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Pakistan decides to end the crisis with Iran and restore full diplomatic relation, as does Iran
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3 14:54 NoMoreBS [34] 
4 11:56 Abu Laptop (same as Abu Uluque but on a different computer.) [23] 
10 15:36 M. Murcek [29] 
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Fani Willis 2020: “unfortunate” if taxpayers had to fund sex misconduct lawsuits
Posted by: 3dc || 01/20/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [23 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,



#3  This is a clip of Fani Willis from 2020 where she says she would fire any employee who sleeps with a co-worker, promises to not date “anybody that works under me,” . So she was on the bottom? Technically he wasn't under her.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/20/2024 11:38 Comments || Top||

#4  OK, I'll say it. This proves she's a hypocrite. But far more worrisome than the sex is abusing her office to interfere with a presidential election.
Posted by: Abu Laptop (same as Abu Uluque but on a different computer.) || 01/20/2024 11:56 Comments || Top||


‘Food Deserts’ Rise In Democrat Run Cities As Grocers Leave In Droves"- Crime rates rely on reports and arrests. If leftist officials are making policies which discourage arrests and reporting, then crime rates go down – It's like magic.
[ZeroHedge] Due to changes in the way data is being collated by the FBI during the covid years, many major cities are not actually required to provide full crime rate information until 2024-2025, and quite a few are taking advantage (at least 30%). San Francisco will not be reporting complete crime stats until 2025.

This means that when Democrats argue that crime is going down (ostensibly because of their leadership), this is based on a false and incomplete picture of the data. Lack of data, as mentioned, is also coupled with lack of arrests, lack of prosecution, and the consistent release of repeat offenders in blue cities. Lack of arrests and convictions does not mean there's less crime.

Again, using San Francisco as an example, the police department's closure rate on cases remains dismal because the city's District Attorney refused to prosecute; for every 100 suspects arrested, three are charged and one is convicted. Until he was recalled in a July 8, 2022, election, San Francisco’s DA was Soros-backed radical leftist Chesa Boudin. The Soros connection is widely considered one of the prime indicators of crooked DA's and prosecutors, as well as high crime rates for a city.

Soros DAs run several other major prosecutorial offices, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, St. Louis, New York, Baltimore, Albuquerque, Orlando, and three urban counties in Northern Virginia. In Massachusetts, Soros-backed federal prosecutor Rachael Rollins was forced to resign after the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General and the Office of Special Counsel released devastating reports outlining her serious ethical lapses and partisan political activity. It's not surprising that wherever Soros influenced DAs and prosecutors run things, food deserts seem to follow.

Once this dynamic of corruption is understood, it becomes clear why so many grocers and retailers are uprooting their stores and leaving. It's no longer profitable to stay because Democrat city governments have chosen criminals over businesses.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/20/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [29 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Back in the 19th Century you didn't wander the store. Everything was behind the counter and you told the employee what you wanted. The order was put together for you much as you see today with 'order fulfillment' people in stores. You paid and received your order without leaving the entry of the store.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/20/2024 8:54 Comments || Top||

#2  When I lived in Cleveland, the state-run liquor store worked that way. You found what you wanted in a glassed-in display and used a golf pencil to write product number, price, quantity and total on a pad and handed it to a nice state employee who didn't give a sh*t. I used to routinely buy a half gallon of Wild Turkey 101 for $7.98. Because that's what I wrote on the pad.

Not once did an employee call me out on it. In 4 years.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/20/2024 8:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Hoggly Woggly, I mean Pigglt Wiggly, was the first grocery store where shoppers filled their carts and went to a check-out. Piggly Wiggly®, America’s first true self-service grocery store, was founded in Memphis, Tennessee in 1916 by Clarence Saunders. In grocery stores of that time, shoppers presented their orders to clerks who then gathered the goods from the store shelves. Saunders, a dynamic and innovative man, noticed that this method resulted in wasted time and expense, so he came up with an unheard-of solution that would revolutionize the entire grocery industry: he developed a way for shoppers to serve themselves.

Despite predictions that his novel idea would fail, Saunders’ first store opened on September 6, 1916 at 79 Jefferson Street in Memphis. Operating under the unusual name ‘Piggly Wiggly®’, it was unlike any other contemporary grocery store. There were shopping baskets, open shelves, and no clerks to shop for the customer – all of which were previously unheard of!
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/20/2024 11:41 Comments || Top||

#4  ...that was under a Christian nation and society, regardless of its contradictions, hypocrisies, and application as an exception, it generally worked. Notice what happened when the godless Marxists took over and made themselves 'god'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/20/2024 12:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

- John Adams
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/20/2024 12:16 Comments || Top||

#6  The scam of not arresting anyone or charging anyone lowers your online stats, but folks on the streets know what the real crime statistics are.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/20/2024 14:01 Comments || Top||

#7  You get what you vote for so I have no sympathy if you all fucking starve to death.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/20/2024 14:03 Comments || Top||

#8  Lots of calories in malt liquor...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/20/2024 14:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Ref # 5 above, I'm confident that the 10 million illegal importations have little experience or respect for traditional American culture.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/20/2024 15:26 Comments || Top||

#10  They don't look underfed coming over the border. Once they get here, they (especially the women) put on weight quick. Food deserts are not their problem.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/20/2024 15:36 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Vivek: Gut it at its core
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 01/20/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  Secure job? Attorney General Garland "who me worry?"
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/20/2024 2:35 Comments || Top||

#2  yes!
Posted by: irish rage boy || 01/20/2024 10:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/20/2024 12:05 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Fani Willis' 'lover' spent more than $1,000 on FLIGHTS to Miami and San Francisco for the embattled Fulton County DA while he was investigating Trump and they were having an 'improper relationship,' new records show
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Fani Willis' alleged lover, Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade, spent more than $1,000 on airfare for the embattled Fulton County District Attorney

  • Bank statements, which are part of Wade's divorce case, show Willis' name on airfare purchases as Wade was probing former President Donald Trump

  • Willis has been accused of hiring her lover and benefiting from his $650,000 salary in a 'self-serving arrangement' by one of the Trump defendants
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/20/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [24 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, quite a bit more.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/20/2024 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  If your schadenboner lasts more than 24 hours, that’s about normal.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 01/20/2024 5:16 Comments || Top||

#3  "Nothing to see here! Absolutely not. Move along now..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/20/2024 7:45 Comments || Top||

#4  This is all very troubling to Gov. Kemp as he enjoys his Mariniertes Carpaccio at the Extrablatt in Davos.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/20/2024 7:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Some Obama Chef's Kiss timing.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/20/2024 11:50 Comments || Top||

#6  I will have to review my last on-line company conflict of interest training but I don’t think this is on the up and up.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/20/2024 13:57 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Blackstone CEO at Davos - rejects Biden
[Twitter]


Posted by: 3dc || 01/20/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [34 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  Possibly as many as 90 million other Americans share his view.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/20/2024 3:21 Comments || Top||

#2  ...but that doesn't account for the 100 million new (and suspiciously untraceable) voters this November.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/20/2024 8:44 Comments || Top||

#3  But Big Mike, now that might be a different story! Like the Border Policy reversal, the clues to the summer "Eject, Eject, Eject" make the news?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/20/2024 14:54 Comments || Top||



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