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-Lurid Crime Tales-
New York Attorney General Joins Sharpton Lieutenant to Launch Anti-Hate Program
[OBSERVER] New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the National Action Network
...a not-for-profit, civil rights organization founded by the Al Sharpton in New York City in early 1991. In a 2016 profile, Vanity Fair has called Sharpton arguably the country's most influential civil rights leader. Big Al owes millions in unpaid taxes, purported to believe Tawana Brawley was kidnapped and raped by white racists including the DA (who sued him, won, and never got paid), incited a riot at Crazy Eddie's, and sees a klansman behind every bush...
’s Kirsten Foy joined together with civil rights leaders to kick off an effort to counter hate crimes in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s victory last week.

The attorney general announced he had issued a bulletin to law enforcement agencies and district attorney’s offices statewide that identifies hate crimes statutes and emphasizes the need for law enforcement to properly identify incidents as possible hate crimes right away. The NYPD has seen a 31 percent increase in hate crimes in the past year--during Trump’s incendiary anti-immigration campaign--particularly against Moslems and Jews, according to Schneiderman.

"We stand ready to commit whatever resources we can to ensure equality as we prepare for a possible uptick in hate crimes or other violations of New Yorkers’ civil rights," Schneiderman said at a presser in his Manhattan office. "And I would urge you that we are very committed to doing this in solidarity, both with the activists and those who are on the front lines and have confidence and access to vulnerable communities who are often afraid to come forward and speak to law enforcement."

The bulletin focuses on hate crimes against immigrants colonists, religious minorities, ethnic and racial minorities, women, LGBTQ New Yorkers and other vulnerable communities.

Earlier today, he held a roundtable discussion in the city with immigrant community leaders and advocates to discuss concerns about the rise in hate crimes, harassment and rhetoric targeting immigrant communities.

At the presser promoted as an effort to "stand up to hate," Schneiderman was flanked by the heads and representatives of the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, the Anti-Defamation League, the Islamic Center at New York University, 32BJ SEIU, the New York Board of Rabbis and the NAACP New York State Conference.

In an interview with 60 Minutes Sunday, the president-elect said he plans to deport or incarcerate up to 3 million undocumented immigrants colonists who he said are "criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug pushers." He also said he plans to institute aggressive stop-and-frisk policing as a national policy and announced a ban on Middle Eastern immigration to the United States and the establishment of a Moslem registry.

Posted by: Fred || 11/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Civil rights organization? Pshaw, it's a race-hussling and baiting organization to try to try to make you feel guilty about something.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/19/2016 8:26 Comments || Top||

#2  '...guilty about something.'

I've learned to live with guilt. Not a lot you can do about the furrow behind you.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/19/2016 8:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Two partisan assholes looking for boodle. Schneiderman is actively running his mouth for governor after Cuomo is removed
Posted by: Frank G || 11/19/2016 9:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Oh, yes, if anybody knows about hate is anyone hanging with Big Mini Al Sharpton.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/19/2016 10:19 Comments || Top||

#5  "Good afternoon, Mr. AG. I'd like to report my Trump signs were stolen and my building was spray painted with 'Trump is Hitler.'

"Hello? Hello?"
Posted by: Raj || 11/19/2016 13:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Orwell was on the money with 'Thoughtcrime'.
Posted by: phil_b || 11/19/2016 17:23 Comments || Top||


Arizona's presidential electors being harassed, urged not to cast vote for Trump
[FOXNEWS] Arizona’s presidential electors are reportedly being hit by a flood of emails and phone calls demanding they defy the voters in their state and choose Hillary Clinton
... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook...
instead of President-elect Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
-- as part of a last-gasp bid to overturn the election.

Since Trump’s surprise victory on Nov. 8, those opposed to his election have engaged in a number of strategies to attempt to nix the election or declare it invalid. Protests, many of them violent, have erupted in cities such as Portland and New York City.

Others, noting that Clinton appears to be on track to win the popular vote but still lose the election, have called for the scrapping of the Electoral College altogether. Retiring Sen. Barbara Call me Senator! Boxer
Senator-for-Life from Caliphornia...
, D-Calif., introduced a bill this week calling for the scrapping of the college ‐ although it is almost certainly doomed to fail in a Republican-controlled Congress.

