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-Lurid Crime Tales-
John Hinckley Jr. to Be Freed 35 Years After Attempting to Assassinate Ronald Reagan
John Hinckley Jr. will be released from a federal mental hospital 35 years after he attempted to assassinate former President Ronald Reagan.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. determined Wednesday that Hinckley, 61, is no longer a threat to himself or others. He will be released to live full-time with his mother in Williamsburg, Va., as early as next week.

The court order prohibits Hinckley from contacting his victims, their relatives, and actress Jodie Foster, who he had developed an obsession with. Hinckley will be bound to a 50-mile radius from Williamsburg and is barred from "knowingly" traveling to locations where there are current presidents or member of Congress.
How about former presidents?
Hinckley will also be barred from accessing social media, consuming alcohol, and possessing a firearm.
Weed's OK.
The judge said Hinckley may be allowed to live on his own after a year, removing the attempted assassin from court control for the first time since the 1981 shooting.

On March 30, 1981, Hinckley fired six shots at then-President Reagan outside the Washington Hilton Hotel in an assassination attempt intended to impress Foster.
Turns out she's homosexual. I'll bet that was a disappointment.
Reagan was immediately rushed to the hospital and spent nearly two weeks recovering from gun wounds and severe blood loss. His press secretary James Brady was shot in the head and left paralyzed.

Nearly a year after the attack, a federal jury in Washington found Hinckley not guilty by reason of insanity.

Reagan's daughter, Patti Davis, told NPR last year that the court's not guilty decision was a "bad verdict."

"You can't say well if he shot the butcher it would be different," Davis said. "He did try to shoot a president. We hold that crime in a different category than we do other attempted murders."
Create yet another law raising the political class above the peons?
Posted by: gorb || 07/27/2016 12:55 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wonder if someone has filled his head with how Donald Trump dated and mistreated Jodi Foster or something similar.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/27/2016 14:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, you know, Donald and the Hildabeest both like the wymyns. Donald's already got a good one. Hill might have her eye on Jody.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/27/2016 15:05 Comments || Top||

#3  You're evil, #2 Frank.

I love it. :-D
Posted by: Barbara || 07/27/2016 15:33 Comments || Top||

#4  "A federal judge in Washington, D.C...."

fify
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 07/27/2016 18:49 Comments || Top||


Rush: DNC Server Hack Story Isn't Done Yet
RUSH: The hack of a DNC server. The Democrats just can't wait to tell you the Russians did it, and they're dragging out all of these security experts to tell you that there are signals, there are bits of evidence that the Russian hackers did it. There were two teams, two different Russian hacker teams working independently. They didn't know they were both inside the Democrat National Committee server. This is the story. One was the old KGB, and the other was the defense security. Two different "apartments," Apartment 28, Apartment 29, APT28 and APT29 -- two different hacker groups, Russian intel -- were in the DNC server at the same time.

They say there are crumbs of evidence that the cyber intelligence people have found. Okay, maybe, but it's awfully convenient. There's a lot to say about this, folks, this hacking business. To me, the most important thing about this is it isn't over. There is much more to come. We don't know when it's coming, but I think we can rest assured that whoever hacked the Democrat National Committee computer network also hacked Hillary's idiotic private little server in the basement in Chappaqua.

And whoever that is... If it's Russian cyber intelligence, if it's some 17-year-old kid in his pajamas in Idaho, whoever it is, they've got that, too, and that's coming. That is going to be released, or it's gonna be withheld and blackmail her with. A lot of people say, "Rush, why would the Russians do this? Why wouldn't the Russians collect the data and hold on to it and blackmail her after she becomes elected? Wouldn't that be more effective for them than having to deal with Trump?"

Well, they could have their cake and eat it, too, on this. But Hillary Clinton's already sold access to her presidency through the foundation. And, believe me, there are emails about that, and those emails are gonna drop. And Julian Assange at WikiLeaks has pretty much intimated this is gonna happen. But whatever. This isn't over. Nobody knows when the next dump is gonna happen. And nobody knows if there has been any purloining of data from the RNC computer network. Now, Trump does not do email, so there isn't any scoop to get on him.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2016 02:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Interesting: "Trump does not do email, so there isn't any scoop to get on him"
Posted by: 3dc || 07/27/2016 6:33 Comments || Top||

#2  It took the FBI years to find nothing related to Hillary emails. I do not believe there is any evidence who hacked the DNC; yet.
Posted by: Airandee || 07/27/2016 7:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Could be an inside job, too. Some IT person feeling the 'Bern' (or just not in the tank for Billary) and disgusted at what they saw as SOP day after day.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/27/2016 7:55 Comments || Top||

#4  The "crumbs" they found are only circumstantial and could very well be faked. It sounds more to me like a false flag operation. Someone wanted the Russians blamed.

