Russian boots on the ground in Syria

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Putin just whipped out his crank and smacked Obama across the chops with it.

I sure hope Hilary kept the receipt on ISIS' uniforms...she'll probably have to eat the deposit, though.

[Bucmonkey]

Is that your dog?

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

I wish.

[Moving Sale]

Marty's dog died of boredom.

[R-Jack]

Marty's dog died of boredom.

Don't rule out collapsed bowels yet.

[H4ever]

Putin just whipped out his crank and smacked Obama across the chops with it.

I sure hope Hilary kept the receipt on ISIS' uniforms...she'll probably have to eat the deposit, though.

So you''re saying the Rothschilds are gonna be elated with more conflict over there? And Obama never agreed to this kind of critical decision making shit when he took that money? And Hiliary is mad because she doesn't have that war-hawk aura about here and shit like this changes voter perception and Trump might beat her ass? What's next... Jeb Bush becomes relevant again? <--- there's your answer

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Marty's dog died of boredom.

Don't rule out collapsed bowels yet.

you son-of-a-bitch

:x :x :x

[Wolfman]

Russian bodies on the ground now?

[Goober McTuber]

The senior senator from Wisconsin would like those to be American bodies.

[War Wagon]

Putin just whipped out his crank and smacked Obama across the chops with it.

Turkey just smacked Putin across the chops with no doubt American supplied SAM's.

Not that Obama can take any credit for it. Hell, he's probably apologizing for it right now... in private.

"Don't blame me Vlad, I didn't create NATO nor authorize this aggression."

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Turkey takes their orders from America and it's America's aim to aid Wahabist kooks in the region to destabilise Arab governments.

How do you think this will play out? Do you expect Putin to run away, flapping his hands in the air and shrieking like an Awesome Dude?

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

If this is the catalyst of World War III, let it be remembered that it was Putin and Russia that said "enough already" to the Israeli organised chaos carried out by their stooges in the White House, in their bullshit scheme to fracture and leave broken in little pieces the entire Middle East.

[War Wagon]

Turkey takes their orders from America and it's America's aim to aid Wahabist kooks in the region to destabilise Arab governments.

How do you think this will play out? Do you expect Putin to run away, flapping his hands in the air and shrieking like an Awesome Dude?

I have no idea how it will play out but like I've said before, America should leave Assad the fuck alone.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

...America should leave Assad the fuck alone.

If there's still any doubt in the minds of Americans as to the credibility of Obama and in general, your duopolistic false paradigm system of government...you're about to find out.

Like the rape victim's final act of defiance when they rip off their attacker's ski mask...you're about to see the real face of the enemy of the good, hard working American people.

[mvscal]

Turkey takes their orders from America and it's America's aim to aid Wahabist kooks in the region to destabilise Arab governments.

Yes, they were very helpful in the invasion of Iraq....oh, wait. Nevermind.

How do you think this will play out? Do you expect Putin to run away, flapping his hands in the air and shrieking like an Awesome Dude?

No telling how it will play out. The Turks fucked up here big time. Russia is the only military authorized to be in Syria.

If I'm Putin, I establish a no fly zone in Syria. If I'm Congress, I pull the plug on this ridiculous farce.

[mvscal]

...the real face of the enemy of the good, hard working American people.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Turkey takes their orders from America and it's America's aim to aid Wahabist kooks in the region to destabilise Arab governments.

Yes, they were very helpful in the invasion of Iraq....oh, wait. Nevermind.

Turkey didn't want American forces mingling with Kurdish elements. It would have de facto legitimised a Kurdish regional claim and placed Americans and Kurds within hand-shaking distance.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

But remember, Iranians are against fag marriage and against allowing it's fruit-cut citizens from cutting off their wieners and using the women's restroom...


Maybe concerned liberals from all over the world can form the "Caitlin Brigade" and take on the mullahs...à la Spanish Civil War.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Here...everything you need to know about the actual situation...you can watch the whole clip, or just the bit between 1:10 and 2:06

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

...the real face of the enemy of the good, hard working American people.

Never mind that nonsense...we need to focus on the real subject here, namely jet fuel, melting steel and bent light-poles at the Pentagon!

[mvscal]

And climate change, too! That's real superduper important.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Yes, but is it more important that men's patriarchal domination of "womyn"...as evidenced by the staggering amount of unreported "visual rape" (i.e. looking at them) they are subjected to on a daily basis?

[Goober McTuber]

And climate change, too! That's real superduper important.

AP fact check: Most GOP candidates flunk climate science

By SETH BORENSTEIN – The Associated Press

WASHINGTON – When it comes to climate science, two of the three Democratic presidential candidates are A students, while most of the Republican contenders are flunking, according to a panel of scientists who reviewed candidates' comments.

