UPDATE--Moscow death toll rises to 133 in jihad attack by ISIS: 11 suspects arrested

Friday's Islamic jihad attack at a concert near Moscow has risen to 133, as authorities say they have arrested 11 suspects, four of whom were directly involved in the bloodbath.

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the jihad attack in a statement on its affiliated social media channels. The U.S. has said it has intelligence confirming that, according to several outlets. Russia's Investigative Committee said it has opened a criminal probe into the attack.

The attack began when Muslim gunmen donning combat gear burst into Crocus City Hall in the city of Krasnogorsk, where concert-goers were gathering to hear the Russian band Picnic. Video [which will not be shown here] showed jihadis opening fire, shooting attendees at close range and setting off smoke bombs. They also threw explosives inside the hall, setting the building ablaze. Although people were being evacuated, a number of them were trapped inside the burning building, Russian media reported.

"Intelligence agencies have detained 11 people, including four terrorists, who were directly involved in an attack on the Crocus City Hall, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement, according to Russian state news agency Tass. The FSB is similar to our FBI, only less corrupt at the top.

"It has already been established that the terrorist attack was carefully planned. The weapons that the terrorists used had been placed in a cache in advance," the FSB noted.

Meanwhile, back in the United States, gun control extremists blame the entire incident on evil guns and call for stricter gun control here in order to avoid a similar incident from happening. However, after researching the gun control situation in Russia, using my somewhat trusty Chat GPT4, I found the following:

Gun control laws in Russia are generally quite strict. In Moscow, there are specific requirements and regulations for acquiring firearms, including background checks, permits, and registration. Only licensed individuals are allowed to purchase and possess firearms, and there are restrictions on the types of firearms that can be owned. It is important to abide by these laws to ensure public safety and comply with the regulations in place.

I also found that Russia's gun control laws are federal so they apply to all of Russia.

Initially, the FSB pinned the blame on Ukraine, with Russia's Investigative Committee saying that four suspects were stopped in the Bryansk region of western Russia, "not far from the border with Ukraine."

They planned to cross the border into Ukraine and "had contacts" there, state news agency Tass said, citing Russia’s FSB.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denied any Ukrainian involvement before ISIS gleefully claimed responsibility.

"Ukraine certainly has nothing to do with the shooting/explosions in the Crocus City Hall (Moscow Region, Russia). It makes no sense whatsoever," Zelenskyy said on social media, adding, in part, "there is not the slightest doubt that the events in the Moscow suburbs will contribute to a sharp increase in military propaganda, accelerated militarization, expanded mobilization, and, ultimately, the scaling up of the war. And also to justify manifest genocidal strikes against the civilian population of Ukraine."

Putin has wished all those injured a speedy recovery and praised medical staff, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said, adding, "President Putin's atheist prayers go out to all who are affected by this horrible event, dah."

Russian special services are still conducting search operations. Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin canceled all mass events in the capital in the next two days, and a number of other Russian regions followed suit.

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Vegan raw food influencer dead of malnourishment

Zhanna Samsonova (ZS) a raw vegan influencer on Instagram has apparently "died of malnourishment" according to local reports in a Russian publication. 

Fortunately she didn't influence me or anyone I know.

She was originally from Moscow but was living in Sri Lanka where she became as thin as wet on water and her friends were worrying about her health, according to the publication.

ZS promoted a raw vegan diet consisting mostly of fruits and vegetables that had been cooked at a low temperature and had not been processed.

She mostly promoted Southeast Asian fruits such as jackfruit and durian but was looking frail and exhausted.

On the translated version of the website one influencer "friend" said "[A] few months ago, in Sri Lanka, she already had an exhausted appearance, swollen legs. They sent her home to seek treatment. However, she ran away again. When I saw her in Phuket [Thailand], I was horrified."

The Russian news outlet RTVI reported that ZS was seeking treatment and a death certificate or cause of death has yet to be issued. The outlet said that her mom looked at her diet "negatively," but said ZS did not complain about her health to her mom possibly because she was cashing in on her Instagram gig.

