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Judge Jeanine - Handcuffs needed at the FBI (Video)
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  People here have been saying this exact thing ever since Holder started corrupting the FBI.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 12/11/2017 1:22 Comments || Top||

#2  If it can be shown that FBI agent Ohr (or others within the Bureau) were colluding with the DNC, Christopher Steel or Fusion GPS on the Trump dossier and US taxpayer dollars were being paid to Russian intelligence agents; well, that may become a very big deal.


Posted by: Besoeker || 12/11/2017 1:45 Comments || Top||

#3  It's hard to tell what critters might be exposed as more and more rocks get turned over.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/11/2017 11:23 Comments || Top||

#4  If someone can get Sessions of top-dead-center, maybe. Kinda makes me wonder if he doesn't have some skin in the game.
Posted by: gorb || 12/11/2017 13:04 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Behind Saleh’s bizarre decision to turn against the Houthis
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] I never personally heard President Ali Abdulah Saleh make his famous statement that ruling Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
was like "dancing on the heads of snakes." In fact, the last time I saw him in 2004 with Doctor Abdulkarim al-Iryani, the Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ...
movement was just getting started. I had seen its banners in Saada and Dahyan. I remember Saleh saying about the Houthi movement: "They are a demon Yemen has never known before, and it has known many demons throughout its modern and old history". However,
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Posted by: Fred || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Houthis


Home Front: Politix
No One Ever Drowned in Roy Moore's Car
[American Thinker] In 1990, when liberal journalists still had some sense of obligation to the truth, Michael Kelly wrote the following for GQ:
As [Carla] Gaviglio enters the room, the six-foot-two, 225-plus-pound [Sen. Ted] Kennedy grabs the five-foot-three, 103-pound waitress and throws her on the table. She lands on her back, scattering crystal, plates and cutlery and the lit candles. Several glasses and a crystal candlestick are broken. Kennedy then picks her up from the table and throws her on [Sen. Chris] Dodd, who is sprawled in a chair. With Gaviglio on Dodd's lap, Kennedy jumps on top and begins rubbing his genital area against hers, supporting his weight on the arms of the chair. As he is doing this, Loh enters the room. She and Gaviglio both scream, drawing one or two dishwashers. Startled, Kennedy leaps up. He laughs. Bruised, shaken and angry over what she considered a sexual assault, Gaviglio runs from the room.

The incident above took place in 1985 at the restaurant La Brasserie in Washington, D.C., where Loh and Gavigilio both worked as waitresses. Everyone in Washington knew about it, including Sen. Claire McCaskill. Here is what McCaskill had to say about Kennedy's behavior upon his death in 2009:
This man was so much more than his image. While his vision soared, the power of his personality and the magnet of his intellect drew his colleagues to the table of compromise. It was there he did his best work. His love for the little guy and his affection for the underdog influenced everything he did. And importantly, his sense of humor and contagious laughter made him real and approachable in spite of his power and privilege.

Although more than enough to kill a Republican's career, the infamous "waitress sandwich" barely made Kennedy's highlight reel. For sheer moral squalor, it was hard to top Chappaquiddick. This 1969 incident is well enough known; in brief, Kennedy hosted a drunken party at an isolated beach house whose guests included exactly six married men and six single women.

Late that night, Kennedy and one of the women, Mary Jo Kopechne, left for their own private party at an equally isolated beach but never made it. The car went off a small bridge. Ted Kennedy left Mary Jo alive, trapped in the car and gasping for air. He bypassed homes near the bridge, from which he could have called the police, and walked over a mile back to the party house. Once there, he sought out his lawyer friends, Joe Gargan and Paul Markham, to help him work out his alibi. Compromised by a presumed lawyer-client relationship, they had to wait for Kennedy to call for help. Kennedy never did. He may have been hoping that Gargan, the family fixer, would take the rap. Mary Jo, meanwhile, struggled to survive for perhaps an hour, even more, before suffocating.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/11/2017 02:27 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yes but think about the times when you've been really, really, really drunk out of your ever loving gourd and remember that for Kennedy it was like that every day.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/11/2017 10:52 Comments || Top||

#2  No way in hell Fat Ted was just 225 pounds.
Posted by: Raj || 12/11/2017 14:08 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Rep. Steve King: 'Diversity is not our strength'
[The Hill] Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said that diversity is no America's strength in a pair of tweets Friday.

King linked to an article by the Voice of Europe Friday that quoted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban saying that cultures shouldn’t be mixed, arguing that it’s "against common sense."

King tweeted the story with the message, "Diversity is not our strength."

"Assimilation has become a dirty word to the multiculturalist Left. Assimilation, not diversity, is our American strength," he tweeted.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/11/2017 04:55 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And here I thought that that the problem was that the ruling elite was an absolute monoculture - demonizing any difference of opinion.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/11/2017 6:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Alpha Phi Alpha, Omega Psi Phi and Phi Beta Sigma Greeks might agree. But it should not be a topic of discussion in an open forum.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/11/2017 6:57 Comments || Top||

#3  This is one of those stupid arguments that are impossible to resolve on theoretical or hypothetical arguments.


I've got two grand-kids that argue about whether caramel sauce or chocalate sauce is better on ice cream....no one argues about poop on ice cream, but hypothetically................
Posted by: AlanC || 12/11/2017 8:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Kind of related. NFL Tickets Fall to an Incredible $4 Apiece

Best comment. "Wonder how the $12 beer is holding up?."
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/11/2017 8:21 Comments || Top||



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