Author Archives: Bok
Clock Boy Cashes In
The kid who made a clock that looked like a bomb to a school English teacher now wants 15 million for his trouble. That would be one million dollars per minute of fame for Clock Boy.
Turkey Pardon
Intelligence bosses haven’t been talking turkey when it comes to ISIS.
The Pentagon Inspector General has been investigating Central Command on the suspicion it doctored intelligence to tell the president what he wanted to hear about ISIS. Now The Daily Beast says CENTCOM officials are interfering with the investigation by hiding information.
Those who toe the official, upbeat line about the fight against ISIS are rewarded, while those who don’t are marginalized.
Former Defense Intelligence Director Lt. General Michael Flynn says, “Where intelligence starts and stops is at the White House The president sets the priorities.”
Trumped Up Claim
Donald Trump says that on 9/11/2001 he saw on television “thousands and thousands” in Jersey City cheering the attack on the World Trade Center. Only problem is, no one can find the video. It’s a trumped up claim.
More Trumped up Claims
That reminded me of claims by Congressional Black Caucus members that frenzied tea partiers shouted the “n-word” at them as they crossed the street to vote for Obamacare in 2010. There was plenty of video of the event but no “n-word” was ever found. That didn’t stop the story from spreading.
Same goes for the “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative that sparked the riots in Ferguson and lives on to this day. It never happened.
Widows and Orphans
In the wake of the ISIS attacks on Paris, the leader of the free world retaliated vigorously against his enemy – Republicans. He struck hard against anyone who questioned whether terrorists might surf a wave of Syrian refugees into America.
His weapon of choice was sarcasm:
“Apparently they are scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America,” Obama said of the GOP. “At first, they were too scared of the press being too tough on them in the debates. Now they are scared of three year old orphans. That doesn’t seem so tough to me.”
Widows and Orphans
Hours later, as French security forces closed in on a terrorist hideout, a woman outfitted in a suicide belt blew herself up.
The head and spine of Europe’s first female suicide bomber flew through a window and landed on the street outside when she blew herself up during the siege of Saint-Denis.
Greatest Threat to Bernie
The president thinks global warming is the greatest threat to national security. He’ll stride past the rubble in Paris next week to make that case.
Bernie Sanders agrees. He thinks the Middle East will heat up so much, literally, that it will force refugees into Europe.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
