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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

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:

Anthony Deutsch ‏@anotherdeutsch Feb 15

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

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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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Thursday, February 11, 2016

John Lewis remembers

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

ELDERLY FOOL AND NOTED CRUSTY LIP JOHN LEWIS TODAY INSULTED SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS AND DISMISSED HIS CIVIL RIGHTS WORK INSISTING, "I NEVER SAW HIM."

BUT HE DID SEE CRANKY CLINTON.

IN 1964, HE SAW CRANKY STORM OUT OF A DINER WHEN ACTIVISTS ATTEMPTED TO INTEGRATE THE COUNTER.

IN 1965, HE SAW HER CHANGE HER TRAVEL PLANS AND GO TO MIAIMI INSTEAD OF SELMA IN ORDER TO AVOID THE MARCH ON SELMA.

AROUND THE SAME TIME, JOHN LEWIS REMEMBERS A NASTY AND HIGHLY PERSONAL FIGHT CRANKY GOT INTO WITH ACTIVIST STOKELY CARMICHAEL WHEN HE CHOSE THE BLACK PANTHER AS THE SYMBOL FOR THE LOWNDES COUNTY FREEDOM ORGANIZATION.

"CRANKY TOLD STOKELY SHE WAS THE ONE WHO HAD SOLE RIGHTS TO THE BLACK PANTHER," LEWIS SHARED EARLIER TODAY WITH THESE REPORTERS. "SHE SAID TO HIM, 'CARMICHAEL, I'LL CUT A BITCH. I WILL. THE PANTHER IS MINE. GET TO STEPPING.' BUT STOKELY REFUSED TO BACK DOWN. EVENTUALLY, THE TWO AGREED THAT STOKELY COULD HAVE EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS TO THE BLACK PANTHER AND CRANKY WOULD GET BOTH THE COUGAR AND THE PUMA."

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Starting with US politics, yesterday Hillary Clinton suffered a stunning loss in New Hampshire as voters in that state's Democratic Party primary overwhelmingly chose Senator Bernie Sanders while rejecting her to be the party's presidential nominee.

Among her problems with voters? Her 2002 vote for the Iraq War.

While Hillary eventually would term the vote a "mistake," that only created more problems for her.

When most people were taught by parents and/or guardians about mistakes, they were taught not only to admit to their mistake but to make some good faith effort to fix the mistake.

Hillary keeps insisting she has some fabled foreign policy knowledge.

But if her vote for the war on Iraq was a mistake -- and if she's so smart -- where is the effort to make good on her mistake?

‏@ICRC

Abandoned buildings, schools & makeshift camps, these are the places thousands of kids call home in #Iraq today.

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She's done nothing to help or advocate for the children pictured above.

She has, however, used her own status -- recent status -- as a grandmother to campaign on. It bit her in the ass when she was insisting she's just like an "abuela." She's also repeated used her status as a grandmother to insist she'd be a better leader.

Adam Carlson (PEOPLE) quoted Hillary stating, "It will affect my being, not just my thinking. [. . .] Having that next generation right there and thinking about everything you want to do both personally but in our cases, publicly and professionally, to give that child the best chance in life to be all he or she can be, that is profoundly moving to me."

Is it profoundly moving to her?

It's a tiny and limited sort of 'profound,' one that doesn't go beyond her own family.

A mistake, she insists, she made but she's not doing anything to help the children in Iraq with birth defects.

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Hillary should drop out for the good of the country

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

RETIRED LT. GEN. MICHAEL T. FLYNN, FORMER DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR, DECLARED TODAY THAT CRANKY CLINTON SHOULD DROP OUT OF THE RACE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION "FOR THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY" AND TO ALLOW THE F.B.I. INVESTIGATION INTO HER E-MAILS AND SERVER TO PLAY OUT.

RESPONDED CRANKY CLINTON, "IF I DROPPED OUT EVERY TIME A MAN TOLD ME TO GET LOST, OR LEFT EVERYTIME SOME HOST SAID TO LEAVE THE PARTY, I'D SPEND EVERY WAKING HOUR OF MY LIFE ALONE. NO, I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE. I WILL FORCE AMERICA TO CHOOSE ME BY SHEER EXHAUSTION. IT'S HOW I GOT BILL TO PROPOSE TO ME AND IT WILL WORK AGAIN."

IN RELATED NEWS, MANY AMERICANS ARE POOLING THEIR MONEY FOR SKY WRITER TO PEN A MESSAGE TO HILLARY THAT OPENS, "IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME."

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Moving over to one specific War Criminal, Hillary Clinton.

Cranky Clinton is yet again having trouble sealing the deal when it comes to garnering the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.

This go round, she's competing against Senator Bernie Sanders.