Answer the question, who benefits from the Dhimocrats having their dirty laundry aired and get Russia blamed for it? Then you know where to look for who did it.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/27/2016 8:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Well, Soros would blame Russia for everything. He sees them as a threat to his plans for the New World Order.

Plus having the 'dump' this early in the game allows the DNC to make the motions of housecleaning to present a 'Squeaky Clean Persona' by November (not that it would actually be one, just appear to be one).
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/27/2016 9:08 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm with Mullah Richard: inside job at the DNC, with the guy leaving the "bits of evidence" to mislead the hounds.

I have heard that Assange detests Shrillary: enough motive for me.

By the by...what is the state of cyber security at the Clinton Foundation? No money in that apartment where shrillary kept her e-mail drop, er server, and the DNC is chicken feed compared to the foundation. Follow the money...who else wouldn't?
Posted by: ptah || 07/27/2016 9:21 Comments || Top||

#7  The Russian-Trump story seems too convenient and fabricated--much like the Benghazi video B.S. The FBI is investigating the "hack" but not the voter fraud (suppression/hacking vote machines/vote stealing) in the Dem primaries? Give me a break. I would tend to think this might be an inside job as #3 said--pissed-off Bernie supporters have been yelling about fraud by the Hillary campaign for sometime now. There are several lawsuits regarding these fraud claims.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2016 9:50 Comments || Top||

#8  The Democrats just can't wait to tell you the Russians did it, and they're dragging out all of these security experts to tell you that there are signals, there are bits of evidence that the Russian hackers did it.

Maybe should have consulted some of these security experts before they got hacked. These people can't be trusted to secure an email server and they expect voters to trust them with national security? That's the issue.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/27/2016 11:16 Comments || Top||

#9  Who cares who hacked who? What's more important is the clear evidence of just how evil democrats are. They are simply complaining about how they got found out instead of defending their actions.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/27/2016 11:51 Comments || Top||

#10  There is a certain point in security where it's not a matter of who did it. It was left in the open, everyone looks. Ima mulling an analogy, don't have yet.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/27/2016 12:08 Comments || Top||

#11  Ship, when you keep the merchandise in the store window you can't complain that people looked.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/27/2016 12:58 Comments || Top||

#12  And where in all this mess does the NSA stand? Yes, I know they work silently. But we spend billions yearly for silence. I can recall in the Bank of Credit and Commerce scandal the NSA had intercepts on Jimmy Carter, his Georgia cabal, and Democrat politicos that was legally actionable. However, true to their vow of silence when it came to intercepts of American citizens, the information was never divulged.
Posted by: Whavise Wheque2596 || 07/27/2016 13:16 Comments || Top||

#13  #10 - Uncovered Cat Meat
Posted by: Frank G || 07/27/2016 13:23 Comments || Top||

#14  Saw a name. Seth Rich as possible leaker...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/27/2016 15:56 Comments || Top||

#15  Answer the question, who benefits from the Dhimocrats having their dirty laundry aired and get Russia blamed for it?

The American People (and everyone else on Earth).
Posted by: Throlush Crirong9417 || 07/27/2016 16:15 Comments || Top||

#16  And where in all this mess does the NSA stand?

If they were doing their job they'd release Hillary's emails in order to immunize her, to the extent possible, from blackmail.
Posted by: Throlush Crirong9417 || 07/27/2016 16:17 Comments || Top||


IRS Launches Investigation of Clinton Foundation
[Daily Caller] IRS Commissioner John Koskinen referred congressional charges of corrupt Clinton Foundation "pay-to-play" activities to his tax agency's exempt operations office for investigation, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

The request to investigate the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation on charges of "public corruption" was made in a July 15 letter by 64 House Republicans to the IRS, FBI and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). They charged the foundation is "lawless."

