tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post7315355331697286397..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: The Bush - Clinton - Bush - Obama - Clinton Iraq Misery ContinuesDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-87202748054358099762016-12-02T23:13:11.333-05:002016-12-02T23:13:11.333-05:00Often called, affectionately, 'Pineapple' ...Often called, affectionately, 'Pineapple' here.<br /><br />Also known as 'The Magnificent Maui'.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-87481137097224108322016-12-02T23:08:11.912-05:002016-12-02T23:08:11.912-05:00Often called 'Pineapple' here....Often called 'Pineapple' here....Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-73199725877856070472016-12-02T23:06:22.908-05:002016-12-02T23:06:22.908-05:00Doug ?
A mystery dude, lives in a lava tube. Only...Doug ?<br /><br />A mystery dude, lives in a lava tube. Only Republican in Hawaii, lives in perpetual danger, but not in fear, comes from nobles of the agricultural sort.<br /><br />Got out of California while the getting was still good....Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9483342624574963332016-12-02T22:52:07.613-05:002016-12-02T22:52:07.613-05:00Who is Doug?Who is Doug?MOMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18307879234693014691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32646807495844409512016-12-02T22:45:33.625-05:002016-12-02T22:45:33.625-05:00Idaho Elevator Report:
Nigel Farage spotted at Tr...Idaho Elevator Report:<br /><br />Nigel Farage spotted at Trump Tower today.<br /><br />Nigel is under death threats these days.<br /><br />He is leader of Brexit.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-33224294823320735592016-12-02T22:19:45.825-05:002016-12-02T22:19:45.825-05:00'Howlin' Howard' Dean drops out -
How...'Howlin' Howard' Dean drops out -<br /><br />Howard Dean drops out of DNC chairman race to avoid divisiveness<br />POSTED AT 7:21 PM ON DECEMBER 2, 2016 BY JOHN SEXTON<br /><br />http://hotair.com/archives/2016/12/02/howard-dean-drops-out-of-dnc-chairman-race-says-he-decided-weeks-ago/<br /><br />Comments:<br /><br /><b>Frank Scarn<br />"Something else must have happened here but Dean isn’t saying what that is."<br /><br />Keith Ellison told Dean that he'd go "full Muzzie" on him, and decapitate him.</b>Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-89297436336750024022016-12-02T21:03:55.047-05:002016-12-02T21:03:55.047-05:00.
It's just difficult to tell you guys apart.....<br /><br />It's just difficult to tell you guys apart.<br /><br />Sound familiar?<br /><br /><i>The people who lived northeast of the Roman Empire spoke languages similar to modern German. These "Germanic tribes" included the Vandals, Lombards, Alamanni, Goths, Franks, and Burgundians. <b>Most of the tribesmen did not know how to read, but unlike the Huns, they tended to farms and were not nomadic.</b></i><br /><br />. Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-82642036719108162742016-12-02T21:01:17.669-05:002016-12-02T21:01:17.669-05:00The Sun may be pleased that the Democrat Party is ...The Sun may be pleased that the Democrat Party is coming apart at the seams....Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-81615016738340495352016-12-02T20:55:31.965-05:002016-12-02T20:55:31.965-05:00Looking as pleased as the father of a newborn babe...Looking as pleased as the father of a newborn babe, the Sun smiles upon Earth -<br /><br />http://mashable.com/2016/12/02/sun-smiley-face-dad-photo/#1hQ6TokMokqJ<br /><br />Space PhotoCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-69189324113984000082016-12-02T20:50:35.751-05:002016-12-02T20:50:35.751-05:00And here’s circumstantial evidence of a different ...And here’s circumstantial evidence of a different kind that the call was deliberate…<br /><br />View image on Twitter<br />View image on Twitter<br /> Follow<br /> Bradford Pearson ✔ @BradfordPearson<br />I'm sure Trump's call to the Taiwanese president is totally unrelated to this. http://shanghaiist.com/2016/11/18/trump_taiwan_expand.php …<br />2:00 PM - 2 Dec 2016<br /> 689 689 Retweets 469 469 likes<br />Update: Like I said, Trump will have no choice but to insist that he took the call knowing full well the effect it would have on diplomacy with China, whether that’s true or not. Bearing that in mind, here’s something from the Taipei Times about Trump’s deliberation before the call:<br /><br />Trump reportedly agreed to the call, which was arranged by his Taiwan-friendly campaign staff after his aides briefed him on issues regarding Taiwan and the situation in the Taiwan Strait, sources said.<br />“Taiwan-friendly campaign staff” was a reference to Priebus, I assume. According to Wikipedia, the Taipei Times has “a pro-Taiwan independence editorial line.” That raises another risk from the call:<br /><br /> Follow<br /> Matt O'Brien ✔ @ObsoleteDogma<br />Biggest risk of Trump's Taiwan call isn't pissing off China. It's giving Taiwan the idea that we'll support them more than we actually will.