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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Florida Student Arrested For Bringing An Ar-15 Rifle To High School Following Parkland Shooting
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2018 06:46 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
"By all accounts, Xynides is said to be a very good young man with no prior disciplinary actions noted by school administration," police said in a statement Friday. "Friends tell us he made a stupid mistake."

Several students said they didn't think the teenager meant to harm anyone and said they did not think he should be expelled.

ANYONE THAT STUPID deserves at least a year in prison or equivalent.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/27/2018 14:40 Comments || Top||

#2  A few jail sentences for yoyos like this guy would serve pour encourager les autres, Non?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/27/2018 14:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Not all attention is good . . . .
Posted by: gorb || 02/27/2018 17:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Expulsion and prison.... nah.

Spending every day after school in a pink jumpsuit picking up trash around the school in full view of his classmates?
Oh yeah.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/27/2018 19:45 Comments || Top||


The Las Vegas Metro Police Department's violent crime stats report OMITS the 58 concertgoers who were killed
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2018 06:25 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Are the Chief of Police in Vegas and the Sheriff of Broward County friends?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 02/27/2018 13:06 Comments || Top||

#2  No but their reporting, deriving the desired outcome, is the same SPOD.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/27/2018 15:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Standard Process Of Deception?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2018 19:07 Comments || Top||


Man tragically films his own murder after a gunman opened fire on him as he recorded a Facebook Live video on a North Carolina university campus
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "I asked you not to film me, didn't I?"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2018 3:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like the local drug dealers had it in for him.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/27/2018 14:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Looks like a "youth" did it.

(Wink)
Posted by: charger || 02/27/2018 20:34 Comments || Top||


Texas police SHOOT a hero who had just disarmed gunman holding 100 people hostage in a church
Stuff happens. The key thing is that in the end the bad guy was stopped and the good guy will be ok.
[DailyMail] Texas police shot a man after he disarmed a potential church shooter who had been holding more than 100 people hostage in at a congregation in Amarillo.Joshua Len Jones, 35, barged into a church service at the Faith City Mission in Amarillo, on Valentine's Day and pulled out a gun.

Churchgoer Tony Garces managed to disarm Jones during a scuffle, but when police arrived, they shot Mr Garces instead.

The incident took place during a morning service at the Faith City Mission, a Christian organization which helps people in need in the community.

Jones, who had received help from the Faith City Mission in the past, held about 100 congregants and church staff hostage.

While waiting for police, church staff and attendees managed to overpower Jones, and during the fight, Mr Garces got hold of the gum

'I said 'hey, hey I got the gun,' Mr Garces told ABC7 Amarillo.

He described how officers ordered him to throw the gun to the floor, but that he hesitated as he was worried that the loaded gun would go off if he did so.

'I didn't want anyone else getting hurt. Then pop, pop they shot me.

'I went down, then a puddle of blood. I thought I was a goner.'

Mr Garces, who credits the Faith City Mission with helping him turn his life around after a four-year-stint in prison, was hit in the neck, but was rushed to hospital and survived.

He is now calling for police to receive more and improved training in use of deadly violence, telling ABC7 that the officer who shot him 'didn't know what he was doing'.

Jones was placed in durance vile
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
at the scene, and has been charged with six first-degree felony aggravated kidnapping.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hero
Posted by: newc || 02/27/2018 0:30 Comments || Top||

#2  The "quality" of policing in the country seems to be going down rapidly.

Hair trigger thinking by people trained to protect themselves from threats real and imagined first and foremost doesn't seem to be working too well.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/27/2018 9:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Sometimes it helps that the police are bad shots...
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/27/2018 9:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Lucky he was shot by police. Only way they'd manage a lethal shot is by accident.
Posted by: Iblis || 02/27/2018 10:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Over the years we've militarized the police, seems that might not be the best approach.

Anyway, good on Tony Garces who seems like he's now an outstanding citizen despite earlier troubles. Even his response after being shot seems pretty level-headed.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2018 11:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Bend your knees and place the gun on the ground, slowly?
Posted by: G. Whotha5763 || 02/27/2018 11:46 Comments || Top||

#7  If worried about the gun going off when you drop it, hold the gun with two fingers by the end of the barrel as you put it down. Keep the other hand in the air. Step away from the weapon once it is down.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2018 12:14 Comments || Top||

#8  Well at issue seems to be the focus of the police training is no protecting themselves and not protecting the citizenry.