The initiative is being led by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican who serves as the vice chairwoman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which oversees FTC. The FTC regulates public charities alongside the IRS.

The lawmakers charged the Clinton Foundation is a "lawless ’pay-to-play’ enterprise that has been operating under a cloak of philanthropy for years and should be investigated."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2016 01:12 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds rather ominous until you realize the odious Koskinen sent the investigation to the 'agency's Exempt Operations Office' as opposed to the Criminal Investigation Division.

How Criminal Investigations Are Initiated

The Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division conducts criminal investigations regarding alleged violations of the Internal Revenue Code, the Bank Secrecy Act and various money laundering statutes. The findings of these investigations are referred to the Department of Justice for recommended prosecution.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2016 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  the real investigation of the Clinton Foundation is, perhaps, being done by Wikileaks
Posted by: lord garth || 07/27/2016 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  The IRS is the swamp in which they hide all their dirt.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/27/2016 8:18 Comments || Top||

#4  The IRS, if its not likely to be abolished, is one bureaucracy I'd outsource to a foreign country - Sweden or Denmark come specifically to mind.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/27/2016 8:33 Comments || Top||

#5  IRS Commissioner John Koskinen referred the congressional charges to the agency's exempt operations for investigation? This is a waste of time since the IRS has been turned into a weapon to be used against conservatives. Probably true for the FBI and FTC too. Confidence in federal agencies has taken a huge hit under Obama.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2016 8:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Any bets they find stuff that is "disturbing" but not a "crime"?
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/27/2016 9:01 Comments || Top||

#7  ghot jobs doing a ghost investigation. Nothing to see here,but we can't comment or testify because it's "under active investigation"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/27/2016 9:15 Comments || Top||

#8  We should know something definitive in say..... 3-4 years ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2016 9:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Clintons looking for an official white wash.
Posted by: jvalentour || 07/27/2016 10:03 Comments || Top||

#10  The investigation might be better served by this guy: Charles K. Ortel. His website has a great deal of information. Site. Ortel has done a lot of digging into this money-laundering organization. He also thinks that individual state investigations of the Foundation might be more fruitful than having the Feds do it.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2016 10:27 Comments || Top||

#11  They're not going to do jack shit, and everyone knows it. What a sick fucking joke.
Posted by: Raj || 07/27/2016 10:34 Comments || Top||

#12  Koskinen, Comey...she has nothing to worry about.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/27/2016 11:26 Comments || Top||

#13  What Raj said.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/27/2016 12:09 Comments || Top||

#14  "Confidence in federal agencies has taken a huge hit under Obama."

In all fairness, I didn't have a whole lot of confidence in them before Bambi, #5 JQC.
Posted by: Barbara || 07/27/2016 12:41 Comments || Top||

#15  Timing is more than curious. Just after Wiki says more leaks are coming and will in in include the CGI suddenly the IRS, the most crooked fed agency now after the civil rights division of DOJ, is investigating. How fortunate for Josh Ernest and the Clintonians to have the crutch of no comment during an investigation. Almost like they are anticipating a major scandal and damage control.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/27/2016 13:24 Comments || Top||


Navy sailor charged in death of black transgender woman in Mississippi
[Guardian] A member of the US navy has been charged in connection with the death of a 25-year-old black transgender woman who was found dead in a hotel room in St Martin, Mississippi, on Saturday.

Dee Whigham, a recently graduated registered nurse, is believed to have been stabbed to death at a Best Western hotel, but investigators were waiting for full autopsy results before ruling an official cause of death.

Dwanya Hickerson, 20, has been charged with capital murder in connection with Whigham's death.
Imagine Hickerson's shocking surprise.
"The violence that transgender women of color face is rooted in racism, misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia," Emily Waters, senior manager of National Research and Policy at NCAVP, told the Guardian. "We need to notice how these biases and violence are present in all of our everyday environments, and then work to change them."
Probably inappropriate to mention that this is a black-on-black murder.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2016 00:41 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm gonna venture out on a limb and guess this was a case of false advertising and severe buyer's remorse.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/27/2016 9:00 Comments || Top||

#2  "Saaaaayyy...is that an Adam's Apple?"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/27/2016 11:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Gotta do the package check before you enter the hotel room.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/27/2016 11:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Gotta look under the hood before you rent the car, amirite?
Posted by: Raj || 07/27/2016 16:35 Comments || Top||

#5  A transgender woman means a man.

