Amazingly Unwatchable!

Welcome to the Monkey-house. m/r

MSNBC’s worst year ever

By Thomas Lifson  December 31, 2016

What do get when you combine arrogance, condescension, and ignorance?  That’s right: MSNBC (except for Morning Joe, some days).
So, in dealing with the rise of Donald Trump and the movement of deplorables, the net had…uh…a little trouble understanding what was about to befall it (again, except for Morning Joe, some days).
Our friends at the Washington Free Beacon have assembled a compilation of the worst moments of the network.
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I read all three, but still just prefer the tried and true Hard Bound Book

Some good habits just are hard to break too. m/r

The Battle for the Bucks of Book Lovers

Paperbacks hold their own against e-books.

Thomas J. Craughwell  December 30, 2016

Since I graduated from college in 1978, I’ve spent virtually my entire career in publishing. Naturally, I was interested when e-books debuted. The advantages seemed pretty obvious — portability, carrying around on one device an entire library, not to mention the benefits for publishers who wouldn’t have to pay for paper, ink, printing costs, labor, warehousing books, shipping them out, and taking back returns.

And then there is the ethical issue that is eliminated by e-books. Let me give you an example. A few years back, one of my publishers was having a crisis of conscience. The cheapest places, at the time, for printing hardcover and paperback books were China and the Philippines. The question was, did they want their books produced by political prisoners in China or child labor in the Philippines? It was a tough call, and my fully developed pre-Vatican II Catholic conscience has never been able to reconcile itself with either option. I don’t work with that publisher anymore, and the ones I do work with keep me in blissful ignorance regarding their sources of production.
In the interest of full disclosure, I still don’t have an e-reader. I don’t know why.

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Next Time Deport Him To Hell, He Won't Come Back!

This scum, multiple deportee, illegal alien raped a 13 year old girl on a bus. m/r

Mexican Man Charged with Raping Girl on Bus Had 19 Deportations, Removals Since 2003

By Paula Bolyard December 31, 2016

A Mexican man who allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus had been deported 10 times and removed from the U.S. another nine since 2003, according to a report by The Associated Press. Several U.S. senators are demanding to see immigration records for 38-year-old Tomas Martinez-Maldonado, who is charged with a felony in the alleged attack on Sept. 27 aboard a bus in Geary County, near Kansas City.

According to records obtained by The Associated Press, Martinez-Maldonado had eight "voluntary removals" before his first deportation in 2010. That was followed by another voluntary removal that same year. He was then deported five more times between 2011 and 2013.

Martinez-Maldonado was charged with entering the country without legal permission in 2013. Though he was only charged with a misdemeanor, he was subsequently deported in early 2014 after serving his sentence. A few months later he was again deported and then again in 2015—twice. He was last deported in October 2015 after he had served his second sentence, according to the records obtained by the AP.

California Dem Wants to State to be 'Wall of Justice' Against Deportations

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"with Republicans like Kasich, who needs Democrats?"

Katich gets everything wrong. He is either the Mailman's son of Cliff Clavin or Newman. m/r

Kasich’s reasoning for his vetoes falls under Orwellian logic, somewhere along the lines of “Ignorance is Strength.”

Gov. Kasich Sides with Environmentalists on Ohio Energy Bill

By Tony Corvo December 30, 2016

On December 27, 2016, Ohio Governor John Kasich vetoed House Bill 554, an energy bill designed to ease state restrictions on electric utilities. Currently, power companies in Ohio must meet increasingly strict annual standards for investing in renewable energy, such as solar, wind, etc., and for helping customers reduce energy use.

Environmental special interest groups are ecstatic over Kasich’s energy bill veto. They probably especially like the part where the state tells utility companies they have to fund their own suicide by showing customers how to use less of their services or products, a bad habit government is increasingly applying across many industries. Nevertheless, Kasich justified the veto by claiming it would have weakened the state's clean-energy standards, which in turn would have hurt the state’s near and long-term economic competitiveness.

The energy bill veto was joined by Kasich’s veto of Senate Bill 329, a bill that would have set up a process for lawmakers to regularly review certain state agencies for possible elimination. Kasich said Senate Bill 329 needlessly duplicates an aspect of the budget process.

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Islam, Pol Pot and the Teacher's Unions All Want to Erase History!

They may have different goals and methods, but their result are the same. m/r

3,000 years ago, it ruled the Mideast, now blown to pieces

By LORI HINNANT Dec 31, 2016

NIMRUD, Iraq (AP) -- The chilly December wind whipped rain across the strewn wreckage of a city that, nearly 3,000 years ago, ruled almost the entire Middle East. Rivulets of water ran through the dirt, washing away chunks of ancient stone.

The city of Nimrud in northern Iraq is in pieces, victim of the Islamic State group's fervor to erase history. The remains of its palaces and temples, once lined in brilliant reliefs of gods and kings, have been blown up. The statues of winged bulls that once guarded the site are hacked to bits. Its towering ziggurat, or step pyramid, has been bulldozed.

The militants' fanaticism devastated one of the Middle East's most important archaeological sites. But more than a month after the militants were driven out, Nimrud is still being ravaged, its treasures disappearing, imperiling any chance of eventually rebuilding it, an Associated Press team found after multiple visits in the past month.

