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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Christine Blasey Ford's high school year book with party stories
[blog]
The pre-scrubbing version of the yearbook at link. It has the actual pages and the commentary. This school was party central for badly behaving young girls.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/20/2018 13:34 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds awesome.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/20/2018 13:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Nice caught, 3dc
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/20/2018 13:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Link seems to have gone viral.

It's newsworthy because they tried to hide it!

It's not the crime, it's the cover up that demonstrates malicious intent.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/20/2018 14:19 Comments || Top||

#4  She is a hoax, just like the entire democrat party is a Hoax.
NEVER put these worthless people in charge.

They came from hell, the democrats, and they are going right back to it.

Or, continue voting for these worthless motherfuckers and let me curse the Nation once and for all.
get it over with.
Posted by: newc || 09/20/2018 15:05 Comments || Top||

#5  And I will make a further comment:
Want to save the forests from becoming junk mail pulp? Want to make "news" back into news? Want to get companies back to product and not divisive PR organs for one side or another. Want to get the NFL back to doing football and nothing else and Nike back to shoes?
Then... consider revisiting some tax write offs.
1) get rid of the advertising tax write off!
2) get rid of IRS depreciations on players
3) get rid of special tax breaks for sports teams, sites, events and promoters.
4) get rid of special mailing rates for junk mailings and for politicians.
Each one of these special rules erase a bit of your taxes that could be erasing the national debt and by not doing so also raise the cost of debt servicing to the US gov. (BTW your debt.)
Oh and all of those who benefit from the above help the democrats with propaganda.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/20/2018 15:22 Comments || Top||

#6  I believe her that she got felt up...the bigger question is how many times.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 09/20/2018 15:45 Comments || Top||

#7  #6 that question is well described here:
Posted by: 3dc || 09/20/2018 16:12 Comments || Top||

#8  An angel, among angels.
Posted by: anymouse || 09/20/2018 16:42 Comments || Top||


Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Encourages Deep State to Defy President Trump's Declassification Order
[GP] The Deep State is in an obvious panic mode since President Donald Trump ordered a number of documents relating to the Russia investigation be declassified. Joining the loud choir of those who are pushing for insubordination against the president is former CIA Director John Brennan.

Appearing on MSNBC on Tuesday, Brennan urged people in the intelligence community to ignore the president’s order. The former CIA head was stripped of his security clearance by Trump in August for his bizarre behavior.

"A number of individuals are trying to protect Mr. Trump and abusing their authorities and their powers, whether it be in Congress or within the executive branch," Brennan said.

"And this is something that I am hoping that individuals of conscience are going to stop and prevent because I am concerned that this is just one indication that Mr. Trump is going to increasingly look for steps to take in order to further try to subvert the Mueller investigation," Brennan continued.

Brennan joins Rep. Adam Schiff, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Senator Mark Warner, and Senator Charles Schumer who sent a letter to the heads of the intelligence agencies demanding that they commit an act of insubordination and defy the presidential order.

"Your agencies’ review, and any communication with the White House on the substance of the material, should not proceed further until you have briefed the Gang of Eight in person," the letter orders.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/20/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  That traitorous ass should be stood against the wall and executed. Inciting disobedience to lawful orders is a crime. Jail that commie bastard.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 09/20/2018 0:58 Comments || Top||

#2  I still say grind up his prayer rug and jam it down his throat with a sausage making machine.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/20/2018 1:57 Comments || Top||

#3  That's what happens when a president doesn't have an attorney general
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/20/2018 4:43 Comments || Top||

#4  So we can all ignore rules we don't like...

How handy.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/20/2018 5:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Brennan and his Deep State cohorts are hiding something. What is it ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/20/2018 7:05 Comments || Top||

#6  Everyone above GS-13 needs fired. Everyone that is shown to pull shit like this needs jailed. Ringleaders shot.

