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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

The Bloody Cost of Failure

Posted on | August 21, 2014 | 52 Comments

The New York Times reports:

Kneeling in the dirt in a desert somewhere in the Middle East, James Foley lost his life this week at the hands of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Before pulling out the knife used to decapitate him, his masked executioner explained that he was killing the 40-year-old American journalist in retaliation for the recent United States’ airstrikes against the terrorist group in Iraq.
In fact, until recently, ISIS had a very different list of demands for Mr. Foley: The group pressed the United States to provide a multimillion-dollar ransom for his release, according to a representative of his family and a former hostage held alongside him. The United States — unlike several European countries that have funneled millions to the terror group to spare the lives of their citizens — refused to pay.
The issue of how to deal with ISIS, which like many terror groups now routinely trades captives for large cash payments, is acute for the Obama administration because Mr. Foley was not the lone American in its custody. ISIS is threatening to kill at least three others it holds if its demands remain unmet, The New York Times has confirmed through interviews with recently released prisoners, family members of the victims and mediators attempting to win their freedom.

ISIS obtained it current strength in Syria after 2011, as part of the “militant opposition” to the Assad regime. ISIS was at least encouraged — and some say aided and armed — by the U.S. and its allies during the “Arab Spring” the Obama administration celebrated. Hillary Clinton’s State Department was directly involved in this series of blunders and, while we may stipulate that their intentions were good, their policy was misguided and has manifestly failed.

The Law of Unintended Consequences has not been repealed, nor have The Gods of the Copybook Headings been dethroned.

If you ever wondered what Jimmy Carter’s second term would have been like, you need no longer wonder.

 

Category: Iraq, Syria, Terrorism

It’s Almost As Though They Have A Script Sitting In Wait, Or Something

Posted on | August 21, 2014 | 65 Comments

by Smitty

Larry2 at Instapundit
There seems to be a pattern:

  1. unarmed young black guy is shot,
  2. there is a vast media outcry over the young “honor student’s” death,
  3. family provides photos of the dead guy taken when he was 11 years old, well before he had opted for the ghetto thug look,
  4. it comes out that the “honor student” has been committing felonies,
  5. witnesses say the honor student was beating the hell out of the person who shot him,
  6. Democrat politicians call for the shooter’s conviction, and
  7. prosecutors, fearing rioting, black voters, or what have you, prosecute the shooter anyway.

Have I missed anything?

Probably could add something about #OccupyResoluteDesk inserting himself, sadly, wearily, oh-why-won’t-this-world-listen-to-me-self-righteously.

An interesting nuance is the way Obama gets his emotional vampire on in these cases, while never getting too close to Rev. Jesse or Rev. Al or whichever flag officer the Racism Industrial Complex deploys to whip up the Low Information Voters.

Then you have the logistics of bringing in your Professional Protest Staff.

Category: Barack Obama

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.21.14

Posted on | August 21, 2014 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Ferguson Enjoys A Night Of Relative Calm For First Time Since Michael Brown’s Death

Police changing tactics to deal with rioters as opposed to protesters

“We saw a different crowd that came out tonight…less agitators,” Johnson said.
Attorney General Holder visits Ferguson
Pentagon defends program supplying military gear to police

Liberian Army Fires On People Trying To Escape Ebola Quarantine
Medical emergency becoming a security problem?

IDF Air Strike Killed Three Senior Commanders, Hamas Says
Israel focusing on leaders of the continued attacks



