Monday, March 28, 2016

Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Hillary Responds To Her Weekend Losses"


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Isaiah's latest THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Hillary Responds To Her Weekend Losses."  Hillary declares, "Alaska, Hawaii and Washington, I'll get you -- and your little dog too!"   Isaiah archives his comics at The World Today Just Nuts.




 

Iraq, Sally Field and more

  • Community member Marco asked if we could note this:

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    My heart breaks for you



    Sure and we can note another actress, Sally Field, as several of you have in e-mails.

    Sally's a talented actress.

    Just not a smart one.

    A smart person doesn't, for example, rush to turn DYING YOUNG into a film and, if they do, they certainly aren't stupid enough to cast the charisma-free Campbell Scott as the male romantic lead.


    Sally's been a tool of government propaganda in her career as well -- see NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER.


    But her latest stupidity falls squarely on her own soldiers.

    She delivers a strong performance in MY NAME IS DORIS.

    The film has finally received a (limited) US release.

    She should be urging people to see it.

    Instead, she's running them off.

    How so?

    By showing up on TV when she's supposed to be promoting the film and insulting Bernie Sanders' supporters.

    That's real smart, Sally.

    Exactly who does she think is going to buy tickets to her low budget film?

    To listen to her babble on, not Republicans and not Bernie Sanders supporters.

    Endorsing one candidate is fine.

    Insulting others is just stupid.

    Sally's pretty stupid.

    All the more so when you consider her Emmy speech that was censored when she said "G** damn" during it as she raged against the Iraq War.

    Remember that?

    How women would save the world -- Oops, that's not true.

    She said "mothers."

    So not all women, mind you, just "mothers."

    She raged against the Iraq War.

    And who's she supporting?

    Hillary Clinton.

    Guess the Iraq War doesn't matter all that much to her anymore.

    She's a hypocrite and a stooge.

    Most of all she's an idiot and the studios don't have time for aging actresses with no popular support.

    Sally's never been box office.

    She's been popular in popular movies.

    She can't deliver an audience all on her own.

    And now she's supposed to be promoting a labor of love and is instead shooting her mouth off in a such a way that, if you don't support Hillary, you have no desire to see her film.

    This won't be forgotten.

    Sally's infamous for holding a grudge so you'd think she'd be aware that others have long memories too.

    Others include those who do the hiring.

    And there's never a reason to cast some idiot in a role if you know said idiot is going to 'promote' a film by trashing everyone.

    Again, she's never been able to deliver an audience.


    She's not Goldie Hawn or Jane Fonda who have fans who will turn out for the films regardless of what the films are.  (DECEIVED, a strong thriller, was not a Goldie Hawn fan's idea of a Goldie film, but they still turned out to see it in enough numbers to keep it from bombing.)

    BACKROADS, KISS ME KATE and so many more speak to the fact that Sally has no natural base when it comes to ticket buyers.

    A smart actress would be out there promoting the film, not stirring up hate.

    The news from Iraq this morning is about the Parliament giving Haider al-Abadi until Thursday to present his choices for a new Cabinet.

    Maybe by this afternoon, the same outlets will note that he's lacking the Constitutional power to redo the Cabinet?

    If not, maybe they'll at least note that, for example, Goran has declared 20% of the posts must go to Kurds.

    Right now, you've got bad 'headlines' posing as reporting.

    I'm really not in the mood to link to the garbage.

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    Sunday, March 27, 2016

    Hejira

    Today, the US Defense Dept announced/claimed/asserted:

    Strikes in Iraq
    Attack, fighter, and remotely piloted aircraft conducted 19 strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of the Iraqi government:
    -- Near Baghdadi, three strikes struck an ISIL staging facility.
    -- Near Hit, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit.
    -- Near Kisik, two strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and suppressed an ISIL mortar position.
    -- Near Mosul, four strikes struck two separate ISIL tactical units, suppressed an ISIL mortar position and two ISIL tactical units, and destroyed an ISIL heavy machine gun position, an ISIL anti-air artillery piece and two ISIL fighting positions.
    -- Near Qayyarah, three strikes struck a large ISIL tactical unit and an ISIL security headquarters and suppressed an ISIL mortar position.
    -- Near Sinjar, two strikes suppressed an ISIL rocket firing position and an ISIL mortar position.
    -- Near Sultan Abdallah, four strikes struck three separate ISIL tactical units, destroyed three ISIL assembly areas and suppressed two ISIL mortar positions, an ISIL surface-to-air firing position, and an ISIL tactical unit.

    Task force officials define a strike as one or more kinetic events that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a single, sometimes cumulative, effect. Therefore, officials explained, a single aircraft delivering a single weapon against a lone ISIL vehicle is a strike, but so is multiple aircraft delivering dozens of weapons against buildings, vehicles and weapon systems in a compound, for example, having the cumulative effect of making those targets harder or impossible for ISIL to use. Accordingly, officials said, they do not report the number or type of aircraft employed in a strike, the number of munitions dropped in each strike, or the number of individual munition impact points against a target.


    The ongoing bombings have been ongoing since August of 2014.  They continue to this day.

    Meanwhile, Kareem Raheem and Stephen Kalin (REUTERS) report,  "Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim leader Moqtada al-Sadr entered Baghdad's Green Zone, the heavily-fortified center of the capital housing government buildings and embassies, on Sunday to keep up pressure on the government to enact reforms."

    With a series of self-serving statements, Moqtada announced he would rally in the Green Zone while his supporters rallied outside.

    How brave.

    Within the safety of the Green Zone.

    Moqtada's been desperate for days now to get some publicity.

    His rallies have been covered less and less -- even by Iraqi media.



    None of it really worked and, by Friday evening, really only NINA was reporting on him and his rally.


    Entering the Green Zone changed that.  He is said to have met with Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and ALSUMARIA reports that Saleh al-Mutlaq joined Moqtada in the tent he's set up inside the Green Zone.

    While he gets a flurry of attention (please note, Mariah Carey cancelling Brussels concert is a much bigger topic on Arabic media currently), the western media ignores Falluja.



    NINA reports that Arshad al-Salhi, head of Parliament's Human Rights Committee, states "that thousands of families in the besieged district of Fallujah die of hunger and pain caused by lack of food and water availability, calling on the government to assume its responsibilities in securing the requirements of insulated people."  ALSUMARIA notes that Iraqiya head Ayad Allawi is also noting the dire conditions in Falluja and calling for the Iraqi government and the United Nations to provide assistance.


     I'm traveling in some vehicle
    I'm sitting in some cafe
    A defector from the petty wars
    That shell shock love away
    -- "Hejira," written by Joni Mitchell, first appears on her album of the same name




    The number of US service members the Dept of Defense states died in the Iraq War is [PDF format warning] 4498 (plus 10 in Operation Inherent Resolve which includes at least 1 Iraq War fatality).

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