Our Weasel Of The Week!!

Yes, once again, It's time to present this week's statuette of shame, The Golden Weasel!!

Every Tuesday, the Council nominates some of the slimiest, most despicable characters in public life for some deed of evil, cowardice or corruption they’ve performed. Then we vote to single out one particular Weasel for special mention, to whom we award the statuette of shame, our special, 100% plastic Golden Weasel. This week's nominees were all particularly slimy and despicable, but the votes are in and we have our winner...the envelope please.


 
 Secretary In A State, American Gigolo  And Appeaser Extraordinaire John Kerry! 


 The Independent Sentinel : John Kerry is a weasel for raising the US flag over the embassy in Cuba during a much-publicized ceremony and not insisting on an invitation being extended to the dissidents. The ceremony was nothing more than a propaganda event for the communists.

Ah, yes...John Kerry, whom never saw a totalitarian regime he couldn't make common cause with.   Y'know, he never did sign that form 180 to release his service records, but we do know that aside from trying unsuccessfully to get his hands on Jane Fonda and her money, our secretary of state also met with North Vietnamese diplomats in Paris during the war to discuss 'political strategy' for undermining America's war effort on the home front. We'll never know, but it could very well be that the Navy dealt with this conduct and his infamous 'winter soldiers' scam in their own way.

This stuff with Iran and Cuba is just more of the same. It's simply in his DNA.

Here's someone who  interviewed Kerry after the 2oo4 campaign and got him to open up in ways I don't anyone else has....character is indeed destiny.

For a lifetime of weaseldom, John Kerry richly deserves the statuette of shame.


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A Great Solution To End Police Shootings Of Black Youths

It happened again today. Two white policemen in north St. Louis shot and killed a black man...

A man who pointed a gun at police was shot and killed by officers in north St. Louis, according to St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson.

Officers were executing a search warrant at a home near Walton and Page, Dotson said at a news conference, when two armed men ran out of the back door of the home.

One pointed a gun at police officers, the chief said.

It appears two officers fired a total of four shots – one fired one shot, the other fired three shots, Dotson said.

Both officers, who are white, were unharmed, according to a police report.

One suspect was hit, continued running, collapsed, and was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect was a black male in his early 20s, and he had a gun reported stolen from Rolla, Mo.

A number of other suspects were taken into custody, along with four guns and a quantity of crack. The house has had warrants served before.

The arresting officers, of course, had to put up with protests from the neighbors:

The shooting that left a black suspect dead drew protests, with many of the roughly 150 people who gathered at the scene hurling obscene gestures and expletives at investigators and questioning the police use of deadly force. Some chanted “Black Lives Matter,” a mantra used a year ago after the police shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in nearby Ferguson.

“Another youth down by the hands of police,” Dex Dockett, 42, who lives nearby, told a reporter. “What could have been done different to de-escalate rather than escalate? They (police) come in with an us-against-them mentality. You’ve got to have the right kind of cops to engage in these types of neighborhoods.”

Another neighborhood resident, Fred Price, skeptical about Dotson’s account that the suspect pointed a gun at officers before being mortally wounded.

“They provoked the situation,” Price, 33, said. “Situations like this make us want to keep the police out of the neighborhood. They’re shooting first, then asking questions.”

 

Living as they do near an obvious crack house, I admit I have to questions the mental processes of these people. After all, one less thug in a neighborhood like that, especially one crazy enough to point a gun at two policemen should be a blessing.

But on the other hand, maybe they have a point. Perhaps these policemen are vicious, racist cops who just wanted to shoot down a black youth. Maybe he just wandered in and didn't realize the place was a crack house. Maybe he didn't shoot at the police. Maybe the stolen gun was given to him by someone else to hold, or the racist white cops planted it.I'm sure that's the way these people's thoughts are running.

Since none of us were there to actually see what occurred, I think it's fair to accept the view of these residents of the neighborhood as just as legitimate as the police chief's, or mine for that matter. And therein lies a perfect solution.

The locals don't like the police, to put it mildly, and I'm sure that the police themselves don't enjoy going into neighborhoods where their attempts to do a difficult job are looked upon by a significant number of the inhabitants as the provocation of racist interlopers.

Mr. Fred Price points the way to a win win resolution that will please everyone. Let's indeed give the residents of north St. Louis and other similar areas a way to keep the police out of their neighborhoods.

Let the residents take a vote on making their neighborhoods off limits to police. If such a vote passes, let the residents make their own arrangements for crime prevention or policing should they see fit to do so,and offer property owners a discount on their taxes based on this city service they would no longer be using.

Police would be limited to enforcing the perimeters of such neighborhoods, so that thugs and criminals would be prevented from leaving these neighborhoods during certain hours. But inside the perimeter, the residents themselves would take responsibility.

Based on certain incidents that have happened in neighborhoods like this in the past during tense times, it would probably make sense to eliminate or at least cut back fire department and EMT service as well, since many times they require a police escort in order to guarantee the safety of the firemen and EMT personnel. Or perhaps these communities might be able to make arrangements not to attack them.

Like I said, a win win. The inhabitants of these neighborhoods would get the kind of policing they deserve, and the men and women the majorities in these communities see as vicious police killers would have no opportunity to practice their racism. And the police wouldn't have to go into these areas where they're seen as the enemy, making life easier and less dangerous for them.

 

Of course, if the people in these communities voted to continue to allow the police to serve them, it certainly wouldn't be out of line for the police to demand respect and a healthy benefit of the doubt in exchange.

 

Res Ipsa Loquiter.

Yet Another Reason Israel Can't Rely on Agreements With The Obama Regime

Because agreements with this president and his team rarely mean anything, especially when it comes to Israel.

A little over two decades ago, Israel signed a piece of paper called the Oslo Accords with terrorist Yasser Arafat and gave the PLO control of part of Judea and Samaria and a piece of Gaza in exchange for commitments that were never kept. One of the many reasons it was a huge mistake is that it legitimized one of Israel's enemies and gave them a base to operate out of. And being a piece of paper, it's subject to interpretation by the U.S. and others, and almost never in Israel's favor, especially since Barack Obama slithered into the Oval Office.

A case in point on how this works is the US State Department's temper tantrum over supposed 'unequal treatment' American citizens whom refer to themselves as Palestinians.

"The US government seeks equal treatment and freedom to travel for all US citizens regardless of national origin or ethnicity," State Department spokesman John Kirby said.

"Specifically, the US government remains concerned at the unequal treatment that Palestinian-Americans and other Arab-Americans receive at Israel's borders and checkpoints."

Kirby did not address the specifics of individual reports, instead referring reporters to Israeli authorities.

What's the unequal treatment? That those Americans whom identify as Palestinians can only enter Israel via the Allenby Bridge from Jordan rather than Ben-Gurion Airport.Which, by the way is exactly what the Oslo Accords stipulate and what the PLO, Israel and the United States agreed to and signed on to!