But it seems like those around ZS noticed she was looking like sickly. "I lived one floor above her and every day I feared finding her lifeless body in the morning. I convinced her to seek treatment, but she didn’t have time," the unnamed friend added.

While ZS may not have won a Darwin Award as many others have over the years, she seemed to have mistaken the idea of overdoing healthy behavior with healthy behavior. Perhaps this is a lesson for all of us to not get all of our dietary regimens from the internet.

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Suspect in U. of Idaho slayings arrested: who is this guy

The suspect in the murders of University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, has been arrested. He is Bryan Kohberger whose age has been listed both as 25 and 28, so it isn't clear, nor important how old he is.

Kohberger was taken into custody in Scranton, PA, NBC news reported Friday.

The bodies of the four students were discovered a week before Thanksgiving by a friend in the Kings Road rental home in Moscow, ID.

Local Moscow police had been joined by the FBI and State police in a huge investigation to find the killer since the brutal killings, that likely took place while they were asleep. There had been about 20 thousand tips and thousands of pieces of evidence but little information was released to the public during the entire investigation. Law enforcement sources told the media that the horrifying crime scene was “the worst they’ve seen.”

A Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team entered the residence where Kohberger was staying and took him into custody at about 3:00 p.m. Friday. Cops seized a white Hyundai Elantra that matched the description of the vehicle that police had said they were seeking out from the scene.

The suspect appeared briefly in a Monroe County court a few hours after his arrest and he is being held without bail and due to be extradited after a January 3rd hearing.

According to online records, the suspect was pursuing a PhD in criminal justice at Washington State University in Pullman, which is less than 10 miles from Moscow. A man with the same name is also listed as having received a MA in criminal justice from DeSales University in Center Valley, PA, this year.

Police say the students were murdered sometime between 3 and 4 a.m. but they were not discovered by roommates Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke until much later that morning. Mortensen and Funke had become worried when they could not reach their friends and called police, who made the grim discovery on November 13th.

Hopefully, law enforcement has the right person in custody and he receives the justice he deserves.

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Moscow Mayor gives solemn estimate on COVID cases in his CIty

Sergei Sobyanin, Moscow's Mayor, gave a sobering revelation on the number of people in his city that he believes have been infected with the Chinese Communist Wuhan Coronavirus.

Newsweek reported, “Sobyanin wrote on his blog that testing in the Russian capital had shown that around 2 percent of residents had COVID-19, although he praised Muscovites for adhering to restrictions to curb the spread of the virus. Moscow, which as at the epicenter of the pandemic in Russia, has by some estimates around 12.7 million people, meaning that over 250,000 have been infected, according to Sobyanin’s figures.”

“According to the results of screening studies of various population groups, the actual number of cases is about two percent of the total number of Moscow residents,” Sobyanin wrote, according to Newsweek.

If Sobyanin's numbers are correct, that would mean Moscow has more coronavirus cases than the Big Apple, which last was reported to be 177,000 confirmed cases, according to The New York Times, a former newspaper.

As it now stands, there are 67,686 deaths in the U.S.A. with a total of 1,158,341 infected cases.

Observers have noted that due to it's low rate of testing, Russia could be underreporting both the number of infections and the number of cases.  In the early stages of the pandemic, Russia reported a spike in the number of pneumonia cases, a complication of COVID-19 infection, which were not attributed to the virus.

Even Putin has self-isolated for several weeks after he came into contact with a doctor at a Moscow hospital who later tested positive for COVID-19.

Putin admitted last week that the country had a shortage of medical supplies and that the worst was yet to come for Russia.

Worldwide, as of this posting, there are  3,526,178 infected cases with 247,971 deaths from the virus.

Stay safe.


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Putin extends Snowden's asylum

Moscow -- Now that Obama virtually freed Chelsea/Bradley Manning from almost all of his 35 year prison sentence, the Russian government made it clear Wednesday that Edward Snowden, the other guy who gave away US government secrets, will be allowed to remain in Russia for "a couple more years," Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Facebook.