POLITICS
Hot Louisiana Race Could Send Battle For Control Of Senate Into OT

Sen. Mary Landrieu vs. Rep. Bill Cassidy

GOP/Tea Party candidate Col. Rob Maness complicating the race

Supremes Block Gay Marriage In Virginia


Alaska Oil Tax Credit Supporters Declare Victory In Referendum

Former Va. Governor McDonnell Takes The Stand

Judge Orders DOJ To Provide “Fast And Furious” Docs To Congress

NY Supreme Court Clears Zephyr Teachout To Challenge Gov. Cuomo

Judge Won’t Halt MN Home-Care Workers Unionization Vote

Teacher Says Union Resorting To Bully Tactics In Wake Of Kansas Decertification



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Mixed On PRC Manufacturing, US Stockpiles: WTI $93.10, Brent $101.96
S&P 500 Jumps But Closes Just Short Of Record
Asia Shares Sour On China; US Dollar In Demand
Bank Of America Reportedly To Pay $17 Billion Settlement Over Mortgage Bonds
Target Lowers Forecast As Sales Slump, Canadian Losses Widen
HP Posts Surprising Increase In Quarterly Revenue
Netflix Swallows Another Bitter Pill, Inks Peering Agreement With Time Warner
Barnes & Noble Teams With Samsung To Create Galaxy Tab 4 Nook Tablet
Twitter To Remove Pics Of Deceased At Families’ Request
TripAdvisor Teams Up With Uber
“Grand Theft Auto V” Online Update Brings Flight School, Gameplay Changes



SPORTS
Astros Feast On Yankees’ Bullpen For Fourth Victory In Five Games

The Astros’ Robbie Grossman follows through during the four-run seventh-inning rally

5-2 win puts Astros in position to play wild-card spoiler

Rangers Hold Off Fish For 5-4 Win

Rookie TJ House, Four Relievers Combine For Tribe’s Shutout Of Twins


Mets End Three-Game Skid Against A’s With 8-5 Victory

Phillies Edge Mariners 4-3

Tony Stewart To Sit Out Bristol Race

Cruz Hits Major League Leading 33rd Homer As O’s Complete Sweep Of White Sox

Rockies Finally Win One, Top Royals 5-2

Porcello Pitches Three-Hit Shutout As Tigers Blank Rays 6-0

Nationals Streak Reaches Nine With 3-2 Walkoff Win Against Snakes



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Beyonce Asked Gwyneth Paltrow For Divorce Advice

Isn’t that what friends are for?

Planning amicable split from Jay-Z

Miley Cyrus To Attend 2014 MTV Music Awards

Madonna Splits With BF Timor Steffens Amidst Birthday Vacation

Meg Ryan And John Mellencamp Split


Zac Efron, Michelle Rodriguez Stop Dating

Some People From “Jersey Shore” Break Up Too

Jackie Chan: Ashamed Of Son After Pot Bust In China

Cate Blanchett On Board For “Jungle Book: Origins”

Which “Desperate Housewives” Star Is Heading To “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”?

Elizabeth Vargas & Marc Cohn Divorcing As She Heads To Rehab

Lindsay Lohan, Tina Fey, And The Case Of The Disappearing “Mean Girls” Selfie



FOREIGNERS
Thai Junta Leader Nominated As Country’s New PM
Iran Lashes Out At Egypt For Blocking Humanitarian Aid To Gaza As Rafah Crossing Closed
Japan Landslide Toll Hits 39
France’s Hollande Outraged By Execution Of Journalist Foley
Iranian Parliament Sacks Science Minister In Rebuke To Rouhani
Brazil’s Socialists Name Marina Silva To Succeed Campos As Challenger To Rousseff
Tensions High In Jakarta Ahead Of Court Ruling On Prabowo Challenge
“Inadequately Armed” Nigerian Soldiers Defy Orders To Deploy Against Boko Haram
UAE Blacklists Arab Hotspots In London
Head Of Guatemalan Military Dies In Helicopter Crash
Imran Khan’s Party Holds Talks With Government Negotiators
Ukrainian Soldiers Now Hold Majority Of Lugansk



