Radical Islam Harvests One More Victim...

This young man from Alabama listened to the siren song of Islamic fundamentalism, and ended up dying in a shoot-out with estranged members of his sect.

Multi-lingual, obviously bright and ambitious--what might have become of his life had he not made those tragic choices.

Some will crow 'good riddance', etc. etc. etc.

OS, as the parent of children about this young man's age, finds himself grieving the loss of a life that might have been.

US Consulate in Afghanistan Attacked, At Least Until the White House Gets The Spin Right

It is comforting to know that White House staffers have been up all night, scouring YouTube for a video to blame for this 'incident'.

From ABC News:

The American Consulate in the western Afghanistan city of Herat, came under attack early this morning, the U.S. State Department confirms. 

The attack began around 6 a.m. local time when militants drove to the front of the consulate's gate. Once they reached the check point, the militants began attacking the consulate's perimeter security officers, possibly firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles. Shortly after, the entire truck exploded, damaging the front gate of the consulate, according to State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf. 

Non-security staff at the consulate immediately took shelter while American and contractor security personnel fought with the militants, who had breached the compound, Harf said in a statement. Some of the attackers, according to Harf, appeared to be wearing suicide bombs.

"Full details are not known of the extent of the attack at this point, but the attack is currently over," Harf said. 

If that fails, they always have a backup plan: blame it on George Bush.

Peter Van Buren Shares 'A Child's Treasury Of Tweets' On Syria And Obama

They're here--a parade of grim humor, funny in its grim way because it is true.

A few notables to share here:

The question no journalist will ask Obama: Mr. President, if you use the military again, tell me how this ends?

Iran warned the U.S. twice in 2012 that Syrian rebels the U.S. supports have chemical weapons of their own.

Russia proposes Syria turn over chem weapons to avoid war. Predicting U.S. will claim Syria can’t be trusted in 5, 4, 3, 2…

When Obama said “There is no NSA spying on Americans,” he lied. But it’s cooool if you trust him on #Syria …

When Obama talks about the dead children in Syria, do ask him why Syria is a crisis but North Korean labor camps are not even mentioned.

And...perhaps the best...

日本の歴史の本で発見：”パールハーバー：。ただ空爆、地上の歩兵を持つ” (Found in the Japanese archives: “Pearl Harbor: Just an airstrike, with no boots on the ground.”)

The Winner Of The Nobel Peace Prize And The Nation That Has Finally Had Enough Of Him

Duh Prez is beginning to understand what his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright--you know, the one in whose church Obama participated for years, whom Obama claimed he didn't know--was talking about in his expression 'Chickens Come Home To Roost'.

A year ago today, Al Qaeda forces (the organization Himself claimed he had on the run) overran the consulate in Benghazi, in a carefully planned attack. They killed four of our people. Obama and company let them die rather than admit the attack was happening.

Then Himself lied about it. To us. On the White House lawn, which We The People own. In front of the UN. He made certain Susan Rice lied about it on all the Sunday talk shows--same script, every show. It was, to quote his hero Teddy Kennedy, 'Lie after lie after lie after lie.' Then he made sure the full truth was buried as completely as possible. It's now just beginning to leak out, finally, a year later.

We witnessed Miz Hillary Clinton shouting at the Senate Committee 'What, in the end, does it MATTER?!!' Pounding the table in frustration as she realized the BS she was peddling on behalf of Himself simply was not being believed.

After all, we won the The Election? Isn't that all that really matters?

Well, Mizz Hillary, it does matter, far more than anyone's election.

Subsequently, we have learned that Himself employed the IRS as the enforcement and harassment arm of the 2012 campaign.

We learned that journalists were targeted for criminal investigation, for simply doing their jobs.

We learned that journalists who defied the Official Version of Events About The Sequester, such as Bob Woodard, were targeted for public attack by His pack of journalistic hounds.

We learned that Himself's NSA had basically destroyed the idea of private communications in this country. OS understands that he now writes these words at a real risk.

We learned that Himself feels free to blatantly disregard any law that Himself finds inconvenient to his purposes, even if it's a law Himself demanded be passed, like ObamaCare.

We learned that when he finds it politically inconvenient to carry out his role as head of Executive branch, to see that the laws passed by Congress are faithfully defended and enforced, he simply does as he wishes. Thus, the DOJ's refusal to defend the Defense of Marriage Act before the Supreme Court.

We learned that Himself believes he holds the power to wage war upon other nations without any need to refer to the Constitution under which he was elected and sworn in. If he doesn't like what's going on in (fill in the blank), Himself can bomb the bejeezus out of the place, and We The People are entitle to no voice in the matter. We're simply here to provide the money and children for His military ambitions.

We have all, on left and right, learned that this man considers Himself to be king, and that any lie will do as long as Himself gets his way.

Himself seem shocked to find that the nation has finally had enough of Himself. The blowback on his plans to take us into yet another war in the Middle East was huge. There is no telling how many times the phone melted down in his hand when even his most loyal syncophants in Congress called the White House.

Finally, it obvious the Emporer is stark raving nekkid.

This interview of Gregory Hicks conducted by ABC's George Stephanopoulus was aired Sunday morning, directly after the usual roundtable discussion by the usual talking heads, all of whom expressed great reservations, even if they supported the idea of bombing the bejeezus out of Syria.

It tells the world that from the very beginning, the State Department, and one can easily conclude the White House, knew that this had nothing/zilch/zero to do with anyone's YouTube video.

George doesn't dare look at the camera and say, 'Obama is a serial liar'. He'll lose too many invitations to AllTheRightParties. So, he does something even better. He lets Greg Hicks tell the truth, and lets us compare Obama's and Hillary's version of events with the truth.

Even George, the most craven of Obama worshippers, has had enough, it appears.

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