tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post8878337004278080711..comments2024-03-18T16:10:41.673-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Few paid any attention to the revelation of Robert Mueller’s alleged attempts to have the Icelandic government help him frame Julian Assange and WikiLeaks via the FBIDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34519715780028298722017-08-08T00:39:19.468-04:002017-08-08T00:39:19.468-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48899456890443701382017-08-08T00:27:34.836-04:002017-08-08T00:27:34.836-04:00Did you check out sabse hatke?Did you check out sabse hatke?Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59490254755196710802017-08-07T23:01:31.310-04:002017-08-07T23:01:31.310-04:00Wait, actually I do care.
If he is defeated I mig...Wait, actually I do care.<br /><br />If he is defeated I might take a symbolic shit to celebrate the political excretion.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-13231201554992800982017-08-07T22:55:05.168-04:002017-08-07T22:55:05.168-04:00Scatalogical language is the language WV hillbilli...Scatalogical language is the language WV hillbillies know and love best.<br /><br />He is talking to his base.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-87242689400770913732017-08-07T22:52:20.811-04:002017-08-07T22:52:20.811-04:00I don't give a shit if he gets re-elected eith...I don't give a shit if he gets re-elected either -<br /><br /><b>Sen. Manchin Doesn’t ‘Give A S**T’ About Getting Reelected</b><br /><br />JOHN SEXTONPosted at 9:21 pm on August 7, 2017<br /><br />Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia gave an interview to the Charleston Gazette in which he made clear that he is not feeling any pressure at all. Despite the recent party switch by the State’s Governor and Manchin facing reelection next year in a state Trump won handily, he has no concern whatsoever:<br /><br /><i>“I don’t give a s–t, you understand? I just don’t give a s–t,” he said. “Don’t care if I get elected, don’t care if I get defeated, how about that. If they think because I’m up for election, that I can be wrangled into voting for s–t that I don’t like and can’t explain, they’re all crazy.”</i><br /><br />“I’m not scared of an election, let’s put it that way. Elections do not bother me or scare me. I’m going to continue to do the same thing I’ve always done, extremely independent.”<br /><br />Manchin was prompted to this outburst by some criticism directed at him by Patrick Morrisey. Morrisey is the Republican Attorney General of West Virginia who announced he was running to unseat Manchin last month. Last week, Morrisey called on Manchin to resign from the Senate leadership team run by Chuck Schumer. From the Washington Free Beacon:<br /><br />Morrisey says that West Virginians have made it clear they don’t support the policies being pushed by Democrats such as Manchin, who is vice chairman of the Senate Democratic policy committee.<br /><br />“Being part of the Schumer leadership team means that you don’t have West Virginia’s best interest in mind,” Morrisey told the Washington Free Beacon. “West Virginians don’t support the values of Chuck Schumer—Joe Manchin does.”<br /><br />On August 1st Senate Democrats Senate sent a letter to Trump, Senate Majority Leader McConnell and GOP Senate Finance Committee Chairman Hatch outlining their policy priorities for tax reform. Only three Senate Democrats; Manchin, Heitkamp, and Donnelly—all of whom are up for reelection next year, refused to sign the letter. On his refusal to sign the letter, Manchin said he was holding out because he hoped he’d be able to reach out to Republicans and win them over. He told the Charleston Gazette, “I want to be able to reach out to my friends on the other side and say, ‘Guys, you like anything here, can we do something different, any changes, what would make you comfortable to sign on?’”<br /><br />If you believe the GOP is eager to sign on to the next phase of Democratic obstructionism, maybe that explanation will make sense to you. The more likely explanation is that Manchin is taking every opportunity not to associate too closely with the leadership of his own party because he knows Chuck Schumer isn’t very popular in West Virginia. <b>In other words, he really does give a s**t, he just doesn’t want to admit that is what is motivating him.</b><br /><br />http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/07/sen-manchin-doesnt-give-st-getting-reelected/Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28791922590385859712017-08-07T22:44:32.692-04:002017-08-07T22:44:32.692-04:00An Independent Kurdistan Needed Now
SHLOMO BEN-AM...An Independent Kurdistan Needed Now<br /><br />SHLOMO BEN-AMI<br />Shlomo Ben-Ami, a former Israeli foreign minister, is Vice President of the Toledo International Center for Peace. He is the author of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy.<br />Mail to friend<br />PrintAUG 7, 2017 2<br /><br /><b>The Case for Kurdistan</b><br /><br /><i>TEL AVIV – The Kurds – who occupy a mountainous region that includes portions of Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey – are the largest ethnic group in the world without a state to call their own. It is time to change that.<br />The Kurds have been making bids for statehood – and having them brutally suppressed – since the early twentieth century. But there is a strong case for the United States, in particular, to work toward securing a homeland for the Kurds – a case buttressed by Kurdish militias’ indispensable contribution to defeating the Islamic State.