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Celebrate 2017

Longshots win in 2016 m/r

Nigel Farage New Years Message at end of 2016   

Published on Dec 31, 2016

(31ST DEC 2016) Happy New Year to all UKIP and Nigel Farage fans from RobinHoodUKIP

25 Years ago I Visited Russia at its Most Amazing Time - Russians are much Like Us, but Still Accustomed to a Czar

This is a most interesting and revealing article. It has information that provides depth and background to help us understand Russia then, and as it is now. m/r

Years later Mikhail Gorbachev said that "the most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in Western Europe." I couldn't agree more. 

How the Collapse of the USSR Felt from the Inside

A reflection by a witness 25 years later.

December 30, 2016  Oleg Atbashian 

  25 years ago George Bush Sr. was still in office, and so was Saddam Hussein. The European Union didn't exist and neither did China's economic powerhouse. The Berlin wall had just come down and Germany had finally reunited. Hillary Clinton was a little-known mouthy First Lady of Arkansas and the media gleefully predicted that Donald Trump would never climb back to the top after his Atlantic City fiasco.
On the other side of the Iron Curtain, the Eastern bloc was in shambles, but the USSR was still standing with Mikhail Gorbachev at the helm. Vladimir Putin dabbled in minor corruption working for the Mayor of Saint Petersburg, which had just been renamed from Leningrad. The KGB meddled in other countries' affairs as usual, spreading "fake news" and helping leftist politicians to win elections with no objections from the Western mainstream media.
Then, all of a sudden, the USSR disappeared from the map. How did that happen? Political scientists have and will continue to write, with varying degree of accuracy, about the details of it. What I'm attempting to do here is describe how it looked and felt from the inside - as seen by me, who at the time happened to be a voiceless, powerless Soviet citizen trying to make sense of the universe.
The Soviet clocks may have been the fastest in the world, but time wasn't moving and seemed to be broken. With three-fourths of the country overlapping with Asia, where time had stopped a millennium ago, the Soviet Union defied the Western concept of progress. The official TV and radio stations always played old, slow songs with flowing melodies; if their purpose was to set a sluggish rhythm of life for the rest of us, it was working. Even the few semi-unofficial rock bands tried but mostly failed to get a different rhythm out of their instruments. It was as if we all lived in a gigantic aquarium, whose sleepy inhabitants lazily picked slowly descending flakes of bland food, distributed to them by the invisible owner's hand. It could be quite relaxing if that is your thing, but most of the time I felt like a trapped passenger of the sunken ship at the bottom, next to the fake plastic seaweed.
The textbook date of the end of the USSR is December 26, 1991, but for us, Soviet citizens, the dissolution began a few months earlier and happened in stages.

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Barack Hussein Obama Supports the Evil Surrounding Israel

It is now our time to stand by our friends and protect them. m/r

Brigitte Gabriel's Israel Response to John Kerry

Published on Dec 30, 2016

http://www.actforamerica.org

Taqiya, Just Lies from the Palestinians, Kerry and Obama

Taqiya, Obama-the-liar is a perfect example. He and the Palestinians will lie and lie and lie about their lies (sounds like Hillary) as a form of piety if it is to deceive infidels, especially Jews. The only peace the Palestinians will accept is a Carthaginian Peace. Under that condition it is also, in turn, the only way that Israel may have to force a permanent peace against the Palestinians. Unfortunately, Israel still has fifty-six other Muslim states dedicated to their total demise. m/r

Do Palestinians Want Peace? Here Are 5 Facts That Say No.

By: Ben Shapiro 12-29-16

In Secretary of State and Professional Asshat™ John Kerry’s execrable speech on the Arab-Israeli conflict on Wednesday, the man whose face is a living rockslide declared that the true obstacle to peace was Israel building bathrooms in Efrat and East Jerusalem. Kerry repeatedly maintained that Palestinians want peace with Israel. That’s eminently untrue, and it’s been untrue for the entirety of the so-called peace process and long before.
Here are five demonstrations that the “Palestinians want peace” notion is an outright lie, and that Palestinians actually prefer a continued conflict that maintains the possibility of the full-scale destruction of the Jewish State.
1. Palestinian Response To Kerry Speech. Hilariously, just after Kerry ripped into Israel in unprecedented fashion and declared that if Israel stopped all settlement building and moved to reverse settlements, as well as splitting Jerusalem, Palestinians would embrace peace, the Palestinians openly scoffed at him. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki immediately stated that Kerry had not proposed anything new, and refused recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. So much for Kerry’s proposed peace deal. ...

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The Petty, Little Poseur

Obama has never cared much for America, just himself. He can't go soon enough. m/r

Nearing exit, Obama seeks to tie Trump's hands

By Jordan Fabian - 12/30/16

Obama has taken a flurry of unilateral actions in the waning days of his tenure that appear designed to box in President-elect Donald Trump.
Obama's decision Thursday to sanction Russian entities for election-related hacking is just the latest obstacle he has placed in Trump's way.
Day before the sanctions were unveiled, the Obama administration allowed the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israeli settlement activity — something that could have an indelible impact on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Obama has also permanently banned oil and gas drilling large swaths of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, closed off 1.6 million acres of Western land to development and scrapped the last vestiges of a registration system used largely on Muslim immigrants.

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All these Illegal Aliens get Automatic "Motor-Voter"

And the Dems claim there is no voter fraud. m/r

DMV licensed 800,000 undocumented immigrants under 2-year-old law  

By Tatiana Sanchez | tsanchez@bayareanewsgroup.com PUBLISHED: December 28, 2016

On the day that California officials implemented a controversial law that allows undocumented residents to obtain driver’s licenses, DMV offices throughout the state were packed with immigrants looking to take advantage of the opportunity.

