Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks the NRA is a terrorist organization.

Tonight at 6: Pensacola community reacts to a billboard calling NRA “terrorist organization”. We talked to the man responsible for the billboard @weartv #C3N #Pensacola pic.twitter.com/HPO1Nl1daF

— Jamarlo Phillips (@JPhillipsTV) March 2, 2018

Courtesy of The Hill: 

A political action committee has erected a billboard in Pensacola, Fla. blasting the National Rifle Association (NRA) as a “terrorist organization.” 

Mad Dog PAC, the group behind the sign, funds billboards nationwide calling out GOP candidates and President Trump. 

I think that this is now inarguable.

The number of deaths that can be traced back to the NRA, due to it's lobbying for gun manufacturers and attempts to undermine reasonable gun legislation, is many multiples higher than any of the US deaths attributed to all of the terrorist organizations in the world combined.

And that is simply a fact.

ISIS inspired terrorist blows himself up and essentially nobody else this morning in New York City.

Courtesy of the New York Post:  

An ISIS-inspired would-be suicide bomber set off a homemade explosive device at the Port Authority Bus Terminal subway station Monday morning, seriously wounding himself and injuring three others, law enforcement sources said. 

The man — a 27-year-old Brooklyn man identified by high ranking police sources as Akayed Ullah — had wires attached to him and a 5-inch metal pipe bomb and battery pack strapped to his midsection as he walked through the Manhattan transit hub. 

The man partially detonated the device, which he was carrying under the right side of his jacket, prematurely inside the passageway to the A, C and E trains at Eighth Avenue and West 42nd Street around 7:40 a.m., sources said. 

Police quickly took the man into custody. 

Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the man was inspired by ISIS and possibly born in Bangladesh. Bratton, who said the man had been living in the US for seven years, “was supposedly setting the device off in the name of ISIS.” 

“So, definitely a terrorist attack, definitely intended,” Bratton said.

That of course could have been a very devastating attack if it had gone off perfectly.

Thankfully this guy was an incompetent terrorist, so lives were spared. Even his own. 

Here is a picture of the guy. 

As you can see he is brown skinned so I think we can comfortably expect Trump to start tweeting about this guy, and saying his big beautiful wall on the Mexican border would have stopped him, any minute now.

Sinclair owned news outlets give frightening daily terrorist updates whether there is an actual threat or not.

Courtesy of Providence Journal:  

The company that owns WJAR-TV is mandating the broadcast of multiple programs favorable to President Donald Trump on the state’s most-watched television station. 

Sinclair Broadcast Group, a rapidly growing media company that bought Channel 10 in 2014, produces “must-run” segments and distributes them to its local stations nationwide. They must air during daily news programming, Sinclair executives said. 

Three of the segments have rattled viewers and WJAR’s own news reporters, according to Fletcher Fischer, the business manager and financial secretary of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1228, the union that represents broadcast workers there:

 ‒ The Terrorism Alert Desk, advertised as a daily news update about terrorist activity. 

‒ News pieces from Epshteyn, Sinclair’s chief political analyst. 

‒ A clearly labeled opinion show featuring Mark Hyman, a former vice president of the company. 

These pieces are fed to Sinclair’s 174 stations in the United States every day. Sinclair’s insertion of the segments into news programming has been harshly critiqued by Rhode Islanders and national commentators.

One of the main problems is that "Terrorism Alert Desk" which plays daily, along with its ominous theme, even if there is nothing really to report.  

The Terrorism Alert Desk’s updates, even in the absence of any real terrorism-related events, is scary for some, said Moni Chea, a 32-year-old Providence woman who works in a nursing clinic. Chea’s 85-year-old grandmother fled conflict in Cambodia and now lives in Portland, Maine, where Sinclair owns a local station. 

“It’s very captivating. She hears the music and it sounds very important. I try to tell her it’s just an update about national security, but she worries,” said Chea. “She fled a war. For her, terrorism — that’s her biggest fear.”