At the request of The Associated Press, eight climate and biological scientists graded for scientific accuracy what a dozen top candidates said in debates, interviews and tweets, using a 0 to 100 scale.

To try to eliminate possible bias, the candidates' comments were stripped of names and given randomly generated numbers, so the professors would not know who made each statement they were grading. Also, the scientists who did the grading were chosen by professional scientific societies.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had the highest average score at 94. Three scientists did not assign former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley a score, saying his statements mostly were about policy, which they could not grade, instead of checkable science.

Two used similar reasoning to skip grading New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and one did the same for businesswoman Carly Fiorina. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas had the lowest score, an average of 6. All eight put Cruz at the bottom of the class.

"This individual understands less about science (and climate change) than the average kindergartner," Michael Mann, a Pennsylvania State University meteorology professor, wrote of Cruz's statements. "That sort of ignorance would be dangerous in a doorman, let alone a president."

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, with an 87, had the lowest score among the Democrats, dinged for an exaggeration when he said global warming could make Earth uninhabitable. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush scored the highest among Republicans, 64, but one grader gave him a perfect 100. Bush was the only Republican candidate who got a passing grade on climate in the exercise.

Below Clinton's 94 were O'Malley with 91; Sanders, 87; Bush, 64; Christie, 54; Ohio Gov. John Kasich, 47; Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, 38; Fiorina, 28; Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, 21; businessman Donald Trump, 15; retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, 13; and Cruz with 6.

For the Republicans, climate change came up more in interviews than in their four debates. But Rubio did confront the issue in the Sept. 16 debate in a way that earned him bad grades from some scientists.

"We are not going to make America a harder place to create jobs in order to pursue policies that will do absolutely nothing, nothing, to change our climate, to change our weather, because America is a lot of things, the greatest country in the world, absolutely," Rubio said. "But America is not a planet. And we are not even the largest carbon producer anymore. China is. And they're drilling a hole and digging anywhere in the world that they can get ahold of."

Scientists dispute Rubio's argument that because China is now the top emitter, the U.S. can do little to change the future climate. The U.S. spews about 17 percent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions, "so big cuts here would still make a big difference globally," said geochemist Louisa Bradtmiller at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Rubio's inference that China is not doing much about global warming "is out of date. The Chinese are implementing a cap-and-trade system in their country to reduce emissions," said Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University.

At an August event In California's Orange County, Cruz told an interviewer, "If you look at satellite data for the last 18 years, there's been zero warming. ... The satellite says it ain't happening."

Florida State University's James Elsner said ground data show every decade has been warmer than the last since the middle of the 20th century and satellite data-based observations "show continued warming over the past several decades."

In fact, federal ground-based data, which scientists said is more reliable than satellites, show that 15 of the 17 years after 1997 have been warmer than 1997 and 2015 is on track to top 2014 as the warmest year on record.

Scientists singled out Sanders for overstatement in the first Democratic presidential debate.

"The scientific community is telling us that if we do not address the global crisis of climate change, transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to sustainable energy, the planet that we're going to be leaving our kids and our grandchildren may well not be habitable," Sanders said.

Dessler said, "I would not say that the planet will become uninhabitable. Regardless of what we do, some humans will survive." Harvard's Jim McCarthy also called the comment an overstatement, as did other scientists when Sanders said it. Recent research on the worst heat projections in the hottest area, the Persian Gulf, finds that toward the end of the century there will be a few days each decade or so when humans cannot survive outside, but can live with air conditioning indoors.

Trump brought out some of the more colorful and terse critiques.

"It could be warming and it's going to start to cool at some point," Trump said in a September radio interview. "And you know in the 1920s people talked about global cooling. I don't know if you know that or not. They thought the Earth was cooling. Now it's global warming. Actually, we've had times where the weather wasn't working out so they changed it to extreme weather and they have all different names, you know, so that it fits the bill."

McCarthy, a former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, called Trump's comments "nonsense," while Emmanuel Vincent, a climate scientist at the University of California, Merced, said, "the candidate does not appear to have any commitment to accuracy."

The eight scientists are Mann, Dessler, Elsner, McCarthy, Bradtmiller, Vincent, William Easterling at Pennsylvania State University and Matthew Huber at the University of New Hampshire.

[Felix]

No telling how it will play out. The Turks fucked up here big time. Russia is the only military authorized to be in Syria.

yep and Putin is not one to take a "oh well mistakes happen" sort of approach.....he'll probably scorch earth the Turks and then they'll be looking to us to bail them out....

