Thursday, April 26, 2018

She wants to be Joan Crawford

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


ANOTHER WAR HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED.  APPARENTLY IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, YEMEN, SYRIA AND ALL THE REST (THE PROFESSOR AND MARY ANNY INCLUDED) WEREN’T ENOUGH.
 
 
 
 
THE WEAPON OF CHOICE?  DIET COKE.  AND THE SUPER SECRET WEAPON?  JOAN CRAWFORD!
 
THE JIMMY FALLON PEPSI COMMERCIALS NOTE RAY CHARLES, MICHAEL JACKSON, CINDY CRAWFORD AND ASSORTED OTHERS BUT NOT THE MOMMY DEAREST OF THEM ALL, THE ORIGINAL QUEEN OF PEPSI, JOAN CRAWFORD.
 
THOUGH SHE HAS PASSED AWAY SHE WAS THE FACE OF PEPSI WHILE MARRIED TO THE CHAIR OF PEPSI ALFRED STEELE AND, AFTER HIS DEATH, SHE SAT ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNTIL 1973.
 
FORMER ACTRESS ALYSSA MILANO IS DESPERATE TO COME OUT OF RETIREMENT AND SEES PORTRAYING JOAN CRAWFORD IN A SERIES OF PEPSI COMMERCIALS AS JUST THE TICKET “TO LET PRODUCERS KNOW I’M READY TO WORK AGAIN.  I’M EXCITED TO BE PLAYING JOAN BECAUSE SHE WON AN OSCAR AND THIS IS THE CLOSEST I WILL EVER COME TO AN OSCAR.  MY PROBLEMS WITH WEIGHT AND AGING HAVE GIVEN ME A BITTERNESS THAT I FEEL WILL BE ESSENTIAL TO ANY PORTRAYL OF JOAN CRAWFORD.”
 




The people attacking Kanye West aren't very smart.



Obama was in office for eight years and nothing in Chicago changed.


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Obama Ended the War in Iraq: Ordered all U.S. military forces out of the country. Last troops left on December 18, 2011.



No, they didn't.



Vivek, I'm sorry that you're such a dumb piece of s**t who, all these years later, still can't learn a thing.  Clearly, you have some desire to be deceived if, at this late date, you're still repeating these falsehoods.



You like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell you
All those pretty lies pretty lies
When you gonna realize they're only pretty lies
Only pretty lies just pretty lies

-- "The Last Time I Saw Richard," written by Joni Mitchell, first appears on BLUE


All those pretty lies, Vivek needs to hear all those pretty lies.


There was no withdrawal, Vivek.  It was a "drawdown."  Even the US Defense Dept called it that.  A drawdown is not a withdrawal and DoD does understand the difference.

Had you paid attention in real time, you might have caught what was actually taking place.  In the December 12, 2011 snapshot we noted this:



MR. KOPPEL:  I realize you can't go into it in any detail, but I would assume that there is a healthy CIA mission here.  I would assume that JSOC may still be active in this country, the joint special operations.  You've got FBI here. You've got DEA here.  Can, can you give me sort of a, a menu of, of who all falls under your control?
 
 


AMB.  JAMES JEFFREY:  You're actually doing pretty well, were I authorized to talk about half of this stuff.



JSOC -- Joint Special Operations Command.  That's US military, Vivek.

Or from the December 13, 2011 snapshot:


 
 
CONAN: Though the president cheers his accomplishment, you say not so fast.
 
 


KOPPEL: I do say not so fast, and I think he knows better. But he's right, he did make the campaign promise to get all the troops out, and all the troops will be out, save 157 who will be guarding the embassy, and a few hundred U.S. military trainers. But as you pointed out, 16 to 17 thousand others will be remaining behind, and the extraordinary thing, Neal, is we're hearing echoes now of what we heard nine years ago. You know, we can't have that smoking gun be a mushroom cloud. No one is actually using that particular formulation anymore, but the fear of nuclear weapons. The danger of a nation that is supporting terrorism. Oil, which was the great unspoken issue in 2002 and 2003, very much a part of this. The difference, of course, now is that the target is Iran, not Iraq. But the two are very close to one another, and the fact of the matter is that Iran is exercising an enormous influence throughout Iraq. And the oil fields, which have under the surface, they have something - I believe it's the second-largest reserves of any country in the world. That's all very close to Iran, and if Iran were to exercise significant political, let alone military, control in that region, together with their own oil and gas, they would have the capacity to wreak havoc on Western economies.



