#2
Well when people like the Champ secure the popular vote in elections and varmits like the Beest become popular presidential candidates, what are we to expect. I am least of all hopeful.
"In many jurisdictions, crime labs receive money for each conviction they contribute to, according to a 2013 study in the journal Criminal Justice Ethics. Statutes in Florida and North Carolina mandate that judges provide labs with remuneration “upon conviction” and only upon conviction. Alabama, Arizona, California, Missouri, Wisconsin, Tennessee, New Mexico, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Virginia are among the states with similar provisions."
[Daily Caller] Hillary Clinton has some explaining to do about one of the Clinton Foundation's biggest benefactors -- Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk. According to Newsweek, the 54-year-old courted the Clintons at least nine times and has been trading with Iran.
In fact, earlier in the year, he was confirmed as the largest individual contributor to the foundation.
Pinchuk owns Interpipe Group, a Cyprus-incorporated maker of seamless pipes for the oil and gas industry. Newsweek points out that both rail and oil and gas sectors are sanctioned by the US, "which specifically prohibits any single invoice to the Iranian petrochemical industry worth more than $1m." It takes miles of pipe to build a nuclear reactor. Inquiring minds and all of that.
#2
Undoing? I'm not so sure John. Appears we've become a society of self-promoting, Facebook narcissists who live by the Hildebeest's code of 'Hurray for me, ...k YOU!'
Cindy Archer, one of the lead architects of Wisconsin's Act 10 -- also called the "Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill," it limited public-employee benefits and altered collective-bargaining rules for public-employee unions -- was jolted awake by yelling, loud pounding at the door, and her dogs' frantic barking. The entire house -- the windows and walls -- was shaking.
..."I begged and begged, 'Please don't shoot my dogs, please don't shoot my dogs, just don't shoot my dogs.' I couldn't get them to stop barking, and I couldn't get them outside quick enough. I saw a gun and barking dogs. I was scared and knew this was a bad mix."
"IT'S A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH."
That was the first thought of "Anne" (not her real name). Someone was pounding at her front door. It was early in the morning -- very early -- and it was the kind of heavy pounding that meant someone was either fleeing from -- or bringing -- trouble.
"It was so hard. I'd never heard anything like it. I thought someone was dying outside."
She ran to the door, opened it, and then chaos. "People came pouring in. For a second I thought it was a home invasion. It was terrifying. They were yelling and running, into every room in the house. One of the men was in my face, yelling at me over and over and over."
It was indeed a home invasion, but the people who were pouring in were Wisconsin law-enforcement officers. Armed, uniformed police swarmed into the house. Plainclothes investigators cornered her and her newly awakened family. Soon, state officials were seizing the family's personal property, including each person's computer and smartphone, filled with the most intimate family information.
"THEY FOLLOWED ME TO MY KIDS' ROOMS."
For the family of "Rachel" (not her real name), the ordeal began before dawn -- with the same loud, insistent knocking. Still in her pajamas, Rachel answered the door and saw uniformed police, poised to enter her home.
When Rachel asked to wake her children herself, the officer insisted on walking into their rooms. The kids woke to an armed officer, standing near their beds. Moral Clarity, that's what I like
#2
Yes, Wisconsin, the cradle of the progressive movement and home... was giving birth to a new progressive idea, the use of law enforcement as a political instrument, as a weapon to attempt to undo election results, shame opponents, and ruin lives.
Sort of like the "Chicago Way?" Reads like something that would happen in a banana republic.
#3
As I said yesterday, long past time to start giving armed resistance to crap like this. See if the tyrants and bullies in these departments are willing to go up against a wall of armed citizens that feel they have nothing left to lose.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
