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-Lurid Crime Tales-
FBI is Now Getting Crucial 'Roadmap' From Clinton Aide About Emails
[Law Newz] An intelligence source close to the FBI investigation into Clinton’s private unsecured email server told Fox News that former IT specialist Bryan Pagliano‘s has become an important source for investigators. Last week, it was reported that Pagliano, who helped set-up and maintain Clinton’s private server, struck an immunity deal with the U.S. Department of Justice. For the first time, we are getting details about what his testimony to investigators might entail.

The source who is not authorized to speak on the record told Fox’s Catherine Herridge that the information is helping investigators ‘ knit together the emails with other evidence.’ What is particularly interesting is that investigators are using that testimony as well as those famous photographs of Clinton using her blackberry on the road as part of their investigation. This could be further indication that the FBI is zeroing into Clinton’s official conduct as Secretary of State as it relates to potentially classified emails.

Earlier this week, Clinton scoffed off a question by debate moderator Jorge Ramos from Univision about whether she would quit the race if indicted.

"Oh, for goodness, it’s not going to happen. I’m not even answering that question," Clinton said during the CNN debate. As for Pagliano, Clinton continues to maintain she is pleased he is cooperating with investigators "This is a security review, I am delighted he has agreed to cooperate as everyone else had," Clinton said on CBS this morning. We reported last week that the immunity deal with Pagliano was a significant step in the investigation.
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Posted by: junkiron || 03/14/2016 1:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Just looking at that hurts, dear junkiron. And I'm about to discover if it causes nightmares.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2016 1:49 Comments || Top||

#3  I am delighted he has agreed to cooperate as everyone else had

Really, Hilly? Was everyone else granted immunity from prosecution? What the significance of that, Ms. I-used-to-be-an-attorney? Maybe it's grandstanding by the vast-right-wing-conspiracy-controlled FBI?
Posted by: Bobby || 03/14/2016 7:43 Comments || Top||

#4  If I know our "make the job last" FBI, the road map will definitely take the scenic route.
Posted by: regular joe || 03/14/2016 9:52 Comments || Top||

#5  It took the FBI decades to round-up the Mafia. It will likely take centuries for this Clinton business to play out.
Posted by: Fat Bob Jort1982 || 03/14/2016 10:56 Comments || Top||

#6  What a choice: Staying out of jail or ending up dead in Ft. Marcy Park! Maybe the Feds should put Pagliano in the Witness Protection Program as well as providing immunity.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/14/2016 11:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Just looking at that hurts, dear junkiron. And I'm about to discover if it causes nightmares.

Look at the good side, TW. It means she's about to implode politically.
Posted by: gorb || 03/14/2016 13:23 Comments || Top||

#8  Just looking at that hurts, dear junkiron. And I'm about to discover if it causes nightmares.

It is the evil personage of Hillary Clinton herself that conjures up the nightmares, TW.
I can assure you it has precious little to do with my own scratching and scribbling.
Posted by: junkiron || 03/14/2016 15:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Stating the obvious - this is a case of criminal negligence that boggles the mind. The road that brought Hillary to this point is paved with arrogance, laziness, and incompetence. This fits the definition of negligence perfectly...behavior that grossly deviates from the normal standard expected from the ordinary person. Her vanity has indeed proven to be a deadly sin...for any number of sources compromised...
Posted by: Tennessee || 03/14/2016 20:39 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Rain in California leads to rising Folsom Lake
After heavy rains in Dec 2015 and Jan and March 2016, Folsom Lake in Central California has reached levels allowing power generation. Not only that, but water is also being released for general flow.

Lake Oroville as well as some smaller lakes are also rising quickly.
Posted by: lord garth || 03/14/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What's next? Water is wet! News at 11!!!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 03/14/2016 1:18 Comments || Top||

#2  After 4 years of drought, this is big news.
Posted by: Chuck || 03/14/2016 5:06 Comments || Top||

#3  One of the features of man-made global climate change.

Last spring, North Texas broke a multi-year drought with the wettest spring in history, but then the cool, wet El Nino turned out to be warm and dry.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/14/2016 7:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Look for heavy metal poisoning from ground watered California produce.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/14/2016 9:04 Comments || Top||

#5  There will always be a drought in California. Control must be maintained.
Posted by: Pappy || 03/14/2016 13:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Next up: California dams in danger due to rising water levels.....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 03/14/2016 14:43 Comments || Top||

#7  Wouldn't artificially increasing the water level endanger the spotted owl population?
Posted by: gorb || 03/14/2016 15:01 Comments || Top||

#8  When I was in High School (in the SF Bay Area) it rained for 4 years and they called in El Nino. Then I went to college and it was dry for 4 years and they called it la Nina. Then it went dry again for 4 years. Then it went wet again. Then dry again for 4 years.

I'm not a rocket scientist (not a scientist at all) but I figured out the pattern. Now I'm wondering how they can turn 4 years of rain into the fault of climate change.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/14/2016 15:06 Comments || Top||

#9  rj, they can blame ANYTHING on climate change - hot weather, cold weather, floods, drought, ...
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/14/2016 15:30 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Egypt justice minister sacked after prophet remark
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Egypt’s Prime Minister Sharif Ismail on Sunday sacked the justice minister after he said in a television interview that he would arrest even "a prophet," a statement from the premier’s office said.