Same with these SWAT teams which by and large seem completely useless as they seem to dither and procrastinate in the face of danger and seem more interested in protecting themselves against casualties than confronting an armed threat.

More often than not the end of a violent armed threat has been a policeman going rogue and confronting the treat with armed force rather than some heavily equipped swat team with a lot of fancy toys.

Columbine was a good example of that and I still wonder where the SWAT teams were when Parkland went down.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 02/27/2018 13:10 Comments || Top||

#9  Broward Sheriff's department seems to have weaponized liberalism and created a totally useless tax sucking sponge that hid crime while increasing it, left everyone unprotected when they were needed, and can't even properly shift the blame because they were so obvious about it all in front of neighboring law enforcement and EMTs.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2018 13:52 Comments || Top||

#10  Clearly, only the police should have guns.
Posted by: charger || 02/27/2018 19:44 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Another One Bites the Dust
[YourNewswire] Dr. Dean Lorich, an orthopedic surgeon who volunteered in Haiti and exposed Clinton Foundation corruption and malpractice on the island, has been found dead in New York. He was 54.

Dr. Lorich was found by his 11-year-old daughter on the bathroom floor of his tony Upper East Side apartment with a knife in his chest at around 1pm on Monday.

The knife missed the surgeon’s heart, leaving him to bleed out and be found by his daughter. Despite the fact police were called to the property regarding an "assault", they instantly registered the death as "suicide" and closed the case.
Stabbed himself in the chest, he did.
One of the United States’ leading surgeons, Dr. Lorich was part of the relief effort sent by the U.S. to assist the relief effort led by the Clinton Foundation in Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake. However Dr. Lorich was disgusted by the "shameful" Clinton Foundation operation, and voiced his concerns to Hillary Clinton directly.

Unsatisfied with her response, he went public, writing an article published by CNN, accusing the Clinton Foundation of widespread corruption and malpractice in Haiti that cost the lives of thousands of children.

Billions of dollars were raised by the Clinton Foundation to help the Haitians, but the vast bulk of this money was funneled to Clinton friends and associates, according to Dr. Lorich, who described in harrowing detail what this meant for the children of Haiti.

Dr. Lorich argued that, in essence, Clinton greed left Haitian children to die painful deaths.

Considering billions of dollars had been donated to the Clinton Foundation with the express purpose of helping the Haitians, Dr Lorich and his team expected to have full support when their plane touched down.
He fricked up. He trusted them.
Instead, Dr. Lorich described the situation on the ground as "shameful" and he witnessed Clinton Foundation corruption in action. The Haitians were receiving no help whatsoever.
It was never about help. It was about enriching the Clintons and their cronies.
According to Dr. Lorich, a paltry 0.6% of donations granted by international donors to the Clinton Foundation with the express purpose of directly assisting Haitians actually ended up helping citizens of Haiti. 9.6% ended up with the Haitian government. The remaining 89.8% ‐ or $5.4 billion ‐ was funneled to non-Haitian organizations.

Unable to perform his duties ‐ and disgusted by the rampant corruption ‐ Dr. Lorich sent an email to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Chief of Staff Cheryl D. Mills to report what he had seen. The email was then forwarded to Hillary Clinton which meant it eventually found its way into WikiLeaks’ possession and can be read here.
Much more at the link.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 02/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The knife missed the surgeon’s heart, leaving him to bleed out

Well he was an Ortho, not a Thoracic surgeon.
Now if he had stabbed himself in the foot it would be different.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2018 1:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Specifically, which detective, by name, ruled it a suicide? Inquiring minds want to know more.
Posted by: G. Whotha5763 || 02/27/2018 1:38 Comments || Top||

#3  The knife missed the surgeon’s heart, leaving him to bleed out and be found by his daughter. Despite the fact police were called to the property regarding an "assault", they instantly registered the death as "suicide" and closed the case.

Making Scott Israel look good by comparison?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2018 3:19 Comments || Top||

#4  "What? I'm a surgeon. You want I should kill myself with a baseball bat?"
Posted by: Snolunter Snore4869 || 02/27/2018 4:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Let's begin the investigation, shall we? Did the good doctor.....have any enemies ?:
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2018 6:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Failed bathroom surgery ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/27/2018 6:58 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm sure he was just removing his own appendix and... sorta missed.