I wasn't clear about that.
Posted by: phil_b || 07/27/2016 19:52 Comments || Top||

#6  Why buy the milk when you can get the bull for free?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/27/2016 21:56 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Sanders Campaign Stiffs City - $23K In Unpaid Bills
I'm shocked! that a Socialist Democrat would skip out on an unpaid bill. Who does he think he is, a Kennedy?
When Cloverdale officials first heard Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders wanted to come to town, they thought it was a practical joke.

But after being assured it was not, they put out the welcome mat for Sanders, who drew a crowd of more than 6,000 people to the Cloverdale Airport on a sweltering June 3, days before the California primary election.

Cloverdale officials said they were assured by Sanders’ campaign advance team that local public safety agencies would be reimbursed for expenses associated with the rally.

But after being stiffed for a $23,000 tab, they’re wondering if the joke was on them.
Why yes, yes it is!
Posted by: Raj || 07/27/2016 15:50 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Job Ad. Anybody interested?
h/t Instapundit
How much do you know about beer? If it's a lot, you should consider working for the Smithsonian. They're looking for a "beer historian" for a new exhibit on American craft beer. If you think that might be you, you should check out the job listing and send in your resume by August 10.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2016 14:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Screw that - I'd have to move to DC.
Posted by: Raj || 07/27/2016 15:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe you could work electronically, Raj. ;-)
Posted by: Barbara || 07/27/2016 16:11 Comments || Top||

#3  That would be nice - have these chumps pick up my tab for booze...
Posted by: Raj || 07/27/2016 16:34 Comments || Top||

#4  I know someone who works in a liquor store specializing in unusual beers, and he claims beer purchases as a tax deduction, on the basis he has to try the beer to advise customers.
Posted by: phil_b || 07/27/2016 17:38 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Mugabe ‘facing his Waterloo’ after war veterans abandoned him
[SOUTHAFRICATODAY.NET] Zim-bob-wean President Bob Muggsy Mugabe
Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case...
may be "facing his Waterloo" after his most loyal supporters, the veterans of the liberation war, abandoned him.

A growing number of other war veterans have joined the Zim-bob-we National Liberation War Veterans’ Association in calling Mugabe, 92, a "dictator", demanding he quit and vowing not to support him in the next elections in 2018 if he does not.

The association also criticised the government’s recent attacks against peaceful protesters who spoke out about the economy and against the police via social media and conducted a stayaway three weeks ago.

Mugabe was facing "an endgame of tragic dimensions", Zim-bob-we weekly, The Independent, editor Dumisani Muleya said on Friday.

"If the war veterans join forces with the national resistance movement driven by civic groups and backed by churches and opposition parties, Mugabe, already on the ropes and hanging onto power by [his] fingernails, could soon face his Waterloo."

Growing protest against the government has been fuelled by a dire economic crisis, including a lack of cash, even to pay soldiers on time. They are usually the first to be paid.

On Saturday the governing Zanu PF struck back at the war veterans, calling them "treasonous" and "traitorous." Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is also a war veteran, delivered a more muted response.

"If they are true war veterans, the president is their commander-in-chief and they must be loyal and committed. I don’t think those who say such things are loyal or genuine war veterans."

Mnangagwa is tipped to succeed Mugabe and has the support of many veterans. War veterans leader Chris Mutsvangwa was fired from the cabinet post he held on behalf of veterans in March and was then expelled from Zanu PF for opposing Mugabe’s wife Grace, who appears to have ambitions to succeed him when he dies.

New war veterans minister Tshinga Dube suggested on Saturday that the ex-fighters elect a new leader to replace Mutsvangwa. But another senior veteran Francis Nhando responded by saying the association fully backed Mutsvangwa. "He [Mugabe] should announce his retirement date. It will be very difficult to campaign for him in 2018 because we are no longer working together," he said.

Former vice president Joice Mujuru, herself a veteran of the liberation war, said over the weekend: "I want to tell war veterans not to be scared with threats that your farms will be repossessed and your pensions freezed. That won’t happen," she told a rally about 100km southeast of Harare, which she addressed as leader of her new political party Zim-bob-we First.