Earlier, judicial sources said the justice minister, Ahmed al-Zind, was asked by the prime minister to resign.

It was not immediately clear who would replace him. His predecessor was also forced to resign last May after saying the son of a garbage collector would be ineligible to serve as a judge.

Zend faced outrage on social media Sunday after the television interview.

When asked in an interview on private satellite channel Sada Al-Balad on Friday about a case involving journalists accused of defaming him and whether he would jail them, Zind said he would imprison anyone.

"Even if it’s a prophet, God’s peace and blessings be upon him," Zind said, using the Islamic saying of reverence spoken by Muslims only when referring to the Prophet Mohammed.

Upon realising what he had said, Zind immediately stopped and said: "I ask for forgiveness from God."

He further said any "wrongdoer, whatever his identity -- even judges" would be incarcerated
You have the right to remain silent...
if found guilty.

Zind’s remarks fired up the rubes on social media networks immediately after the interview, with angry tweets continuing to pour in on Sunday.

Cairo-based Al-Azhar, a prestigious learning centre of Sunni Islam, even issued a warning.

Angry Egyptians launched the Twitter hashtag "trial for Zind" as they lashed out at the minister, who only in January had angered human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
groups after he called for the "mass killing" of outlawed Moslem Brüderbund supporters.
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Fighting in Yasinovataya threatens water supply for 400,000


For a map, click here. You can enlarge the map, if you open it separately.

By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

The continuing artillery battle between Ukrainian forces and Russian backed separatists around Yasinovataya has shut down water for 400,000 residents in Donetsk and Gorlovka, according to Ukrainian and rebel media.

The battle for Yasinovataya, now in its seventh day, has forced the rebel government in Donetsk to shut down a water filtration plant in the area due to Ukrainian shelling.

However, Ukrainian military officials say it was the unsighted 82mm mortar attacks by rebel gunners which have threatened the local water supply. Their statement is the first admission in six days that fighting has even taken place in the area, despite repeated news releases by rebel military officials.

An unidentified spokesman for the Ukrainian ministry of defense antiterrorist operation -- the Ukrainian command effort in dealing with the rebel insurgency -- said that rebels have mounted 82mm mortars onto trucks in order to move them rapidly from one point to another. The 82mm mortar is normally transported by truck, then moved to firing positions by its crew, just not aboard vehicles.

The latest from the Donetsk ministry of defense for the situation near Yasinovataya is that Ukrainian forces continue to pound rebel positions on the road junction, effectively shutting down road communications between Donetsk city and Gorlovka.

According to rebel news statements, Ukrainian forces hit the Yasinovatskiy checkpoint for 40 minutes on Saturday and again on Sunday for 20 minutes. Both times Ukrainian forces used 82mm and 120mm mortar fire, as well as some tank gunfire on those positions.

Ukrainian media said that rebels hit Ukrainian positions near Yasinovataya with 122mm artillery deployed to Krutaya Balka on Sunday. In a news account which appeared in Gorlovka Pravda on Saturday, rebel officials claimed Ukrainians were using 152mm artillery on the Yasinovatskiy checkpoint.

Rebel military officials claim a total of four riflemen have been wounded defending the road. Rebel media also says that Ukrainian forces have lost more than 30 dead and 70 wounded. Ukrainian officials say their losses total seven wounded, all in Lugansk, a fair distance away from Yasinovataya.

Rebel officials say that Ukrainian forces have violated the ceasefire along the Donetsk line of contact more than 200 times in 24 hours. Targets hit by Ukrainian forces include at Spartak, the Donetsk airport, western districts of Donetsk city and at Zaitsevo, which is north of Gorlovka. Among the localities hit by Ukrainian fire in southern Donetsk is Kominternovo.

Ukrainian military officials say that rebels have violated the ceasefire a total of 20 times, including at Zaitsevo and Mayorsk, in northern Donetsk. Kamenka, south of Donetsk has also been hit by rebel artillery fire.

Ukrainian media said that rebel used 122mm artillery in some attacks.

Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraine by clicking here.
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Mukachevo prosecutor found driving drunk 10X legal limit
Mukachevo is not just a backwater in the Carpathians. It is a rest stop for smuggling operations between Ukraine and the rest of eastern Europe, east and west bound. Also, this happened in Mukachevo last summer.
An unidentified prosecutor was detained by police in Mukachevo after his blood alcohol test indicated he was 10 times over the legal limit, according to a Russian language news account in korrespodent.net.

According to the police the unidentified man tried to sway police from arresting him by pointing out his high office.

The report said the man tested 1.098 ppm.
Shoulda tested him for blood content. Hey, it could help!
Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That happened here in Texas and so the Dems went after the Governor, go figure.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 03/14/2016 1:17 Comments || Top||

#2  How can someone even be conscious at that level?