Then cut all the agencies down 75% and re-evaluate all budgets and missions.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/20/2018 9:28 Comments || Top||

#7 
"Brennan joins Rep. Adam Schiff, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Senator Mark Warner, and Senator Charles Schumer who sent a letter to the heads of the intelligence agencies demanding that they commit an act of insubordination and defy the presidential order."

Wait, I'm confused: I thought there was no such thing as the "Deep State"? And here there's blatant, obvious proof that it definitely exists? And these traitors are giving it its marching orders?

Round up these traitors and disappear them.
Posted by: Dave D. || 09/20/2018 10:36 Comments || Top||

#8  Coup attempt. Period.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 09/20/2018 11:08 Comments || Top||


#10  This is a dangerous man. He needs to go to jail.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/20/2018 11:11 Comments || Top||

#11  I met libertarians the past two weeks who have just as much disgust for Deep State as Conservatives.

Time to form alliances.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 09/20/2018 11:13 Comments || Top||

#12  Only one thing is worse than a Civil War - loosing one.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/20/2018 11:38 Comments || Top||

#13  He meets the definition for sedition.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 09/20/2018 12:10 Comments || Top||

#14  Want to knock out the Dem support base? Take away the tax deduction for advertising. Seriously, think about it. All media including Google and FB lose their reason to exist.
Posted by: 3dc || 09/20/2018 13:07 Comments || Top||

#15  Also tax films on the value of their copyright*, not the "profits" (hollywood accounting is dodgy as F).

Value is set by owner and on permanent "sale". Fines for breach of copyright set based on copyright value.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/20/2018 14:21 Comments || Top||


DOJ Looking into ‘Misuse of Government Resources’ Alleged in Project Veritas ‘Deep State’ Sting
[BREITBART] The U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday it would look into alleged "misuse of government resources to advance personal interests" in response to a video from James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas purporting to expose "deep state" federal employees.

In the video, a Department of Justice paralegal, Allison Hrabar, is caught on camera saying there is "a lot of talk about how we can, like, resist from inside."

Hrabar is reportedly a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). She talks about how she has a friend, who is also a member of DSA, working in the Department of Agriculture and "slowing down" the process by which people get cut off from food stamps.

"We have a member who works for the people who distribute food stamps, and they can, like, take that away, and they’re slowing what they do... What they’re doing means that people are going to be able to stay on food stamps for another month or two, which is, like, really important," Hrabar said.

The video also suggests that Hrabar is seemingly using her work computer at the DOJ to research DSA’s political targets, apparently including looking up a lobbyist’s license plate to organize a protest outside his home.

Another person featured in O’Keefe’s video is Jessica Schubel, who is a "former Chief of Staff for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services during the last B.O. regime," according to Project Veritas.

Schubel can be seen discussing that there is "like, a little resistance movement" inside the government in Washington. She can also be seen stating that she received confidential information from a friend at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Posted by: Fred || 09/20/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sure they are
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 09/20/2018 2:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Need to make it easy to fire gov employees. Easier than it is to fire employees out in the real world.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 09/20/2018 10:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe job term limits for the extortion funded sector.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/20/2018 12:03 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Ford's Lawyers Attempt To Set The Terms, Conditions & Date Of Her Testimony
[The Hill] - The woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault says she's willing to testify next week under certain conditions that have yet to be negotiated.

The lawyer for Christine Blasey Ford told the Senate Judiciary Committee in an email that Ford would be prepared to testify next week if senators offer "terms that are fair and which ensure her safety," The New York Times reported on Thursday.

CNN's Manu Raju shared a copy of the email from Ford's lawyers on Twitter.

Ford's lawyers in recent days have urged the FBI to open an investigation into Ford's sexual assault claim before she sits for a public hearing.

One of Ford's lawyers, Debra Katz, in the email said it "is not possible" for Ford to testify publicly on Monday, as the committee scheduled.