Mujuru, a life-long member of Zanu PF, was stripped of her position and expelled from the party in late 2014 after she declared her interest in succeeding Mugabe. The attack on her was led by Grace Mugabe’s supporters.

Another war veteran Rugare Gumbo, a former Zanu PF front man also expelled from Zanu PF in 2014 and now a supporter of Mujuru’s party, said on Sunday: "The statement was issued by genuine war veterans. They were in Mozambique. We knew them there. They fought in the war, and the situation in Zim-bob-we now is very poor. So many are suffering. The criticism was correct. You will see more and more of them criticising Mugabe."

Posted by: Fred || 07/27/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...Nice knowin' ya, Bob. Say hi to Adolph and Muammar for us, 'kay?

I so want to see this guy have a Ceaucescu moment before he goes.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/27/2016 5:07 Comments || Top||

#2  ...and vowing not to support him in the next elections in 2018 if he does not.

As though that matter in any authoritarian government, they count the votes.

BTW, they're as old as the dude himself, hardly a threat to younger thugs.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/27/2016 8:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Also, I have the impression that the "war veterans" includes few actual war veterans these days.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/27/2016 21:26 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Chinese Air Force practices capturing downed pilot
Posted by: Slutle Snore7910 || 07/27/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  ...This kind of training works both ways - capture and rescue. We've let our CSAR abilities atrophy (like so much else) and I know there is some concern among the tactical bubbas that these days, in combat 'eject' is pronounced 'captured'.

But we have transgender folks in the force these days, so it's all good.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/27/2016 5:04 Comments || Top||

#2  How much of the "CSAR atrophy" was directly caused by the Pentagon Mafia wanting to grab a bigger slice of the SOCOM (or its predecessor) budget pie? Let's turn CSAR into Luftwaffe USAF version of the Rangers.

Anecdotally a friend told me that he went to bed with the MOS of Surveyor/Draftsman in a US Army Engineer battalion and the next morning the NCO told them that by the authority of the Secretary of the Army they were now Combat Engineers! He did like going to the range and getting to fire the LMG's.
Posted by: magpie || 07/27/2016 16:24 Comments || Top||


Economy
Yahoo! goes for $4.8 billion to Verizon
Robert Stacy McCain's unique take can be found here
Yahoo was once the king of the Internet, a $125 billion behemoth as big in its time as Facebook or Google are today. Now it’s being sold to Verizon for comparative chump change.

On Monday morning, Yahoo announced the end of the long process to extricate itself from a mess of its own making with a sale of its core operating business to Verizon for $4.8 billion in cash. The transaction ends the independence of one of Silicon Valley’s most iconic pioneering companies. Yahoo’s seventh and final CEO, Marissa Mayer, will reportedly depart upon the deal’s conclusion with severence pay worth more than $50 million.

The sale will unite Yahoo with another fallen star, AOL, the first web portal Verizon bought last year for $4.4 billion. The United States’ largest wireless provider is betting nearly $10 billion that combining the two formerly dominant websites will give it an edge in mobile content and advertising technology it can leverage across its more than 140 million subscribers.
Posted by: badanov || 07/27/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yahoo was once the king of the Internet,

So was AOL. That's the thing about chaos and evolution when its not boxed up and constrained by politicians and bureaucrats. See - where's the graft in that?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/27/2016 8:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Yahoo sold only its core business for $4.8 billion. Alibaba shares and its stake in the Japanese Yahoo it kept.

Posted by: BernardZ || 07/27/2016 8:47 Comments || Top||

#3  BZ

because yahoo's stake in Alibaba is currently worth above $20B and its stake in yahoo japan above $7B
Posted by: lord garth || 07/27/2016 13:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Microsoft offered over $44B two years ago; how the 'mighty' have fallen!
Posted by: Raj || 07/27/2016 14:35 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Trump Asks Russia To Find Clinton's Missing Emails In Doral Press Conference

In a surprising call for a foreign power to use its hacking abilities to get involved in the U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Russia to find Hillary Clinton's missing emails from the time she was secretary of state.

"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Trump said to a room of TV cameras at Trump National Doral. "I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press."

Trump also deflected accusations from the Clinton campaign that Russia hacked into the Democratic National Committee emails, which were made public on Friday, to help the Republican nominee.