Or am I a lightweight?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 03/14/2016 5:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe the Russian legal limit is pretty wimpy and ten times is just buzzed. Not like our robust drinkers....

Nah.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 03/14/2016 7:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Primitive western blood alcohol standards don't account for the necessity of antifreeze in the human system.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/14/2016 14:07 Comments || Top||

#5  You have to understand he's Russian... and thus has been bred for those levels of intoxication for at least the last 500 years.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/14/2016 14:51 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Reporterette, editor resign from Breitbart -- UPDATED
UPDATE: Apparently Fields has made accusations similar to the Trump allegation before. See here

Here is a video purporting to be of the same incident.

End UPDATE

Bloggers and the like will be poring over the video of this incident for some time to come.

My immediate take away is that Corey Lewandowski did grab Michelle Fields, but may have done so inadvertently, except no video exists to positively prove that anyone actually grabbed Fields.

The Wapo reporter who was there was tasked to explain what he saw and his reaction to Breitbart's official reaction. He said, "It's Breitbart." Which means because Breitbart is conservative-ish, they are guilty of whatever can be said about them.

Field better start wearing a cup if she is going to report on subjects like Trump.

Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields and editor-at-large Ben Shapiro are resigning from the company over the site’s handling of Donald Trump’s campaign manager’s alleged assault on Fields, BuzzFeed News has learned.

Fields and Shapiro informed Breitbart News chairman Steve Bannon of their decision Sunday night.

“Today I informed the management at Breitbart News of my immediate resignation,” Fields said in a statement sent to BuzzFeed News. “I do not believe Breitbart News has adequately stood by me during the events of the past week and because of that I believe it is now best for us to part ways.”

In his own statement, Shapiro said the episode was emblematic of how he believes the site’s management had sold out the legacy of its founder and namesake, the late Andrew Breitbart.

“Andrew’s life mission has been betrayed,” Shapiro wrote. “Indeed, Breitbart News, under the chairmanship of Steve Bannon, has put a stake through the heart of Andrew’s legacy. In my opinion, Steve Bannon is a bully, and has sold out Andrew’s mission in order to back another bully, Donald Trump; he has shaped the company into Trump’s personal Pravda, to the extent that he abandoned and undercut his own reporter, Breitbart News’ Michelle Fields, in order to protect Trump’s bully campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who allegedly assaulted Michelle.”

Breitbart has been riven by internal strife in recent days after Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski allegedly grabbed Fields and yanked her away from Trump as she was attempting to ask him a question after a press conference in Florida. The Trump campaign denied the incident, despite considerable evidence to the contrary.

Breitbart published a story casting doubt on Fields’ account, appearing to side with the Trump campaign over their own reporter. Joel Pollak, a senior editor-at-large at the organization, ordered staffers to stop defending Fields. One source with knowledge of the situation said some staffers who publicly defended Fields had been threatened with firing.

“Both Lewandowski and Trump maligned Michelle in the most repulsive fashion,” Shapiro wrote in his resignation statement. “Meanwhile, Breitbart News not only stood by and did nothing outside of tepidly asking for an apology, they then attempted to abandon Michelle by silencing staff from tweeting or talking about the issue. Finally, in the ultimate indignity, they undermined Michelle completely by running a poorly-evidenced conspiracy theory as their lead story in which Michelle and Terris had somehow misidentified Lewandowski.”

The exodus, which began with the company’s spokesman Kurt Bardella, is unlikely to end with Fields and Shapiro. Three sources say multiple staffers are searching for a way out of the company — with several actively circulating résumés, according to two sources — and more resignations could follow in the coming days and weeks. The company is known for having editorial employees sign unusually strict contracts, at least some of which include non-compete clauses that could make it difficult to leave Breitbart for another news outlet.

Relations between Bannon and the site’s staff — which were already fraught with tension over the direction and editorial vision for the company — have deteriorated sharply over the episode with the Trump campaign. According to one company source with knowledge of the situation, some editors have discussed telling Breitbart News CEO Larry Solov they will quit unless Bannon is ousted. Solov did not immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday night.
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#1  You are dead wrong on the "Its Brietbart" comment.

"Its Breitbart" means they are fully in the tank for Trump. That has become the issue with Breitbart as a news outlet. Breitbart used to be conservative-libertarian, but has abandoned it in favor of populist style know-nothing angry rhetoric by the editorial staff as surely as the NYT is progressive-liberal. They have changed, this isn't the Breitbart that Andrew ran anymore. Exec in chief Bannon is known to by a Trump sycophant and has tried to become a Trump campaign speech writer.

If you have not been keeping up with things, you may simply be ignorant of the change to Breitbart. They sold out, possibly literally in some cases (money is said to have changed hands as well as promises of jobs) for Trump and became attack dogs on his opponents, running multiple smear jobs. Its become a mouthpiece for pro-Trump articles, Trump apologists, and its "news" on Trump differs very little from press releases by the Trump team. They actively bash anyone that criticizes Trump. Its bad enough that even Rush Limbaugh, who tacitly supports Trump, called them "Trumpbart" on the air the other day.