"The Committee’s insistence that it occur then is arbitrary in any event," she wrote, according to the Times.

Katz wrote that she will set up a call with senators on the committee "later on Thursday" to further discuss the proposal.

Ford is accusing Kavanaugh of holding her down and attempting to take off her clothing during a high school party in the 1980s.

To summarize - they want unspecified terms, an assurance of Ford's safety (I'm not buying the claim that she was driven out of her house - Democrats pull that shit on conservatives) and in any event, it's not going to happen on Monday. I hope we don't fold on this one.
Posted by: Raj || 09/20/2018 15:31 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They just want to push this past midterm elections.

At this point I would tell her if she isn't there on Monday, her accusation will be round filed where it belongs.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/20/2018 16:05 Comments || Top||

#2  In reality she did not leave her home due to threats. She left her home so should would not be confronted with questions from reporters that she has not conjured up reasonably, sounding answers for in regards to this fabrication.

The terms and conditions are meant to delay the confirmation.

All a charade that DC knuckle heads will go along with to the fullest.
Posted by: Jeasing Jeaque5937 || 09/20/2018 16:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Subpoena her, and put her in jail for lying
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/20/2018 16:18 Comments || Top||

#4  It's "modified limited hang-out" time. The "negotiations" will "fail," leaving dems to insist Ford "did not get to tell her story." But the uncorroborated accusation will remain.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/20/2018 16:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Guess who's actually getting death threats?

"Citing an internal law enforcement report that details threats to the protectee, a senior administration official told CNN Thursday that the number of death threats made against Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh and his family have increased since Ford’s allegations came to light. The official said there are several current threats against the Kavanaughs that law enforcement deems credible, while several others have been opened and closed since he was nominated."
Posted by: Raj || 09/20/2018 16:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Subpoena her, and put her in jail for lying
Posted by g(r)omgoru


Won't happen. Haven't you noticed, they've been kissing her arse in an attempt to get her to testify. They'll KEEP kissing her arse. As we know, all men are evil.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/20/2018 16:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Probably need more time so she can present a narrative without sounding like a lunatic, yet avoid actually answering questions in a concrete way.

In the meantime, gives the investigators time to hack Kavanaugh's high school academic and medical records.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/20/2018 17:16 Comments || Top||

#8  I wonder if Diane "Moneybags" Feinstein will gladly cough up that note.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/20/2018 17:46 Comments || Top||

#9  Screw her. It makes no difference. Confirm him already.
Posted by: newc || 09/20/2018 18:08 Comments || Top||

#10  That's precisely why Feinstein oughta cough up the note...to "screw her".
Posted by: DooDahMan || 09/20/2018 18:53 Comments || Top||

#11  Send federal marshals to 'protect her', and escort her to the hearing room.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/20/2018 20:30 Comments || Top||

#12  Snipers in the galleries,....
Posted by: crazyhorse || 09/20/2018 21:14 Comments || Top||


Sen. Mazie Hirono to men: 'Just shut up and step up'
[USATODAY] Sen. Mazie Hirono did not hold back Tuesday in her condemnation of the handling of professor Christine Blasey Ford's allegation of a decades-old sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, telling men to "shut up and step up."

The Hawaii Democrat slammed the Senate Judiciary Committee's move to hold a hearing on the allegation on Monday and said the men on the committee should join the call for an FBI investigation ahead of any testimony from Kavanaugh or Ford. Hirono is a member of the committee.

Hirono said she expected "the enlightened men in our country" to "rise up to say, 'We cannot continue the victimization and the smearing of someone like Dr. Ford.'"
Posted by: Fred || 09/20/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Step up" often implies "speak up", so she's saying:

"Shut and talk!"?