You think the risk of terrorism and the need to screen Americans whom identify themselves as Palestinians might just have something to do with that? That Israel is trying to avoid a potential terrorist from shutting down its major airport?

To make this even more ridiculous, the State Department's own website clearly tells Americans whom claim to be Palestinians not to enter Israel via Ben-Gurion and that they are required to enter from Jordan:

"Many Palestinian nationals or dual nationals seeking to enter via Ben-Gurion have been sent back to the United States upon arrival," the website notes. "Others have been allowed to enter Israel but told they cannot depart Israel via Ben-Gurion without special permission, which is rarely granted."

This is especially revealing in view of what the Obama regime is asking Israel to accept when it comes to retreating to the pre '67 cease fire lines and the farcical Iran deal. When you can't trust people to keep existing agreements, why trust them on new ones?

Our Watcher's Council Nominations - Dog Days Edition

Ah, the sultry days leading up to the end of summer, when the warm weather brings out the torpor and laziness in all of us and little gets accomplished except by the determined and the desperate.

Of course, these days that group would include the members of the political class and their veritable army of servants, Praetorians, hangers on and staffers.

The Romans were the first to label this time of year the Dog Days(diēs caniculārēs), noting that the skies were ruled by Sirius, the Dog Star, the brightest star in the night sky at this time of year. And Herodotus, Plutarch, Caesar and Thucydides all noted the effect this time of year has on men...the influence of the days of Dog Star giving rise to tempers, frustrations, gambles and many times, war and rumors of war. Some things never change. Or at least that's what the smart money in Vegas, DC and other oracular venues where the entrails, the Dow or the polls get read for what the omens reveal. The mood can get ugly very quickly.



This week's contest is dedicated to letting sleeping dogs lie...at least for the moment.

Welcome to the Watcher's Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the 'sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday morning.

Council News:

After a decade on the Council, Greg of Rhymes With Right has decided to drop full time blogging to pursue other interests. The Watcher's Council among other things is a community and while Greg may be leaving us as a full time voting member, like other former Council members he will remain connected with us and no doubt continue to contribute to features like the Forum and stay in touch. Happy trails, Greg..it's certainly been quite a ride, hasn't it?



Vacancies on the Council don't come up often. If you're interested in being considered to fill this one and want further details on what's involved, please leave a comment and your contact information (which of course won't be published) under any story on Joshuapundit and I'll get back to you.

This week, Palestinian Media Watch, Maggie's Notebook, and Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion earned honorable mention status with some great articles.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

To bring something to my attention, simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title and a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address (mandatory, but of course it won't be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category. Then return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week when it comes out on Wednesday morning

Simple, no?

It's a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let's see what we have for you this week....

Council Submissions

Joshuapundit-'What Thy Right Hand Possesses' - The Rape of Kayla Mueller

Don Surber – The Madman Behind The Gibson Guitar

The Independent Sentinel – EPA Forced Their Way on to the Gold King Mine

The Right Planet – Climate Change: Lysenkoism and ‘Weather Cooking’ Revisited

The Razor – Of Course There's Polka In Heaven

GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Navy Versus Persia

Puma By Design – Controlling the Message, China Censors, Scrubs Reports of Tianjin Chemical Blasts (UPDATED)

VA Right! - Donald Trump Nullifies RINO Chants of “Nativist!” and “Racist!” – Let’s Build the Damn Wall!

The Glittering Eye -The Hotel California Budget

Nice Deb – Saturday Movie Matinee: “I Give It a Month”

Bookworm Room – The coming perfect storm on American college campuses — one that feminists and other professional victims will hate

The Noisy Room – New Agers Back Socialist Sanders as Messiah

Honorable Mentions

• Palestinian Media Watch - Fatah`s military wing asks Iran for money for terror war against Israel


• Maggie's Notebook - V-J Day: Video of General MacArthur Accepting Japanese Surrender


• David Gerstman/Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion - Iran Deal – U.S. capitulation on enrichment even before negotiations

Non-Council Submissions

• David French/NRO – Angry Black Radicals and the Foolish White Liberals Who Love Them submitted by Joshuapundit


• Grouchy Old Cripple – White Privilege submitted by Don Surber


• Medium.Com – Questions that must be asked of all 2016 Republican Candidates submitted by The Right Planet


• Haidt Lukianoff/ The Atlantic –The Coddling of the American Mind submitted by The Razor


• The Blaze – ‘Israel Must Be Obliterated’: New Iranian Video Imagines Muslim Invasion of Jerusalem submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD


• Menachem Z. Rosensaft and David Meluskey/JNS.org –The lynching of Leo Frank and the lessons it imparts 100 years on submitted by Puma By Design


• fire Andrea Mitchell – Rick Wilson meltdown - asks Ann Coulter if Trump pays her more for anal submitted by VA Right!


• Rebeccah Heinrichs/Real Clear Defense – U.S. Foreign Policy Is Overdue For Some Realism submitted by The Glittering Eye


• Daniel Greenfield/FrontPage Magazine-Putting Obama over country is treason submitted by Bookworm Room


• Victor Davis Hanson - The Tragic and Complete Collapse of Racial Relations submitted by Nice Deb


• Michael Totten –The American Flag Flies Again Over Cuba submitted by The Watcher


• Mark Steyn – The Party of Why Nothing Can Be Done submitted by The Watcher


• YouTube – Clinton Refuses To Say Whether Or Not She Wiped The Server submitted by The Watcher

Enjoy! And don't forget to like us on Facebook and follow us Twitter..'cause we're cool like that!And don't forget to tune in Friday for the results!

Our Weasel Of The Week Nominees!!

Once again, it's time for the Watcher's Council's 'Weasel Of The Week' nominations, where we pick our choices to compete for the award o the famed Golden Weasel to a public figure who particularly deserves to be slimed and mocked for his or her dastardly deeds during the week. Every Tuesday morning, tune in for the Weasel of the Week nominations!

Here are this weeks' nominees....


 
American Psycho, 9/11 Truther And Public Personality Rosie O' Donnell!

The Noisy Room :  Does it get any more disgusting than Rosie O’Donnell? Just sayin’. As Mark Steyn put it, if it bleeds, it leads. O’Donnell came out in defense of Megyn Kelly after Donald Trump made a comment about her ‘blood coming out of wherever.’ Never mind that he did not mean to reference that time of the month, the right and the left have run with that meme in a frenzied attack on the man. It’s gross. But Rosie doubles down on this whole bloody mess and grosses everyone out to no end with, “I’d like to take my period blood I no longer have and write, ‘you’re all assh—s,” she said. “I’d like to smear it all over some people’s faces.” She needs to shut up and go away just like her monthlies have.

