It's all about them: Mizzou, Black Lives protesters say Paris attacks took spotlight off them

Talk about desperate for attention.

 Must have went by me. Tell me again. How many people were killed and at the University of Missouri? 

BTW...Black football players at Missouri threatened to quit playing unless the president of the university resigns. With a conference record of 1 and 5 it seems they already did.

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The deadly terror attacks in Paris killed at least 129, but to some protesters in the Black Lives Matter movement and at the University of Missouri, it's all about them.

Student protests and outrage over the school's handling of racial issues has brought national attention to the school -- which some students have come to define as a hotbed of racism. Recent racist incidents led to protests including one student's hunger strike and a threatened boycott by the football team. The university system president and the campus chancellor resigned.

After at least 129 people were killed by ISIS in coordinated attacks on Friday, several student protesters at Missouri took to Twitter to express anger at "losing the spotlight" in the media.

"Racist white people kill me, you want everyone to have sympathy for YOUR tragedy, but you have none for ours," wrote user Melanin Monroe under the Twitter handle @NeonElectricity in a post that has since been removed.

Interesting how the news reports are covering the Paris terrorist attacks but said nothing about the terrorist attack at #Mizzou ��☕️��

— Kyra (@_kyrahardy) November 14, 2015

(Believe me baby...when your this stupid going to college ain't gonna help)

Others, like user "dog enthusiast," under the handle @bmahimaaa, equated the slaughter in Paris with the racial tensions in Missouri -- calling both "terrorism."

"Paris attacks were terrorism," the user wrote. "black students getting death threats on their college campuses (A SUPPOSED SAFE SPACE!!) is also TERRORISM."

The tweet -- which is now under a protected account -- had 204 retweets and 237 "likes" as of Tuesday afternoon.

It's all about them: Mizzou, Black Lives protesters say Paris attacks took spotlight off them

At Democratic Debate, Bernie Sanders Says Climate Change Helps Terrorism Spread

When I was just a kid and had to take a bus there was an old man who regularly sat in the back. He habitually wore the same rumpled, grungy, sweater buttoned to the top, even when it was blistering hot. I remember his disheveled hair, that wild eyed look, and episodes of periodic outbursts of lunacy.

Well...he's back.

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One day after the Islamic State group killed or injured about 500 people in a series of attacks in Paris, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., linked climate change to the spread of terrorist groups overseas. At the second Democratic presidential debate, held Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa, Sanders was asked whether he stood by his previous claims that climate change was the No. 1 threat to national security. He said he did.

"Climate change is directly related to the rise of global terrorism," Sanders said, adding that it would cause nations to start "struggling over limited amounts of water, limited amounts of land to grow their crops, and you're going to see all kinds of international conflict," ABC News reported. Sanders backed up his statement by mentioning what "the CIA says," a likely reference to a July 2015 report from the U.S. Department of Defense that found "global climate change will aggravate problems such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership and weak political institutions that threaten stability in a number of countries," according to a news release.

Going into Saturday's debate, Sanders was trailing front-runner Hillary Clinton in the polls -- the former Secretary of State had 56 percent of the vote, and he had about 32. The duo had left former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley far behind, however, with the support of only about 3 percent of likely Democratic primary voters, according to the survey aggregator HuffPost Pollster.

In preparing for the debate, pundits told Politico the candidates were thinking ahead to the February Iowa caucus. With Saturday's event in Des Moines, the debate was seen as a chance to score points with important voters. Sanders planned to be aggressive but respectful, while Clinton was likely to stay cool and collected.

"I wouldn't launch negative attacks. I don't think there's any big reason to do it right now," adviser Bob Shrum told Politico. "Going into the first debate, they were very worried about Sanders' surge. And I don't think he's still surging."

O'Malley, who gained valuable exposure during the first debate, on Oct. 13, was expected to continue attacking his opponents. It was risky but possibly necessary to keep him in the race. "I think he has to hit Clinton. Go after the queen, so to speak," political journalist Douglas Burns told the Des Moines Register.



Meanwhile in Bill's world...

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On a tip from Ed Kilbane

At Democratic Debate, Bernie Sanders Says Climate Change Helps Terrorism Spread

It’s time for Obama to make a choice: Lead or resign | New York Post

God forbid there came an all out war and our fate rested in the hands of this incompetent imbecile. That's right... he's either a Muslim (which would account for his actions) or an incompetent imbecile. Take you choice. Either way he's got to go. 