He was despondent about a recently botched surgery and fell on his scalpel.

How many people suicide by stabbing themselves in the chest?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/27/2018 8:30 Comments || Top||

#8  How many people suicide by stabbing themselves in the chest?
Here and now? Or Japan and 1945?
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/27/2018 9:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Seppuku involves deboweling oneself, not a chest stab FWIW
Posted by: Snoluting Phomoth8901 || 02/27/2018 9:52 Comments || Top||

#10  YourNews is a conspiracy site. A few day ago the guy lost his surgical privileges at NY Presbyterian Hospital.
Posted by: Blackbeard Guelph8262 || 02/27/2018 9:57 Comments || Top||

#11  This story is from December 2017. The good doctor was being sued for malpractice by a NFL player for botching his surgery.

Probably not Clinton related.
Posted by: Blinky Glereck8636 || 02/27/2018 10:49 Comments || Top||

#12  Probably not but interesting just the same.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 02/27/2018 11:17 Comments || Top||

#13  Maybe the NFL player checked in with the Experts, just for good measure.
Posted by: KBK || 02/27/2018 12:25 Comments || Top||

#14  Hmmm.

1. Take away a doctors right to practice for "political reasons"

2. Kill him.

3. Use the political firing to support the suicide cover-up. Am I coming out of left field?
Posted by: G. Whotha5763 || 02/27/2018 13:39 Comments || Top||

#15  I'm adding that to clintons dead pool anyway.
Posted by: newc || 02/27/2018 16:41 Comments || Top||

#16  "Dr.Lorich, with a knife, in the bathroom" - NYPD
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2018 17:23 Comments || Top||

#17  YourNews is a conspiracy site.

Noted. Thank you, Blackbeard Guelph8262, I’ll try to remember that. If I have time I check out new sites, but last night was a bit rushed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/27/2018 21:56 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
‘National disgrace': Community fights back as California overrun by homelessness, human waste, needles
[FoxNews] The specter of homeless encampments steadily expanding across the downtown streets of San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco – bringing with them a public health crisis – has one southern California community taking tough action to dismantle a two-mile-long camp just a short drive from Disneyland.

In a departure from the approach taken by other local governments in the state, officials in Orange County, Calif., have started to clear out the camp – by moving occupants and hauling away literally tons of trash and hazardous waste.

“It’s becoming part of the permanent landscape in those communities and there is no way we are going to allow Orange County land that is supposed to be used by residents to be occupied by the homeless,” said Todd Spitzer, who sits on the Orange County Board of Supervisors.

Trash trucks and contractors in hazmat gear have descended on the camp and so far removed 250 tons of trash, 1,100 pounds of human waste and 5,000 hypodermic needles.

But the effort hasn’t been without controversy as homeless advocates, the American Civil Liberties Union and a federal judge have all weighed in on the fate of some-700 people evicted from their home along the Santa Ana River -- next to Angel Stadium of Anaheim and a few miles from Disneyland, outside Los Angeles.

Spitzer, whose district includes the encampment, has battled the advocates since last fall when the decision was first made to close the camp. The ACLU and others filed a federal civil rights lawsuit to stop this and several stays have ensued until last week, when the final go-ahead was granted.

For those being evicted, a mediation with U.S. District Court Judge David Carter offered the choice of a bed in a shelter or a month-long motel voucher; medical aid; drug treatment; job training; storage for their belongings and housing for pets at the county animal shelter.

So far, 544 people have been moved to shelters and motel rooms and approximately 100 remain at the riverbed. Crews counted 207 tents, but it is unclear if they are occupied.

But one option is not negotiable – the homeless cannot move back to the Santa Ana River channel, which has paved shoulders where residents used to walk and bike. The river, which runs from the mountains to the sea, is home to much of Orange County’s groundwater and empties between pricey Newport and Huntington beaches. The beach has been closed often over the years due to high bacteria levels.

Approximately a half-million people in the United States are homeless, with California accounting for 25 percent -- the largest number of any state, according to a survey by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Orange County has 4,792 homeless.

