if u can read this without vomiting please see a doctor immediately http://t.co/Sde0SQ7vRB pic.twitter.com/d6dsOcUTKC

— andy levy (@andylevy) April 10, 2015

Long deserved.

WASHINGTON (April 16, 2015) — Secretary of the Army John McHugh announced today that he has directed the United States Army to provide all possible benefits to victims of a 2009 attack at Fort Hood who were recently awarded the Purple Heart medal.

Last week, 36 soldiers and surviving family members of the attack were awarded the Purple Heart medal during a ceremony at Fort Hood, Texas. The ceremony came after Congress expanded eligibility criteria for the Purple Heart, allowing the medal to be awarded to Soldiers wounded or killed in incidents that were previously ineligible.

“In addition to the Purple Heart medal, there are certain other benefits for which Soldiers receiving the Purple Heart are traditionally eligible,” McHugh wrote in an April 14 memorandum. “I intend to ensure that the Soldiers receiving the Purple Heart under the expanded criteria also receive all other related benefits for which they are eligible.”

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She was specifically targeted for being an American.

KARACHI, Pakistan — An American citizen was critically wounded in what was apparently a militant attack on Thursday in the southern port city of Karachi.

The American, identified as Debra Lobo, 55, was shot twice in her car by two men on a motorcycle as she left work on Thursday afternoon to pick up her husband and daughter, the police said. Ms. Lobo, a longtime resident of Karachi, works at the Jinnah Medical and Dental College, a private medical school, as the vice principal of student affairs.

“She was critically injured — one bullet hit her right cheek and passed out of the left, and another bullet was lodged in her right arm,” said Syed Pir Mohammad Shah, a senior police officer for the district.

A little-known group calling itself the Daulah al-Islamiyyah claimed responsibility for the attack. The gunmen appeared to have scattered leaflets in English and Urdu at the site of the attack. Titled “We Will Burn America,” the typed notes claim to be from “Lions of Daulah al-Islamiyyah, the Falcons of our Caliph” and state that they had “killed this Kansas lady ‘Lobo.’”

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WH knew #Bergdahl evidence supported desertion charges @AmericaNewsroom | http://t.co/3hWIgeJ8R0

— Fox News Video (@foxnewsvideo) April 16, 2015

So the White House can’t claim they didn’t know the circumstances before they made this crummy deal, they knew it for years.

If their response is “we leave no one behind even a deserter”, them why is a Marine, Amir Hekmati, still being held in Iran? Not to mention any of the other folks Iran is holding, Robert Levinson, Saeed Abedini and Jason Rezaian?

Why was he not arrested upon trying to reenter the country?

Via NY Post:

An Ohio man who left the US a year ago to train with Islamic State jihadists was nabbed by the feds Thursday for allegedly plotting to unleash terror in the country, authorities said.

Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, 23, of Columbus, left in April 2014 — two months after becoming a naturalized citizen — to train and fight with the extremists in Syria, the Justice Department said, ABC News reported.

Islamic State wannabe Mohamud — who has posted the group’s propaganda online — was charged with providing material support to al Nusrah, an al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, according to the feds.

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Reid on Lynch: 'I will force a vote' http://t.co/4pSjxXSTB3 Rachel #Maddow interviews Sen. Reid tonight at 9pm ET https://t.co/SyS9PsKXm8

— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) April 16, 2015

Dear Harry,

When Ms. Lynch stops avoiding questions about whether she actually will follow up on alleged wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton and other members of the Obama regime, in other words, if she says she would actually do the job with which she would be entrusted, then you will have a vote.

By the way, can you help me? I have a question. What majority leader held up a record number of bills? Help me with his name, Ha_ _ y _ei_

Total coincidence, no doubt.

Wait, I’m confused. I though she was driving everywhere on this “listening tour” across America. Why is she at an airport?

HT: Daily Mail

Forget law, you will give us what we want, or we will run right over you. Here’s for what expulsion rules were written.

Via Twitchy:

Mere minutes into Thursday afternoon’s board of regents meeting at the University of Michigan, a group of protesters affiliated with the group BAMN (“By Any Means Necessary”) stormed past barricades, upended tables and rushed the regents themselves. Eight were reported arrested, only one of whom was a University of Michigan student.

BAMN describes itself on its website as a movement “fighting to defend public education, to defeat budget cuts for education, to defend public jobs and public services, to win college financial aid and citizenship for undocumented immigrant students, and to make every school, college, city, municipality and state a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants,” among other goals.

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There are no other religions but Allah (but this has nothing whatever to do with religion, say Obama).

Via Fox News:

Even Iraq’s dead Christians aren’t safe from ISIS.

The Islamic State’s campaign of terror across the war-torn nation, which has already seen countless beheadings, destruction of priceless art and religious artifacts and insistence that Christians submit or die, now includes mass desecration of graves. Photos of the black-clad, extremist ghouls smashing headstones in cemeteries in the key northern city of Mosul were posted Thursday online under the title “Leveling Graves and Erasing Pagan Symbols.”

“The April 16 destruction of Christian graves in Mosul, Iraq by the Islamic State (ISIS) is part of the organization’s ongoing campaign against Christianity, in the Middle East and throughout the Muslim world,” said Steven Stalinsky, executive director of The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which flagged the photos.

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Sure looks like our ‘Everyday American’ Hillary heading for SUV parked in handicapped space.

Is she making a statement about her condition, or does she not care?

