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What really chafes is that it’s stunts like this that lend credibility to the idea that everything Issa does is similarly baseless and partisan. Never mind that one side fights tooth and nail to try to get documentation and evidence, while the other side doesn’t even make an attempt.
The bastards get you coming and going — not only do they have a useful distraction from the Grubering, but they preemptively discredit Congressional investigations just as Congress moves into a position where it can put real pressure on the Administration.
It’s bad enough that the Dems get away with projecting their own issues, biases, and corruption on the rest of us. It’s almost unbearable that they get to poison the waters on their way out.
Greetings:
Wasn’t it Senatress Feinstein who first said, “You can take my Senate seat when you pry it from my cold dead ass.” ???
To say nothing about the implicit notion that assassination via hellfire missles remotely launched from 30,000 feet, with all the collateral damage that necessrily entails, is somehow preferrable to making a scumbag uncomfortable to the point of distress for a finite period of time.
Hell, Ernst — we’ve reached the point where we have to lob the missiles in willy-nilly, because we don’t have reliable targeting information due to our lack of intelligence sources. We might have been able to get to the Big Goatfucker if we’d gotten intel from one of the little goatfuckers, but alas! we’ve had to drone them all to pink mist rather than risk an interrogation photo leaking out onto the Web.
That’s okay. Even when we do have actionable intelligence. It still takes Barry a minimum of 36 holes of golf to come to a decision.
Buck Sexton is livid: As most of you would guess, he says that people will stop helping the U.S. military because who knows when some congresscritter with an axe to grind will expose their names out of pure partisan spite…
…and they and their families shuffle off this mortal coil before God wanted them.
I guess we know what Hillary meant by that empathize with the people who hate us crap
We’re sorry we made you hijack 4 airplanes and kill 3000+ of us. And we’re really, really sorry that we tried to do something about it. Please don’t hit us again!
is burning a woman to death torture?
Justice For Jessica Lane Chambers – The Investigation,
Not to wish ill on a fellow human, but Ms Feinstein deserves a fate only a fevered-dream CIA agent could dream up, perhaps involving rare isotopes of highly radioactive nuclides with half-lives measured in milliseconds. Delivered by toilet seat.
that lack of actionable intelligence costs an ungodly fortune
Constraints on our reactions to various threats and real attacks are not helpful, are sure to cost us more lives in the long run. We should just glassify several fermenting Islam State-Hells to get their attention, and beg forgiveness 6 or 10 generations later.
Good points all. Now try and pitch it to the libertarians.
‘Cause they’re all wearing Guy Fawkes masks and not making much of a differentiation between Dangerous Enemies and just about anyone else.
Speaking of which, are we still flirting with Rand Paul?
a Rand Paul nomination would mean the ball is at least moving forward
Romney Bush Christie are just warmed-over Meghan’s coward daddy
In case anyone was wondering at the Daily Paul there is some concern about the possible conspiracy to remove INFOWARS billboards.
So, yeah.
that said i far prefer Mr. Governor Walker
Paul isn’t significantly more experienced than food stamp was
and me I’m so so over this cult of the lightweight you Americans are so keen to indulge in all the time
You might be surprised to learn that in the early 90s I heard the LaRouche message blared from a van in the Loop.
That was 20 years ago. Or, well, forward, I guess.
What I love about the Rand Paul movement is how often he likes to shit on everyone.
I think that’s awesome. Yeah, that’s a new and interesting voice in politics.
Worried about national security? Torturer.
Worried about borders? Anti-trade.
Worried about voter ID? Silly voter.
Yeah, let’s run this horseshit and see how badly we can lose. Wouldn’t that be a fun time?
well he has to win the nomination first
he’s also done a lot to raise the profile of civil asset forfeiture reform
and for that I say thank you Mr. Paul nice work
I could maybe set up a google alert to see if he’s raised the profile of civil asset forfeiture.
This has happened? He’s raised this profile? Empirically? This has happened? He’s done this?
