And back over there in that part of the world,

Notice how no one's honking or yelling about the blocked roads. Everyone is just casually standing around, calmly talking. This traffic jam is on purpose. It's meant to slow down and even block IRGC and Bassij terrorists from getting to the pilot. I told you that Iranians in occupied Iran were mobilizing to help our American and Israeli allies rescue the second US pilot.

Why, you'd think those people don't see us as their enemy...

They should be terrified,

they've given people damn good reason to drop a dime on them.

A host went on live TV begging ordinary Iranians NOT to leak the hiding locations of regime officials to Israel! He literally cried that if the people expose their coordinates, “it's over” and they will be eliminated.

The Islamic Republic is terrified because they know the ultimate truth: millions of Iranians are acting as the eyes and ears of Israel on the ground.
Which makes me wonder: considering how many people the Iranian regime has murdered just in the last month or two, I wonder how many, not just officials but IRGC thugs, have been whacked due to people seeing a way to get at them?

Remember I said that sounded like the enemy providing a new target list?

People making calls out and wonderful things happen.

This is Israeli Air Force footage of drones and jets blowing up Basij checkpoints all around Tehran today, based on tips called in by Iranian citizens. A revolution with air support against a regime with no air defence.

Why are lots of Iranians burning mosques?

For damn good reasons.  And yeah, a lot of westerners need to pay attention to why.

Couple of things, both guaranteed to piss off the left

(yes, I could just say 'Democrats')
First, 

Whole post here.


Second, yeah, it's getting a workout

which has also got to be pissing off the left("How dare those Jews defend themselves this way!", etc.)

These and other things at the Village guy's place, including the latest terrorist attack in Texas.


Seems a bunch of rioters attacked the US Consulate in Karachi.  Except, this not being a government headed by Biden or Obama, and a Dept. of War not headed by someone lost when he went to a  hospital without telling people or afraid to tell the Marines to defend the place, the attackers got their asses kicked.  Which led to the usual suspects here accusing the US of 'killing civilians', etc.  Including Governor Hair Gel.  


About that terrorist attack in Texas, it was attacking people leaving a bar, so most places you couldn't carry there, but anywhere else you legally can?  Very good reason right now to have it on you.

I do not claim strategic genius

I do know that actually doing something in Iran was going to take a lot of stuff, people, and doing, and that takes time.

It did, and it's getting done.  To the great whining and screaming of Democrats and US-haters in general.

The Squat?  Those bastards hate the US and have supported ever islamist terrorist that walked, and they can't stand that anyone, especially Trump, has actually done something about them.  And I think we're talking long-term, because without the money, and support, and hiding places and so forth, it'll be a big difference.

Wonder if the people of the land will go back to the Persian flag?  


Directly connected: I don't think it's possible to hate our Professional Journalists enough.

I also think a bunch of Republican politicians needs kicks in the ass for being the obstructive clowns they are, and preferably removal from office.  You can't support and help push through the SAVE* Act?  You're gone, jackass.

*corrected, thank you Leigh

Due to still recovering

and lack of thought, another tab clearing.

Comrade Mayor & wife took a leaf from the Clinton book: remember the 'co-Presidency'?


Mohammed bin Salman better have REAL good security; he's stayed alive this long, and it's going to take work to keep him breathing.

The islamists have to be crapping their loincloths over him.


Sheriff Asshole and a bunch of other agencies REALLY don't want the commoners to see those videos, for some reason.


Obamacare working as planned: killing off more of the non-contributors to the collective.


I strongly suspect that if this chickenshit actually thought NRA members were terrorists, he'd be a lot more careful in his words.


Speaking of actual terrorists: THEM  a lot of the media has a real soft spot for.


Meanwhile, in Australia, a boomstick might be real handy.  Assuming the lords would let the commoners have them.


Not news: this time of year, it gets warm, then cold, then warmer, cold(sometimes colder) again.  Right now it's decent, and I'd really like to get some stuff done in the back yard, but if I'm in the wind too much it starts the damned cough again.  I may try it anyway, this crap has to get done sometime.