O’Donnell is hoping to take Trump out with a tampon, or lack there of. Pathetic. This doesn’t have a damned thing to do with the war on women. And while O’Donnell vaguely qualifies as such, I take offense at her offense. Somehow, as Mark Steyn brilliantly put it, I doubt that the Republican Party’s leading presidential candidate will be taken out by an intercontinental ballistic tampon. Or by the likes of some shrill harpie like Rosie O’Donnell, who will do anything to become relevant one last time. Even if involves the Liberal menstrual show and making herself an even bigger laughing stock, if that is possible. If it bleeds, it leads and if it comes out of the pie hole of Rosie O’Donnell, you can count on it being bloody awful.

 Don Surber : I second Terresa's motion on Rosie O'Donnell, aka, Mustela Donna Trump.



Republican Strategist Cheri Jacobus!

 Puma By Design : My choice for Weasel of the Week is GOP establishment pundit, Cheri Jacobus, who has unleashed a nasty attack against Breitbart’s John Nolte and Conservative voters that support Donald Trump labeling Trump supporters low information voters and stupid.

Jacobus who is the third GOP strategist to attack the Republican Party base in the past three (3) days, using the same talking points, has been in the business for three decades.

Jacobus is of the mindset that she knows better than the little people, so it is lost on her that what she brings to the Republican Party while a valuable asset for the GOP leadership is meaningless to the American voter. (sarcasm).

Breitbart:

We now have a second top Republican consultant who appears to believe that trashing voters is the way to win elections. Cheri Jacobus, a consultant and cable television pundit, ripped into yours truly on Twitter over my criticism of Gollum-In-Glasses Rick Wilson (which is fine — I enjoy infighting). What is not okay is Jacobus recklessly hurling demeaning insults at voters….

Attacking Donald Trump is fair game.

Attacking Breitbart News is fair game.

Attacking me is fair game.

What, though, is the possible strategy behind attacking and marginalizing the very voters we need to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016….


The Republican base is stirred up but not for the candidate ordained worthy to become POTUS45 by the GOP leadership; and so since all other efforts to take down Trump has failed, GOP pundits, Fox News who is veering left are out in full force shamelessly lambasting the base while placing on display theirs and the GOP establishment’s contempt for "stupid American voters."

Lastly, it is obvious that these attacks on Trump supporters are so much more. These attacks are a message to every Republican voter who supports not only a non-professional politician but any other candidate except Jeb Bush.



Secretary In A State, American Gigolo  And Appeaser Extraordinaire John Kerry! 

 The Independent Sentinel : John Kerry is a weasel for raising the US flag over the embassy in Cuba during a much-publicized ceremony and not insisting on an invitation being extended to the dissidents. The ceremony was nothing more than a propaganda event for the communists.


 
The Ever Servile Rabbis For Obama

 JoshuaPundit: Recently, 340 rabbis signed a letter praising President Obama for his Iran deal, castigating Jews whom opposed it and urging their fellow Jews to get behind the president and lobby their representatives in Congress.

I know some of these rabbis by repute and the stench was familiar, so I did some research. This group has several things in common. They are almost all rabbis from the Reform, Reconstructionist and mis-named Conservative denominations. They all endorse far Left politics and are almost all highly critical of Israel on a regular basis.And the vast majority (about 70%) are associated with J-Street,with some of them sitting on the board. Others are associated with groups like  A Jewish Voice For Peace, and  Peace Now. Virtually all of them are now or were members of Rabbis for Obama. It's hard to tell whose still on board now because Organizing for America has removed the list, but based on who was a member back in 2012, I'm assuming it hasn't changed much. Needless to say, when this is mentioned in the media these associations are never part of the  story.

President Obama has been criticized  even by a number of Jews on the Left for trying to sell his Iran deal by  raising what amount to anti-semitic themes of dual loyalty, of 'Jewish money' and lobbyists seeking to buy congress, even of Jewish 'neocons who got us into war in Iraq' seeing to get America into war 'for Israel.'

The sort of people whom signed this letter could care less.  They made a decision a long time ago to act as a cover for this president's anti-Israel policies (which is precisely why he and George Soros funded and formed J Street), and to continue to worship at the feet of their Idol. People can disagree on politics, but the self-hatred and servile willingness to be used as tools nauseates me, even though this is old news and essentially how they've behaved for a long time. The stakes just seem higher now.

Even more ironic is that the recognition and redemption they're seeking from their Idol isn't forthcoming, But the contempt is certainly obvious. President Obama's choice to lobby black churches for the Iran deal? None other than his close associate and frequent guest at the White House Al Sharpton, one of America's worst anti-semites, someone whom even incited a pogrom against Jews in Crown Heights.



  Well, there it is. What a despicable group of  Weasels...ANY OF THEM COULD WIN! Check back Thursday to see which Weasel walks off with the statuette of shame!

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Forum: What Do You Think Of The Black Lives Matter Protesters ?

Every week on Monday morning , the Council and our invited guests weigh in at the Watcher's Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day, the culture, or daily living. This week's question: What Do You Think Of The 'Black Lives Matter' Protesters ? 

Don Surber : They are paid well. The chants need some work.


The Independent Sentinel : I am not impressed.

When I went to the spring Left Forum conference, a conference for the far, far left, three #BlackLivesMatter people sat next to me in the lobby. The woman in the group turned to me and literally hissed at me - I have no idea why.

One wore a t-shirt that said 'f... the police'. They were all drunk or stoned - I can't be sure which.

A worker for MORE, the Soros group, went over to them to apologize for not paying them promptly. They cursed at him, warned him it better not happen again or he'd see what they could do. They said they weren't making enough as it was and were making a lot of sacrifices.

The person from MORE groveled and promised it wouldn't happen again.

One was particularly scary - he had gang tats. Someone went up to him and asked for his autograph.

I guess he was important.


The Right Planet: What do I think Of the "Black Lives Matter" protesters? I think George Soros who has bankrolled the "Black Lives Matter" movement, and others like it, to the tune of $33 million. Like they say, follow the money.

Via the Washington Times:

Mr. Soros spurred the Ferguson protest movement through years of funding and mobilizing groups across the U.S., according to interviews with key players and financial records reviewed by The Washington Times.

In all, Mr. Soros gave at least $33 million in one year to support already-established groups that emboldened the grass-roots, on-the-ground activists in Ferguson, according to the most recent tax filings of his nonprofit Open Society Foundations.

"Black Lives Matters" was founded by three women, who then found themselves being showered with funding by radical leftists like George Soros. Interestingly, the movement has gone international; which means there's a bigger agenda at play here, and folks like Soros are at the center of it all.