Posted by: Fred || 11/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Boxer, D-Calif., introduced a bill this week calling for the scrapping of the college ‐ although it is almost certainly doomed to fail in a Republican-controlled Congress.

Good luck with the new amendment there, Babs.
Posted by: gorb || 11/19/2016 3:14 Comments || Top||

#2  The media tries to avert their eyes from the fact that the popular vote / electoral vote thing has happened FIVE TIMES in presidential election history. It's not the horrendous anomaly they want everyone to believe...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/19/2016 9:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Whiney cry babies. If you can't win by the rules, change the rules? The rules say you need a Constitutional amendment to change the rules, so get over it--it's not going to happen.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/19/2016 10:00 Comments || Top||

#4  electors being harassed


Is it legal?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/19/2016 14:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Apparently some are making threats which should be followed up and SWAT teams dispatched to haul these people away.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/19/2016 17:14 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Hillary's popular vote lead entirely due to California.
As of November 16, 2016.
[Heavy.com] How dominant is California when it comes to driving Hillary Clinton’s more than 1.2 million popular vote lead over President-Elect Donald Trump?

The overall numbers obscure the fact that one state gave Clinton her edge: Populous California.
Clinton popular vote lead overall: At least 1.23 million.
Clinton popular vote lead in California alone: At least 3.1 million.

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Posted by: Thumper Dribble5791 || 11/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fruits and nuts voting for carrion.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 11/19/2016 7:49 Comments || Top||

#2  So did Kalifornia ever get the Bernie Sanders vote accurately and legally counted? Did the lawsuits over the vote rigging get settled? There were allegations of vote rigging, machines malfunctioning, vote skimming, improper allocations of vote, etc. Just saying, maybe some of the same things were going on in the general election.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/19/2016 8:10 Comments || Top||

#3  How many of those California votes were by illegal aliens?
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/19/2016 9:06 Comments || Top||

#4  illegals registered to vote with getting their California Drivers License.
Not to forget Obama's interview just prior to the election with Gina Rodriguez reading illegals voting;

Posted by: Jan || 11/19/2016 10:36 Comments || Top||

#5  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fOSZf_YHlY
Posted by: Jan || 11/19/2016 10:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Now connect the dots. There is a liberal senator mentioned just above this post who has introduced a bill to scrap the Electoral College. Quick! Which state is she from?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/19/2016 13:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Best explanation yet of why we need the electoral college.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 11/19/2016 13:51 Comments || Top||

#8  The current attorney general and her predecessor threatened with sanctions those states that tried to clean up their voter rolls. The next Attorney General can rescind that threat, which will be all that the Republican- controlled states need the to go ahead with an effort already half done. Beyond that, if a state like California wants to be corrupt, let them be corrupt. It will only hobble them even more, in accordance with Darwin, going forward.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/19/2016 15:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Yes. Let them refuse to use voter ID and then gladly refuse to count their non ID verified votes. 2017 SCOTUS will laugh...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/19/2016 16:27 Comments || Top||

#10  The current attorney general and her predecessor threatened with sanctions those states that tried to clean up their voter rolls.

How about sanctions for states that refuse to clean up their voter roles?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/19/2016 17:18 Comments || Top||

#11  I'm still waiting for some enterprising attorney to file for all California's electoral votes to be thrown out due to the illegals voting. It's unfair on two counts. If they shouldn't be allowed to vote then it's unfair to native voters in other states. If it is okay for them to vote (!) then it is unfair to undocumented workers in other states whose votes were (possibly) not counted
Posted by: Blossom Hupager6063 || 11/19/2016 20:21 Comments || Top||


Europe
Kiss of Death: Obama Subtly Endorses Angela Merkel for Re-election
[Breitbart] German chancellor Angela Merkel hasn’t announced whether she plans to run for re-election. But if she runs, President Barack Obama would support her.