Its bad enough that their former chief spokesman resigned over this the other day in protest and disgust about the treatment ordered by the editors on this story to their news staff.

Fields does have credibility on this despite the sleazy attacks on her such as what Badanov spewed above. Note that she has filed charges, has the bruises on her arm from the grab, and importantly has an eye witness.

How about running a real news article instead of Buzzfeed trash?

Here is the better source, by real reporters with both sides of the story, minus the Trumpbot smears.

http://thefederalist.com/2016/03/11/breitbart-reporter-files-police-report-against-trump-campaign-manager-corey-lewandowski/
Posted by: Lemuel Graimp5160 || 03/14/2016 4:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Reporterette

Is this, like, a real word?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/14/2016 5:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Proir to Andrews death, it was becoming a site to get news the MSM tried to ignore. Brietbart himself did not like Trump or his politics. After Breitbart's death, Bannon took over turned it into a home for a strident anti-immigration and anti-Washington rhetoric, which has recently morphed into attacking any Trump opponent with any smears handy, and parroting Trump positions uncritically.

Many inside the company believe Trump has provided undisclosed financial backing to the outlet in exchange for glowing coverage

According to four sources with knowledge of the situation, editors and writers at the outlet have privately complained since at least last year that the company’s top management was allowing Trump to turn Breitbart into his own fan website — using it to hype his political prospects and attack his enemies. One editor called the water-carrying “despicable” and “embarrassing,” and said he was told by an executive last year that the company had a financial arrangement with Trump. Another source at the company said he knew of several instances when managers had overruled writers and editors at Trump’s behest.

Trump’s book, Time to Get Tough, was written by Bannon.

A Breitbart insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity, says that "they’re the kind of people who, if you accidentally brushed against their shopping cart in the supermarket, their response is to burn down your house." Asked about this characterization, Bannon didn’t deny it. Quite the opposite, he laughed uproariously.

The editor in chief at Commentary, a true conservative outlet, compares Breitbart News to a fanzine. 'They’re like a Tiger Beat for Trump, a Sixteen magazine for Trump. It’s kind of a nonsense fan site,' John Podhoretz says.

“There have been a couple of staff-reporter pieces [personally attacking me] on Breitbart" says Erick Erickson of Redstate. Breitbart News’s Kevin Scholla calling Erickson a "RINO", is an obivous smear and a rather stupid one if you have actually bothered to read RedState over the years.

Brietbart has become Trump's personal Pravda and should be treated as such.

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There's your brief on the descent of Brietbart from conservative-libertarian icon to "Trumpbart" and the real meaning behind that statement "Its Breitbart".




Posted by: Lonzo Angans8120 || 03/14/2016 5:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Here is the Free Republics (a far right site) on the same subject of Breitbart's new lack of credibility and pro-trump sell out:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3385503/posts
Posted by: Pholulet Spusoger5580 || 03/14/2016 5:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Fields has reported conservative news reliably for a while, going back to the Daily Caller, a very conservative web site.

Her complaint about being knocked down by the NYPD while covering occupy was true. Lewandowsky jsut liead about her in an attempt to smear her. And Badanov just spread the smear and lie even further.

Here is a twitter pic that shows the that smear to be a lie,

link

The facts are there, perhaps you were simply unaware. You are not unaware anymore. Want to walk back that smear Mr Badanov? Or do you prefer to side with the scumbags smearing victims of their batery, then lie about them rather than admit the truth and simply apologize?
Posted by: Spainter Elmomogum9498 || 03/14/2016 5:43 Comments || Top||

#6  I am not capable of determining ULTIMATE TRUTH about an incident far away, and involving people that I do not personally know.

And - in this day and age - digital media can be faked well enough to deceive me.

I came into this particular case being ignorant of the existence of Ms. Fields and Mr. Lewandowski, and with only light (but positive) impressions of Mr. Shapiro.

But - the information at this link: http://www.dangerandplay.com/2016/03/13/michelle-fields-corey-lewandowski-trump-hoax/ pretty well convinces me that Ms. Fields, for some unknown reason, fabricated - or at least massively exaggerated - the offense in question.
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 03/14/2016 7:01 Comments || Top||

#7  Judging by his shoulder, he didn't even try to grab her ass.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/14/2016 7:04 Comments || Top||

#8  I don't know why people are surprised that, what is the news, is for sale. Been like that for a long time.
Posted by: phil_b || 03/14/2016 7:06 Comments || Top||

#9  what is the news, is for sale

Nope. In that particular case they're doing it for free. Because, in their minds (OK, OK, I know), they're saving the World from mad fuhrer Donald.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/14/2016 7:08 Comments || Top||

#10  But the left's exploitation of CNN, MSNBC, Time, and the rest of liberal media is.... OK ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2016 7:23 Comments || Top||

#11  These comments are like the Blaze. Glenn has gone over to la la land.
Posted by: Dale || 03/14/2016 7:28 Comments || Top||

#12  The only time you can trust a reporter or politician is when their lips aren't moving.
Posted by: Dale || 03/14/2016 7:32 Comments || Top||

#13  I personally could care less if Fields was grabbed and/or pushed. Breitbart ran stories (Fields) way too much for me. It's not news.
Posted by: jvalentour || 03/14/2016 8:55 Comments || Top||

#14  Yawn. I want a slo-mo montage video of that 80-year old dropping the BLM squid with one shot, and I want it yesterday.
Posted by: regular joe || 03/14/2016 9:30 Comments || Top||

#15  How about running a real news article instead of Buzzfeed trash?

