Struck by lightning no less. An omen?

Has 3m people's worth of air conditioned tents doing nothing 360 days a year. But of course they will not show mercy, due to being behind the trouble in Syria.

Good article by Buppert.

The "immigrant crisis" is not being let go to waste.

ESR's take is legit; the article referenced is good too.

Neat profile of some Luhanskers that won't let the situation get them down.

It's so on-target they're being sued over it by Burning Man.

Enough to bring it to court. Expect SCOTUS to strip them of their power on appeal, and we can get a total dictatorship finally.

Corruption going both ways.

Big anti-tax & corruption revolt over there. Also, the Turkish civil war with the Kurds has fully developed as convoys are actively being ambushed.

Helping out the Junta with their Muja insurgency problem it seems.

Excellent mockery of El-Supremo in waiting. This may become a recurring routine for George Lopez.

A cool 5 year old plot. Sounds like they had fun.

The relationship has soured due to their reports being falsified by CENTCOM to paint a rosy picture for the rubes back home.

E.G. not as efficient at killing, but more effective at being killed. Interesting that the performance on the M16 and M2 (!) were the same, while other weapons worked better for men. So clearly better design (as exemplified by the .50 M2) has an impact on the effectiveness. However, gross carrying capacity of the male will always be a factor despite females' better power/weight. As such squad loadouts would have to adjust for this reality, and this situation may never reach the efficiency of an all male squad.

That said, it's good news to me; anything that will give ignorant and desperate young women a reason to not work for the pentagram is welcome.

Automated speeding ticket devices like in the UK, which are quite popular to necklace with a burning tire.

Wow. I guess i'm not surprised; he's definitely a worse fascist than the other front-runner (Jeb). Being the most evil is usually the requirement for being "electable".

UPDATE: Jebbie is stepping up his game. I'm still not counting him out -- he's way too connected. Trump may meet the Huey Long end if he keeps it up too long.

Germ warfare is truly one of the dumbest ideas ever thought of.

So now we need to topple Baghdad and Tehran to topple Assad? This is like chum for the neocons.

Quit being a bull-headed power-tripping retard. Internalize that compliance is not to be expected and you might just start using sound tactics, which dramatically reduces the lethal potential of situations.

The propaganda mindset of cops being warriors has led to more officer and civilian deaths than anything. A cop is a peace officer. The very opposite of a warrior. While it is currently in vogue for cops to wear military style clothing and (mis)use military equipment, they are not warriors. Adopting military structure and tactics leads citizens to hate officers, officers to kill innocents, and citizens to wonder with whom exactly the police are at war. If cops declare war on the American people, the American people will respond. To officers that do not believe that, I would remind them that a Texas police department has a job opening right now that says otherwise.

The warrior mentality continues the cycle of insurgency and fills more body bags.

Great essay by Per Bylund. I remember reading it 10 years ago; as such pretty much all the sturm and drang over immigration has seemed pretty ho-hum. Violent agreement, as noted in our blog.

Odd that, in 14 years, none of them have gotten the word to do anything, and realistically, we're still as soft a target as we were on September 10, 2001. And the US Air Force, while on vacation, has still caught more terrorists than the TSA. And they had to go to France to do it. Funny how that has worked out.

If the kurds weren't hardened into a full rebellion before, they sure are now.

Looks like they're taking the same approach ICE does here; put them in camps away from prying eyes.

PM of Spain sounds downright Lincolnesqe; sure, declare independence so long as you "honor your obligations"...e.g. keep paying up. That's gonna be real popular (not). Must be why they're already sending in the army.