Really?
Take a guy that no one in the base liked like a Mitch Daniels.
All that guy did was destroy public unions in his state a decade before anyone was talking about it.
Now I’m supposed to be get on board with a weird grifter like a Paul?
Fuck that noise.
yes he’s been magnificent on this issue
Let’s have some standards here.
A basic standard for me is that you don’t pretend I’m a delusional idiot for caring about voter id.
Another basic standard for me is that at some point in your career you did something worth noting.
Has Rand done something?
Or has he just been a bit successful in his ongoing battle to speak out of one side of his mouth to his father’s supporters while out of the other side of his mouth supporting all the worst elements of the GOP?
For me, I think this has been his greatest achievement. Objectively? C’mon, that’s all there is.
yeah i don’t understand his weird fixation on voter id
>a Rand Paul nomination would mean the ball is at least moving forward <
Don’t Bogart That Joint!
I also don’t understand his teenage girl understanding of foreign affairs, ‘feets.
that’s fair enough it’s an odd approach to winning the Team R nomination that’s for sure
>I also don’t understand his teenage girl understanding of foreign affairs,<
rand be "near sighted " rand needs a rand
eye doctors kinda of suck
I will admit to laughing a bit at that, nr.
Is this what heirs do? Become optometrists? Is this a thing?
That isn’t his goal.
He knows he won’t do particularly well with rightist voters, he’s cultivating new ones. We often call them leftists.
Leftists, yeah, as well as friends of Mitch McConnell and Co.
NamedAfterAyn Paul isn’t up to the foreign policy challenges the US will face after the departure of the ClownCatastrophe, for certain, but then neither is anyone else currently on the horizon — though some of those may be capable of learning quickly. First things first on the foreign policy front: get control of insane entitlement spending, and put what spending remains back to work where it will count when the chips are down. For all that though, no one who seems to aspire to the office of executive possesses any where near the rhetorical gifts necessary to persuade infantile Americans where their longer run dangers reside: they’ll have to bleed copiously first, and only then adjust themselves to abiding realities.
Dr Howard Dr Fine Dr Howard
dr carson?
perhaps for the eye docs or not:
@ matt 7:3
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Whomever gets in the Oral Office 2017 will likely confront a catastrophe scenario like Barky did in ’08. Another economic meltdown leading to Civil War II, and / or several glowing craters in Israel and Iran. Seems this cycle started with Bush, 9/11/01.
I like the kid what’s governor of Wisconsin. Proven progg-bashing under extreme fire. We need a weapon, not a peacenik.
We could and probably will do worse than Walker in ’16, serr8d.
What has Walker done of note?
Just destroyed the leftist infrastructure in his area of influence while under extreme duress.
For myself, I do tend to take these things into account.
Somebody ought to do a demotivational poster in the spirit of this is your brain on drugs (with a side of bacon).
Guy Fawkes masks and This is your brain on Ayn Rand maybe?
What if those craters are here instead? Worse still, what if Obama surrenders to Iran if Chicago (or any other American city) gets nuked on his watch?
Raising the profile is just the same as “raising awareness” without the lefty-language burden that might be off-putting.
OT & possibly no longer of interest to anyone save perhaps BH:
It’s looking more and more like UVA gang rape frat initiation is less fraud than hoax.
ClownDisaster doesn’t need Chicago nuked to surrender to the Mullahs. He’s managed that without any inducements whatsoever.
>with Bush, 9/11/01.<
blame bush is anti womyns blame the rapist billy clinton
Saw that, Ernst. Wow.
Layers and layers of fact checkers.
It shouldn’t surprise me but it does.
How can a story like this have made it through without any confirmation whatsoever? Like, exactly none, apparently.
The maligned need to become litigious as all hell. The frats of UVA should suddenly wonder what to do with a dying old media institution like the Rolling Stone that they now suddenly own outright. Maybe publicize monster keg parties.
It confirmed the editors’ bias. What more could they ask?