Today, they faced off in the first primary the United States holds: New Hampshire.

While 2008 saw New Hampshire delivering Hillary a solid win and elevating her then-troubled campaign, today New Hampshire went to Bernie Sanders.

Liked 18,545 times

Bernie Sanders Verified account ‏@BernieSanders 4 hours ago

When we stand together, we win. Thank you, New Hampshire!

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The Bern Report ‏@bernreport 40 minutes ago

.@BernieSanders won the #NHPrimary tonight in the largest margin in the history of the American Democratic party!

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Bernie Sanders Verified account ‏@BernieSanders 58 minutes ago

What we confirmed tonight is that we're building the political revolution our nation needs. This is your movement. https://berniesanders.com/ThankYou-NH

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David Sirota (IBT) offers his take on the night which includes:

Just as notable, New Hampshire Democratic voters revealed a party that appears to have become more left-leaning than ever. According to the New York Times , a full “two-thirds of voters in the Democratic primary said that they are liberal, up from 56 percent who said the same in 2008, the last time there was a contested Democratic primary.” Clinton tried to appeal to more centrist Democrats by, for instance, dismissing Sanders’ push for a single-payer Medicare-for-all health care system, but two-thirds of the increasingly liberal Democratic electorate told exit pollsters that they support such a system.
Sanders’ laser-like focus on populist economics and confrontational anti-Wall Street themes resonated with Democratic voters who said the top two issues they were concerned about were inequality and the state of the economy — a shift by a party that during Bill Clinton's administration often elected more corporate-friendly candidates who downplayed inequality and promoted a so-called “third way” of cooperation with the financial sector.

And we'll note this Tweet which reflects the mood of many:

Cassandra Fairbanks ‏@CassandraRules 1 hour ago

.@milly4red @HillaryClinton yes, she gets shape shifting done better than anyone.

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Hillary? The defeated rush to insist, "I still love New Hampshire."

Aaaawwwww.

Such heartfelt emotions.

But not everyone was as underwhelmed by Hillary's speech . . .

"THIS JUST IN! SHE'S GETTING A MAKE OVER!"
"Is it desperation?"

Saturday, February 06, 2016

Is it desperation?

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

WAR MACHINE CANDIDATE CRANKY CLINTON IS DO FOR A MAKE OVER.

AND HELPING HER OUT?

THE VERY STYLISH MAD MADDIE ALBRIGHT.

CRANKY TOLD US HER ONLY CONCERN WAS "THE HAIR. I MEAN MAD MADDIE THINKS SHOWING LOTS OF SCALP IS SEXY BUT TO ME IT JUST LOOKS GROSS, TACKY AND OLD. AND CRANKY CLINTON IS NEVER GROSS, TACKY AND OLD. I ALSO REFUSE TO WEAR MU-MUS. I TOLD HER, 'NO MU-MUS, MAD MADDIE! OR GRANDMA PANTIES!' AND SHE TOLD ME THAT GRANNY PANTIES ARE ACTUALLY ROOMY AND LIBERATING."

THE MAKE OVER COMES AS CRANKY IS SAID TO BE LOSING FURTHER GROUND TO RIVAL BERNIE SANDERS.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

The Iraq War never ends.

And those responsible for starting it may try to escape responsibility but it's not that easy.

Senator Bernie Sanders, in 2002, voted against the Iraq War. He's running for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination and so is Hillary Clinton.

Today, Bernie Tweeted:

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‏@BernieSanders

Experience is important, but so is judgment. And back in 2002 one of us voted the right way on the Iraq War. The other didn't. #DemDebate

1,142 retweets 2,044 likes

The ridiculous -- always ridiculous -- Fred Kaplan (SLATE) tries to rewrite history:

In response, Clinton acknowledged, as she has on previous occasions, that she’d made a mistake. But she also offered an explanation for her vote, something she has rarely done in the past. President Bush, she told the audience, had made a “very explicit appeal” that “getting this vote would be a strong piece of leverage in order to finish the inspections.” In other words, a resolution to use force would prod Saddam Hussein into readmitting U.N. inspectors, so they could continue their mission of verifying whether or not he had destroyed his chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons sites. In other words, Clinton was now claiming she voted the way she did in the interests of diplomacy; the problem was that Bush went back on his word—he invaded before giving the inspectors enough time.

Listening to her rationale Wednesday night, I didn’t know whether she was telling the truth. I had written many Slate columns about the Iraq debate and the ensuing war, but I couldn’t remember the details of then-Sen. Clinton’s position. Looking up those details now, I have come to a conclusion about the rationale she recited at the New Hampshire town hall: Hillary was telling the truth.

Poor Fred Kaplan, nothing sadder to see than an old and aging whore.