At the time, it was the only site I could that had this story, the complete story. As it was, had you read it, you would have noticed it was sympathetic to Fields, et al.

If you have noticed, nearly every conservative website has chosen their presidential candidate and are in the tank for him. It's why I do not want to visit other sites to get news on that is going on because of that. In fact, this presidential campaign may force me to swear off reading conservatives sites for good, not that I would go back to the left.

The way every conservative site has handled the candidate vetting is itself shameful, not just Breitbart, and not just National Review or Red State, but all of them.

As for Breitbart: it is easy to see why they went for Trump. Like Trump, Breitbart was a grenade thrower against the establishment, but as far as being conservative, his loyalties were elsewhere.

As for the remark of the Wapo reporter, he said what he said, not anything like, "They're pro Trump." So, I took what he meant as what I thought he meant. I am very certain it mattered to him very little who on the right were supporting whom in this presidential campaign.
Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2016 9:57 Comments || Top||

#16  If you have noticed, nearly every conservative website has chosen their presidential candidate and are in the tank for him.

I remember reading, somewhere, why democracy works. People spend so much energy on elections, they don't have any left for revolution.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/14/2016 10:32 Comments || Top||

#17  Rad and learn. Its what you claim to do here?

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2016/03/14/ben-shapiro-michelle-fields-resign-n2133309
Posted by: Blinky Scourge of the Huns4036 || 03/14/2016 10:41 Comments || Top||

#18  More on the reaction from Breitbart here
Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2016 10:49 Comments || Top||

#19  Rad and learn. Its what you claim to do here?

I'll read it, but the "evidence" seems clear: Fields made up at least parts of her story. She's done this sort of thing before.
Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2016 10:51 Comments || Top||

#20  Far more brownshirts here than I would have expected. Lets beat up anyone that protests or opposes our Dear Leader, and its OK to rough up the press too if they do not get in line and know their place... Right Dale, Regulajoe and Jvalentour? Yer gonna get them blacks and ferriners and Jooooos. Because its what the people you are praising will do. And remember that punch was a crime as was his death threat afterward, so no you are on record as praising violent criminal behavior. Paints a nasty picture of the true you.

What will you do nexc, make them wear signs, or an insignia that designates them as free targets due to their speaking out of turn and saying things you do not like and exposing The Leader Trump as grossly ignorant - or worse yet, making you look stupid by defending the indefensible. Mussolini used people like you. So did Lenin. Adolf as well. Nice company you keep.

Cultists. Just as bad as the Obama people, and just as violent is seems as the people they hate. To hell with both of you BLM/Progressives and Trump/Authoritarians.

The sad thing is I expected this from the left. But but not from the other side after seeing your criticism of the left/progs use of violence and intimidation, smearing and threats. But now, you adopt the same tactics, anger and irrational Strong Man worship you criticised from the other side.

Look in the mirror, and be ashamed of what you have let hate twist you into.
Posted by: Flainter Sheatch4803 || 03/14/2016 10:57 Comments || Top||

#21  Townhall is owned by the same people who own Red State, Bearing Arms, etc. Check it out. Their news is just as filtered as Breitbart. Maybe occasionally some facts leak out, but not before the agenda get plastered before you.

I just wonder why these conservative websites can't just speak to the basics: smaller unintrusive government, and a strong national defense. Why must they stroke one candidate over another, when it's about the basics, that hardly anyone is talking about?
Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2016 10:57 Comments || Top||

#22  Badenov, self delusion is such a sad thing to see emerging in you. Good luck, and please let us know what color the sky is in your world where you take the side of thugs against a conservative reporter, one being smeared by the Trump machine, whose smear you repeat.

Prove it case, or you are the liar here.

Fields has eye witness, and a video and audio recording.
Posted by: Throlutle Henbane9230 || 03/14/2016 11:00 Comments || Top||

#23  I don't support Trump, but I find him amusing. On the other side, I have stated here several times that I assume every reporter is a liar, traitor and enemy to humankind until proven otherwise. My take is, they are all lying. So let them go to court and prove it one way or the other. Til then, I honestly can't say I care.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/14/2016 11:04 Comments || Top||

#24  Far more brownshirts here than I would have expected. Lets beat up anyone that protests or opposes our Dear Leader, and its OK to rough up the press too if they do not get in line and know their place... Right Dale, Regulajoe and Jvalentour? Yer gonna get them blacks and ferriners and Jooooos. Because its what the people you are praising will do. And remember that punch was a crime as was his death threat afterward, so no you are on record as praising violent criminal behavior. Paints a nasty picture of the true you.