Two years after the implementation of AB 60 on Jan. 1, 2015, an estimated 806,000 undocumented residents have received driver’s licenses, according to Department of Motor Vehicles statistics this month. About 14,000 of these licenses were issued in November alone, the DMV said.

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The law aimed to ease deportation fears that proved a barrier for undocumented residents to be tested and licensed to drive, a potential safety concern in a state that is home to an estimated 3 million illegal immigrants. Access to a license also makes it easier for those residents to find work and put their kids in public school.

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Critics also point to another state “motor-voter” law, AB 1461, that starting in 2017 will automatically register most licensed California drivers to vote, arguing it could lead to election fraud if non-citizens barred from voting in federal elections become registered. State officials said there are safeguards in the system to prevent undocumented licensees from being registered to vote.

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How Bad is it? When You Believe What Putin Says Over Obama

More of Obama's super-egotistical mischief. m/r

Russian Embassy in UK responds to sanctions with 'lame duck tweet'

The tweet came in response to an order from Washington to expel 35 Russian diplomats

Andrew Buncombe New York 12-29-16

The Russian response to Barack Obama’s announcement that he was expelling 35 diplomats over the alleged cyber attack on the US election, was fast, and in some cases, rather amusing.
As officials in Moscow said that US diplomats would be ordered to leave in a tit-for-tat response, the Russian Embassy used Twitter to make its point with little panache.

“President Obama expels 35 🇷iplomats in Cold War deja vu. Everybody, including the American people, will be glad to see the last of this hapless administration,” it said.

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Obama's and Kerry's Equivocating Equivalence

10 Lies Secretary of State Kerry Told During His Big Middle East Peace Speech

By: Ben Shapiro 12-28-16

On Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry gave a speech on his proposed plan for peace between Israelis and Arabs. His plan: blame the Jews, pretend that Palestinian terrorism and incitement isn’t representative of the actual Palestinian government, and then blather for 69 more minutes. His speech razed facts to the ground in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan.
Here were ten of the worst lies and lies-by-omission Kerry purveyed in his ode to lying and self-indulgence:
1. Equating Jewish Settlements and Palestinian Terrorism. Israel has been wracked by a wave of stabbings and shootings and rocket attacks from Palestinian terrorists over the last two years. Kerry spent a few minutes on that, but only in order to draw moral equivalence with Jews building additional bathrooms in East Jerusalem, the capital of Israel. “The truth is that trends on the ground, violence, terrorism, settlement expansion, and the seemingly endless occupation, they are combining to destroy hopes for peace on both sides,” Kerry said. This is nonsense. Before there were any Jewish settlements – when Israel did not control Judea, Samaria, or Gaza – the Palestine Liberation Organization called for the “liberation” of Palestine, meaning the complete destruction of Israel. The problem isn’t people building homes. It’s Palestinians murdering Jews, and refusing to accept that any home built by a Jew ought to exist in the Middle East.

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Here is The Knowledge of History

"The first time I traveled across the Atlantic Ocean, as the plane flew into the skies over London, I was struck by the thought that, in these skies, a thousand British fighter pilots fought off Hitler’s air force and saved both Britain and Western civilization. But how many students today will have any idea of such things, with history being neglected in favor of politically correct rhetoric?"

Random Thoughts, Looking Back

Thomas Sowell  December 28, 2016

A final farewell, bonus edition.

Any honest man, looking back on a very long life, must admit — even if only to himself — to being a relic of a bygone era. Having lived long enough to have seen both “the greatest generation” that fought World War II and the gratingest generation that we see all around us today makes being a relic of the past more of a boast than an admission.

Not everything in the past was admirable. Poet W.H. Auden called the 1930s “a low dishonest decade.” So were the 1960s, which launched many of the trends we are experiencing so painfully today. Some of the fashionable notions of the 1930s reappeared in the 1960s, often using the very same discredited words and producing the same disastrous consequences.
The old are not really smarter than the young, in terms of sheer brainpower. It is just that we have already made the kinds of mistakes that the young are about to make, and we have already suffered the consequences that the young are going to suffer, if they disregard the record of the past.
If you want to understand the fatal dangers facing America today, read The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill. ...

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This is Painfully Obvious Nationwide: "Indeed, enrollment in history has dropped"

Unfortunately, Colleges have only been teaching a PC version of "History" for years.
"Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it."
Winston Churchill

George Washington University Drops U.S. History Requirement — for History Majors!

By Tyler O'Neil December 28, 2016

A university literally named after George Washington and located in the nation's capital just dropped its requirement for American history, for history majors. In order to graduate with a history degree from George Washington University (GW) in Washington, D.C., you do not have to study American history.

To make matters worse, the department said they made this stunning decision in order to kowtow to current trends and make history more popular. This change comes among other updates to the curriculum: history majors will no longer be required to take foreign language classes, can do an electronic capstone project instead of the traditional thesis, and will not have to study European, North American, or U.S. history.

"I think the main gain for students is that they have a great deal more flexibility than they had before, and they can adapt it to whatever their plans are for the future," Katrin Schultheiss, chair of the history department, told The GW Hatchet. "Whatever they want to do, there's a way to make the history department work for them."

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Eight Years of Whoopie - Can't We Bill the Obamas for their lavish vacations?