"If I were here and I were German and I had a vote, I might support her," Obama said. "But I don’t know what that hurts or helps."
I believe I know.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Angela, you should withdraw from public service when your term ends if you don't want to end up looking like Hillary.
Posted by: gorb || 11/19/2016 3:09 Comments || Top||

#2  She's on her way out for certain. Good riddance to both of them.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/19/2016 8:27 Comments || Top||

#3  She needs to be chased out of Germany. That woman has been a complete disgrace.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/19/2016 8:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Go back to Potsdam or whatever East German rock you crawled out of.
Posted by: Raj || 11/19/2016 13:11 Comments || Top||

#5  The question on my mind is, what happens when the benefits stop for the "refugee's" after she's gone. They all went to Germany specifically for that easy living. To have it ripped away, things might get violent.

If such happens, that will be Merkels legacy in my eyes.
Posted by: Charles || 11/19/2016 16:13 Comments || Top||

#6  To have it ripped away, things might get violent.

It's already violent, Charles. The round ups we post here don't capture most of what happens -- the police mostly don't record crimes as being by asylum seekers, and the news media mostly don't report the little the police do report.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/19/2016 17:27 Comments || Top||

#7  I should have worded that better TW. I mean literal insurrection would break out in Germany en-masse, with Ferguson seeming like a small campfire to the inferno unleashed upon the streets of Germany. Military having to be called in, ISIS taking advantage and killing hundreds with suicide bombings.

A step-up from the violence currently taking place. So bad there's no way to hide it because the people doing the hiding are caught in the middle of a firefight.
Posted by: Charles || 11/19/2016 18:48 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
CALL TO ACTION: Oath Keepers Pledge to Protect Electors from Terrorist Death Threats
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/19/2016 18:08 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


The Latest: Trump University lawsuits settled for $25M
New York’s attorney general says President-elect Donald Trump has agreed to a $25 million settlement to resolve three lawsuits over Trump University, his former school for real estate investors.

The deal announced Friday by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (New York’s attorney general says President-elect Donald Trump has agreed to a $25 million settlement to resolve three lawsuits over Trump University, his former school for real estate investors. The suits had alleged that Trump University failed to deliver the quality real estate investing education it promised.

Schneiderman says the $25 million to be paid by Trump or one of his business entities includes restitution for students and $1 million in penalties to the state. The deal doesn’t require Trump to acknowledge wrongdoing.

Messages left with Trump’s attorneys weren’t immediately returned. Trump has strongly denied the allegations and said during the campaign that he wouldn’t settle.
Although a substantial amount compared to my footings, this is "Go Away" money. My assumption is that Mr. SHNEYE’-dur-muhn will now turn his attentions to McDonalds and Hamburger University.
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 11/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good move although a little pricey. As said "Go Away" money--a common legal strategy.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/19/2016 9:24 Comments || Top||

#2  That's what the suit was all about to begin with. The main reason it went longer is the Hillary supporters plaintiff trial lawyers wanted it to affect the election.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/19/2016 12:13 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm just glad it is getting shelved.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/19/2016 12:39 Comments || Top||

#4  As the old song goes, "Money changes everything..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/19/2016 16:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Wonder how much NBC will pay for breaking their contract with Trump?
Posted by: P2Kontheroad || 11/19/2016 18:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Wonder how much NBC will pay for breaking their contract with Trump?

If it's $25,000,000.01, it's a net add and called a 'win' in the business community.

A little better than swapping dollars, but a win nonetheless.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/19/2016 21:02 Comments || Top||


Dem lawmaker says Sessions would drag the country back to dark times
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] A Democratic politician is slamming the selection of Sen. Jeff Sessions as President-elect Trump's attorney general by going so far as to argue the Alabama senator would drag the United States back into the days of rampant racism and suppression of minorities.
So Little Louie is channeling Ted Kennedy...
In a blistering statement about a fellow politician, Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez seemed to use the Republican's full name -- Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III -- in an attempt to invoke Confederacy imagery.

"If you have nostalgia for the days when blacks kept quiet, gays were in the closet, immigrants colonists were invisible and women stayed in the kitchen, Sen. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is your man," Gutierrez said.

PGT Beauregard was one of the first prominent Confederate generals in the Civil War. Beauregard was in charge of the defense of Charleston, S.C., and ordered the first shots of the war by firing on Fort Sumter in the city's harbor. He also helped design the Confederate battle flag.
Posted by: Fred || 11/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe Gutierrez could move to Canada?
Posted by: gorb || 11/19/2016 3:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Of civil liberties for all instead of hierarchical human rights?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/19/2016 3:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Map of Rep. Gutierrez's district.

