Dozens of Iraqi Shiite militia supporters – many in uniforms – gained entry to the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday after they smashed down a gate and stormed inside, the Associated Press reported.LINK
An AP reporter at the scene saw flames rising from inside the compound and at least three U.S. soldiers on the roof of the embassy. The embassy was evacuated but it was not immediately clear if there were staffers holed up inside.
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Crowd storms US Embassy compound in Baghdad
FOX NEWS via The Bongino Report
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December 31, 2019
Farewell 2019 and May Your Ball Drop on Time
Monday, December 30, 2019
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December 30, 2019
Bill de Blasio's New York Is Rapidly Becoming a Dangerous Hellhole
Sunday, December 29, 2019
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Rule 5 Saturday LinkOrama
We cleanup pretty good.
Proof Positive - Vintage Babe of the Week - Tonight's Vintage Babes are in a festive mood! and Best of the Web
Political Clown Parade - Flowing Curves Of Beauty
By Other Means - Tuesday Tap Rack and Bang, BeCos(play) It's Friday and Seeing Red
Evi L. Bloggerlady - Barenaked Ladies and Sarah McLachlan: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Ninety Miles From Tyranny - Hot Pick, Girls With Guns, Morning Mistress and Blogs With Rule 5 Links
Grouchy Old Cripple - Saturday Boobage
Irons in the Fire - Friday Data and ... Saturday Data Overflow
The Feral Irishman - Twas The Night Before Christmas
The Daley Gator - Daley Babe
Diogenes Middle Finger News - A Good Monday Morning
A View from the Beach - Rule 5 Saturday - The Hunted Melissa George
24 Femmes Per Second - Diana Rigg
Knuckledraggin My Life Away - I’m sure she’s taken, men And ... I’ll leave you with this
American Power - Katie Bell's Christmas Wishes
Woodsterman - Rule 5 Woodsterman Style There's plenty of Christmas Woodsterman Style as well. Just keep scrolling.
The Other McCain - Rule 5 Sunday
The Pirates Cove - If All You See ... and Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup
Wired Right - A Beautiful End to the Day
Friday, December 27, 2019
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December 27, 2019
Amazon's Merry Christmas Bad News for Sanders, Warren, and Proggieland
Thursday, December 26, 2019
Vanderluen
Happy Birthday to you Sir!
Happy Birthday to Me: In My Extreme Age
Do wish him well in his extreme age.
On the day of my own birth, I generally remind my dear readers (all 2 or 3 of you) of something significant that also occured on the same day as my twin sister's birthday.
In 10 or 11 years you've all been stumped. I think in the future, much like my dear friend Vanderluen, I'll just come out and let you know when golf claps are appropriate.
By the by, Requests for belated birthday greetings will be denied until the following year. "Ahem"
Do wish him well in his extreme age.
Turn around, a decade [plus one two] is gone. 70? 71? 72 73 74? It doesn’t feel so old. I’m told that it is but it doesn’t feel that old. At the same time, I confess I’m not exactly sure who this geezer is who shows up in the mirror every morning — or where he came from. The thing is he keeps writing notes like this and leaving them where I can’t help finding them:
On the day of my own birth, I generally remind my dear readers (all 2 or 3 of you) of something significant that also occured on the same day as my twin sister's birthday.
In 10 or 11 years you've all been stumped. I think in the future, much like my dear friend Vanderluen, I'll just come out and let you know when golf claps are appropriate.
By the by, Requests for belated birthday greetings will be denied until the following year. "Ahem"
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December 26, 2019
Please Spay and Neuter Your Washington Post
Not Even a Christmas Card
Christmas arrived with no apparent gift from North Korea despite that the regime had threatened to deliver something if the U.S. failed to restart stalled denuclearization talks. But the new bluster is still being taken seriously.Apparently Lost in Translation: According to the Snooze our Christmas gift is not due until Orthodox Christmas Day, January 6,
FRIGGIN AUTOPLAY
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
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December 25, 2019
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas
Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a Child is born,
Unto us a Son is given;
And the government will be upon His shoulder.
