Toughest part of being Leader of G-7 country is purposefully staring down…….. your personal photographer pic.twitter.com/EKmz7SJ8eZ
— Manny Montenegrino (@manny_ottawa) September 3, 2016
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Islam Building
Nation-building in Germany and Japan meant identifying a totalitarian ideology, isolating its proponents from political power and recreating a formerly totalitarian state as an open society. That is the opposite of what we did in Afghanistan and Iraq, never mind Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Yemen and all the rest.
We did temporarily pursue de-Baathification in Iraq. But the Baathists were just Saddam’s cult of personality. Saddam was a problem in Iraq. But he wasn’t the problem in Iraq. His rule was a symptom of the real problem which was the divide between Sunnis and Shiites. The real problem was Islam.
(h/t Adrian)
How Deep, Señor Maduro?
There’s a lamppost out there with your name on it, el Presidente.
It’s Probably Nothing
Global Supply Chains Paralyzed After World’s 7th Largest Container Shipper Files Bankruptcy (h/t Dan)
Forbidden City
John Raper, a reporter for the Cleveland Press, while on vacation in New Mexico, somehow stumbled upon one of the biggest, most secret stories of the day.
No Laughing At The Back
Rachel Dolezal, the white lady who got busted pretending to be a black lady, has somehow managed to get herself invited to be a feature at a rally for natural black hair.
Apparently, it’s a “social justice” thing.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
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This looks like a fake. Who cares?
ISIS suicide bomber hits IED, launches his car in the air where he detonates himself in mid air. 😂😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/Lr4PUCNLmB
— Michael Keyes (@michaelkeyes) September 3, 2016
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“With a hammer or something?”
CNN Stunned when fact checkers confirm #HillaryClinton phones destroyed with hammers. She is disqualified to #potus pic.twitter.com/KT2bm99OoX
— Michael Keyes (@michaelkeyes) September 3, 2016
Odds of an intrusion, 100%
She didn’t even have an SSL certificate. Didn’t use POP/S or IMAP/S.
FBI investigators found the domain for Clinton’s email server, ClintonEmail.com, did not have a SSL certificate, which left it “potentially vulnerable to compromise” from January 2009 to March 2009. SSL certificates are used to encrypt information sent between a user’s computer and a website, or server, in this case.
So, while Clinton was in foreign lands, she connected to her email server using plain-text communications. That means +every time+ she hit the ‘Get Mail’ button, or sent an email, or her phone polled the server her username and password to the email account was sent in the clear…not to mention any email she was sending or receiving.
Imagine driving from Saskatoon to Regina. Imagine that at every town between, a machine scanned your car. Imagine that everything loose in the car was catalogued and identified. That was Clinton’s username and password to get into her server and access all of the emails on that server. Those towns? They’re synonymous with the number of machines (foreign) that her phone would have been passing information through.
I’m laughing here. The Yanks are so screwed.
Bill’s Wife
Most qualified candidate ever!
Hillary Clinton told FBI agents in July that she thought the classified “C” markings on emails recovered from her private emails were just a way to put paragraphs in alphabetical order.
Today, the Friday before Labor Day, the FBI has released detailed interview notes from its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email practices. The Washington Post says the notes don’t contain any “major revelations,” but it’s wrong. Very wrong. The notes reveal the stunning breadth of Hillary Clinton’s dishonesty and deception. First, and most importantly, it’s plain that her team began systematically wiping the server only after news broke of its existence:
More links from the FBI’s Friday afternoon doc dump at Drudge.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Bill’s Wife
The Missing Man at the Center of Hillary Clinton’s Email Scandal
I, Napoleon
When Hollywood produces a transgender film, you might expect LGBT activists to be happy their culture is being further normalized. No, the social justice warriors are annoyed because the actors aren’t transgender enough. The actor is even openly gay, but that’s not good enough.
Faster, please!
What’s The Opposite of Diversity?
The making of the Future Children®;
Calling the University of Nebraska Lincoln a place that “values acceptance,” the institution kicked off the fall semester with its newly installed chancellor essentially telling new students they should not say or do things that might be offensive or cause people to feel disrespected, calling the stance “nonnegotiable.”
Operation Empty Chair
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Huma, Huma, Huma.
Clinton Foundation Exec emailed Huma Abedin asking for diplomatic passports.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Milena Sidorova’s Spider Dance.