As usual, Republicans once again find themselves on the wrong side of history.
General Stanley McChrystal, the General in charge when Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl went messing is just the latest in a group of knowledgeable military experts calling out the ignorant Republicans, pundits and Fox commentators for opposing the process involved in bringing Bergdahl home.
In an interview with Yahoo News, McChrystal made it clear that in our military, “we do not leave Americans behind. That’s unequivocal,” he said.
“We did a huge number of operations to try to stop the Taliban from being able to move him across the border into Pakistan,” McChrystal told Yahoo News in an exclusive interview. “And we made a great effort and put a lot of people at risk in doing that, but that’s what you should do. That’s what soldiers do for each other.”
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McChrystal, who commanded the war effort in Afghanistan at the time of Bergdahl’s June 2009 vanishing, declined to shed any more light on the circumstances of his disappearance. “We’re going to have to wait and talk to Sgt. Bergdahl now and get his side of the story,” he said. “One of the great things about America is we should not judge until we know the facts. And after we know the facts, then we should make a mature judgment on how we should handle it.”
Asked whether he would have made the same prisoner swap, McChrystal replied: “We don’t leave Americans behind. That’s unequivocal.”
Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile US Inc. have agreed on the broad outlines of a merger valuing T-Mobile at around $32 billion, as recent regulatory developments convinced executives at both telecommunications companies that they have an opening to get a deal approved, according to people familiar with the matter.
The terms involve Sprint paying around $40 a share for T-Mobile in an acquisition that could happen early this summer, the people said. The companies are still working toward a formal contract, and the effort could fall through. But if completed, the merger would combine the country’s third- and fourth-largest wireless operators, creating a bigger competitor to market leaders Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. while leaving consumers with fewer choices for service.
A deal between Sprint and T-Mobile would extend a wave of consolidation that is uniting some of the biggest companies in the telecom and media industries, and is expected to face strong opposition from regulators and a lengthy antitrust review.
He was player, a coach, and for the final 10 years of his life, a senior advisor for the Tampa Bay Rays. He became living history, a treasure trove of baseball memories that spanned from Jackie Robinson to the New York Yankees’ dynasty of the late 1990s and early 2000s to the Rays’ transformation from American League East also-ran to a team that reached the World Series in 2008 as part of a run that included four playoff appearances from 2008 to 2013.
His fingerprints touched many, and those impacts will remain. Zimmer died Wednesday. He was 83.
It’s difficult to mosey around the internet on any given day without running into a multitude of first-person videos shot from a GoPro camera. Normally, these videos are of people jumping off things, or getting extremely close to either adorable or dangerous (or both) wildlife. Sometimes, though, the videos are more similar in content to Russian dash cams, capturing unintentional, occasionally harrowing events. YouTube user Lucky Jakkals captured one of these such events when he was robbed at gunpoint.
While going for a sunny day solo bike ride, Jakkals was abruptly stopped by a lone man who ran out into a clearing, pulled out a concealed gun, and pointed it in his direction. Weirdly, the gunman casually held the gun with a loose grip, as if it were some kind of afterthought. Soon after being stopped by what at first appears to be a single gunman, more men show up to, presumably, ensure the robbery goes smoothly.
The criminal and his gang don’t seem to worry much about the camera; the gunman looks directly at it a couple of times, so either he didn’t realize the implications of it during the heat of the robbery, or simply didn’t care. The GoPro wasn’t exactly tiny — you can clearly make out that the man has a helmet-mounted GoPro in his shadow on the ground.
Luckily, the victim appeared to get away unharmed. He lost his bicycle and a few belongings, but he could’ve lost much more had the men been more aggressive. As documented in the video, he also remained fairly calm during the short ordeal, so though he lost his bike, he can at least impress his friends with the ice running through his veins.
In the video footage, the white women repeatedly berates the man behind the camera, calling him a “dirty f–king n–ger” because he apparently scared her kids when he started his car.
The woman yelling at the man through his car window
“You’re a n–ger!”
This is allegedly what the woman said, pointedly and vehemently, to the man recording her from his car window as she called her husband to tell him to come and deal with him.
