Things Are Going to Expode

God DAMN the animals who did this. And God bless that poor soldier minding his own business.

And God help England survive what they’ve become.

London attackers shout ‘Allahu Akbar,’ machete man to death

A machete-wielding attacker and his gun-toting sidekick killed a man in the streets of London on Wednesday, and police are regarding the pair – whom they subsequently shot – as potential terrorists.

The prime minister called the incident “truly shocking,” and said police are investigating it as a terrorist attack, BBC reported. Witnesses say they saw a man walking down Woolwich Street, when he was attacked by two individuals. They also said they heard at least one of the attackers scream ‘Allahu Akbar,” meaning God is great, during the course of the attack, BBC reported.

A local police officer said the man who was killed was a soldier at Woolwich barracks, various media reported.

Police fired at the two suspects, who were subsequently taken to the hospital – one by helicopter, one by ambulance. One remains in critical condition, BBC reported.

The Associated Press reported that the attackers were out of control.

Things are going to rapidly spiral into just what the assholes here (read: OUR PRESIDENT and his leftist cronies/CAIR) claim has/will happen every time Islamic terrorist BASTARDS murder Americans ~ be it THREE THOUSAND or three ~ and NEVER does:

Masked English Defence League supporters flood Woolwich: Far-Right clash with police near scene of killing

*Officers formed cordon and men left immediate area after brief incident

*Some of EDL supporters gathered at pub and sang nationalistic songs

*Riot police with shields stood guard before moving back into their vans

*Elsewhere, two men were arrested after separate attacks on mosques

More than 100 supporters of the English Defence League tonight gathered near the scene of where a soldier was hacked to death by Islamic fanatics and threw bottles at police.

Officers formed a cordon and the men left the immediate area after the brief incident. Some of the EDL supporters gathered at The Queen’s Arms pub locally, where they sang nationalistic songs.

One local Muslim said that a brick had been thrown through a mosque during the march.

…The EDL men had first gathered at Woolwich Arsenal station in Woolwich, south-east London. Riot police with shields stood guard outside for a short time, before moving back into their vans.

The EDL group waved a flag of St George and chanted ‘no surrender to the Muslim scum’. Around 20 of the men wore black balaclavas with an EDL logo on the front.

Leader Tommy Robinson addressed the crowd, saying:

‘We have got weak leadership. They have allowed this to happen. People are scared to say the word Muslim. They are scared to offend them.

‘You know what? We are offended. People in this country are angry. They have had enough.’

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I feel we are in stand-by mode for a conflagration of epic proportions.

What The Hell Is The House Thinking?

What Republican voted for this amendment?

The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved a 2014 Homeland Security funding bill with a bipartisan voice vote. The bill is expected on the House floor in June.

In a surprise development, the committee approved an amendment from Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), which would effectively end immigration from Brazil.

The provision was included in order to pressure Brazil to extradite Brazilian-born Claudia Hoerig to the United States for trial in the murder of her husband, Air Force Major Karl Hoerig. The Ryan amendment does not affect travel visas or visas for temporary workers, an aide said.

It was passed despite urgings from Homeland subcommittee Chairman John Carter (R-Texas) and ranking member David Price (D-N.C.) that it would have far-reaching implications. The text of the amendment withholds all funding from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to process any immigration visa request for a Brazilian national.

You bet your ass it’s going to have far-reaching implications.

Yes, brilliant. Punish hard working people who want to come here LEGALLY and give your *wink wink* amnesty to all the ones who came here ill-friggin-egally.

The ONE country in LatAm that is getting its act together and we continually go out of our way to snub them.

We need all the Brazilians here we can get.

He Had It On “Vibrate”

Musta missed that 3 a.m. call, thinking it it was Michelle’s snores shaking the bed. Didn’t she know he had a big fundraiser in Vegas next day?

The big Benghazi mystery: Where was Obama while 4 Americans perished?