If I'm Putin, I establish a no fly zone in Syria. If I'm Congress, I pull the plug on this ridiculous farce.

yep and yep, but congress won't do it......they still think they can train "moderate" Syrians to fight ISIS...if you want to rip the heart out of ISIS, close down their funding lanes, but to do that you have to hit the people buying the oil ISIS is stealing.....that would be Kurds, Turks, Syrians, etc.......what a clusterfuck

[smackaholic]

Expect the Russkies to pound the Turks in their dimehole soon. And we will do jack shit about it. The Turks may be NATO members, but they have been fukking us in various ways over the past 15 years. Fukk them. We ought to be strengthening our ties to the Kurds and tell the turks we may back them when they start acting as allies.

[Go Coogs']

Okay, so we are supporting the Kurds to fight ISIS while the Kurds are being bombed by Turkey who happens to be our NATO ally?

WTF?

[smackaholic]

Okay, so we are supporting the Kurds to fight ISIS while the Kurds are being bombed by Turkey who happens to be our NATO ally?

WTF?

WTF applies to everything the neighborhood organizer in chief does.

Years ago, Joe Biden, in a rare lucid moment said something about chopping up Iraq into 3 chunks, Sunni/Shiite/Kurd. That was a good idea as the entire fukking country is a conglomerate of folks who don't much like one another, put together by bumbling euros 100 years ago.

[Left Seater]

Handing out global warming grades to politicians when the graders can't even agree seems crazy.

Case in point, Bush got a 100 grade from one grader and an overall average of 64.

What a waste of time.

[Dinsdale]

Handing out global warming grades to politicians when the graders can't even agree seems crazy.

Case in point, Bush got a 100 grade from one grader and an overall average of 64.

What a waste of time.

Michael Mann was one of the "judges."

How'd his whole "Hockey Stick" theory work out?


How he's still allowed to teach science is beyond me, since he clearly doesn't have a grip on it.

[LTS TRN 2]

If this is the catalyst of World War III, let it be remembered that it was Putin and Russia that said "enough already" to the Israeli organised chaos carried out by their stooges in the White House, in their bullshit scheme to fracture and leave broken in little pieces the entire Middle East.

Am I fucking dreaming? This quipster who has for years avoided any real take like hiding from the kiss-cam at a Blue Jays game...is suddenly slugging doubles off the wall?

Well go on with your bad self...(indeed, the fake "757 attack" on the pentagon, and the obvious controlled demolition of WTC!!!)

Go! Go b-juice, head for the light!!

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Sorry, I'm not a "No Planes" kook...

There's more evidence a plane hit the Pentagon than you can play guitar.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

...we are supporting the Kurds to fight ISIS...

Good one!



Choke on Russian dick, John Kerry.

[Felix]

...we are supporting the Kurds to fight ISIS...

Good one!



Choke on Russian dick, John Kerry.

the russians could give a flying fuck if there's women and children in the area.....if they're stupid enough to be there, they shouldn't be reproducing at all....meanwhile, the US continues to fight a kinder gentler war......it's fucking WAR you assholes, prosecute it like a WAR.....

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

[War Wagon]

the US continues to fight a kinder gentler war......it's fucking WAR you assholes, prosecute it like a WAR.....

It's not our war you bi-polar transvestite.

[smackaholic]

What feels dix said.

We know where these fukkers are, but we will not take them out because of collateral damage.

Fukk sending our grunts house to house to get them. Carpet bomb the fukk out of them. It will kill many innocents, but, that's how war goes.

[Goober McTuber]

What Whitey said. It's not our fucking war, you wet-brained fucktard.

[Goober McTuber]

It'll be our war soon enough if we continue doing little to nothing.

I guess we should wait 'til car bombs become a weekly event in the States?

Yes, if we start carpet-bombing Middle Eastern countries, that will certainly stabilize matters.

[Felix]

It's not our war you bi-polar transvestite.

bi-polar transvestite? I'll pretend I know what that means but anywhoo, I wasn't referring to this specifically, I was referring to the fact that when it comes to warfare, the russians hit it hard, meanwhile when we fight anybody, we're more concerned with collateral damage than we are taking out the enemy.....

just seems kind of silly, especially given those psychopathic idiots running ISIS kill more innocent people than we ever would.....

It'll be our war soon enough if we continue doing little to nothing.

yeah why not just hand the middle east over to the russians.....putin is a thug and an opportunist but at least he's trying to kill these ISIS fuckwads

[mvscal]

It'll be our war soon enough if we continue doing little to nothing.

I guess we should wait 'til car bombs become a weekly event in the States?

Yes, if we start carpet-bombing Middle Eastern countries, that will certainly stabilize matters.

I don't know. It sure seemed to stabilize the fuck out of Germany and Japan. Not that I advocate that course but, if you're going to fight, you fight all out.