"It's just a total deflection this whole thing with Russia.... By the way they hacked, they probably have her 33,000 e-mails. I hope they do. They probably have her 33,000 e-mails that she lost and deleted because you'd see some beauties there. So let's see."

The Clinton campaign was quick to respond. Said advisor Jake Sullivan: "This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent. That's not hyperbole, those are just the facts. This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue."
So Shrillary "suddenly" sees how this could be a national security issue, and she'll have her followers believe it's somehow it's Trump's fault because his words magically give Russia permission to do what any nation worth its salt would normally do. Including ours. Seems to me that some of her most blindly loyal followers aren't going to like what they hear.
Referring to questions about whether he could have been the hacker, Trump said: "It's so far-fetched. It's so ridiculous. Honestly I wish I had that power. I'd love to have that power."

Vice presidential candidate Mike Pence issued a statement Wednesday morning saying that the FBI will get to the bottom of who is behind the hacking.
Will their answer depend on who's in charge when the report comes out?
"If it is Russia and they are interfering in our elections, I can assure you both parties and the United States government will ensure there are serious consequences," he said. "That said, the Democrats singularly focusing on who might be behind it and not addressing the basic fact that they've been exposed as a party who not only rigs the government, but rigs elections while literally accepting cash for federal appointments is outrageous. The American people now have absolute and further proof of the corruption that exists around Hillary Clinton. It should disqualify her from office, if the media did their job."
That's a mighty big "if" there . . . .
Trump faced several questions about whether he has ties to Russia --which he denied --and his relationship with Vladimir Putin.

"I never met Putin," he said. "I don't know who Putin is. He said one nice thing to me. He said I was a genius. I said. "Thank you very much."
I wonder if he ever called Shrillary a genius.
Trump bashed President Barack Obama as "the most ignorant president in our history" and accused the press of siding with Clinton.
Sorry, I pared down the article to what was relevant to the title, but I couldn't resist this morsel.
When a female reporter asked Trump whether he was encouraging Russia to hack into emails, Trump snapped back: "Be quiet. I know you want to save her," a reference to Clinton.
Nor this one, either. ;-)
Posted by: gorb || 07/27/2016 13:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I love how it was described on Instapundit - Troll Level - Supreme Galactic Overlord.
Posted by: Raj || 07/27/2016 14:27 Comments || Top||

#2  David Gregory expressed outrageous indignation at Trump's speech. He didn't say anything about the evil $hit surrounding the Dems. He could not be reached for further comment.--talking head MSM moron.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2016 14:57 Comments || Top||

#3  This fella sure knows where to stick it in and how to twist it.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2016 15:26 Comments || Top||

#4  This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue."

Oops! If Russia, or anyone, has them, they got them a looong time ago from her unhackable sooper-server. But remember, they were 33,000 "yoga routines and Chelsea's marriage prep" emails, so why is it a National Security Issue now? Perhaps Jake actually knows it's the yoga/Chelsea theme is a lie and the Clinton Criminal Foundation ties and pay-for-play might be proven? THAT'S why teh panic

Would it be worse if they didn't release them and blackmailed her? I say yes
Posted by: Frank G || 07/27/2016 16:03 Comments || Top||

#5  "If it is Russia and they are interfering in our elections, I can assure you both parties and the United States government will ensure there are serious consequences

Like when the Lion of the Senate Ted Kennedy asked the Soviets to help him prevent Ronald Reagan's election? Memory-holed that one pretty well
Posted by: Frank G || 07/27/2016 16:07 Comments || Top||

#6  for those that forgot about Ted and the Soviets
Posted by: Frank G || 07/27/2016 16:40 Comments || Top||

#7  New York Times - 9 November 2016
TRUMP WINS IN LANDSLIDE

Clintons, Senate Dems, NAACP, BLM, Demand Election Annulment - President Obama and the Department of Justice to investigate Russian Influence and Cyber Hacking, Election Tampering.

Chicago Tribune - 10 November 2016
SNIPER FIRE - LOOTING CONTINUES

President Obama - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel call for calm.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2016 16:52 Comments || Top||

#8  Man Trump has so much rent free space in the Demons heads he should turn it into low income housing. Isn't that what they'd want?
Posted by: AlanC || 07/27/2016 16:58 Comments || Top||

#9  #6 for those that forgot about Ted and the Soviets

Damn! I did not know that. And here I thought Ted was just a run of the mill *EXPLETIVE DELETED*.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/27/2016 18:00 Comments || Top||

#10  I have this picture of Putin snort laughing out loud.