BLOGS & STUFF
The Quinton Report: EXCLUSIVE – Read The Homeland Security Bulletin On Today’s Nationwide “Day Of Rage”
Doug Powers: Rick Perry Ad Knocks Out Indictment With Roundhouse Kick To The Head
Twitchy: Richard Dawkins Gets Pwned By Parents Of Down’s Syndrome Kids
American Power: Pro-Israel Hollywood Speaks Out
American Thinker: Beaten To Death At McDonald’s
BLACKFIVE: “Here I Am. Send Me”
Conservatives4Palin: Gov. Palin – “You Win Some, You Learn Some”
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, August 21
Jammie Wearing Fools: Guilty Until Proven Innocent – MO Gov. Nixon Calls For “Vigorous Prosecution” Of Darren Wilson
Joe For America: Obama’s Brotherhood Mafia Partners, Rampaging Inside America
JustOneMinute: Ebola In Monrovia
Protein Wisdom: My Response To The Beheading Of James Foley And Others
Shot In The Dark: Our Douchebag Opponents
STUMP: Public Pension Watch – California Keeps In All The Goodies
The Gateway Pundit: Mike Brown Autopsy “Expert” Not A Doctor – Holds Degree In Nonexistent Medical Field
The Jawa Report: Attention ISIS
The Lonely Conservative: Grand Juror In Perry Case An Active Democrat Party Delegate
This Ain’t Hell: Not An Attempt To Railroad Someone, No Sirree, Not At All
Weasel Zippers: Twice As Many British Muslims Fighting For ISIS As In UK Armed Forces
Megan McArdle: Target’s Troubles Go Deeper Than Data


Category: Live at Five

Ferguson Question For The Gungrabbers

Posted on | August 20, 2014 | 13 Comments

by Smitty

Instapundit notes:

What’s amazing about Ferguson is that, for all the sturm und drang, the casualty count is pretty light.

Are we supposed to expect that, for all the guns and ammo in circulation, Missouri was going to melt down in some vast firefight?

Is there some point to be made that Second Amendment Gestapo really needs to get stuffed, and we can discount anyone calling for “MOAR GUN RESTRICTIONS” than we already have  from consideration for our votes?

Category: Uncategorized

Feminism Repeats Itself, the First Time as Tragedy, the Second Time as Farce

Posted on | August 20, 2014 | 84 Comments

Amy Austin (@amymarieaustin) is a British university student, a lovely blonde soprano, who wrote a blog post about “gender roles” that became something of a viral sensation among feminists. We’ll get to that in a minute, but first let’s acknowledge that Amy Austin has suffered serious misfortune. Her father committed suicide in December. She describes slipping into severe depression after his death:

I went home for a while and the funeral took place. We nearly didn’t make it in time. My sister was hysterical and didn’t want to leave the house, we got stuck in traffic and everything was awful and rushed. I chocked back the tears and I held my sister’s hand because I knew I had to stay strong for her and I didn’t want my family to see my weaknesses. Ridiculous in hindsight I know. Surely it’s more embarrassing not to cry at your own father’s funeral after he was found dead in his flat the day after you sent him a text telling him to get a grip, contact you, asking him, rather rudely, to realize that he was your dad and telling him, rather selfishly, that he needed to be there for you more.

What happened to her father? I don’t know. She speaks of “his flat” as if he lived alone, so I’m guessing her parents were divorced. But searching her blog yielded no information about her parents’ marriage or her childhood home life, so it is impossible to contextualize Ms. Austin’s attitude toward her father, which was rude and selfish by her own admission. Ms. Austin continues:

Back to Bristol, post funeral and after several unsuccessful attempts at waiting it out, I found it increasingly more difficult to cope with everyday life. Getting out of bed for cups of tea was about all I could manage, I looked horrendous, my skin was awful, and university became a thing of the past. If I managed to submit assignments, they were half arsed and not caring became a coping mechanism. This is when I went back to the doctor. I still wasn’t anywhere near the top of the waiting list for therapy so she decided to put me on an SSRI called Sertraline. I happily accepted in the hope that it would be the miracle cure I was waiting for. I couldn’t have been more wrong. After a few days of taking the medication I started to feel disconnected from reality, almost as if my mind and body were entirely separated. I began to watch myself existing as if I was watching from another’s perspective. After a week I wasn’t in control of myself at all. My flat mates watched horrified as I sunk from one low to another, completely incomprehensible to them. I was merely a zombie. Terrified but strangely calm, I had accepted my fate. I spoke to my mum, who told me she would drive up to me to bring me home. I couldn’t think of anything worse. I began pushing my family away and constantly wanted to be alone, but I agreed to get on a train the next day. As I stood waiting for the Northern Line at Kings Cross, I imagined myself falling off the platform. In a split second I snapped back to reality but the overwhelming (albeit fleeting) moment of helplessness was enough for me to scare myself. I called my doctor who told me that these unwanted thoughts and feelings, hallucinations, vivid dreams and blurred reality were awful but normal side effects of the drug, and I was told to carry on taking the medication, at a slightly reduced dosage, for a few more weeks.
Then came the unwanted compulsions. . . . I was self-destructing, and my behavioural patterns entered a vicious circle: the behaviour occurred, then the guilt followed, then the guilt made the behaviour occur once again, and so it went on. . . .
I eventually came off the sertraline slowly after I had a massive breakdown in front of a tutor and a good university friend. They convinced me to do something about it, and they saved my life. I am now on mirtazapine (an NaSSA) and it is amazing. Whilst it’s made me put on weight, I’m enjoying food again, and am enjoying the company of my friends and family.

