The website of former Rep. Allen West is tying the Obama administration’s decision to halt sales and giveaways of military-grade hardware to police departments with an alleged White House plan to mount a military takeover of Texas and other southwestern states under the guise of a military exercise.
Soon-to-be-presidential candidate Lindsey Graham says the Iraq War was not a mistake. But … “a land invasion may not have been the right answer.” Or something like that.
For more on our search for someone, almost anyone, to say the Iraq War was a good idea see Tierney Sneed’s piece here.
I mentioned a couple months ago the quiet dread I experienced awaiting the Clinton campaign, the quite possible Clinton restoration and the drama both bring inevitably in their wake. There’s another part of that story we’re now seeing in spades: let’s call it the inevitable Vince Fosterization of really every media scrape, pseudo-scandal and genuine embarrassment the Clintons are ever involved in. (For those of you not familiar with Vince Foster, his tragic suicide or the years-long right-wing clown show it kicked off, it is probably best described as the ’90s version of Benghazi.) As with most things Clinton, there’s enough to get everyone interested and virtually never enough for there to be any real there there. If there were less of the former or more of the latter, the story would have a clearer, more satisfying conclusion. With the Clintons, the inevitable gap between their pursuers’ hopes and the mundane reality, the expectations and inevitable disappointment is the beautiful face that sets sail to a thousand ships of nonsense, wishful thinking and right-wing media rube fleecing.
I want to make sure that this doesn’t get lost in Tierney Sneed’s broader piece on how the various Iraq War provocateurs are now defending that fateful decision. The amazing standout nugget is: It’s all Obama’s fault.
TPM’s Tierney Sneed spent days looking for one-time Iraq War architects and cheerleaders to see if any were still willing or able to say that invading Iraq was a good idea. Here’s what she found.
With your feedback I’ve learned a little more about wingsuit BASE jumping. It’s all confirmed my initial sense that it is both fascinating and really crazy. To recapitulate, BASE jumping is simply parachuting from very high fixed objects: bridges, cliffs, etc. The addition of the wingsuit is where it gets interesting and almost mind-bogglingly dangerous.
A quick look at how “Jade Helm 15” Obama military takeover hysteria took over Biloxi, Mississippi.
Florida prosecutors have hit the man who took a shot at George Zimmerman last week with a series of charges. Matthew Apperson and Zimmerman have had an ongoing dispute.
After failing in a long-shot bid to unseat scandal-plagued Rep Scott DesJarlais, Robert Doggard decided to lead a militia attack against a Muslim group in Hancock, New York.
I just saw the news that an extreme athlete named Dean Potter died in a BASE jumping accident after jumping from a 7500 feet drop in Yosemite National Park. It turns out that it was only a few days ago I saw for the first time at least this kind of what’s called BASE jumping (I’ve now found out from readers that what I’m referring to is BASE jumping with a wingsuit, which is a particularly insane subcategory of BASE jumping). If you haven’t seen it, it basically involves jumping off an extremely high cliff in what looks something like a flying squirrel suit – basically a skin tight suit with webbing between the legs and between the arms and legs.