Reality on this was noted last week. Last week. By Stephen Zunes:

“Hillary Clinton’s vote wasn’t for war, but simply to pressure Saddam Hussein to allow UN weapons inspectors back into Iraq.”
At the time of vote, Saddam Hussein had already agreed in principle to a return of the weapons inspectors. His government was negotiating with the United Nations Monitoring and Verification Commission on the details, which were formally institutionalized a few weeks later. (Indeed, it would have been resolved earlier had the United States not repeatedly postponed a UN Security Council resolution in the hopes of inserting language that would have allowed Washington to unilaterally interpret the level of compliance.)
Furthermore, if then-Senator Clinton’s desire was simply to push Saddam into complying with the inspection process, she wouldn’t have voted against the substitute Levin amendment, which would have also granted President Bush authority to use force, but only if Iraq defied subsequent UN demands regarding the inspections process. Instead, Clinton voted for a Republican-sponsored resolution to give Bush the authority to invade Iraq at the time and circumstances of his own choosing.

In fact, unfettered large-scale weapons inspections had been going on in Iraq for nearly four months at the time the Bush administration launched the March 2003 invasion. Despite the UN weapons inspectors having not found any evidence of WMDs or active WMD programs after months of searching, Clinton made clear that the United States should invade Iraq anyway. Indeed, she asserted that even though Saddam was in full compliance with the UN Security Council, he nevertheless needed to resign as president, leave the country, and allow U.S. troops to occupy the country. “The president gave Saddam Hussein one last chance to avoid war,” Clinton said in a statement, “and the world hopes that Saddam Hussein will finally hear this ultimatum, understand the severity of those words, and act accordingly.”
When Saddam refused to resign and the Bush administration launched the invasion, Clinton went on record calling for “unequivocal support” for Bush’s “firm leadership and decisive action” as “part of the ongoing Global War on Terrorism.” She insisted that Iraq was somehow still “in material breach of the relevant United Nations resolutions” and, despite the fact that weapons inspectors had produced evidence to the contrary, claimed the invasion was necessary to “neutralize Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.”

Someone needs to ask Fred Kaplan if it hurts to be so damn stupid?

If you're not getting how stupid he is, the Institute for Public Accuracy issued this press release today:

STEPHEN ZUNES, zunes at usfca.edu, @SZunes
Zunes is a professor of politics & coordinator of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco. He recently wrote the piece “The Five Lamest Excuses for Hillary Clinton’s Vote to Invade Iraq.” Zunes is currently in Philadelphia and will be in New York City on Friday.
Zunes said today: “Hillary Clinton did not vote to authorize the Iraq war in order to bring UN inspectors back in, as she claimed in last night’s [CNN] “Town Hall” meeting. She voted against the Levin Amendment, which would have authorized the use of force if Iraq refused to fully cooperate with UN inspectors. Instead, she voted for the Republican-sponsored resolution which gave President Bush the authority to invade and occupy Iraq at the time and circumstances of his own choosing. Hans Blix did not support the latter resolution, as she also claimed. Nor did Sen. Clinton object when Bush launched the invasion anyway five months later despite Iraq having been fully cooperating with the returning inspectors during that period.”
Clinton stated in her address on her Iraq war authorization vote on the Senate floor on Oct. 10, 2002: “In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al-Qaeda members. … It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capability to wage biological and chemical warfare and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well, affects American security.” See video.

Just last week, Hans Blix had an interview with Al Jazeera’s “UpFront” program in which he talked about the U.S. invasion altering the security landscape of the Mideast, see: “The former UN weapons inspector says ‘it is doubtful’ ISIL would exist if it were not for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.”

As for Hillary? Take the shame, Hillary, take the shame.

John Wagner (WASHINGTON POST) reports on remarks Bernie made today:

“Sometimes it’s easy to apologize for a bad vote 15 or 20 years later when the tide has changed,” Sanders said at a rally here. “It is a lot harder to stand up … and cast the right vote. That’s what leadership is about, not having to apologize for standing up and fighting for what’s right.”

Tonight, Hillary and Bernie faced off in a debate.

As usual, after each break, Hillary looked better.

Let's be clear, she's overweight and she has jowls.

That's not what I'm talking about.

I'm talking about the reason she was late from the bathroom the first time.

She's having make up applied throughout the debate.

She can smear all the crap on her face she wants and she'll still be ugly.

Just like she can trot out every lie and distraction and she'll still be guilty of supporting the Iraq War.

By the time Iraq came up, Hillary looked like -- at best -- a painted clown.

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Cedric's Big Mix

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Oh, Dianne!

Thursday, February 11, 2016

John Lewis remembers

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Hillary should drop out for the good of the country

Saturday, February 06, 2016

Is it desperation?

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