As it has been said, they were hacked and read long ago.

Foreign interference in an election? Barry into Egypt and Israel, into Brexit, Honduras..
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/27/2016 18:26 Comments || Top||

#11  Makes sense. The Russians are much more competent than our FBI
Posted by: regular joe || 07/27/2016 18:59 Comments || Top||

#12  Funny, Hillary and the Democrats keep telling us there was no secrets in those 30,000 emails and now they're telling us it's a matter of national security. Pick one, Dems, ya can't have it both ways.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/27/2016 19:08 Comments || Top||

#13  Wouldn't it be a hoot if the hack was a Bernie, and the Russians were blamed to deflect from the civil war and taint Trump....and Putin didn't like being thrown under the bus...
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/27/2016 19:12 Comments || Top||

#14  The Lion of the Senate whom the Dems love so much was some piece of work. His father was on the wrong side at one time when he so admired Adolph Hitler.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2016 19:14 Comments || Top||

#15  It truly was supreme trolling - and the Dems/MSM swallowed it whole. Not one drop wasted.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/27/2016 20:08 Comments || Top||


Emails reveal DNC Staffers Annoyed At Having To Commemorate The Holocaust
[Daily Caller] Internal DNC emails released by WikiLeaks reveal Democratic party staffers seemingly annoyed at having to commemorate the Holocaust.

On May 5, 2016, Florida Rep. and then-DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz sent an email to two of her Congressional staffers as well as two DNC employees -- newly-hired director of Jewish engagement Aaron Weinberg and senior communications director Ryan Banfill.

"We need to do a statement from the DNC. Is there a reason we haven't?" Wasserman Schultz asked in the email, which had the subject line "Yom Hashoah statement." Yom Hashoah, which is also known as Holocaust Memorial Day, began the evening of May 4 and ended the followed evening, May 5.

Banfill forwarded Schultz's email to another DNC staffer, Kate Houghton. "Flagging for you. The chair is asking for a statement on Yom Hashoah," Banfill wrote.

"We aren't going to do statements for every Jewish holiday unless she wants to do them for every religious holiday and trust me, this Catholic can give you a list of them," Houghton replied. "Also when she does an official statement it makes very little sense to have two statements out there in her voice."

Banfill appeared to send a tongue-in-cheek response: "This is about remembering the Holocaust. Never forget."

"Yup... or Darfur or Armenia or Rwanda or Bosnia (which PS is where my husband served)," Houghton replied. "Does she want us to do one for each other those remembrance days as well?"
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Hindu man held in Ghotki for ‘desecrating’ Holy Quran
[DAWN] BADIN: A Hindu man was jugged
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
for allegedly desecrating Holy Koran following massive protests and shutdown by Moslem community in Ghotki District of Sindh, police said on Tuesday.

Daharki police said a Hindu man was "caught and handed over" to them by the residents of village Mehrab Samejo for allegedly "desecrating" Holy Koran.

A large number of people in Daharki, Mirpur, Mathelo, Ghotki and adjoining areas of the district erupted into the streets and blocked National Highway for more than six hours while protesting against the alleged desecration of the holy scripture.

Protesters demanded "severe punishment" for the accused. A First-Information Report (FIR) was also registered against the accused under section 295 (B) of the Pakistain Penal Code.

Sensing trouble following a violent protest, the district administration sought help from Pakistain Rangers to control the situation. There have been several incidents of communal disharmony in the Ghotki district over the past few years, police said.

According to the protesters, the accused entered a mosque and "set the holy scripture on fire".

After taking the Hindu man in jug, police moved him to some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location for his safety. A police official, who wished not to be named, told Dawn that the police and law enforcement agencies were trying their best calm down the tense situation.

He added that the police has arrested as many as 30 people on charges of disrupting law and order during raids on different towns in the district.

Despite repeated attempts, SSP Ghotki Masood Bangash was not available for comment.

