Coffee Shop

[Valin]

Silly questions. Of course not

[SrWoodchuck]

From BigFurHat @ iOTW:

 

 

Operation Homefront https://www.operationhomefront.net/donationform.aspx?id=15425&gclid=CMyokfPq57kCFQyk4Aodd3IA1w

 

Well, actually I played golf.I just got back from a charity outing held at a New York area Country Club. This was to benefit Operation Homefront and Wounded Warriors.

We missed the winning score by 2 shots and I was very disappointed. But I was pleased to hear that the outing raised over $15,000.

 

The man who spoke put it all into perspective. How can we be disappointed when there are soldiers recovering from devastating wounds and are so financially strapped?

The guys who run this charity donate 95% of all money directly to our Wounded Warriors.

So, my bad mood about missing a couple of putts quickly disappeared and I couldn’t wait to get home and give them a plug.

Operation Homefront https://www.operationhomefront.net/donationform.aspx?id=15425&gclid=CMyokfPq57kCFQyk4Aodd3IA1w

 

[SrWoodchuck]

King of Fakes

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2430875/Barack-Obama-19-5m-fake-Twitter-followers.html

 

 

Via iOTW

[Valin]

[Casino67]

Andrew Malcolm ‏@AHMalcolm 33m

Conan: Postmaster Genl says the Postal Service must raise postage rates due 2 awful financial troubles. He conveyed this news in an email.

[SrWoodchuck]

Fire War With Al Qaeda?

 

Economic Warfare Super Panel - William Scott

Published on Aug 13, 2012 - Economic Warfare Institute at American Center for Democracy

 

This is a likely cause of the 346 homes lost in the Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado Springs...and now 510 homes in Black Forest at Monument, 12 miles north of Colorado Springs.

 

This is why the Feds waited so long to tell us what started the Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado. The public still have not been told what was used to start the fire.

 

It is becoming quite obvious, to me, that we are at WAR on home ground. We need to realize this and, all of us, begin to Watch, Respond and Defend.

 

 

 

Via BonedJello

[nickydog]

Fire War With Al Qaeda?

 

Economic Warfare Super Panel - William Scott

Published on Aug 13, 2012 - Economic Warfare Institute at American Center for Democracy

 

This is a likely cause of the 346 homes lost in the Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado Springs...and now 510 homes in Black Forest at Monument, 12 miles north of Colorado Springs.

 

This is why the Feds waited so long to tell us what started the Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado. The public still have not been told what was used to start the fire.

 

It is becoming quite obvious, to me, that we are at WAR on home ground. We need to realize this and, all of us, begin to Watch, Respond and Defend.

 

 

 

Via BonedJello

 

 

I had heard rumors of this. It's true, official word was that it was not natural causes that started the Black Forest fire near us, but no word yet on how it did start. Hmmm....

[Casino67]

I never believed all of those fires could be blamed on lightening. Forest fires always seemed to be an easy method of terrorism without consequences.

[Geee]

Fire War With Al Qaeda?

 

Economic Warfare Super Panel - William Scott

Published on Aug 13, 2012 - Economic Warfare Institute at American Center for Democracy

 

This is a likely cause of the 346 homes lost in the Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado Springs...and now 510 homes in Black Forest at Monument, 12 miles north of Colorado Springs.

 

This is why the Feds waited so long to tell us what started the Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado. The public still have not been told what was used to start the fire.

 

It is becoming quite obvious, to me, that we are at WAR on home ground. We need to realize this and, all of us, begin to Watch, Respond and Defend.

 

 

 

Via BonedJello

 

@SrWoodchuck - I posted this on the Coffee Shop about a month ago. At that time my comment was that I wonder why I had never seen it before, nor did it get much discussion anywhere because it is from July of 2012???? I don't remember where I came across it but found it disturbing because it is a cheap and easy way to create havoc - a perfect target.

[SrWoodchuck]

I apologize for that, Sweet @Geee! I didn't see it then....and it is scary!

[SrWoodchuck]

Texas May Sue Obama Regime For Signing U.N. Arms Treaty… http://weaselzippers.us/2013/09/26/texas-may-sue-obama-regime-for-signing-u-n-arms-treaty/

 

Via The Hill: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/324819-texas-ag-threatens-to-sue-feds-over-un-arms-treaty?utm_campaign=briefingroom&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitterfeed

 

Texas attorney general Greg Abbott ® is threatening to sue the federal government after Secretary of State John Kerry signed the U.N. arms treaty this week.

 

“Texas stands ready to lead the charge to have the treaty overturned in court,” Abbot said Wednesday, according to the Austin American Statesman.

 

“By signing this treaty, the Obama administration has attempted to subject Americans’ right to bear arms to the oversight of the United Nations,” he continued. “The very reason we fought for independence was to free ourselves from the dictates of leaders in other lands.”

