Round Two: US Drone Airstrikes Kill Six Pro-Iran Militia Commanders
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/r...commanders

I gotta think Iran is on the phone to Russia ordering more S-400s

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/penta...d-to-iran/

Quote:"I would ask Secretary Carter … that the Defense Department release that list to every member of this committee, declassify that list and release it directly to the service members' families who were murdered by General Soleimani," Cruz said, referring to Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, head of Iran's Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.

Quote:Cruz tweeted: "According the the [sic] Obama Department of Defense, Qasem Soleimani was a terrorist directly responsible for the murder of over 500 US service men [sic] & women.

From Trump-love.com

https://www.breitbart.com/national-secur...an-regime/

Quote:Several other experts also agreed that Soleimani’s death was even more significant than al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s, or Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s.

That's how I would rate Pompeo.

Former US Attorney Joe diGenova told OANN's John Hines that former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan were "coup leaders" in an attempt to reverse the outcome of the 2016 US election.

DiGenova says the Obama Justice Department was corrupted under Attorneys General Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, "with the authority and knowledge of then-president" Obama, and that a 'stupid and arrogant' Susan Rice was dumb enough to document his knowledge in a January 20th, 2017 email.

Quote:"And you'll never forget, I'm sure, that famous Susan Rice email on inauguration day of Donald Trump, where she sends an email to the file memorializing that there had been a meeting on January 5th with the president of the United States, all senior law enforcement and intelligence officials, where they reviewed the status of Crossfire Hurricane and the president announced - President Obama - that he was sure that everything had been done by the book.
I want to thank Susan Rice for being so stupid and so arrogant to write that email on January 20th because that's exhibit A for Barack Obama - who knew all about this from start to finish, and was more than happy to have the civil rights of a massive number of Americans violated so he could get Donald Trump." -Joe diGenova

Quote:"This was not hard. If you're a good prosecutor you look at the facts in the Trump case, and the Page case, the Flynn case. There's only one conclusion you can come to; none of this makes any sense. None of these people were evil. None of them. They were framed, and the whole process was playing out, and you knew it on July 5th 2016, when James Comey announced - usurping the functions of the Attorney General, that no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case against Hillary Clinton. That was ludicrous! She destroyed 30,000 emails that were under subpoena. If you or I did that, we would be in prison today. She got a break because she was Hillary Clinton, and James Comey was trying to kiss her fanny because he wanted something from her when she became president of the United States.
All of these people who watched that news conference and didn't think that it was a disgrace for the FBI. And then subsequently, watched all this stuff involving Trump and Page and Papadopoulos and Michael Flynn - and couldn't see that the corrupt investigative process of the FBI and the DOJ was basically being used to conduct a coup d'état. I mean you have to be an idiot. Any first year assistant US attorney would look at all these facts and say 'there's a coup underway. There's a conspiracy.'
But for those of us thought that, the Washington Post, the New York Times. We were 'conspiracy theorists.' You know what? Pretty damn good theory, it appears today.

Here are a couple of performances that I like.

Hunter Elizabeth and I think the guy was on one of those American Idol shows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB5ITxz9CK0

A girl and her guitar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyRMD0ZXW68
Lianne La Havas

A boy and his guitar playing bebop standard "Donna Lee"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4GP9yXearA
Matteo Mancuso

Israel, Saudi Arabia, U.S.A.

Quote:“I’ve already come to the conclusion that you’re a piece of shit.  If you’re old enough, I’ll bet you were also one of the ones screaming ‘BABY KILLER’ at the soldiers who returned from Vietnam. Disagreeing with and talking smack against the government leaders who send troops into wars that you feel are unjust, fine. But to demean the military personnel who put their asses and lives on the line, that goes clear over the top.”

And the racist Southern Poverty Law Center doesn't have a peep to give.

Jim Goad's year-end list of annoying people from the past 12 months.
This is always a hoot.

