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Category: “Teh Stoopid”

  • More DNC “Hot Air”? Well, Sorta.

    I am not making this up.  From FoxNews:

    Hundreds of Bernie Sanders supporters are expected to stage a Fart-In Thursday at the Democratic National Convention meeting in Philadelphia.

    An assortment of Socialists, beatniks, and leftwing rabble-rousers plan to consume massive quantities of pork and beans in preparation for the pungent protest.

    Normally I’d say “YGBSM!” about a story like that.  But given the intended “protest” activities, well . . . maybe that would be inviting disaster.

    And God help us all if they find enough raw onions, chili peppers, pickled eggs, and stale beer to go with the beans.  (smile)

  • Oh, For Cryin’ Out Loud . . . .

    I will be so glad when this moron is finally consigned to the dustbin of history.

    Kerry: Air conditioners as big a threat as ISIS

    Freaking idiot.

  • So, We “Supported Democracy” In Turkey? Yeah. Right.

    Headline pretty much says it all:

    Turkey seizes more than 2,200 institutions
    as post-coup crackdown intensifies
     
    Many of the institutions seized were “social, educational or health-care institutions and facilities”.  The stated reason for seizing them?  “National security.”In a related matter, Turkey has announced it will hire 20,000 teachers to replace those fired in purge which followed the coup’s failure.  During that purge, a total of 13,000 have been jailed; more than 50,000 have been fired from all fields of employment because of being suspected “coup supporters”.

    Oh, and did I mention that 62 of those arrested for treason in Turkey are schoolchildren between the ages of 14 and 17? Or that they’ve issued arrest warrants for 42 journalists linked to a Turkish expatriate living in the US who opposes the current Turkish regime? Well, yeah – both of those are true too.

    But don’t worry.  According to the current      gang of feckeless, naive idiots running US foreign policy      Administration, that’s just the Turkish democratic process at work. Hell, it must be – the President publicly pledged to “support the democratically elected government of Turkey” after the coup failed.

    Meet the new boss
    Same as the old boss

    “Democractic process” my ass.  Here, the “old boss” referenced had the title “Sultan”.

  • Déjà KKKook

    They say that, “A bad penny always turns up”.  We now have another example of the truth of that old proverb.

    Convicted felon and former KKK-dipsh!t David Duke is back in the news these days.  Seems as if he’s announced he’s running for office yet again.  This time, Duke’s announced that he’s running for the US Senate from Louisiana.

    Duke does this periodically. He ran for the Louisiana State Senate in 1974 and 1979 – as a Democrat.  He also ran for President in 1988, also as a Democrat; when that didn’t turn out well, he successfully obtained the Populist Party nomination.  He’s run for a number of Louisiana and Federal elective offices since.  The only public office to which he’s managed to get elected was the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1989 – in a special election where his runoff opponent was stupid enough to come out in favor of raising property taxes in a suburban district; Duke ended up winning by just over 200 votes.  (That gig didn’t last very long for Duke; his tenure in office ended in 1992.)

    Duke is a former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and has been described by some of his former colleagues in that organization as “nothing but a con man”.  He also used Klan funds to largely remodel his home in the 1970s, justifying this by claiming that “most of his home was used by the Klan”.

    Duke’s also a convicted felon.  In 2002, he pleaded guilty to mail fraud and filing a false tax return  in conjunction with a mail solicitation scam (he admitted to having engaged a multi-year direct-mail solicitation campaign from which he diverted funds to support personal investments and gambling trips); he did 15 months time. Predictably, he now claims the charges were brought to derail his political career.

    Duke’s also managed to get arrested and thrown out of the Czech Republic in 2009.  He managed to get himself banned from Europe’s Schengen area by a Swiss court as well.

    He’s also made apparently bogus “secret squirrel” claims, claiming to have participated in clandestine missions in Laos in 1971. (Duke’s father worked in Laos at the time; Duke visited in 1971, and his father managed to get him a short-term job teaching English to Laotian officers.  Duke managed to get himself fired.)  Those claims have been effectively discredited by former Air America pilots, who’ve pointed out that Duke’s claims are don’t square with their operating procedures; Duke also can’t recall the name of any airfield in Laos from which he flew.