He wants America to join the 3rd World, just as he has acted as a 3rd World Dictator. 
Trump vs. Obama is a study in major contrasts. m/r

Report: 8 years of Obama vacations cost $85 million

By Anita Kumar  December 28, 2016 

WASHINGTON

As America’s first family enjoys its eighth and final vacation in Hawaii, new estimates put the price tag of the Obamas’ annual trip at $3.5 million or more.
In total, the cost of the the first family’s personal or largely personal travel during the last eight years comes to $85 million – though that is likely to climb to $90 million after additional records are released, according to the conservative group Judicial Watch based on federal government records.
The cost of Air Force One and other government planes as well as helicopters, cargo planes, armored cars, Secret Service protection and advance, communications and medical staff has led Judicial Watch to push for less personal travel.
“The Secret Service and the Air Force are being abused by unnecessary travel,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said. “Unnecessary presidential travel for fundraising and luxury vacations on the taxpayers’ dime would be a good target for reform for the incoming Trump administration.”
President-elect Donald Trump prefers to vacation at his own properties. He is spending Christmas at Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, where he stayed for Thanksgiving. After the election, he spent a weekend at Bedminster golf club in New Jersey, which has fueled speculation that it could be Trump’s Camp David.

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Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article123335079.html#storylink=cpy

It was just the "Vast Right-Wing-Conspiracy, conspiring"

The left just can't talk straight. m/r

12 words that undid the Dems in 2016

Exclusive: Jack Cashill notes this year, 'leftists lost control of the semantic battlefield'

Jack Cashill 12-28-16

In 2016, for the first time in the broadcast era, leftists lost control of the semantic battlefield. If they recognized this fact, they recognized it too late. Thanks largely to social media, their Orwellian efforts to redefine, re-purpose or evade ordinary word usage made them look foolish and ultimately left them vulnerable to defeat. Twelve damning words:
12. Micro-aggression. In the hothouse environment of the American campus, the claim to have suffered a micro-aggression – an inadvertent slight to one’s identity – gathered pity points for the offended snowflakes. In the real world, where people suffer macro-aggressions on a daily basis, the whole concept just seemed trivial and pathetic.
11. Islamic. The problem here was that Democrats, from the president on down, could not bring themselves to use the word in a context where it was absolutely demanded, namely terrorism.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/12-words-that-undid-the-dems-in-2016/#SBgLmd5lt285FFE4.99

Get A Life! - Go Lick a Frozen Flag Pole!

And what is their remedy, I ask with great trepidation?The world of the left is just one looney thing after anther. m/r

Salon: 'A Christmas Story' is White Racist Nostalgia

We thought color-blindness was supposed to be a good thing.

12.28.2016   Mark Tapson

The social justice warrior's every waking moment is consumed by racial resentment. The latest example: the radical leftists at Salon have deconstructed the classic holiday movie A Christmas Story as an example of white racist nostalgia.

Salon's Chauncey DeVega alerts you from the get-go that he's going to ruin your Christmas movie-viewing experience by pointing out that film and TV are very revealing in terms of "what stories are told and which ones are not? Who gets to speak? Who is silenced? What groups are placed front and center in American — and global — popular culture? Which groups are marginalized or at the periphery? Whose experiences are erased?”
He admits to enjoying the comedy A Christmas Story as a child, but as he grew older he wondered why it wasn't more about people of color like himself. As DeVega notes, there are black characters in the film but they "remain peripheral. They have no real voice or agency." Perhaps that's because they aren't the principal characters. This isn't their movie; it's little nine-year-old Ralphie's movie, and Ralphie happens to be white, as does the radio broadcaster whose semi-autobiographical story this is.
The black characters "are shown in an perfectly inoffensive and neutral fashion," DeVega observes. Perhaps that's because the movie isn't racist. ...

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“Fortunately, even during my period of Marxism I had respect for evidence and logic”

Michelle Malkin: Thank You, Professor Sowell

Michelle Malkin  December 27, 2016

Thomas Sowell is retiring from column writing at 86–his farewell column is here. See earlier A Man Alone (1987) and Human Capital—A Chat With Thomas Sowell (1998) by Peter Brimelow
I first read Thomas Sowell in college–no thanks to my college.
At the majority of America’s institutions of “higher learning,” reading Thomas Sowell was a subversive act in the early 1990s when I was a student. It remains so today. Why? Because the prolific libertarian economist’s vast body of work is a clarion rejection of all the liberal intelligentsia hold dear.
Among the left’s most corrosive ideas is the concept of perpetual and permanent racial victimhood, which social engineers pretend to rectify through federally mandated, taxpayer-subsidized preferential policies. Sowell’s groundbreaking academic analyses of these programs in the U.S. and around the world exposed how elites profit mightily at the expense of the alleged beneficiaries of government-coerced affirmative action.

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What is Next For Barack Hussein Obama, Demand that Israel Return to Its Pre-1948 Borders?

Obama has made it obvious to US, he wants America weakened and Israel gone. m/r 

"Was this Obama’s last betrayal of our national security interests? There are still 25 days left. What more damage will he do?"

Perfidious Obama’s Last Betrayal

Jed Babbin  December 26, 2016

Barack Hussein Obama is the one on the Left, as always!