Which punch? We know of one old man who sucker punched a young black protester at a Trump rally in Florida (I think), and we have a spurious allegation of a Trump campaign manager manhandling a female reporter. That is all I am aware of. You phrasing is unfair to us. we have an ethnically diverse group here, albeit not exactly politically diverse. None of the people who comment here or who work the editorial side come even close to the definition of "Brown Shirts" except for you.

You should know that attacking specific commenters is a no go here. If you have a problem, take it to twitter or to email, not on the forum.

What will you do nexc, make them wear signs, or an insignia that designates them as free targets due to their speaking out of turn and saying things you do not like and exposing The Leader Trump as grossly ignorant - or worse yet, making you look stupid by defending the indefensible. Mussolini used people like you. So did Lenin. Adolf as well. Nice company you keep.

I agree that Trump is an ignoramus, but I think he also is a sentimental ignoramus who in the final analysis would do the right thing, as he sees it, even for the wrong reason. Your contention that Trump would paint targets on the backs of racial or social minorities is flat wrong. Trump hasn't done that sort of thing before. He's been a businessman and a Golden Throat for so long, he knows very little else. And Mussolini? Lenin? Hitler? I guess you are out of ideas, huh?

Cultists. Just as bad as the Obama people, and just as violent is seems as the people they hate. To hell with both of you BLM/Progressives and Trump/Authoritarians.

You're new here aren't you?

The sad thing is I expected this from the left. But but not from the other side after seeing your criticism of the left/progs use of violence and intimidation, smearing and threats. But now, you adopt the same tactics, anger and irrational Strong Man worship you criticised from the other side.

Look in the mirror, and be ashamed of what you have let hate twist you into.


We've seen/heard this type of criticism before. It is nothing new, nor is it particularly accurate or fair. As long as you do not conduct personal attacks, you can say whatever you want. But be advised. You'll become a chew toy. And THAT is what is sad. Instead of debating and discussing, you are charging and doing a fair amount of hating yourself. You'll in the end, get what you get.
Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2016 11:12 Comments || Top||

#25  Fields has eye witness, and a video and audio recording.

I don't know anything about this situation yet, but if he's smart enough to run a campaign, you figure he'd be smart enough not to grab her a$$ while anyone was looking. Just my two cents.
Posted by: gorb || 03/14/2016 11:14 Comments || Top||

#26  Badenov, self delusion is such a sad thing to see emerging in you. Good luck, and please let us know what color the sky is in your world where you take the side of thugs against a conservative reporter, one being smeared by the Trump machine, whose smear you repeat.

Right. Fields is a conservative, Trump is a fascist, and you are happy to be here

Prove it case, or you are the liar here.

I have nothing to prove. This fight is not my fight.

Fields has eye witness, and a video and audio recording.

So does the other side.

Your move.
Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2016 11:15 Comments || Top||

#27  Breitbart's Migrant Crisis Live Wire is useful. I check it every few days. I haven't been reading about campaigning politicians except the articles those I know -- whose choices range across the board -- post here and elsewhere. Today is my day to do research, because Super Tuesday is tomorrow here in Ohio.

Once again, my choices will be constrained to choosing the least bad of the options, as I understand them. It will be worse in November, but politics is the art of the possible, not the ideal.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2016 11:18 Comments || Top||

#28  #25 Since I'm with Badanov on this one, I'll take Stephenson for my Paine.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/14/2016 11:28 Comments || Top||

#29  OOOps #25 ---> #22
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/14/2016 11:29 Comments || Top||

#30  Pretty good, the Paine quote, grom
Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2016 11:32 Comments || Top||

#31  Maybe they can get jobs at HuffPo.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/14/2016 11:51 Comments || Top||

#32  But the thing I really wanna know is, how many Trump supporters are there travelling around the country with the purpose of disrupting Clinton rallies?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/14/2016 12:06 Comments || Top||

#33  #31 Maybe they can get jobs at HuffPo.

This is exactly what will happen -- or the Daily Beast or Salon or Buzzfeed, et al.

Hell, it was probably the plan all along.
Posted by: charger || 03/14/2016 12:33 Comments || Top||

#34  So, with "Reporterette" in the title I'm guessing that Rantburg has taken an official "side" in this matter?
Posted by: Crusader || 03/14/2016 12:35 Comments || Top||

#35  ...you mean other than Instaprof's - "Donk Operative with a byline?"
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/14/2016 12:46 Comments || Top||

#36  badanov is one of several Rantburgers who have worked as professional journalists. From time to time he critiques a piece from that perspective.

This is also why he has done several long series of original reportage for us on areas not covered adequately elsewhere (the drug war in Mexico a few years ago, the semi-civil war in the Ukraine now, the mad run up of bullet and gun prices reported in his weekly column This Week in Guns).

I'd like to think I've come to know my fellow moderator fairly well over the years. I find it suggestive that I have no idea who badanov would vote for in this election, except that, having firmly rejected the Progressive ideas of his youth after spending enough time behind the scenes to realize the inherent danger, it won't be one of the Democrats.