I am sure many of you remember the Bush Administration terror alerts, which were liberally used to keep us on edge and to maintain support for their unnecessary wars.

The Bushies also experimented with their own media outlets (Besides the always reliable Fox News.) and this just feels like another version of the same old propaganda.

Of course the conservatives will argue that this is just to offset the mainstream media's liberal bias, but that is just Right Wing slang for "responsible journalism."

What is more insidious, as we have previously pointed out, is that this is being disguised as local coverage, and viewers are not made aware of their local station's change in agenda or that they may in fact be watching "fake news" served with a healthy side of Right Wing propaganda.

Trump's America is looking more and more like Hitler's Germany every day.

Mike Pence is angry at the press, because he feels they are angry at Trump, for not being angry enough at the White supremacist terrorists.

Courtesy of Politico:  

Speaking during a visit to the South American nation of Colombia, Pence said that it was appropriate to criticize not only the white supremacists behind the "Unite the Right" march but also counter-protesters on the scene.

"I will say I take issue with the fact that many in the national media spent more time criticizing the president’s words than they did criticizing those that perpetrated the violence to begin with," he said, speaking in a joint news conference with Colombia's president, Juan Manuel Santos. 

"We should be putting the attention where it belongs, and that is on those extremist groups that need to be pushed out of the public debate entirely and discredited for the hate groups and dangerous fringe groups that they are."

It should be pointed out that today Trump took to Twitter to attack the Democrats for being "obstructionists" and Ken Frazier  for leaving his Manufacturing Council (By the way he's a black guy who is quitting specifically BECAUSE of Trump's weak ass response to the violence in Virginia.) , but not a word about the murder in Charlottesville.

As for the press, virtually every single newscaster and commentator, who was not appearing on Fox News, has condemned the White Nationalists who beat protesters and murdered that young woman in the strongest terms.

These statements by Mike Pence, which also attempts to blame "both sides" for the violence, proves that he is almost as bad as his boss.

However he did at least say this: 

"We have no tolerance for hate and violence from white supremacists, neo-Nazis or the KKK. These dangerous fringe groups have no place in American public life and in the American debate, and we condemn them in the strongest possible terms," he said.

This kind of forced Trump's hand so today he finally came out with this:

Trump: "Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, Neo-Nazis, & White Supremacists" pic.twitter.com/pYnjQXDvyU

— Axios (@axios) August 14, 2017

Damn talk about too late to the party.

But now the question is "What is he going to do about it?"

Under the leadership of Trump and Pence the focus has been taken off of homegrown hate groups like the KKK and Neo-Nazis, and they have clearly grown stronger  and prospered as a result.

If Mike Pence and Donald Trump really want to do something to prevent this kind of tragedy from happening again they need to stop focusing all of their counter terrorism efforts on Islamic terrorists and recognize that White Nationalists pose as great, if not a greater threat to this country. 

The Trump Administration is now using Bush era tactics to keep the American population frightened and manageable.

Look I'm not saying there WILL be an attack, I am just saying if there is one it will be the most beautiful one ever.

Courtesy of CNN: 

Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly issued a stark warning Tuesday, calling the risk of a terror attack on the United States "as threatening today" as it was on 9/11. 

Specifically, Kelly outlined the danger posed by homegrown terrorists and foreign fighters from around the world who have traveled to Syria and Iraq with plans to return home. 

"The threat to our nation and our American way of life has not diminished," Kelly said during a speech at George Washington University. "In fact, the threat has metastasized and decentralized, and the risk is as threatening today as it was that September morning almost 16 years ago."

Look I am not saying there are not still terrorist plots out there, because I am sure that there are.

All I am saying is that Donald Trump is in desperate need of a diversion right now, and if we do not suffer a false flag event in the next few weeks I will be very surprised.

After all that would be Vladimir Putin's go to tactic in a similar circumstance.