</i><br /> <br />To be sure, the establishment of a “greater Kurdistan” that includes all areas where the Kurds comprise a majority remains impossible. If internal Kurdish politics were not enough to prevent such an outcome, geostrategic constraints certainly would be.<br /><br />Kurdish independence is particularly implausible in Turkey. The Kurds’ main representative in that country, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) – which champions a distinctly secular, Marxist brand of nationalism – has been fighting the Turkish government for decades. But, the government, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has not wavered in its commitment to preventing the establishment of a Kurdish state, to the point that even the PKK’s founder, Abdullah Öcalan, now favors a resolution that falls short of independence.<br /><br />Erdoğan’s commitment to ending the PKK’s quest is so strong that he is also working to prevent Syria’s Kurds from leveraging sovereignty from their military gains against ISIS. He fears that Kurdish success in Syria would inspire Turkey’s Kurds to revive their own fight for statehood in the country’s southeast. This fear of nationalist spillover has driven Erdoğan’s campaign to create a buffer zone along the Turkish border that extends well into the territory now controlled by Syrian Kurds.<br /><br /><b>But the Kurdish community in Iraq, represented by the Kurdish Regional Government, has a real shot at statehood. The KRG is a quasi-sovereign entity overseeing an efficient military and an independent economy. Although it is plagued by corruption and cronyism, like every other political organization in the region, the KRG represents the only truly functional government in Iraq, presiding over the country’s most peaceful and stable areas.....</b><br /><br />https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/kurds-independence-iraq-trump-by-shlomo-ben-ami-2017-08Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-30566293049513347242017-08-07T22:36:35.286-04:002017-08-07T22:36:35.286-04:00Rufus Needed Now
Bullets alone can't solve Al...<i>Rufus Needed Now</i><br /><br /><b>Bullets alone can't solve Alabama's feral hog problem</b><br />Updated August 06, 2017 <br />Posted August 06, 2017<br /><br /><i>Wild pigs are perhaps the most destructive invasive species in the United States, causing an estimated $1.5 billion in damages every year to crops and property across the country, uprooting farmers' fields, degrading water quality and out-competing native wildlife for food.</i><br /> <br />In the latest installment of AL.com's series on invasive species, we examine the feral hog, one of the costliest non-native species in Alabama, and what landowners and wildlife officials can do to keep their populations under control.<br /><br />Dennis Pillion | dpillion@al.com <br />Feral Hogs <br />Photo by Joe Songer | jsonger@al.com.<br /><br />The hunt is on<br />Chris Jaworowski is a really good shot with his semiautomatic rifle, and he has plenty of experience hunting hogs.<br />As a wildife biologist and Regional Extension Agent with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System and former employee of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, he's one of the foremost experts on feral hog control in Alabama, if not the Southeast.<br />Still, with all Jaworowski's experience and training, with thousands of dollars worth of specialized equipment, hunting feral pigs in Alabama is not easy......<br /><br />VIDEO: Hunting feral hogs with infrared scope in Alabama<br /><br />http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/08/alabamas_feral_hog_problem_can.html<br /><br />Long detailed article containing everything you will ever need to know about Hog Hunting.<br /><br />Conclusion: Trapping works better<br /><br />Man, those critters really know how to reproduce.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8248569460440963052017-08-07T22:03:38.387-04:002017-08-07T22:03:38.387-04:00Nice article thanks for sharing with us.
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You state the obvious, Ash.
..<br /><br />You state the obvious, Ash.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-605639391300597802017-08-07T17:54:56.964-04:002017-08-07T17:54:56.964-04:00.
Of course, the US public has more strategic pat....<br /><br />Of course, the US public has more strategic patience now than in the past. It has less skin in the game. No draft, a volunteer force looking for a job/career, half the people operating in country are contract workers.<br /><br />To talk of South Korea or Israel/Egypt in terms of strategic patience is simplistic. See how fast the strategic patience disappears when one of them goes hot.<br /><br />. Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74877410323131177842017-08-07T17:46:25.149-04:002017-08-07T17:46:25.149-04:00Sergei Magnitsky Movie:
https://www.google.com/se...Sergei Magnitsky Movie:<br /><br />https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1CAACAO_enUS720US720&q=movie+about+magnitsky&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-yozb-cXVAhXiqFQKHUMJCpIQ7xYIJSgA&biw=1091&bih=488Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-20022026032537833672017-08-07T17:31:56.143-04:002017-08-07T17:31:56.143-04:00If I were on the Jury and it was proven beyond a r...If I were on the Jury and it was proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the folks in the pickup truck did it I'd find them guilty.<br /><br />Now you must be happy.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80519098993084448592017-08-07T17:16:59.985-04:002017-08-07T17:16:59.985-04:00STOP MOSLEM IMMIGRATION TO USA NOW !
