MSLSD:
More than 50 airstrikes launched against ISIS
The U.S. with the support of several Middle East partners began a heavy bombardment of more than 50 airstrikes in Syria at 8:30 p.m. Monday night aimed at the headquarters and bases of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The airstrikes came just as world leaders convened for the first day of the United Nations annual meeting.
President Obama is expected to make a statement from the White House before leaving for New York and the Pentagon will brief reporters later in the morning, giving additional details on the first large-scale military action of Obama’s presidency.
Airstrikes were fired at check points in Al-Raqqa and Tal Abyad, as well, NBC News reported. While most of these ISIS bases were evacuated before the airstrikes, some ISIS fighters were confirmed to be killed.
Monday’s attacks are a part of the president’s military strategy to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS, a brutal terrorist group that aims to create a large Islamic state ruled by Sharia law.
Syrians officials were informed of the strikes before they occurred, the State Department said on Tuesday morning.
I am enjoying watching Leftist Obama followers who held him up as the anti-war candidate of 2008 cheering for him starting another war. And this is definitely a new war – new enemy, new country.
For the record, I support using military action against the Islamic State. I also believe this is an illegal war because it is being done without Congressional authorization. I’m a stickler for legal technicalities like that.
I doubt the airstrikes will have had much positive effect considering how much advance warning Obama gave them. They had plenty of time to evacuate likely targets and/or place women and children around and in them as human shields/sacrifices.
For those of you that don’t Twitter you should really start. At times like these it is an excellent source of up-to-the-minute news mixed with lots of witty and half-witty repartee. Best of all, it’s FREE.
If you are technologically challenged, votermom is one of several TCH regulars who can guide you – she is a Twitter legend.
(Non-celebrity, non-compensated endorsement)
BTW – The SF Giants defeated the Hated Dodgers 5-2 in 13 innings last night.
The Crawdad Hole 
http://weaselzippers.us/200491-isis-routs-iraqi-army-yet-again-in-battle-for-key-army-base-hundreds-missing/
isis routs iraqi army yet again in battle for key army base. hundreds missing
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/09/video-five-sunni-nations-and-us-bomb-al-raqqa/
video of bombings
When do the anti-war protest marches start?
GMTA
The timing of the bombings seemed to coincide with the end of the Snowflakes’ occupy and rampage at Wall Street yesterday. Most arrests were made when they charged the bull…lol. Here’s a good local roundup ….. http://gothamist.com/2014/09/23/photos_dozens_arrested_after_flood.php#photo-1
LOL on the “twitter legend”
Maybe one day you could do a “how to” post for people interested in joining the twitterverse.
I thought Elliesdad would like Twitter, but he always resisted. He didn’t think he’d like Breaking Bad, either, but he’s well into season 2. So over the weekend and after 45 years he decided maybe he does like things I think he’d like so he set up a Twitter account. It was painful. He wants to customize it so he only has to see things he’d like to see. Like some of CNN’s tweets, but not all of them. He wants to see things that are funny, but not stupid. Like Twitter can assess his mood for the day and only send him what will strike his funny bone at that moment. So I locked myself in the woman cave for the day and just tuned the rants out. Later he kept coming in laughing about something the Onion had tweeted, and finally asked me how to find Iowahawk. But I would appreciate a Twitter lesson I could share with him because I’m not smart enough to teach him. 😉
There’s really no big secrets afaik.
The only non-obvious twitter tip I learned is that if you start a tweet with someone’s twitter name, that tweet will only show up on timelines of people who follow both of you.
Also, it can be considered harassing by twitter if that person complains. It’s a trick a lot of obots use to get a twitter account suspended – bait a tweeter into responding directly to them, and when the tweeter loses their temper they can file a complaint with twitter.
Another tip is to beware of spam accounts – if you get followed by an account which follows a lot of people but has zero or very few followers, check their timeline to see what they tweet. If it seems like spam block that account.
Oh, and never click on twitter links if you’re not sure where they go, even from people you know. Accounts get hacked all the time (although luckily I never have).