…The Benghazi consulate was totally unsecured and unprepared, despite area terrorist attacks and months-long urgings of security personnel and Stevens himself.
In fact, a month before 9/11 when two security personnel used their weapons to fight off terrorist carjackers, most of the Special Ops security forces were ordered out of the country.

The first and last contact Hicks in Tripoli had with Stevens that night was an interrupted cellphone call in which the ambassador said, “Greg, we’re under attack!” No mention of any protest demonstration.

A special joint team of FBI-CIA-Defense-State crisis experts was ordered not to deploy to Benghazi.

Twelve hours after the U.S. Embassy wall in Cairo was stormed, no contingency military forces were prepared to assist there or anywhere else in the region. The nearest F-16′s in Italy were not even on alert and had no refueling tankers nearby.

As the four remaining Special Ops troops in-country boarded a Libyan C-130 to rush to help in Benghazi, someone ordered their colonel to stand down.

…What we don’t know is where the hell was the commander-in-chief all-night while two former SEALs, a communications specialist and the first U.S. ambassador in three decades were being murdered on-duty six time zones away.

We do know that then Secy. of Defense Leon Panetta claims Obama instructed him in the early evening of 9/11 to do everything necessary to protect Americans and embassies abroad.

We also know now that “everything” wasn’t really anything at all.

They Had a Team Ready to Go in Tripoli and a C-130* on the Ramp

Then they let them die.

Diplomat: U.S. Special Forces told “you can’t go” to Benghazi during attacks

The deputy of slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has told congressional investigators that a team of Special Forces prepared to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks was forbidden from doing so by U.S. Special Operations Command South Africa.

The account from Gregory Hicks is in stark contrast to assertions from the Obama administration, which insisted that nobody was ever told to stand down and that all available resources were utilized. Hicks gave private testimony to congressional investigators last month in advance of his upcoming appearance at a congressional hearing Wednesday.

According to excerpts released Monday, Hicks told investigators that SOCAFRICA commander Lt. Col. Gibson and his team were on their way to board a C-130 from Tripoli for Benghazi prior to an attack on a second U.S. compound “when [Col. Gibson] got a phone call from SOCAFRICA which said,

‘you can’t go now, you don’t have the authority to go now.’

And so they missed the flight … They were told not to board the flight, so they missed it.”

Obama’s “bumps in the road”, remember?

And there’s more in my fearless girl Sharyl Attkisson’s report. I cannot STRONGLY ENOUGH urge you to follow her on Twitter – she is doing amazing work, and needs ALL the support she can get. Send her some LOVE.

ths note: Dan Collins has a great, personal “Thank You” to Sharyl up over at Conservative Commune. She’s thinking of leaving CBS and THAT would be a tragedy.

*Fixed my fat finger in the headline to C-130. Had KC on the brain when they were talking about the refuelers coming out of Aviano and it bled over.

Like What Monica Did to Bill?

Or: the questions Clintons cause people to ask.

Clinton sought end-run around counter-terrorism bureau on night of Benghazi attack, witness will say

On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut the department’s own counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision-making, according to a “whistle-blower” witness from that bureau who will soon testify to the charge before Congress, Fox News has learned.

That witness is Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine and now the deputy coordinator for operations in the agency’s counterterrorism bureau. Sources tell Fox News Thompson will level the allegation against Clinton during testimony on Wednesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.

Fox News has also learned that another official from the counterterrorism bureau — independently of Thompson — voiced the same complaint about Clinton and Under Secretary for Management Patrick Kennedy to trusted national security colleagues back in October.

…“You should have seen what (Clinton) tried to do to us that night,” the second official in State’s counterterrorism bureau told colleagues back in October. Those comments would appear to be corroborated by Thompson’s forthcoming testimony.

These Democrats Remind Me of the Knights in “The Holy Grail”

“Run AWAY!!!!”

