Category: Politics

Stars & Stripes reports that more than 400 Marines are on their way home from Syria after their mission was accomplished. The 1st Battalion, 10th Marines were providing artillery support for coalition forces in the battle for Raqqa, the former capitol if the Islamic State;

The city fell to a mix of Kurdish, Arab and other local forces on Oct. 20 after a 4-month assault that was backed by U.S. and international coalition airpower and artillery.

The unit announced the draw down in a statement Thursday: “With the city liberated and ISIS on the run, the unit has been ordered home. Its replacements have been called off.”

It would have been difficult to foresee troops movements in this direction a year ago. Thanks for your faithful service, Marines. We’ve been waiting for good news like this for several years.

This morning we wake to the news that Matt Lauer, the iconic ‘Today Show’ host has been canned over allegations that he engaged in ‘inappropriate sexual behavior’ in his workplace, and that the incident that was his undoing probably isn’t his first. From the statement read on the show this morning;

“Dear colleagues, on Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Lauer,” Lack’s statement read. “It represented, after serious review, a clear violation of our company’s standards. As a result, we’ve decided to terminate his employment.”

The statement said this is the first complaint regarding Lauer’s behavior the company has received “in the over 20 years he’s been at NBC News.”

“We were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident,” the statement said.

Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra and state Sen. Tony Mendoza of the California State Legislature are facing official inquiries in their home state in regards to sexual harassment – Bocanegra was forced to resign on Monday.

A fourth woman has come forward accusing US Congressman John Conyors of unwanted sexual advances – his son is worried that the congressman is being mistreated in the media.

John Conyers III spoke to reporters early Wednesday outside his family’s Detroit home, saying it’s “very unfortunate to see him fight so long for so many people and to automatically have the allegations assumed to be true.”

Conyers’ son noted, however, that “with sexual assault, women are to be believed.”

The Congressional Office of Compliance, the folks who paid off Conyers’ victim to keep her quiet, has paid off 264 complainants, according to CNBC.

Instead of apologizing for using his congressional office funds to secretly settle a harassment case, Conyers is angry the public has found out. Even if the public is the source of the cash used to pay off his accuser.

But here’s the real reason this could blow up: Because of this story, we now know that the same Congressional office where this complaint was filed against Conyers has settled a total of 264 complaints to the tune of $17.2 million of taxpayer money over 20 years. To be specific, that would be the U.S. Congress Office of Compliance. And so far, we don’t know the identity of any of the others named in the complaints.

Conyers, instead of being contrite, goes on the offensive;

Conyers could start taking down his colleagues if he begins to feel even more threatened. That’s what it sounded like when his attorney Arnold Reed issued a statement explaining why Conyers would not resign. Included in Reed’s statement was a sentence that sounded like a threat:

“If people were required to resign over allegations, a lot of people would be out of work in this country including, many members of the House, Senate and even the president.”

Eight women have accused Charlie Rose, liberal news reader of inappropriate behavior.

US Senator Al Franken took to the airways as three more women have come forward to complain about his treatment of women in his circle to apologize for the fact that he was caught;

Franken said he was taking responsibility for his behavior and that he has apologized to the women who have accused him.

“I have been reflecting on this,” the two-term senator said. “I want to be a better man.”

When asked whether other accusers may come forward, he replied that he couldn’t say.

“This has been a shock to me.”

Think about that for a minute – it’s a shock to him that women don’t enjoy the way he treated them.

But, at least he doesn’t claim to have “binders full of women”.

One of our Gold Star mothers send us a link to an article about Gold Star families who have joined in a lawsuit, (Holladay, et al. v. Iran) against Iran in US District Court in Washington, DC to hold the state sponsors of terror responsible for the deaths and injuries of their family members in the war in Iraq from 2003 – 2011.

“Every day we work on this case, we are finding more ties between Iran and the attacks on our citizens and service members in Iraq,” said Gavriel Mairone, whose law firm, MM-Law, joined Levin Papantonio in the lawsuit. His firm is devoted exclusively to representing victims of terrorism.

Mairone said, in a press release, “This investigation gives us the opportunity to hold state sponsors of terror, and those who support and facilitate terrorism, responsible for their abhorrent, systematic killing and maiming of U.S. soldiers and civilians who were on the ground to maintain peace and stability.”

Data suggests that the majority of the 36,000 + U.S. casualties in the war resulted from attacks that can be linked to Iranian-sponsored terrorists.

Congress voted to override President Obama’s veto on the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) in the Fall of 2016. The law allowed US citizens to seek legal retribution from state sponsors of terrorism, which Iran is according to the United Nations.

The article also states that banks which supplied Iran with US dollars to pay their agents are also targets of the lawsuit;

Obtaining U.S. currency was a challenge for Iran because of economic sanctions. They needed help. Enter nine European banks that facilitated the money-laundering. The banks have already pleaded guilty, or admitted and entered into deferred prosecution agreements with U.S. regulators that they conspired with Iran, the Central Bank of Iran, and several other Iranian banks, to illegally provide billions of U.S. dollars to Iran during the Iraq War.

“Without those U.S. dollars, Iran could not possibly have committed the acts of terror that it did in Iraq and certainly could not have had the lethality or the efficiency that it truly did,” said Paulos. “In some parts of Iraq, 70-percent of the casualties at any given time were being caused not by the Iranian army or the Iraqi army or some act of war but by acts of terrorism being committed by known, specially designated terrorists on the ground in Iraq using money and munitions provided by the State of Iran.”

