In researching the “Gas Attack” and Trump’s attack on Shayrat Syrian AF Base, I ran into this:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-08/confused-about-syria-you-should-be -published 4/8/17. The author claimed “It was only a week ago that the US enunciated a new policy that we would be content for Bashar al Assad to remain in power presiding over the Syrian government — after years of grousing and threats against him. Apparently Trump Central had concluded that Assad was a better alternative than another failed state in the Middle East with no government at all.”

That would be the week BEFORE the alleged gas attack – “Trusting that you’re not additionally confused by all this, why would Assad choose this moment — only days after the US granted him a pass on remaining in power — to do the one thing guaranteed to bring the wrath of the US down him, namely, kill a lot of civilians, including women and children, with poison gas? Either Assad is inconceivably stupid or possibly the gas attack is not exactly what happened.”

And this on top of the increasing cooperation between Trump and Putin on destroying ISIS – the greatest threat to Assad. Everything was going his way! It is completely illogical, totally irrational, even demented, to believe that Assad would order a poison gas attack on anyone at that point, much less an area with many women and children. Bashar Assad is not “a nice man”, but he is a ‘Westernized Muslim’, and not as stupid and arrogant as many of the Muslim dictators and Islamofascist “Religious Leaders”.

This is why I immediately questioned the veracity of the reported “poison gas attack”. The Media is quick to blame Assad for any poison gas use, even when everyone involved knows that the “Rebels”, both Western-backed, and ISIS have (or had) chemical weapons, and the means to produce more. Obviously all the Rebels want to discredit Assad, and ISIS desperately needs to drive a wedge between Trump and Putin. An alliance between USA and Russia similar to WW II against Hitler would prove a quick defeat to ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and possibly world-wide.

I strongly suspect that the real professionals that deal in chemical warfare can use the industrial “taggarts” to identify the probable source of the gas – if actual weaponized gas like Sarin- or the chemical pre-cursers if some “home-made” variety. I suspect in this case there is both “homemade” and an “accidental” component created by the explosions and fires- possibly some combination of chlorine and phosphorus. A much simplified “accidental” version similar to Sarin, which is a complex organo-phosphate.

As concerned Americans, we need to question both the abilities and the motivations of those that may have “railroaded” Trump into the Shayrat attack. Some wanted him to appear strong, some wanted him to be more “warlike” against Assad, some have their own “agendas”, and some are incompetent, overly emotional, and/or just plain stupid. We and President Trump need to figure out who is what, and why.

The Mainstream Media is supporting him in this, which is good in one way, but very suspicious in many others. When they applaud a shift to what they call “Mainstream” or “Centrist”, they really mean the “Status Quo”, typical Lib/Prog Big Govt, or worse. They think “The Swamp” is somehow winning on this.

I seriously think that there will be much more to this story, and serious “fall-out” on many of Trumps enemies of all descriptions. Turkey’s Erdogan has won a referendum to give his Presidency vast new powers. This is bad. He is one that was encouraging Trump’s attack on Syria. He has great ambitions for himself as the emerging Grand Caliph of the new Islamic Califate, and is not to be trusted!

http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/11/heartbroken-ivanka-influenced-trumps-decision-to-bomb-syria/
“Ivanka Trump influenced her father’s decision to strike Syria Thursday, according to her brother, Eric Trump.

The Syrian government’s sarin attack on civilians Tuesday reportedly left Ivanka “heartbroken and outraged.” Her reaction to the strike, which left more than 70 people dead, affected President Donald Trump’s decision, according to The Telegraph.

“Ivanka is a mother of three kids, and she has influence,” Eric said. “I’m sure she said ‘listen, this is horrible stuff.’ My father will act in times like that.”

Eric added the president was “deeply affected” by the images of the dead and dying children beamed across television stations, particularly the shots of children being “sprayed down by hoses to keep their skin from burning.”

http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-syria-rebels-endgame-2017-story.html

This is from the L.A. Times Tuesday April 18th: “When the Syrian government dropped what the U.S. SAYS WERE CHEMICAL MUNITIONS (Caps added) this month in the northwestern province of Idlib, it was targeting a rebel bastion that it helped create.”
This may not seem to important at first but it clearly indicates the LA TIMES now knows that Assad’s AF did not drop the “poison gas”. The story is now going to slowly morph to some semblance of the truth, but with a major effort by the Mainstream Media of blaming the “LIE” on Trump, and not on the Media.

What on earth does any of this have to do with Port O’Connor or Calhoun County?