Twitter reactions to Trump dropping the biggest bomb since World War 2.

The bomb Trump just dropped on Afghanistan cost $314 million.

Enough money to fix the water crisis in Flint almost three times over. #MOAB

— Jack Slater (@Jack_Slater) April 13, 2017

The story is NOT how shiny, big, powerful the MOAB. It is that USA unleashed a weapon of mass destruction on a primarily civilian population

— Citizen of Nowhere (@sunnysingh_n6) April 13, 2017

#TheResistance #Afghanistan #MOAB

- Tomahawks to Syria
- Navy Armada to North Korea
- MOAB to Aghanistan

But Clinton was the war-hawk?

— The Anti-Trump (@IMPL0RABLE) April 13, 2017

I don't care how many #MOAB's Trump drops. The only way he's gonna distract me from #TrumpRussia is if one of those MOAB's is on my house.

— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) April 13, 2017

On the other hand Trump supporters have had their hands down their pants polishing their little flagpoles ever since they first heard about this attack.

Tall buildings with his name on them, a constant need to argue that everything about him is bigger, and now dropping the largest bomb dropped in the last 70 years.

I have no idea why people keep saying Donald Trump is compensating for something.

Do you?

Dakota Meyer's Fox News interview about his Medal of Honor and Islamic terrorism is all you need to see to understand why he fits in so well with the Palins.

Why do I think that somewhere there is a chart which says "You have to be this dumb to marry a Palin?"

Look I respect that Dakota won such a prestigious medal, that is quite an accomplishment.

But let's not forget that he disobeyed direct orders to do it, and that the story told about his bravery did not pass the smell test. 

Look I wish no ill will to Dakota, after all his life must be hell already.

However I would suggest that he resist the urge to go on TV and give his opinion on ANYTHING, unless it is concerning shit he has seen while living in the Palin compound.

That would at least be worth the pain of listening to him struggle to formulate a coherent sentence.

Stephen Bannon becomes the terrorist's poster child to justify religious war with the United States.

Courtesy of the Washington Post: 

The way al-Qaeda tells it, the West is locked in an existential war with Islam. This is how the terrorist group justifies its violence and its fundamentalist ideology. And now it has found a Westerner to back them up — top Trump adviser Steve Bannon. 

Bannon graced the cover (above the fold!) of the most recent al-Qaeda-linked Al Masra newspaper. That prominence, University of Oxford researcher Elisabeth Kendall told Quartz, is “striking.” The piece focused on Bannon's views of Islam, saying he believes that “the forces of Islam cannot be stopped by peaceful means.” 

The paper cited a conversation Bannon had with a Danish journalist in May 2016. It also claimed that Bannon believes that the struggle is really between Christianity and Islam, not just Islam and the West. And it suggested that Bannon has “lost confidence in secular Europe, and sees Muslim immigrants as partially responsible for the retreat of traditional Christian values.

”Like other Trump advisers (and former advisers), Bannon has spoken publicly about these beliefs. In 2014, he gave a speech to the Vatican via Skype in which he said, “We’re now, I believe, at the beginning stages of global war against Islamic fascism.” On other occasions, he's suggested that the “Judeo-Christian West” is at war with “expansionist Islamic ideology.”

I don't think it takes a terrorism expert to realize that Donald Trump and his Islamophobic advisors are doing nothing to actually fight terrorism, but quite a lot to inspire future terrorist attacks against the United States.

The war in Iraq did a great job of incentivizing up and coming Jihadists, despite Bush's attempts to argue that the war was not based on religion, but Donald Trump and his advisors are not even attempting to to do that much and with their rhetoric and policy choices seem to be turning Anti-Islamic sentiment up to eleven.

In short any future terrorist attacks in this country can most likely be linked right back to Donald Trump and his merry band Muslim bashers.

In order to defend his Muslim ban Donald Trump claims that media is not reporting terrorist attacks. Media responds with public spanking.