Democrats now critical of Rice’s Benghazi explanation, amid more damaging evidence

Congressional Democrats on Sunday distanced themselves from the Obama administration’s explanation of the Benghazi, Libya, attacks in the immediate aftermath of the fatal strikes, amid mounting evidence that suggests the information was revised to intentionally mislead Americans.

…“Well, it was scrubbed,” Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Steve Lynch told “Fox News Sunday.” “It was totally inaccurate. There’s no excuse for that. It was false information. And what they try to do is harmonize what happened in Benghazi with what happened everywhere else across the Middle East.”

Lynch also acknowledged the talking points were likely revised to reflect President Obama’s decry – with his re-election bid in the balance — that “Al Qaeda is on the run.”

Gosh, and wasn’t Bob Schieffer a cranky old man on “Face the Nation” this morning when Daryl Issa porved that he’d been a patsy for the Prez. To Bob’s credit, he sure wasn’t buying what the program’s Democratic guest was trying to sell to mitigate the embarrassment.

Thing of beauty, I tell you what.

I bet Obama bombs Syria or starts a war with ‘Lil Kim to get this out of the news. Any takers?

And here’s a Benghazi Timeline, Done as a SpreadSheet*Interesting to see it laid out.

(*Courtesy of Before It’s News)

And, just to round out our cast of characters, The ‘Stache says the hearings could be “very dramatic”, which could be a whale of an understatement.

Smart Power

Iran, Syria…the list goes on and on.

Knocked the SNOT Out of Him

Oh, yes.

U.S. female sailor beats Dubai rapist bus driver into submission

An off-duty U.S. navy sailor wrestled a Dubai bus driver to the ground and beat him into submission after he tried to rape her at knifepoint on Jan. 19, a courtroom heard Wednesday.

…He then stopped where several other buses were parked and tried to kiss her. After she refused, he pulled out a knife and tried to rape her.
Prosecutors said that she knocked the knife from his hand, broke it in two, bit him in the hand, forced him to the ground and locked him between her thighs, the Daily Mail reports.

If Supposedly One Gomer Speaks for All Americans When Looking For an Excuse to Hate Us

…I would hope the reverse is true when it comes to the UN, ’cause I really can’t stomach these guys.

Seems fair, no?

UN Says Boston Got What It Deserved

UN Human Rights Council “expert” Richard Falk has published a statement saying Bostonians got what they deserved in last week’s terror attack. He quotes W.H. Auden to make his point: “to whom evil is done/do evil in return.”

Richard Falk is the UN’s “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.” He has held the post since 2008, despite exposure as a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.

In his latest rant, published online on April 21, 2013 by foreignpolicyjournal.com Falk repeats the libel that prior to 9/11 President George W. Bush was seeking a “pretext” for war, and that anything Israel is the opposite of “justice and peace.”

And then he attacks Bostonians head-on. The police action in Boston was a “hysterical dragnet.” Boston’s dead were “canaries” that “have to die” because of America’s “fantasy of global domination.”

Falk explains the attacks as justifiable “resistance.” In his words: “The American global domination project is bound to generate all kinds of resistance in the post-colonial world.”

He minimizes the crime and predicts worse if America doesn’t change its ways to better accommodate the demands of “the Islamic world.” As he puts it: “In some respects, the United States has been fortunate not to experience worse blowbacks, and these may yet happen…”.

And we SUBSIDIZE this abuse?

Besides a “BITE ME” t-shirt, we really need to get that piece of waterfront back, you know?

“But We Loved Her”

Britain lays Maggie to rest.

World leaders gather for the funeral of former British Prime Minister Thatcher

“World leaders” used loosely.

No one from here could be bothered to go, but then, Skippy and his crew of miscreants couldn’t “lead” Shotgun Joe out of the men’s room, less mind the world, could they?

So maybe the headline’s right.

Not a Good Time Nor Place

…to have a bird go down.

US military claims helicopter ‘hard landing’ near N Korea border
The US military claimed one of its helicopters carrying Marines executed a hard landing near the North Korean border “while conducting routine flight operations”.