Never click on links that someone DMs to you.
Your Hubby can make lists of accounts – like maybe a “funny tweeters” list, a sports list, etc and just click on those lists depending on the mood he’s in.
I have a list of 300 or so accounts I consider “tweet worthy”
great idea
I’m not smart enough to teach him.
You are smart enough to NOT teach him. That’s why you’re still married.
When my kids grew up and moved out of the house, they doubled my IQ almost overnight. My husband brags about his smart wife, but he often treats me like I don’t have half a brain. I’m waiting for that moment when he decides I do know what I’m talking about. Maybe on his deathbed. “Honey, you were right. That contractor was a crook.” lol
Some people are left-brained, some right-brained.
Which half do you have? 😉
Yes please do a tutorial on twitter….
I would like that too!
Mr. Obama, tear down this wall! #OpenBorders
Someone should photoshop Obama trying to climb out.
I could jump that fence without taking a running start
I could, too, and I’m a little old lady.
Whew, now Obama’s safe …. from pre-schoolers ! The Barrycades are back 🙂
Sheeple holders. It looks like those things they put up for queues at an amusement park. I always want to kick those fuckers over.
Denise, you have to tweet this. .
Speaking of the special people – those that voted in the historical first election of the anti-war candidate not knowing what the hell they were talking about –
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/millennial-mongers_805310.html
No wonder he needs/wants more illegal workers. $26,000 for remodel of kitchen and 6 bathrooms? Thats impossible unless $3/hr workers.
I spent twice that just on the kitchen.
Yes, but your contractor was a crook or so you said, LOL!
Yes, he was. lol
Me, too, and it is a very small kitchen.
I’d love to update my kitchen, but it would make the rest of the house look even more out of date. So I just tell my “Martha Stewart” friends, my “look” is retro 80’s 🙂
We started with needing to remodel a bathroom that was being held together by duct tape and picture frame wire and ended up with a house that was gutted to the outside walls. The movie “The Money Pit” gives me nightmares. The contractor skipped town without finishing the bathroom.
Hey, I just had a screened-in porch put on. The concrete pad was already there, from a porch that was there when the house was built in the 50’s. We signed the contract in May of last year. They finally showed up in July, and it took 2 mos. and 1 day to complete, and was $1000 over budget. Hate working with contractors!!!
I turned on MSNBS this morning to hear Joey (Scarborough) rip the Republicans (and the House) a new one and blame them for allowing pResident bronco bama to bomb Syria and go to war without Congressional approval. He wanted to know why Congress men/women are out campaigning when they ought to be in DC challenging BO. He named McCain, Graham, Boehner and then said he had “trouble” with Boehner in the past.
Yeah, it’s all on them. bronco is pure as the driven snow. because…….hopenchange
The GOP isn’t saying anything because they like their bread buttered on both sides.
They support the bombings, but want to be free to criticize them.
We’re gonna need a bigger hashtag
What we need is attitude.
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/09/22/video-this-is-the-man-a-malaise-stricken-america-needs-right-now/
I loved his attitude, enthusiasm, energy, etc. He made me smile.
I didn’t used to want her in jail but just fined, shunned and humiliated for being such a #%^# but now I think she needs to serve hard time. Her self absorption, complete lack of empathy, and pathological lying must be punished.
I felt that if she used the 5th, that she should just shut up! Now, I hate Politico even more for giving her the chance to speak. I hope she uses all her big time pension money on big time legal fees. I suppose in her little mind, she really does believe that she has done nothing wrong. You know, if the President says it’s ok, then it’s legal.
She was doing this stuff at the FEC. She is a bad egg and ideologue from way back. People this warped have no business being in government and certainly not making decisions. She was supposed to be neutral. She completely lacks empathy, a conscience, and judgement. She is a twisted sister and needs to be made an example. Being treated badly in the public by other civil servants is appropriate since she makes all of them look bad. She is too warped and stupid to understand this.
Same old shit. Now they are the neo-neo-neocons. Maybe cons-squared since they are cool.
