
Warmists gonna warm:
“Only a period of enforced “planned austerity” can save the world from dangerous global warming, a warmist academic has claimed at a TED lecture.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/22/warmist-academic-rich-nations-must-combat-climate-change-planned-austerity/
House bill would remove the term ‘alien’ from federal law:
“Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) has introduced the Correcting Hurtful and Alienating Names in Government Expression Act. The bill would remove the term “illegal alien” and replace it with “undocumented foreign national” and keep executive branch agencies from using “alien” or “illegal alien” in signage and literature.”
http://thehill.com/regulation/legislation/257801-house-bill-would-change-term-for-immigrants-in-federal-law
“Alienating Names”
Yet they cannot name the bill without using the word “Alien”. You gotta love the irony.
I’m filing a hurt feelings report.
1.1013-0.0090 (-0.81%)
EU heading for banana republic status
they were so much smarter than us
green
gun free
safety net trampolines
free-est healthcare
get sweaty
compared to a 7.6% increase for Tampa Metro as a whole.
per zillow
Has the GOP found a replacement for their Boehner yet?
You will fit right in. You are a fiscal (cough….cough) cuckstervative, right? That’s what Bonner is, too.
Kreider, June 16: The Gores’ home is certified by the US Green Building Council as a Gold LEED certified home for retrofitted homes. As part of the LEED certification process, they upgraded their windows, lighting, appliances and insulation, among other items in and around the home […] The residence is powered with a geothermal system as well as 33-solar panels. The Gores also participate in the “Green PowerSwitch” program offered by their utility [company].
Gore was right about a lot of things.
LEED certification is a joke and a boon to the consultants that get paid to make the “certification”. It’s more of a marketing ploy than anything else.
He probably retrofitted the house to counter articles like this one:
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/archives/2007/02/gores_carbon_fo.html
Marketing to change the narrative, nothing else.
Gore’s house is a Gold LEED certified 20 bedroom, 8 bath mansion–do you get the irony there?
If he really wanted to be environmentally friendly, he should build a brand-new, Platinum LEED certified 50 bedroom, 20 bath mansion. Then he’d really have the environmental bona fides.
Perhaps he drives a Prius to get to his private jet. A real environmental hero.
The Donald is living in all your empty skulls, rent free.
“A Thigh Gap Administration”
https://www.liberalamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Donald-Trump-Vince-McMahon-Make-WWE-History-RTuv7X3GWGml.jpg
Bring it!
Even Chinese embezzlers can’t prop up San Francisco’s housing bubble.
http://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-commercial-real-estate-market-weakness-2015-10