Spitzer blames the problem on two issues: legislation signed by Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown over the past several years that has eroded the penalties for drug use, possession and petty crimes to where police often don’t bother making arrests; and the change in a law so that treatment is no longer forced for drug abuse or mental health issues.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  San Francisco is the Carnival Line of city rides now.
Posted by: newc || 02/27/2018 2:09 Comments || Top||

#2  "National disgrace"? um, no - CA doesn't want to be part of this nation.
Posted by: Guillibaldo Glons5780 || 02/27/2018 9:10 Comments || Top||

#3  You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can't help someone who refuses to help themselves. There are programs, agencies public and private, to address the 'ills', but if the individual refuses to participate, there is no 'kind' solution.

If you can force a Christian baker to make a gay wedding cake, why can't you force the mentally ill back into those institutions you shut down in the 60s and 70s? I'm looking at you ACLU.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2018 9:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Guillibaldo Glons5780, outside of the LA to San Fran areas most of California is happy being part of the USA.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2018 11:38 Comments || Top||

#5  We don't have to wait on a long drawn out process of dealing with the Cal Coasties. We can renegotiate the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and return parts back to Mexico. Only takes 2/3rds of the Senate to ratify. Just think of all the looting the Mexican ruling caste could do to the rich parts, hiding behind walls and regulations.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2018 12:36 Comments || Top||

#6  SFO could end most of this disaster with a few strokes of a pen.

A major portion of the city and county budgets has been various homeless programs to feed, pamper, house, and encourage the homeless...it is somewhat north of $200 million the last time I checked...$200 freakingmillion in a city with a population of less than 350,000...
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 02/27/2018 13:13 Comments || Top||

#7  has one southern California community taking tough action to dismantle a two-mile-long camp just a short drive from Disneyland

Are they going to start voting Republican?
Posted by: gorb || 02/27/2018 13:55 Comments || Top||

#8  You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
You can't lead the other end of the horse anywhere.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/27/2018 14:54 Comments || Top||

#9  You can't lead the other end of the horse anywhere

True . . . but the other end of the horse has been leading Canada for a couple of years now.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 02/27/2018 17:44 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Diesel ban approved for German cities to cut pollution
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2018 07:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Nasty snow and cold in britain
[TheSun] Brits set for transport chaos as 200 trains and dozens of flights cancelled and experts warn of ’treacherous’ roads as -12C deadly storm hits

THE temperature was so cold that the sea even froze as the 'Beast from the East' took hold of the UK.
nice images at the link. Rome, Italy also had snow.
Posted by: lord garth || 02/27/2018 00:16 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  lord garth, I’m afraid you pasted something unusable instead of the link for Rome’s snow. Please advise.

The main article link works fine, though.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/27/2018 1:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Grunter, that's 10 degrees and 7" of snow.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2018 1:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Must be all that man-made global warming.
Posted by: G. Whotha5763 || 02/27/2018 1:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe the change from lukewarm to cold?
Posted by: newc || 02/27/2018 2:14 Comments || Top||

#5  The Beast Bites Britain
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2018 6:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Germany shivers as icy blast drives down mercury
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2018 7:15 Comments || Top||

#7  That can't be snow. I was told snow is a thing of the past.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 02/27/2018 9:22 Comments || Top||

#8  Gee, the Gorebot said that in MMGW all temperatures rise.

(in ancient cultures, false prophets were stoned to death)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2018 9:24 Comments || Top||

#9  Not saying that isn't cold. It is. Put a 40mph + gusts on that we call it February. Always have. Snow would be a nice decoration.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2018 9:41 Comments || Top||

#10  sorry about bad link for rome

below is a youtube of the snow in Rome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=lcQEqvbCvK0
Posted by: lord garth || 02/27/2018 10:25 Comments || Top||

#11  The City of Gypsies goes crazy!
On Tevere, vie e chiesi,
Poor putti e Papa
Pour snootfulls of grappa
On top of their zuppa inglese!
Posted by: Beldar Jones5964 || 02/27/2018 18:01 Comments || Top||

#12  Chiese, even. Sniffle.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 02/27/2018 18:04 Comments || Top||

#13  You two guys? Let's get ready to rumble!
Posted by: Raj || 02/27/2018 18:41 Comments || Top||

#14  Um... could we make this a pizza-eating contest?
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 02/27/2018 20:20 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Djibouti ruling party claims landslide parliamentary win
[AFRICANEWS] President Ismael Omar Guelleh’s ruling party claimed a resounding victory in Friday’s parliamentary elections in Djibouti, taking nearly 90 percent of seats after the opposition largely boycotted the poll.