Courtesy of CBS News: 

The president began talking about how “radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland” as they did on 9/11, in the Boston bombings and in San Bernardino. He said it’s also happening “all over Europe” like in Paris and Nice. 

“It’s gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported. In many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it. They have their reasons and you understand that,” Mr. Trump said. 

There is no evidence that any media outlet is covering up terrorist attacks.

Later the White House walked back this claim a little by releasing a list of "terrorist attacks" that they claim were under reported.

A White House official says "most" of these 78 attacks since 2014 have not received enough attention from media. pic.twitter.com/v66rcHxAFI

— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) February 7, 2017

(The list by the way completely excludes the Charleston shooting by a White Supremcist, and a number of other attacks by white folks as well. Coincidence?)

Problem is that most of the incidents listed WERE reported which inspired various news outlets to run footage of their reporters reporting on them.

Here is CNN doing exactly that.

Trump claims media ignore terror attacks: @DonLemon details some of the many events he covered on the WH list https://t.co/rLT0SdCm5T

— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) February 7, 2017

Apparently this idea of the media not reporting on terrorist attacks in order to minimize them, was a talking point borrowed from Info Wars.

And if that was not bad enough there was also this tidbit of information.

Worth noting.. WH was able to assemble this list... from media reports. https://t.co/CXiXQuuOSd

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) February 7, 2017

Yeah, let's chalk this up to yet another failure by Donald Trump to dismiss facts and attempt to alter reality to fit his vision of what it SHOULD be. 

Kind of goes without saying but of course the ban on Muslims is a boon to terrorist organizations.

Courtesy of CNN: 

President Donald Trump's travel ban on seven Muslim-majority nations will be used by ISIS as a recruitment tool, giving the militant group a major propaganda boost, former jihadists have told CNN. 

The executive order, which blocks all immigrants and visa holders who are citizens of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia, reinforces ISIS' narrative, according to former jihadi Abu Abdullah. 

"It can play into their propaganda, to make it clear for anyone who could be in doubt, that it's a war on Islam and all Muslims," Abdullah told CNN over a messaging service. The names of the now-defected foreign fighters in this story have been changed to protect their identities. 

Another former jihadi said the wedge being driven between Muslims living in the West and their governments is exactly what ISIS wants. 

"[Trump's] helped ISIS a lot, he's basically being a tool for them in a way," Abu Obaida, a British former Jabhat al-Nusra fighter in Syria, told CNN via direct message. "On social media right now there's a lot of people quoting Anwar al-Awlaki (the late spokesperson for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) and his last speech when he said that America will turn on the Muslims."

It's really a no-brainer.

The entire point of hating America is the deeply ingrained belief that we are anti-Muslim, which is exacerbated by our numerous conflicts with Middle Eastern counties.

However Donald Trump has now ratcheted that up far more than previous presidents by actually banning immigrants based on the Islamic country from which they come.

And of course saying things like this:

I imagine the next terrorist attacks we suffer will be substantially more costly than the ones that occurred during the Obama administration.

Also could be titled "What happens when an insecure blowhard meets a truly powerful man?"

This picture has been passed around on the internet for a couple of day now, and folks have been having funny creating funny memes for it.

But the truth is that Trump really was intimidated during this meeting with the President, and in fact afterwards somewhat backed off his plan to do away with Obamacare completely.

In short he caved.

Now in the short run it might be helpful to Americans that Trump is a candy ass who buckles when facing off with a tough minded political opponent.

However this man also has to face tough minded leaders in other countries.

And not just Putin, who has already made him his bitch, but also Iranian leaders, Chinese leaders, and that is without even mentioning the actual terrorists.

Yeah, we're fucked.

Sarah Palin cannot contain her joy at news her nemesis Katie Couric faces lawsuit over documentary about guns in America.

Courtesy of that mean girls from Middle School's Facebook page:  

Shooting back against Katie Couric's deceptive presentations in a gun documentary is good news. 