If you think that you might have a claim, the lawyers have set up a website at the Iraq War Fund.

Those conservatives and Republicans reading the cautious confessions of Democrat players that they may have actually been wrong about Bill Clinton’s sexual crimes, could be forgiven if they wrongly believe the scales have fallen at last from the eyes of the left and they can now see how mistaken they once were. While it is tempting to read these mea culpas from liberal pundits and power players within the party, one would be well advised to not go getting all dewy eyed and sentimental over the turkey table with the mistaken belief that perhaps our Democratic brethren aren’t so morally misguided as we’ve long believed. Before lowering your guard and toasting your liberal family members on their belated awakening to the devil in their midst, you should remember that these are Democrats, both operatives and media flunkies writing at the behest of those operatives, and Democrat operatives always have an ulterior motive.

In this case, and in this current heated environment of feminine outrage against male sexual predators, it’s not hard to puzzle out why the Democrat Party would seize on this opportunity to divest themselves of this finally recognized as well as some now all-too-vocal political baggage: Hillary Clinton. Yep, that’s right folks, I didn’t say Bill; I said Hill and that is precisely who is the true target of this supposedly surprise divestiture of the only real living lion of the party. It’s not about Bill or his soulless sexual predations and any sudden awakening to the reality of Republican claims of long ago; it’s that a bunch of lightbulbs went on over a bunch of Democrat heads who all suddenly came to see that in this current political atmosphere, Bill’s past predatory practices were the perfect tool for leveraging the noisy, past-her-sell-date Hillary out of the way for future elections. Their hope is that if prominent Democrats are finally acknowledging the criminality of her husband’s past acts, even the hard headed Hillary has to know that she’s done.

It doesn’t even have to be the entire party turning against Hillary because of Bill’s bad behaviors, but simply enough key Democrats speaking up with their words being expanded upon in the media by their handpicked hand puppets to convince Hillary that it’s all over for the Clinton brand, likely even Chelsea. These Democrat operators must have seen this as pure political gold to be able to finally do the right thing after all these years and acknowledge that their long time party leader is a predatory rat, doing so in a public and political atmosphere that makes their doing it perfectly safe, even laudatory, while at the same time allowing them to rid their party of this hang-around, haranguing, old has-been who refuses to shut up and fade into what will surely be her dubious history.

You know, if I were a conspiracy buff like Hillary, I might think this was all a huge left-wing plot to get her that started with throwing Harvey Weinstein under the bus. Nah, it was just pure good luck.

Crossposted at American Thinker

I don’t normally put out begging letters. However, since this is the holiday season, I thought it might be appropriate to ask a favor of all of you.

Please get your politicians and reporters spayed and neutered. Then ear-tip them so that we know it’s been done.   Microchipping might be in order, too.

We need to do something about the rapidly-growing population of these stray and feral critters. If this isn’t addressed now, or even sooner, we’ll have two entire generations of stray politicians hanging out on your doorstep, looking for food and shelter, and most likely a small clowder of reporters following them, after finding their way out of the demesnes under commuter rail bridges and empty shops next to a Starbuck’s.

Now, I know I used the word ‘strays’.  It’s my understanding that some of them are also ferals, especially the old-timers in the politician population. They’re incredibly picky about what they eat and where they stay, so you can’t just give them regular food like Arby’s or Kentucky Fried Chicken and corner in the garage with a blanket. Many of them will turn down a Quarterpounder with Cheese, even if they’ve gone without a meal since 10AM. They may be finicky, but it’s because they think they’re entitled to a little more than just regular food. Black Forest ham, for instance, makes them happier than a ham sandwich with no designated ham origin, and if the salad you give them doesn’t have the latest in food fads – Chia pet seeds, for instance – they turn up their noses and walk away. And just plain old coffee is less than satisfactory, especially if you don’t use the real fake lo-fat non-dairy powdered creamer in it. They like to have bragging rights about the source and content of everything. It should be tattooed on their tummies or ears for the entire world to see, along with their invente,d but certified, allergies and carbon-resistant tendencies.

I’m not suggesting we should be considering taking up a collection for shelters for homeless reporters or politicians. That money should go to homeless veterans, who put their time in serving their country instead of themselves.

It’s only fair, however, to make sure that in their sunset years these particularly politic feral souls will have a safe haven to go to where they can live out what time they have left before the world explodes into an ice age around them. We must also guarantee that they can’t reproduce.

The only real difference between the two species is that reporters generally tend to be sort of blondish with a fascination for glowing vid-screens, whereas politicians seem to manifest a rather dark, sometimes odd presence, as if they’re hiding something under the dinner napkins. But as you know, both species engage in flurries of untrammeled copulatory diversions, as well as concerts of loud, inane rambling public rhetoric in front of TV cameras.

The populations of both species have grown by leaps and bounds lately, so much so that to continue to allow the spread of this disorder may result in having to force them into fenced colonies, accessible only to theologians and psychiatrists.

So please, I beg you, follow the procedure to get this done. Set up the local traps with a tempting bit of bait, such as dinner wafers with feta cheese and fish eggs or pulsed zucchini in a garlic mayonnaise sauce. Once the politician or the reporter is trapped, you can call the local ferals shelter to pick them up for proper medical care, and neutering or spaying, plus the ear tipping and microchip.

They can then be released to their own colonies where they won’t be constantly begging for money from us, expecting us to listen to their long-winded rattling speeches, or asking us to pay for their expensive cars and food.

I’m begging you, with tears in my eyes, get them spayed and neutered. It’s the only way to be sure.