Hillary: Russia arming Syria with attack ‘copters
One would assume that a player of Hillary Clinton’s experience would not make such a public charge unless she had considerable confidence that it was true and that she was prepared for the blowback it might create.
That said, from the New York Times:
“The Syria conflict fell deeper into crisis Tuesday as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton publicly accused Russia of supplying attack helicopters to the Syrian government.
Her accusation came as international cease-fire monitors in Syria aborted a fact-finding trip after they came under assault by an angry mob and gunfire, and the top United Nations peacekeeping official said Syria was already in a state of civil war.
Those developments — coupled with a newly released United Nations report that accused the Syrian military of using Syrians as young as 8 as human shields for troops — overshadowed fresh diplomatic efforts by Kofi Annan, the special envoy to Syria, to advance a peace plan that that has basically been ignored since it was put into effect two months ago….
Russia has repeatedly denied sending any armaments to Mr. Assad that could be used to crush the uprising against him. But Mrs. Clinton said the United States was “concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on their way from Russia to Syria.” The shipments, she warned, “would escalate the conflict quite dramatically.” “
The Russians have been the primary obstacle to a more aggressive U.N.-led effort to remove the Syrian leadership. However, it is one thing to serve as diplomatic cover for the mass killings being carried out in Syria; it is another to provide the Syrian government with the weapons needed to conduct such massacres on an even larger scale.
And of course, all such things in the Middle East are not merely connected but hopelessly intertwined. Russian cooperation in the U.N. and elsewhere is essential in putting pressure on Iran to abandon its nuclear program. Iran and Syria are allies in supporting Hezbollah in Lebanon. And while the Syrian regime has been brutal in attempting to suppress the uprising of its own people, those likely to take power should the current Assad dictatorship topple are likely to be brutal in turn to Syria’s Christian and Alawite minorities.
Some problems can at best be managed, not solved, and at the moment Syria is probably the best example of such a situation.
– Jay Bookman
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"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
June 12th, 2012
7:16 pm
Ahhh… Now a few viewers on youtube understand them union goons and imbeciles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC_ult6-Tb4
They BOTH suck
June 12th, 2012
7:17 pm
off topic
Which blogger will be the 1st to say that JP Morgan lost all that “bread” because of too much regulation?
http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/12/investing/jpmorgan-jamie-dimon-testimony/index.htm?iid=Lead
Don't Forget
June 12th, 2012
7:19 pm
Josef, but Hezbollah may have lost it’s supply route with Damascus in turmoil. Not a good idea to start a fight without supply routes.
And did you see this about Hamas?
Furthermore, the revolt in Syria has driven a wedge between Hamas and Iran that did not previously exist. The two have experienced a severe falling out over Hamas’ desertion of its Damascus headquarters and its decision not to support Assad. As punishment for Hamas’ turn against Tehran’s ally in Damascus, Iran has significantly (if not entirely) cut funding and arms supplies to Gaza. This reprimand, while intended to rein in Hamas, has actually had the opposite effect of reducing Hamas’ willingness to carry out Iran’s wishes. Such a state of affairs makes it less likely that Hamas would carry out Iran’s agenda in the event of war, as doing so would trigger an overwhelming Israeli retaliation in Gaza.
It is in this context that Hamas’ leader Ismail Haniyeh recently stated that the group would likely stay on the sidelines in the event of an Iran-Israeli conflagration, announcing that Iran “did not ask anything of us” and “is not in need of us.”
Aquagirl
June 12th, 2012
7:21 pm
the revolt in Syria has driven a wedge between Hamas and Iran that did not previously exist. The two have experienced a severe falling out [drama, drama, more drama...]
This is the problem with men… their soap operas have guns.
josef
June 12th, 2012
7:25 pm
St Simon’s
@ 7:00
Truly a tragedy,,,Syria had so much promise as a cosmopolitan society
BTW
Did you catch my message to ya at 11:48/Page 4 downstairs?
Brent
June 12th, 2012
7:25 pm
Syria is a sideshow. Do not take your eye off Iran.
