Oh, Dianne!

BULLY BOY PRESS &   CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

AGED SENATOR AND N.S.A. PIN UP DIANNE FEINSTEIN WENT ON JAKE TAPPER'S CNN SHOW MOMENTS AGO TO WHINE THAT HER FIRST SUPREME COURT NOMINATION WAS JUDGE RUTH BADER GINSBERG AND SHE REMEMBERS SENATOR HATCH AND SENATOR . . .

HEY, GRANDMA, WHO THE HELL CARES?

INSTEAD OF WHINING THAT THE REPUBLICANS ARE FILIBUSTERING TAKE A DAMN LESSON, GROW A SPINE AND MAYBE NEXT TIME AN UNQUALIFIED CLARENCE THOMAS GETS NOMINATED YOU CAN ACTUALLY KEEP THE STOOGE OFF THE COURT.


FROM THE TCI WIRE:


NONE DARE CALL IT REPORTING

or

THE JUDY MILLER AWARD GOES TO . . .

Anthony Deutsch (REUTERS) insists that "Islamic State militants attacked Kurdish forces in Iraq with mustard gas last year, in the first known use of chemical weapons in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, a diplomat said, after tests by the global chemical arms watchdog."

Chemical arms?

A single source?

Unnamed!

It's as though Judith Miller has moved over to REUTERS.

Could the Islamic State have done what they're now accused of?

Probably.

They are a terrorist organization.

But why the need to hide behind an anonymous source.

And why does it feel so much like propaganda created to inflame?

And hasn't this reporter being curiously close to a megaphone for the government at other times as well?


Blissfully unaware, he Tweets:

1.  Anthony Deutsch ‏@anotherdeutsch Feb 15

   Exclusive: Samples confirm Islamic State used mustard gas in Iraq - diplomathttp://reut.rs/1PWIJ5F  via @Reuters

   View summary 
   

   5 retweets 1 like

Ay-yi-yi



I wrote these words for everyone
Who struggles in their youth
Who won't accept deception
Instead of what is truth
It seems we lose the game,
Before we even start to play
Who made these rules? We're so confused
Easily led astray
Let me tell ya that
Everything is everything
Everything is everything
After winter, must come spring
Everything is everything
-- "Everything Is Everything," written by Lauryn Hill and Johari Newton, first appears on her THE MISEDUCATION OF LAURYN HILL.



The Iraq War continues and, with it, the violence.  AFP notes that a "technical problem" is responsible for both the crash of an Iraqi military helicopter and the lives of 9 people.



And the US Defense Dept announced/claimed/asserted/bragged:



Strikes in Iraq
Rocket artillery and fighter and remotely piloted aircraft conducted 20 strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of the Iraqi government:

-- Near Baghdadi, a strike destroyed seven ISIL rocket rails and an ISIL weapons cache.

-- Near Qaim, nine strikes struck an ISIL improvised explosive device facility, an ISIL logistics facility, an ISIL staging area, two ISIL internet cafes, two ISIL headquarters and an ISIL media headquarters.

-- Near Fallujah, a strike destroyed two ISIL vehicles, two ISIL heavy machine guns and an ISIL bunker.

-- Near Kirkuk, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL vehicle, an ISIL weapons cache and three ISIL fighting positions.

-- Near Mosul, two strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL fighting position and an ISIL bunker.

-- Near Ramadi, two strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL front-end loader.

-- Near Sinjar, two strikes destroyed three ISIL fighting positions and suppressed an ISIL mortar position.

-- Near Tal Afar, two strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL fighting position and an ISIL bunker.


Task force officials define a strike as one or more kinetic events that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a single, sometimes cumulative, effect. Therefore, officials explained, a single aircraft delivering a single weapon against a lone ISIL vehicle is one strike, but so is multiple aircraft delivering dozens of weapons against buildings, vehicles and weapon systems in a compound, for example, having the cumulative effect of making those targets harder or impossible for ISIL to use. Accordingly, officials said, they do not report the number or type of aircraft employed in a strike, the number of munitions dropped in each strike, or the number of individual munition impact points against a target.






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