 

 

Via WeaselZippers

[Geee]

I apologize for that, Sweet @Geee! I didn't see it then....and it is scary!

 

Oh no- don't apologize, just wanted to say that it bothered me also when I saw it.

[SrWoodchuck]

Hey....check this out.....paying for journalism! I mean......paying for it twice! I mean bribing them to be journalists!

 

Yeah, that's the ticket!

What is Bounty Q? http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=205349

 

There’s an exciting new site that is trying to bribe encourage reporters to ask the tough questions that everyone wants asked.

 

As Bounty Q says, sometimes the question is more important than the answer.

 

How does it work? From BountyQ -

 

Post a question and add a 5 dollar bounty.

 

Recruit others via social media to add to it. Bribe the media into doing its job!

 

When the question is asked, the bounty is split between the journalist and you, the user who first posted the question!

 

Help crowd-source a lazy, cowardly, craven press corps into asking tough questions.

 

Incentivize citizen journalists (bloggers, freelancers, everyday people with cameras) to ask the questions the “legitimate” press won’t.

 

 

 

This could get very interesting if the bounty gets upwards of a few thousand dollars. I think I may get my camera out and start hanging around the capitol.

 

*Note, everyone is a journalist. Anyone can ask the question , on camera, upload it to youtube and you collect the bounty.

 

 

Bounty Q: https://www.bountyq.com/

 

Via iOTW

[Casino67]

Soooo, what do you think? Shutdown or not?

 

Seems as though it may really happen eh? Maybe a couple of days then a cleanish CR gets passed? Then they will be back for another one for Christmas.

[Casino67]

[Casino67]

Socialist Mop ‏@socialistmop 18m

#ObamacareAdvantages Don't like your doctor? Don't worry. He's quitting anyway.

 

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ObamacareAdvantages&src=hash

[SrWoodchuck]

Soooo, what do you think? Shutdown or not?

 

Seems as though it may really happen eh? Maybe a couple of days then a cleanish CR gets passed? Then they will be back for another one for Christmas.

 

@Casino67

 

I'm hoping shutdown.

 

Just like when Billy Jeff Clinton & Newt squared off....let it happen.

 

But we don't have Republicans in the Senate that are willing to pull the trigger. They're genteel......Obama appeasing.....Dirty Harry lovin'......"professional" politicians that say, "What oath of office?" ......and...."What constituents?"

 

So......let it go back to the House & let the house send individual CR's for each aspect of the US Government....except Obamacare....and see what happens.

[nickydog]

I apologize for that, Sweet @Geee! I didn't see it then....and it is scary!

 

The only thing I'm wondering is, terrorists like to take credit for what they do. Anonymity isn't their game.

[SrWoodchuck]

 

I apologize for that, Sweet @Geee! I didn't see it then....and it is scary!

 

The only thing I'm wondering is, terrorists like to take credit for what they do. Anonymity isn't their game.

 

I respectfully disagree, Sweet @nickydog.

 

If they bragged about or announced responsibility for the fires....they would start a line of investigation toward the entity that initiated the action. Not all publicity is good.....when you're working behind "enemy lines." The smart thing is to start several fires in different areas.....and leave unnoticed....to do it again. Anonymity is the shield of small terrorist groups. The economic cost & the pain of the afflicted is the reward. A suicide homicide bomber is a one-trick-pony. It makes a statement in the middle of chaos....and maximizes the death & injury toll......and then it's over. They must start again & to have the same impact, they'll have to choose a different spot & a place that is less secure, but with plenty of collateral damage targets. In a fire....hit & run keeps the cost up & the assets [terrorists] safe.

[SrWoodchuck]

Great read on the politics of the latest Oblunder foreign policy debacle & how it relates to Israel.

 

Obama's power and its limitations http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2013/09/obamas-power-and-its-limitatio.php

 

US President Barack Obama's rapidly changing positions on Syria have produced many odd spectacles.

 

One of odder ones was the sight of hundreds of lobbyists from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee fanning out on Capitol Hill to lobby members of the House and Senate to support Obama's plan to launch what Secretary of State John Kerry called "unbelievably small" air strikes against empty regime controlled buildings in Syria.

 

AIPAC officials claimed they were doing this because the air strikes would help Israel.

 

But this claim was easily undone. Obama and Kerry insisted nothing the US would do would have any impact on the outcome of the Syrian civil war. This was supposed to be the strikes' selling point. But by launching worthless strikes, Obama was poised to wreck America's deterrent posture, transforming the world's superpower into an international joke.

 

In harming America's deterrent capabilities by speaking loudly and carrying an "unbelievably small" stick, Kerry and Obama also harmed Israel's deterrent posture.

 

Israel's deterrence relies in no small measure on its strategic alliance with the US.

