Stuff you can’t make up … 19.54 Reports are surfacing that the gunman was linked to a jihadist group that planned to attack police before they were shot dead in an anti-terrorism raid in January. Two suspects were killed and a third arrested, close to the border with Germany. France’s La Voix du Nord newspaper is reporting: “According to our sources, he was part of the same jihadist group which
August 2015
August 22, 2015
French train Muslim jihadist denies being part of terrorist cell. Claims he found AK-47 “under a bush.” [Darleen Click]
August 22, 2015
UPDATE: Four heroes, including two US servicemen, stop Muslim terrorist on French train [Darleen Click]
Via Geoffb … latest from The Telegraph Chris Norman: I realised the only way to survive was to go for him More from that press conference with the British businessman who helped overcome the attacker on the train. He said: “I was just sitting working on my computer. I saw a man with a Kalashnikov. I said to myself s***. “I heard an American saying, ‘go get him’, then someone
August 22, 2015
Weekend at Bernie’s [Darleen Click]
Just gotta love Michael Ramirez *Hillary in The Hamptons As the Democratic front-runner broke from the campaign trail, where she has been dogged by the email scandal connected to her time at the State Department, and headed for her annual vacation in the Hamptons late this week, voters across the country are tuned in this time around. The Clintons are reportedly staying in the same $50,000 a week beachfront mansion
August 21, 2015
Semper Fi: Two Marines prevent certain massacre aboard train bound for Paris [Darleen Click]
The Daily Mail identifies the Americans as Marines. One of the hero Marines who foiled a planned terror attack on a French train was shot in the neck while disarming the crazed gunman on Friday. The two unarmed servicemen spotted the 26-year-old Moroccan acting suspiciously and heard him trying to arm his weapon in the toilet of the high speed train between Amsterdam and Paris. The gunman got on the
August 21, 2015
Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge [Darleen Click]
The inspiration: A story: At six he waits. She comes into his life by way of spilled milk and tears. From that inauspicious beginning forms a fast friendship built on shared Bradbury stories and a love for peanut butter and bacon sandwiches. At 25 he waits, telling her to breathe, now push, now breathe, now PUSH and marvels at the child their love has made. At 55 he waits, standing
August 20, 2015
Jindal to counter Pro-Planned Parenthood rally by screening exposé videos outside mansion [Darleen Click]
Awesome idea … Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will try to counter a pro-Planned Parenthood rally scheduled to take place outside his mansion on Thursday by running a loop of the secretly recorded videos that they plan to protest. Jindal announced Thursday that he is setting up an outdoor movie screen and speakers outside the governor’s mansion to show the controversial videos, which he said too many of Planned Parenthood’s supporters
August 20, 2015
Denver City Council Mullahs reject Constitution’s freedom of conscience [Darleen Click]
Left totalitarianism will not brook any dissent … Chick-fil-A’s reputation as an opponent of same-sex marriage has imperiled the fast-food chain’s potential return to Denver International Airport, with several City Council members this week passionately questioning a proposed concession agreement. Councilman Paul Lopez called opposition to the chain at DIA “really, truly a moral issue on the city.” His position comes despite ardent assurances from the concessionaires — who have
August 20, 2015
“Bring me the head of Scott Walker” [Darleen Click]
Ah…the famed civility of the Left! Remember, Sarah Palin’s graphic of cross-hairs on a political map was responsible for Gabby Gifford’s shooting … but channeling ISIS? Nothing to see! Move.on.
August 20, 2015
When the ‘right to die’ becomes an ‘obligation to participate’ [Darleen Click]
The Left’s utilitarian view of humanity — from Planned Parenthood’s baby butchery to Europe’s expanding euthanasia If you were a psychiatrist and a chronically depressed patient told you he wanted to die, what would you do? In Belgium, you might prescribe this vulnerable, desperate person a fatal dose of sodium thiopental. Between October 2007 and December 2011, 100 people went to a clinic in Belgium’s Dutch-speaking region with depression, or
August 19, 2015
Hey, what’s not to trust about the Iranians? [Darleen Click]
Sure, they are radical collectivists, anti-human rights, Nazi-loving, fundamental Islamic nutburgers who wouldn’t mind seeing the world on fire as long as it gets rid of all the icky Jews and Christians … but we can trust them, right? VIENNA (AP) — Iran will be allowed to use its own inspectors to investigate a site it has been accused of using to develop nuclear arms, operating under a secret agreement