This is classic Marxism, if you ask me: divide the people, create appearance of popular support, neutralize the opposition, precipitate mob violence, and create the semblance of "revolution." It's the old Marxist tactic of creating constant tensions, struggles and conflicts between opposing forces (i.e. dialectics) in order to move things toward a predetermined outcome--more than likely some big government solution. And it's the usual suspects--i.e., mainstream media, public education (esp. universities), and the federal government--who are agitating for the movement and actively promoting it. The fact of the matter is that not all black people agree (see here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here). Huh. Imagine that! But you'll never hear any contrary views concerning racial agitation if the only place you get your information is from academia, mainstream media and the government.


 Bookworm Room : The BLM protesters have an agenda, but it's not one that has anything to do with black lives. If they really cared, they'd be screaming most loudly in the deadly black ghettos in Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, and other Democrat-run enclaves in which blacks killing blacks has become a competitive sport, with everyone the loser. Their goal, quite simply, is the accretion of power and they are using a tried-and-true playbook to do so.

Watching the BLM protesters at work, I am reminded of Shelby Steele’s White Guilt, which makes for illuminating reading. Steele, a black man, was part of the 1960s Civil Rights movement and was there, on the ground, in an Iowa University president’s office when he saw white guilt kick in, rendering the guilty party completely helpless, anxious only for the faint hope of redemption that acceding to extremist demands could provide:

I know two things about Dr. McCabe that help explain his transformation before our eyes into a modern college president: he was a man of considerable integrity, and he did not deny or minimize the injustice of racism. He had personally contributed money to Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference when this was not typical of college presidents. Thus, on some level—and in a way that may have caught him by surprise—he would have known that behind our outrageous behavior was a far greater American outrage.

And in this intransigent piece of knowledge was the very essence of what I have called white guilt. Dr. McCabe simply came to a place where his own knowledge of American racism—knowledge his personal integrity prevented him from denying—opened a vacuum of moralauthority within him. He was not suddenly stricken with pangs of guilt over American racism. He simply found himself without the moral authority to reprimand us for our disruptive behavior. He knew that we had a point, that our behavior was in some way connected to centuries of indisputable injustice. So he was trumped by his knowledge of this, not by his remorse over it, though he may have felt such remorse. Our outrage at racism simply had far greater moral authority than his outrage over our breach of decorum. And had he actually risen to challenge us, I was prepared to say that we would worry about our behavior when he and the college started worrying about the racism we encountered everywhere, including on his campus.

And this is when I first really saw white guilt in action. Now I know it to be something very specific: the vacuum of moral authority that comes from simply knowing that one’s race is associated with racism. Whites (and American institutions) must acknowledge historical racism to show themselves redeemed of it, but once they acknowledge it, they lose moral authority over everything having to do with race, equality, social justice, poverty, and so on. They step into a void of vulnerability. The authority they lose transfers to the “victims” of historical racism and becomes their great power in society. This is why white guilt is quite literally the same thing as black power.

(Steele, Shelby, White Guilt [KindleLocations 370-374]. HarperCollins; emphasis mine.)


Since Bernie Sander's obeisance to the BLM protesters shows that, on the Left, white guilt is still a powerful motivator -- despite the absence of any reason for that guilt, which distinguishes the present era from the Jim Crow era about which Steele writes -- the next question is "What will the BLM protesters do with this power when they get it?" My assumption, without doing any research, is that they will use it to further the hardcore Leftist Progressive agenda including, ironical enough, unending support for Planned Parenthood, an organization that makes the womb the most dangerous place in the world for an American black child.


Puma By Design : The ' Black Lives Matter' protestors are political operatives looking for an opportunity and payday not for just any Black life but their own.

While I do not agree with everything, R.L. Stephens II of Orchestrated Pulse’s article, Dear #BlackLivesMatter: We Don’t Need Black Leadership breaks down the objective behind the Black Lives Matter leadership, for example the likes of Tia Oso, national coordinator for the Black Alliance for Just Immigration in Phoenix, Marissa Janae Johnson, Black Lives Matter, Seattle and agent provocateur, TFA alumni/indoctrinator, DeRay McKesson.

Excerpt below:

You can’t build real mass political power that way, but building effective power is not their point. Make no mistake, this Bernie Sanders hoopla is ultimately about campaign jobs and foundation funding, not emancipation for the masses. These interruptions will create career opportunities for a few activists and political operatives…

If you recall, a few weeks back Oso interrupted former Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont during a forum at the NetRoots Nation Conference.

Two weeks ago, Sanders hired Symone Sanders, a Black American as his press secretary.

On that same day, Johnson and another woman took the stage interrupting Sanders stump in Seattle forcing the senator to cancel the campaign appearance.

No, these interruptions are purely strategic and selfish.

A quote from Oso, "It is under the guise of keeping America safe, that Black communities are preyed upon.” Yet while Oso decries violence and discrimination against transgender people (whatever that is) and Blacks killed by law enforcement regardless of the circumstances surrounding the shootings, Oso and her ilk remain loudly silent on Black on Black crime.

In every instance where Black Lives Matter ideologues and comrades converged upon cities to create chaos and wreak havoc, the citizens of those towns, those who joined the movement, businesses and the local economies were left worse off.

Blaming it on a right-wing narrative, Black Lives Matter will not go near Black on Black crime. That alone should shame them into changing their name and their game, of which they are failing miserably but they will not. Instead, they will spend the next year interrupting, stealing the stage and making a scene.

If they are lucky, some loon will join the movement and martyr his or herself.

Their Caucasian slave masters will demand it and they will comply right on through the November 2016 election season.


  Well, there you have it.

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'What Thy Right Hand Possesses' - The Rape of Kayla Mueller

 

According to people loosely identified by ABC as 'counter terrorism officials' American captive Kayla Mueller was repeatedly tortured and made a sex slave by the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Mueller's family confirmed to ABC News that government officials have told them that their daughter, who would have turned 27 today, was the victim of repeated sexual assaults by al-Baghdadi.

"We were told Kayla was tortured, that she was the property of al-Baghdadi. We were told that in June by the government," Kayla's parents, Carl and Marsha Mueller, told ABC News today.

Al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi who calls himself "Caliph" as ruler of the Islamic State, personally brought the enslaved 26-year-old humanitarian aid worker from Prescott, Arizona, to be imprisoned inside the home of Abu Sayyaf, a Tunisian in charge of oil and gas revenue for the group, counter-terrorism officials have told ABC News over the past several months.

"Baghdadi was at the house of Sayyaf. He delivered Kayla Mueller, live and in person," one of several counter-terrorism officials briefed on the case told ABC News.

These counter-terrorism officials claim they got this information from debriefings of at least least two Yezedi teenage girls who were also held as sex slaves in the Sayyaf compound as well as from the interrogation of Abu Sayyaf's wife Umm Sayyaf, who was captured in a U.S. raid. Kayla Mueller was reportedly killed by a Jordanian air strike last February.

 

The first thing that occurs to me is that it was incredibly cruel for the Obama Administration to tell Ms. Mueller's family these horrific details. Does any parent ever want to know that their abducted child died in pain and torment? Isn't it enough to know that they'll never see their loved one again?