    Oh, and for completeness:  Duke’s also a racist, an anti-Semite, a Holocaust denier, and IMO an all-around evil bastard.  (I probably shouldn’t have to spell all of that out since he’s a former KKK Grand Wizard, but unless I do maybe some might not make those connections.)  He also apparently formerly wore Nazi regalia on a regular basis and sold Nazi literature out of his office.

    Nice guy.  Too bad he hasn’t yet consumed excrement and afterwards expired.

    Unfortunately, neither being a convicted felon nor a freaking racist idiot nor a damned liar are disqualifying for Federal elective office.  So he’s running for office yet again.

    Wonder if it’s time to break out those old “Vote for the crook – it’s important” bumper stickers again.  Hopefully the Louisiana electorate will body slam the old racist fool hard enough this time that he finally quits politics for good.

  • Even Stevie Wonder Saw This Coming

    Remember that Iranian Nuclear Deal?  You know, the one that would convince Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions via the “Kumbaya Principle”?  That agreement that was so good it had to remain classified so that the American public wouldn’t know what their leadership was signing up to do?

    Well, the German domestic Intelligence agency recently released a report concerning Iran.  Here’s the BLUF:

    . . . . Iran has a “clandestine” effort to seek illicit nuclear technology and equipment from German companies “at what is, even by international standards, a quantitatively high level.” The findings by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s equivalent of the FBI, were issued in a 317-page report last week.

    So much for “give up its nuclear ambitions”.  I guess the        gang of rank, naïve amateurs and idiots in DC        current Administration never got the memo explaining that the “Kumbaya Principle” is a religious and/or fantasy concept not generally applicable to foreign relations.

    In other “good news”, the same German report indicated that over 1,000 associates of terrorist groups backed by Iran are also living in Germany.  It further goes on to opine that some may be “working on behalf of Iran and other terror-sponsoring states.”

    Gee – ya think?

    So how is Iran funding this effort, you ask?  Well, the nuclear agreement released $100 billion in financial assets that had been frozen after the Iranian Revolution to Iranian control.

    Money is fungible.  You can probably figure it out from there.

    At least Esau got dinner (the proverbial “mess of pottage”) when he sold out.  All the current Administration seems to have gotten when it sold out US security is an “agreement” that even Stevie Wonder could see was worthless and would soon be broken.

    And the American public still doesn’t know what else in in that agreement.

    Wonderful.  Just freaking wonderful.

  • “Refugees of Genocide?” Hardly.

    Well, we have a bit more info about the demographics of those Syrian “refugees” admitted to the US (with “thorough screening”, of course) over the last several months.  And the numbers are . . . interesting.

    In March, the US government “determined . . . that abuses carried out by ISIS (sic) against Christians and other minorities in areas under its control constitute genocide.”  That, presumably, was one reason for the        inane decision by that group of naive fools in charge      Administration’s recent decision to        “open the floodgates, security be damned”       relax policy concerning Syrian “refugee” admissions.

    So, that means the majority of refugees being admitted are Christians or other minorities, right?  I mean, those are the groups being persecuted by Daesh – so wouldn’t they get priority in admission?

    Short answer:  in your dreams, perhaps.  But not in reality.

    In June, 2,381 Syrian “refugees” were admitted to the US.  Of that total, a whopping eight – or less than 0.336% – were Christians fleeing persecution.  The grand total of 9 others were “other minorities”:  eight who were non-Sunni Muslim, and one other individual who did not disclose their religious affiliation (if any).

    The other 2,364?  Sunni Muslim, just like Daesh.

    May was much the same.  During May, 1,069 Syrian “refugees” were admitted to the US.  Of those, 2 – that’s slightly more than 0.187% – were Christian; seven (nearly 0.655%) were of minority Muslim sects.  The remainder (1060, or just over 99.158%) admitted to the US in May were Sunni.

    Finally, the article has monthly demographic totals since last October.  Over the past 9 months, the US has admitted 5,186 such “refugees” – presumably fleeing religious persecution by Daesh.  Of that total, a whopping 20 were Christian; 67 were other religious minorities.  The rest were Sunni.