Ah, the NYeffingTimes; I wonder which they're more worried about,

an America-hating regime being damaged, or Obama coming out of this looking like the clown he is?


When Woodward and Bernstein are telling you to knock off the attitude in your 'reporting', you might want to listen.


Gee, I wonder what's different this time...
The report added, “Religious leaders and the leadership must come to the scene as soon as possible and prevent the situation (from) deteriorating further.” It continued, “God help us, this is a very complex situation and is different from previous occasions.
I suspect a US administration that doesn't want to prop-up their regime has something to do with it.


The feds involved in the Bundy prosecution demonstrate, once again, why trusting ANY federal agency is insane:
"The omissions do not amount to “flagrant misconduct,” prosecutors claim and are asking for another attempt at trying Bundy, according to E&E News.

“The Brady violations found by the court are regrettable and benefit no one,” Nevada’s Acting U.S. Attorney and lead prosecutor in the Bundy case Steven Myhre wrote in a legal brief obtained by The Oregonian. “But because the government neither flagrantly violated nor recklessly disregarded its obligations, the appropriate remedy for such violations is a new trial.”

Bullshit. You and your staff committed these violations of law BECAUSE it benefited you, and you should be disbarred and prosecuted for them. Instead, you want to play "Hey, we didn't break the law THAT badly!" and call your violations of law 'omissions'.

You are corrupt bastards, your agency is partner in the corruption, and you all need to be looking for new jobs.  Ones that don't need a law license(because you lost yours), and after your prison sentence.

I just had a reminder of how effing stupid/weird/insane a lot of conspiracy squirrels are

Short version: article from somewhere about how some feminine hygiene products 'may' be contaminated with something dangerous.  Which led to 'The rich have been setting things like this up to reduce the number of serfs, so the rest will be easier to control!  Look it up!"

No, thank you.  If I want to read fiction, there's much better stuff out there.


Another thread over on Bookface, Takei was once again whining about stupid Americans and guns, which led to the inevitable Brits insisting how much more wonderful it is over there, etc.  So, to bring up some past hits from (formerly Great)Britain,
One of the biggest police forces in the country fails to record more than 38,000 reported crimes each year, including a quarter of violent offences.
Greater Manchester police (GMP) were graded “inadequate” at recording crime, and a watchdog found officers were also wrongly cancelling recorded violence, robbery and sex offences.
Hey, they've got to keep those crime numbers down somehow.


The Crown Prosecution Service's Violence Against Women and Girls report showed that convictions for rape, domestic abuse, sexual offences and child abuse have reached a record level.
At the same time,
In May a judge criticised a police officer and the CPS for their handling of accusations of gang rape against four agricultural students, which fell apart just as the trial was due to start. He said they bore responsibility for failing to disclose “game-changing” evidence to the defence teams of the men.
Translation: "You had evidence that these people were innocent, and you hid it.  Because convicting an innocent person is apparently not a problem for you."


Express.co.uk has pieced together shocking testimony from victims, campaigners and local residents in a large-scale investigation series being revealed throughout this week. 

They all told us how police and the local council is still "failing" thousands of vulnerable girls. 

It reveals how organised, criminal gangs of paedophiles are still using the town as their own personal fiefdom, peddling underage girls for sex as part of a multi-million pound crime empire.
There's a lot more.  I may collect some of them into a single post of links.


On the mess in Europe,
As the waves upon waves of migrants from the Arab world and Africa started to break in greater and greater numbers across the shores of Europe a few years ago, I warned that if they did not find some way to keep these teeming millions out - and return as many as possible back that were already there - that eventually this would force the European nations to be something that they did not want to be. The mainstream Center-Left and Center-Right parties would have to become more nationalistic or the people would continue to turn to parties and individuals who did not share liberal ideals.

No one, not the indigenous population nor recent legal immigrants would be better for it. All is unfolding with almost mathematical precision.