I have a feeling the release of this news via ABC in this fashion is not coincidental. As I write this, President Barack Hussein Obama is arming and training a Syrian force known as 'The Army of Conquest' to fight ISIS and then Assad. The Army of Conquest (Jaish al Fata) is primarily composed of jihadis drawn from al Nusra and other Islamist groups, and the strategy Obama is pursuing is exactly how ISIS got started, as a part of the Free Syrian Army that this president  armed and trained in connivance with Qatar and Turkey without the knowledge of congress. Having built up one terrorist army and seen it go out of control and become ISIS, President Obama is now building up a second one to fight the first..ignoring the possibility that ISIS and Jaish al Fata might decide to join forces against Assad and the infidels. It might very well be that releasing a news story of this kind is designed to encourage the American people to pick sides and to embrace the Iran deal, with Hezboallah and Iran considered our new 'allies.' The Ayatollah Khameinei has said repeatedly that while Iran might fight ISIS on its own accord at a time of its choosing, the Iranians and their allies are definitely not going to operate in any sort of alliance with the  Great Satan. This, even though we're still arming Hezbollah and they're showing off their American weapons to the American advisers they're sharing bases with in Iraq.

If this seems like an insane 3 ring circus with the Obama Administration arming and training both sides of this conflict and no clear direction or strategy in mind, you get no argument from me. You can't make this stuff up.

Another thing to consider...while as usual the Obama Administration is carefully steering away from even mentioning the word 'Islam' it is worth knowing that this behavior is religiously sanctified by sharia and  the Qu'ran,  in verse 33.50 ("O Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives to whom thou hast paid their dowers; and those (slaves) whom thy right hand possesses out of the prisoners of war whom Allah has assigned to thee" Pikthal translation) as well as 23.5-6. 4.24 and numerous other places.

This is not to say that all Muslims are rapists of non-Muslim women or that non-Muslims never rape captive women. But only in Islam is it religiously sanctified. The Bible actually forbids such practices and was the first recorded document to give women in that situation any rights at all, as laid out in Leviticus. But based on the Qu'ran, what happened to Ms. Mueller, a captive, is fully in accord with sharia. Mohammed himself took many sex slaves.

President Obama is bringing a lot of Muslims into America via diversity visas and refugee asylum programs similar to Europe's from countries like Syria, Somalia, Pakistan and other countries where sharia law based on the Qu'ran is practiced and the traditional cultures are built around these beliefs, including honor killings and FGM ( female genital mutilation).

Ironically enough, Kayla Mueller, who was something of a career activist actually worked for a while with the pro-terrorism International Solidarity Movement, whom supports the Palestinian Authority and Hamas where these practices occur with distressing regularity.

At last count, something like 800,000 Muslims have entered the US under these programs since Barack Obama took office and the screening has been fairly minimal. As I write this, another surge of refugees to America is being planned for Syrian Muslims by the Obama Administration with screening done not by our FBI but by the UN.

Europe has seen major problems develop by importing huge amounts of Muslims, many of whom are not at all compatible with European culture, are disproportionately on public assistance, want to impose sharia in their new home countries, and strongly resist assimilation. Crime among Muslim refugees in Europe is rampant, especially rapes involving Muslim males and non-Muslim females. For example, Stockholm, Sweden, once relatively crime free for a city its size has experienced a 300% increase in crime since it began importing substantial numbers of Muslim refugees into the country. Rapes have increased to the point where Sweden is one of the rape capitols of the world, with the second highest number of rapes per capita of any country on earth.

The vast majority of these rapes are committed by Muslim immigrants or their teenage sons whom may hardly think of these infidel women as anything more than 'what thy right hand possesses.'

Whether we want to change America in this fashion is a conversation the Obama Administration refuses to even consider, but I think it's a conversation we deserve to have as a nation, and sooner rather than later.

All human beings are equal, but cultures are not.As Kayla Mueller discovered too late, she wasn't in Arizona anymore.

Our Watcher's Council Results

The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week's Watcher's Council match up.

"Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, Oh, Oh!" - Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare's Macbeth , Act V, Scene 1

"Character is destiny." - Attributed to Greek philosopher Hereclitus, 500 BC


"There's hostility to lying, and there should be." -Bob Woodward


""Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity." -George Washington





This week's winning essay,Joshuapundit's -#Hillary Lied About Her E-Mails, Broke The Law And What It Really Means is my take on the scandal concerning Hillary Clinton's private server during her tenure as Secretary of State, the serious issues actually involved and ultimately, what's behind the curtain. Here's a slice:


Once again, Mrs. Clinton has revealed to us that if she tells you the sun is shining, you'd better make sure you have an umbrella handy.

Most polls show that the majority of Americans, for some odd reason consider her untrustworthy and an out and out liar.CNN’s national poll shows that 57% of Americans see her that way, and ABC News and the Wall Street Journal put that number at 52%.

She's continued to sing the old Right Wing Conspiracy song, and to claim, as she did in an interview with CNN's servile Diane Keillor, “When I mailed anybody in the government, it would go into the government system,” she said. “Now I didn’t have to turn over anything. I chose to turn over 55,000 pages because I wanted to go above and beyond what was expected of me because I knew the vast majority of everything that was official already was in the State Department system.”

There are enough outright lies in that small paragraph to warrant a serious trial.

Even storing Federal records on a private server is a serious violation of the Federal Records Act for reasons that should be obvious, and a violation of the agreement Mrs. Clinton signed when she started at the State Department. Mrs. Clinton was likewise required to turn over any and all records in her possession to government, which she quite obviously did not do.

Not only did Mrs. Clinton fail to turn over work-related emails, but she and her staff also edited some of those emails before submitting them, as the Examiner's Sarah Westwood reported.

In legalese, this shows intent. Mrs, Clinton intended to deceive congress.Not only that, but the committee obtained a number of e-mails that were work related and were either edited or somehow missing from the 55,000 Mrs. Clinton turned in:

The missing materials, which the State Department says it does not have, came to Congress by other means. They include writings about the jockeying for oil contracts in Libya after President Obama engaging in a war without congressional approval to overthrow Moammar Gaddafi. This comes among her back-and-forth emails with Sidney Blumenthal, a former staffer who had been barred from employment in the Obama administration, to continue offering his insight and advice on Libya. [...]

But the proof of intent to deceive comes in the fact that Clinton or her staff actually edited some of the emails and turned over censored versions to State before destroying her copy of the originals.

I think we can reasonably be certain that cash donations to the Clinton Foundation in exchange for an inside track on oil deals or for Federal contracts involving Libya and other areas were the subject of some of these communications, but what's already known is damaging enough.

Another, much more serious problem than the usual lies and corruption is the fact that Mrs. Clinton's private server was almost certainly hacked by foreign agents. Her server lacked the normal security given to classified information within the government's official system. Professionals who have examined the security of Hillary private e-mail account have said that the question is not whether the account was hacked, but to what degree.