Apparently the confrontation on May 30 started when the man, presumably black, got into his car and started his vehicle in a Cheektowaga, N.Y., parking lot, scaring the woman’s
two children. This allegedly set the woman off, and she started a racial-slur-filled tirade against the man in the vehicle, who calmly began recording her.
“I called you a n–ger. You’re a n–ger! Nasty f–king n–ger!” the woman shouted at the man while allegedly on the phone with her husband. She was apparently calling him to come and beat up the unidentified man, posting under the YouTube name IAMOYAB.
“Talk to this f–king n–ger right now. I’m telling you, he’s recording me,” she said to her husband. “Tell him you will f–king kill him. I will f–king yank his ass out the car.”
Meanwhile, the man continued to record from his car, occasionally punctuating her rant with “Please do”—like when she threatened to pull him out of his vehicle or call the cops—and “very well.”
The video ends with the woman telling the man to stay where he is so her husband can come and beat his “ass,” before she threatens to “whip” her coffee at him—at which point he rolls
up his car windows and locks his doors, commenting in disbelief, “Racism is alive and well, I tell you … amazing. Absolutely amazing. This is where we live at. This is exactly where we
live and what goes on. I start my car, she calls me a n–ger. Amazing.”
A Twitter account being linked on social media to the woman in the video identifies her as Janelle Ambrosia, whose bio lists her as a “loud mouth Italian.”
Tweets from the account were sent out on Wednesday as news of the video, which was posted to YouTube on Tuesday, broke—with Ambrosia defending the stance allegedly taken in the video.
The ad was released by the liberal group Americans United for Change, and its focus is showing Republicans talking with some level of authority on the subject of climate change, while at the same time admitting that they know nothing about the topic.
The hypocrites over at Fox News. Remember them? They are the ones who formed the Republican coalition around Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty a few months ago when they thought he was being unfairly treated by the left winged media.
Fox News and the Republicans loved Phil Robertson and his Duck Dynasty crew. The defended them as brave capitalist, patriotic Americans, even inviting a member of the show to the president’s State of the Union Address… beard and all. But yesterday, Fox stooped to a new low when they picked on the father of Bowe Bergdahl calling him a Taliban because of his beard. A beard he grew in support of his son who was held in captivity by the Taliban.
SaidFox host Brian Kilmeade, “I mean, he says he was growing his beard because his son was in captivity. Well, your son’s out now. So if you really don’t — no longer look like a member of the Taliban, you don’t have to look like a member of the Taliban. Are you out of razors?”
Jon Stewart had something to say about that new level of hypocrisy.
“Well, that got ugly fast,” Stewart said. “First of all, who the f*ck are you to judge what a guy does if he thinks it might help him get his son back? And I don’t want to complicate your hatred of facial hair there, friend, but my guess is if you gave Bob Berg-dahl a bandana and a duck, you’d like him just f*cking fine.”
OK this is it. The height of Republican hypocrisy . I truly cannot take it anymore. I can’t. President Obama swapped five Gitmo detainees, who have been found to be guilty of nothing other than maybe despising George W. Bush, (if this were a crime I would be on death row by now along with many others) for our last remaining POW of Bush’s many wars. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was released by the Taliban as the five detainees were sent home. Right away there was Republican outrage over the swap. Of course the guy who was a POW himself John McCain has been extremely vocal in his criticism.
McCain of all people should be championing this. He knows what years in captivity can do your mind, body and spirit. He knows that the people in Gitmo are being held illegally. He knows this but denies it. He claims to be against torture but in the next breath will say that holding human beings illegally is not torture. Yes it is. Those prisoners in Gitmo have as much right to their freedom as Sgt. Bergdahl does. McCain is once again a no good hypocrite, one of rapidly deteriorating mental health as well.
Sarah Palin who had just recently prayed for the quick and safe return of Bergdahl, is now condemning Obama for the swap. Palin has even less worth than McCain. She prays that something will happen even though you and I know she doesn’t believe in shit. However prayer is as far as she goes. When it comes to actually doing something to make that prayer come true she is at a loss. She would praise God but condemn Obama for doing the exact thing she has been praying for. But of course she wouldn’t have any real ideas, or solutions, because she is the quitter from Alaska. She is a soulless, brainless entity that is of no use.