I'd imagine John Effing Kerry would prefer it

if we didn't hear about this; reporting on such things just upsets us, y'know.
In exclusive interviews, photos and research, The Associated Press has documented and mapped 72 of the mass graves, the most comprehensive survey so far, with many more expected to be uncovered as the Islamic State group's territory shrinks. In Syria, AP has obtained locations for 17 mass graves, including one with the bodies of hundreds of members of a single tribe all but exterminated when IS extremists took over their region. For at least 16 of the Iraqi graves, most in territory too dangerous to excavate, officials do not even guess the number of dead. In others, the estimates are based on memories of traumatized survivors, Islamic State propaganda and what can be gleaned from a cursory look at the earth.

Still, even the known numbers of victims buried are staggering — from 5,200 to more than 15,000.

Sinjar mountain is dotted with mass graves, some in territory clawed back from IS after the group's onslaught against the Yazidi minority in August 2014; others in the deadly no man's land that has yet to be secured.


'Raises questions'?
This isn't the first time questions have been raised about whether Clinton actually turned over all the relevent emails from her work at the State Department. In June, the Wall Street Journal reported on a 2010 email exchange between Clinton and Huma Abedin, her top aide, in which the secretary worried about her personal email becoming accessible to the public. That exchange was included in the State Department Inspector General's report on Clinton's email use but it was absent from the files turned over to the FBI and released to the public—a sign that was "raising questions about the thoroughness of her disclosures to the government and her record-keeping practices as secretary of state," the paper said.
If it takes this to 'raise questions' about her lies, you haven't been paying attention.  At all.


This brings up Uncle's saying 'Gun control is what politicians do instead of something.'
"The shooter was typically a male black between the ages of 17 and 23," O'Connor said. "And the victim was typically a male black between the ages of 17 and 23. So what's changed since the '90s? Not much, the same social pathology, and the police are expected to clean it up."

Some call it "gun violence," a definition greatly appreciated by Democratic politicians like those at City Hall. They can point to guns and take that voter anger over homicide numbers and channel it into a safe space.

But there are plenty of guns in the suburbs, and suburbanites aren't slaughtering each other.

It's the gang wars.

Politicians know that the gangs are reason for the deaths. Calling it "gun violence" is much safer, especially in wards where gangs often provide political muscle.

"Have you ever heard a Chicago alderman call out a street gang by name?" O'Connor asked. "No? Me neither."


Oh yes, people can play that game.
A Minnesota program to buy up guns in exchange for Visa gift cards has been less successful than anticipated. The guns collected were mostly homemade, unused or antiquated firearms rather than the street guns authorities had hoped to remove from the street.
Take a beat-up, or non-working gun and trade it for a $100 card, now that's a deal!

Also
The buyback event also served as a de facto firearms marketplace.  Gun collector Paul Joat bought two guns  by making a better offer than the city made with their gift cards.


 Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I'll take the dogs to the lake

Yes, this is from last year;

anyone think it's changed?
FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday told Congress that the federal government cannot conduct thorough checks on all of the coming influx of 10,000 refugees from Syria.

Appearing before the House Committee on Homeland Security, Comey said Syrians who aren't already in the FBI's database are unknown to the agency, meaning their backgrounds cannot be adequately scoured for a risk of terrorism.

'We can only query against that which we have collected,' Comey told the committee under questioning.
And Dear Leader wants to bring more and more of them over here.  No telling who all is hiding in the mass, at least until they do something.  At which time he'll try to blame us for not being welcoming enough, or something.


Wonder how many people will wind up challenging a conviction?  And if it'll do any good?

And in the multi-culti paradise of the EU,

German police have quietly conceded that the influx of Middle Eastern and African migrants into the country has led to a spike in grisly rapes at public swimming pools.

Officers in the nation – under strain from some 1 million new arrivals welcomed in by Chancellor Angela Merkel – warned of the surge in a private briefing.
Because you don't have the balls or integrity to say this to the public.
But the message was leaked to German tabloid Bild, seeming to confirm fears that violent and sexual crime are tied to Europe’s migrant crisis .

An internal memo created by officers in Dusseldorf read: “The K12 can confirm a surge in sex crimes at these establishments.