Not only were classified communications almost certainly compromised, but there's not telling what kind of personal, perhaps even indictable messages might have been scooped up. Imagine a president in the midst of negotiations with a foreign power like China, Russia or Iran suddenly confronted discretely with an ultimatum that unless she made certain far reaching concessions, certain information she desperately didn't want revealed would be made public.

Federal Law(36 CFR 1234.24) requires agencies to collect all records from “external electronic mail systems” so that they can be stored inside government archives. There's also a federal law (44 USC 3106) that authorizes legal action through the Attorney General and the Justice Department “for the recovery of records” that are threatened by destruction, deletion or erasure. Willfully destroying a federal record is a felony, punishable by fine and imprisonment. Mrs. Clinton is already guilty of that crime as well by admitting she destroyed her server.

Like I said, a lot of lies in one paragraph.

Mrs. Clinton felt free to destroy her private server and laugh at the subpoenas from congress because she knew that President Obama's Attorney General and the DOJ were not going to take any action against her, again for obvious reasons. Among them is that there's no longer a requirement to do so.


To find out why,and what's really behind this go to the link.

In our non-Council category, the winner was Rueben Navarette Jr. with a moving piece, I Don’t Know if I’m Pro-Choice After Planned Parenthood Videos submitted by The Watcher.

This took courage and some obvious soul searching to write. It's always a threshold moment when person realizes that a belief they've held for some time might be a grave error.

Recommended.

Here are this week’s full results. Great Satan's Girlfriend, Ask Marion and Rhymes With Right were unable to vote this week, but none were affected by the normal 2/3 vote penalty for not voting:

Council Winners

• *First place with 3 votes!-Joshuapundit-#Hillary Lied About Her E-Mails, Broke The Law And What It Really Means


• Second place *t* with 2 1/3 votes –The Right Planet – The Trump Factor


• Second place *t* with 2 1/3 votes –Bookworm Room – Bookworm Beat 8-11-15 — the illustrated edition, devoted to excavating the Leftist mind through Facebook posters


• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote –VA Right! - I Like Donald Trump for President Because he is not for Sale and the Rest Are!


• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote –The Noisy Room – Put America On Cruz Control


• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote –Don Surber – Carly For President


• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote –The Glittering Eye -Devaluation of the Yuan


• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote –The Razor – New Zealand Flag Ideas


• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote –The Independent Sentinel – Hillary Might Soon Have Her Own Server at Leavenworth

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 2 1/3 votes! –Reuben Navarette Jr. -I Don’t Know if I’m Pro-Choice After Planned Parenthood Videos submitted by The Watcher


• Second place *t* with 1 1/3 votes –Walter Russell Mead –A Deal Iran's hardliners can love submitted by The Razor


• Second place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – The BelFer Center – A Guide To The Iran deal submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD


• Second place *t* with 1 1/3 votes –Andrew McCarthy – No Trust, No Verification, No Sanctions: Obama’s Humiliating Capitulation to the Mullahs submitted by Joshuapundit


• Third place *t* with 1 vote –Mark Steyn–If It Bleeds, It Leads submitted by The Noisy Room


• Third place *t* with 1 vote –Abraham Miller/JNS.org-The mindset of Progressive Jews and the "Israeli problem" submitted by Bookworm Room


• Third place *t* with 1 vote –Jonah Goldbereg – GOP's Trump problem will fade, but Democrats' Bernie Sanders troubles are just beginningsubmitted by The Watcher


• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 votes -The Free Beacon -Jon Stewart Wanted Video Evidence That He Was an Obama Propagandist So We Found A Bunch submitted by Nice Deb


• Fourth place *t* with 2/3 votes -Peter Ferrara/Forbes – The Disgraceful Episode Of Lysenkoism Brings Us Global Warming Theory submitted by The Right Planet


• Fifth place with 1/3 vote -Sheryl Attkisson –Fast and Furious: Guilty Plea in Brian Terry Murder submitted by Puma By Design

See you next week!

Make sure to tune in every Monday for the Watcher’s Forum. and every  Tuesday morning, when we reveal the weeks' nominees for Weasel of the Week!

And remember, every Wednesday, the Council has its weekly contest with the members nominating two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council. The votes are cast by the Council, and the results are posted on Friday morning.

It’s a weekly magazine of some of the best stuff written in the blogosphere, and you won’t want to miss it...or any of the other fantabulous Watcher's Council content.

And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that, y'know?

Our Weasel Of The Week!!

Yes, once again, It's time to present this week's statuette of shame, The Golden Weasel!!

Every Tuesday, the Council nominates some of the slimiest, most despicable characters in public life for some deed of evil, cowardice or corruption they’ve performed. Then we vote to single out one particular Weasel for special mention, to whom we award the statuette of shame, our special, 100% plastic Golden Weasel. This week's nominees were all particularly slimy and despicable, but the votes are in and we have our winner...the envelope please...


 
Obama's Soviet-Style EPA!

JoshuaPundit : When they're not killing jobs and raising energy prices by killing coal or driving businesses overseas because of insane, arcane regulations, the Environmental Protection Agency does  a pretty good job of polluting....and breaking the law by trying to cover it up.

The Animas River in Southwestern Colorado in not only a major source of water and the aquifer in the area, but a wonderful recreation area and a prime environment for fish and wild life. Now, thanks to the EPA, its a polluted mess.

Obama's environmental commissars were nosing around and 'accidentally' - it's been difficult to get a straight answer on exactly what happened - broke into an abandoned mine and released a huge amount of chemical-laced water...that flowed right into the Animas River.

It appears that someone, believe it or not, used a backhoe to move some debris out of the way rather than removing it more carefully, since it was known there was water in the abandoned gold mine.

Even worse was that the EPA attempted to cover it up, at first saying it was just a minor spill and then finally admitting it amounted to over 3 million gallons. There have also been no answers about why the EPA took so long to repair the breech.

Fortunately the local authorities were able to keep the polluted mess, which contains
arsenic, lead and other metals out of the city of Durango's main reservoir, but wells and groundwater will definitely be affected.The polluted water has traveled down to New Mexico and to the Navajo Nation's reservation.

Durango and and La Plata County have declared states of emergency, and there's now a potential water shortage.

The Weaselness comes from the EPA's attempt to cover up what happened and shift the blame to the owner of the long abandoned mine for a catastrophe the EPA caused. Particularly odious was the E.P.A.’s regional director, Shaun McGrath, who led the charge, but he was just a Good German following orders. We all know that had a private company done something like this, the Obama Regime would be calling for their heads.

