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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

February 6, 2015 07:47 PM Forum: Politics

King Abdullah Was Once On Star Trek

Posted By Dave Snope
Now for some lighter news during this world crisis.

Today King Abdullah is flying real attack missions against an evil enemy. But back when he was just a prince, he flew on Starfleet.

Judging by the pips on his collar, the prince was a Lieutenant (junior grade) in Starfleet when the USS Voyager launched. And the teal of his uniform means he’s some kind of science officer.


http://www.buzzfeed.com/hayesbrown/everyone-outranks-harry-kim-especially-princes#.mb9ev1qGO

February 7, 2015 05:05 AM Forum: Politics

A Jew Examines Why Obama Never Names Islam

Posted By Dave Snope
Roger L. Simon has a take. After all, his ancestors didn't take part in the Crusades that Obama (falsely) uses to make a moral equivalence with ISIS. It ends with this:

It grieves me much to write this, because it is a horrible situation. Obama is not a Manchurian candidate and never was. He never had to be. He is just absolutely the wrong human being to be leading the West at this point in history. Heaven help us.

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2015/02/05/a-jew-examines-why-obama-never-names-islam/

February 8, 2015 12:26 AM Forum: Politics

VDH: Obama Is Banal

Posted By Dave Snope
He's being incredibly tactful by using 'banal'.

The president, is fond of historical sloppiness and moral equivalence (cf. the Cairo Speech). But what is the point of citing sins of 1,000, 500, 150, or 50 years ago, without acknowledging 1) that such pathologies still continue today outside the West, especially in the world of Islam, and 2) that Christianity had a unique role in ending these wrongs?

Read it all:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/397992/still-more-president-obamas-moral-equivalence-victor-davis-hanson

February 9, 2015 06:05 AM Forum: Politics

Biden & Kerry Meet With Israeli Opposition

Posted By Dave Snope
Can you believe the aholes in this administration? Anti-diplomacy by petulant brats.

Is the Obama Administration interfering in Israel’s upcoming elections? Recent statements and moves by America’s leaders sure would seem to suggest so.

Last week, both Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry announced they would not be in attendance when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint session of the US Senate dedicated to the threat of a nuclear Iran.

The White House has been furious with Netanyahu over the planned appearance, which Obama officials insist had breached protocol by being organized without their approval and involvement.

Just days after letting everyone know they wouldn’t be on hand to greet and listen to Netanyahu, both Biden and Kerry met with Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog on the sidelines of a security conference in Munich, Germany on Saturday.


http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/25999/Default.aspx?utm_source=news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=No-sidebar-news-1&utm_content=1591

Netanyahu now more popular than ever.

February 12, 2015 05:26 PM Forum: Politics

Who Owns Hillary?

Posted By Dave Snope
A vote for Hillary is a vote for America's most despised companies.

But, 'she's for the little people' or something.



http://freebeacon.com/blog/hillary-clintons-top-corporate-donors-are-among-the-most-hated-companies-in-america/

February 13, 2015 04:07 AM Forum: Politics

The Greatest Scam In American History

Posted By Dave Snope
Or, a scheme to break the will of the American People.

Here's a few choice tidbits from Michael Walsh's spit-roast of ObamaCare.

And now we can see it for what it really is: a vicious assault on free enterprise, a whopping tax increase on the middle class, a new way to get the Internal Revenue Service involved in the most personal aspects of our lives, the addition of another layer of complexity to the citizens’ interactions with the federal government and, most of all, a way to break the public’s will to resist further intrusions by the Leftist fascist state of Obama’s dreams. All masquerading under the guise of “health care.” It is the greatest scam in American history, and every single Democrat who voted for this fundamentally un-American monstrosity should be tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail, beginning with former Speaker Maerose Prizzi and Sen. Pat Geary.
...