A statement said the US Marine Corp. CH-53E Super Stallion had 21 people on board including five crew members, all of whom were taken to hospital.

How you phrase what happened is everything…

Mag 7.8 In Eastern Iran

Great Satan obviously to blame.

Smart Power: Super Reset Button Edition

Yeah, the Adults In Charge are just doing swimmingly

Tit-for-tat bans on US and Russian officials travelling between the countries have plunged relations between Moscow and Washington to a new low on the eve of a high-level US visit to Russia’s capital.

The diplomatic row is an awkward backdrop for Tom Donilon, US National Security Adviser, who is due to hold talks with Russian officials in Moscow on Monday, partly in preparation for a summit between Barack Obama, US president, and Russian president Vladimir Putin tentatively scheduled for June.

On Saturday, Moscow banned 18 US officials from entering Russia after the US the day before published a list of 18 Russian officials barred from the US and subject to US asset freezes owing to their alleged involvement in human rights abuses in Russia.

This must be this masterful “flexibility” our Glorious Leader promised us.

Speaking of Government Grabs, Etc

Top Italian court orders Amanda Knox re-trial

Doesn’t THAT development have a “FOAD/BITE ME” t-shirt written all over it, if you’re Amanda Knox?

A Heart in the Darkness

…of government.

Mind the Gap Tube announcement returns after wife’s plea

Margaret McCollum and Oswald Laurence were married for 15 years
A 40-year-old “mind the gap” recording once heard across the Tube is returning to one station – so the widow of the actor behind it can hear his voice.

Oswald Laurence’s voice was used on the northbound Northern Line but was phased out until only Embankment used it.

Dr Margaret McCollum said she often uses the station and was devastated when “he wasn’t there” in November.

If you have a chance, watch the little minute and a half report.

It’s precious.

Thanks to Joan of Argghh!

The Great Orator Is Speaking in Israel Right Now

…and I have never heard such stutterpantsing through a miserable collection of douche-baggy platitudes and simplistic tripe, stretched out over an interminable period of time in my life.

Mind-numbing.

Dear Baby Jeebus and Lord Yahwey of Ancient Israel, MAKE. Him. STOP, I BEG YOU!!!

Besides Dazzling TMZ, the Senate’s Only Member of the Hip-Hop Caucus

…stopped by the Washington Institute today for a Middle East discussion. (I hope Lurch was listening ~ it might help him out with “Kyrzakhstan” and other pesky countries.)

2016, baby.

It’s a Shame He’s Not in Such a Pissy Snit About the Taliban’s Behaviour

Them being the perfect, hairy, chivalrous gents they are universally acknowleged to be.

Afghan president to expel U.S. special forces from key province

(Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai has given U.S. special forces two weeks to leave a key battleground province after some U.S. soldiers there were found to have tortured or even killed innocent people, the president’s spokesman said on Sunday.

The decision by Karzai could further complicate negotiations between the United States and Afghanistan over the presence of Americans troops in the country once most NATO forces leave by the end of 2014.

Speaking at a news conference in Kabul, Karzai’s spokesman Aimal Faizi said villagers in Wardak province had lodged a series of complaints about operations conducted by U.S. special forces and a group of Afghans working with them.

“Waaaah! The Americans were mean to me, ” sure makes the mundane, every day executing of women in soccer stadiums or lopping hands off in the village square pale in significance.

I’m A MAD Child

I grew up expecting a nuclear war, to see missiles streaking out of the sky to end the world.

I would have died if I saw this this morning

The Sky Is Falling!

Fun times in Russia

Russia’s Urals region has been rocked by a meteorite explosion in the stratosphere. The impact wave damaged several buildings, and blew out thousands of windows amid frigid winter weather. Hundreds are seeking medical attention for minor injuries.

Included is the ubiquitous Russkie DashCam video…I would need to change my drawers if I saw that through my windshield!