Yes, the EPA under Obama remind a lot of Soviet apparatchniks. Causing a major toxic waste spill through clumsy use of a backhoe, trying to cover it up and blame others for it and lying about the extent of it...it all reeks of Big Government run amuck. There's even a story out there about how one of the EPA spokespeople lied to the local ranchers and farmers about a large shipment of clean water coming their way that never arrived..except in the case of one rancher who had a personal connection with Colorado Senator Michael Bennett and had the brains to call him about it. He ended up with a 1,600-gallon tank and clean water for it. So far, few other deliveries have surfaced.

And the EPA, in an effort to avoid their responsibility are now claiming that most of the metals and chemicals are either safely buried in river sediment (!) or washed away, something the locals aren't buying at all. The City of Durango and and La Plata County are doing their own testing and continuing to insist the EPA clean up after itself.

The real Weaselness comes from the cover up, and from what the EPA would do to a private company whom behaved in this fashion...not to mention the headlines in the ObamaMedia.

  Well, there it is.

Check back next Tuesday to see who next week's nominees for Weasel of the Week are!

Make sure to tune in every Monday for the Watcher’s Forum, and remember, every Wednesday, the Council has its weekly contest with the members nominating two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council. The votes are cast by the Council, and the results are posted on Friday morning.

It’s a weekly magazine of some of the best stuff written in the blogosphere, and you won’t want to miss it...or any of the other fantabulous Watcher's Council content.

And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that, y'know?

Trump Defends Planned Parenthood

Remember Donald Trump's fairy tale about how he was now pro life at the GOP debate? How he knew a couple who were considering abortion but decided against it, and now that kid is a 'superstar?'

Well, today on Hannity, the real Donald once again revealed himself:

Hannity threw a few softballs at Trump, but also pressed him a little on specific policy proposals for Obamacare, the economy, and even Planned Parenthood.

And Trump kind of surprised Hannity by defending them, saying that abortion is only a “fairly small part of what they do” and overall they do a great service for women, so “we have to look at the positive also for Planned Parenthood.”

Why yes! Our taxes should definitely continue to fund trafficking in baby body parts.

I pretty much said everything I had to say about Trump's candidacy here.

He's there to ensure that his friends the Clintons get back into the White House, just like Ross Perot did in 1992. Trump ias this year's Ross perot

Our Weasel Of The Week Nominees

It's time once again for the Watcher's Council's 'Weasel Of The Week' nominations, where we pick our choices to compete for the award of the famed Golden Weasel to a public figure who particularly deserves to be slimed and mocked for his or her dastardly deeds during the week. Every Tuesday morning, tune in for the Weasel of the Week nominations!

Here are this weeks' nominees....

 
RedState's Talking Head Erick Erickson!!


Puma By Design : I nominate RedState, Erik Erickson, for Weasel of the Week.

Late Friday night, Eric Erickson, disinvited Donald Trump from RedState Gathering supposedly because of disparaging remarks Trump made about Megyn Kelly. In turn, Erickson invited Megyn Kelly to speak in the Donald’s place.

His actions led to an uproar on social media and beneath the comment section of his post.

Erickson in his post laid out his rationale for disinviting Trump, alluding to the fact that Trump is a “non-professional politician” and a “blunt talker” only to expose himself later in the post:

The other day, we sent out the agenda for the RedState Gathering. The file had been saved with the “final” tag and the Washington sent it out. But it still had Governor Deal on the agenda and it did not have Donald Trump on it. Obviously, it wasn’t the final.

So then Erickson never really invited Trump? Trump was not invited. Or he was invited and Redstate just waited anticipating moment and opportunity to disinvite?

As time went on and RedState found itself inundated with comments from an endless wave of outraged voters.

How did RedState, a so-called Conservative website respond? They responded by deleting comments and when that didn’t slow down the wave is displeased readers directing their comments to Erickson, the moderator closed the comments section.

Throughout the RedState Gathering, a snarky Erickson read angry tweets that were directed at RedState. In addition, Erickson responded to tweets on social media but the tone of Erickson’s tweets gave one the impression that Eric Erickson was working overtime to cover himself.

Then we learn a day and a half later that Eric Erickson intentionally failed to extend an invitation to Dr. Benjamin Carson. Again, the rationale for not inviting Carson, seen by Erickson as another "non-professional politician" much like the excuse for disinviting Trump does not hold water.

According to Breitbart, Erickson allegedly attended two events where Carson was speaking before a group of veterans. According to Erickson, Carson spoke only of himself and Barack Obama failing to acknowledge the concerns or struggles of our vets. Then he went on to blame failure to invite Carson to the RedState Gather on the fact that there were limited slots available.

“I was at two different events for military non-profits in the last year,” Erickson stated. “They were non-profits that had asked Dr. Carson to speak about military veterans and the work he did with the disabled and both times he spent the entire time talking about himself and his battle with the president and it just struck me wrong. And when we were putting together a list of RedState speakers we had a limited selection and I chose not to put Dr. Carson on the list unless the other spots didn’t fill up. The other spots filled up so I didn’t ask him. I was impressed with his debate performance the other night and his closing statement but I just, it left a bad taste in my mouth.

Okay, if the reason for not inviting Ben Carson had to do with limited slots being available, Erickson could have very well remedied that situation after disinviting Trump but he made no effort to because he had no intention of inviting Carson in the first place.

Erickson is obviously overlooking the fact that “professional politicians” is how this country got so screwed up in the first place.

Erickson is colluding with the media (Fox) and the GOP leadership to bring out long-term results unfavorable to the American people and for that, I nominate Erick Erickson for Weasel of the Week.

The Right Planet :While there were plenty of candidates for Weasel this week, I'm going to have to give the crown to RedState's Erick Erickson; who rescinded invitations to speak at a RedState event for GOP presidential candidates to both Donald Trump and Ben Carson. Now, let me just say that I'm not on the Trump bandwagon. I'm not trying to defend Trump. I have some serious reservations about Donald Trump. With that being said, Erickson apparently took umbrage with Trump's comments about Megyn Kelly as "a bridge too far." This is coming from the same guy who was praising Trump's retorts to Rosie O'Donnell not too long ago. It's also the same guy who once tweeted, that with the retirement of Justice David Souter,  America had lost "the only goat-f*cking child molester to ever serve on the Supreme Court." Some of Erickson's own views on women have left a bad taste in few people's mouths as well. Furthermore, Trump's "on her knees" comment that Megyn Kelly grilled him on at the GOP debate appears to have been taken completely out of context, from what I can gather. This really smacks of gross hypocrisy.

Erickson also calls Ben Carson a "non-professional politician"; and defended his un-invite by claiming Carson "spent the entire time talking about himself and his battle with the president" during a veteran's event he attended. Apparently, Erick Erickson and the Fox News moderators have decided to act as the gatekeepers. Are we going to let the media or the voters pick our candidates?



 
Target Stores!