Here myiq, you can share this with your little friends 😉
I gotta say that I knew no one who disliked GWB as much as I did, but some times you simply have to Let It Go. What is wrong with these people is they can’t let it go because it would mean their little unicorn prezzy is simply another pol and even more duplicitous than they ever dreamt Bush was.
One miracle that Obama accomplished: I don’t hate Bush as much as I used to. I still think he was a bad POTUS but what is the point of obsessing about it? He’s gone.
myiq yep. Someone on twitter, or was it FB, asked What’s Obama’s Greatest Accomplishment, I responded, uniting Dems and Republicans 🙂 Unfortunately, there’s still media, oy.
How late will Obama be today?
Actually they look pretty tasty, I mean, all that frosting ! “Vagina” cookies for 2nd graders, mom upset teacher said no
http://elitedaily.com/news/world/mother-vagina-cookies-second-graders-sends-teacher-e-mail/767638/
Who has time to do shit like that. I remember getting cheered when I brought in punchbowl of homemade snack mix (Are those real cashews?!!!) for second graders so they could serve themselves as much as they wanted with a ladle. The teachers ate it too. Did this fool think kids give a shit about twat cookies? Making kids eat THOSE cookies is very weird. Maybe she is a child molester or grooming them! LOL.
I thought baked goods were banned in schools now, because nuts’n’allergies ? I guess these very “special” cookies were an exception. (Love your punch bowl idea with the mixed yummy stuff and ladle!)
That was before nuts were banned. Children like helping themselves. I don’t know how many times I took the old Quaker Oats squares snack mixes to school for elementary school test days over all those years. Teachers would call and ask “Can you bring the big bowl?”
I guess she doesn’t know much about history. Empty is probably a good twitter name for her.
What happens when ISIS start shooting the planes down with our own military hardware? Is that when we learn they are US pilots after all? Remember they lie about every damn thing.
I’m still looking for a mission statement that goes beyond “Blow Sh*t Up”. This is a very confusing non-war 😉
I think it’s our first Xbox war.
Yeah, I imagine this on the big screen in the Situation Room with Obama working the joystick…… 😉
Basically that is it. Mental tweens (Bronco is picking the targets when he is sentient) in the WH demanding four star generals (after the WH announces where, what, and when) blow shit up until November 5th the day after the election. Then it will stop. It is just a diversion fake-out procrastination pivot! President Zelda.
Monty Python Twit Olympics: The matchbox jump. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRBkgshj8Cw
Wow. Koolaid is a helluva drug.
Yes–Obama to speak soon– like the sun rising in the East. A lot of targets missed because Isis moved assets in anticipation of bombing. What a surprise– can never keep his mouth shut.
It’s almost as though he’s doing it on purpose so they get out of the way. Like the time we kept threatening Saddam about his WMD’s and while GWB and Congress were dithering, he moved them. Hmmmm, who got them then? That’s who we’re fighting now.
His ears are lighting up
That made me laugh through my nose. Haha. I refuse to watch him so thanks for doing it.
again
it looked like it–the sun was behind him and every time he moved his head, sunlight was filtered through his huge ears. Looked weird
Like bat wings that are so thin they are translucent. Creepy.
Makes sense to me, he’s certainly not the most transparent President ever, but the most translucent 😀
Stole this from a FB friend:
This is the pivot from immigration and Obamacare fake war. It is the “Can’t wait for October so let’s make it our polls are crashing! September surprise”. You can’t wag the dog any harder. Well a war with Putin would but I hope they aren’t that desperate yet.
A war with Putin would certainly shore up Obama’s third term, because War President. I’ve seen many tinfoily comments alluding to what may be going on in BO’s brain.
If this is Obama’s idea of a Dem Fall/October surprise, I think the joke’s on the Dems. Surprise.
They Said If I Voted For Romney We Would Go to War In Syria:
Yeah–personally I wont be happy till they are carpet bombed and had Agent Orange dropped on them. And you can bet the AF would love to do that– but we can’t use our air base in Turkey, our NATO ally.
