The Goat Pen

If they could just get a job....

bluetick wrote:"No God condones this terror. No grievance justifies these actions. There can be no reasoning - no negotiation - with this brand of evil. Our aim is to degrade and destroy this terrorist group." - B. Obama, speaking to the U.N. general assembly about ISIS, 9/24/2014

"Peter Kassig was taken from us in an act of pure evil by a terrorist group the world rightly associates with inhumanity" - B. Obama. confirming the death of hostage Kassig 11/16/2014

"People of faith should reject those who use religion to justify evil...ISIS is a brutal death cult that in the name of religion carries out unspeakable acts of terrorism." - B. Obama, 2/4/2015

Okay, I will revise and extend my remarks to clarify my point. Here is a speech that President Roosevelt did NOT give:

"Yesterday, December 7th, 1941: a date which will live in infamy. The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by radical extremists by a certain country in the Far East. The killing of 3,000 US servicemen was evil.

Some close-minded orientalphobes have been demanding that I link the attackers of Pearl Harbor with the Japanese. But that would be wrong. There are millions of peace-loving Japanese people who had nothing to do with that attack. Their predominant religion of Buddhism forbids such regrettable aggressions. This assault on Pearl Harbor was carried out by a small group of extremists who claim to be Japanese, but are not Japanese at all. In fact, they have highjacked that beautiful and ancient Japanese Bushido code, which actually holds peace and goodwill as its highest values.

We must look at the root causes of that unfortunate incident that happened yesterday. I have appointed a presidential commission to study what societal pressures made these extremists do what they did. But it is clear that young people who agree to fly warplanes and drop bombs on our ships are doing so because of a lack of job opportunities in Japan, and failure to be included in mainstream Japanese society. I have instructed the State Department to partner with the moderates in Japanese society, and find ways we can help them to give potential Zero pilots a better path.

I ask that Congress follow this bold new initiative. I ask Congress to continue to slash funding for defense, as we have already been doing since I took office, and spend that money on peace-making rather than war-mongering to combat this radical extremism.

God/Allah/Vishnu/Brahmin/Great Spirit bless the United States of America.

I wish the Japanese had attacked your house instead of Pearl Harbor...

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Professor Tiger wrote:

bluetick wrote:"No God condones this terror. No grievance justifies these actions. There can be no reasoning - no negotiation - with this brand of evil. Our aim is to degrade and destroy this terrorist group." - B. Obama, speaking to the U.N. general assembly about ISIS, 9/24/2014

"Peter Kassig was taken from us in an act of pure evil by a terrorist group the world rightly associates with inhumanity" - B. Obama. confirming the death of hostage Kassig 11/16/2014

"People of faith should reject those who use religion to justify evil...ISIS is a brutal death cult that in the name of religion carries out unspeakable acts of terrorism." - B. Obama, 2/4/2015

Okay, I will revise and extend my remarks to clarify my point. Here is a speech that President Roosevelt did NOT give:

"Yesterday, December 7th, 1941: a date which will live in infamy. The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by radical extremists by a certain country in the Far East. The killing of 3,000 US servicemen was evil.

Some close-minded orientalphobes have been demanding that I link the attackers of Pearl Harbor with the Japanese. But that would be wrong. There are millions of peace-loving Japanese people who had nothing to do with that attack. Their predominant religion of Buddhism forbids such regrettable aggressions. This assault on Pearl Harbor was carried out by a small group of extremists who claim to be Japanese, but are not Japanese at all. In fact, they have highjacked that beautiful and ancient Japanese Bushido code, which actually holds peace and goodwill as its highest values.

We must look at the root causes of that unfortunate incident that happened yesterday. I have appointed a presidential commission to study what societal pressures made these extremists do what they did. But it is clear that young people who agree to fly warplanes and drop bombs on our ships are doing so because of a lack of job opportunities in Japan, and failure to be included in mainstream Japanese society. I have instructed the State Department to partner with the moderates in Japanese society, and find ways we can help them to give potential Zero pilots a better path.

I ask that Congress follow this bold new initiative. I ask Congress to continue to slash funding for defense, as we have already been doing since I took office, and spend that money on peace-making rather than war-mongering to combat this radical extremism.

God/Allah/Vishnu/Brahmin/Great Spirit bless the United States of America.

And these were just random acts of violence.....

Your point, prof, would be better taken if ISIS were a sovereign country with a population of 70 million people supporting an army, navy, and air corps. Instead of mostly being 15k former Saddam thugs riding around in pickup trucks.

Imo a better point or comparison would be our occupation and rehabilitation of post-war Japan versus our success or lack thereof of nation building Iraq.

Too scairt to give a link or cite a source.

Jan. 2014 -


In a wide-ranging interview with the New Yorker, President Barack Obama compared Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq and Syria to junior varsity basketball players, downplaying their threat as small-league. He also shared what he thought were the chances of reaching Middle East peace agreements.


“The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,” Obama told Remnick. “I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian.”