... Obama’s enmity toward Israel, though often denied, has been obvious since his inauguration. Through many meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his attempt to force a false peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and his nuclear weapons deal with Iran, Obama has made it clear to anyone who wanted to see that his hatred of Israel coincided with his intention to diminish our national security as well as that of the Jewish state.
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Obama is not just pro-Palestinian, he is anti-Israel. Set aside the issue of whether he and Kerry are anti-Semitic. They probably are. More importantly, to the narcissistic Obama, opposition to Israel and Netanyahu is a very personal fight.
Obama has always seen his presidency as a vehicle for the accommodation of Islamic nations. This is the president who ordered his director of NASA to make his primary mission an outreach to the Islamic world, rather than other planets. In his June 2009 speech in Cairo, Obama told the Islamic world that part of the job of America’s president is to fight against negative stereotypes of Muslims. There was no mention of the need to fight against Islamic nations’ aggression against our allies.

Beginning about that time, Obama formulated a policy designed to drive Israel back behind its pre-1967 borders. ...

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Doesn't this sound really familiar?

No lessons from Boston's Islamic Terror Bomber Brothers. The Russians warned the FBI, twice, about the Tsarnaevs. m/r

Morocco Warned Germany Twice About Berlin Killer Anis Amri; German Intel Did Nothing

By Michael van der Galien December 27, 2016

A Moroccan security official says that his country's intelligence service warned Germany twice about the risk posed by Anis Amri, the radical Muslim who slaughtered 12 people at a Christmas market in Berlin earlier this month.

The official, who spoke to Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah, says that the Germans received two written warnings, one on September 19 and the other on October 1, about Amri's radical Islamic beliefs. He explains:

Correspondence from the Moroccan security agencies had a clear warning about the Tunisian man's desire to carry out a terrorist act.

Earlier this month, Dutch populist Geert Wilders was criticized because he told Angela Merkel in a tweet that she had blood on her hands.

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Bureaucratic Arrogance is a serious mental disorder

And California's government grows sicker daily. This was a bureaucrat's personal form of 'road rage' who offended that she was 'cut off' while driving her important, official unmarked vehicle. m/r

California man fights DUI charge for driving under influence of caffeine 

Julia Carrie Wong  12-24-16

Attorney for Joseph Schawb, charged with driving under the influence of a drug when his blood test showed only caffeine, calls the charge unheard of 

Caffeine may be the “nootropic” brain drug of choice in Silicon Valley, but an hour’s drive north in Solano County, California, the stimulant could get you charged with driving under the influence.
That is according to defense attorney Stacey Barrett, speaking on behalf of her client, Joseph Schwab.
After being pulled over on 5 August 2015, Schwab was charged by the Solano County district attorney with misdemeanor driving under the influence of a drug.
Almost 18 months later, Schwab is preparing to go to trial. The only evidence the DA has provided of his intoxication is a blood test showing the presence of caffeine.
Schwab was driving home from work when he was pulled over by an agent from the California department of alcoholic beverage control, who was driving an unmarked vehicle. The agent said Schwab had cut her off and was driving erratically.

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Obama Ends the Year With Another Addition to His Record of Foreign Policy Failures and Disgraces

Ranked at the very Bottom, the biggest failure as President! m/r

Undoing Obama's Latest Legacy as UN Abstainer-in-Chief

By Claudia Rosett December 24, 2016

To President Obama's legacy of foreign policy debacles, we can now add his landmark betrayal of Israel, carried out Dec. 23rd at the United Nations. By declining to wield the U.S. veto at the Security Council, by choosing instead to abstain -- by Vanishing-from-Behind -- Obama allowed the passage, by a vote of 14 in favor, 1 abstaining, of Resolution 2334. In the guise of condemning Israeli settlements, this resolution is configured to delegitimize and imperil Israel itself, America's longtime ally and the only democracy in the Middle East.

With that signal abstention, Obama abandoned decades of U.S. practice of defending Israel against the bigots and thug governments that routinely sit on the Security Council, including permanent members Russia and China, and their rotating sidekicks, such as Venezuela. As a Wall Street Journal editorial accurately put it, referring to the U.S. abstention: "What it reveals clearly is the Obama administration's animus against the state of Israel itself. No longer needing Jewish votes, Mr. Obama was free, finally, to punish the Jewish state in a way no previous president has done."

It is not only Israel that Obama is punishing. It is America itself, and the voters who had the audacity at the polls to choose, over Obama's heiress-designate, a candidate who clearly stated his intention to restore American power, and reverse Obama's policies of coddling enemies, such as Iran, and snubbing allies, such as Israel. President-elect Donald Trump urged Obama to veto this resolution. Obama, with less than four weeks left in office, instead took time out from his Hawaiian holiday to order that the U.S. -- to borrow one of the notorious phrases from the 2012 debacle in Benghazi -- stand down.

Then, in a series of scenes that could have been scripted by George Orwell, Obama's senior functionaries blurred, fudged or outright lied about what his administration had just done. ...