Anyone remember Reagan "leading from behind"? 

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In any time and place, war is fiendishly simple. It is the ultimate zero-sum contest — you win or you lose. 

That eternal truth is so obvious that it should not need to be said. Yet even after the horrific slaughter in Paris, there remains a distressing doubt about whether America's commander in chief gets it.

President Obama has spent the last seven years trying to avoid the world as it is. He has put his intellect and rhetorical skills into the dishonorable service of assigning blame and fudging failure. If nuances were bombs, the Islamic State would have been destroyed years ago.

He refuses to say "Islamic terrorism," as if that would offend the peaceful Muslims who make up the vast bulk of victims. He rejects the word "war," even as jihadists carry out bloodthirsty attacks against Americans and innocent peoples around the world.

He shuns the mantle of global leadership that comes with the Oval Office, with an aide advancing the preposterous concept that Obama is "leading from behind." He snubs important partners like Egypt, showers concessions on the apocalyptic mullahs of Iran, and called the Islamic State the "jayvee team" even as it was beginning to create a caliphate.

Having long ago identified American power as a problem, he continues to slash the military as the enemy expands its reach. In a globalized era, the Obama doctrine smacks of cowardly retreat and fanciful isolation.

In an accident of timing that captures his cluelessness, the president actually declared on Friday morning that the Islamic State had been "contained," practically boasting in a TV interview that "They have not gained ground in Iraq and in Syria."

What gall. What folly.

Paris is the final straw. Obama's exemption from reality has expired. He must either commit to leading the free world to victory, or step aside so someone else can.

There is no more time to avoid the truth of war. America must organize the combined forces of the civilized world before the Islamic State makes good on its vow to "taste" more American blood.

If Obama cannot rise to the challenge of leadership in this historic crisis, then, for the good of humanity, he should resign.

As a top intelligence adviser told me yesterday, "What they did in Paris means they are coming here."

In fact, they already are here. Law enforcement officials say the FBI has as many as 1,000 investigations open into Islamic State sympathizers inside the US.

Is America ready to stop multiple assault teams of suicide bombers? Is New York ready? Or Chicago, Los Angeles or Washington, DC?

Because Paris was a grand success to the terrorists, the propaganda value acts as an incentive for attacks on other Western cities. While sparing no effort to stop them here, we must simultaneously destroy them in their foreign bases.

World War III began when Osama bin Laden declared war on the United States, though we did not grasp the significance until 9/11. The collapse of the Twin Towers, a smoking hole in the Pentagon and a downed jetliner in Pennsylvania revealed the price of our inaction.

The single greatest attack ever against America galvanized the nation and defined a new generation of policymakers and warriors.

Yet Obama always remained curiously cool about the whole endeavor, denouncing the invasion of Iraq as dumb while holding up Afghanistan as a necessary war. Once he got to the White House, though, he showed no conviction about Afghanistan either, surging troops only to demand that they return home quickly.

The pattern has never changed, and his relationship with a rotating cast of military leaders remains rocky. Robert Gates, secretary of defense under both President Bush and Obama, said in his memoir that Obama's distrust of the military was destructive of the very mission he had given the troops.

People in France light candles at a memorial for the victims of the Paris terror attacks. Photo: AP

After a heated 2011 meeting on Afghanistan, Gates concluded that Obama "doesn't believe in his own strategy, and doesn't consider the war to be his. For him, it's all about getting out."

Another former military leader, Gen. Jack Keane, notes that Obama never once agreed to the full request of his commanders. If they ask for 10,000 troops, Obama agrees to 5,000, 3,000 or none.

The raid that got bin Laden marked the high point of Obama's commitment. He turned that achievement into political gold in 2012 and declared the "tide of war is receding" to justify his decision to withdraw from the field of battle.

It was a convenient figment of self-interest, as if his wish would make it true. Instead, the strategic dominos fell quickly as war metastasized. The hard-won gains in Iraq were reversed, Syria descended into hell and the Islamic State was born in the vacuum.

Its ruthlessness and success in capturing territory enabled it to supplant al Qaeda as the most dangerous terrorist network. It has become the proverbial "strong horse," with each terrifying attack bringing more recruits and more financing.

In the last two weeks, it shot down a commercial Russian airliner over Egypt and carried out bombings in Beirut. And then came Paris.