There, happy...STOP MOSLEM IMMIGRATION TO USA NOW !<br /><br />There, happy now ?Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62301034305687307902017-08-07T17:15:28.578-04:002017-08-07T17:15:28.578-04:00....MICHAEL O’HANLON: As a quick footnote to that ...<i>....MICHAEL O’HANLON: As a quick footnote to that point, going back to the famous disagreement between<br />U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry and General McChrystal, there was a fair amount to be said<br />for Eikenberry’s caution even though I was on the McChrystal side of the debate at the time, advocating for<br />a big surge. Because the real timeframes are much longer than the debate at the time suggested, there was<br />something to be said for “going medium” over a longer period of time, instead of going from light to really<br />big, and hoping you could somehow accomplish the mission quickly. Because afterward, of course, when<br />General Allen was in command, he was asked to downsize the force almost as quickly as it had been built<br />up. The speed of the surge and subsequent drawdown wasn’t compatible with realistic expectations..... <br /><br />....BRUCE RIEDEL: I’m troubled by the president’s decision to delegate authority to the Pentagon because I<br />suspect that the White House is trying to avoid responsibility for the war. That is irresponsible. The president<br />should not micromanage the battlefield but he has to sell the campaign at home—not walk away from it.<br />Regarding the other question about marshalling a compelling argument, there is another point, which is that,<br />in 2002, less than 1 million Afghans—and boys only—were in school. In 2017, the figure is about 9 million, of<br />which 40 percent are girls. Enrollment in Afghanistan’s universities has gone from about 8,000 to 175,000.<br />If you want to think of something that we’ve done in Afghanistan that is going to change Afghanistan longterm<br />in a positive way, it’s supporting education for the Afghan people. President George W. Bush and First<br />Lady Laura Bush did a very good job articulating that message. President Obama seemed more reluctant<br />to embrace that message....<br /><br />....MICHAEL O’HANLON: One related point that I believe the American strategic community often gets wrong is<br />its consensus that we Americans “have no strategic patience.” People say this all the time. It plays exactly<br />into this narrative that we are not going to stay long enough to make a difference. But historically I think it’s<br />wrong. We stayed in Korea, and we are still there; we stayed for decades when the North Korean threat was<br />there, and the South Koreans hadn’t even become a democracy yet.<br />JOHN ALLEN: That’s right.....<br /><br />....MICHAEL O’HANLON: And we did this also with Egypt and Israel for decades, and we are still engaged with<br />them through thick and thin. So I think we are actually pretty good at strategic patience, even if we insist<br />on telling ourselves that we are not. We tell ourselves that in op-eds, and in public and policy debates, and<br />President Obama—I believe—misinterpreted CNN poll data suggesting that Americans opposed the war in<br />Afghanistan more than the war in Vietnam, developing a whole narrative in those terms.<br /><br />But that’s not the right way to think about it. Americans never thought of Afghanistan as Vietnam. They didn’t<br />like it, but there was a far lower level of intensity of feeling. And we’ve proven our ability to stick with tough<br />tasks for a long time, even when it doesn’t seem on the surface to be getting any better.... </i><br /><br />https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fp_201707_afghanistan.pdf<br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-82955202845609057992017-08-07T17:15:03.390-04:002017-08-07T17:15:03.390-04:00Q & A may lack the attention span for this but...Q & A may lack the attention span for this but others may not -<br /><br /><b>RIGHTSIZING EXPECTATIONS: US POLICY<br />OPTIONS FOR AFGHANISTAN</b><br /><br />On June 12, 2017, Bruce Jones, director of the Brookings Foreign Policy Program, convened five Brookings<br />experts—John Allen, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Tanvi Madan, Michael O’Hanlon, and Bruce Riedel—to discuss<br />the history and future of U.S. policy in Afghanistan. The edited transcript below reflects their assessments of<br />evolving U.S. objectives in Afghanistan, progress to date, enduring challenges, regional dynamics, burdensharing<br />with coalition partners and regional stakeholders, domestic political support for ongoing U.S.<br />commitment, and policy recommendations for U.S. strategy going forward.<br /><br /><i>....BRUCE JONES: Yes, it always struck me during this debate that we weren’t talking in the correct timeframes—<br />the kind of timeframes John Allen described: 15 to 20 years. These are the minimum kinds of timeframes<br />in which you could actually make a real difference in terms of governance, the economy, and security sector<br />effectiveness, whereas the U.S. military at the time seemed to be talking about timeframes of 18 months.<br />There’s no experience in history that suggests that, in anything less than a decade can you meaningfully<br />improve the quality of governance, even in places with a more sophisticated baseline than Afghanistan....