No Gerrymandering there, folks.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/19/2016 7:57 Comments || Top||

#4  But Richard, the domestic help and Illinois Tollway patronage workers must live SOMEWHERE !
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/19/2016 8:08 Comments || Top||

#5  It is difficult to listen to much of what Gutierrez says. I'm never quite sure which country he is speaking for and supporting.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/19/2016 9:11 Comments || Top||

#6  this Leetle Pendejo has been the mouthpiece for Illegal Aliens for the last couple years. He needs to be deported
Posted by: Frank G || 11/19/2016 9:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Waittaminit! A Dimmokrat that doesn't want to relive the glory days of slave holding? Who would of thunk it?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/19/2016 10:18 Comments || Top||

#8  Just another Democrat continuing the smear of an honorable man.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/19/2016 10:56 Comments || Top||

#9  I get the feeling he's one of those guys who has difficulty differentiating between legal and illegal immigration.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/19/2016 13:12 Comments || Top||

#10  I get the feeling he's one of those guys who has difficulty differentiating between legal and illegal immigration.

That's being polite - I think it's more like he doesn't give a rat's ass at all.
Posted by: Raj || 11/19/2016 13:17 Comments || Top||

#11  Mullah Richard,
There is a reason the district is shaped the way it is:
One arm is the Mexican neighborhoods. The other arm is the Puerto Rican neighborhoods. These areas are connected by a thin strand (mostly parts of Interstate 290 on-ramps etc.)
The two groups hate each other, which is why they live 4 miles apart.

Luis' job is to pretend his constituents are a big happy family and that all Latinos are down with transgender rights and other white trustafarian obsessions.

Posted by: Frozen Al || 11/19/2016 13:28 Comments || Top||


Top 10 Reasons George Soros Is Dangerous
Numbers one through three can be seen at the link.
[HUMANEVENTS] 4. Media Matters: Soros is a financial backer of Media Matters for America, a progressive media watchdog group that hyperventilates over any conservative view that makes it into the mainstream media. Now its founder, David Brock, has openly declared war on Fox News, telling Politico that the group was mounting "guerrilla warfare and sabotage" against the cable news channel, and would try to disrupt the commercial interests of owner Rupert Murdoch--an odd mission for a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational foundation that is barred from participating in partisan political activity.

5. MoveOn.org
...a Democratic Party front organization funded by George Soros founded in the wake of the Clinton impeachment. It provides money, muscle, and astroturf as required...
: Soros has been a major funder of MoveOn.org, a progressive advocacy group and political action committee that raises millions for liberal candidates. This is the group that had on its website an ad comparing President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like...
and ran the infamous "General Betray Us" ad in the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, disparaging the integrity of Gen. David Petraeus.

6. Center for American Progress: Headed by John Podesta, White House chief of staff under President Clinton, the Center for American Progress has been instrumental in providing progressive talking points and policy positions for the B.O. regime. There has also been a revolving door between the White House and the Soros-funded think tank, with Obama staffing his administration with many CAP officials.

7. Environmental extremism: Former Obama green jobs czar Van Jones and his leftist environmental ideas have been funded by Soros’ money at these groups: the Ella Baker Center, Green For All, the Center for American Progress, and the Apollo Alliance, which was instrumental in getting $110 billion in green initiatives included in Obama’s stimulus package. Soros also funds the Climate Policy Initiative to address global warming and gave Friends of the Earth money to "integrate a climate equity perspective in the presidential transition."

8. America Coming Together: Soros gave nearly $20 million to this 527 group with the express purpose of defeating President Bush. A massive get-out-the-vote effort, ACT’s door-to-door canvassing teams included numerous felons, its voter registration drives were riddled with fraud, and it handed out incendiary fliers and made misleading taped phone calls to voters. ACT was fined $775,000 by the Federal Election Commission for violations of various federal campaign finance laws.

9. Currency manipulation: A large part of Soros’ multibillion-dollar fortune has come from manipulating currencies. During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad accused him of bringing down the nation’s currency through his trading activities, and in Thailand he was called an "economic war criminal." Known as "The Man who Broke the Bank of England," Soros initiated a British financial crisis by dumping 10 billion sterling, forcing the devaluation of the currency and gaining a billion-dollar profit.