“In particular rape and the sexual abuse of children in bathing establishments have given us grave cause for concern.
Makes you wonder just how bad the numbers are, doesn't it?

Individual reports of rapes at swimming pools – including an Iraqi man sexually abusing a 10-year-old in Austria then brazenly continuing with his swim – have emerged, and resulted in criminal proceedings.

But no public data suggested that the problem went beyond isolated incidents.
'Public data', i.e. "We haven't let the commoners know about this."
However, the leaked police report implies that there is indeed reason for broader concern.

The fact that it was not shared with the public is only likely to increase tensions in an already-fraught environment.
Gee, ya think MAYBE?

Let's see... you've got an epidemic of rape and other sexual assaults being committed by these immigrants, the .gov- with the assistance of the media, let us remember- has been hiding it, people were already pissed, and now this?  And you think it might 'increase tensions'?

Wonder just how the EUnuchs will try to cover this up, or ignore it?  Because yelling "RACIST!" at anyone who says anything isn't going to cut it.

That's a pistol I'd not heard of before

World's first DA/SA pistol


Screw that the 2nd Amendment is part of the Constitution, Clinton doesn't think the right to arms is a Constitutional right.  Because she doesn't want it to be.


Gee, another anti-2nd Amendment Democrat in Californicated who's corrupt.  Who could've imagined such a thing?*


An American Advisor in Iraq; good reading.  And from what he says the Iraq Army is standing up.






*Put your damn hands down, I know you could

So, no boots on the ground...

Fatisah (Syria) (AFP) - US forces on the ground in northern Syria are helping a major offensive against the Islamic State group in its stronghold of Raqa province, Kurdish-Arab fighters battling the jihadists say.

Near the frontline north of the IS bastion of Raqa city, American commandos climbed onto a low rooftop carrying US-made anti-tank missiles.

"These are US special operations forces and this is why you cannot follow them or take many pictures," said a fighter with the Syrian Democratic Forces, which announced on Tuesday an assault on the jihadists north of Raqa.

The Pentagon is not happy with the pictures.  And the questions.
The Pentagon Thursday denied the presence of U.S. troops on the front lines in Syria despite photographic evidence showing special operations troops fighting alongside Kurdish forces in an offensive to retake Raqqa from the Islamic State.

Peter Cook, the Pentagon press secretary, maintained the Obama’s administration’s claim that ground troops in Syria are solely serving in advisory and assistance roles in the war-torn region.

“They are not on the forward line. They are providing advice and assistance,” Cook said during a testy exchange with reporters. “That mission has not changed, their role has not changed. They are not leading this fight. They are supporting those forces that are at the leading edge of this fight, and they are doing it in a very effective fashion.”
'Not on the forward line', does that mean they're barely behind, or in front of it?  And 'supporting those forces' could have several meanings, now couldn't it?

Could be wrong, but I suspect this is Dear Leader's minions playing as much as possible his "No American boots on the ground(unless I flatly can't deny them, and I really want to because I said we're out of there)!" games.


Oh, and the Turks are pissed because of the patches some of those troops are wearing:
Turkey on Friday lashed out at the United States after images surfaced apparently showing U.S. soldiers in Syria wearing the insignia of a Kurdish group opposed by Ankara. 

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said during an international conference in southern Turkey that it was "unacceptable" for soldiers of a Turkish ally to use the patches of the YPG — the Kurdish People's Protection Units which are fighting the Islamic State group in northern Syria.
I doubt the Turks would be happy with the response I'd give them.
Pics of the patches in question here.

I guess this doesn't count as 'boots on the ground'

in Obamaworld.

Wonder how many bodies will have to pile up before it does?


Of course, all the people who'll lose jobs over this won't be considered a bad thing in Obamaworld.  After all, what's a bunch of miners becoming unemployed count when Obama can play "I'm on the right side of history!" ?


Zuckerbitch meets with the PRC propaganda chief; anybody surprised?

"Who cares about that 'warfighting' crap, the important thing is

that these people be properly reeducated as to their privilege!"

And when a bunch of people wind up dead because time and money was spent on this bullshit instead of actual training and education, the idiots in charge won't care; because they don't give a damn about troops anyway.