Why are you -- again -- attempting to provoke a flame war, Mr. Multi-nym?

Another question, Mr. Multi-nym, since you raised the issue yesterday: what is your military experience? It wouldn't normally matter, since we are a War on Terror blog rather than a milblog, and so a great many of us, including me, are utterly civilian, but you chose REMF as the insult to impugn another's opinion and truthfulness. The way you used it suggests you chose that particular term to resonate with your presumed audience, rather than because you've spent a lifetime dealing with REMFs and fobbits from the pointy end of the spear. Am I wrong?

As an aside to g(r)omgoru: no, reporterette is not a proper word. Historically, reporting was considered a blue collar job, and being able to take an elbow or dodge a punch without complaint while getting the story was understood to be part of the job for working men (and some women) with a talent for good grammar.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2016 12:58 Comments || Top||

#37  Gracias, TW
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/14/2016 13:01 Comments || Top||

#38  Da nada, chaverli.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/14/2016 13:15 Comments || Top||

#39  Crusader (#34), like we ever agree on anything.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/14/2016 13:16 Comments || Top||

#40  :-)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/14/2016 13:17 Comments || Top||

#41  Why are you -- again -- attempting to provoke a flame war, Mr. Multi-nym?

My guess is he's been assigned to Rantburg by Moveon.org.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/14/2016 13:21 Comments || Top||

#42  So, with "Reporterette" in the title I'm guessing that Rantburg has taken an official "side" in this matter?

Rush uses the term in reference to female liberal reporters. It's harmless and descriptive.
Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2016 13:30 Comments || Top||

#43  assigned to Rantburg by Moveon.org.

Since we're only 232 out of 300, they probably chose a real amateur. I notice he don't spel too gude.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/14/2016 13:33 Comments || Top||

#44  On Thursday (3-10-2016) Rantburg carried an article titled:
St. Simon's Island, GA: 54 Private Jets at Meeting to Stop Trump.

The Rantburg article cited a Breitbart article claiming that a meeting of elite tech CEOs, GOP party insiders and big donors at the annual World Forum event were conspiring to stop Donald Trump before he wins the Republican nomination.

American Enterprise Institute leadership adamantly disputed that they had facilitated any such anti-Trump activities during their 2016 forum.

Even the Huffington Post itself, later admitted that American Enterprise Institute's annual World Forum featured
"no strategy session on how to stop the GOP front-runner on it's agenda."

CEOs And GOP Honchos Didn't Intend To Focus On Trump At Secretive Meeting. They Couldn't Help It.

Original Huffington post article: At Secretive Meeting, Tech CEOs And Top Republicans Commiserate, Plot To Stop Trump


The Breitbart article was nothing more than Huffington Post left wing propaganda - parroted by CNN - and then condensed (enhanced) and posted by Breitbart.

The annual World Forum is hosted by the American Enterprise Institute which was founded in 1938. Over the past 78 years it has been one of the most premier and respected conservative think tanks in the U.S.
Most of the leading (Republican) presidential candidates over the past few decades have attended and spoken at the World Forum event.
The left wing media has labeled it a "secretive right wing conspiracy" every single year since 1982.

But it's no secret that the Huff Post and Mother Jones would love to see the American Enterprise Institute and the annual World Forum discredited. They scream this same crap every year regardless of who attends the World Forum event.

I am most disappointed and disgusted that Breitbart News has recently taken to promoting and parroting Huffington Post and Mother Jones (magazine) left wing propaganda.

The World Forum story plus the story casting doubt on Michelle Fields are only two, of many easily researchable examples, of how far to the left Breitbart news "Chairman" Steve Bannon has taken the once reputable Breitbart news agency.

Someone needs to check on Andrew Breitbart ... It will surprise me if he hasn't kicked all the dirt off his own grave over this.
Posted by: junkiron || 03/14/2016 13:44 Comments || Top||

#45  The way you used it suggests you chose that particular term to resonate with your presumed audience, rather than because you've spent a lifetime dealing with REMFs and fobbits from the pointy end of the spear. Am I wrong?

Hadda Google fobbit. :)
Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2016 13:49 Comments || Top||

#46  Don't anybody use real English anymore?
Posted by: Pappy || 03/14/2016 14:13 Comments || Top||

#47  Don't anybody use real English anymore?

Only us furreiners.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/14/2016 14:39 Comments || Top||

#48  I still see Breithbart's reporting as mostly even. Some of the reporters (John Nolte) fawn over Trump while others are harsher towards Trump but it seems to balance out (at least in the articles that interest me).

The comments on the other hand are filled by a horde of Trump fanatics, most of whom are pretty vile.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/14/2016 15:01 Comments || Top||

#49  Sad thing for Breitbart is they lost Shapiro.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/14/2016 15:04 Comments || Top||

#50  Sad thing for Breitbart is they lost Shapiro.