Bruno
June 12th, 2012
7:26 pm
josef–Just in case you were going “limp” on us:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFUEM61jIVo&feature=related
St Simons - he-ne-ha
June 12th, 2012
7:27 pm
and at last word Romney had no position on his no positions and may
not have a position on none of them in the very near future – maybe
..but that could flip, depending on the sands of etch-a-sketch
Erwin's cat
June 12th, 2012
7:27 pm
“Russia” misses the good ole days where they were relevant….do not ignore them
F. Sinkwich
June 12th, 2012
7:28 pm
“How much time did you spend in Nicaragua in the 1980s?”
Not much.
josef
June 12th, 2012
7:30 pm
DONT FORGET
That one has been interesting. This is just speculation on my part, but I’m thinking that Hamas is trying to maneuver toward the mainstream, knowing that the goodies from the outside aren’t coming their way given their belligerence. I’m suspecting that all concerned are out to be shed of Hezbollah (and Iran)….
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
June 12th, 2012
7:31 pm
Bomb Iraq. Bomb Afghanistan. Bomb Libya. Drone strikes in Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.
Those infidels and Christians in Syria ain’t worth a few Tomahawk missiles and a scuttlebutt with “Vlad The Stalinist” and his thugs who wear masks while they rip people from their homes and families for daring to complain about their circumstances and political systems.
Pay no attention to man behind the curtain — Didn’t LiLo smash her Porsche on the PCH? Ughhhhhh…. And The Secretary of Commerce?
josef
June 12th, 2012
7:32 pm
Aquagirl
Don’t kid yourself…women in power have been just as bad…
Bernie
June 12th, 2012
7:32 pm
Jay, I agree with you about Gen.Powell. His actions were shameful and disgusting on all levels. I suspect the annals of history will judge him harshly. More harshly than anyone else in the Bush Administration, for his failure to properly perform his duties as sworn. Instead of acting as the Secretary of State for the American People.
Gen. Powell, acted as a military soldier and followed orders, knowingly that he and the American People and the entire world were being misled intentionally for varied known and unknown reasons. He did not have to express an opinion, however he had a duty to resign. To resign with complete SILENCE would have brought that IRAQ train to a screeching HALT. But being the good soldier that he was…… he complied willingly and without descent. His compliance sealed his fate as a co-conspirator in the longest War in American History. So Many of our kids,Moms, Dads, boyfriends, girlfriends and others have paid the ultimate price for his failure.
I try not to think of the injuries sustained, because its heartbreaking to the core.
We owe a great debt of gratitude for all who have sacrificed and especially their families and children left behind, for allowing such dastardly plans gone awry without the full Wisdom and Understanding of such a decision.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 12th, 2012
7:32 pm
Jezebel
josef
June 12th, 2012
7:33 pm
SINKWICH
You should have. You might have a different perspective on the Sandinistas…
St Simons - he-ne-ha
June 12th, 2012
7:33 pm
really josef, what happened, they had awesome internet, super
fast satellite phones, best doctor in the world (imo) saved my
arm, truly headed toward a progressive 21st century.
did narrow minded fundie ideologues attempt to destroy
them from within, too?
Bruno
June 12th, 2012
7:34 pm
For all the “cool” people here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxA3Q96a8XE
Anyone who is uncool is excused from clicking this link ^^^^^^
Soothsayer
June 12th, 2012
7:34 pm
It’s amazing how all these uprisings follow one another almost as if following a script — contagion-fashion.. What’s the common theme here? A “dictator.” A group whose “civil rights” are being violated. A country thrown into chaos. A “dictator” overthrown. A country taken over by armed thugs. Who could possibly be behind such a thing? And why would them mean old Russians be “drawing the line” now with Syria? Makes one wonder, doesn’t it? But, then again, what do I know?
Erwin's cat
June 12th, 2012
7:35 pm
AG – This is the problem with men… their soap operas have guns.
that sounds all good and stuff, but ..like us pets say….it’s all fun and games until someone is wearing a cone!
josef
June 12th, 2012
7:35 pm
CAT
““Russia” misses the good ole days where they were relevant….do not ignore them”
Very true, that.
BRUNO
How so?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 12th, 2012
7:35 pm
Bernie:
“The more things change ………. the more they stay the same.”
U.S. Marine Commandant Wallace Greene once stated his biggest regret was that he and the rest of the Joint Chiefs of Staff didn’t resign “en masse” over the inane policies of Johnson/McNamara. They discussed it but didn’t have the guts to follow through.