Mohammed Abdallah Mahyoub, a senior member of Guelleh’s UMP party and campaign front man, said late Sunday the party had won 58 out of 65 parliamentary seats, an increase of three since the last vote in 2013.

There was no immediate figure for turnout among the tiny Horn of Africa nation’s 194,000 registered voters.

Guelleh has ruled Djibouti since 1999 and was last re-elected in 2016 with 87 percent of the vote.

The UMP’s victory has helped by the badly-divided opposition with two parties ‐ MRD and RADDE and a faction of a third party, ARD ‐ refusing to put forward any candidates, saying the elections would neither be fair nor transparent while others accused the election commission of bias.

The UMP claimed every seat outside of the capital and all but seven seats in Djibouti city with the remainder going to the UDJ party.

The law stipulates that 25 percent of seats must go to women, an increase from just 10 percent in the outgoing parliament. According to Mahyoub, this threshold was nearly met as 15 women won parliamentary seats, 14 of them from the UMP.

Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
Egyptian cabinet begins legalisation procedures for 53 unlicensed churches
Good. It’s long overdue.
[AlAhram] The Egyptian cabinet on Monday approved the start of a four-month legalization process for the status of 53 unlicensed churches and affiliated buildings across the country.

"The cabinet decisions comes in light of the rights granted by the 2014 constitution to the followers of the Abrahamic religions to practice their religious rites at places of worship," a statement by the cabinet said.

Article 64 of the Egyptian constitution stipulates that the right to freedom of religious practice and to establish places of worship for the followers of the Abrahamic faiths: Islam, Christianity and Judaism.

In 2016, the government passed a law that speeds up the licensing process for building Christian houses of worship.

Prior to the 2016 law, the country's Christians, who make up an estimated 10 percent of the country's 100 million population, had long struggled to obtain building permits for churches, with the process often taking years.

In early January 2018, Egypt's Ministry of Housing issued an order to allow Christians to practice their religious rites at unlicensed churches pending the legalization of their status.

The ministry’s directives came after a mob of Moslems stormed a building in Giza’s Atfih saying Christians were conducting prayers at an unlicensed site.

A number of Christian worshippers were maimed during the attack and furniture destroyed.

Prime Minsiter Sherif Ismail had formed in January, 2017 a special committee to review pending church approval requests in order to address the issue.

Archpriest Antoun, a member of the PM's committee, said that the Coptic Orthodox Church had presented requests to formally recognise 2,600 churches and affiliated buildings in all Egyptian governorates by the end of September 2017.

Many Christian congregations have for years had to conduct prayers in unlicensed churches or in buildings that were not officially designated for religious use.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Prayers for you and Egypt.
Posted by: newc || 02/27/2018 3:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Abrahamic faiths: Islam, Christianity and Judaism.

Mohammed was not a descendent of Abraham via Ishmael. He was a Gentile. Therefore, Islam established by Mohammed is not an Abrahamic faith.

The Hadith claims Ishmael was the father of the Arabs. Untrue. Historical evidence indicates the Arabs existed before Ishmael was even born.

Islam claims Ishmael's wife was from Mecca. Not true. Ishmael's wife was from Egypt. Ishmael's descendants settled South of Judah near Egypt, no where near Mecca.

Every Abrahamic line of prophets were given their prophecies directly from God over 1500 years. However, Mohammed claimed his prophecy did not come from God, but from an angel, Gabriel.

The estimated time between Abraham and Mohammed described in the Koran is unrealistic in years.

ALL of the Biblical prophets were Jewish. The lies in the Koran and Hadith that try to tie Mohammed to Abraham is an attempt to give Mohammed and Islam legitimacy.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 02/27/2018 6:23 Comments || Top||


Morocco king undergoes heart operation
[AFRICANEWS] Morocco’s King Mohammed VI "successfully" underwent a heart operation in a Gay Paree clinic on Monday for an irregular heart beat, his medical team announced.

The doctors, in a statement, said the 54-year-old monarch had felt the symptoms on January 20.

"Radiofrequency ablation of the arrhythmia," or irregular rhythm, had successfully normalised his heart beat.