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Bad Santa - Food Stamp Program

As usual, the Food Stamp administered by the FDA continually try to expand this program as it can expands its bloated bureaucracy. As it expands it tends to deflate the instances of Fraud.
Unfortunately the program, that was established decades ago to help the truly needy, has expanded its scope and made the purchases other than food too easy. It has also been terribly abused by the powerful, the criminal, the citizen and the alien. Here are some examples of this Bloated Bad Santa on this Christmas. m/r

Millionaires, Drug Dealers And Senators Caught Using Food Stamps Illegally This Year

Thomas Phippen  12-25-16

What do an Iranian millionaire, a state senator, a drug dealer and a polygamist have in common? They all face charges of misusing food stamps this year.
Around 44 million people received benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also called food stamps, in 2016. The whole program cost about $70 billion.
Only one cent of each dollar is spent fraudulently, according to the most recent available data from the Department of Agriculture (USDA), which manages the program. Still, that’s about $70 million dollars of federal taxpayer money that was likely wasted this past year.
Here are few of the strangest cases of food stamp fraud in 2016.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/25/millionaires-drug-dealers-and-senators-caught-using-food-stamps-illegally-this-year/#ixzz4TuEjflt6

Get Back to Your Pre-1967 Borders, Jews

Obama shows his Contempt for Israel and Brotherhood with the Totalitarian Muslim World. He's a very small, but dangerous man for the Western World. He still has 27 more day in which he'll make evil mischief.  m/r 

Obama Takes a Final Swipe at America's Steady Alliance with Israel

By Ron Radosh December 24, 2016

By abstaining on the UN’s resolution condemning Israeli settlements, President Barack Obama gave Israel, on the eve of Hanukkah, a parting shot revealing his true views about the Jewish state.  Pleas were made to him, by both the Israeli government and by President-elect Donald J. Trump, to continue long-standing American policy to veto such anti-Israel resolutions when they came before the Security Council, which would block the resolution from becoming official UN policy.

As one would expect, the resolution’s passage was hailed by so-called “liberal” Jewish groups like J Street, as well as openly pro-left and pro-Hamas groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace. J Street not only endorsed the resolution, but claimed that it “calls for a halt to actions by both sides that serve to undermine the prospects for peace.” Their statement goes on to equate “Palestinian incitement and terror” with “Israeli settlement expansion and home demolitions.”  Jewish Voice for Peace praises the resolution’s adoption by the U.N. as “a step to acknowledging the “need to hold Israel accountable to international law.” There is no attempt on their part to engage in moral equivalence, seeing Israel alone as the one power responsible for the failure of an Israeli-Palestinian agreement.

The truth about the resolution, as Elliott Abrams and Michael Singh point out, is that it does not distinguish between construction in settlement blocs west of Israel’s security barrier where 80 percent of Israeli settlers live, and those built east of the barrier, where controversy exists about their existence. They point out that most settlements are in towns “that no one disputes [Israel] will keep” after a peace settlement.  In essence the resolution demands a return to the 1967 lines before Israel’s military victory, which would mean that even the Western Wall as well as most of East Jerusalem would return to Palestinian hands.

By telling the U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power to abstain, President Obama made clear that he continues to believe the reason for failure to create a new Oslo Agreement was Israel’s alone. ...

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No Matter where he was born, he came here as an Immigrant and treats America as a Hostile Alien

At every point, Obama tries to Undermine America. m/r

Europe’s Murdering Muslims: Trump And Tillerson HAVE THE POWER To Stop Them Coming Here IMMEDIATELY

John Derbyshire   December 23, 2016

[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com.]

On Monday December 19, another Muslim murderer ran amok: twenty-three-year-old Tunisian immigrant Anis Amri hijacked a big rig and drove it into a crowd of Christmas shoppers in Berlin, Germany, killing twelve and injuring fifty.
Three and a half days later, in the small hours of Friday morning, Amri was spotted by two cops in Milan, Italy. They accosted him; he shot and wounded one of the cops; the other cop then shot him dead. 
Amri’s immigration history is a case study of Western stupidity and incompetence. He was one of the early boat people leaving North Africa for the Italian island of Lampedusa in 2011. While there he was arrested for robbery, and arson—he helped set fire to a holding center for illegals.
The Italians put him in jail for four years. In Italian prisons, as in British and French prisons, radical Muslims are a major organizing force among the prisoners, so Amri got radicalized.

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He is still doing more good as President-Elect than Obama did in his two terms

Trump Strikes Again, Boeing Drops Price for Air Force One

President-elect cements a deal to save taxpayers millions, before taking office

by Jim Stinson | Updated 22 Dec 2016 

President-Elect Donald Trump has struck again, this time with Boeing Corp.

Boeing had come under Trump’s scrutiny when he discovered two Air Force One jets, planned for unveiling around 2023, would exceed a $4 billion price tag.

“Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion.”

But after meeting with Trump, the Boeing CEO said he would bring the jets in for well under the $4 billion price tag.

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American Jews Voted for him on the Masochism Ticket

Happy Hanukkah, as two-faced Obama snuffs out the candles of light. He's a Muslim schooled, antisemite. He exhibits this time and time again. m/r

Obama Wishes Jews ‘Happy Hanukkah’ — as He Stabs Israel at UN

Joel B. Pollak  23 Dec 2016

Even as he allowed an anti-Israel resolution to pass at the UN Security Council, President Barack Obama wished Jews a “Happy Hanukkah” on Friday.

“As night falls over each of the next eight days, Jews in the United States, Israel and around the world will gather to light their Hanukkah menorahs, display them proudly in the window and recall the miracles of both ancient times and the present day,” the president said in a statement, as reported by The Hill.
He continued: “For more than two millennia, the story of Hanukkah has reminded the world of the Jewish people’s perseverance and the persistence of faith, even against daunting odds.”
Obama’s statement emphasized religious freedom — and downplayed Hanukkah’s themes of political independence.

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Congress is Never to be Trusted! They All Love Taxes, except on themselves, that is.

And the Democrats are the worst; they're all a Hypocritical bunch of bastards! m/r

GOP considers holding off on repealing ObamaCare taxes

By Peter Sullivan - 12/21/16 

Congressional Republicans are considering holding off on repealing some of ObamaCare's taxes, according to lobbyists familiar with the discussions. 