 

Once the US is no longer feared, a key part of Israeli deterrence is removed.

 

Obama did not announce his intention to bomb empty buildings in Syria in order to impact the deterrent posture of either the US or Israel. He probably gave them little thought. The only one who stood to gain from those strikes - aside from Syrian President Bashar Assad who would earn bragging rights for standing down the US military - was Obama himself.

 

Obama wanted to launch the unbelievably small strikes to prove that he wasn't lying when he said that Syria would cross a red line if it used chemical weapons.

 

So if the strikes were going to harm the US and Israel, why did AIPAC dispatch its lobbyists to Capitol Hill to lobby in favor of them?

 

Because Obama made them.

 

Obama ordered AIPAC to go to Capitol Hill to lobby for the Syria strikes. He did so knowing that its involvement would weaken public support for AIPAC and Israel. Both would be widely perceived as pushing the US to send military forces into harm's way to defend Israel.

 

Then, with hundreds of AIPAC lobbyist racing from one Congressional office to the next, Obama left them in a lurch. He announced he was cutting a deal with Russia and had decided not to attack Syria after all.

 

What did AIPAC get for its self-defeating efforts on Obama's behalf?

 

Obama is now courting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in the hopes of making a deal that Iran will use as cover for completing its nuclear weapons program. Such a deal may well involve ending sanctions on Iran's oil exports and its central bank - sanctions that AIPAC expended years of effort getting Congress to pass.

 

And that's not all. Monday, as Obama meets with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly in New York, Vice President Joe Biden will become the highest ranking administration official to date to address the J Street conference.

 

J Street was formed in order to weaken AIPAC, and force it to the left. Sending Biden to headline at the J Street conference is an act of aggression against AIPAC.

The timing of the EU announcement that it was barring EU entities from forging ties with Israelis that operate beyond the 1949 armistice lines was revealing in this context. The EU announced its economic sanctions the day Kerry announced the start of negotiations between Israel and the PLO. The message to Israel was absolutely clear: Do what we order you to or you will face economic sanctions far more damaging.

 

Obama's appointment of Samantha Power to serve as US ambassador to the UN was another signal of ill intent. Power became the object of fear and fury for Israel supporters after YouTube videos of a 2002 interview she gave went viral during the 2008 elections. In that interview Power called for the US to send "a mammoth protection force" to Israel to protect the Palestinians from "genocide" that Israel would commit. That is, she called for the US to go to war against Israel to protect the Palestinians from a nonexistent threat maliciously attributed to the only human rights-respecting state in the Middle East.

 

And just after his reelection, Obama sent Power to the epicenter of international blood libels and attempts to outlaw the Jewish state.

 

 

CarolineGlick via TheoSpark

[quantim]

Soooo, what do you think? Shutdown or not?

 

Seems as though it may really happen eh? Maybe a couple of days then a cleanish CR gets passed? Then they will be back for another one for Christmas.

 

Hiya all.

 

Dropping by to see what you folks were thinking on this topic.

 

Since the dems never fold and the republicans always do, the answer may be obvious.

[nickydog]

 

 

I apologize for that, Sweet @Geee! I didn't see it then....and it is scary!

 

The only thing I'm wondering is, terrorists like to take credit for what they do. Anonymity isn't their game.

 

I respectfully disagree, Sweet @nickydog.

 

If they bragged about or announced responsibility for the fires....they would start a line of investigation toward the entity that initiated the action. Not all publicity is good.....when you're working behind "enemy lines." The smart thing is to start several fires in different areas.....and leave unnoticed....to do it again. Anonymity is the shield of small terrorist groups. The economic cost & the pain of the afflicted is the reward. A suicide homicide bomber is a one-trick-pony. It makes a statement in the middle of chaos....and maximizes the death & injury toll......and then it's over. They must start again & to have the same impact, they'll have to choose a different spot & a place that is less secure, but with plenty of collateral damage targets. In a fire....hit & run keeps the cost up & the assets [terrorists] safe.

 

 

So you're not necessarily talking about extreme Isamist terrorists?

[SrWoodchuck]

[SrWoodchuck]

@nickydog!

 

So you're not necessarily talking about extreme Isamist terrorists?

 

 

The degree of terror would be that these Muslims might not be ready [unless caught] to kill themselves, in order to kill non-Muslims.

 

You could say they're somewhere between CAIR and a bomb laden zealot.

 

They eat the cereal, read the paper, speak the language & definitely have seen the movie.

 

They'd die in a heart-beat, if asked.....but right now they can do more damage by blending in and using taqqiya......doing their deeds in private & moving on.....and on....and on.

[SrWoodchuck]

Young Nairobi [Muslim] Survivor:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2az1cD2eOk&feature=player_embedded

 

Via BNI