And His name will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
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December 24, 2019
Merry Christmas Eve Morning
Monday, December 23, 2019
Intellectual Froglegs
with Joe Dan Gorman
I apologize in advance for Joe Dan ... I've been unable to disable autoplay in this embed code. I hate that.
I've got the sound muted at least.
I apologize in advance for Joe Dan ... I've been unable to disable autoplay in this embed code. I hate that.
I've got the sound muted at least.
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December 23, 2019
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Rule 5 Saturday LinkOrama
Proof Positive - Vintage Babe of the Week - Tonight's Vintage Babe* is Ann Sothern! and Best of the Web
Political Clown Parade - Flowing Curves Of Beauty
By Other Means - Tuesday Tap Rack and Bang, BeCos(play) It's Friday and Seeing Red
Evi L. Bloggerlady - Vintage Christmas
Ninety Miles From Tyranny - Hot Pick, Girls With Guns, Morning Mistress and Blogs With Rule 5 Links
Grouchy Old Cripple - Saturday Boobage
Irons in the Fire - Friday Data and ... Saturday Data Overflow
The Feral Irishman - You Won't Need Any Sheets.. They Would Catch On Fire Anyway.... No Worries ... I've got the firewatch.
The Daley Gator - Daley Babe
Diogenes Middle Finger News - A Good Monday Morning
A View from the Beach - Rule 5 Saturday - Rule 5 Saturday - Nikki Reed
24 Femmes Per Second - Debbie Reynolds
Knuckledraggin My Life Away - Breezy days And ... I’ll leave you with this
American Power - Kelly Brook
Woodsterman - Rule 5 Woodsterman Style
The Other McCain - Rule 5 Sunday
The Pirates Cove - If All You See ... and Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup
Wired Right - A Beautiful End to the Day
Friday, December 20, 2019
Possibly the Best Headline of the Day
So Far ... via the Bongino Report
Biden Says He’s Willing To Sacrifice Hundreds Of Thousands Of Blue-Collar Jobs In Oil And Gas -- The Daily Caller
Wait One ...
Durham Investigating John Brennan's Calls and Records to Find Contradictions In His Claims? -- Ace of Spades
Trump Isn’t Impeached Until the House Tells the Senate
According to the Constitution, impeachment is a process, not a vote.
Our President could claim, and rightly so, that he's never been impeached at all.
Biden Says He’s Willing To Sacrifice Hundreds Of Thousands Of Blue-Collar Jobs In Oil And Gas -- The Daily Caller
Wait One ...
The federal prosecutor scrutinizing the Russia investigation has begun examining the role of the former C.I.A. director John O. Brennan in how the intelligence community assessed Russia's 2016 election interference, according to three people briefed on the inquiry.Hold ... Hooold!
John H. Durham, the United States attorney leading the investigation, has requested Mr. Brennan’s emails, call logs and other documents from the C.I.A., according to a person briefed on his inquiry. He wants to learn what Mr. Brennan told other officials, including the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, about his and the C.I.A.'s views of a notorious dossier of assertions about Russia and Trump associates.
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The federal prosecutor scrutinizing the Russia investigation has begun examining the role of the former C.I.A. director John O. Brennan in how the intelligence community assessed Russia's 2016 election interference, according to three people briefed on the inquiry.
According to the Constitution, impeachment is a process, not a vote.
Our President could claim, and rightly so, that he's never been impeached at all.
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December 20, 2019
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Crap my Friends Post on Facebook
from Beth
By the way.....anyone seen Joey lately? Can you run for President while in the Witness Protection Program?
Possibly the Best Headline of the Day
So Far ... via Wirecutter
Porch Pirates Beware
Taking care of business himself before the cops show up and UPS his ass -- Knuckledraggin My Life Away
Stand by ...
via PJ Media
Ole Mitch Ain't Wistlin Dixie Neither
Meanwhile in the U.S. Senate: 'Cocaine Mitch' Spent Impeachment Day Cranking Out Trump Judges. -- Victoria Taft
Stand by ...
via PJ Media
The pace was breathtaking. As congressional representatives clamored for face time in what looked like a suit-and-tie version of televised speed dating during the impeachment debate, things were moving even more rapidly in the U.S. Senate. Look at this — Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell moved forward another batch of President Trump's judicial appointments.
