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John Knox is rolling in his grave. (”Give me Scotland or I die!”)

First the “church” denounces Israel and says the promises in the Bible aren’t necessarily promises...

then it wants to normalize gender roles which also run contrary to
Biblical definitions.

What’s next?

Definitely write or email your congressman.

You HAVE the power to shed light on this and pressure
Congress.

If they don’t hear from you, this issue will remain invisible to them.

Even a few emails count.

(And the USA HAS the power to pressure Egypt; without US money, the regime will collapse.)

They should have just walked across the border with Mexico.

Or said they were from Chechnya.

(Some immigrants get to stay here. Some—like those pesky
Christians—don’t.)

I’m sure John Kerry will speak right up!

I don’t mind giving the money, but is the USA the ONLY country contributing?

Aren’t the Russians heavily involved with Syria? Are they going to pony up half a billion?

How about China (another Syrian supporter)?

Where’s Iran?

Where are the oil rich Arab nations?

How about the EU, which loves to lecture everyone in the middle east?

etc.

Hopefully maybe the hardline faction has lost a round
(with China’s blessing)

Why did he vote for a 2000-page bill without reading it?

The media has been in the tank for the administration too long for them to change now.

They have no credibility.

OK.

I object to discussions of
“the patriarchy”, “rape culture”, anything
relating to “gay” and “lesbian” studies,
and “feminism”.

“THE CHARGE OF THE OBAMA PRESS CORPS BRIGADE !”

LOL! Absolutely great!

Results depend on the way you frame the question.

Ask another question: how many of you feel that O
is anti-Israel?

and the results may be quite different.

We won’t get the real truth about Cuba until after Castroism falls.

Then all those celebrities who flirted with the regime and thought it was trendy to visit Havana will understand why some of us thought so little of them for doing so.

What Benghazi attacks? There were Benghazi attacks?

There wasn’t anything on the news about it... (sarc/off)

“there were major bombshells dropped today”

Yeah? Well, I didn’t hear about anything like that on the news!
(sarc/off)

“Remember, no school, NOT ONE, has ever been punished
for releasing FERPA information.”

And to beat a dead horse, that includes Duke university,
which gave private student info to Nifong to help him
find students to charge with rape (falsely); and then
lied to the court about it afterwards.

As far as the Dept. of Education was concerned, so what?

Remember, no school, NOT ONE, has ever been punished
for releasing FERPA information.

The ONLY punishment for violating FERPA is that the feds may cut off some or all of the federal funds a school receives.

Usually that would be research money.

So, it never gets cut off.

And no student is allowed to sue for violation of FERPA.

So FERPA is a paper tiger.

Except that it is often used as an excuse to cover up
all kinds of mischief.

Assad has a loyal base in the Alawites and other minorities in Syria, who know they will be massacred if the Sunni-islamists
take over.

He may have his back to the wall, but he is not alone.

Doesn’t Kerry know how important Victory Day (May 9) is in Russia?

Doesn’t he get State Dept. briefings?

Will he attend the parade as long as he’s in town, or just brush it off?

To be fair, a lot of Irish (about 50,000) volunteered for the British army and served with distinction.

(These were not deserters who were already in the Irish forces.)

About a quarter million Irish worked in England in the defense industry.

That said, hatred of Britain (sometimes justified) resulted in
a rather opaque view of the reality of Nazism—and meant that Irish help in the war against the Nazis (not the war for Britain)
was somewhat less than it could (and imho should) have been.

Bunk. FERPA (the Family Educational Records Protection Act) is supposed to apply here. But it’s meaningless. (There has never been a university which was punished for releasing student information without permission.)

Duke University released student information to Nifong
in order to help him find students who he could charge (falsely) with rape, so that the local community wouldn’t riot and burn Duke. (someone had to be arrested, so pick three...)
It then lied about having given him that info, in a court process that was a charade. The DOE didn’t care; the defendants there were non-PC.

Now the DOE is wringing its hands over whether or not to permit the release of how much government (”our”) money was used to support budding terrorists. And whether we have the “right to know”.

My guess is that they will decide we don’t have any right to know. End of story.

(How dare simple citizens want to know?)

The DOE, like FERPA, is a joke.

Too many uncertainties; and we have to rely on the British media even to report most of the facts.

Conclusions?

The US media is an obedient lapdog (and not an independent watchdog);

There is much more to this story than just two lone wolves who decided to go jihadi.

“No evidence of hostile fire” might mean there was no enemy action involved; or it can be spin to keep the casualty figures low; imho it doesn’t always mean that some of these crashes
were not actually caused by enemy action, just that they may not be officially listed as such.

Maybe a “French Spring” can be the start of a European rejection of the globalist elite who run Europe...

(Probably not; but at least one can hope...)

Remember the good old days when a President couldn’t commit US military forces without the prior consent of the people’s representatives in the Congress?

Quaint idea, that...

Isn’t this a bit too neatly tied up? If they hadn’t told him they were the bombers, his 911 about a car hijacking wouldn’t have gotten
much attention that night.

But they told him (although they were on the run); and he was in a position to report them to the police, along with the make and license of the car?