Ah yes our NATO ally Turkey. My hubby and I were just talking about that this morning. ISIS has threatened the US, UK and France that I know of and beheaded innocents from two of those countries. I thought NATO was an alliance, an alliance through thick and thin, where the countries have each other’s backs. Turkey seems to only want an alliance of covenience.
Obama nor the other NATO members have the balls to call Erdogan on it. Supposedly Obama and Erdogan are friends……wow great buddy you have there Barry.
Wasn’t Erdogan the first guy he called when he got sworn in to office in ’09? What’s up with that? Wasn’t Obama talking on the phone with Erdogan when the White House put out that photo of him on the phone with the baseball bat in his hand? What’s up with that?
This White House PR doesn’t do anything without an underlying political meaning.
http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/01/obama-speaks-with-world-leader-on-phone-holding-a-baseball-bat/
Obamanation swooned at his manliness.
So AP is hiring JournOlisters ? Got it. Though when I first started dipping my toes in conservative blogs, AP was a banned source on most of them. It’s one thing to be biased, but no excuse for stupid.
WTF?
The “elites” and their paid shills always say this. Always. What we need are leaders from the meritocracy not leaders from frigging inherited or rigged elites. No one is saying that any human endeavor doesn’t need leaders including the “childish” common people. But we are sick of ignorant, entitled, assholes who know less than we do claiming to be “elite” leaders and their spokespeople including the asinine ass licking Brooks who judges “leaders” on their pants crease. Elites are freaked out and this drivel proves it.
^THIS^
David Brooks is pretty unique for being openly pro-fascism.
Actually, the Founders only wanted landowners to vote because they had some physical stake in this country. Not exactly elite, but it would reduce the number of useless lazy idiots voting.
We were talking the other day about Obama’s micro-targeting. Apparently they used a database system called Catalist http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2014/09/17/obamas-catalist-database/?singlepage=true
One of the things they did was to motivate more far left wing voters AND more welfare recipients to grow their base. It’s a very interesting read, as I said the other day I was already familiar with their mico-targeting which I found quite impressive. The part about the woman not being allowed to be a D precinct worker because she wasn’t pure enough is downright creepy.
Your comment just reminded me about the above article and people with no skin in the game.
white, male property owners.
Why is Brooks so racist and anti-woman? LOL
Yes, she is!
Dittos !
I’m sure Holder will appeal, but that’s a reasonable punishment. I’m sure NONE of Obama’s donors have ever broken the law, just because their addresses are empty lots in various areas of the country 😉
All they really wanted was “convicted felon” before D’Souza’s name.
Just like Martha Stewart.
Twitter is hardly free. “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” (as Lambert put it).
It is freer than Obamacare.
I’m old enough to remember when television was free.
Next you’re going to say you remember a time before video games and laptops.
I remember when pantyhose were invented.
I also remember when pantyhose hit the market in the 60s; a real step back compared to garter belt and stocking, especially for date night at the drive-in.
Did that immediately precede miniskirts?
BTW, this is not a war war you know. I’m sure that there will be a video that Susan Rice will promo on the upcoming Sunday blab shows.
GMTA…this is Wag the Dog 😉 Keeping up with the Khorasans….WTF is this group? Just hoping they don’t get their own reality show on E!
http://www.nationaljournal.com/defense/defense-official-al-qaida-affiliated-group-was-in-final-stages-of-planning-attacks-against-the-west-20140923
Some group we never heard of until Obama blew them to shit was the biggest threat to us since the glory days of AQ and they were planning an “imminent” attack on us.
Riiiiight.
Even Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny are shaking their heads and saying no way.
My thoughts exactly
So, what’s that picture in the post? A mushroom clown?
Filed under YGTBFKM
http://youngcons.com/woman-freaks-out-when-she-cant-give-2nd-graders-vagina-cookies-sends-crazy-email-to-teacher/
You should read the email the mom sent the teacher after this happened.. I’ll see if I can find the link.
Swanspirit’s link has the e-mail. It’s about as inarticulate as you’d expect it to be.
I can’t believe Child Protective Services didn’t get a call .
ayup