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Wednesday, December 18, 2019
For Reasons Unknown to Me ...
We Interrupt these House Shampeachment Debates to present this Invaluable Public Service Announcement
Brought to you by the Good Guys at AGG
Brought to you by the Good Guys at AGG
Possibly the Best Headline of the Day
So Far ... via Instapundit
WHAT A STRANGE WAY TO SPELL LYING BULLSH*T! - Sarah Hoyt
FISA Court Describes FBI’s Handling of Carter Page Warrant Applications as “antithetical to the heightened duty of candor” -- Legal Insurrection
FISA Court Describes FBI’s Handling of Carter Page Warrant Applications as “antithetical to the heightened duty of candor” -- Legal Insurrection
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Top of the News
“You have developed a full-fledged case of what many in the media call Trump Derangement Syndrome and sadly, you will never get over it!”
In Other News
Your Daley Gator CCW News Update For Tuesday (12/17/19) - The Daley Gator
Democrat condescension is spawning the Tea Party 2.0 - IOTWreport
These Obama/Trump Voters Are Just Trump Voters Now- American Power
The Left is Having a Meltdown Because Justice Neil Gorsuch Went on Fox News - Free North Carolina
Cartoon Round Up - Theo Spark
December 16, 1944 through January 25, 1945 - Evi. L Bloggerlady
Owens On The Intellectual Dishonesty Of Leftists - 90 Miles From Tyranny
Federal Judge Allows Dead Purged From Georgia Voter Rolls - Dems Claim Voter Suppression - Diogenes Middle Finger News
Quote du jour and Best of the Web - Proof Positive
Gaudete Sunday ... He is near - Adrienne's Corner
Dear Sen. Schumer, In An Era Of Video, Everyone Has Receipts - Political Clown Parade
Retirement apartment for rent? Very negotiable terms? Dead man found in freezer. - Drake's Place
The Sons of Liberty, then and now - American Thinker
FISA Court Rips FBI, Orders Fix It By Jan. 10 (Embedded) - The Lid
Mitch McConnell to Schumer: It's Not the Senate's Job to "Scramble" and "Search Desperately" to Make a Case That Adam Schiff Was Too "Slapdash" to Make Himself - AoSHQ
Impeachment Circus Update - The Other McCain
Jimmy Dore Show: MSNBC Claims It’s Using FACTS In Russiagate Reporting - The Last Tradition
We’re Saved: Coloring Books For Adults Highlight ‘Climate Change’ And Sea Birds - The Pirates Cove
Tuesday, December 17, 2019
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Possibly the Best Headline of the Day
So Far ...
via Instapundit Glenn Reynolds
SOMEBODY MUST HAVE TURNED OVER A ROCK: William Webster Emerges to Defend the Deep State.
Monday, December 16, 2019
Boston Tea Party 16 December 1773
Victory in the French and Indian War was costly for the British. At the war's conclusion in 1763, King George III and his government looked to taxing the American colonies as a way of recouping their war costs. They were also looking for ways to reestablish control over the colonial governments that had become increasingly independent while the Crown was distracted by the war. Royal ineptitude compounded the problem. A series of actions including the Stamp Act (1765), the Townsend Acts (1767) and the Boston Massacre (1770) agitated the colonists, straining relations with the mother country. But it was the Crown's attempt to tax tea that spurred the colonists to action and laid the groundwork for the American Revolution.
The colonies refused to pay the levies required by the Townsend Acts claiming they had no obligation to pay taxes imposed by a Parliament in which they had no representation. In response, Parliament retracted the taxes with the exception of a duty on tea - a demonstration of Parliament's ability and right to tax the colonies. In May of 1773 Parliament concocted a clever plan. They gave the struggling East India Company a monopoly on the importation of tea to America. Additionally, Parliament reduced the duty the colonies would have to pay for the imported tea. The Americans would now get their tea at a cheaper price than ever before. However, if the colonies paid the duty tax on the imported tea they would be acknowledging Parliament's right to tax them. Tea was a staple of colonial life - it was assumed that the colonists would rather pay the tax than deny themselves the pleasure of a cup of tea.