King Mohammed, who would resume his normal activities after a period of rest prescribed by his doctors, has ruled Morocco since the death of his father Hassan in July 1999.

He underwent an eye operation in the French capital last September.

Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Atrial Fibrillation's not life threatening unless you forget to take your anti-coagulants and throw a clot to your brain.

In another vein (pun intended) Hillary had a brain clot but the clot died due to the toxic environment.
Posted by: Warthog || 02/27/2018 14:40 Comments || Top||

#2  unless you forget to take your anti-coagulants and throw a clot to your brain

  • Throwing a clot to a coronary artery can end life rather abruptly

  • Warfarin is the affordable anticoagulant that some people just aren't able to benefit from

  • Newer oral anticoagulants tend to work better than warfarin, but for many patients are not affordable.

  • Atrial fibrillation can cut the cardiac by 20%, enough to disable some patients from exerting themselves

Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/27/2018 15:01 Comments || Top||

#3  AH - agree 100% that a coronary block can be deadly but one's risk of that does not increase with AF - at least according to what I've read.

Warfarin is cheap as you've poined out but the drawback is weekly tests to make sure you're not at risk of bleeding out...Warfarin use has to be tightly controlled.

One good point is that it is completely reversible ... not so with some other anti-coagulants. Their benefit is that one does not require weekly blood tests and there is no restriction on diet to reduce Vit. K consumption.
Posted by: Warthog || 02/27/2018 15:49 Comments || Top||

#4  That's one King I don't want to lose.
Posted by: newc || 02/27/2018 16:38 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Six people killed in DR Congo as armed men attack village in South Kivu
[AFRICANEWS] At least six people were killed in an overnight attack on Kagabi in the Kabare territory of South Kivu province, with a possibility of the corpse count reaching 10.

According to the information received by Africanews correspondent in the region, the attack started at about 8pm in this village not far from the town of Bukavu.

Sources told Africanews that the attack started at a small market located near a Catholic church in the area.

The attackers reportedly raided a coffee shop and demanded money from the patrons there. Those who resisted were slaughtered including a police officer who tried to intervene.

The assailants then went to the church where they killed a parish priest.

The attack comes at a time when the city of Bukavu is experiencing a precarious calm after weeks of attacks by gunnies who killed and maimed many.

Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Five Congolese refugees killed in Rwanda as police end food riot
[AFRICANEWS] At least five Congolese refugees were killed and 20 injured at a camp in Rwanda when a protest over a cut in food rations turned violent, Rwandan police said on Friday. Seven policemen were also injured.
Yep. That'll learn 'em!
Around 3,000 refugees had camped outside United Nations offices at the camp since Tuesday. On Thursday, police tried to disperse them using teargas, police spokesman Theos Badege told state radio.

“We used force … yesterday afternoon after warning that security forces would be used,” he said.

“They started pelting stones, pieces of metal and in that 20 refugees were injured and seven police officers. Five of the refugees died.”

Fifteen refugees were arrested, the police said on their Twitter account. They said there were about 500 protesters, while UNHCR put the figure at about 700.

The refugees from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo had left their camp in Kiziba and walked 15 km (10 miles) to Karongi, in western Rwanda, to protest against a 25 percent cut implemented last month in rations provided by the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR). The camp houses 17,000 Congolese.

Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


China-Japan-Koreas
North Korea says it is ready for talks with US
[DAWN] A North Korean envoy making a rare visit to South Korea said on Sunday that his country was willing to open talks with the United States, a rare step towards diplomacy between enemies after a year of North Korean missile and nuclear tests and direct threats of war from both Pyongyang and Washington.

Kim Yong Chol, who Seoul believes criminal masterminded two attacks in 2010 that killed 50 South Koreans, was in South Korea for the end of the Olympics. He said North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un
...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
wanted to improve ties with Washington and had "ample intentions of holding talks" with its rival, according to the South’s presidential office.

He made the remarks during a meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who is eager to engage the North after one of the most hostile periods in recent years on the Korean Peninsula.