<br />3:35 PM - 2 Dec 2016<br /> 151 151 Retweets 277 277 likes<br />Is President Tsai walking away from this bold show of outreach by Trump believing that the U.S. is prepared to do more for her and Taiwan than it really is if she now ends up in a confrontation with China?<br /><br />Update: Note to China:<br /><br /> Follow<br /> Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump<br />The President of Taiwan CALLED ME today to wish me congratulations on winning the Presidency. Thank you!<br />4:44 PM - 2 Dec 2016<br /><br />http://hotair.com/archives/2016/12/02/whoa-trump-becomes-first-president-elect-to-speak-to-leader-of-taiwan-since-1979/Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50853832306325496772016-12-02T20:50:17.835-05:002016-12-02T20:50:17.835-05:00The breezy tone of the readout left diplomats in W...The breezy tone of the readout left diplomats in Washington slack-jawed, with some initially assuming it was a parody. In particular, they zeroed in on Mr. Trump’s offer to Mr. Sharif “to play any role you want me to play to address and find solutions to the country’s problems.”<br /><br />That was interpreted by some in India as an offer by the United States to mediate Pakistan’s border dispute with India in Kashmir, something that the Pakistanis have long sought and that India has long resisted.<br /><br />So the bad guys in China are on edge now … but so are the good guys in India, apparently because Trump hasn’t learned the rules of diplomatic politesse yet and probably isn’t being briefed by the State Department before each call. If he has a thought-out strategy to change U.S. policy towards Taiwan, that’s one thing. (Although you’d think he’d wait two months until Obama’s out of office to implement it, rather than stick the current administration with it.) If he’s just winging it, though, that’s something else. One of Trump skeptics’ biggest worries about him on foreign policy during the campaign was that he’d accidentally paint himself into a corner by saying something undiplomatic without carefully considering it and then be forced to stand by what he said purely as a matter of saving face. We may be in that position already. If the president of China calls him and demands an explanation, what does he say? “Gee, I had no idea I was supposed to do that”? They’ll think he’s an idiot. “I meant to do that” might be his only option, even if it’s untrue. Which means the Cold War (hopefully only cold) with China begins on day one.<br /><br />Oh well. Dubya once said something cowboy-ish about Taiwan early in his first term and that got cleaned up. Presumably this will too, especially if it was Tsai who initiated the call with Trump rather than vice versa. (Did she cold-call him at Trump Tower knowing that he’s inexperienced and wouldn’t realize that he’s not supposed to chat with her?) Besides, the Chinese owe Trump a favor: Once TPP is dead, they’ll be the major economic power in the Far East instead of the U.S. Cutting him a break on a phone call with Taiwan is the least they can do to say thanks.<br /><br />Update: Not clear yet if State huddled with Trump before the call, but I’m going to guess no: “The White House was not told about Mr. Trump’s call until after it happened, according to a senior administration official.”<br /><br />Update: If you’re looking for evidence that this was no accident, here’s a recent story about Reince Priebus meeting with President Tsai in October of last year. Priebus’s appointment as chief of staff was described by Tsai as “good news for Taiwan” a few weeks ago. (Another quote from the same story: “Tsai also reiterated Taiwan’s determination to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership during the meeting — a prospect that looks increasingly unlikely under a Trump administration.”)<br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84897788208166941102016-12-02T20:49:24.870-05:002016-12-02T20:49:24.870-05:00With 'Mad Dog' now on The Team, I'm no...With 'Mad Dog' now on The Team, I'm not worried about any of this - I'm more concerned about the chat with the Pakistanis -<br /><br /><b>Wow: Trump becomes first president-elect to speak to leader of Taiwan since 1979; Update: She called me, says Trump</b><br /><br />POSTED AT 6:01 PM ON DECEMBER 2, 2016 BY ALLAHPUNDIT<br /><br />Share on Facebook 31 31 SHARES<br />Two questions. One: Who initiated the call? And two: Did he understand the significance of what he was doing when it happened?<br /><br />Not sure about the answer to the first question. I’ve got a guess about the second.<br /><br />Donald Trump risks opening up a major diplomatic dispute with China before he has even been inaugurated after speaking on the phone on Friday with Tsai Ying-wen, the president of Taiwan.