Update:

Video shows Scooby van clearly in the spot. Someone pulled the original video, guess they didn’t want it seen, but here’s another one, the internet is forever:

Interestingly, this cafe stop, was not a meeting with the everyday Americans, but a meeting with local Democratic operatives, according to the local news. Actual random people who wanted to talk to her were not allowed in.

You may recall CJ Pierson came to conservative attention when with his video telling Obama, “you don’t love America”. CJ is active in politics in his home state, and aiming for elective office as soon as he can, I suspect.

Hillary and her 4,000 pairs of pant suits have left Iowa.

The pro abortion fanatics hate being confronted with picture of fetuses in different stages.

Via FOX News

Officials at prestigious Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday reversed a decision banning a pro-life display that had appeared for decades at the school’s Spring Fair, after FoxNews.com inquired about the matter.

The display, a fixture at the fair for 30 years, was sponsored by the student group JHU Voice for Life. It shows models of unborn fetuses in various stages of development, but was initially rejected this year on the grounds that it “contains triggering and disturbing images.” The decision to reject the display’s presence at the fair, which takes place from April 24-26, was made by a student committee in conjunction with faculty advisers.

“We’ve reviewed your pictures with our advisers and have determined that your display contains triggering and disturbing images and content,” read an email the committee sent to JHU Voice for Life.[…]

“Abortion is disturbing, that’s the reason we have such a table,” Andrew Guernsey, the president of the group, said.

On Tuesday, FoxNews.com emailed questions to the students involved in the decision. Forty minutes later, the student committee informed Guernsey by email that the display would be allowed.

In a statement to FoxNews.com, the student committee explained:

“We… were wrong in our initial decision and, upon further reflection, have decided we will not impose restrictions on the displays presented by any community groups at Spring Fair… The committee values free speech.”

They also noted that the pro-life group itself had never been banned from the fair; only the display showing the stages of development in the womb had been prohibited.

Experts on free speech say attempts to restrict pro-life arguments are very common on campuses throughout the country.

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Sigh…

Deranged way of looking at things.

PELOSI: A war vote is a vote that everybody makes on the basis of what think know, what they believe, who they trust. There’s large number of people who supported the war. The consequences have been terrible in terms of what it meant to our veterans and the rest of that, but no. the answer is no. I don’t think it should disqualify her…

What’s important is what it would mean to elect a woman president of the United States. It’s a very mayor or consideration. A very qualified woman to be president of the United States. Not just that she is a woman. When I became even whip, the response was so overwhelming from people saying how encouraged they were that we had broken not the glass ceiling, that’s nothing. We’re talk about the marble ceiling.

Just ignore all those calls for genocide.

Via PJM:

Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a live Q&A program that it was acceptable to lift the ban on selling the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Iran because Tehran is “demonstrating a lot of flexibility and an obvious desire to reach a compromise on their nuclear program.”

“In effect, all participants in the process have announced that an agreement has been reached. Now they only have the technical details to deal with, and they will complete this before June. This is why we made this decision,” Putin said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said earlier this week there was “no more need” for the 2010 embargo, and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif lauded the move by “an important partner.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Putin on Tuesday to warn that the sale would only wreak more havoc in the Middle East.

“If someone fears that we have started cancelling the sanctions, apparently our colleagues do not know that the supply of these systems is not on the UN list of sanctions,” Putin continued in the Q&A, during which he answered 74 audience questions over nearly four hours. “We suspended this contract absolutely unilaterally. Now that there is obvious progress on the Iranian track, we do not see why we should continue imposing this ban unilaterally – I would like to emphasize this again.”

“As for the list of sanctions envisaged by the UN resolutions, we will of course act in unison with our partners. We have always cooperated with this, and I would like to stress that we have made a large contribution to the settlement of the Iranian nuclear issue.”

Putin stressed that since Russian companies made the $900 million equipment, “why should we take the loss?”

Let the attention whoring begin.

Via SPB:

Outspoken U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson will “probably yes” run for U.S. Senate in 2016, leading to an ideological primary battle against the announced candidate Patrick Murphy, a more centrist Democrat.

Grayson, an Orlando Democrat popular in liberal circles, made the comment during an online Democracy Now! video.

Asked whether he’s planning to run for the seat vacated by Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio for his presidential campaign, Grayson said, “I’m giving it a lot of attention. The answer is probably yes, but I haven’t made up my mind yet once and for all. I hope to do that soon.”

The outspoken Grayson would provide contrast to Murphy, a two-term congressional representative from a slightly Republican-leaning district. Murphy frequently crosses the aisle to vote with the GOP on several issues: limiting Obamacare, Dodd-Frank regulations on Wall Street and support for the Keystone XL pipeline.

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All it took was to get rid of George Lucas as the director and Han, Chewie, and the Millennium Falcon are reunited, the X-Wing and Tie-Wing fighters are back, Stormtroopers look like they used to etc.

Interfaith outreach overreach?

Rome (CNN) – Muslims who were among migrants trying to get from Libya to Italy in a boat this week threw 12 fellow passengers overboard — killing them — because the 12 were Christians, Italian police said Thursday.

Italian authorities have arrested 15 people on suspicion of murdering the Christians at sea, police in Palermo, Sicily, said.

Why migrants are dying to get to Italy

The original group of 105 people left Libya on Tuesday in a rubber boat. Sometime during the trip north across the Mediterranean Sea, the alleged assailants — Muslims from the Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal — threw the 12 overboard, police said.

The boat was intercepted by an Italian navy vessel, which transferred the passengers to a Panamanian-flagged ship. That ship docked in Palermo on Wednesday, after which the arrests were made, police said.