Its ability to inflict unprecedented casualties in such far-flung locations marks a growing strength and sophistication. The terrorists smell weakness and have increased the pace of their aggressive expansion. Their aim of global conquest must be taken seriously.

Photo: Getty ImagesFrench President François Hollande understands the meaning of Friday's slaughter. He called it an "act of war" and vowed that "France will not show any pity" against those who carried out the barbaric acts. World leaders quickly expressed their condolences and condemnation. 

Yet it remains doubtful if our side is truly committed to winning. The determination and unity the free world showed after 9/11 faded as casualties, mistakes and politics eroded the mission.

So we are back to square one again, facing a stronger and more emboldened enemy. The time has run out for half measures and kicking the can down the road. The enemy must be destroyed on the battlefield before there can be any hope of peace.

If Obama cannot rise to the challenge of leadership in this historic crisis, then, for the good of humanity, he should resign. Those are the only options and it is his duty to decide.

It’s time for Obama to make a choice: Lead or resign | New York Post

Our first response to combat ISIS after the Paris attack

Five Guantanamo Bay inmates released to the United Arab Emirates

(Russia chose a different tack)

Russia Pounds ISIS With Biggest Bomber Raid in Decades

Five men who have been held for more than 13 years at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been released and sent to the United Arab Emirates, the Pentagon said on Sunday.

The five Yemeni men were accepted for resettlement in the Persian Gulf nation after U.S. authorities determined they no longer posed a threat, the Defense Department said in a statement. Their release brings the Guantanamo prison population to 107.

The men, who arrived in the UAE on Saturday, were identified as Ali Ahmad Muhammad al-Razihi, Khalid Abd-al-Jabbar Muhammad Uthman al-Qadasi, Adil Said al-Hajj Ubayd al-Busays, Sulayman Awad Bin Uqayl al-Nahdi, and Fahmi Salem Said al-Asani. 

Remaining: The Pentagon said 107 detainees remained at the Guantanamo prison 

All were arrested fleeing the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan following the September 11, 2001, terror attacks and were described as low-level fighters in American military assessments. 

(Weren't Lerner and Koskinen described as 'low-level')

None of them had been charged with a crime but had been detained as enemy combatants. They could not be sent to their homeland because the U.S. considers Yemen too unstable to accept prisoners from Guantanamo amid an ongoing Saudi-led war against Shiite rebels there.

Officials in the United Arab Emirates did not immediately comment Monday on the men's resettlement, nor was there any word about their arrival in the UAE's state-run media. 

In July 2008, the seven-emirate nation accepted an unidentified Guantanamo detainee at the same time that Afghanistan and Qatar each accepted one.

The United Arab Emirates is a major regional military ally for the U.S. The country is also part of its coalition targeting the Islamic State group with airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.

President Barack Obama has reduced the number of prisoners at Guantanamo by more than half since he took office.

When he said he was going to close it down no one suspected it would be by letting them go. There are only two things at play here.

1. He lives in fantasy land believing closing down Gitmo is going to somehow stop terrorists attacks.

2. He is helping the enemy because he is the enemy. e.g. 

The Iran deal and now his insistence we take in Syrian refugees despite what just happened in Paris. The proof is in the pudding.

"The Audacity of Hope" [pg. 261]:

Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction. 

And he is sure as hell is fulfilling that promise. 

Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim misfit who looked to Rev Wright to wash clean his Muslim past to make him "electable"... and it came back to bite him on the ass. And yes folks he presented himself as a Muslim foreign exchange student which is the reason his college transcripts are sealed.

He had sought to close the detention center but faced opposition from Congress. The administration is now seeking to move detainees to the United States amid intense opposition. 

The Pentagon said 107 detainees remained at the Guantanamo prison for suspected foreign militants.

The Defense Department is expected soon to unveil a long-awaited plan outlining how it would close the detention center at Guantanamo despite fierce resistance to shutting down the facility in Congress.

Our first response to combat ISIS after the Paris attack

Still crazy after all these years

Clinton and the other Democratic presidential candidates in debate decline to use term 'radical Islam'

First Barry held a press conference shortly after the Paris attack and said, "he doesn’t want to speculate on what happened." Probably because Josh Earnest didn't decide yet if it was a video or workplace violence. Then the Democratic debate,  following in true liberal fashion, refused to say radical Islamic terrorists were responsible for the attack. Apparently the victims died from flying shrapnel and bullets from an unspecified source. 