The Noisy Room: My nomination this week is Target. More political correctness insanity rears its hoary head. This time Target has claimed that there has been a massive outcry that they remove gender references from toys and bedding. I just don’t believe there are millions of Americans crying out for this. If they are under pressure, it is a small radical, vocal minority. More likely it is a combination of pressure from the Obama Administration and Liberals among the upper echelons of their internal leadership. Kid’s clothing will still be separated and labeled by gender for the simple reason that sizing dictates it. But they’ll find a way around that before long and go to some stupid universal sizing code. You watch. This is just ridiculous. Little girls can no longer just be girls and God forbid that a little boy would just be a boy growing into a man. No – we are all transgenders now.

Our culture is not evolving – it’s twisting and disappearing. Home and entertainment is also being ‘de-genderized.’ I’m literally running out of places to shop these days over all this political correctness crap. I find myself shopping more and more through Amazon.com where at least I’m not subjected to this PC torture. I don’t want all of society to be the same, bland vanilla stereotype. We are allowing Progressive tyrants to paint us all with the same brush and herd us into one big controllable corral. People will ditch Target over this. I’m one of them. They can take their gender-neutral society and stuff it. This will not end well. For pushing Marxist propaganda for the Obama Administration, Target gets the nod for Golden Weasel this week.

 
Obama's Soviet-Style EPA

JoshuaPundit : When they're not killing jobs and raising energy prices by killing coal or driving businesses overseas because of insane, arcane regulations, the Environmental Protection Agency does  a pretty good job of polluting....and breaking the law by trying to cover it up.

The Animas River in Southwestern Colorado in not only a major source of water and the aquifer in the area, but a wonderful recreation area and a prime environment for fish and wild life. Now, thanks to the EPA, its a polluted mess.

Obama's environmental commissars were nosing around and 'accidentally' - it's been difficult to get a straight answer on exactly what happened - broke into an abandoned mine and released a huge amount of chemical-laced water...that flowed right into the Animas River.

It appears that someone, believe it or not, used a backhoe to move some debris out of the way rather than removing it more carefully, since it was known there was water in the abandoned gold mine.

Even worse was that the EPA attempted to cover it up, at first saying it was just a minor spill and then finally admitting it amounted to over 3 million gallons. There have also been no answers about why the EPA took so long to repair the breech.

Fortunately the local authorities were able to keep the polluted mess, which contains
arsenic, lead and other metals out of the city of Durango's main reservoir, but wells and groundwater will definitely be affected.The polluted water has traveled down to New Mexico and to the Navajo Nation's reservation.

Durango and and La Plata County have declared states of emergency, and there's now a potential water shortage.

The Weaselness comes from the EPA's attempt to cover up what happened and shift the blame to the owner of the long abandoned mine for a catastrophe the EPA caused. Particularly odious was the E.P.A.’s regional director, Shaun McGrath, who led the charge, but he was just a Good German following orders. We all know that had a private company done something like this, the Obama Regime would be calling for their heads.


 Well, there it is. What a despicable group of  Weasels...ANY OF THEM COULD WIN! Check back Thursday to see which Weasel walks off with the statuette of shame!

Make sure to tune in every Monday for the Watcher’s Forum.

And remember, every Wednesday, the Council has its weekly contest with the members nominating two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council. The votes are cast by the Council, and the results are posted on Friday morning.

It’s a weekly magazine of some of the best stuff written in the blogosphere, and you won’t want to miss it...or any of the other fantabulous Watcher's Council content.

And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that, y'know?

Our Watcher's Council Nominations - Classified Edition

"OK, so some of the stuff was classified. So my server was hacked by foreign governments. What difference does it make now anyway at this point?"

Welcome to the Watcher's Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the 'sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday morning.

Council News:

This week, The Pirate's Cove, Gates Of Vienna and The People's Cube earned honorable mention status with some great articles.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

To bring something to my attention, simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title and a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address (mandatory, but of course it won't be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category. Then return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week when it comes out on Wednesday morning

Simple, no?

It's a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let's see what we have for you this week....

Council Submissions

• The Noisy Room – Put America On Cruz Control


• Joshuapundit-#Hillary Lied About Her E-Mails, Broke The Law And What It Really Means


• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – General Suleimani


• The Right Planet – The Trump Factor


• Puma By Design – Erick Erickson Rescinds Trump Invite to RedState Gathering over Megyn Kelly Remark


• The Razor – New Zealand Flag Ideas


• VA Right! - I Like Donald Trump for President Because he is not for Sale and the Rest Are!


• Bookworm Room – Bookworm Beat 8-11-15 — the illustrated edition, devoted to excavating the Leftist mind through Facebook posters


• Nice Deb – Hillary Gives Up Possession of Private Email Server/Top Secret Emails found on Acct.


• Don Surber – Carly For President


• The Independent Sentinel – Hillary Might Soon Have Her Own Server at Leavenworth


• The Glittering Eye -Devaluation of the Yuan


• Rhymes With Right – Retail Hypocrisy

Honorable Mentions

• The Pirate's Cove - Good Grief: Illegal Aliens File Tort For Being Detained


• Gates Of Vienna - In the Middle East, There Are Only Lose-Lose Options


• The People's Cube - Obanga and Keranga: a Peace Epic

Non-Council Submissions

• Mark Steyn–If It Bleeds, It Leads submitted by The Noisy Room


• Andrew McCarthy – No Trust, No Verification, No Sanctions: Obama’s Humiliating Capitulation to the Mullahs submitted by Joshuapundit


• The BelFer Center – A Guide To The Iran deal submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD


• Peter Ferrara/Forbes – The Disgraceful Episode Of Lysenkoism Brings Us Global Warming Theory submitted by The Right Planet


• Sheryl Attkisson –Fast and Furious: Guilty Plea in Brian Terry Murder submitted by Puma By Design


• Walter Russell Mead –A Deal Iran's hardliners can love submitted by The Razor


• Freedom Outpost – CALLED IT: Billionaire George Soros Funded Ferguson Protests to the Tune of $33 Million
  submitted by VA Right!


• Abraham Miller/JNS.org-The mindset of Progressive Jews and the "Israeli problem" submitted by Bookworm Room


• The Free Beacon -Jon Stewart Wanted Video Evidence That He Was an Obama Propagandist So We Found A Bunch submitted by Nice Deb


• Tablet – Crossing A Line To Sell A Deal submitted by The Watcher


• Bret Stephens/WSJ – All the President’s Certitudes submitted by The Watcher


• Jonah Goldbereg – GOP's Trump problem will fade, but Democrats' Bernie Sanders troubles are just beginningsubmitted by The Watcher


• Reuben Navarette Jr. -I Don’t Know if I’m Pro-Choice After Planned Parenthood Videos submitted by The Watcher

Enjoy! And don't forget to like us on Facebook and follow us Twitter..'cause we're cool like that!And don't forget to tune in Friday for the results!