Or is there more to it somehow?

“He became a citizen on the day of 9/11/12 and that night his brother (speed bump)’s best friend was mysteriously murdered in Waltham MA along with two other not so upstanding folks. The method?..Throat slashing...coincidink? nah....”

The three victims were all Jewish. (Irrelevant, of course...sarc/off)

Likely as not, he’ll be given a plea bargain,
there will be no trial, no open questioning,
no cross-examination.

The whole thing will be considered closed.

And whatever version the government wants will be the one
that goes into the official histories.

(Think: Sirhan, Ray, Oswald, Benghazi, Fast and Furious,
Ft.Hood)

Who are these senators representing?

I doubt the American people have any desire at all to
go into yet another middle eastern country
to instill democracy...

Said to be 16 “high risk narcotics and weapons” warrants.

Since the establishment wants to run Jeb, it will now be necessary to rehabilitate George.

Watch for it.

Nothing like China provoking both Japan and India (to say nothing of Vietnam) in border disputes...

Who’s running their foreign office?

I think constitutionally the House is the sole judge of its
membership.

If so, then the courts have no jurisdiction to tell the House that
it can’t censor one of its own.

The Fourth Reich triumphs in Europe (ban Kosher food, ban circumcision—thus rendering the practice of Judaism impossible; and ban Israeli products, including in some cases books).

Western civilization at its finest...(sarc/off)

Excellent work!

Actually, I want an open court and open testimony; I doubt we’ll get this no matter what the venue.

But a good defense attorney could raise some interesting questions.

(Neither Sirhan nor Oswald nor Ray ever got open trials,
with cross-examinations and questions asked.)

Still odd. The brothers had cars and their friends had cars (mercedes, yet)—but they had to take the chance of hijacking another car?

And they let the driver go (mistake?) —and his call to police is what got them caught?

Or, did they meet with a contact who gave them a car and cash, and then deliberately phoned police to turn them in—thinking that they wouldn’t be taken alive, or would commit suicide if cornered?

Is that the way a terror cell operates—to protect itself?

The bombers are the lowest men on the ladder, they are expendable. Get a couple of low-level dupes to plant the bombs, then break the link in the chain (remove them) and the cell can continue to operate?

Don’t know. But maybe worth looking into

(I’m sure the FBI will get around to it right after they finish checking if they had permits for their guns,
and permits to stay in the USA, and were not being sought by foreign governments, and where they got their money from,
and if they were in the drug trade, and what the “terrorista” plate meant...)

“I think it’s classic AQ, but I bet the brothers were the expendable tip of the spear. Remember how OBL laughed when he related that the Saudi muscle on the airliners didn’t know they were on a one way trip?”

Speculation on the NET—

The bombers’ car-jacking incident has always seemed odd, since they had cars (and their friends had expensive cars), and they let the “driver” go free. He called the police, and hence they were caught—their mistake for letting him live.

But what if that was actually a set-up?

Their controllers knew they were supposed to commit suicide if captured or at least not be taken alive; so lure them to a meeting, hand them the money and the car for their “escape”, and then tip the police? Problem solved.

That would suit the modus of the drug trade (which might have been financing their terror cell) as well as terror groups.

One aspect may be that the terror cell financed itself by selling drugs—and that was also the source of some of the nice cars
a few of those people seem to be driving.

That angle needs to be looked into.

There will have to be a change of venue. And every public comment by government officials (to include especially the president) will be considered to have biased the jury pool.

A defense attorney is going to get plenty of grist for his mill...

(mainly because every elected official is going to have to feel he has to get his face on camera and say something...)

This is a build up so that when Jeb runs in 2016, there won’t be any stigma left to the Bush name.

Watch for more of the same coming from the MSM

(they trashed Bush, now they have to restore him)

This could be a way for a) us to find out if Kim is still around and in charge; or b) for Kim to re-emerge in the public eye if the generals have been trying to keep him as just a puppet.

Nobody knows right now who is running NK or just what their goals are; and an internal power struggle may be under way.

(But, who knows?)

Do we know who’s representing the USA?

It’s likely Kim isn’t in charge, but is obeying a clique of corrupt generals who don’t want to lose their control over Korea’s economy (what there is of it) if the society opens up.

This story hardly gets any media play.

One wonders why... (sarc/off)

This is like some group in Philadelphia making a treaty with England about how Independence Hall is to be managed.

Sorry, but the ownership has changed hands.

” This is his third trip to the region in as many weeks.”

Maybe he ought to be focusing on Korea?

Be nice if the Palestinians opted to trade land for peace;

or offered a cease fire;

or to provide free medical care to Israelis;

or stopped using ambulances to ferry ammunition;

or any of those other small gestures which might suggest a desire for peace...

I hate to say it, but the US tends to be the cultural
leader of the world.

If the US endorses something, and promotes that point of view in its films, etc.,

then the rest of the world tends to follow.

“The shooting occurred in the vicinity of the Humans Resources Command, which has 3,800 employees.”

I agree that technology theft is bad; but I also have trouble with patenting cancer research....