Let’s forget for a moment about the details surrounding the disappearance of Bergdahl. Some are calling him a hero, others a traitor. This is neither here nor there. He is an American who was being held captive by the Taliban and his return is welcome and the right thing to have happened. Once again Obama accomplishes a major foreign affairs issue with little drama and no violence or deaths. Our country wanted him back and he is back. Safe. Ted Cruz said he would have sent forces in to get him. And a hundred American soldier deaths later we might have him back, albeit maybe not in one piece.
If there was to be any criticism coming it certainly can’t be from the same people that had no problem at all with their hero Ronnie Reagan sending deadly weapons to our enemies in return for hostages. Right? I mean this is a no brainer, isn’t it? Thousands of weapons that could in turn kill us and our soldiers swapped for hostages. I mean that is far far worse than just five dudes for one soldier right? Let’s do the math. Oh well most Republicans can’t add so I guess that is out the window!
You really can’t wrap your mind around the hypocrisy. Yet there they are, loud and clear calling Obama a criminal. Saying that what he did was an impeachable act. This is the kind of stuff they are saying. Yes, they fully backed their hero Reagan, the man of their wet dreams (the only kind of wet dreams Republicans can have anyway). But when it comes to that black, socialist, welfare loving, free health care giving President Obama, well then it’s just an outrage!
I will give them some of their own medicine. If you don’t agree with the safe return of an American soldier, you are not a patriot. You are a traitor. You should live somewhere else.
Speaking of that I would like to propose a trade. To the Taliban I send John McCain and Sarah Palin. In return I would like some of your best hummus. I think that’s fair.
John Bellinger, a Former Bush administration official, just secured his walking papers from the so called “news” network, almost guaranteeing that he will never to return to The Faux again.
What has Mr Bellinger done? He went on Fox News and, get this, spoke the truth!
After all the Fox noise about the Obama administration securing the release of a five year American prisoner of war, and the Republicans unbelievable hatred for this member of the military, Mr. Bellinger went on the propaganda machine and informed the clueless at that network that Obama did the right thing, and furthermore, George Bush would have done the same thing too.
Gasp!
“I’m not saying this is clearly an easy choice,” Mr Bellinger said, “but frankly I think a Republican, a president of either party, Republican or Democratic, confronted with this opportunity to get back Sgt. Bergdahl, who is apparently in failing health, would have taken this opportunity to do this,” he added. “I think we would have made the same decision in the Bush administration.”
This judge must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed, or he looked over at the public defender and felt the need to bully someone. In either case, the two ended up outside the courtroom for a good ole punch-em-out-death-match!
In the video below, Florida Judge John Murphy is seen and heard bossing around the Public Defender Andrew Weinstock because he chose to do his job and defend his client instead of having a speedy trial. The Judge needed a speedy trial and when Weinstock refused, Judge Murphy said, “You know, if I had a rock I would throw it at you right now. Stop pissing me off. Just sit down.”
”I’m the public defender, I have the right to be here and I have a right to stand and represent my clients,” Weinstock is heard saying.
“Sit down!” Murphy demanded. “If you want to fight, let’s go out back and I’ll just beat your ass!”
“Let’s go right now,” Weinstock replied, and the two exited the courtroom, where the melee started, the courtroom camera still recording the sounds coming from outside the courtroom.
“You want to fuck with me?” One of them said, before deputies went out and broke up the fight.
The judge returned to the courtroom and finished ruling on other matters.
“This is the moment you were made for, commenters. We need you to get out there, and for once in your lives, focus your indiscriminate rage in a useful direction. Seize your moment, my lovely trolls, turn on caps lock and fly, my pretties!”
Those were the words of John Oliver, host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” on Sunday, charging up his audience in a raged commentary on Net Neutrality and the FCC’s plan to allow big telecommunication companies like AT&T and Verizon to charge online websites a fee to use a faster lines to deliver their content.
After Oliver’s call for action, the FCC commenting site was overwhelmed, as users left 3 times the amount of comments the site normally receives, some 3,000 comments from Monday into Tuesday.
The FCC tweeted on Monday that it was “experiencing technical difficulties with our comment system due to heavy traffic,” without elaborating. A spokeswoman for the agency said Tuesday it’s not clear if the disruption was due to the Oliver show.
The FCC’s comments portal is working again Tuesday.
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