It's a shame it takes a lawsuit to force journalists to acknowledge their unethical practices, but if their clouded conscience lets them sleep at night amidst feeding the public lies, then litigation must awaken them to the public's right and expectation to read, see and hear truth. 

Let's be thankful the parties suing "The Perky One" have sharp people in their corner with the tools - and the guts - to go after those who've not been held accountable for far too long. 

- Sarah Palin

Palin then links to some super pro-gun website that I am afraid to click on as it might accidentally go off and kill someone.

However the story that has her nips super hard like little bullets, is the news that Katie Couric and her partner are being sued for 12 million dollars:

Katie Couric and "Under the Gun" director Stephanie Soechtig are facing a $12 million defamation lawsuit for their roles in allegedly "misleading" edits made in their 2016 documentary. 

Virginians Citizens Defense League (VCDL) is taking Couric and her director to court for edits they say made VCDL members appear stumped by Couric's gun control questions, when in fact they were not. 

A clip in the film appears to show nine seconds of silence after Couric asks them, "If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from purchasing a gun?"

Now Couric has already acknowledged this deceptive editing and apologized for it as well: 

“When I screened an early version of the film with the director, Stephanie Soechtig, I questioned her and the editor about the pause and was told that a ‘beat’ was added for, as she described it, ‘dramatic effect,’ to give the audience a moment to consider the question. When VCDL members recently pointed out that they had in fact immediately answered this question, I went back and reviewed it and agree that those eight seconds do not accurately represent their response….I regret that those eight seconds were misleading and that I did not raise my initial concerns more vigorously.”

Yeah well that's not enough. After all this is the pro-gun crowd we are talking about so they want to see blood.

So with the backing of the gun lobbyists and ammosexuals they are planning to not only punish Couric and her partner for what is a rather minor editing choice, but also to send a message to anybody else who would dare to challenge their dominance over American culture.

Remember guns good, government control bad. (Unless of course we are talking about a woman's right to control her own reproductive process that is.)

By the way here is the trailer for the curious among you.

Yep, looks like something I DEFINITELY want to watch.

Thanks for reminding me about this Sarah. 

North Carolina toddler puts gun in his mouth, pulls the trigger.

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

A North Carolina toddler found a handgun in his parents’ bedroom Saturday afternoon, put it in his mouth — and the gun went off, authorities say. 

The Asheboro boy is “extremely lucky,” a sheriff’s captain tells the Winston-Salem Journal, because the bullet missed his vital organs.

This is what constitutes " extremely lucky" in a toddler with gun story these days, "bullet missed his vital organs." Because so often vital organs are hit, either on the toddler himself or some other child or adult in the vicinity.

According to Newser the two year old's father was home at the time (It was his gun.) as were his mother and three of his older siblings.

Yet not one of them bothered to protect this child.

By the way if you have seen this meme pop up on your Facebook of Twitter account lately, Snopes would like you to know that it is true.

And unfortunately most of those lives taken, have been the toddler's.

Just a reminder that there was a bill which would have prevented the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida and the Republicans blocked it.

Courtesy of MSNBC from back in December of last year: 

Senate Republicans rejected a bill that aims to stop suspected terrorists from legally buying guns, on Thursday. The vote came a day after at least 14 people were killed during the San Bernardino massacre in California by two suspects, including a woman said to have pledged allegiance to ISIS. 

Forty-five senators voted for the bill and 54 voted against it. One Democrat, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, and one Republican, Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, crossed party lines. 

The measure would have denied people on the terrorist watch list the ability to buy guns. 

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who sponsored the legislation, argued that former President George W. Bush initially proposed the legislation in 2007, and the Obama administration also supports it. 

