[Free Beacon] Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.) slammed former FBI director James Comey on Thursday for "making up his mind" not to charge Hillary Clinton before the investigation into her handling of classified information was complete.
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Judiciary subcommittee chairman Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) sent a letter to current FBI director Chris Wray in late August in order to address Comey's actions and collect additional information. The Senate Judiciary Committee had learned, through transcripts of interviews with top Comey aides, that the FBI director drafted a memo exonerating the former secretary of state before the FBI interviewed Clinton and other key witnesses as part of the investigation. The senators called Comey's actions "no way to run an investigation."
Fox News host Bill Hemmer asked Gowdy Thursday whether he agreed with White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders' Tuesday comments, where she said Comey's actions "were improper and likely could have been illegal."
"Well Bill, if it's that clean and clear, I'm sure she's referred it to the Department of Justice. After all, President Trump handpicked Jeff Sessions to be his attorney general, so if the evidence is as clear as the press secretary says it is, I'm sure that matter is already in Jeff Sessions' office," Gowdy said.
Hemmer quoted Sanders' follow-up statement, which said, "The Department of Justice has to look at any allegations about whether or not something is illegal or not. That's not up for me to decide." He then asked Gowdy whether he knows if she referred anything of the sort to the Department of Justice.
Kommie Liberal writer Dana Milbank tries his hand at applying sarcasm to a political issue and fails, miserably.
WASHINGTON — The days are growing colder, and soon millions of American hunters will pursue a time-honored tradition. They will load their automatic weapons with armor-piercing bullets, strap on silencers, head off to the picnic grounds on nearby public lakes — and start shooting. Here Milbanks proudly displays his abject ignorance about shooting on public lands.
If you do not immediately recognize this pastime as part of America’s heritage, then you are sadly out of step with the current Republican majority in Congress. On Tuesday, a House panel takes up the “Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act of 2017,” which promises “to protect and enhance opportunities for recreational hunting, fishing and shooting.”
Among these recreational enhancements:
Allowing people to bring assault guns and other weapons through jurisdictions where they are banned.
Rolling back decades-old regulations on the use of silencers.
Protecting the use of armor-piercing bullets.
Easing importation of foreign-made assault rifles.
Protecting the practice of baiting birds with grain as they migrate and then mowing them down.
Note the use of the term assault rifle, which is a term made up by the left in the run up to the assault weapons ban in the 1980s. You should also be aware armor piercing slugs are allowed as long as they are the 5.56mm, not the Russian made 5.45mm,
In an effort to show Russian president Vladimir Putin who was boss, someone somewhere in the jungle of the justice industry pointed out that short barreled rifles and AK pistols are being sold which can fire the most common round for the AK-74, the 7N6. President at the time Barak Obama seized on that and on his right to limit certain imports from Russia as part of sanctions after the Russian takeover of Crimea in 2014. The M-855 5.56mm round was also banned for use and sale for sporting purposes. A lot of AK shooters bitched about it, so the ban was withdrawn. But not for the 7N6. To ban the 7N6 round and not the M-855 round was, in a word, unfair to AK-74 owners.
The 7N6 is called armor piercing even though it is the regularly issued round for the Russian military. It has a mild steel core, and that, according to the geniuses in the government, makes it armor piercing.
Easing importation of foreign rifles: One class of rifles are foreign made rifles, which are imported but are also demilled, rendered useless, with the parts being sold as kits. Chances are that Milbank is also bitching about the reimportation of US made rifles for the Civilian Marksmanship Program. Dunno, but I know Milbank is incredibly in the dark about all of it, sufficiently so he has very little useful to say about firearms.
The House Natural Resources Committee was to have had a hearing on the bill in June, before the baseball-practice shooting that seriously wounded House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, led to its cancellation.