There has to be 10 or 20 writers out there as good if not better than Shapiro just waiting for a chance to write for Breitbart.
Posted by: badanov || 03/14/2016 15:29 Comments || Top||

#51  UPDATE: Apparently Fields has made accusations similar to the Trump allegation before. See here

Not found.
Posted by: Dale || 03/14/2016 21:37 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Punjab ready to amend law: Fazl
[DAWN] Jamaat Ulma-e-Islam-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman
Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ...
has said the 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....

government is willing to bring amendments to the Punjab Protection of Women Against Violence Act 2016.

"Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif
...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab...
had telephoned me and told me that the government is ready to bring amendments to the women protection bill," Fazulr Rehman told news hounds here on Saturday.

He said he had told the chief minister that things had gone beyond just amending the bill, which he added was "un-Islamic" and was passed in a haste.

The religious parties had opposed the bill and demanded the government should withdraw it.

The Maulana said the prime minister’s comment on the performance of the National Accountability Bureau should be taken seriously.
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Science & Technology
RUSSIA WANTS TO TEST A NUCLEAR SPACE ENGINE IN 2018
h/t Instapundit
Space is expensive. To generate more power and more thrust, rockets need to carry more fuel, increasing the amount of weight the same rocket engine needs to lift. It’s a vexing equation, which might explain why much of recent spaceflight is about putting objects into orbit, where they can earn their keep by relaying communications on the ground below. Maybe what interplanetary travel needs is just a better engine to take people there. Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation, Russia’s nuclear agency, thinks nuclear engines are just the ticket to get to Mars.
USA wants to curb carbon emissions
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/14/2016 13:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It was stupid of Kennedy to sign away Nerva and Project Orion with the Test Ban Treaty.

It's a good time to revisit that.
Nerva
Project Orion

Posted by: 3dc || 03/14/2016 14:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Orion, 3dc
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/14/2016 14:38 Comments || Top||

#3  g(r)omgoru Orion was open minded gut!
Posted by: 3dc || 03/14/2016 16:14 Comments || Top||

#4  guts!
Posted by: 3dc || 03/14/2016 16:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Rail guns are the future of space launches. Although maybe not for people.
Posted by: phil_b || 03/14/2016 17:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Yeah well, they'll never match our Muslim outreach program.

So nyah.

Snark of the day.
Posted by: NASA || 03/14/2016 17:57 Comments || Top||

#7  'Thunderbirds'
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/14/2016 22:08 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Texas festival apologizes after Muslim Olympian told to remove hijab
[Reuters] Organizers of the South by Southwest (SXSW) arts festival said on Sunday they apologized to U.S. Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad after a volunteer said she must remove her Muslim headcovering to receive credentials to the event in Austin, Texas.

The Olympic fencer was picking up an identification badge at the interactive, film and music event on Saturday when a volunteer told her she must take off her hijab before her photograph could be taken.

"Even after I explained it was for religious reasons, he insisted I had to remove my hijab," she said on Twitter.

SXSW organizers said on Sunday in an email to Reuters that they have since removed the volunteer for the duration of the event.

"We are embarrassed by this and have apologized to Ibtihaj in person, and sincerely regret this incident," SXSW said in the statement.

Muhammad, 30, will make history in Rio de Janeiro as the first Olympian to represent the United States wearing a hijab. Muhammad has become an outspoken critic of presidential candidate Donald Trump, who called for a ban on Muslims from entering the United States.

"I feel like I owe it to people who look like me to speak out," Muhammad told reporters on Wednesday. "When I hear someone say something like, 'We're going to send Muslims back to their countries,' I say, 'Well, I'm American. Where am I going to go?"

After the incident was resolved at the event, Muhammad said that she was issued the wrong identification.

"I was given the wrong ID! From now on my name is Tamir & I work for Time Warner Inc" she tweeted.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/14/2016 07:27 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bet Tamir is pissed.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/14/2016 8:53 Comments || Top||

#2  A fencer in a hijab- I'd pay to see that.
Posted by: Grunter || 03/14/2016 9:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Why does this story make me think of Munich, 1972?
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/14/2016 10:36 Comments || Top||

#4  At this point, it's more like Mexico City 1968.

Still, it's silly to sweat the small stuff (that's generally what they are looking for -- Izlammophobia and all that rot). Let her wear the damn thing.
Posted by: JHH || 03/14/2016 13:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Probably won't be an issue with the swim team.....
Posted by: Ebbeaque Tojo8408 || 03/14/2016 14:24 Comments || Top||

#6  Good think they cleared that up before Obama's visit. You know how he hates to be embarrassed.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/14/2016 14:53 Comments || Top||

#7  I would think they have to identify the athelete to make sure they haven't slipped Errol Flynn under the Hajib to win on her behalf.

Since a number of Muslim countries don't use the Hajib (and those that due tend to prevent women from doing thing such as athletics) I can't help but see this as a way to knock down barriers until eventually bad guys can use Hajibs to move around anywhere in anonymity.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/14/2016 14:54 Comments || Top||

#8  I feel like I owe it to people who look like me to speak out,""

my covered Weber kettle BBQ thanks you
Posted by: Frank G || 03/14/2016 15:04 Comments || Top||

#9  Did they make Obama remove his hijab?
Posted by: regular joe || 03/14/2016 15:17 Comments || Top||



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