First — and yes, feminists will deride this as “mansplaining,” which is their way of saying that no man knows anything about anything — get off those medications, Ms. Austin. I’m not saying to stop taking your meds immediately, without consulting your doctor, but I am telling you that (a) psychiatric medication is unnecessary for sane people, and (b) you’re not that crazy, are you? You’ve obviously experienced serious problems coping with stress in the wake of your father’s death, but this doesn’t mean your brain is abnormal.

Second, I’ve been there. When I was 16, my mother died suddenly. I was the one who found her. It would serve no good purpose for me to imitate the sad habit of modern memoir-writers whose goal in telling their stories is to portray themselves as victims of their dysfunctional upbringing, and who therefore publicly trash their own parents and siblings. My parents were good hard-working people, wonderful in many ways. They sacrificed to provide a good life for their three sons and it would be the height of ingratitude and disrespect for me to criticize them for their faults or failures. Nobody’s perfect, and everybody suffers misfortune and disappointment in life.

Rather than complain about whatever problems my parents had, what I will do is to tell you briefly the problems I had: About three years after my mother’s death, when I was 19 years old and on the verge of flunking out of college, one day I was getting high with a dope buddy who had made some psilocybin mushroom tea.

It might be inaccurate to describe my life after my mother’s death as a “downward spiral,” but I was reckless and out of control, and the miracle is that I survived at all — especially after I drank about a quart of that psilocybin tea, and also snorted up some Bolivian flake cocaine for good measure. I’d done lots of drugs before, but I’d never done either psilocybin or cocaine. The coke gave me an awesome euphoria, but I didn’t recognize the effects of psilocybin when that finally kicked in.

After about a week or 10 days of total craziness, my brother came to get me and I was admitted for psychiatric treatment. Recovering from a drug-induced psychotic episode is not easy, and it was a year before I was able to return to college. I made dean’s list my first semester back at school, but my behavior was still erratic, and getting back to “normal” was a slow process. People who think I’m crazy now have no idea how crazy I once was.

Prayer is essential, Ms. Austin. You can laugh if you want, but I’m telling you from personal experience that your problems are a matter of spiritual warfare. Not only must you yourself study the Bible and pray for God’s aid in your struggle, but you must solicit the intercessory prayers of other Christians on your behalf.

It was a blessing to me, in the darkness of the valley of death, that there were good people praying for my deliverance, and guess what? I married a praying woman. As a matter of fact, my wife is an answer to prayer. Our romance was not without its difficulties. I’ll spare you the details, but I prayed to God that my wife would marry me.

Twenty-five years, six children and one grandchild later, I regret that I have not always been as grateful as I should for this miracle. Sometimes my wife gets angry at me, for good reason, and the ferocity of her wrath reminds me of an ancient verse:

Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon,
clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?

“Terrible as an army with banners,” indeed!

But the regular readers didn’t come here for a testimonial sermon, Ms. Austin, they came to see me spank a feminist, and as always I must be diligent in my business, because whatever my hand finds to do, I do it with all my might. Selah. Prophetic authority has foretold of these evil times, Ms. Austin, but let’s just go ahead and quote your highly praised feminist screed, shall we?