<br /><br />The telephone call, confirmed by three people, is believed to be the first between a US president-elect and a leader of Taiwan since diplomatic relations between the two were cut in 1979…<br /><br />“The Chinese leadership will see this as a highly provocative action, of historic proportions,” said Evan Medeiros, former Asia director at the White House national security council.<br /><br />“Regardless if it was deliberate or accidental, this phone call will fundamentally change China’s perceptions of Trump’s strategic intentions for the negative. With this kind of move, Trump is setting a foundation of enduring mistrust and strategic competition for US-China relations.”<br /><br />Trump’s spokesman also confirmed that the call happened. The U.S. maintains unofficial relations with Taiwan but hasn’t conducted official diplomacy since the end of Carter’s administration, as a concession to maintaining good relations with China. Not even Reagan or the “cowboy” Dubya risked antagonizing the Chinese by breaking with that protocol of “ambiguity.” Trump speaking to Tsai will be taken as a signal, intended or not, that the U.S. disputes Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan. “So what?” some Trumpers will say. Trump’s been bashing China for years; he’s openly threatened a trade war with them many times. They already know he’s antagonistic. Right — on trade. But a challenge to their sphere of infuence is next-order stuff. Will China, hearing this, be more inclined to make a move on Taiwan down the road? And if they do, is President Trump going to send in the Marines to try to hold them off? If you’re going to pick fights with China, pick your spots carefully. Also, why would Trump want to alienate the Chinese right out of the box when he knows already from his discussions with Obama that North Korea’s nuclear development is soon going to pose a very big problem for the United States? China is the only diplomatic lever the world has to (sort of) control Kim Jong-un. They’re not going to care as much about minimizing a threat to the U.S. if the U.S. is threatening their claim to Taiwan.<br /><br />Even more weirdly, Trump got elected by running as the closest thing to a mind-your-own-business candidate on foreign policy among the GOP’s field of interventionists. He’s the NATO skeptic, the guy who questions why the United States bears more responsibility for limiting other major powers’ spheres of influence than countries in the region who are most threatened by expansion of that influence. Now here he is knocking on China’s door by chatting with Taiwan. What?<br /><br />Back to that second question, though. Does Trump even understand that the goodwill calls he’s fielding from world leaders have nuances like this? Before you answer, read this report on his recent chat with Pakistan’s prime minister.<br /><br />In a remarkably candid readout of the phone call, the Pakistani government said Mr. Trump had told Mr. Sharif that he was “a terrific guy” who made him feel as though “I’m talking to a person I have known for long.” He described Pakistanis as “one of the most intelligent people.” When Mr. Sharif invited him to visit Pakistan, the president-elect replied that he would “love to come to a fantastic country, fantastic place of fantastic people.”…<br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-19772173255779931602016-12-02T20:36:10.610-05:002016-12-02T20:36:10.610-05:00To whom is the message directed ?
Cannot be to me...To whom is the message directed ?<br /><br />Cannot be to me.<br /><br />I'm Swedish, not Norwegian.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34072853639292678522016-12-02T17:49:47.860-05:002016-12-02T17:49:47.860-05:00House Rejects Obama, Passes $611B Defense Bill by ...House Rejects Obama, Passes $611B Defense Bill by Wide Margin<br /><br />The Obama administration on Thursday declared its support for requiring women to register for the military draft, a symbolic but significant shift that reflects the U.S. military's evolution from a male-dominated force to one seeking to incorporate women at all levels.<br /><br />http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Congress-Defense-Budget-Passes/2016/12/02/id/761847/Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32365032451877249372016-12-02T17:44:54.839-05:002016-12-02T17:44:54.839-05:00Monastery of St. Matthew