Oh and we’re getting a Special Visitor at 2:24pm this afternoon

BOSTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) – A newly discovered asteroid about half the size of a football field will pass nearer to Earth than any other known object of its size on Friday, giving scientists a rare opportunity for close-up observations without launching a probe.

At its closest approach, which will occur at 2:24 p.m. EST/1924 GMT, the asteroid will pass about 17,200 miles (27,520 km) above the planet traveling at 8 miles (13 km) per second, bringing it nearer than the networks of television and weather satellites that ring the planet.

Although Asteroid 2012 DA14 is the largest known object of its size to pass this close, scientists say there is no chance of an impact, this week or in the foreseeable future.

Judging by this chart and the time of the arrival

it looks like if the scientists have made a slight miscalculation in its path that it would impact the Western Europe/Africa side of the world…further proof of the perils of Global Warming.

Kim Jong Nuke

But DON’T WORRY! Secretary of State Waffles is even now writing them a strong letter telling them how angry we are.

Barf

Secretary of State Lurch is official.

We’re doomed.

ths update: In maudlin celebration of which, let’s revisit a great moment in Swilling History, shall we? That creative, co-operative Swill effort which became known in the annals of Kerry History as:

‘Smoke on the Water:A Cambodian Christmas‘

There’s some good f*cking writing in there, if I do say so myself. One example you’ll see when you click through…

tree hugging sister says: February 10, 2005 at 6:23 pm

As I watched the swirling black waters, lulled into a trance by the erotic, rhythmic chug, I had a sudden vision of the future and it’s face was…Nixon! Horrified, I jerked awake and realized it had been Rich Little all along. Whew! My painful buttocks eased their alarmed clenching. Weak with relief, I sniffed the air for traces of the enemy…and the sweatband of my hat…

Riveting.

I’ll bet my magic hat you agree.

“How to Take Nicholas Burns to School in One, Short PBS Segment”

By Danielle Pletka

Watch Taking Stock of Arab Spring, North Africa Turmoil on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.

In Light of Benghazi Hearings, Taking Stock of Arab Spring, North Africa Turmoil

…NICHOLAS BURNS, Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs: Well, Jeffrey, I thought it was a commanding performance by Secretary Clinton. She was well informed. She was a master of the detail in all the briefings.

And she took responsibility, which was the right thing to do. She said that she will implement all the 29 recommendations of the accountability review board. Now, I think that the Republicans there obviously had a right and I think they had an obligation to ask tough questions, because this was a disaster for the American Foreign Service to lose four people in one day, including Ambassador Chris Stevens…[two more paragraphs of talking]

JEFFREY BROWN: All right, let me stop you there.

NICHOLAS BURNS: How do we now go after the terrorist groups?

JEFFREY BROWN: OK. You have put them both on the table then.

Let me get Danielle Pletka in.

First, what do you think of what unfolded today with Secretary Clinton in the …

DANIELLE PLETKA, American Enterprise Institute: Well, I think Nick was right. The secretary has obviously got a great command of the facts. She’s a good speaker. She’s authoritative. And she was a member of Congress. She knows how to handle her former colleagues.

But it really was a lot of sound and fury signifying not very much. She didn’t really answer questions about what happened in the run-up to the attack, why our response wasn’t better. And all of these efforts to direct us to move forward and to learn these lessons really fail to understand that the way we move forward is by acknowledging exactly what went wrong.

Just saying “I take responsibility” is admirable and sounds gutsy, but it doesn’t really mean you’re taking responsibility.

JEFFREY BROWN: But what about what Nick Burns says, that there’s now been this review? It’s looked at it. It’s come up with many recommendations. And that is — what she’s saying is, in a sense, that’s the way to move forward is to implement it and learn from what happened.

DANIELLE PLETKA: Well, it’s a very Washington perspective. You know, we have our blue-ribbon commission. We appointed the right generals and former diplomats.