Seriously folks, if radical Islamic dogs didn't kill them who the fuck did? 

How can you defeat an enemy you don't have the balls to call out by name?

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Hillary Clinton and the other Democratic presidential candidates are being criticized for declining to use the words “radical Islam” during Saturday night’s debate, following the deadly terror attacks in Paris.

Clinton, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley declined to use the words after being asked during the CBS debate whether they would agree with GOP presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio saying, “We are at war with radical Islam.”

The front-running Clinton said using the term “radical Islam” would be “painting with too broad a brush.”

She also said the term was “not particularly helpful.” 

“I don’t think we’re at war with Islam,” continued Clinton, a former secretary of state. “I don’t think we’re at war with all Muslims. I think we’re at war with jihadists.”

That's the problem<> she doesn't think. 

Oh...and the jihadists are what.. Presbyterians?

However, Clinton said the world is indeed at war with “violent extremists” and those who use religion for “power” and “oppression.”

“violent extremists” + “power” + “oppression.” = Islam

Rubio said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" that not saying "Islamic State" would "be like saying we weren't at war with Nazis, because we were afraid to offend some Germans who may have been members of the Nazi Party but weren't violent themselves." 

"I don't understand it," the Florida lawmaker continued. "We are at war with radical Islam."

GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Saturday night tweeted: “You’re all grown up now. You can do it. Three words. Ten syllables. Say it with me: ‘Radical Islamic terrorism.”

The Islamic State has taken credit for the three coordinated attacks in and around Paris that killed 129 people and wounded more than 350.

French President Francois Hollande called the attacks “an act of war” by the terror group.

I've heard this bravado before. This is the 6th time France has been attacked by Muslims this year. He'll follow suit just like the rest of the world. Remember when the Jordanian pilot was burned to death in a cage? There was a lot of bluster but the end result was King Abdullah donned his flight outfit.

...And that really was the end result.

During the debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, Sanders said he didn’t think the term “is what's important.”

He argued the real issue is groups such as ISIS and Al Qaeda, and their mistreatment of women and children, have become “a danger to modern society” and that “American leadership can and must come together to destroy them.”

His plan is to destroy them with a 90% tax rate.

O’Malley, like Clinton and Sanders, also took special consideration not to offend the entire Muslim community.

“I believe calling it what it is … radical jihadis,” he said. “Let's not fall into the trap of thinking that all of our Muslim-American neighbors in this country are somehow our enemies here. They are our first line of defense. … We need our Muslim-American neighbors to stand up and to be a part of this.”

"They are our first line of defense?" 
Are you kidding me! 

Since the Paris attack how many Muslims have you seen come forth to condemn it?

Now you know why O'Malley is the Jim Gilmore of the Democratic party.

GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush tweeted on Saturday: “Yes, we are at war with radical Islamic terrorism.”

During the debate, Clinton also was asked about a December 2014 speech in which she said it’s important to show “respect even for one's enemy” and to try to “empathize with their perspective and point of view.”

Clinton responded: “It is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will be doing, how they will react.”

Why blame all of Japan just because of the "indiscretions" of a few of its pilots? This is the kind of head up your ass mentality that just got 132 people killed in Paris. 

3.8 million Muslim "unvetted refugees" just wandered their way into Europe which is bad in its own right. Not to mention... how many ISIS fighters were in the herd?

Clinton campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri told Yahoo News after the debate that she didn’t think Clinton was getting a lot of criticism for remarks.

“I think she was really clear that we don’t need to go to war,” Palmieri said. “We don’t need to go to war with Islam. We’re going to war with extremists.”

Don’t you just love the way liberals parse words:

Illegals are “undocumented immigrants”.

The Ft. Hood attack among others was deemed “workplace violence”.

Global Warming no longer worked and had to become “Climate Change” to account for sudden drops in temperature.

Sgt. Joshua Wheeler did not die in combat in Iraq he died in an “advise-and-assist mission.”

This list goes on and on. How much longer will Americans put up with this denial of reality? A lot longer I guess. Just got done watching Barry at the G20 Summit. After all that has transpired in the last few days he said, “ISIS is a handful of killers brutalizing local populations." Truly unbelievable! 



Then there's this. 

Obama describes Boston Marathon bombings as ‘two brothers and a crock pot’

From one crock pot to another.

Still crazy after all these years