“If you need proof that Congress is a hostage to the gun lobby, look no further than today’s vote blocking a bill to prevent known or suspected terrorists from buying guns and explosives,” she said. “Congress has been paralyzed by the gun lobby for years, while more and more Americans are killed in mass shootings. The carnage won’t stop until Congress finds the courage to stand up to the gun lobby and protect the nation.”

President Obama addressed this very situation just a few days ago:

So despite what Bernie Sanders may have wanted people to believe, there IS a difference between the Democrats and the Republicans in Washington.

Democrats want to keep Americans safe and the Republicans want to help the gun manufacturers make money.

Does not get any simpler than that.

(H/T to the Democratic Underground.)

So yesterday Donald Trump just went ahead and essentially accused the President of the United States with being an Islamic terrorist sympathizer. Sure, why not?

Courtesy of Guardian: 

“He doesn’t get it, or he gets it better than anybody understands. It’s one or the other,” Trump told Fox News Channel’s morning show. 

“We’re led by a man that either is not tough, not smart or he’s got something else in mind,” he added, for good measure. “And the something else in mind, you know, people can’t believe it. People cannot – they cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can’t even mention the words radical Islamic terrorism. There’s something going on. It’s inconceivable.” 

This is no random brain fart from the great orange one. He took the same line to NBC’s Today show, saying: “Well, there are a lot of people that think maybe he doesn’t want to get it.”

Richard Wolffe, who wrote the article for the Guardian, pointed out the flaw in Trump's characterization: 

Just to be clear: we’re talking about the same president who ordered the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the civilized world’s greatest enemy.

As if that was not enough Trump went on to accuse Hillary Clinton of being too afraid of the President to use the phrase "radical Islamic terrorist" either:  

Hillary Clinton uses the term "radical jihadism" rather than "radical Islamic terrorism" because she is "probably afraid" of President Barack Obama, Donald Trump said Monday. 

“He’s the boss, OK? And she’s probably afraid of him because, obviously, you know, she probably thinks that he has a profound effect over her life."

Trump then added this: 

"He’s protecting her from going to jail, so she’s not going to use it," Trump said. 

"But I bet you that … she would love to use to those words, because almost everybody agrees that those words should be used.” 

Yeah everybody who gets their news from talk radio and Fox News. Which are the same sources who would convince those people of the lie that Hillary Clinton is in danger of incarceration.

When asked about the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism" Hillary Clinton responded with this statement:  

"And from my perspective, it matters what we do, not what we say. It matters that we got Bin Laden, not what name we called him," Clinton said. "But if he is somehow suggesting I don't call this for what it is, he hasn't been listening. I have clearly said we face terrorist enemies who use Islam to justify slaughtering people. We have to stop them and we will. We have to defeat radical jihadist terrorism, and we will." 

Both terms "mean the same thing," Clinton continued, adding, "And to me, radical jihadism, radical Islamism, I think they mean the same thing. I'm happy to say either, but that's not the point." 

"I have clearly said many, many times we face terrorist enemies who use Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people. We have to stop them and we will. We have to defeat radical jihadist terrorism or radical Islamism, whatever you call it," Clinton said later on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," reiterating, "it's the same." 

So of course Trump decided to take credit for what he saw as a victory:

I have been hitting Obama and Crooked Hillary hard on not using the term Radical Islamic Terror. Hillary just broke-said she would now use!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2016

You know I am REALLY looking forward to Hillary and the President combining forces to stomp the crap out of this asshole in the next few months.

I think John Oliver's response to the shooting in Orlando is something we all need to see.

I think "terrorist dipshit" may be my new favorite phrase.

Sarah Palin attacks Paul Ryan for not attacking Islam in response to the Orlando nightclub attack. Even though essentially he did.

Okay get your hazmat suits on kids, cause this links to Breitbart:

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin blasted House Speaker Paul Ryan for his gutless reaction on radical Islamic terrorism — and for his criticisms of presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump on Islam — during an exclusive interview with Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM. 

Ryan has barely condemned the terrorist attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando killed 50 and landed another 53 in the hospital. 

