D’oh, essentially Mueller was a victim of believing a life-long liberalist narrative where all dangers of the world can be eliminated if we just hug each other more.   Kayla’s ‘go give-em-hugs’ efforts led her to Syria, where ISIS appreciated  her naiveté, took her as a hostage and sold her to a militant commander to use as a war trophy.
(Via International Solidarity Movement) […] Abdullah Abu Rahma, coordinator of the popular committee in the village of Bil’in where Kayla joined the protests, told ISM: “Kayla came to Palestine to stand in solidarity with us. She marched with us and faced the military that occupies our land side by side with us. For this, Kayla will always live in our hearts. We send all our support to her family and will continue, like Kayla, to work against injustice wherever it is.”
Our hearts are with Kayla, her family, friends, and all those who have lost liberty, lives and loved ones in the global struggle for freedom and human rights.
With the ISM, Kayla worked with Palestinians nonviolently resisting the confiscation and demolitions of their homes and lands. In the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Occupied East Jerusalem, she stayed with the Al Kurd family to try and prevent the takeover of their home by Israeli settlers. (more…)

Oh boy, as expected it sounds like they have found a bunch of fibbing – and it appears that NBC now considers Brian Williams a risk to their organization.

The Full memo from NBC News President Deborah Turness:

All,

We have decided today to suspend Brian Williams as Managing Editor and Anchor of NBC Nightly News for six months. The suspension will be without pay and is effective immediately. We let Brian know of our decision earlier today. Lester Holt will continue to substitute Anchor the NBC Nightly News.

Our review, which is being led by Richard Esposito working closely with NBCUniversal General Counsel Kim Harris, is ongoing, but I think it is important to take you through our thought process in coming to this decision. (more…)

Where will Stewart go next? CNN or one of the alphabets?… maybe a Sunday talk show? What do you think? (Via The Atlantic) Following a late-afternoon surge of speculation from attendees of Tuesday’s taping of The Daily Show, Comedy Central President Michele Ganeless has confirmed that Jon Stewart will be leaving his post as the show’s host later this year. Ganeless wrote:

For the better part of the last two decades, I have had the incredible honor and privilege of working with Jon Stewart. His comedic brilliance is second to none. Jon has been at the heart of Comedy Central, championing and nurturing the best talent in the industry, in front of and behind the camera. (more…)

He exposed himself to a student/volunteer.  I wonder why the church was so reluctant to tell their membership about his, well, ‘history’?  
MEMPHIS, Tennessee — A violent sex offender is now facing charges after police say he exposed himself in a church soup kitchen.
Willie Edwards is listed as a violent sex offender on the Tennessee Sex Offender Registry for offenses dating back to 1989.
Edwards was working in the kitchen at St. John’s United Methodist Church when he exposed himself to a female worker January 27.
Edwards is charged with violation of community supervision for life.
The following alert was sent to church members several weeks after the incident and after the church learned a news outlet was going to report what happened: (more…)

UPDATE: Damage-Control, Damage-Control, Damage-Control: Someone in the insufferable WH messaging team, probably Ben Rhodes, is trying to control the problem of the nation world laughing at them.

WH now says "Terror attack at Paris Kosher market was motivated by anti-Semitism. POTUS didn't intend to suggest otherwise."

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) February 10, 2015

At briefing earlier, @PressSec said shooting victims "were individuals who happened to randomly be in this deli."

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) February 10, 2015

Beyond absurd – So far beyond absurd, the light from where absurd begins would not reach the White House for a year.
The flim-flam gang is in full spin mode today trying to reconcile with President Obama’s claim that the Islamist attack on the Jewish Market in Paris had nothing to do with Islamists targeting Jewish people. The absurdity starts with Josh Earnest and travels to the State Department.

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Yes, finally someone seems to ‘get it’.   The current White House manipulative narrative around the Benjamin Netanyahu speech is entirely the result of Team Obama’s pride, ego and anger about the way Netanyahu was received during his May 24th 2011 speech:

Back in 2011 President Obama, ValJar, Denis McDonough et al. were furious at how well received Netanyahu’s speech was amid a bipartisan congress. Obama himself has never had such a warm reception and rousing applause. Yes, this four year grudge is a big part of the reason for the White House constructing an entire operation to discredit Netanyahu this time around….. The White House is so desperate they are now playing the race card against Netanyahu and Boehner.
Good insightful article from Commentary Magazine below:
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You know, because San Francisco is a hotbed of Right-Wing Conservative Extremists and it’s the Right-Wing Nuts who are anti-vaccination…. or so the media has claimed.

I’m thinking Junior might not be too thrilled with that invitation.  And what exactly would one bring to a measles party?

What the heck is this all about? Mellissa Harris Perry goes to a really creepy weird place with Attorney General Eric Holder. Good grief, seriously – and I always thought she could never top the tampon earrings in the MSNBC race to the bottom.

If the Democrats are not careful they will expose their underlying hatred to the entire world…

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will travel to Washington to speak before the U.S. Congress next month despite calls to cancel his speech.
His remarks Monday at an election rally come amid an uproar over his planned speech about Iran before Congress next month.
Netanyahu said: “A bad deal with Iran is forming in Munich that will endanger Israel’s existence. … Therefore I am determined to go to Washington and present Israel’s position before the members of Congress and the American people.” (more…)

Perhaps we’ve finally figured out why Brian Williams loves President Obama so much. They both are notorious liars, and stretchers of truth…. I wonder if they drink Dos Equis?
(New York) Long before Brian Williams was caught lying about his chopper coming under fire in Iraq, he claimed he’d stared down the barrel of a bandit’s gun as a teenager in sleepy Red Bank, NJ.
In a 2005 interview with Esquire magazine, Williams said a thief drew on him in the 1970s — leaving him “looking up at a thug’s snub-nosed .38 while selling Christmas trees out of the back of a truck.”
He told the tough-to-believe story at least four times, claiming he was trying to help a local church when the thief snatched his money on West Front Street and Riverside Avenue. (more…)