But the National Rifle Association was not to be denied. In a statement last week, the gun lobby’s director applauded the revival of the bill, which he said “will protect America’s hunters and recreational shooters and help preserve our outdoor heritage.” Among the GOP witnesses for Tuesday’s “recreational shooter” hearing: Stephen Halbrook, author of a book that draws parallels between the current gun-control debate and Nazis’ disarmament of Jews.
The bill, notably, has not been embraced by the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus, and it is likely to draw a lot of opposition from Democrats. Clearly, both groups are dominated by elites who do not understand the joy of pheasant hunting with tungsten-tipped bullets. Allow me to explain. Milbank lamely explains:
Consider Title XV of the sportsmen’s bill, also known as the “Hearing Protection Act,” which makes it easier for gun owners to buy silencers for their weapons. The uninformed might suspect that silencers are used by people who want to fire weapons without being caught by cops or observed by witnesses. But more and more hunters are finding that conventional earplugs and muffs are not adequate for today’s weapons — for example, quail hunting with an M777 howitzer or grouse hunting with an FIM-92 Stinger missile launcher. Heavy weapons. Ha ha. Good one.
Sportsmen are further protected by a “Destruction of Records” provision requiring the government to delete silencer sale and transfer information. For obvious reasons, law-abiding hunters would not want silencer purchases to be logged. Such a paper trail would be an obvious tip-off to game animals, particularly those, such as the white-tailed deer, with access to the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. Cue the rimshot.
Title XVI of the bill, the “Lawful Purpose and Self-Defense Act,” denies the government authority to reclassify bullets as “armor-piercing ammunition.” It’s OK if the ammunition pierces body armor, as long as the manufacturer claims the ammo is meant to be used for sport and not for killing people wearing body armor. This provision is particularly timely because a growing percentage of Western grizzlies have been seen in recent years wearing Kevlar vests when they attack schools in Wyoming. As I understand it, most modern vests
Class III or less will not protect you from regular rifle slugs, not just those classified as armor piercing.
I take personal comfort in Title XI of the sportsmen’s bill, which says that if you can legally own a gun in states with anything-goes gun laws (such as Texas), you can transport that gun through places with restrictive laws (such as Washington, D.C.). People could be free to take their AR-15s, their AK-47s or perhaps even their M134 machine guns to the capital. They already are free to do so, as long as they don't get caught.
They wouldn’t be allowed to leave them here, but it’s likely some would do so anyway — a welcome development, because I have discovered a population of moles burrowing in my lawn. A weapon that fires 100 rounds a minute would make quick work of them. A lot Milbank knows about moles.
Title V, the “Farmer and Hunter Protection Act,” would enhance hunters’ enjoyment (and farmers’ finances) by allowing them to lure migrating birds to certain fields where crops have not been harvested — and shoot them.
Those “sportsmen” who find this unsporting could instead make their way to one of the recreational areas run by the Army Corps of Engineers, which receive 370 million visitors a year — and would receive armed visitors under Title III, the “Recreational Lands Self-Defense Act.”
The need for this is transparent. Suppose you are with your family, drinking beer on a pontoon boat on the lake, and another family’s boat bumps yours. Under current law, you have no recourse. But under this bill, you could settle things according to your sportsmen’s heritage, by raising your silencer-equipped assault gun and firing armor-piercing bullets at migratory birds. That's what Milbank would do anyway, the moment his cajones drop.
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I stopped at "automatic weapons". He's an idiot, and a Democrat Liberal, BIRM
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I hesitated to go on after the first paragraph but did just to see what would come next. It was kind of like the fascination that comes with watching a train wreck in progress.
Milbanks does not know much about hunting and sport shooting.
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"Assault Guns"? Where can I get my own StuG II pr StuG IV? Or beter yet and SU-100. Must be a pretty impressive firing range for an assault gun - I wonder if we can get someone to airdrop an ASU-85 in to fire a few rounds?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] On Aug. 20, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... took practical steps in the establishment of the US-Gulf Anti-terrorism Financing Center. This comes as part of the implementation of terms of the joint agreement signed during the 3rd US-Gulf summit held in Riyadh in May 2017.