“Paul Ryan is out of touch with his constituents,” said the former GOP vice presidential candidate. “Those who have put their faith in with their sacred vote.” (Sacred vote? Does that come with a super secret decoder ring?)

Leaders like Ryan have not come up with the plan or the will to confront the threat, she said. “What is the number of lives lost before our leadership will wake up and deal with the problem?” (Inadequate gun control laws?)

“It’s a deadly ideology. It is embraced by people who lie,” she said. “They will strike again. They will continue.” (Oh she's talking about Islam. Dammit I should have guessed Islam.)


Palin then of course said that Donald Trump was right about keeping Islamic refugees out of the country, even though the Orlando shooter was born in America.

But wait, there's more:

“It is ‘We the People’ who have to educate each other, do our homework,” she said. “Then, we circle the wagons. That’s how we survive, we circle the wagons.” (Okay, I don't even have a wagon. Do you guys have a wagon? Seriously who has a wagon these days?)

“The RINOs [Republicans in Name Only], the establishment, the permanent political class — they don’t care who wins an election as long as they are protected, their pocketbook, their power, their name tag that they get to wear with a big title on it. That is their motivation. To them politics is a business. They are in it for a season, not a reason. And their season all has to do with self-protection and financial gain,” she said. ("To them politics is a business." How does this woman not overdose on irony like five times a day?)

“The rest of us — we don’t care about the money (Ha!), we don’t care about the titles, the power, the offices. No, we’re busy living our lives and raising our families and running our businesses. And we just want the best for this exceptional nation. We do want it to be great again, and that is why so many of us jumped on the Trump train.”

At the end of the article Palin characterizes Trump as, and I kid you not, "this blue collar billionaire in touch with the people."

Man I knew she would be back, but even I did not expect her to be this tightly wound.

So do you want to know the stupidest part?

Yes, I know the whole thing is stupid, but there is even something dumber.

Paul Ryan, DID condemn Islamist terrorists: 

House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, commenting on Sunday's mass shooting in Orlando, said: "As we heal, we need to be clear-eyed about who did this. We are a nation at war with Islamist terrorists."

I'm not exactly sure how much more condemning that Sarah Palin wants, perhaps she wants Ryan to tell people to start punching hijab wearing women in the face or something, but that seemed like some fairly aggressive religious intolerance to me.

Here let me end with this.

Islam did not kill those 50 or more people yesterday.

Homophobia did not rip the flesh off of more than a hundred people in a nightclub in Florida.

Terrorism did not provide the means for the worst mass shooting in America history.

Guns traced in #Orlando shooting: .223 caliber AR type rifle and 9mm semiautomatic pistol. Similar to those pictured pic.twitter.com/Ao5pcLtwBg

— ATF HQ (@ATFHQ) June 12, 2016

These did.

It really does not matter why these people kill our fellow citizens, it matters how.

And the answer to how is that they are living in a country which fervently believes that it is everybody's right to have access to the deadliest weapons available. And if dozens, and dozens, of people die, well that is just the cost of freedom.

American style.

Ohio sovereign citizen blows off both hands making bomb in kitchen.

Courtesy of Crooks and Liars: 

Alphonso D. Mobley Jr. was allegedly building a bomb with a powerful, but unstable explosive that he was cooking in the kitchen of a vacant Columbus, Ohio house when it detonated, blowing off both hands. 

Despite his injuries, the 26 year-old man was charged yesterday with possession and manufacture of a dangerous ordnance alongside 21 year-old Roberto M. Innis Jr. 

Uninjured in the Tuesday morning blast, Innis called emergency services to the scene and later allegedly confessed to helping manufacture a dangerous ordnance. 

Triacetone triperoxide, better known as TATP, is an old, but powerful explosive used by suicide bombers in the Paris attacks last year. Long known to extremists as ‘the mother of Satan,' it is easily set off by friction, static electricity, or flame. 