Whahema
June 12th, 2012
7:36 pm
Is Obama even relevant? If he can’t kill ‘em with a drone or buy them off, why does he matter? Is Obama the least relevant president since Carter?
F. Sinkwich
June 12th, 2012
7:36 pm
O’bozo has the backbone of a jellyfish.
You know it, I know it, the whole world knows it.
Therein lies the problem.
Every bad actor in the world knows he can cause whatever evil he feels like with O’bozo at the US helm.
We just have to pucker up until November.
F. Sinkwich
June 12th, 2012
7:45 pm
“Today marks the 25th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s famous “tear down this wall” speech delivered before the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on June 12, 1987. It is a reminder not only of President Reagan’s oratorical brilliance but also of his steadfast leadership on the world stage. For the Gipper was a president who, together with Margaret Thatcher, brought down the might of the Soviet Empire, liberated hundreds of millions from Communist tyranny, and restored US leadership after the decline of the Carter years and the Vietnam era.”
Let us all take a knee to the Gipper….
josef
June 12th, 2012
7:45 pm
ST SIMON’S
It’s hard to say. The Syrian Diaspora has always been highly respected for their business savvy and cultured way of life. They sent that back home. I think that what happened is that Assad played that to the hilt in his PR image to the West, meanwhile cracking down on calls for opening up. He played off one faction against another. It turns out that the factions have the names of the different sects and all “sides” have brought this into the arena. These conflicts were always there just beneath the surface, but muted in a secular and pluralistic society. I think that the fundie aspect is a relatively new development. It remains to be seen if the secular element CAN come out on top in the squabble for what’s coming in.
Bruno
June 12th, 2012
7:45 pm
It might be hard for us to take any moral “high ground” here since we supply Saudi Arabia with Apache Helicopters which they use to suppress their own people.
Getting ready for a run, gotta get PB pumped up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsUXAEzaC3Q
F. Sinkwich
June 12th, 2012
7:46 pm
“You should have. You might have a different perspective on the Sandinistas…”
Nope, they’re commie ba*stards..
No wonder you love them.
Tundra Dude
June 12th, 2012
7:47 pm
Soothsayer
It’s amazing how all these uprisings follow one another almost as if following a script — contagion-fashion.. What’s the common theme here
As retired General Wesley Clark writes in “Winning Modern Wars,” US foreign policy over the last 20 years has focused on regime change in seven countries: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan. All seven, except Syria, are oil rich countries targeted owing to their refusal to privatize their oil resources for the benefit of Anglo American oil companies. Oil-poor Syria is a target because of its strategic alliance with oil-rich Iran. Please note that this policy has remained consistent whether Republicans or Democrats control Congress and the White House.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 12th, 2012
7:47 pm
Tebow to St. Ronnie-of-the-RayGun.
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
June 12th, 2012
7:54 pm
Vladimir Putin and his henchmen remind me of Brezhnev and his doctrine:
From Wiki –
In practice, the policy meant that limited independence of communist parties was allowed. However, no country would be allowed to leave the Warsaw Pact, disturb a nation’s communist party’s monopoly on power, or in any way compromise the cohesiveness of the Eastern bloc. Implicit in this doctrine was that the leadership of the Soviet Union reserved, for itself, the right to define “socialism” and “capitalism”. Following the announcement of the Brezhnev Doctrine, numerous treaties were signed between the Soviet Union and its satellite states to reassert these points and to further ensure inter-state cooperation. The principles of the doctrine were so broad that the Soviets even used it to justify their military intervention in the non-Warsaw Pact nation of Afghanistan in 1979. The Brezhnev Doctrine stayed in effect until it was finally ended with the Soviet non-invasion of Poland during the 1980-1981 crisis[1] and later refusal of Mikhail Gorbachev to use military force when Poland held free elections in 1989 and Solidarity defeated the Communist Party.[2] It was superseded by the facetiously named Sinatra Doctrine in 1989.
Matti
June 12th, 2012
7:56 pm
Bruno: “Aquagirl. Don’t kid yourself…women in power have been just as bad…”
Yeah? Name three. Or, if you prefer, how ’bout a percentage of total?
Don't Forget
June 12th, 2012
7:59 pm
I’m suspecting that all concerned are out to be shed of Hezbollah (and Iran)….