What Life As A Transgender Woman Taught Me About Progressives
It's not real complimentary

And don't forget the way they treat Jenner for the crime of supporting Cruz, and seeing more to the situation than one personal matter.


And more chemical weapons use in Syria.

When the clowns running your government, and the media,

both want to control you for their reasons:
Indeed, Stockholm Police confirmed to the Mail this week that since the ‘neo-Nazi’ station disturbance, no migrants – underage or otherwise – have reported any assaults on them that evening. 

This raises the disturbing question as to whether the anti-migrant rampage ever took place in the way described. A local newspaper said in the aftermath that the video showed nothing more than police chasing away the leaflet distributors. The footage has no images of child refugees – and the only sign of violence appears to involve a policeman waving a baton.
Why lie about such things?
‘The Left – that is to say the Swedish media and establishment – is not interested in debating mass immigration. They are ideologically committed to imposing it come what may, for the greater good, and anybody who disagrees is a fascist, a Nazi, or a racist.’

And while fake hate-crimes are being reported, to try to control what people think,
No-go areas have sprung up in cities where, unless police units have a back-up team to guard them, it is dangerous to attend crime scenes because Molotov cocktails are hurled at them by migrants, according to one senior inspector this week.
So the government and most media have demonstrated they're not to be trusted, and this crap keeps building; sooner or later it's going to blow up.  And the idiots who helped it get there will still be whining about 'right-wing nazis' and other bullshit to try and distract from what they've helped create.

I don't think that "Come to Germany, we welcome you!" thing

is working out very well.

Sooner or later some woman/women/girls are going to wind up raped and dead, possibly tortured as well, and things are going to come apart at the seams.

More fruits of Smart Diplomacy

Violent extremists, criminals and foreign fighters are part of the daily refugee flow into Europe, the top NATO commander in Europe told lawmakers, "masking the movement" of these dangerous elements and heightening the potential for an attack.

In testimony Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee, U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove said ISIS is "spreading like a cancer" within this mix, "taking advantage of paths of least resistance, threatening European nations" and the United States.
Yeah, this is going to end well.
Breedlove later told reporters that he has asked for more U.S. forces to be permanently based in Europe, which is facing threats from a more aggressive Russia as well as ISIS.
I guess that 'reset' button didn't work after all.

And anybody who expects Dear Leader to actually do anything

other than give a speech and try to otherwise ignore it, is a fool.
The New York Times recently wrote that it is difficult to distinguish between Putin's and Obama's Syria strategies. Meanwhile, historian and journalist Michael Ignatieff and Brookings Institution fellow Leon Wieseltier lamented in the Washington Post, "It's time for those who care about the moral standing of the United States to say that this policy is shameful." 

It is very clear at this point that the US has no strategy beyond its half-hearted efforts to provide training and arms to rebels -- and to otherwise rely on negotiations. But none of this has born any fruit, as events in early February demonstrated.
He'll shine the light of his Presence on everything, say some words, his worshippers will swoon again, and NOTHING will actually get done.  Because I don't think he actually gives a damn. 


Government-run health care: where the patients count for nothing, but keeping the brass happy is everything.  And when they're incompetent or criminal, or both, the worst they have to fear is a transfer.


One more reason to close the Department of Education.  As if we needed any more.


This administration and all its little friends want someone who loses or has a gun stolen to be treated like criminals; wonder if they'll demand the same treatment for the DHS clowns involved?
Yeah, I know, stupid question.
The letter was prompted after the news website Complete Colorado reported last month that DHS marked 1,300 badges, 589 cell phones and scores of firearms lost or stolen between 2012 and 2015. DHS’s poor firearms security “shows that the department is consistently unable to safeguard sensitive property,” the congressmen wrote.

“The fact that hundreds of badges and cell phones are missing gives rise to a variety of different security threat possibilities,” the letter said. “It is particularly troubling, however, that the department cannot account for its entire inventory of firearms.”
Hmm... I find myself wondering just what all firearms they cannot account for.