The Riyadh-based center will monitor, and share information, regarding both outgoing and incoming financial transactions to the Middle East and North Africa.
This highlights the determination of Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Gulf states to curb the sources of terrorism, which has become a global concern, and has impacted on the security and stability of the financial system and the economy.
Saudi Arabia has a long history of combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism, through its efforts and cooperation with various relevant regional and international organizations, including the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENAFATF), and the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units.
In June 2015, at a meeting held in Brisbane, Australia, FATF unanimously adopted a resolution granting Saudi Arabia an observer seat after the task force delegation commended the country’s prominent role in combating money laundering, the financing of terrorism and the proliferation of armament.
Soon after that, Saudi Arabia started preparations for the third assessment scheduled to take place in June 2018, which may grant Saudi Arabia a permanent seat on FATF.
The 40+9 recommendations
Saudi Arabia was among the leading countries to implement the 40+9 recommendations for combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism initiated by FATF in 1990.
Saudi Arabia attended FATF meetings as a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which complies with all international standards in this area and underwent two assessment processes, in 2003-2004 and in 2009-2010, achieving high scores of compliance, and was ranked top among Arab countries and in the top ten of the G20.
Moreover, Saudi Arabia is also a member of the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) having fulfilled membership requirements.
The Egmont Group is an informal body established in 1995, aimed at strengthening international cooperation between FIUs to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. The group comprises 127 countries with active FIUs.
Regional scale
On a regional scale, Saudi Arabia is one of the Arab founding states of MENAFATF, which was established in 2004 according to international standards of combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism issued by FATF.
The Saudi unit is a joint member of the technical assistance and application team as well as the joint assessment team in the group. In the third round of the joint-assessment process, Saudi Arabia was assessed in a joint task between FATF and MENAFATF.
The latter commended the Saudi role in combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism as well as achieving the scores required to comply with applicable measures in this area. Saudi Arabia is undoubtedly the best Middle Eastern example of combatting terrorism and curbing its financing.
The establishment of a US-Gulf anti-terrorism financing center in Riyadh certainly indicates international recognition that Saudi Arabia is an active member capable of participating in international efforts to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Its recent unprecedented achievements have become a model to follow.
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[HUFFPOO] If white Britons learned more from the Muslim community the UK would be a better country, according to Conservative MP Anna Soubry.
Speaking at an Eid-ul-Adha celebration event in Parliament, the former minister praised the success of Halimah Khaled - the first person of colour and first Muslim to be elected mayor in her Nottinghamshire constituency- and said lessons could be learned from her positive engagement with the largely white community.
″I can report happily that it is not a problem," she told the event, organised by charity Human Appeal.
″She is British through and through and she happens to be a Muslim, and she is proud of her faith, and rightly so.
"And my goodness me, she and members of her community could teach many white British people many a good thing. And if my community, such as as it is, learned more from your community, this country would be a better country."
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Ms. Soubry, please read "
The Latest on Subway Incident: London Ambulance says 18 people hospitalized " at this same site. It is difficult to get warm, fuzzy feelings about a culture that has members who are trying to kill you.
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In 1982 the POMS went half-way around the world and suffered terrible casualties to free the capital of Stanley, on East Falkland. 35 years on they seem content to surrender the whole of Albion to Muslim invaders.
[DAWN] EVEN in the annals of ’honour’ killing, these will be counted as particularly barbaric murders. Two teenagers, 15-year-old Bakht Taj and 17-year-old Ghani Rehman, were electrocuted to death by their families for having eloped from their homes in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... ’s Ibrahim Hyderi area. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... before they could approach someone to get married, they were tracked down by their families, who belong to a sub-clan of the Mohmand tribe, and brought back. A jirga of tribal elders ordered that the children be put to death for having flouted the traditional code of honour. Allegedly, the father and uncle of the girl and the boy held them down and repeatedly gave them electric shocks until they died. After an informant told police about the crime, bodies of the dear departed were exhumed on Wednesday; a forensic analysis found that they bore signs of electrocution and torture.