Well, if Assad goes down the writing on the wall gets much larger. The more I read the more the Russian helicopters seem like an act of desperation to preserve a power structure that has been a thorn in the side of the US for at least 35 years.
Rightwing Troll
June 12th, 2012
7:59 pm
“Every bad actor in the world knows he can cause whatever evil he feels like with O’bozo at the US helm.
We just have to pucker up until November.”
Because Mittens will do what? Lie about WMD’s? Let OBL ride away from Tora Bora on a donkey perhaps? Or possibly out a covert CIA operative for political payback? Do regale us with what Mittens the etch-a-sketch will do… please…
josef
June 12th, 2012
8:00 pm
SINKWICH
They weren’t all “Communist.” Among the most ardent supporters were the country’s capitalists. Remember the Chamorro family? And the “Third Way” faction?
And where did I say I was such a fan of the Sandinistas? Ortega was Reagan with a Spanish accent
imauo.
That’s why I asked you how much time you spent there. It was not nearly as black and white, Sandinista/Contra as you seem to think.
bman
June 12th, 2012
8:01 pm
have the so-called political experts named the top candidates from Romney’s VP yet?
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 12th, 2012
8:03 pm
“Obama Is Losing A Stunning Amount Of African-American Support In North Carolina”
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/barack-obama-african-american-vote-black-north-carolina-2012-6#ixzz1xcvri8IX
josef
June 12th, 2012
8:05 pm
MATTI
Posted it earlier, but will repeat…let’s start with Debra, move on up to that lovely Isabella la Catolica and her charming Alhambra Decree, Ole Katie the Great took care of dissent with an iron hand, let’s not leave out the sweet and loving Indira and her mass sterilizations of the Muslims, Maggie Thatcher did a pretty good butch act in the Falklands, and Madame Mao or Madame Ceaucescu?
I don’t think I’d want to sit down to tea with that crowd…
Soothsayer
June 12th, 2012
8:10 pm
RUSSIA CHALLENGES US-NATO: Russia prepares army for Syrian deployment
Given the worsening crisis in Syria, the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper reported that the Russian army is apparently being prepared for a mission in Syria. Citing anonymous sources in the military leadership, the newspaper said that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the general staff to work out a plan for military operations outside Russia, including in Syria.
The units being prepared for an intervention are the 76th Division of airborne forces (an especially experienced unit of the Russian army), the 15th Army Division, as well as special forces from a brigade of the Black Sea fleet, which has a base in the Syrian port of Tartus.
The details of the operational plan are being prepared by the working parties of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, to which most of the post-Soviet states belong, as well as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, to which China and Russia belong.
According to the newspaper report, deployment depends on the decision of the Russian government and the UN. However, the plans also foresee that the troops might intervene without UN approval. The Russian government has so far not confirmed the report.
On Monday last week, three Russian warships were sighted off the Syrian coast. An anonymous source from the Russian government told the Iranian newspaper Tehran Times that Moscow wants to show NATO that it will not allow any military operation against Damascus under the guise of a humanitarian mission.
Well, there you have it. The “Israeli Lake” (the Mediterranean) ends at Syria. Either that or World War III. Take your pick.
Aquagirl
June 12th, 2012
8:11 pm
Maggie Thatcher did a pretty good butch act in the Falklands
LOL
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
June 12th, 2012
8:15 pm
The real question Jay should have proposed as his topic — WTF about Iran?
All this crazy Egypt, UAE, Turkey, Libya and other shiite vs sunni death-spiral news is merely a two thousand year long distraction.
Iran is the FLUCKING problem !
josef
June 12th, 2012
8:23 pm
Aquagirl
I left out these..
.
Boadecea–one bad ass kicker she…and a sidelight, one of the British pundits called Maggie Thatcher “a bargain basement Boadecea!”
Cleopatra–need I say more?
Benazir Bhutto–whoo, whee!
Wu Zetian–and who did she do in to get there? Another woman…
Theodora, the Byzantine–just the most delicate flower of womanhood…
Theodora, the Bulgarian–Jewish queen she, but didn’t mind doing in her own kind…
Soothsayer
June 12th, 2012
8:24 pm
DOT rejects Klan application to adopt highway, legal challenge likely (AJC)
Georgia has rejected a Ku Klux Klan group’s application to adopt a one-mile stretch of highway in North Georgia, setting up a likely First Amendment court fight.
