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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Memo To All You Academics Who So Passionately Supported Obama In 08 and 12: You Are About To Be Rewarded For Your Loyalty

Adjuncts and grad students will see their hours significantly cut in order to avoid creeping up against the 30-hour-per week definition of Full-Time Employment under ObamaCare. 

No health insurance for you, and your income just got slashed.

Suckaaaaahs!!!

In the meantime, this is the year that Mr and Mrs OS, who are self-employed and in very good health, have seen their health-insurance premium (for very modest coverage) exceed their mortgage payment. And taxes are rising simultaneously.

We told you so, over and over and over, and you called us 'racist' and worse.

Don't blame us, you nit-wits.

Take a long look in the mirror, and contemplate what has befallen you, your families, your neighborhoods and the world at large. Look at the bodies stacking up from Northern Africa to the Turkish border, the 16+% unemployment rate amongst youth in this nation, the 26% ACT 'ready-for-college' pass rate amongst high-school seniors, and ask yourself if you chose wisely, and why you continue down this path, and where it might lead.

Chickens do come home to roost...this time in your 'hood.

You Buy, We Fry

OS was minding his own business, pumping gas at the local village station, when the sign caught his eye: You Buy, We Fry.

In other words, if you are on Food Stamps (err..SNAP) or any of the other forms of direct cash assistance from the feds, all you need do to have your own big ole' bucket of fresh fried chicken is swipe that there card right 'chere, ya'll.

Easy. Peasy. 

It's a SNAP!

Now, Mr and Mrs OS are blessed beyond measure to be able to work at what they love, with people they like, and make a modest living at it. He can't imagine life caught in the Perdition of welfare dependency,  and prays daily for wisdom and strength to make good decisions and to abhor laziness and greed.

But, still...this has been the Summer of Bleeding Money at Casa OS. Life has intervened, and precious cash reserves have had to be called upon to do some utterly necessary things, like repair roofs, replace autos, service calls on appliances, travel for family funerals, etc. Every dollar counts, and several items on the 'Wish-But-Damn-Close-To-Vital' list have been deferred.

It is disheartening to see this displayed in the store window. OS and Mrs. OS and all our friends who work harder and harder for less are paying for that bucket of chicken to be fried up for someone else, who likely voted to keep that fryer going at our expense.

It's as if the sign should read: They Buy, We Fry.

Or: We Buy, They Fry.

Or: We Buy, They Consume, we get to cook our chicken ourselves.

Or: We borrow from the Chinese, They Fry, They Consume, our children to pay the Chinese back with interest.

Well, then. On we go. Must get work done, taxes paid, and run to the grocery to buy something to put in the oven for dinner tonight. Mrs. OS and YoungerChild OS will be working until late this evening.

They won't be stopping at a gas station for a bucket of chicken bought by the taxpayer....

Jesse Jackson Junior Joins His Brethren In Duh' Joint

For blatant, flagrant corruption in misuse of campaign funds, the Congressman from Chicago (that, the son of that moral giant Jesse Jackson Senior, was sentenced to 2.5 years in the Federal pokey. 

For willfully playing along, and lavishly spending money on herself, Mrs Jesse Jackson Junior must spend one year in Federal prison.

They must, somehow, someway be victims of a racist conspiracy led by that virulent George Zimmerman....

That how the official narrative goes, you know. No other explanations, such as their actual guilt, allowed.

OS expects the President to come out swinging in defense of his close friend and colleague...

Sense of Events: The Religious Left's Chickens Come Home To Roost

The great Donald Sensing does it again, with his long memory and talent for stylishly telling the simple truth.

It has now, alas too late, dawned upon the great-and-good of the United Methodist Church that their cries for universal health care for all were heeded by their hero, Barack Obama. As a consequence, they and their clergy and church employees are about to get hammered by Obamacare.

The hypocrisy of the UMC's leadership on this issue is breathtaking. The UMC supported and lobbied for passage of Obamacare hammer and tongs, so much that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi specifically thanked the UMC for its work in getting the legislation through Congress.

But now, as Obama's own minister once said, the chickens are coming home to roost. Unless amended, Obamacare will make health insurance unaffordable for Conferences to fund. Wow, who could have seen that coming!?!?

Now, they want their own special deal. You know, like those evil corporate interests against whom they rail.

Just toooo rich. The best outcome will be that no deal is forthcoming, and the laity get to see first-hand where their clergy have led them, i.e. over the cliff.

When that happens, OS predicts he will hear the sound of checkbooks snapping shut in every pew of Methodism. Then, real change will come, just not the transformation envisioned by all those leftists who decided to hide out in pulpits for the past forty years or so...

The 'Phony Scandal' of Benghazi

Drip.

Drip.

Drip.

Dribble, dribble.....

(Deny, deny, deny, stonewall, call it 'phony', threaten everyone with any information within an inch of life.)

WHOOOOOOSH!

That's how these things work out, these scandals.

OS hears the distant sound of approaching waters.

The Telegraph tells the tale, since our own press are too busy assisting the Administration with its cover story.

Up to 35 CIA operatives were working in the city during the attack last September on the US CNN.

The circumstances of the attack are a subject of deep division in the US with some Congressional leaders pressing for a wide-ranging investigation into suspicions that the government has withheld details of its activities in the Libyan city. 

The television network said that a CIA team was working in an annex near the consulate on a project to supply missiles from Libyan armouries to Syrian rebels.

Sources said that more Americans were hurt in the assault spearheaded by suspected Islamic radicals than had been previously reported. CIA chiefs were actively working to ensure the real nature of its operations in the city did not get out. So only the losses suffered by the State Department in the city had been reported to Congress.

Paragraph two is the doozy. What in the name of sanity are we doing funneling arms from Libya to Syria?

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