Big deal. We dropped 59 bombs at $1.59 million each, only to have airplanes taking off and landing on the field we bombed. Not only that, but we “tipped off” the Russians, who likely tipped off their friends in Syria.

How does any of that help or hurt our citizens? Quit living the war in your head and get out a little more. Life is good here, appreciate it.

SMH:

“What on earth does any of this have to do with Port O’Connor or Calhoun County?”, you asked? Well to most of us, what is going on around the world, especially at this point in time, is important. Russia may or may not decide to start a nuclear war with us, but it is probably a good idea to at least be aware that it could happen, and maybe even to understand why. The mainstream media does not always tell the truth, though you seem to mostly agree with them. The Way I see It… is a column that the Dolphin Talk decided Mr. Brayshaw could write about things happening ELSEWHERE. It is not a column about Port O’Connor or even Calhoun County per se, though at times this county has been included.

Believe it or not, there really are many people around here and even in other counties who LIKE reading Mr. Brayshaw’s articles. It is fine if you are not one of them, but maybe you could just take your own advice and maybe YOU should just “get out a little more. Life is good here, appreciate it” . And let those of us who wish to, read and maybe learn something new from some of these articles. You don’t seem to want to do that, so maybe you could just find something else to read in this paper. It is chock full of all the good things and wonderful people that you are forever discussing in your comments about whatever Mr. Brayshaw writes about each time.

As for that last little comment on ‘hate’… Since when is fact finding and trying to educate others, hate? My sister says that to me all the time too. If I try to explain something to her that she disagrees with, she tells me it is sad I am so full of hate. I believe now that you sort of want to be just a tad bit provocative with your negative comments. If that is not so, I apologize, but maybe you should keep your comments to the subject matter.

It is great that you so love your little town, but this column is not about local news. Perhaps you should ask the newspaper if you could start writing a column of your own to let everyone know what a wonderful place Port O’Connor is. Or, as you have mentioned several times in comments on other things, that you are a self-made millionaire, so you might even start your very own newspaper all about the wonders of Port O’Connor and Calhoun County! (Though I thought that was what the Dolphin Talk was already doing.)

SMH:

For someone who always asks “what does this have to do with” Port O’Connor, or Calhoun County, or whatever other local thing or other you think of at the time, I might ask what does what you are writing on here this time, have to do with Mr. Brayshaw’s latest article about President Trump’s decision to bomb Syria. I notice you didn’t agree, or disagree or want to question the article, just once again, you want The Dolphin Talk to be strictly about local news and local people. You do NOT like Mr. Brayshaw it seems or his column. Your choice. I suggest you write a letter to the “letters to the editor” column and say just what you have said here and try to convince the paper to drop Mr. Brayshaw’s opinion column.

Since every article I have ever read by him, gives sources for his information and places to go to check facts, I have no idea what more you would want done on that score. As for your continual harping on the term Vagina Voters, that is NOT something Mr. Brayshaw just arbitrarily made up to incite the wrath of feminist readers, it has been all over the news for quite some time now. I guess Port O’Connor folks have been having to hide their TVs, computers, and Smartphones, from their children all this time too. Here are some of these sites you must have missed, but the kids may not have:

http://reason.com/archives/2015/05/03/meet-the-vagina-voters

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/there-are-no-vagina-voters-20160711

https://armoryoftherevolution.wordpress.com/2016/04/24/vagina-voters/

http://www.alternet.org/comments/election-2016/libertarian-go-after-so-called-vagina-voters-which-body-part-are-they-thinking

http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/14/bernie-bros-and-vagina-voters-is-democratic-unity-possible/

Of course you will say these are all ‘nutjob’ sites, but that is not the point. The point is, Mr. Brayshaw did not make this term up, or if he had, I assure you the Dolphin Talk would most definitely have asked him not to use it.

You are quite right about most of us wondering now where all the HATE is coming from, and since the out and out violence now seems to be coming most exclusively from the progressive left, the Trump haters, the Black Lives Matter folks, BAMN (By Any Means Necessary), the militant LGBTQ groups, George Soros’ many groups, etc., that might give some indication where it is originating. You personally sound very angry that this nutjob column is allowed to be in your little hometown newspaper. Mr. Brayshaw does not seem angry at all when he writes, just a bit frustrated perhaps that the progressive Democrats seem to have lost sight of what is the right thing to do for the country and the people. Those of us who agree, enjoy his column. Those of you who don’t agree, as you say, ‘you are sick of hearing and reading it’… then don’t! There is nothing at all stopping you from reading the entire rest of this paper. Enjoy!

Karla B.