Characterised by unequal power relations between men and women, patriarchy systematically oppresses those who are, through no fault of their own, born female. Ironically even the male reproductive cell triumphs here. If patriarchy wasn’t bad enough, biologically speaking men fundamentally control sex, albeit unintentionally, making it difficult for society (although I say society very loosely, clearly there are many who do so) to refute the ideology that men are biologically ‘superior’. Described as a Social System in which men are at the forefront of social organisation, patriarchy, although historically epitomised through political authority (what’s changed?), is very much in the present. Society tends to have an uneasy relationship with power and power relations tend to be socially constructed. More often than not we are offered a socially formulated interpretation of power based on pre-constructed patriarchal ideals, stemming from hundreds of years of parliamentary history, male rulers and inequality.

On second thought, Ms. Austin, maybe you should stay on the mirtazapine, because this lunatic gibberish of yours very much resembles the symptomatic “word salad” of schizophrenics. Can you step back from your subjective feelings far enough to behold the objective fact? Your father committed suicide, and here you are ranting about “patriarchy”? Hello? Can you say “acting out”?

There are layers and layers of painful irony in your situation, and your regurgitation of feminist jargon — “power relations . . . socially constructed” — is a poor substitute for therapy. But that’s the problem: You go to the doctor, who is paid to give you pills, so you take the pills, but you never get any help understanding the real sources of pain that have caused your spiritual crisis. More:

Social constructions of gender, like power, stem from patriarchal ideologies- how often have we heard the phrases “man up!” (because you’re acting “like a girl” and femininity equates to feebleness of course) or “you hit/fight/run/throw (you can pretty much substitute this with anything) like a girl!” Meant as an insult because of course, running “like a girl” means that you’re not running “like a man”, and of course not running “like a man”means that you aren’t running properly. Socialisation, whilst imperative in terms of forming independent personal identities, brings with it an air of ‘dirtiness’. The term talks of a process whereby an individual “acquires a personal identity and learns the norms, values, behaviour, and social skills appropriate to his or her social position.” (Dictionary.com) The word”appropriate” troubles me somewhat. Who are we to define what is or is not “appropriate”, or what does or does not constitute as gender? What does it mean to be male? Why should masculinity define superiority and in turn heroicness?

Anyone can read the rest of that. Suffice it to say that Ms. Austin is lost in the tangled underbrush of postmodern “gender theory,” and one almost wishes it were possible to have an “intervention” for her, like they do for drug addicts. Her rhetoric is a bad imitation of Judith Butler or Janice Raymond or some other eminent lesbian feminist whose books or essays she’s been assigned in school.

Amy Austin’s amateur feminism is like me as a teenager, trying to imitate the sex, drugs and rock-n-roll lifestyle of my guitar heroes. I didn’t have a private jet or a million-dollar recording contract, so there was no “glamour” in tripping out on psilocybin. And whereas eminent professors of Women’s Studies live a rather privileged life — faculty tenure, paid speaking engagements at feminist conferences, book deals, newspaper columns, TV appearances, etc. — the young amateur wannabe feminist receives none of these rewards for online mimicry of her academic feminist idols.

Nor can feminism solve Ms. Austin’s problems. More than 40 years have elapsed since the Women’s Liberation movement erupted in the late 1960s and early 70s, and one thing has remained constant throughout: Unhappy women are still unhappy.

In fact, having witnessed these four decades of history, I do not hesitate to say that women in general are now much less happy than they were when the Women’s Liberation movement began. The heedless pursuit of “equality” and “freedom” — really, what do these slogans mean? — has been accompanied by a plague of misery, loneliness, sexually transmitted diseases and broken minds.