The crime of honour killing ‐ whatever the means of murder ‐ has a particular horror attached to it: the savagery is twice compounded for being committed by one’s own family. It can seem even more shocking when such an act takes place not in some lawless tribal region or rural backwater, but in a bustling, comparatively modern metropolis. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... that should not be cause for surprise. People, especially migrants colonists, who belong to an extremely conservative social milieu are more likely to try and preserve their cultural values fiercely than be influenced by their (new) environment. As the present case shows, they retain even the informal instruments of ’justice’ that exist back home. The real issue then, is of changing mindsets in which antediluvian notions of honour demand the taking of a life or the handing over maidens as compensation. Nevertheless, there is evidence of an intergenerational conflict taking place in this society with younger people, more exposed to outside influences through the media and the internet, wanting to break free of the straitjacket of tradition imposed on them by their elders. The state must demonstrate that honour killing has no place in society. Although the crime inexcusably remains compoundable, amendments to the law have enhanced the maximum punishment to imprisonment for life, ie 25 years, while the minimum ‐ even in case of a compromise ‐ cannot be less than 10 years behind bars. The murderers in the recent case and the jirga participants should be held accountable. The law of the land must prevail over archaic tribal codes.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Mickey Kaus notes that the Netherlands is going to go back to conducting its elections with paper ballots. "Dutch go old school against Russian hacking," he notes, linking to a Politico Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... story. Kaus adds an appropriate shout-out to Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, who has been calling for paper ballots for years.
Going back to paper ballots may strike many people, as it used to strike me, as retrograde. Isn't it a lot faster to count electronic votes? Isn't there a danger that paper ballots can be altered, defaced, and burned? Isn't electronic voting cooler and more up to date?
But the arguments against paper ballots wither under inspection. Speed of counting: Why do we need an immediate result? The press has exit polls, of varying and perhaps improving worth (Britannia's was much better this year than in 2015 and 2016). And speaking of Britannia, it only takes until about 5:00am the night of election day, to have the results in for all (save maybe one or two) parliamentary constituencies. Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, in contrast, takes four to five weeks to count all its ballots ‐ California, the home of Silicon Valley!
The fact is that sacrificing a bit of speed for reliability is probably a good trade. The strongest argument for paper ballots is that they can't be hacked. The second strongest is that there is an independent record of each ballot cast, which some computerized systems lack.
It may take a long time to count ballots in some states where they include many offices and ballot propositions, but people can wait. And recounts of paper ballots can result in disputes over hanging chads and the like, but these are difficulties our republic has been handling for over 200 years. My vote is for paper ballots.
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Paper ballots have a long history of 'stuffed boxes', discovered in the janitor's closet after closing. It's just with computers, you can do it quickly and bigly.
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Isn't it a lot faster to count electronic votes?
It is but what's the point if the votes are bogus? While it is true that ballot boxes can be stuffed with bogus votes, at least you have a record where one can determine if the ballot has been altered, the person exists, the voter is qualified and duly registered, and whether the voter votes more than once.
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Paper ballots are less hackable, but it still matters who counts them - as we saw last election in the failed recount attempt in Detroit where the number of physical ballots was substantially less than the totals written on the boxes.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] On Aug. 20, 
[HUFFPOO] If white Britons learned more from the Muslim community the UK would be a better country, according to Conservative MP Anna Soubry.
In 1982 the POMS went half-way around the world and suffered terrible casualties to free the capital of Stanley, on East Falkland. 35 years on they seem content to surrender the whole of Albion to Muslim invaders. 
[DAWN] EVEN in the annals of ’honour’ killing, these will be counted as particularly barbaric murders. Two teenagers, 15-year-old Bakht Taj and 17-year-old Ghani Rehman, were electrocuted to death by their families for having eloped from their homes in 