Chicago is too difficult a target. A Midwestern cow town; not as accessible to eager middle easterners as a port city. Or a city near a large river.
I expect a nuke destined for US to come by container ship. Or submarine. Does Iran have one of China’s missile subs yet?
Hell, if Chicago gets hit, Putin’s the first suspect. A quick trip over the North Pole for any of his MIRVs that accidentally “fell into Ukrainian separatists’ hands”. “Sorry, Bhammmy my boyy, whatcha gonna do about it?”, Putin asks slyly.
I don’t have the first clue how easy or how hard it would be to drive a nuke from Mexico up to Chicago.
With enough payouts to the right narcotrafficantes though, I don’t imagine it would be that hard to move a large shipment of Persian hashish.
We’re in life imititates a Tom Clancy novel. But it’s not like that hasn’t happened before.
Dead Kennedys-California Uber Alles w/lyrics
“It confirmed the editors’ bias. What more could they ask?”
You’re right, of course.
much better
California Uber Alles (Dead Kennedys)
Guy Fawkes masks and This is your brain on Ayn Rand maybe?
Where did I miss that Ayn Rand was an anti-military, isolationist anarchist?
Sex Pistols – Anarchy In The USA
havel
>}A SPECTER is haunting Eastern Europe: the specter of what in the West is called “dissent” This specter has not appeared out of thin air. It is a natural and inevitable consequence of the present historical phase of the system it is haunting. It was born at a time when this system, for a thousand reasons, can no longer base itself on the unadulterated, brutal, and arbitrary application of power, eliminating all expressions of nonconformity. What is more, the system has become so ossified politically that there is practically no way for such nonconformity to be implemented within its official structures. . . .
{2}Our system is most frequently characterized as a dictatorship or, more precisely, as the dictatorship of a political bureaucracy over a society which has undergone economic and social leveling. I am afraid that the term “dictatorship,” regardless of how intelligible it may otherwise be, tends to obscure rather than clarify the real nature of power in this system. . . Even though our dictatorship has long since alienated itself completely from the social movements that give birth to it, the authenticity of these movements (and I am thinking of the proletarian and socialist movements of the nineteenth century) gives it undeniable historicity. These origins provided a solid foundation of sorts on which it could build until it became the utterly new social and political reality it is today, which has become so inextricably a part of the structure of the modern world. . . . It commands an incomparably more precise, logically structured, generally comprehensible and, in essence, extremely flexible ideology that, in its elaborateness and completeness, is almost a secularized religion. It offers a ready answer to any question whatsoever; it can scarcely be accepted only in part, and accepting it has profound implications for human life. In an era when metaphysical and existential certainties are in a state of crisis, when people are being uprooted and alienated and are losing their sense of what this world means, this ideology inevitably has a certain hypnotic charm. . . .
{3}The profound difference between our system-in terms of the nature of power-and what we traditionally understand by dictatorship, a difference I hope is clear even from this quite superficial comparison, has caused me to search for some term appropriate for our system, purely for the purposes of this essay. If I refer to it henceforth as a “post-totalitarian” system, I am fully aware that this is perhaps not the most precise term, but I am unable to think of a better one. I do not wish to imply by the prefix “post” that the system is no longer totalitarian; on the contrary, I mean that it is totalitarian in a way fundamentally different from classical dictatorships, different from totalitarianism as we usually understand it.
. . . .
{4}The manager of a fruit-and-vegetable shop places in his window, among the onions and carrots, the slogan: “Workers of the world, unite!” Why does he do it? What is he trying to communicate to the world? Is he genuinely enthusiastic about the idea of unity among the workers of the world? Is his enthusiasm so great that he feels an irrepressible impulse to acquaint the public with his ideals? Has he really given more than a moment’s thought to how such a unification might occur and what it would mean?