Shulamith Firestone, whose 1970 book The Dialectic of Sex was one of the first works of radical feminism, died alone in 2012, having suffered through decades of schizophrenia. Yet her descent into madness, while generally known among feminists, was a sort of trade secret in the women’s movement, as was the unusual prevalence of  lesbianism among feminist activists and intellectuals. Every imaginable kind of kook, freak, and misfit jumped on the bandwagon of Women’s Liberation back in the day, and yet nowadays feminists become indignant when you refer them to polls indicating that most women reject feminism per se:

Meanwhile, the vast majority of women, according to a Huffington Post poll, don’t consider themselves feminists — and only six percent consider themselves “strong feminists.”

The same poll, of course, found that most women say they believe in “equality,” but what does that word mean to most people? Does the woman who tells a pollster she believes in “equality” share the feminist belief that all women are victims of male oppression? Does she sit around brooding about “gender roles” and “compulsory heterosexuality”? Is she reading Sheila Jeffreys and Andrea Dworkin? Is she fighting to overthrow patriarchy? Probably not.

Amy Austin is unhappy, and I do not doubt she has legitimate cause for her unhappiness. What I do doubt is that Amy Austin will find happiness through feminism, unless she’s a lesbian.

As I keep saying, feminism is a journey to lesbianism. If a woman has such an overwhelming resentment of men and such an aversion to normal “gender roles” that she is incapable of finding satisfaction in her relationships with men, she might as well place a “girlfriend wanted” ad online and admit she’s a failure at heterosexuality.

Is there some young fellow out there, perhaps, who would want Amy Austin to become his wife and the mother of his children? If so, he had better make known his love for her quite soon, before she gives up hope on men entirely. She publicly declares she’s “bisexual,” but if she’s like most young women who say they’re bisexual, I figure that’s merely her way of advertising her loneliness.

HETEROSEXUAL CLEARANCE SALE
Badly damaged girl, available at a steep discount to the right male customer. Guys, this is your last chance to cope with her irrational demands, subnormal  libido, and occasional bouts of unexplained crying. Hurry now for this unbelievable bargain, before she turns completely queer!

Excuse my caustic sarcasm, Ms. Austin, but my point is very simple: Your problems are your problems, and attempting to externalize blame for your unhappiness — to scapegoat men by ranting about the “patriarchy” — is the opposite of therapeutic. You are quite literally making yourself crazy, and your jargon-crammed feminist screed is a symptom of your illness, not a cure.

Welcome to your own personal Judgment Day, Amy Austin.

These evil times have been foretold by prophetic authority, and souls are being winnowed like wheat on the threshing floor.

Try to clear from your mind the confusion sown by “theory,” and resolve yourself to confront the actual facts. You attend Bristol University, and it took little research to discover that Bristol has a very lively LGBT scene. No one is stopping you from heading down to Frogmore Street and surveying that scene with calm objectivity. Do you see there a future you can envision for yourself?

It is certainly not my prerogative to make your choices for you. I’m merely trying to point out to you what your choices are.

“See, I have set before thee this day life and good,
and death and evil . . . I call heaven and earth to
record this day against you, that I have set
before you life and death, blessing and cursing:
therefore choose life, that both
thou and thy seed may live . . .”

There is no one exempt from that judgment, not me, not Amy Austin, not anyone who reads this. “Therefore choose life.”

P.S.: Pray hard. Then pray harder.

P.P.S.: Avoid psilocybin.

 

Category: Feminism

Go For The Fundraiser, Perry

Posted on | August 20, 2014 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

Rothman needs to think outside the media bag of tricks:

[Reporting for a mug shot in response to the abuse of power indictment is] really bad news for those who backed Perry’s prospective 2016 presidential campaign. No matter how frivolous the charges Perry faces, and they are frivolous, few politicians can recover from having a police mugshot follow them around wherever they go. And Perry’s mugshot will do just that in 2015 and 2016.

You take that mugshot, slap it on T-shirts, and start counting the money. Surely a CPAC fashion sensation.

On the other hand, the Puffington Host seems to think that maybe Perry was kind of doing some shady things and that probably vetoing the budget for the Public Integrity Unit was sort of a about mostly getting the “good guys” off of the trail of corruption.

I guess if that held true, then intrepid investigative reporters would just expose Perry’s corruption, wouldn’t they?

