Cedric's Big Mix: 2017-09-24

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

A Hillary by any other name would still smell as rank

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

Hillary Clinton torches Trump officials using private email accounts as the "height of hypocrisy" http://hill.cm/uWIREoa 

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WAIT.

WOULDN'T THE HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY BE DENYING YOU DID ANYTHING WRONG -- DESPITE SENDING CLASSIFIED E-MAILS FROM AN UNSECURE SERVER -- AND THEN WHINING ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE USING A PRIVATE E-MAIL?

YES, CRANKY CLINTON. YES, IT WOULD BE.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Yesterday, a historic referendum was held in northern Iraq. Results above from RUDAW, the official results will be released later-- some day two to three days but Susannah George (AP) reports the results are expected this evening. .

RUDAW explained the referendum as follows:

More than five million people are eligible to vote when the people of Kurdistan head to the polls on Monday, September 25, to decide whether they want to leave or stay with Iraq.

With an estimated global population of between 30 and 40 million, the Kurds are one of the largest ethnic groups without a state. Under the post-WWI Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, Kurdish lands were divided between Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria.

Kurds in all four parts of what is known as Greater Kurdistan have faced persecution, discrimination, and genocide, and have fought at times for greater rights, autonomy, and independence.

In Iraq, Kurds make up 17 to 20 percent of the total population. In the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq, Kurds have had a semi-autonomous government since a no-fly zone was established over their lands in 1991 after the first Gulf War.

The new Iraqi constitution that came into effect in 2005, after the US-led invasion of 2003, recognized the Kurdistan Region as a federal region with its own legislature and armed forces, the Peshmerga. Both Erbil and Baghdad have accused the other of violating the constitution.

The September 25 referendum will take place in Kurdistan of Iraq only, not neighbouring countries.

It's worth noting that this vote was put together in about three months. It's also worth noting that provincial elections were supposed to have taken place throughout Iraq earlier this year, then pushed back to September, then pushed back to next year.

Voters in Zakho can not wait until morning. They already started to build lines. #KurdistanReferendum

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Kurdish Authorities Set to Declare 'Yes' on Independence, Despite Iran and Turkey Threatening War

"THIS JUST IN! ROB DOES HILLARY!"
"That's Miss Clinton to you"

Sunday, September 24, 2017

That's Miss Clinton to you

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

ONE TIME ACTOR AND FAILED DIRECTOR ROB REINER INSISTS HE WAS NOT SPOTTED EARLY SUNDAY MORNING TROLLING WEST HOLLYWOOD IN DRAG, DRESSED -- CANKLES AND ALL -- IN THE SPITTING IMAGE OF HILLARY CLINTON.

"I LOVE HILLARY," REINER TOLD THESE REPORTERS. "I HAVE MY LIMO DRIVER CALL ME 'MISS CLINTON' OR 'MADAM PRESIDENT.' AND I BUY MY PANTIES AT THE SAME STORES AS HILLARY. BUT I WOULD NEVER DRESS UP AS HILLARY WHEN LOOKING TO PICK UP MEN. PARTLY BECAUSE SHE'S SUCH A BONER DEPRESSANT. SHE'S THE ANTI VIAGRA."

WITH THAT, REINER FINISHED POWDERING HIS NOSE, CLAMPED SHUT HIS COMPACT AND LUMBERED OFF.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

In three days, the KRG and Kirkuk are scheduled to hold a referendum on whether or not they should remain a part of the Baghdad-based government.

As the vote looms, panic ensues among those opposed to the vote.

Denouncing the move are the foreign ministers of Iraq, Turkey and Iran. The three elected to meet up in New York. Tuvan Gumrukcu and Tulay Karadeniz (INDEPENDENT) type:

In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of the three countries voiced concerns that the referendum would endanger the gains Iraq has made against Islamic State, and reiterated their fears over the potential for new conflicts in the region.

How would a vote "endanger the gains Iraq has made against Islamic State"?

They repeat that fear over and over and no one ever asks them to define it.

The KRG and the Baghdad-based government do not get along and have not for years.

Has that prevented them working together in Mosul?

Why would this be any different?

It wouldn't.

But fear and the trash that peddles it always runs wild.

Let's play their game for just a second. The Baghdad-based government manages to shut down the vote at the last minute, how does that help the struggle against ISIS?