There is no trustworthy expert reports on the chemical content of what the Media now calls “a Sarin-like gas”, but an internet search today turned up this:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/top-ten-reasons-to-doubt-official-story-on-assad-poison-gas-attack/5585122
“ONE: Photos show rescue workers treating/decontaminating people injured or killed in the gas attack. The workers aren’t wearing gloves or protective gear. Only the clueless or crazy would expose themselves to sarin residue, which can be fatal.

TWO: MIT professor Thomas Postol told RT,

“I believe it can be shown, without doubt, that the [US intelligence] document does not provide any evidence whatsoever that the US government has concrete knowledge that the government of Syria was the source of the chemical attack in Khan Shaykhun…Any competent analyst would have had questions about whether the debris in the crater was staged or real. No competent analyst would miss the fact that the alleged sarin canister was forcefully crushed from above, rather than exploded by a munition within it.” How would a canister purportedly dropped from an Assad-ordered plane incur “crushing from above?”

THREE: Why would President Assad, supported by Russia, scoring victory after victory against ISIS, moving closer to peace negotiations, suddenly risk all his gains by dropping sarin gas on his own people?

FOUR: In an interview with Scott Horton, ex-CIA officer Philip Giraldi states that his intelligence and military sources indicate Assad didn’t attack his own people with poison gas.

FIVE: Ex-CIA officer Ray McGovern states that his military sources report an Assad air strike did hit a chemical plant, and the fallout killed people, but the attack was not planned for that purpose. There was no knowledge the chemicals were lethal.

SIX: At consortiumnews.com, journalist Robert Parry writes,

“There is a dark mystery behind the White House-released photo showing President Trump and more than a dozen advisers meeting at his estate in Mar-a-Lago after his decision to strike Syria with Tomahawk missiles: Where are CIA Director Mike Pompeo and other top intelligence officials?”

“Before the photo was released on Friday, a source told me that Pompeo had personally briefed Trump on April 6 about the CIA’s belief that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was likely not responsible for the lethal poison-gas incident in northern Syria two days earlier — and thus Pompeo was excluded from the larger meeting as Trump reached a contrary decision.”

“After the attack, Secretary of State Tillerson, who is not an institutional intelligence official and has little experience with the subtleties of intelligence, was the one to claim that the U.S. intelligence community assessed with a ‘high degree of confidence’ that the Syrian government had dropped a poison gas bomb on civilians in Idlib province.”

“While Tillerson’s comment meshed with Official Washington’s hastily formed groupthink of Assad’s guilt, it is hard to believe that CIA analysts would have settled on such a firm conclusion so quickly, especially given the remote location of the incident and the fact that the initial information was coming from pro-rebel (or Al Qaeda) sources.”

“Thus, a serious question arises whether President Trump did receive that ‘high degree of confidence’ assessment from the intelligence community or whether he shunted Pompeo aside to eliminate an obstacle to his desire to launch the April 6 rocket attack.”

SEVEN: As soon as the Assad gas attack was reported, the stage was set for a US missile strike. No comprehensive investigation of the purported gas attack was undertaken.

EIGHT: There are, of course, precedents for US wars based on false evidence—the missing WMDs in Iraq, the claims of babies being pushed out of incubators in Kuwait, to name just two.

NINE: Who benefits from the sarin gas story? Assad? Or US neocons; the US military-industrial complex; Pentagon generals who want a huge increase in their military budget; Trump and his team, who are suddenly praised in the press, after a year of being pilloried at every turn; and ISIS?

TEN: For those who doubt that ISIS has ever used poison gas, see the NY Times (11/21/2016). While claiming that Assad has deployed chemical attacks, the article also states that ISIS has deployed chemical weapons 52 times since 2014.”

I don’t blame Trump other than believing his “advisers”. He has no training in NBC Warfare (Nuclear, Bacteriological, & Chemical), and with all the Media hoopla about the “poison gas” as A FACT when their scientific and military experts SHOULD have been at least somewhat questioning about the above issues.
I also find it curious that there has been no confirmable hard news on this. 19 days? I’m not even considering RT and other Russian sources. I won’t believe them on this, so I’m not going to foster it off on you readers.
When I find something, I will pass it on.

Feminism isn’t about only supporting and voting for women, it’s about giving them equal opportunity to have the same rights to power as anyone else. Which means voting, which means equal pay for equal wok. Which means not being shut out of opportunity to gain achievement based on only their sex. You asked how the feminists respond, I answered. Karla, you ok with that, or would you prefer to censor my voice?