Colonialists attack,tar and feather a hapless tax collector
The colonists were not fooled by Parliament's ploy. When the East India Company sent shipments of tea to Philadelphia and New York the ships were not allowed to land. In Charleston the tea-laden ships were permitted to dock but their cargo was consigned to a warehouse where it remained for three years until it was sold by patriots in order to help finance the revolution.
Most colonists applauded the action while the reaction in London was swift and vehement. In March 1774 Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts which among other measures closed the Port of Boston. The fuse that led directly to the explosion of American independence was lit.
Take your tea and shove it.
George Hewes was a member of the band of "Indians" that boarded the tea ships that evening. His recollection of the event was published some years later. We join his story as the group makes its way to the tea-laden ships:
"It was now evening, and I immediately dressed myself in the costume of an Indian, equipped with a small hatchet, which I and my associates denominated the tomahawk, with which, and a club, after having painted my face and hands with coal dust in the shop of a blacksmith, I repaired to Griffin's wharf, where the ships lay that contained the tea. When I first appeared in the street after being thus disguised, I fell in with many who were dressed, equipped and painted as I was, and who fell in with me and marched in order to the place of our destination.
The Boston Tea Party
When we arrived at the wharf, there were three of our number who assumed an authority to direct our operations, to which we readily submitted. They divided us into three parties, for the purpose of boarding the three ships which contained the tea at the same time. The name of him who commanded the division to which I was assigned was Leonard Pitt. The names of the other commanders I never knew. We were immediately ordered by the respective commanders to board all the ships at the same time, which we promptly obeyed. The commander of the division to which I belonged, as soon as we were on board the ship, appointed me boatswain, and ordered me to go to the captain and demand of him the keys to the hatches and a dozen candles. I made the demand accordingly, and the captain promptly replied, and delivered the articles; but requested me at the same time to do no damage to the ship or rigging. We then were ordered by our commander to open the hatches and take out all the chests of tea and throw them overboard, and we immediately proceeded to execute his orders, first cutting and splitting the chests with our tomahawks, so as thoroughly to expose them to the effects of the water.
In about three hours from the time we went on board, we had thus broken and thrown overboard every tea chest to be found in the ship, while those in the other ships were disposing of the tea in the same way, at the same time. We were surrounded by British armed ships, but no attempt was made to resist us.
...The next morning, after we had cleared the ships of the tea, it was discovered that very considerable quantities of it were floating upon the surface of the water; and to prevent the possibility of any of its being saved for use, a number of small boats were manned by sailors and citizens, who rowed them into those parts of the harbor wherever the tea was visible, and by beating it with oars and paddles so thoroughly drenched it as to render its entire destruction inevitable."
References:
Hawkes, James A, Retrospect of the Boston Tea-Party, with a Memoir of George R. T. Hewes... (1834) reprinted in Commager, Henry Steele, Morris Richard B., The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six vol I (1958); Labaree, Benjamin Woods, The Boston Tea Party (1964).
"The Boston Tea Party, 1773," EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2002).
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from Donna this time
New England for Trump Stores Open Across Massachusetts
The four stores across Massachusetts sell Trump and Second Amendment memorabilia, as well as some Boston sports gear.
The four stores across Massachusetts sell Trump and Second Amendment memorabilia, as well as some Boston sports gear.
WILMINGTON, MA — Traditionally, if you want a shirt with a politician's name on it, you buy it from the campaign or from stands at places such as the National Mall.
Certainly, you wouldn't find an entire brick-and-mortar retail store devoted to that merchandise in a Boston suburb. Or in four different Boston suburbs, as the case may be.
But that's exactly what the "New England for Trump" chain of stores provides. It opened its fourth location, at 424 Main St. in Wilmington, this weekend.