Is this gonna be like that "It's your duty to risk false accusations of assault by mentoring us" wheeze from some months back?
Posted by: charger || 09/20/2018 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  I stopped listening a l o n g time ago, hon. You can demand whatever. Just don't expect me to hop to your tune.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/20/2018 1:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Is this gonna be like that

I see black widows and coral snakes all the time. I have not stopped going into my garage or out into the woods. I just avoid getting bitten.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/20/2018 1:54 Comments || Top||

#4  IMHO there are a lotta folk like you who need to shut up and step down.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 09/20/2018 2:05 Comments || Top||

#5  lots of rumors today that this is a case of mistaken identity and Ford's encounter was with people from a different prep school.
Posted by: lord garth || 09/20/2018 6:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh, we've stepped up sister. You never have. Until you and yours make up for that disparate impact, be prepared for push back, big time.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/20/2018 6:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Senator Hazy Moron-o
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/20/2018 8:00 Comments || Top||

#8  As soon as you get in the kitchen and make me a sandwich, beeeotch!
Posted by: Raj || 09/20/2018 8:54 Comments || Top||

#9  They have. Well, more like shut up and stepped away. Red pilled it, MGTOW'ed it, whatever you want to call it.

More and more they are leaving women single, alone and unmarried. And women are freaking out about it.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/20/2018 9:25 Comments || Top||

#10  Smearing of Dr. Ford???

What about Kavanaugh?

Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 09/20/2018 10:04 Comments || Top||

#11  Bitch.
Posted by: Dave D. || 09/20/2018 10:30 Comments || Top||

#12  Since Mazie represents Hawaii, she might want to visit the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor and thank the men down there that she can speak out about her total ignorance. And also that she can do it in English rather than in Japanese.
Posted by: Tom || 09/20/2018 12:36 Comments || Top||

#13  And what exactly are you a doctor of, Ms. Venkman Ford?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/20/2018 12:44 Comments || Top||

#14  Lazy Mazie - it was "her turn" to be governor a while back so she phoned it in (sound familiar?). Got waxed by a republican, Linda Lingle, in Hawaii which has maybe three people who vote GOP.
Posted by: Whaique Mussolini4437 || 09/20/2018 12:50 Comments || Top||

#15  What James Woods said in a twitter.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/20/2018 15:58 Comments || Top||


Government
Trump on Sessions: 'I don't have an attorney general'
[bbc] US President Donald Trump has said he does not "have an attorney general" in his fiercest attack yet on Jeff Sessions.

In an interview with Hill.TV, Mr Trump renewed criticism of Mr Sessions' decision to step aside from the inquiry into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.

He also said he was unhappy with Mr Sessions' response to immigration.

The attorney general is yet to respond to Mr Trump's comments.

It is unusual for a sitting president to attack their attorney general and critics accuse Mr Trump of trying to meddle in the legal system.

After the president criticised Mr Sessions last month, two key Republican senators signalled that they would support Mr Trump if he were to fire Mr Sessions after the November mid-term elections.

However, other Republicans told Politico they thought this would be a bad move and said they were standing by the attorney general.

Mr Sessions has pushed back against previous criticism by Mr Trump. "While I am attorney general, the actions of the Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations," he said in August.

"I demand the highest standards, and where they are not met, I take action."

Russia-Trump: Who's who in the drama to end all dramas?
Will Trump remain bulletproof?
Mr Sessions was an early supporter of Mr Trump's presidential campaign.

But he left the Russia investigation - which is reportedly looking into whether Mr Trump attempted to obstruct justice - in 2017, citing a potential conflict of interest, and handed control to his deputy, Rod Rosenstein.

The president insists there was no collusion between his campaign and the Russian government, and denies he has attempted to obstruct justice.

Posted by: 3dc || 09/20/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He's a lawyer AND a politician. What did you expect?!
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 09/20/2018 2:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump works 18 hours per day. I suspect Sessions sleeps 18 hours per day. I can easily understand the disconnect.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/20/2018 7:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Sessions was the Deep State mole from the beginning.
Posted by: Gleath Spusock3699 || 09/20/2018 11:17 Comments || Top||



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