In statement released late Tuesday, state Department of Transportation officials said promoting “an organization with a history of inciting civil disturbance and social unrest would present a grave concern.” Part of that concern, officials acknowledged, was that allowing the group to participate in the Adopt-a-Highway program could harm Georgia’s image.
The DOT also argued that seeing signs bearing the Klan’s name and encountering members of the KKK along a roadway “would create a definite distraction to motorists.”
Gosh! Who could’ve seen this coming?
A dad
June 12th, 2012
8:27 pm
Eureka! An absolute solution tot he economy, unemployment, foreign policy, Syria, etc. Let’s take all those able-bodied people on the gov’t dole, arm them, and ship them over to Syria to fight and remove Assad.
Doggone/GA - 999.999.999.999 (preserving my anonymity)
June 12th, 2012
8:28 pm
“Gosh! Who could’ve seen this coming?”
Personally, I think it’s a shame the rejected it. I had this plan to put together a group of “night litterers” – to ensure that stretch of highway remained the WORST in the state!
Recon 0311 2533
June 12th, 2012
8:30 pm
Russia isn’t ready for a world war with the United States but under poot-in they’re preparing for it. They lack a combat experienced military and an advanced conventional/strategic weapon capability that matches up to ours. That said we can’t take them lightly because we’re now faced with them, communist China (the real threat), North Korea, Iran and radical Islam. These are probably the most dangerous times from a national security perspective that we’ve faced since World War II.
Soothsayer
June 12th, 2012
8:30 pm
“I had this plan to put together a group of “night litterers” – to ensure that stretch of highway remained the WORST in the state!”
Yeah, I hear tell they got a “special tree” where they string up them “night litterers.” While they all dance around in a circle! Not pretty.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 12th, 2012
8:31 pm
Gosh! Who could’ve seen this coming?
The names Roy Orbison, Jose Feliciano, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles immediately leap to mind.
bman
June 12th, 2012
8:32 pm
I didn’t even know the KKK was still around. Really.
Soothsayer
June 12th, 2012
8:33 pm
“Chief of Staffl” Del weighs in. Thank God you’re on our side, Del.
Vinny
June 12th, 2012
8:33 pm
Jay- This is what you write about on this historic anniversary when President Reagan gave his famous speech telling Gorbachov to “tear down this wall”?
Are you serious? Obama is about ready to throw Holder under the bus. Obama is going to lose in November. I guess there isn’t much else for you bedwetting pathetic libs to write about.
They BOTH suck
June 12th, 2012
8:33 pm
Bruno @ 7:45
I hear you…….. loud and clear on that sentiment
Soothsayer
June 12th, 2012
8:34 pm
“Let’s take all those able-bodied people on the gov’t dole, arm them, and ship them over to Syria to fight and remove Assad.”
Here’s a better — and more likely one — idea. Let’s draft your children and/or grandchildren and ship them off to die in a pointless war.
josef
June 12th, 2012
8:35 pm
MATTI
Quo vadis?
Boris Badnoff
June 12th, 2012
8:35 pm
Syria is a battleground with great loss of life and ruled by a tyrant. This sounds like a job for someone with a Nobel Peace Prize. Who shall we get? Jimmy Carter is too old, senile, mean, and cantankerous. Al Gore won’t go because they don’t have any decent masseuses. Henry Kissinger won’t go because there aren’t any hot babes. There must be someone with a Nobel Peace Prize around. Who could it be?
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
June 12th, 2012
8:36 pm
I still got luv for the classix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4iLIzeLKKw
Matti
June 12th, 2012
8:38 pm
josef,
Good list! (History is fun!) Were they all evil, genocidal, right-wing maniacs? Bhutto was assassinated, right? That was a sad day. God only knows what the Romans did to Boadacea when they got hold of her.
It’s true, power can make women evil just as it does men, but women make up a low percentage of evil tyrants, I think. All I know is, as a Mom, my overriding instincts are to demand that everyone play nice, or at least put down the sharp sticks before somebody loses an eye.
getalife
June 12th, 2012
8:39 pm
Torturing children is their new tactic.
Dark ages.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 12th, 2012
8:41 pm
Taliban thowing acid in the face of little girls is an old tactic.