</i><br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-30413492295524539202017-08-07T17:14:47.142-04:002017-08-07T17:14:47.142-04:00There is a terrorist bombing in the USA and the lo...There is a terrorist bombing in the USA and the loons here are silent. Why would that be.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-38642481080060499582017-08-07T16:00:16.780-04:002017-08-07T16:00:16.780-04:00That LaDainian Tomlinson gave a wonderful speech o...That LaDainian Tomlinson gave a wonderful speech on being inducted into the NFL Football Hall of Fame.<br /><br />Here:<br /><br />http://www.marketwatch.com/story/did-ladainian-tomlinsons-nfl-hall-of-fame-speech-move-the-marker-on-race-2017-08-07Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6996900415147414882017-08-07T14:46:15.236-04:002017-08-07T14:46:15.236-04:00Archeologists Find New Evidence of Lost City of Ju...<b>Archeologists Find New Evidence of Lost City of Julias Near Sea of Galilee</b><br /><br /><i>Hebrew University archeologists discovered the 12th Dead Sea Scrolls cave.</i><br /><br />History <br /><br />Rebecca Gibian for RealClearLife<br /><br /> <br />After decades of searches by archeologists in the upper Jordan Valley, the lost Roman city of Julias, believed to be the birthplace of Jesus’s apostles Andrew, Peter and Philip, may have recently been unearthed.<br /><br />The discovery was made during excavations at Beit Habek, located in Bethsaida, by archeologist Dr. Mordechai Aviam, head of the Kinneret Institute for Galilean Archeology at Kinneret Academic College. Bethsaida was once a fishermen’s village on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, and is mentioned in several New Testament books as the home of at least three of Jesus’s most important apostles, reports the Jerusalem Post.<br /><br />The exact location of the city has been debated, however. Aviam was working with Professor Steven Notley of Nyack College in New York during a recent dig. Aviam said that a layer from the Roman period was discovered in the current excavation season, “with potsherds and coins from the first to the third centuries CE.”<br /><br />The biggest surprise was at the bottom of the excavation, where they found a wall of a building, next to a mosaic floor and artifacts that could be from a bathhouse. Aviam said that bathhouses were not common during the Roman period in that area, so this serves an important clue that beneath the surface are the remains of Julias, which as not been identified to this day, reports the Jerusalem Post. <br /><br />“Excavation of the site will continue until the lost city of Julias is definitely identified,” Aviam said to the Post. <br /><br />http://www.realclearlife.com/history/new-evidence-lost-city-julias-near-sea-galilee/Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53808359960107725122017-08-07T14:38:22.928-04:002017-08-07T14:38:22.928-04:00Har har harHar har harCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-41136034064802284472017-08-07T14:36:55.099-04:002017-08-07T14:36:55.099-04:00.
Sounds like a lot of hotair to me.
..<br /><br />Sounds like a lot of hotair to me.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84944943975830609782017-08-07T13:48:32.731-04:002017-08-07T13:48:32.731-04:00It’s Time To Fire McMaster
The problem is that Mc...<i>It’s Time To Fire McMaster</i><br /><br /><b>The problem is that McMaster is the ultimate holdover. He comprises a significant threat to national security.</b><br /><br /><i>....Since March I’ve written that McMaster should not be national security advisor because he believes that Islam has no relationship to terrorism. I pointed out several of his remarks to that effect including a 2016 speech in which he said ISIS is an example of the terrorist “…enemy who cynically use a perverted interpretation of religion to incite hatred and justify horrific cruelty against innocents.”<br /><br />In that article, I demonstrated that McMaster’s view of Islam is the same sort of politically correct garbage that we’ve been fed since 9/11. There are, I wrote, two schools of Islamic jurisprudence. They believe either that the Koran requires Muslims to terrorize, slay or enslave everyone who isn’t a believer in Islam or that it only permits them to do so.<br /><br />I concluded that either the terrorists are either the most faithful believers or they have an equal claim to their faith as all Muslims do. In either case, McMaster is profoundly wrong. Anyone whose view of the terrorist threat is so wrong should not be national security advisor....</i><br /><br />http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2017/08/time-fire-mcmaster/<br /><br />Also he doesn't like Israel.<br /><br />Fire him.<br /><br />I think it will happen too, as some of The Donald's family must not like the guy.<br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72482341977988498132017-08-07T13:37:08.201-04:002017-08-07T13:37:08.201-04:00Even dirt farming.....Even dirt farming.....Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2139404932633048232017-08-07T13:36:37.486-04:002017-08-07T13:36:37.486-04:00Megyn's career is tanking, and Bill's care...Megyn's career is tanking, and Bill's career has tanked.<br /><br />Both should have gone into advertising.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-22939298015493206252017-08-07T13:17:39.144-04:002017-08-07T13:17:39.144-04:00.
How the mighty have fallen?
Heard anything fro....<br /><br />How the mighty have fallen?<br /><br />Heard anything from or about Bill O'Reilly or Megan Kelly lately?<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.com