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Category: “The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves”

  • “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

    Jonn wrote the other day about Venezuela’s new forced labor policies.  That forced labor is deemed “necessary” because the Venezuelan economy      has been mismanaged into the ground by the Bolivarians      is having severe difficulties.   Basic foodstuffs and commodities like toilet paper are in short supply or are unavailable.

    Well, yesterday we learned how the Venezuelan “Nomenklatura” are getting by.  Turns out they’re suffering, too.

    They’re being forced to wear $12,000+ wristwatches.

    Oh, and don’t forget frequent luxury travel.  Venezuelan      Commissar       President Maduro has traveled – with a large entourage, of course – to 32 different countries, taking 132 days, since taking power.  That translates to about 11% of his time in office.

    Fox News Latino has a good story giving more details.  It’s worth a read.

    Some animals apparently are indeed more equal than others.

  • WaPO Fact Checker Says: Clintoon Lied

    Clintoon recently made a public statement with which the WaPO Fact Checker took issue.  Here’s the statement:

    “Director Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I’ve said is consistent with what I have told the American people, that there were decisions discussed and made to classify retroactively certain of the emails.”

    Well, the WaPO checked it out – and bluntly disagrees.  It rates the statement as meriting “Four Pinocchios”.  Their rating scale can be found here, but I’ll cut to the chase:  their definition of a statement rated “Four Pinocchios” is short, sweet, and to the point.  It defines such statements as, “Whoppers.”

    In effect, the WaPO here has called Clintoon a bald-faced liar.  Their article on the matter analyzes the topic in substantial detail; it can be found here if you’re interested.

    Yeah, most readers already knew that the Clintoons have significant “veracity issues” pretty much every time they open their mouths.  But I think it’s great to see this in print in the WaPO.

  • 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)

  • Just More “Turkish Democracy”

    I wrote the other day about the     boneheaded idiocy exhibited by the current gang of fools in DC     current Administration’s reaction to the recent failed Turkish coup and its aftermath.  Well, it looks like the other shoe is about to drop.

    Turkey is continuing in it’s support for “democracy”.  It appears that the Turkish     Sultan     President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has decided to order 130 media organizations shut down.  Among those ordered closed were 45 newspapers, 23 radio stations, 16 TV stations, 15 magazines, and 3 news agencies.

    But not to worry, friends.  We’re merely “supporting the democratic government” of Turkey via supporting     Sultan     President Ergodan!

    That must be the case.  Our POTUS said so!

  • About That Bomber in Germany . . . .

    Remember the low-life bastard in Germany that Jonn wrote about the other day?  The guy who bombed the Ansbach music festival? You know, the guy from Syria who’d been denied asylum in Germany, but was allowed to remain (presumably temporarily) due to ongoing hostilities in his home nation?

    Yeah, that guy – the guy who blew himself up with a suicide vest at the festival’s entrance.  He ended up killing himself and wounding 12 others in the process.

    Well, guess what. According to the Bavarian state’s top security official:

    Syrian who wounded 12, killed self in Germany
    bombing pledged allegiance to ISIS chief

    But don’t worry, folks.  Something like that can’t possibly happen here.  We oh-so-thoroughly check out Syrian and other “refugees” attempting to enter the US.

    Why, we vet them almost as well  as we vet foreign-born spouses of US citizens who are applying for a visa.

  • 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”.

  • How . . . Convenient

    Headline says it all.

    FBI didn’t record Clinton interview,
    did not administer sworn oath

    I don’t recommend reading the article if you have blood pressure issues and are having a bad day in that respect.

    “It’s beginning to look a lot like whitewash
    Done this regime’s way . . . .”

     

    (And yes – the omission of the “Government Incompetence” tag for this article was intentional.)

  • 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.