Snowden is a former National Security Agency contractor who, like Manning (who thinks he's a woman) gave away national secrets, so of course Putin loves him. But so might Obama who apparently loves anyone who doesn't love the USA--the Castros are the first to come to mind, but there are others.

Snowden and his leftist supporters have been actively campaigning for a pardon from Obama but his name did not appear on a list of pardons that have been prepared. He has been stuck in Moscow since 2013 after he tried to fly to Latin America but was stopped in his tracks after providing information revealing surveillance and data collection programs operated by the NSA.

Josh Earnest was asked about why Snowden and Manning were being treated differently and he said that was because Manning is a transgender person who has been punished enough. 

Just kidding. What he really said was that the documents leaked by Snowden were "far more serious and far more dangerous" than those Manning disclosed. This, of course, is a lie. Both individuals compromised US intelligence and in Manning's case, people in covert operations likely died and others clearly had to be pulled from the field as their lives were compromised by the disclosures of names and identifying information. In fact, the Taliban went on a "killing spree" based on Manning's information.

Snowden is just a scum who needs to be incarcerated for violating the Espionage Act. Manning, of course, should not only not be released, as Obama is doing, but should have probably received a much more harsh punishment due to the fact that our nation is and was at war when the document dump to WikiLeaks was done by him.

I don't think Obama will pardon Snowden, nor should he, but if he does, it will be yet another slap in the face. 

Sadly, I wouldn't put it past him.

Two more days and he's out of the White House on yet another taxpayer paid vacation after coming back just days ago from his last one.

Sad!


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Global warming or next ice age

Dear Al Jazeera Gore--I am having my doubts believing your balderdash about global warming. I base my doubts on the record-breaking cold weather, especially across the northern hemisphere where massive snowfalls and cold temperatures eastern and southeastern Europe, are burying Turkey in heavy snows and even gripping the United States and huge swaths of Russia in the grip of super-severe winter.

It makes me think you and all the "scientists" who talk about man-made climate change are full of something unpleasant and should go pound sand for a living.

Do you realize, Mr. Gore, that Moscow just celebrated the coldest orthodox Christmas in 125 years?

And what about the dozens of Europeans who have been frozen to death this year? How do you explain global warming to them? How do you say with a straight face to those people in Chanty-Mansijsk, Russia that -80༠F is proof of global warming, like the enormous snowfalls across Italy, Greece and the Balkans?

Back in 2002, your "scientist" buddies had a "consensus" warning us that soon, snow would become a rare event.

Like the Russians and the presidential election, it looks like God or nature has hacked into the climate.

It's a good thing your buddies amended the 'global warming' label to 'climate change.' 

Irony alert: Pravda TV (German language) warned of an impending ice age discussing an article by Yale scientist Wei Liu. He explained that if the ocean heat conveyor collapsed, then there would be "a prominent cooling over the northern North Atlantic and neighboring areas, sea ice increases over the Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian seas and to the south of Greenland."

Pravda said that CO2 has nothing to do with it. The influence of the sun is the dominant factor. With fewer sunspots weakening the earth's magnetic field, impact on the jet stream are decisive factors that can bring about an ice age in a short period of time.

What about that, Al?



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Russia-Turkey talk turkey about a cease-fire in Syria

Beirut -- Russia and Turkey are talking about a broader cease-fire in Syria after they brokered a deal that allowed rebel-held eastern Aleppo to peacefully evacuate the town. However, there are a number of rebel groups that say they won't agree to any deal until they get more details.

Previous cease-fire attempts in Syria have failed, much like the Democrats this election go-around. The recent cuddling between Russia and Turkey however, may be a game changer--but it won't be easy.

Turkey, Russia and Iranian foreign ministers met in Moscow last week for talks on Syria, ironically, without any Syrians involved in the talks. The reason they gave for the absence of those being directly effected was that they preferred to pursue a grand bargain among great powers with stakes in the conflict rather than a domestic settlement between the government and the opposition.