I’m going to have to double down on my suggestion and recommend that Perry sport a scraggly goatee & beret for a mug shot photo on a T-shirt.

Category: Republicans, Texas

American Journalist James Foley Beheaded by Islamic Terrorists

Posted on | August 20, 2014 | 100 Comments

The killers blame Barack Obama:

A video released by ISIS shows the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley and threatens the life of another American if President Barack Obama doesn’t end military operations in Iraq.
In the video posted Tuesday on YouTube, Foley is seen kneeling next to a man dressed in black. Foley reads a message, presumably scripted by his captors, that his “real killer” is America.
“I wish I had more time. I wish I could have the hope for freedom to see my family once again,” he can be heard saying in the video.
‘The world’s most ruthless terrorists’ American journalist beheaded by ISIS
He is then shown being beheaded. . . .
Obama was briefed about the video, and “he will continue to receive regular updates,” White House spokesman Eric Schultz said.
ISIS has carried out executions, including beheadings, as part of its effort to establish an Islamic caliphate that stretches from Syria into Iraq. In many cases, ISIS — which refers to itself as the Islamic State — has videotaped the executions and posted them online. . . .
Foley disappeared on November 22, 2012, in northwest Syria, near the border with Turkey. He was reportedly forced into a vehicle by gunmen; he was not heard from again. At the time of his disappearance, he was working for the U.S.-based online news outlet GlobalPost. . . .
The video of his killing also shows another U.S. journalist. The militant in the video, who speaks English with what sounds like a British accent, says the other American’s life hangs in the balance, depending on what Obama does next.
The journalist is believed to be Steven Sotloff, who was kidnapped at the Syria-Turkey border in 2013. Sotloff is a contributor to Time and Foreign Policy magazines.
The Committee to Protect Journalists estimates there are about 20 journalists missing in Syria, many of them held by ISIS.
Among them is American Austin Tice, a freelance journalist who was contributing articles to The Washington Post. Tice disappeared in Syria in August 2012.

(Hat tip: Memeorandum.) Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t the terrorists who executed Foley the same “militants” the Obama administration supported during the 2011 “Arab Spring” in the State Department/CIA plan to overthrow Syria’s Assad regime?

 

Category: Iraq, Islam, Syria, Terrorism

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.20.14

Posted on | August 20, 2014 | 6 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
52 Arrested, Two Shot; Four Officers Injured In Ferguson

Tonight’s news priorities

93% of those arrested not from Ferguson; 27% not from Missouri
Peaceful protesters plead with people on the streets to go home
Gov. Nixon refuses to remove county prosecutor

Nigeria Scrambles To Contain Ebola
President Jonathan declares national emergency

Egyptian Talks Fruitless As Gaza Truce Broken By Heavy Fighting
Hamas fires rockets, Israel responds with airstrikes



POLITICS
GOPe Favorite Dan Sullivan Holds Early Lead In Alaska Senate Primary

Sullivan, Joe Miller, and Mead Treadwell

With 20% of precincts reporting, it’s Sullivan 40%, Miller 33%, Treadwell 24%


Texas Judge Refuses To Issue Arrest Warrant For Gov. Perry


Suit Claims White House Meddling In Records Requests

LA Schools Ease Discipline To Stem Dropouts

Louisiana Judge Rules Against Gov. Jindal In Common Core Lawsuit

Staten Island DA To Convene Grand Jury In Eric Garner Chokehold Death

Army General Accused Of Blocking Afghan Hospital Probe

Poll: Common Core Standards Losing Support Nationwide



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Holds Near 14-Month Low On Plentiful Supply: WTI $94.97, Brent $101.07
Asian Stocks Steady On Robust US Data; Dollar Extends Gains
Apple Stock Soars To Record Highs Amid New Product Optimism
Home Depot Profits Jump In Second Quarter
Consumer Prices Edge Up 0.1% In July
Corn, Soy Ease As US Crop Tour Sees Bumper Yields
HTC Releases Windows Version Of One M8 Phone
Sprint Launches $100 Family Plan
Google Courts Controversy With Accounts Aimed At Children
One Big Tablet For Children To Share
Snapchat In Talks To Expand Services