In fact, as the painful part of the ACA now rolls out, it’s becoming clear that the whole enterprise was a bait-and-switch from the jump — a way to actually increase health-care costs by (as the ineffable Jonathan Gruber famously said) relying on the stupidity of the American public, many of whom to this day are under the impression that Obamacare = free doctor visits.

...

“Never been tested in real time.” This is what you get when you elect a man of no accomplishment but a high level of self-esteem and a great deal of animosity to the country as founded to the highest office in the land: a maleficent dissimulator who could not care less what happens to folks like Karen Pineman as long as she keeps voting for him and men like him. Which, of course, she will.




Read the rest here:

http://pjmedia.com/michaelwalsh/2015/02/10/the-skull-beneath-the-skin-of-the-affordable-care-act/

February 16, 2015 08:30 AM Forum: Politics

NYT: CIA Destroyed Iraq Chemical Weapons

Posted By Dave Snope
FYI.


The Central Intelligence Agency, working with American troops during the occupation of Iraq, repeatedly purchased nerve-agent rockets from a secretive Iraqi seller, part of a previously undisclosed effort to ensure that old chemical weapons remaining in Iraq did not fall into the hands of terrorists or militant groups, according to current and former American officials.

The extraordinary arms purchase plan, known as Operation Avarice, began in 2005 and continued into 2006, and the American military deemed it a nonproliferation success. It led to the United States’ acquiring and destroying at least 400 Borak rockets, one of the internationally condemned chemical weapons that Saddam Hussein’s Baathist government manufactured in the 1980s but that were not accounted for by United Nations inspections mandated after the 1991 Persian Gulf war.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/world/cia-is-said-to-have-bought-and-destroyed-iraqi-chemical-weapons.html

February 18, 2015 12:32 AM Forum: Politics

High Horses Down: Detroit Man Stabs Non-Muslims

Posted By Dave Snope

A Detroit man stabbed two people at a suburban bus stop after asking his victims whether or not they were Muslim, according to police. Federal authorities are now looking at the case as a potential hate crime, police said on Tuesday.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/02/17/man-stabs-two-at-a-bus-stop-after-asking-them-if-theyre-muslim/?tid=sm_tw

February 23, 2015 06:16 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Time to stop our green worship of the electric car

Posted By Dave Snope
Bjorn Lomborg's op-ed in USA Today:

It is time to stop our green worship of the electric car. It costs us a fortune, cuts little CO2 and surprisingly kills almost twice the number of people compared with regular gasoline cars.

Electric cars' global-warming benefits are small. It is advertised as a zero-emissions car, but in reality it only shifts emissions to electricity production, with most coming from fossil fuels. As green venture capitalist Vinod Khosla likes to point out, "Electric cars are coal-powered cars."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/02/18/electric-car-benefits-air-myths-pollution-health-column/23641729/

February 24, 2015 01:23 AM Forum: Politics

Jeremiah Wright’s Daughter Is Sent to Prison

Posted By Dave Snope

In September 2013, Jeri Wright, daughter of Reverend “God Damn America” Wright, and 12 other Democrats were charged with embezzling $16 million in Federal health grants that should have gone to AIDS charities and other programs for the poor and needy.

More than one of the defendants had direct ties to President Barack Obama.

In March 2014 Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s daughter Jeri was found guilty on eleven counts that included money laundering and lying to federal agents.

This week US District Judge Sue E. Myerscough sent Jeri Wright to prison.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported:


Jeri L. Wright, the daughter of President Barack Obama’s former pastor, is headed to jail after a federal judge on Monday revoked a deal that allowed her to remain free as she awaits sentencing on a money-laundering conviction.

U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough ruled that there was probable cause to believe that Wright committed a theft while she was free on bail and ordered Wright detained by U.S. marshals in Springfield, according to Sharon Paul, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office in the Central District of Illinois.


Quinshaunta Golden is the former chief of staff to long-time Obama friend Eric E. Whitaker, the former head of the Illinois Department of Public Health. Jones is accused of skimming $433,000 in kickbacks on health department grants and contracts, according to the Sun-Times.

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