{5}I think it can safely be assumed that the overwhelming majority of shopkeepers never think about the slogans they put in their windows, nor do they use them to express their real opinions. That poster was delivered to our greengrocer from the enterprise headquarters along with the onions and carrots. He put them all into the window simply because it has been done that way for years, because everyone does it, and because that is the way it has to be. If he were to refuse, there could be trouble. He could be reproached for not having the proper decoration in his window; someone might even accuse him of disloyalty. He does it because these things must be done if one is to get along in life. It is one of the thousands of details that guarantee him a relatively tranquil life “in harmony with society,” as they say.
{6}Obviously the greengrocer . . . does not put the slogan in his window from any personal desire to acquaint the public with the ideal it expresses. This, of course, does not mean that his action has no motive or significance at all, or that the slogan communicates nothing to anyone. The slogan is really a sign, and as such it contains a subliminal but very definite message. Verbally, it might be expressed this way: “I, the greengrocer XY, live here and I know what I must do. I behave in the manner expected of me. I can be depended upon and am beyond reproach. I am obedient and therefore I have the right to be left in peace.” This message, of course, has an addressee: it is directed above, to the greengrocer’s superior, and at the same time it is a shield that protects the greengrocer from potential informers. The slogan’s real meaning, therefore, is rooted firmly in the greengrocer’s existence. It reflects his vital interests. But what are those vital interests?
{7}Let us take note: if the greengrocer had been instructed to display the slogan “I am afraid and therefore unquestioningly obedient;’ he would not be nearly as indifferent to its semantics, even though the statement would reflect the truth. The greengrocer would be embarrassed and ashamed to put such an unequivocal statement of his own degradation in the shop window, and quite naturally so, for he is a human being and thus has a sense of his own dignity. To overcome this complication, his expression of loyalty must take the form of a sign which, at least on its textual surface, indicates a level of disinterested conviction. It must allow the greengrocer to say, “What’s wrong with the workers of the world uniting?” Thus the sign helps the greengrocer to conceal from himself the low foundations of his obedience, at the same time concealing the low foundations of power. It hides them behind the facade of something high. And that something is ideology.
{8}Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them. As the repository of something suprapersonal and objective, it enables people to deceive their conscience and conceal their true position and their inglorious modus vivendi, both from the world and from themselves. It is a very pragmatic but, at the same time, an apparently dignified way of legitimizing what is above, below, and on either side. It is directed toward people and toward God. It is a veil behind which human beings can hide their own fallen existence, their trivialization, and their adaptation to the status quo. It is an excuse that everyone can use, from the greengrocer, who conceals his fear of losing his job behind an alleged interest in the unification of the workers of the world, to the highest functionary, whose interest in staying in power can be cloaked in phrases about service to the working class. The primary excusatory function of ideology, therefore, is to provide people, both as victims and pillars of the post-totalitarian system, with the illusion that the system is in harmony with the human order and the order of the universe. . . . <
I’m using Ayn Rand as a stand-in for nut-job libertarian cultthink.
If you think I’m being unfair, go ahead and point out my socon slip is showing. I won’t kick.
the commies are in power peeps
>Where did I miss that Ayn Rand <
sorry outdated libtard out done by havel
hands up believe
Casting Crowns – “Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me)”
take back the symbols from the proggtarded please?
Casting Crowns – Jesus, Friend Of Sinners
Ernst
I guess I was just confused about the linking of Fawkes and A. Rand. ANY writer could become a cargo cult totem, that doesn’t necessarily negate the writings of the author.
Rand has proven to be chillingly prescient on some things. However, she wasn’t anti-military by any means.
It’s kind of like Leftists who insist on labeling TEA Partiers as “anti-government.”
Clearly Ann Coulter was asking for it the second time. After all, she didn’t tune the dial to a different station.
It made sense to me Darleen. I think Rand was nuts, I think Libertarians tend towards the nuts, and grown-ups running around pretending to be comic-book characters are nuts.
Hence, this is your brain on Ayn Rand
I am also fairly described as nuts. Doesn’t necessarily make me wrong.
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