Dark ages.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
June 12th, 2012
8:42 pm
(CBS News) “There are 228 dead: That’s the number of murders this year in Chicago. It’s nearly twice as many as the number of Americans lost on the battlefields of Afghanistan over these last six months. And the number of deaths is up 35 percent over the same period last year.”
Recon 0311 2533
June 12th, 2012
8:43 pm
Sooth,
I’m on the side of America and if that includes you we share the same concern for our national security.
Speaking for myself, however, I’m not in a position to influence much less decide our strategic policy.
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
June 12th, 2012
8:44 pm
Anybody want to go to war in Syria or Iran?
Why and for what purpose?
Is the USA picking winners and losers again?
josef
June 12th, 2012
8:44 pm
MATTI
Of course you know I agree with your basic sentiment. Golda Meir is often quoted as saying that if mothers ruled the world there’d be no more wars. And, yeah, that list is pretty right wing and genocidal. As to whether or not women make up a low percentage of evil tyrants, only insofar as women make up a low percentage of those in power. As to whether or not they have a higher percentage relative to their number, I’ve not run a stat thingie, but I’d posit they’re about the same.
Equality? Ain’t it grand?
Thomas Heyward Jr.
June 12th, 2012
8:44 pm
Clearly…….we need a tax increase for the Federal government to Freedom-bomb those Syrians into oblivion.
Put’em on Obama’s Keeeeeel List.
.
getalife
June 12th, 2012
8:45 pm
The taliban hate women too scout.
Tundra Dude
June 12th, 2012
8:46 pm
Hillary: Russia arming Syria with attack ‘copters
Putin: Saudi Arabia arming the Toilet Brigade (Al Qaeda) in Syria
Me: Arming myself with the proverbial “rest of the story.”
Jack in cumming
June 12th, 2012
8:47 pm
If Obama gets reelected he can really help his comrades
getalife
June 12th, 2012
8:47 pm
assad is torturing children.
The taliban are Afghanistan’s cons.
They BOTH suck
June 12th, 2012
8:47 pm
Scout
While the rate in Chicago is alarming to say the least, it is good to know that the overall rate in the US has been trending down over the last 30 yrs
Matti
June 12th, 2012
8:47 pm
josef: “Equality? Ain’t it grand?”
I wouldn’t know! When you get some, let me know how it tastes.
Don't Forget
June 12th, 2012
8:49 pm
Theodora, the Byzantine–just the most delicate flower of womanhood…
They BOTH suck
June 12th, 2012
8:49 pm
Matti
I can’t speak for josef in a number of ways, but what I have been getting taste real good
Recon 0311 2533
June 12th, 2012
8:51 pm
“While the rate in Chicago is alarming to say the least, it is good to know that the overall rate in the US has been trending down over the last 30 yrs”
TBS, I hope that stat is accurate, but it sure seems that it isn’t.
They BOTH suck
June 12th, 2012
8:55 pm
Recon
Thank goodness it is a true statement. Murder rates are trending down. Granted I wish they were better and lets all be thankful for the law enforcement putting it on the line, but the rate is going down
josef
June 12th, 2012
8:56 pm
MATTI
Unmentionable just told me that in all fairness I needed to be reminded that the f*ggots haven’t been exactly paragons of virtue, from David and Johnathan forward…
I think, truth be told, when those of us on the outs get in we go the former one better…it’s kind of scary…
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
June 12th, 2012
8:57 pm
getalife’s comment at 8:47pm is beyond offensive.
For getalife to compare the Taliban to conservatives in America goes right into the sewer of leftist thinking and public commentary.
getalife doesn’t seem to have a life other than ajc blogs.
Mr or Ms getalife – do you wear black socks with sandals and a tye-die wifebeater shirt?
I’ll bet the shelter gives you free stuff that i throw away every month.
Weak — getalife — Very Weak bordering on Hinckley styles of coolness.
Hasta La Taco Wingnutz
Recon 0311 2533
June 12th, 2012
8:57 pm
TBS,
If the murder rate is in fact going down that’s great.
Matti
June 12th, 2012
8:59 pm
josef,
Didn’t The Who sing a song about that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIHJ9RMAVGI
Matti
June 12th, 2012
9:02 pm
Info Troll,
If you don’t want American right-wing zealots (Talibaptists) to be compared to the Taliban, then tell GRTL and those arson-tactic thugs to climb out from under the skirts of free American women and mind their own G**D*** business for a change.