One wonders if Bashar "The Chin" Assad was upset.

An anonymous official with one faction confirmed that Russian and Turkish officials were discussing a cease-fire proposal that would encompass all of Syria. 

Russia's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that its embassy in Syria was hit by mortar fire. He blamed the attack on "extremists" who are opposed to a peaceful settlement. These people are also known as Muslim extremists and mujaheddin.

Turkey's Anadolu Agency said that Ankara and Moscow reached an agreement Wednesday and had reached an agreement. 

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that a lasting cease-fire and political solution in Syria are "close." But no details were given.

The way things look, however, Russia, Turkey and Iran are getting quite cozy and our so-called president played golf.




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National security--what, Hillary worry?

A "senior aide" to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left classified material unattended and unsecured in a hotel room in China in 2010. This incredible violation was confirmed as Hillary Clinton is under a renewed FBI investigation (yes, the Federal Bureau of Investigation actually investigates) of mishandling classified and sensitive information on a private server of her closest aide, Huma Weiner Abedin, who is also under investigation.

The aide who left this information unattended has not been named.

State Department spokesman John Kirby told Fox News in a statement issued after a FOIA request was filed with the agency: 

"In May 2010, Secretary Clinton was on official travel in Beijing, China, accompanied by senior staff. Upon Secretary Clinton's departure, a routine security sweep by Diplomatic Security agents identified classified documents in a staff member's suite."

Diplomatic Security wrote up the incident on Form 117, and Marine Security Guards (Semper Fi) filed a separate formal report, according to Fox's source.

The information about the mishandling of classified information came into the light of day when the FBI investigated whether Hillary Clinton or her staff violated the US Espionage Act by mishandling classified and top secret information. 

Obviously they had violated the law, at least we know Hillary did based on public knowledge that she used a private server for her job as secretary of state, and the fact that sensitive information was found to be contained on the server. That's all it takes to be indicted, but James Comey, FBI Director, apparently acted politically by not recommending indictment of behavior that clearly was indictable. He is trying to undo that now, it appears.

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, (R-Calif.) cited a whistleblower who came to him with an allegation that it was Hillary Clinton herself who left the material out, and he wrote to the FBI seeking more information.

Nunes wrote to Director Comey: "I . . . understand that former Secretary Clinton left unclassified documents in her hotel room in China and that U.S. Marine Corps security officials filed a report related to the possible compromise of the documents."

In another instance, Nunes said in an email released in response to a FOIA request, described Huma Abedin asking another Clinton staffer to remove "burnstuff" Abedin had left in a car during a trip to India.

You cannot make this stuff up.

Kirby told Fox News that the incident with Abedin may not have involved classified material. Perhaps it was a recipe for chicken biryani.

Kirby insisted, however, that the China incident had nothing to do with Clinton because, well, nothing negative ever does.

"To be clear -- this was not Secretary Clinton's hotel room and no citation whatsoever was given to Secretary Clinton, nor were any reports written about Secretary Clinton's conduct." 

Evidently, everyone knew what happens to someone who crosseds a Clinton.

When the security sweep was made, the suite in question was still inside of a Diplomatic Security-controlled area, Kirby claimed, and under direct control of a Diplomatic Security agent posted outside the room.

"Ultimately, Diplomatic Security concluded that classified information had been improperly secured, but that the evidence did not support assigning culpability to any individual [which is a universal problem with Clinton and her ilk]. Furthermore, the Diplomatic Security investigation concluded that due to the fact that the documents were found within a Diplomatic Security controlled area, the liklihood that the information was comprised was remote."

Just like it was remote that Hillary Clinton's mobile devices and private server with classified state department emails would be compromised.

Leaving out classified or top secret information is a serious offense. 

"Diplomatic Security and the Marine Security Guard takes exposure of classified information very seriously," said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy research at the Center for Immigration Studies. "You can lose your security clearance if you're caught more than once, and that means you might lose your job. It's a big deal."