SPORTS
Andrew McCutcheon Returns From DL, Pirates Lose Anyway

The Pirates star: outstanding in his field

Buccos’ skid reaches seven games after 11-3 beatdown from Braves


Gee Loses Fifth Straight As A’s Top Mets 6-2


Fish Edge Rangers In Extras, 4-3

Iwakuma Blanks Phillies For 8, Mariners Win 5-2

Carter Hits Three-Run Dinger In Ninth; Astros Beat Yanks 7-4

Tribe Tops Twins 7-5

O’s Dominate White Sox, Now 20 Games Over .500

Nats Streak Reaches Eight With Rout Of Snakes



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
I conic Announcer Don Pardo Dies At 96

Dominick George Pardo, 1918-2014: RIP

Probably most famous for 38 years as announcer on “Saturday Night Live”



Benedict Cumberbatch Joins “Jungle Book” For Warner Brothers


Kevin Smith And Johnny Depp Team For Action-Adventure “Yoga Hosers”

Julianne Hough Returns To “Dancing With The Stars” As Judge

Jennifer Lopez And Casper Smart Together Again?

NFL Looking For Acts To Pay To Play Super Bowl Halftime Show

Billy Crudup, Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano To Star In “Stanford Prison Experiment”

We Can Blame TLC For Kate Gosselin’s Continued Notoriety

Taylor Swift Announces New Album, Performs Single “Shake It Off”

“Agents Of SHIELD” Enlists Adrienne Palicki As Marvel Favorite Mockingbird



FOREIGNERS
Kidnapped Journalist James Foley Apparently Executed By ISIS
Pakistan Crisis Puts Army Back In The Driver’s Seat
Landslides Kill 27 In Hiroshima
Pakistan’s Ambassador To India Defends Meeting Kashmiri Separatists
Advancing Ukraine Troops Take Fight To Heart Of Separatist Rebellion
UN Announces Emergency Aid For 500,000 In Northern Iraq
Chinese Media Cautiously Optimistic On Vatican Ties
Boko Haram’s Janissaries
NATO To Shun Eastern Troop Buildup In Nod To Russia
Kasem Family Pleads With Norway To Deny Wife’s Burial Request



BLOGS & STUFF
First Street Journal: We Don’t Know Enough For Informed Commentary, But We Do Know Al Sharpton Is Despicable
Doug Powers: AP Headline Perfectly Encapsulates Obama’s Presidency
Twitchy: State Assemblyman Declines Lunch With Mexican President To Protest Tahmooressi Captivity
Popehat: Crowdsourcing Justice – Help Get Brett Kimberlin Declared A Vexatious Litigant (h/t Joy McCann on Facebook)
American Power: ISIS Beheads James Foley In Warning To Obama
American Thinker: Obama’s Rage
BLACKFIVE: Religion Of Pieces
Conservatives4Palin: Sharyl Attkisson – Obama Released Over 600 Illegals With Criminal Convictions
Don Surber: Daily Scoreboard, August 19
Jammie Wearing Fools: Illiterates Rally In Ferguson – “This Is Not The Time For No Peace”
Joe For America: Trampling On Coal Country Families
JustOneMinute: The NYT (Finally) Opposes The Perry Indictment
Protein Wisdom: Harry Reid Finds That He May Not Be Eaten Last After All!
Shot In The Dark: Trulbert! Part VI: Currency Events
STUMP: Escheatment – Looking For Change In The Couch Cushions
The Gateway Pundit: Officer Wilson Suffered Blowout Fracture To Eye Socket During Mike Brown Attack
The Jawa Report: Brightstar Energy Creates Bird Death Star
The Lonely Conservative: Not One State Has Seen Employment Increase Since Recession Began
This Ain’t Hell: Bayonets? Really?
Weasel Zippers: Bill Maher Hits Fellow Libs For “Pretending All Religions Are Alike” After Foley Beheading
Megan McArdle: Coming To Your Dinner Table – California’s Drought


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