10. Delusions: Soros has repeatedly said that he sees himself as a messianic figure. Who but a megalomaniac would make these comments? "I admit that I have always harbored an exaggerated view of my self-importance--to put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god" or "I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise I might end up in the loony bin." If only the loony bin were an option. As it is, one of the wealthiest men in the world is using his billions to impose a radical agenda on America
Posted by: Fred || 11/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Glenn Beck's been railing against Soros for years, and everyone knows Beck's always wrong, so Soros must be fine.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/19/2016 9:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Dangerous weasel or pr!ck will suffice. Fifth columnist gnawing away at our underpinnings.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/19/2016 9:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Soros is evil. The sooner Soros passes on, the better. I would love to see the new Justice Dept, IRS, FEC and SEC investigate him thoroughly. Or perhaps deport him as PNG to one of the countries where he has a prison cell awaiting him.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/19/2016 12:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Soros and his spawn, OS. The children of Soros are doing a lot of damage with daddy's money too.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/19/2016 12:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Just a thought. Would a special prosecutor be able to RICO in the kinds and their money from Dr Evil?
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 11/19/2016 13:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Too many Dems in those organizations, OldSpook; institutional resistance and all that.
Posted by: Raj || 11/19/2016 15:01 Comments || Top||

#7  Beck is a drooler. That he picked up on Soros is pure accident. On Soros' part. A bag of Dubble Bubble would have bought Glenn off...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/19/2016 15:42 Comments || Top||

#8  This doesn't mention how 10-year-old Soros would go around with is adopted father (paid to swear he was his son) around and confiscate Jewish property for Nazi Germany. He readily admits to, and is quite proud of this. there is a video out there of any interview where he discusses this - no remorse.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/19/2016 15:56 Comments || Top||

#9  That interview is on you-tube actually. I was shocked that the SOB could say that, but Isreal isn't doing anything about it. Hearing Soros talk it's a miracle Mossad hasn't paid him a visit.
Posted by: Charles || 11/19/2016 18:51 Comments || Top||


President Obama Blames the Internet for the Rise of Trump – Technology Needs
[WattsUpWithThat] Obama and Angela Merkel Blame Internet and Social Media for Disrupting Globalism

President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are blaming the internet for disrupting the forces of globalism, suggesting that technology is making it more difficult to unite people behind a common purpose.

"Because of the internet and communications, the clash of cultures is much more direct," Obama said during a press conference on his trip to Berlin. "People feel, I think, less certain about their identity. Less certain about economic security."

Obama predicted that the rise of technology needed to be managed to give world citizens more control, beyond the simplistic answers found online.

His German counterpart agreed.

"Digitization is a disruptive force, a disruptive technological force that brings about deep-seated change, transformation of a society," Merkel added.

She compared the internet to the invention of the printing press, citing the consequences it had on industrialized countries.

"It took a while until societies learned how to find the right kind of policies to contain this and to manage and steer this," she said.
I guess this may have come a little too late for some tastes?
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 11/19/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Kin d of takes the fun out of it when you no longer have a monopoly on public information.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/19/2016 1:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Obama predicted that the rise of technology needed to be managed to give world citizens more control, beyond the simplistic answers found online.

But I like simple answers. "Citizen control" gov't control, not so much.

He stopped just short of blaming Drudge and Breitbart.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/19/2016 1:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Obama and Angela Merkel Blame Internet and Social Media for Disrupting Globalism

Irritating little app, isn't it, leaking all sorts of inconvenient truths to the public.
Posted by: gorb || 11/19/2016 3:17 Comments || Top||

#4  needed to be managed to give world citizens more control,

world citizens - aka: glogalist oligarchs, aka: tyrannical monsters.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/19/2016 7:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Disrupting globalism is a good thing if it means your country is not ceding its sovereignty to a cabal of elite super-rich globalists making policy in secret, that lawful borders are respected, your culture is not destroyed and some group such as the UN is not dictating their values to your country.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/19/2016 8:04 Comments || Top||

#6  When everyone can start comparing notes and see how fucked up you statists are...
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/19/2016 8:44 Comments || Top||