Can't find any recen...Monastery of St. Matthew<br /><br />Can't find any recent news about this place.<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar_Mattai_monastery<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpWJjPOPip4<br /><br /><br />https://www.google.com/search?q=Monastery+of+St.+Matthew&rlz=1CAACAO_enUS720US720&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjF8cCgyNbQAhVC9WMKHXr_AhkQ_AUICCgB&biw=1091&bih=482#imgrc=ztINKqErar0JbM%3ADoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-3751016128646195112016-12-02T17:18:58.055-05:002016-12-02T17:18:58.055-05:00Lara Logan, UK Rape Gangs, and Europe’s Muslim Mob...Lara Logan, UK Rape Gangs, and Europe’s Muslim Mob Sex Assaults<br /><br />In enabling the mass molestation of its female citizens by Muslim migrants, and yet insisting on increasing Muslim immigration, Europe and England have condemned their women, their culture, and ultimately their future to a long, horrific gang rape.<br /><br />Consider the 15-year epidemic of Muslim rape gangs in the UK. From “British Girls Raped by Muslim Gangs on ‘Industrial Scale,’” by Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute, March 17, 2015:<br /><br />Nearly 400 British girls as young as eleven are believed to have been sexually exploited by Muslim rape gangs in Oxfordshire over the past 15 years, according to a chilling new report. It charges local officials with repeatedly ignoring the abuse due to a “culture of denial.”<br /><br />The scale of the abuse in Oxfordshire, a county in southeast England, mirrors similarly shocking accounts of the sexual exploitation of white British girls by Muslim gangs in Bristol, Derby, Rochdale, Rotherham and Telford, and implies that the problem is not isolated, but endemic…<br /><br />[The report documents how] local authorities could have stopped the abuse as early as 2005, but failed to do so because they refused to take the girls’ complaints seriously…<br /><br />…and “for fear of being thought of as racist.”<br /><br />https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/lara-logan-uk-rape-gangs-and-europes-muslim-mob-sex-assaultsDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1122057505675437982016-12-02T17:10:30.792-05:002016-12-02T17:10:30.792-05:00In October 2012, Logan delivered a speech before t...In October 2012, Logan delivered a speech before the annual luncheon of the Better Government Association in which she sharply criticized the Obama Administration's statements about the War in Afghanistan and other conflicts in the Arab world. In particular, Logan criticized the Obama Administration's claims that the Taliban was weakening in Afghanistan, calling such claims "a major lie" made in preparation for ending the U.S. military role in that country. She also stated that she hoped that the United States would "exact revenge" for the 2012 Benghazi attack, in which U.S. diplomatic personnel were attacked and killed in LibyaDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-67990205657422911172016-12-02T17:10:04.520-05:002016-12-02T17:10:04.520-05:00In fact that's what I am going to have tonight...In fact that's what I am going to have tonight.<br /><br />What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72811013806903417312016-12-02T17:09:31.245-05:002016-12-02T17:09:31.245-05:00If ever I was a billionaire, let alone a millionai...If ever I was a billionaire, let alone a millionaire?<br /><br />A simple steak, dry aged, cooked on a cast iron skillet, with nothing but kosher salt and pepper, and a nice single malt MacCallum 18 year old scotch.<br /><br />You can keep your frog legs and such.What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-87481066297083775352016-12-02T16:58:42.280-05:002016-12-02T16:58:42.280-05:00They say there are only `1,500 of them, but the su...They say there are only `1,500 of them, but the sure raise a lot of shit.<br />All members of the suicide pact.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-55104937211702892522016-12-02T16:51:48.265-05:002016-12-02T16:51:48.265-05:00The Battle for Mosul, Lara Logan:
http://www.cbsn...The Battle for Mosul, Lara Logan:<br /><br />http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-battle-for-mosul-iraq-lara-logan/Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40881246880565010172016-12-02T16:29:22.068-05:002016-12-02T16:29:22.068-05:00.
Come on, Deuce. If he doesn't know how to ....<br /><br />Come on, Deuce. If he doesn't know how to spell and doesn't know the definition of a simple word like 'failure', how can he be expected to understand the insult or the beauty of the prose?<br /><br />. Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83741506327449121382016-12-02T14:48:23.427-05:002016-12-02T14:48:23.427-05:00YuuugeYuuugeCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-424713149220270842016-12-02T14:41:41.360-05:002016-12-02T14:41:41.360-05:00A message from my very attractive and intelligent ...A message from my very attractive and intelligent assistant:<br /><br />Pierdol sie ty jebany norweski ignorancie!!! Czy to wystarczajaca obelga od malo inteligentnego Polaka?Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-77155330234530410662016-12-02T14:41:18.308-05:002016-12-02T14:41:18.308-05:00Indeed.
This:
Caramelized Cauliflower and Caper-...Indeed.<br /><br />This:<br /><br /><b>Caramelized Cauliflower and Caper-Raisin Emulsion</b><br /><br />does indeed sound like a great way to get one's fruits and veggies.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.com