SMH
You say here, feminism is about giving women the equal opportunity to have the same rights to power as anyone else. Now I am Shaking MY Head. You want women to have the same rights to power? First of all, I don’t believe that ‘having power’ is a right. Power generally means being able to force someone to do something against their will. YOU seem to think power just means equal rights for women. I am curious as to where you moved from when you moved to Port O’Connor? I am 71, have lived in 8 different states and have had several occupations, but I don’t remember being discriminated against because I was a woman, in any of them. I will admit being an aircraft mechanic was a bit of a hassle at times, but once most employers find out you ‘can do the job’, that is the end of it. Sometimes ‘things get said’. Big deal. I knew I was in a mostly male dominated field, so do I think I am going to help myself by crying and whining about every crappy thing that might have been done or said? Nah! Some may have thought I shouldn’t be there, but so what? I guess they grew tougher women back in the ’70s, instead of the little snowflakes that now whine and cry ‘abuse’ at the drop of a hat.

In recent memory, the biggest story about unequal pay for women was that Hillary Clinton did not pay the women that worked for her the same as she paid the men.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/18/hillary-clintons-huge-112k-gender-pay-gap-at-found/

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-05-12/hillary-clintons-equal-pay-hypocrisy

Yes, SMH, I am okay with you answering me and giving your opinions, I am not the one who said a word about censoring anyone. It seems to me, however that censoring Mr. Brayshaw, is exactly what you have been advocating in your last couple of posts. Is it okay for YOUR opinion to be heard because you think it is the correct opinion to have? You obviously dislike most anything Mr. Brayshaw has to say, so I guess HIS opinion doesn’t count and no one should have to read it because you consider it to be hate speech? The side YOU chose should be listened to, but the opposing opinions should not?

Oh, just a short comment on your post about liking the math in Minnesota. This is the Huffington Post you realize? This is also a recent sequence of events. I will be curious to see how long this Utopia lasts. My question to you is, as a self made millionaire, if you were to move to Minnesota, you would obviously be very happy to be one of the few who paid ALL the taxes so everyone there could make their $9.50 minimum wage, right? Just askin’…

SMH:

You may be rich and may be able to pay whoever works for you $15 an hour (you still didn’t answer the question of would you be willing to be one of the ONLY ones paying taxes though), but you certainly do not retain much that you read, even in just a few short paragraphs. Must be you think no one else is reading any of this, and maybe they aren’t, but putting words in other peoples’ mouths or in other people’s replies to your comments is kinda silly. First you accused me of wanting to censor your voice, this time you accused me of possibly having problems with millionaires (???) and also of asking YOU to get advertisers for this paper to stop advertising. Please go back and copy/paste my asking you to do that. I DID recommend for you to either stop reading this column you seem to hate so much, contact the newspaper, or start a blog or a paper of your own. I personally don’t have a problem with the paper printing other points of view, like you seem to. And other than being provocative, there is no reason here for you to have started calling the columnist, Mr. Bradshaw all of a sudden. But in case you really HAVE forgotten, it is “The Way I See It…by William D. Brayshaw, aka Longknife 21”

If you despise his, as you call them, “cray cray rants” so much why not take up my other suggestion and contact the lady who puts this paper together, and complain to her? I doubt she thinks they are that beyond crazy and deranged or she would never put them in her paper. Once again, SMH… YOU think his column is useless… so… voila… it must be useless to everyone. I thought liberal progressives were supposed to be, above all… tolerant! I guess that is just something else that is said on all the ‘fake news’ sites now. Oh, and I had thought to mention Saul Alinsky in my last post, but I was not sure if you had progressed that far yet.

Following a conversation (debate) and actually being included in some regard, is different.

As I have mentioned in the past, to address comments of SMH is nothing more than fueling the fire. To paraphrase. #1 Her mind is made up #2 Her mind is made up #3 Any acknowledgement, which gives credence to anything said by her, re-affirms her mind being made up and adds reason to respond.

Thank you, Mike. This month has proven you were right, as usual.
I only “violated” my new policy of ignoring her to point out to other readers that her methods and tactics are pure Alinsky – “Leninisms” adapted for American democracy and media, and this month she has admitted it.
And to put the lie to her accusations of a lack of editing by Joyce. She can say what she will about me. Mox Nix.
Her insults are almost as refreshing as Liberals’ tears from their defeats.

Trump is going to support Assad in Syria. Because he’s for Putin most of all. Watch and see.

Karla B – maybe you didn’t read in an earlier post where I said I do not believe paying less taxes = more patriotic. But if you happen to support that House of Rep repeal of Obamacare, well, thanks for the 50% cut in my taxes. I’ll send it all to Planned Parenthood in Victoria, OK?