 

GOP lawmakers on the House Ways and Means Committee discussed the possibility of keeping some of the taxes in place during a retreat last week at the Library of Congress, the sources say.

 

Even if some of the taxes are not removed as part of the initial repeal bill, it does not necessarily mean they will remain indefinitely. Some ObamaCare taxes could be dealt with as part of a larger tax reform bill later in the year. 

 

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The Most Polluted Place on Earth and it is given a pass time after time by Environmentalists

The "Global Warming" Hoaxers just seems to ignore China. Is it because they themselves are totalitarians at their core? m/r

China's smoggiest city closes schools amid public anger

AFP December 21, 2016

China's smoggiest city closed schools Wednesday as much of the country suffered its sixth day under an oppressive haze, sparking public anger about the slow response to the threat to children's health.

Since Friday a choking miasma has covered a large swathe of northeastern China, leaving more than 460 million gasping for breath.

Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province, was one of more than 20 cities which went on red alert Friday evening, triggering an emergency plan to reduce pollution by shutting polluting factories and taking cars off the road, among other measures.

Nowhere has been hit as hard as Shijiazhuang, which has seen a huge rise in pollution.

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The Winner of the Dumbest Person of the Year for Nine Years Running

Affirmative Action in Action! m/r

LOONEY TOONS Michelle Obama HUMILIATES HERSELF ON NATIONAL TELEVISION !!!!!!!   

Published on Dec 21, 2016

Plagiarized 'Roots', just following in the path of the Big Lies of Kwanza

Lies, Lies and More Lies.
They just perpetuate division. m/r

HAPPY KWANZAA! THE HOLIDAY BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FBI

December 21, 2016  Ann Coulter

Kwanzaa, celebrated exclusively by white liberals, is a fake holiday invented in 1966 by black radical/FBI stooge, Ron Karenga -- aka Dr. Maulana Karenga, founder of United Slaves, the violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers. In the annals of the American '60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of the czarist police.

In what was ultimately a foolish gambit, during the madness of the '60s, the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the group, the better. (It's the same function Madonna and Martin Sheen serve today.)

By that criterion, Karenga's United Slaves was perfect.

Despite modern perceptions that blend all the black activists of the '60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites. Although some of their most high-profile leaders were drug dealers and murderers, they did not seek armed revolution. 

Those were the precepts of Karenga's United Slaves. The United Slaves were proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, gunning down Black Panthers and adopting invented "African" names. (I will not be shooting any Black Panthers next week because I am Kwanzaa-reform, and we are not that observant.)

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Merry Christmas from Our Enemy Governments

Taking no truck in those "Killer Trucks". Now trucks are the killers, as guns are the killers. It is never the killers who are "the killers". Those killer trucks just start themselves up, plow though innocent Christmas Market Shoppers and honk out 'Allahu akbar' and 'Infidels must die', all at the same time. m/r

"My own preference, as I've stated, is that, if free countries have to have unsightly security controls, why don't they have them around the national borders rather than around every single thing inside those borders?"

Market Forces

by Mark Steyn  Steyn on the World December 19, 2016

The following column appears in Australia's Herald Sun:
On Saturday morning, I recalled a conversation over the summer with a German lady who had "found herself on the receiving end of some vibrant multicultural outreach from one of Mutti Merkel's boy charmers":

As a result, she no longer goes out after dark. She had also decided - with reluctance, because she enjoyed it - to cancel her participation in a local Christmas market, where she'd sung carols every year - in broad daylight.
"Why would you do that?" I asked.
"Because it's Christmas," she said, "and I'm worried Christmas will be a target."

And I concluded:

Christmas markets are a grand German tradition, but probably not for much longer.

Forty-eight hours later, twelve people are dead and 48 are injured (at the time of writing) because they attended a Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz in Berlin. This BBC headline effortlessly conveys the madness of our times:

Lorry kills 12 at Christmas market

Ah, so the truck did it. So it's nothing that can't be fixed by some basic truck-control measures - like, say, licensing and registration of trucks.

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Proof of Severe Retardation!

Yikes: MTV Video ‘2017 Resolutions for White Guys’ Airs Laundry List of Grievances

By Curtis Houck | December 19, 2016

 

Late Monday afternoon, MTV News underlined its reputation of being a haven for far-left millennials as it released a video on Twitter, dubbed “2017 Resolutions for White Guys,” that offered advice such as stop “mansplaining” and stop saying All Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter.
Lasting one minute and 21 seconds, the video provides ample reason for older generations to despise millennials and goes hand-in-hand with the litany of meltdowns by liberal snowflakes since the election of Donald Trump as the next President of the United States.

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Watch the "Climate Change" Scammers Blame This on "Global Warming"

Just ask the biggest, phony scammers of them all, Al Gore. m/r

Snow in the SAHARA: Desert sees snow for the FIRST time in 37 years

Dec 20, 2016

ENGLAND is not set to have a white Christmas - but snow has fallen in the Sahara desert for only the second time in living memory.

Amateur photographer Karim Bouchetata took incredible pictures of snow covering the sand in the small Saharan desert town of Ain Sefra, Algeria, yesterday afternoon.
He captured the amazing moment snow fell on the red sand dunes in the world's largest hot desert for the first time in 37 years.
Snow was last seen in Ain Sefra on February 18, 1979, when the snow storm lasted just half an hour.