While there is no word yet on where Mobley learned to make the compound, neighbors tell 10TV that both are ‘sovereign citizens,' a category that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies consider at least as dangerous as Islamic terrorists.

Of course as we know this is not a REAL terrorist because he is not an "Islamic terrorist" and that is the only kind that we are supposed to fear. 

Of course in reality this is the more dangerous variety of terrorist, a domestic terrorist who lives, looks, and worships like the majority of Americans.

He could be your neighbor, your workmate, or even your family member.

And yet we are rarely warned to watch out for them because they are not the type of terrorist that justifies beefing up our military or spending millions on Homeland Security.

That time when the policies of President Obama started to bankrupt ISIS and nobody even noticed.

How many times do I have to tell you I've got this?

Courtesy of Vox:  

Though the American media often portrays ISIS as an unstoppable, terrifying juggernaut, the truth is that the group is in real trouble, and is actually losing ground in its core Iraqi and Syrian holdings. A new leaked internal document suggests the pressure may be even worse than we thought. According to the document, ISIS is being forced to slash salaries for its fighters by half across its holdings. 

The document appears to be authentic. "[I] definitely think this is real," Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, told me. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-Assad group watching the conflict, has heard from its own sources that ISIS is slashing salaries.

So at this point you are probably asking, "How did that happen?"

Funny you should ask.

Most of ISIS's money comes from extortion: essentially taking money from its citizens at gunpoint. But there's only so much wealth for the group to steal in the territory it controls without economic growth, and ISIS has no plan for putting together a real economy. Its oil infrastructure, which used to be quite valuable, has been heavily bombed by the US-led coalition. 

"Their cash had already been drying up," Gartenstein-Ross explains. "The coalition bombing their trucks bringing oil to market further depletes their revenue by adding a premium to doing business with ISIS. Plus, taxing a population that has very little source of income isn't a sustainable revenue model." 

So in short: ISIS has lost 25 percent of its territory since mid-2014. Its cash resources are running low. It has no friends in the region and lots of powerful enemies.

Okay so I kind of understand the strategic reasons for not yelling this from the rooftops and giving Daesh the opportunity to recognize what is happening and taking steps to circumvent these strategies.

However when I hear these Republican candidates bitching about the President having no plan to deal with the terrorists, or when they call him "weak" or "ineffective," I just want Obama to walk up to a microphone somewhere and shut their asses down.

As far as I'm concerned when it comes to the current crop of GOP presidential hopefuls there is not one among them qualified to wipe our President's ass much less take over his job.

Sarah Palin really seems determined to get murdered by Daesh.

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First off, as mentioned earlier, this story about Daesh killing children with Down syndrome is not exactly airtight.

Secondly I think we all know that no Middle Eastern terrorist is going to drag themselves all the way to Wasilla, Alaska just to kill the crazy lady by the dead lake just to make a point.

And no amount of praying will change that, so stop right now.

Thirdly it appears to me that Palin actually stole this idea from a certain "Not the baby's father" who did it a year ago.

Wonder if any ISIS members want to drop by and join my book club @ScoutMedia pic.twitter.com/Wft72YYM0I

— Dakota Meyer (@Dakota_Meyer) December 3, 2014

Really is a shame this whole wedding thing did not work out, they seemed like such a perfect fit.

(Dakota and Sarah I mean, not Dakota and ole mattress back. That was doomed from the start.)

And fourthly if ANYBODY actually thinks that Sarah Palin would risk her own precious life to protect anybody else, especially her no longer useful political prop, I have some old Bibles signed by the author Himself I would like to sell you.

My assumption is that after watching the Republican candidates frothing at the mouth over killing terrorists on stage last night, that Palin woke up today and decided that she wanted to puff up her inflatable chest and act like a bad ass on the internet as well.

And let's face it she is just as tough and dangerous as any of the GOP presidential candidates, which is to say not at all.