Posted by: Fred || 07/27/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  How do you desecrate $#!t?
Posted by: AlanC || 07/27/2016 8:19 Comments || Top||


Pakistan police investigate ‘honor’ killing of British woman
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Pak police are investigating after a British man claimed his wife had been murdered in a so-called "honor" killing, ten days after the death of a social media star cast a spotlight on the practice.

Mukhtar Kazam registered a complaint with police in Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

province claiming his wife, 28-year-old Samia Shahid, was murdered in her family’s village while visiting them.

The couple, both British-Pak dual citizens, had been married for two years and were living in Dubai, police told AFP, adding that it was Shahid’s second marriage.

"Her parents did not approve," local police official Aqeel Abbas said, citing Kazam’s complaint.

He said Shahid was visiting her family’s village Pindori in Punjab’s Jehlum district.

"She was killed on July 20. She has been killed for honor," Abbas said, quoting the complaint.

Officers are now waiting for a post-mortem report, he said, without specifying how Shahid’s husband alleged she was murdered.

In his own statement to police, Shahid’s father denied any charges that his daughter was killed for "honor", adding that he did not want an investigation as she had died of natural causes.

"Honor" killings -- a custom in which a relative is killed by another for bringing the family dishonor -- are a near daily occurrence in Pakistain.

The victims are overwhelmingly women, with hundreds killed each year.

Earlier this month the murder of social media star Qandeel Baloch by her brother, who said it was for "honor", provoked international shock and revulsion.

The killing polarized Pakistain and appears to have spurred politicians to take action. Last week the law minister announced that bills aimed at tackling loopholes that facilitate "honor" killings would soon be voted on by parliament.

Rights groups and politicians have for years called for tougher laws to tackle perpetrators of violence against women in Pakistain.
Posted by: Fred || 07/27/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Government
VA Spent $20 Million on Art Amidst Scandal

Six-figure sculptures for facility serving blind vets
Posted by: Frank G || 07/27/2016 12:43 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Everything in the extortion funded sector is run for the benefit of the staff, not their "customers".
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/27/2016 13:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Spend it or lose it?
Posted by: gorb || 07/27/2016 13:44 Comments || Top||


First black POTUS authorizes ICE to send 80 black people back to Africa
[ThinkProgress] Last month, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency quietly deported dozens of African immigrants who were trying to seek asylum in the United States.

Sixty-three men who were unable to secure visas to stay in the country legally on humanitarian relief claims, according to a source within ICE who spoke to ThinkProgress on condition of anonymity. ​Activists who spoke with deported individuals said they were sent back to Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal.

Immigration activists believe that number may be closer to 90. They also say many of these men shouldn’t have been targeted by ICE in the first place because they had already passed their credible fear interviews -- a preliminary step in the asylum process to determine whether immigrants would be placed in grave danger if they’re returned to their home countries.

Some lawyers say that black immigrants have the odds stacked against them in the immigration court system. ICE generally requires immigrants to have a sponsor who’s a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident. The agency also has stringent requirements for identity documents, which is problematic for immigrants from countries like Somalia where the government didn’t always have the ability to issue those documents, according to Jessica Shulruff Schneider, a supervising attorney at the Americans for Immigrant Justice.

"Many of the individuals that are Africans don’t have close family members or friends to assist them from the outside," said Shulruff Schneider. "It makes it virtually impossible to fight your case."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "It makes it virtually impossible to fight your case."
I wonder why they aren't requested to 'fight their case' in the foreign land, for visa? Immediately fewer visas and reduced return expenses.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2016 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Most likely because they are Christians.
Posted by: jvalentour || 07/27/2016 0:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Donks probably couldn't figure out how to legally turn this situation into votes.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2016 8:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Or illegally for that matter.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2016 8:21 Comments || Top||

#5  how to legally turn this situation into votes.

Since when did legally mean anything to Donks?
Posted by: AlanC || 07/27/2016 8:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Some lawyers say that black immigrants have the odds stacked against them in the immigration court system. ICE generally requires immigrants to have a sponsor who’s a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident.

Couldn't find a Home Depot parking lot?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/27/2016 8:23 Comments || Top||

#7  Most likely because they are Christians.

That'd be my guess.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/27/2016 11:34 Comments || Top||

#8  No constituency. Africans are not African-Americans, and the two don't get along.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/27/2016 22:15 Comments || Top||



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