The truth is that what happened, and the reason this became a scandal is not just because of the absolutely dreadful murder by terrorists of four people serving their country. It was because the White House and the State Department and many others insisted for a full week after the attack that occurred on Sept. 11th that it was the responsibility of a film and the response to a film, and not a terrorist attack.

Now, the American people, not the Congress, not the secretary, they deserve answers, and those answers really haven’t been forthcoming, and they were not on show today.

Interestingly enough, Jeffrey Brown seems to give the lion’s share of time to Pletka, perhaps because Burns’ responses mostly consist of “that’s unfair!” Even PBS hosts can only work with so much of that material before they run of out cover?

Her comment on Obama’s “policy of retreat” is especially damning:

…DANIELLE PLETKA: Well, not responding is the answer.

I think the entire trend has been troubling. And I think Benghazi was merely a symptom of a larger policy of retreat, of unwillingness to deal with the challenges that we’re facing from al-Qaida, because it’s not just in the Maghreb. It’s not just in Libya and in Mali and in Algeria. It’s also in Yemen. It’s in Sinai. It’s in Iraq. It’s, of course, in South Asia and Afghanistan and Pakistan.

JEFFREY BROWN: But in what ways do you see us retreating, specifically in North Africa, in Maghreb?

DANIELLE PLETKA: Well, I think it’s nice that Nick said that we should thank the French, and absolutely the French have interests in Mali as well.

Apparently, the administration is really struggling right now about how much support to provide to the French, not on the ground, but merely on the question of refueling their flights.

If we’re not even willing to do that, it does beg the question about how willing we’re going to be to step up to this challenge in the Maghreb.

BREAKING NEWS: Obama Killed Bin Laden!!!

But AlQaeda backed Islamic militants in Algeria have just taken FORTY ONE HOSTAGES, including SEVEN AMERICANS.

Hindsight is 20/20

And low-information voters pushed this horse’s beHIND back into office, so John Hayward’s article tastes truly bittersweet to me.

THE VINDICATION OF MITT ROMNEY

Defeated presidential candidate Mitt Romney was right about an awful lot of things, including some things he was roundly criticized for saying during the presidential campaign. The most grimly humorous example was his comment about Jeep production moving to China – hilariously rated “Lie of the Year” by Politifact, which ignored a blizzard of absolute bull from Barack Obama to bestow the honor.

… Insurgents were sweeping through the desert and scooping up the American-trained commanders of elite army units last year? Why didn’t somebody mention Mali during the presidential debates? Why, as a matter of fact, somebody did… and he was roundly mocked for it by Obama supporters, although not in France. From a contemporaneous report in the New Yorker:

Une petite note on last night’s foreign-policy debate: Mitt Romney’s mini-seminar on Mali, largely overlooked by Americans, drew notice in France. Bob Schieffer’s first question to the candidates concerned American policy in the Middle East, “the new face of terrorism,” and what happened in Libya: “I’d like to hear each of your thoughts on that.” Romney went first. His answer: “This is obviously an area of great concern to the entire world and to America in particular, which is to see a compete change in the structure and the environment in the Middle East. With the Arab Spring came a great hope that there would be a change toward moderation … but instead we’ve seen in nation after nation a number of disturbing events.” He mentioned Syria. He mentioned Libya. He mentioned Mali—northern Mali, in particular. He concluded, “What we’re seeing is a pretty dramatic reversal in the kind of hopes we had for that region.”

No, no, no, we were told! It’s crazy to question Barack Obama’s dazzling foreign policy triumphs! He killed Osama bin Laden, didn’t he? Why was this strange Romney fellow bringing up some obscure country called “Mali,” and mentioning it in the same breath as Syria and Libya? Low-information voters couldn’t even understand why Romney was so upset about those four “bumps in the road” in Libya. They certainly didn’t want to hear about the bumpy road to Mali, and who can blame them? It would be almost three whole months before we found ourselves supporting our ally France in a shooting war over there.