You missed that, Vivek?  What a great brag for you.  No, US forces did not all leave Iraq.  And the fact that the CIA remained in Iraq tells you even more.  Private contractors remained as well.  The way the US occupies a country was changing before your eyes but you chose not to see.  And now you show up to attack Kanye who, please note, didn't even mention Iraq in the Tweet you 'responded' to.  Vivek is both uninformed and unable to debate.

Vivek just likes pretty men who tell him pretty lies.












 
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Sunday, April 22, 2018

She's like a dog with a bone

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

THE NEWS THAT DONALD TRUMP MAY HAVE CALLED ATTORNEY GENERAL ROD ROSENSTEIN "MR. PEEPERS" IS STILL TRIGGERING FORMER ACTRESS ALYSSA MILANO. 

"MR. PEEPERS WAS A CHARACTER ON SOME CARTOON AND STUFF," SHE EXPLAINS.  "I DON'T KNOW WHICH CARTOON BUT IT WAS A CARTOON.  AND THERE'S THE SONG!  THE SONG TOO.  'JEEPERS PEEPERS WHERE'D YOU GET THOSE CREEPERS.'  I'M PRETTY SURE IT'S RACIST.  I'M NOT SURE HOW IT'S RACIST BUT I'M PRETTY SURE IT'S RACIST.  AND I INTEND TO HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE.  MAINLY BECAUSE I NO LONGER HAVE A CAREER OR ANYTHING TO DO WITH MY LIFE."


FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Each election sees most of the same people re-elected and nothing gets done.

Will this go round be any different?


May 12th, elections are supposed to take place in Iraq.  Ali Jawad (ANADOLU AGENCY) notes, "A total of 24 million Iraqis are eligible to cast their ballots to elect members of parliament, who will in turn elect the Iraqi president and prime minister."  RUDAW adds, "Around 7,000 candidates have registered to stand in the May 12 poll, with 329 parliamentary seats up for grabs."  RUDAW also notes that 60 Christian candidates are competing for the five allotted minority seats.


Hayder al-Abadi is hoping to be prime minister for a second term.  He also hoped to campaign on his claim that he destroyed ISIS.  However, Richard Spencer (TIMES OF LONDON) reports:


Mr Abadi declared victory over Isis in December but Iraqi intelligence believes that 3,000 militants are still operating in semi-governed areas in the former “jihadist belt”.
Isis was defeated once before in Iraq but has returned to devastating effect. The distractions of other conflicts in Iraq and Syria, and questionable priorities in their capitals, are once again allowing the group to live on, just as it was supposed to have been quashed.
Hayder also promised, at the start of his term in 2014, to take on corruption.  That hasn't happened either.  This week, his campaign saw another set back when a candidate on his slate was accused of conduct unbecoming.  He may have made matters worse by refusing to stand with the candidate who denied the rumors.  RUDAW reports:

The Victory (Nasr) Coalition of Haider al-Abadi has withdrawn the candidacy of one of its members after an alleged sex tape of her was circulated online. The candidate said the video is a fake and a plot against her, but has submitted her resignation.

“Every faction and coalition reserves the right to revoke the [membership] of any candidate who does not meet the laws and conditions. This female candidate has worked contrary to the laws of the Nasr Coalition,” Hussein al-A’dily, spokesperson for the list told Rudaw.

The candidate, Intidhar Ahmed Jassim, is a professor of economy and administration at al-Muntansaryah University in Baghdad and has a PhD in the same field. She is married and has three children.

She said the video shared online allegedly showing her having sex with another man is a fake.

“Some fake pages, supported by some parties, talked about a fabricated and photo-shopped video to ruin my reputation. I don’t ever fall. Iraq progresses forward,” she posted on Facebook.

She reminded her followers that she has served Iraq as a professor for a long time and has held other positions as well.




Already some are disputing the decision:


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Great work cleaning the city! Would Naser campaign sack a male candidate if he was accused of extra martial affairs or appear in sex video?







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