We wish Hillary Clinton would have taken it seriously and we all wonder if she does now.

In 2013, Monica Hanley, a top aide to then-Secretary of State Clinton, got into trouble with the agency's security and law enforcement when she lost classified information while accompanying Clinton on a diplomatic trip to Moscow, normally a friendly country not interested in our secrets. This little incident was also revisited by the FBI earlier this year when it looked into Hillary's own incompetence in handling sensitive data that could easily compromise national security.

Hanley was given a good talking to and "verbal counseling" by Diplomatic Security.

Personally, I believe Clinton should have her security clearance yanked and not be allowed to run for the presidency. Not only is she incompetent in dealing with classified information, she has compromised the integrity of her position as secretary of state and as a presidential candidate by accepting huge sums of money from foreign nations for her "charity front."

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Israel and the PA may talk nicely to each other

Moscow -- Israel and Palestinian leaders have agreed "in principle" to meet in Moscow to discuss what Russia hopes will relaunch the Middle East peace process, it was announced on Thursday by Russia's Foreign Ministry. 

Thus, it appears that Russia, not the Obama administration, is attempting to become a peace broker after this week's setback. On Tuesday, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said a scheduled meeting in Moscow was delayed at Israel's request.

The truth is, an actual diplomatic breakthrough between the two countries is as likely as the return of Elvis. Israel has done political cartwheels and the PA has flipped them off every time.

"Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remain far apart on key issues," reports Fox News, adding that their differences is what prevents them from having a meaningful talk since Bibi took office in 2009.

One of the big issues for Abbas is that he believes Israel does not have the right to exist and should be wiped off the face of the earth. In fact, he would like to see the demise of all Jews throughout the world, (a view also held by many liberal college professors).

Bibi Netanyahu disagrees with Abbas.

The last peace talks over 2 years ago were negotiated by the United States, but broke down when Abbas demanded that Israel halt settlement construction on occupied lands and leave them in their Seventh Century condition. He also demanded the release of Hamassholes that were promised during the last round of sessions.

Netanyahu rejected the terms and said the meeting should be held without conditions.

Meanwhile, in Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Abbas and Netanyahu accepted an invitation to meet in the Russian capital, but no date has been given yet, nor if there was any agenda settlements.

"The most important thing is to pick the right timing," Ms. Zakharova said. "Intensive contacts on this are ongoing."

If Russia can pull this off, it will make Secretary of State John Kerry, President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton look like losers and perhaps put an end to future Obama-Putin staring contests. It would also reflect the growing influence of Russia in the Middle East and the U.S.'s anemic influence.

"If the Palestinian Authority can say with one voice that they are willing to meet without preconditions, then Prime Minister Netanyahu will meet President Abbas," David Keyes, Mr. Netanyahu's spokesman said.

But even if a meeting does take place, the chances for actual progress between the two countries would be slimmer than a fashion model after a two-month bulimia binge.

The PA would like to have won the 1967 Mideast War and established an independent state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem--but they lost, and to the victors goes the spoils of war, as they say. And if Israel gave the PA what they want, that would leave Israel without the chance to defend itself against the inevitable Islamic conquest attempts that would follow, so Netanyahu refused the demand.

Both Abbas and Bibi have accused each other of refusing to partner for a deal. Only one of them is using taqiyya.


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Moscow: Nanny beheads baby, screams "Allahu Akbar"

It's hard to understand the attraction Islamic terrorists have with beheading people. I know it's in the Koran, but the act is so gruesome, you'd think they'd come up with a less horrible way of killing people.

But horrible and gruesome are not the words to describe what happened Monday at a Moscow subway station. 

I would call it inhuman.

People often refer to horrible behavior by comparing it to animal behavior. "He is a disgusting animal to have killed those innocent Christians," for example. That isn't fair to animals--they don't kill their own except in rare cases. Only humans kill their own on a regular basis.

Back to Moscow.