    Percentage-wise, that’s less than 0.4% Christian and less than 1.3% “other” religious minority that have been admitted by the US from Syria over the last nine months.  That means that over 99.3% of those admitted were Sunni Muslim – just like Daesh.

    “Refugees of religious-based genocide”?  Hardly.  When over 99% of those admitted aren’t even members of the groups supposedly being targeted for religious genocide, any claim that the US is admitting more refugees because they’re somehow “victims of genocide” is very obviously bullsh!t.

    CNSNews has a good article concerning the recent Syrian “refugees” admitted to the US.  It confirms what many of us have long suspected:  the current Administration is simply letting anyone who claims they’re a refugee come through the front door, NQA.  Any “screening” being done is merely for show – not for “go/no go” decisions on who’s to be admitted.

    Yeah, our legs keep getting wetter.  And it’s not raining.

  • Same Old Song and Dance, Part II

    Well, we have a new claim by our “illustrious regime” in DC.  They now claim that they know why their past attempts to support that mythical “moderate” Syrian opposition during the Syrian Civil War failed.

    They now claim that US support failed because it was sabotaged.

    Seriously.

    Specifically, the latest       attempt to grasp at straws         blatant propaganda designed to shift blame         claim is that CIA  aid to those mythical “moderate” Syrian rebels was diverted by “dirty Mideast intel”.   Allegedly, Jordanian intelligence redirected a substantial part of the aid intended for those mythical “moderate” rebels in Syria to Daesh.

    They also admit that corruption within the Syrian opposition was also partly to blame.  They had no choice but to do that; that’s already too well publicly documented.

    Why would Jordan do that, you ask?  Well, as the story goes:  because “Jordan’s biggest enemy is anything Shia” – and Daesh was opposing Iran.

    Gee.  A foreign nation looking out for its own interests.  Ya think that might happen on occasion?

    And corruption within the shadowy world of intel?  Oh, no! That implies that intel is sometimes a “dirty” endeavor!  This is big news!  Stop the presses!

    Hmm.  Ya think that maybe corruption might happen on occasion too?  Especially in the Middle East?  Or in the shadowy world of intel?

    At the risk of sounding “insensitive”:  both of those possibilities are so obvious that even Stevie Wonder can see them.

    These        inane tall tales        dubious claims by the Administration IMO show one of two things.  First, and IMO most likely:  they’re simply dissembling in an attempt to redirect blame for failure.

    And second:  if by some miracle that’s not the case and they’re telling the truth, then this fiasco shows a near-childlike level of incompetence and naïvety.  I mean really:  given how “steadfastly” we’ve supported our allies recently, did they really not expect Jordan to “look out for number one”?  Were they so foolish that they disregarded the possibility of corruption in pretty much ANY organization in the Middle East?

    And to add insult to injury:  either way,  they’re also throwing a valuable ally “under the bus” in the process.  We seem to have gotten quite good at that lately, too.

    GMAFB.  If they didn’t take measures to detect/correct diversion of support to support an ally’s agenda and limit corruption, then IMO they are literally incompetent fools.  But given what I’ve seen in the past from this Administration, I can easily believe that could well be the case.

    Hell, given this        ridiculously naïve and grossly incompetent clown krewe running the show        Administration I personally believe both deliberate mendacity and abysmally naïve incompetence played a part in creating this latest fairy tale.  No, I don’t have proof that’s the case.  But it simply fits.

    Once again, I think my leg’s wet.  And it hasn’t started raining yet.

  • So THAT’S What’s Really Causing Global Warming!

    Well, we finally know why the climate is getting hotter, and rivers are drying up.  Per a senior Iranian Imam, it’s you ladies’ fault.  You’re dressing “immodestly”.

    No, I’m not kidding.  Imam Seyyed Youssef Tabatabi-nejad actually made such a statement recently.  Here’s one reference to his recent pronouncement on the subject.  Here’s another.  There are plenty of other published citations to the same sermon.

    So, all you ladies:  start dressing more modestly when you’re out in public.  Think of mankind’s future!  (smile)

    . . .

    Sheesh.  With that kind of ignorant thinking among their supposedly “educated” ruling elite, no wonder the entire region is stuck in the 12th Century.