You’re welcome.
They BOTH suck
June 12th, 2012
9:02 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
Recon
josef
June 12th, 2012
9:02 pm
Matti
Got it on the other screen…
BADA BING
June 12th, 2012
9:03 pm
Roy Orberson? He wasn’t blind. Dead yes, but not blind.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 12th, 2012
9:04 pm
getalife’s comment at 8:47pm is beyond offensive.
True, nonetheless.
getalife
June 12th, 2012
9:05 pm
bho,
Truth hurt much?
Dems_R_Idiots
June 12th, 2012
9:08 pm
“One would assume that a player of Hillary Clinton’s experience would not make such a public charge unless she had considerable confidence that it was true and that she was prepared for the blowback it might create.”
Give us a break Jay. This is the same idiotic woman who accused the republicans of a massive witch hunt when allegations first started coming out about her scum-bag husband & Monica.
Don't Forget
June 12th, 2012
9:09 pm
Information,
So where do you draw the line? I’ve heard Obama called everything from Hitler to Stalin and all points in between on this blog. To me all the hyperbole sucks so I try not to participate. People do it to bait others, for attention seeking or in a vain attempt to bolster a weak argument.
Soothsayer
June 12th, 2012
9:09 pm
Here, a little over 36 years old, he would be dead in a little over 10 years.
Bruno
June 12th, 2012
9:10 pm
Wake up and find out that you are the eyes of the world……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX3Tdlmtbzg&feature=related
Dems_R_Idiots
June 12th, 2012
9:10 pm
Everything is okay. Remember Obama told us that the private sector economy is doing fine
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
June 12th, 2012
9:11 pm
I wuz gonna split until Matti called me a troll –
From me to Matti. “You ain’t bin around here much have ya?”
“Troll” — Thanx for your ignorance
Regards – Info
Matti
June 12th, 2012
9:14 pm
Sooth, sooth,
We will never know the truth!
No matter how hard we try.
At the end of the day
All we can say
Is we know dang well it’s a lie.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 12th, 2012
9:16 pm
getalife’s comment at 8:47pm is beyond offensive.
For getalife to compare the Taliban to conservatives in America goes right into the sewer of leftist thinking and public commentary.
getalife doesn’t seem to have a life other than ajc blogs.
Mr or Ms getalife – do you wear black socks with sandals and a tye-die wifebeater shirt?
I’ll bet the shelter gives you free stuff that i throw away every month.
Weak — getalife — Very Weak bordering on Hinckley styles of coolness.
I forgot to add: The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
They BOTH suck
June 12th, 2012
9:16 pm
Bruno
Great Dead selection. Saw them once when they were just awful, but the other two times was like magic in a bottle. What an fn experience…….. to say the least
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R3WBhod0sE
Bruno
June 12th, 2012
9:18 pm
Special for DF:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MccLsc5YzrI&feature=related
They BOTH suck
June 12th, 2012
9:19 pm
Bruno
Don’t go and burn one…………
j/k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebWm_76riIc&feature=related
Sarah Gee
June 12th, 2012
9:20 pm
Obama and his minions are too busy leaking top military secrets for political ends to be effective in actually managing the very serious situations in Syria or in North Korea. Obama and his 30 different “top Obama administration officials”have much to answer for.
They BOTH suck
June 12th, 2012
9:22 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD_36cuiXvU&feature=related
barking frog
June 12th, 2012
9:23 pm
getlife
cereal offender..
"Information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment" - BHO, May 1, 2010
June 12th, 2012
9:23 pm
Dear Kammiebaby,
The lady eh?
Iz that it?
Gor is under attack from the Morlocks
The devil has made me put forth data that is uncomfortable for the status quo and I carry no guilt for it.
Blah, blah, blah and nanny, nanny, boo, boo
I seek truth
PlatinumBlack
June 12th, 2012
9:25 pm
A web link and a song dedication to the sexiest man in Russia:
http://thebreakbeataxiom.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/vladimir-putin-nominated-for-hip-hop-award-still-likes-his-turtleneck/
http://youtu.be/U-eLGG0cEWs