The Russian police arrested a nanny and charged her with murder after they asked to check her documents and she pulled the severed head of a 3- or 4-year-old girl from her bag and yelling the famous Islamic chant: "Allahu Akbar," according to media reports. The child's body was found in a nearby apartment.

Those two words, Allahu Akbar, should serve as a warning to all normal people. If you hear them, go as quickly as you can in the opposite direction of the sound.

The nanny was dressed in a black hijab which I explained in the post entitled: Hijabs and Taqiyya Diahrrea. It is believed that she is from Central Asia.

"Having waited for the parents to leave the flat with their older child, she killed the child for unknown reasons, started the flat on fire and fled," the statement read, according to the Guardian.

The nanny also threatened to blow herself up, but unfortunately, no explosives were found on her.

The motive for the beheading of an innocent baby is unknown and folks even in the USA are scratching their collective heads wondering what all this means. She is undergoing psychiatric testing--I hope they don't show her those Rorschach inkblot cards--all those naked forms and sexual parts are as offensive as bacon to some folks.

Let's see . . . hijab, the Arabic phrase "Allahu Akbar" which means "Allah is greater," beheading an infidel child, the fact that Russia has a recent history of Islamic violence . . . hmm?"

Gee, I wonder if it had anything to do with Islam.

Nah, she said she was having problems with her husband.


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Putin Turns 62 Without a Shirt on His Back

Vladimir Putin is celebrating his 62nd birthday in the wilds of Siberia, about 200 miles from the nearest populated area. Rumor has it that he left his shirt at home.

In Grozny, Chechnya's capital, hoards of butt-kissers carried an enormous Russian flag through the streets. The flag was six and a half football fields long and made from the tears, dreams and dashed hopes of Ukrainian virgins as the peons marched in red, white and blue colors of Russia's tricolors. (It is rumored by the Obama administration that the United States stole our flag colors from the Soviets.)

Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's president, claimed the crowd was 100 thousand strong as he lied through both teeth.

Russian news websites posted 12 ridiculous propaganda photos of the now wrinkled and atrophying Putin in various heroic poses. One photo had Putin depicted as Hercules, battling the Western nations that were disguised as snakes and monsters. He is also shown taming an ox bearing the symbol of Crimea. There was another photo of the Russian leader riding Obama like a horse, paddling his butt with his cowboy hat.

An ad along the sidebar of one website was for "Schtup-Her," Russia's version of Viagra.

While Obama's popularity rate has plummeted since taking office, Putin's is at 86%. Gee, I wonder why.


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Comrade Seagal Calls Putin "Reasonable"

Taking his career cues from Dennis Rodman and Sean Penn, movie tough guy, judo and swimming enthusiast, and overweight has-been, Steven Seagal, is now BFF with Vladimir Putin. Maybe all the rhetoric is a move to rekindle lost interest in a career that has been banished to Siberia, but Seagal believes that Putin's military actions in Crimea were "very reasonable." 

In an interview with Russian language newspaper, Rossiskaya Gazeta, Seagal unabashedly praised Putin, as "one of the greatest living world leaders" and considers him his brother. He might have added: "But if Vladimir wants it to be more than that, well, I'm ready for whatever he's wants."

While Seagal cannot stand Obama and his "idiotic" foreign policy towards Ukraine and Russia, he says that "(Putin's) desire to protect the Russian-speaking people of Crimea, his assets, and the Russian Black Sea military base in Sevastopol . . . is very reasonable." 

Comrade Seagal also says that he would like to take a run at governor of Arizona but in an interview with the same Russian newspaper, he claimed that it is possible that he will apply for Russian citizenship "some time" in the future. I suspect that if he does apply, this would hurt is chances of actually winning the nomination for governor. Of course, if he chose to run as a Democrat, it might work out to his advantage. 

However, at the end of the day, Seagal says that he's a Republican. He also claims to be patriotic but when asked to define the word he was speechless. I say we should kick the can down the road and throw him under the bus. It's idiots like Seagal that give Republicans a bad name, and idiots like Penn and Rodman that give idiots a bad name.

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