"The snow stayed for about a day and has now melted away."

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With Obama there is Always a Racial Element. Were Most of these Recipients Black or Hispanic?

Obama just granted 231 pardons and commutations – the most ever in a single day

By Vera Bergengruen   12-19-16

WASHINGTON

President Barack Obama pardoned 78 people and shortened the sentences of 153 others convicted of federal crimes on Monday – the most individual clemencies ever granted in a single day by any president. As he nears the end of his second term, Obama has issued more commutations than the previous 11 presidents combined, according to the White House.
“The 231 individuals granted clemency today have all demonstrated that they are ready to make use — or have already made use — of a second chance,” White House counsel Neil Eggleston wrote in a blog post. “While each clemency recipient’s story is unique, the common thread of rehabilitation underlies all of them.”

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Is this proof that the Left and its Media has gone completely mental?

Washington Post has another reason to abolish electoral college: global warming

                 Written by CCD Editor on December 19, 2016

The climate doomsters at the Washington Post serve up another reason to rid America of the electoral college: global warming. That’s because it allowed Donald Trump to get elected. And under a Trump presidency, global warming will get short shrift. The author, a Yale School of Management lecturer, forgot the primary reason we have an EC: because the founding fathers didn’t want heavily populated states having too much influence on presidential elections. Something lost in the shrill screams and lamentable cries of the grief-stricken Democratic party and Fake News-generators at Liberal media outlets.

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How many of the California votes were cast illegally?

This voting fraud by illegal voters is not being addressed, and it needs to be! It is especially the case in California. m/r

Opinion: Hillary Clinton supporters need to quit whining about the Electoral College

By James E. Campbell

Published: Dec 19, 2016 

Many die-hard Clinton supporters cannot bring themselves to believe their candidate could lose to Donald Trump. They think: How could such a crude and inept con man be elected president? Even after it has happened, it is unthinkable, a nightmare. So, the election must not have been fair.
Those on the fringe raise the specter of diabolical Russians hacking away at our democracy. More grounded Clintonians have less malevolent boogeymen — our Founding Fathers. As they see it, the election’s outcome should be blamed on a dysfunctional and archaic electoral vote system. Hillary won the national popular vote. She should be president. It is as simple as that. The Electoral College should go the way of Trump University.
They are right about one thing: Hillary did win the national popular vote. As votes continued to trickle in three weeks after Election Day, Clinton received 50.9% of the two-party vote to 49.1% for Trump. With about 135 million votes counted, Clinton has 2.3 million more votes than Trump.

Yet Clinton has only 232 electoral votes (in 20 states plus Washington, D.C.) to Trump’s 306 (in 30 states plus one from Maine), making him the president-elect. So Trump’s election without a popular-vote plurality is regarded as an injustice. Some Democrats claim a moral victory as victims of an electoral vote system that once again horribly “misfired.” Their claim, however, neglects two facts.
First, had the election been conducted with rules awarding the presidency to the popular-vote winner, the candidates and many voters quite probably would have acted very differently and the popular vote would not have been the same. Trump and Clinton would have campaigned in the “safe” states. Potential voters in those states would have felt more pressure to turn out and to vote for “the lesser of two evils” and not to waste their votes on third-party candidates. Some additional Clinton voters would probably have shown up, but gains on the Trump side would probably have been larger as more reluctant Republicans would have been pushed to return to the fold, particularly in big blue states like California, New York, and Illinois.
In short, a comparison of the national popular vote as cast and the electoral vote division is no simple matter. This is particularly true in our age of pervasive polling in which people should have a good idea about whether they live in a state where their presidential vote might make a difference.
Second, Clinton’s 2.3-million-popular-vote plurality over Trump depends on the votes in a single state: California. Clinton has more than a 4-million-vote plurality over Trump there. In the other 49 states plus the District of Columbia, Trump actually has a 1.7-million-popular-vote plurality over Clinton. So California single-handedly turns a Trump plurality into a Clinton plurality. ...
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Fake Human, also known as the Bitch-of-Benghazi

Here is the most corrupt politician in Washington D.C., and that's not Fake News! m/r

FAKE NEWS

Published on Dec 16, 2016

What cost Hillary Clinton the election? Well obviously it could not have had anything to do with her creepy, fake smile, her human-like warmth or the swamp of corruption and even treason that she has made for herself. It must be the Russians! And FAKE NEWS! In his latest FIREWALL, Bill Whittle picks apart this nonsense and places the blame squarely on the head of the sore loser responsible for her thrashing.

Two More Big Steps Backward From the Hopey-Changer, Dopey-Deranger

Obama inserts defenders of the black-racist murder, Wesley Cook (alias Mumia), of Philadelphia Policeman Daniel Faulkner, into the Civil Rights Commission while giving his last "Fake News Conference" of the year. m/r

Obama Press Conference Distracts From What He Just Did With The Civil Rights Commission

Peter Hasson  

Reporter, Associate Editor

 12/17/2016

The day before President Obama’s last press conference of the year, the White House quietly announced his presidential appointments of Dego Adegbile and Catherine Lhamon to six-year terms on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Both appointments are aggressive moves for a president on his way out the door.
Obama previously nominated Adegbile to head the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, but a bipartisan group of senators blocked the nomination in 2014 due to Adegbile’s defense of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Adegbile’s appointment, which will not require congressional approval, left pro-police groups crying foul.
John McNesby, president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, called the appointment a “kick in the teeth to the cops.” ...

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