Another year, another 365 days of walking, talking human headaches. Sometimes I don’t know why I simply don’t look away from it all—and then, when I can’t come up with an answer, I begin getting annoyed with myself.
With the mysterious and highly suspicious exception of 2015, I’ve done these yearly rundowns ever since 2012. Here are the previous installments for 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2018.
It behooves me to stress the difference between “annoying” and “appalling.” These aren’t necessarily the worst people this year; they’re merely those whose sanctimony and muddle-headedness made we want to smack them in the face with a cold trout when no one else was looking.
If you’re looking for “appalling,” there was plenty of that to go around this year as well: the tacky showbiz impresario who trotted around a group of Down syndrome children in drag; the lesbian couple who drove their interracial adopted children off a cliff or the lesbian couple who castrated, murdered, and then dismembered their nine-year-old son—in that order; the Chinese girl who cheated on her boyfriend, felt guilty, accused the guy she cheated on him with of rape, and had the poor guy beaten; and the black rapper who made a music video showing white kids in cages and drinking toilet water.
For me, I suppose the difference between “annoying” and “appalling” is that the latter deserves a lot more than a few slaps with a cold trout.
These are rated in ascending order—from least annoying to so insufferable that I want everyone who ever had so much as a positive thought about them to suffer prolonged and painful deaths via perfectly natural causes. At the very least, they should be custom-fitted for dildos that are three sizes too large.
And for the bajillionth time for all you knuckleheads up in the peanut gallery—I’m talking about people who I, James Thaddeus Francis Goad, personally found annoying this year. I don’t care who you found annoying, and I ESPECIALLY don’t care to hear about how I got some of the answers wrong. This is a subjective matter. I understand that you don’t understand the difference, but at least try to understand that I understand that and you don’t. Understood?
There is no threshold for name recognition here, either, which is why you probably never heard of many of these people and might actually hate me for making you aware of their existence.
I went heavy on the guys this year—all but five of my villains are biological males.
“Another year, another 365 days of walking, talking human headaches.”
More than anything, I suppose I’m annoyed by people who don’t know who they really are:
There’s a man who believes he’s a dog.
A man who believes he’s a woman who just happens to have hairy balls.
A white woman who is certain she’s going to squeeze out a black baby with her white lover.
A lying Native American drifter who can’t stop banging his war drum.
A woman who finds that she’s “bored” that her husband won’t cheat on her.
A woman who went from transgender to “transalien.”
A neocon writer who is just as bad as the French, which might be why he’s named after them.
A black presidential candidate who reminds you he’s black—in case you forget that he’s black.
An Irish presidential candidate who wants you to believe he’s Mexican.
A gay presidential candidate who thinks America is ready for a gay presidential candidate.
A black woman who accuses white people of stealing time.
A TV host who threatens to beat up people who say mean things about dumb Italians like him.
A gay man who falsely accused his partner of raping him because he needed the attention.
A biracial ex-NFL player who believes he’s Malcolm X.
A white man who says he’s an Asian trapped in a white body.
A Jewish comedian who wants to outlaw jokes about Jews.
A smelly Jewish man who blames his body odor on anti-Semitism.
A gay black Jewish actor who hired two burly African guys to pretend they were white Trump supporters who attempted to lynch him.
And finally, a woman who said she doesn’t believe men are women, then, to save face, lied and said she was a man who transformed into a woman, and then admitted she was just a woman after all when it became clear she was lying about being a man.
Shall we?…
19. BETO O’ROURKE
Although he’s impressively annoying, I wanted him to wind up last here—just like he did in the polls.
Whatever you call him—Beto, Beta, Bitch-Tits—he’s a white man who pretends he’s Spanish, but in order to protect the poor Spanish-speaking peoples of southern Texas, he’s coming to take the white man’s guns and hand them over to the peace-loving brown people, who in all likelihood will promptly shoot him.
Beto could smell the winds of change. He could smell them strongly. At some point the stench became so unbearable that someone needed to open a window.
18. FREDY KOSMAN WEE
No annual list of annoying people would be complete without some guy falsely accusing another guy of raping him, which if you really think about it is sadder than if he’d actually been raped.
This year’s annoying-homo standard-bearer is Fredy Kosman Wee, whose name manages to be both gay and annoying. He also looks gayer than a sprig of artificial pink mistletoe. The squealing Indonesian gaybird called police three times to falsely accuse his lover of force-feeding him a sleeping pill and then raping him after he fell unconscious—an abominable act which, if it had only been true, would have been rude by all known standards. After his story fell apart like a virgin sphincter under a rigorous gang-pummeling, Fredy broke down and admitted he made it all up because he was absolutely furious his boyfriend wasn’t providing enough solace for an undisclosed medical condition which has to be AIDS because no one is afraid of disclosing any other medical conditions.
17. ED CASE
Although he looks every bit as white as you’d expect a guy named “Ed Case” to be, this Democratic Congressman from Hawaii stood up at some clearly racist event to celebrate racial pride among Asians and said that he felt like an “Asian trapped in a white body.” If he had only followed that up by jesting that he would gladly swap out two inches for 20 extra IQ points, that wouldn’t have been annoying at all. But groveling before racial identity groups is never attractive, Ed. NEVER.
16. MARTINA BIG
As if it wasn’t disgusting enough to surgically enhance her breasts to a zeppelin-sized 32S, this German woman and her preposterously adipose lover Michael Eurwen have been taking injections of a synthetic hormone called Melanotan that is turning her formerly fair skin into roughly the color of coal tar. Michael’s skin, however, might be so truly German that it is fighting off the black invaders. In 2018, Martina flew to Africa to be baptized as a “true African woman.” Now, just as all the other racial-dysmorphia casualties who’ve convinced themselves that they’re black, Martina says that a doctor has convinced her that any babies the couple has will be as shiny-black as Slappy White.
There is a chance that if they do indeed breed, their children will be born perfectly white. Their children may grow to despise their racially delusional parents, especially their attempts to birth their children in a toxic petri dish of self-hatred. There’s even a chance that their children may feel compelled to kill their parents. That isn’t a wish—more like a fantasy. But it’s probably likelier than the fantastic notion that their children will be born black.
15. BRITTNEY COOPER
In a field that was packed to the gills this year with annoying fat black women, it was hard to pick only one. Cooper is, to our knowledge, the only black woman who has ever been named “Brittney.” She is “an associate professor of women’s and gender studies and Africana studies” and recently gave a speech where she ululated that white people invented the concept of time as yet another lug wrench in their Evil Toolbox of Oppression:

Quote:…if time had a race, it would be white. White people own time.