The quietest story on the internet, hell, in the whole wide world.....


The “hands up, don’t shoot” slogan used by Democratic activists since August 2013 is a complete falsehood, outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder admitted Wednesday.

He acknowledge the faked story as he released the Justice Department’s investigation of the August 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo.

“I recognize that the findings in our report may leave some to wonder how the department’s findings can differ so sharply from some of the initial, widely reported accounts of what transpired,” Holder said at the press conference.

Toemeesleather wrote:The quietest story on the internet, hell, in the whole wide world.....


The “hands up, don’t shoot” slogan used by Democratic activists since August 2013 is a complete falsehood, outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder admitted Wednesday.

He acknowledge the faked story as he released the Justice Department’s investigation of the August 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo.

“I recognize that the findings in our report may leave some to wonder how the department’s findings can differ so sharply from some of the initial, widely reported accounts of what transpired,” Holder said at the press conference.

Um, you missed some things:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31735414

US Attorney General Eric Holder says leaders in Ferguson, Missouri, must take "immediate, wholesale" action after a report of widespread racial bias in its law enforcement.

In what Mr Holder himself called a "searing" report, the justice department found a "disturbing and unconstitutional" pattern of abuse.

One official has been fired and another two suspended for racist emails.

The inquiry began after the shooting death of Michael Brown, 18, by police.

His death sparked nationwide protests over police treatment of minorities.

In response to the report, the mayor of Ferguson, James Knowles, admitted "we must do better" to address racial disparities but he said some initiatives were already under way.

Among the more concrete changes already taken was investigation into racist emails - leading to one firing and potentially two more.

The justice department noted in its report no-one had been previously punished for the emails.

Mr Holder acknowledged the result of the investigation into Mr Wilson did not match up with expectations, and that was in part because of what the wider investigation found about the Ferguson police department and courts.

He described Ferguson as a community where officials used law enforcement to generate revenue and did so disproportionately against African-Americans because of racial bias.

"Amid a highly toxic environment, defined by mistrust and resentment, stoked by years of bad feelings, and spurred by illegal and misguided practices - it is not difficult to imagine how a single tragic incident set off the city of Ferguson like a powder keg," Mr Holder said.

"In a sense, members of the community may not have been responding only to a single isolated confrontation, but also to a pervasive, corrosive, and deeply unfortunate lack of trust."

Mr Holder identifies several of the worst abuses found in the report, including a man arrested at gunpoint after he objected to a police officer accusing him of being a paedophile without probable cause. The man lost his job because of the arrest, the attorney general said.

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Some of those protesters were right”

The report also found black residents were disproportionately subject to baseless traffic stops and citations for infractions as petty as walking down the middle of the street.

The justice department also outlined their findings of explicit racial bias in the ranks - including the racist emails, one depicting President Obama as a chimpanzee.

The report noted public officials regularly made tickets and other minor violations "go away" for for white friends while some black residents spent nights in jail for non-payment of tickets.

Although some community perceptions around the death of Michael Brown may not have been accurate, Mr Holder said, "the climate that created them was all too real". He added: "Some of those protesters were right."

So why doesn't he bring up charges then? When it comes right down to it, It's just a bunch of preaching.

sardis wrote:So why doesn't he bring up charges then? When it comes right down to it, It's just a bunch of preaching.

He will. The DOJ is going to ask Ferguson PD to agree to a Civil Rights Consent Decree and if they don't, the DOJ will sue to either take over the Ferguson PD or disband it entirely. Pretty much every PD in that situation accepts the consent decree because the DOJ always wins the court case and when the Feds take over, they put local cops in federal prisons.

The emails and ticket writing stats are indeed pretty damning.

Not as damning as the idiot/sycophant sheep.


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Yep, tons of liars/hoodlum protesters/talking heads/community organizers walk away scott-free with their reputations in tact.

Thanks for the reminder.

The new GOP-controlled congress is killing it. Hallelujah!

FEBRUARY JOBS REPORT CRUSHES EXPECTATIONS - Business Insider

In February, the economy added 295,000 jobs and the unemployment rate fell to 5.5% from 5.7%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

February marks the 12th straight month of jobs gains over 200,000

The unemployment rate, at 5.5%, is at its lowest level since May 2008

NYT - 1985:


Beginning in a decade or two, scientists expect the warming of the atmosphere to melt the polar icecaps, raising the level of the seas, flooding coastal areas, eroding the shores and sending salt water far into fresh-water estuaries. Storm patterns will change, drying out some areas, swamping others and generally throwing agriculture into turmoil. Federal climate experts have suggested that within a century the greenhouse effect could turn New York City into something with the climate of Daytona Beach, Fla.



..Scientists have explanations for that, and they believe their temperature curves will soon soar off the scale.


LMAO, so Mr. Mann took his orders from the NYT......you can't make this sh!te up!!!llll


http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/12/weeki ... ecast.html

Still not matching up w/published unemployment rate.....can some Obammer gobbler answer that?