#7  This would be the Internet that obooboo's hand picked man Tom Wheeler has been trying to f*ck up for the last eight years? The Internet that obooboo handed off control of to the world's most heinous dictators? That Internet?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/19/2016 9:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Twitter and Facebook are being censored, Google tracking and altering trending searches, Apple storing info even when iCloud off, Assange had internet cut with no new releases, and even Fox HD broadcasting cut briefly--Wikileaks reveals how liberals have seized control covertly to block any dissent to their narrativeas sold by the MSM. Accuracy in news is called Fake news and free speech branded propoganda. How long before the round Up?
Posted by: One Eyed Speaking for Boskone7919 || 11/19/2016 11:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Gl;obal surveillance is in the works, too.
Posted by: One Eyed Speaking for Boskone7919 || 11/19/2016 11:19 Comments || Top||

#10  Its the one place that routes around editorial control and censorship by the progressives and elites. The truth will come out and there is no way to stop it. The progressives cannot get away with their lies for long, in spite of having the big media as a propaganda organ.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/19/2016 12:40 Comments || Top||

#11  Gotta blame someone else - it's never their fault.
Posted by: Raj || 11/19/2016 13:13 Comments || Top||

#12  So really, this is all Al Gore's fault.
Posted by: Matt || 11/19/2016 14:39 Comments || Top||


Government
Trump set to take sharp right turn on immigration
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] If personnel is policy, this week in President-elect Trump's transition has been better for immigration hawks than foreign-policy doves.

While the names being floated for key national security positions don't represent the anticipated departure from George W. Bush's foreign policy, Trump's team does appear to be considering appointments that would break sharply with the last Republican president on immigration.

Trump's team sent a signal Thursday that Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., was being considered for attorney general. "While nothing has been finalized and he is still talking with others as he forms his cabinet, the President-elect has been unbelievably impressed with Senator Sessions and his phenomenal record as Alabama's Attorney General and U.S. Attorney," the statement said. "It is no wonder the people of Alabama re-elected him without opposition."

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#1  Good. I just watched a piece on Fox where Pete Hegseth interviewed people at random on the street in Little Mogadishu in Minneapolis. Not a one of the several people spoke English. The report also mentioned that Sharia Law was being taught in the schools in the area and that the area is a hotbed for recruiting of jihadists. The report also stated that people in this area feel alienated. Why the hell wouldn't they? They don't learn our language, culture, or laws. I wonder if they have been instructed on how to vote Democrat?
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/19/2016 8:18 Comments || Top||

#2  well, John, Keith Ellison (D-Nation of Islam) is being run for DNC head
Posted by: Frank G || 11/19/2016 9:45 Comments || Top||

#3  And this is a surprise how? He was very public about his immigration stance, and for many, that's why the voted him into office. I hope he starts with destroying H1-B, which has hurt so many friends and children of friend in the Tech sectors. Either give them green cards (or better, something similar without a citizenship path but with full rights to change employers) and let them compete freely and fairly without being effectively indentured to their sponsoring employer, or don't bring them here at all.

Same goes for illegals. Secure the border and then put in a Bracero program like was supposed to happened for temporary guest workers under Reagan.
Posted by: OldSpook || 11/19/2016 12:30 Comments || Top||

#4  He based his whole campaign on a wall. If that wall is not completed or at lease well underway by the end of his first term he won't get a second term.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/19/2016 13:08 Comments || Top||

#5  The Wall will take a long time because Congress will pork it up.

Something President Trump can do quickly is chopping off at the knees those tech leftys at Google and Facebook and Twitter by cutting off their supply of cheap imported labor h-1-b.

Shutting down student visa overstays with prompt deportations would deported the 911 hijackers so do that too.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 11/19/2016 13:45 Comments || Top||

#6  And this is a surprise how? He was very public about his immigration stance,

Those who dislike Mr. Trump believe he lies or negotiates about everything, and so did not believe him even as they spoke out against what he said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/19/2016 17:30 Comments || Top||

#7  Why is basic logic considered far right?
Why is sanity far right?
Posted by: newc || 11/19/2016 20:07 Comments || Top||

#8  "Those who dislike Mr. Trump believe he lies . . . about everything"

That's because they do, #6 tw.
Posted by: Barbara || 11/19/2016 22:28 Comments || Top||



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