Moon, who was invited a day after the opening ceremonies to Pyongyang for a summit with Kim Jong-un, also said that Washington and Pyongyang should quickly meet to "fundamentally solve" the standoff on the Korean Peninsula.
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  " Chucky Fat Fat was quoted as saying."Let's talk about it and eat some Kimchee together.".
Posted by: Spanky Munster7573 || 02/27/2018 5:51 Comments || Top||

#2  And so the dance continues...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/27/2018 8:33 Comments || Top||

#3  How about a talk over some BBQ, I know a nice little place just outside of Seoul.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2018 9:21 Comments || Top||

#4  I thought the Norks were usually ready to talk to the U.S. but the U.S. wanted the Chinese and other regional players (Seoul) to participate. So I saw this as nothing new, just more of the same.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/27/2018 10:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Another reason is North Korea stole our op plans and realized what we are capable of:

North Korea discovers it is screwed
Posted by: Frozen Al || 02/27/2018 12:48 Comments || Top||

#6  #5 Frozen Al, Thank you for the link. Interesting ...
Posted by: G. Whotha5763 || 02/27/2018 13:04 Comments || Top||

#7  Maybe the OPLAN was bait for the Norks. Seems kind of foolish to have it on the net.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 02/27/2018 14:11 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
US top negotiator with North Korea retiring for 'personal reasons'
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2018 07:23 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  RT? Not my preferred source.
Posted by: G. Whotha5763 || 02/27/2018 12:25 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
If You Have A Mental Illness, This Antifa Student Group Wants You
[DailyCaller] A Texas Antifa student group hosted a six month health program to "politicize" students with "mental illnesses," according to a Thursday report.

The Revolutionary Student Front at the University of Texas at Austin hosted a "Revolutionary Mental Health Program" "to address the mental health needs of students in a way that would primarily serve to politicize and strengthen them, to become more committed to revolution and more capable of carrying it out," reported Far Left Watch.

The UT Austin Antifa student group based its 2017 program on "Turn Illness Into A Weapon," a book charting the neo-Marxist Socialist Patients Collective group’s actions in Germany, which placed the blame of mental illness on capitalist oppression.

The Revolutionary Student Front sought to create a health care system that not only treated students for their mental illnesses, but also mobilized them to fight capitalism.

"The primary method of combating the symptoms of mental illness that we face under capitalism must be organizing those suffering to come into violent class conflict with the system that creates their illness," said the group in its 13,000-word manifesto.

The group also admits at one point that members of its own leadership suffer from "mental illnesses."

Revolutionary Student Front hosts weekly "self-defense" classes and believes "bricks belong best thrown at pig heads."
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  Careful, there are many people on the 'other side' who think socialism is a mental illness. You're just going to validate their views.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2018 9:18 Comments || Top||

#2  The 'mental illness' illness they're talking about is called 'refusing to work'.
Posted by: Raj || 02/27/2018 13:14 Comments || Top||

#3 
"The group also admits at one point that members of its own leadership suffer from 'mental illnesses.'"

Gee, ya think?????

Sheesh...
Posted by: Dave D. || 02/27/2018 16:42 Comments || Top||

#4  You little shits can feel free to throw masonry, we'll feel free to throw lead.
Posted by: Warthog || 02/27/2018 19:47 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Man flees after killing wife, sister over 'honour' in Tando Adam: police
[DAWN] A man fled from Mir Mohammad village in Tando Adam after killing his wife and sister for 'honour', police said on Monday.

Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Taluka Tando Adam Hasan Jahangir told news hounds that the police were conducting raids to arrest the suspect.

The bodies of both women have been sent to Taluka Hospital Tando Adam for post-mortem examination, ASP Jahangir added.

The victims, according to police, had last week run away from the village to Sukkar allegedly with two men, who belonged to Mir Mohammad village as well. They were tracked down on Sunday, after which elders of the village handed them over to their suspected murderer after he promised that he would not harm them.

Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


12-year-old boy allegedly gang-raped by five teenage boys in Shangla
[DAWN] A 12-year-old boy was reportedly gang-raped by five young men in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Shangla district, police said on Monday.

According to police officials, the minor boy approached Alpuri cop shoppe with the complaint that he was subjected to gang rape by five boys, who are in their late teens, near his residence in Barari Khwar area on Sunday. A medical examination of the victim confirmed that he had been subjected to sexual assault.

Police have registered a first information report (FIR) of the incident and placed in durance vile
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
all five suspects nominated by the victim in his complaint.

Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


FIA arrests Axact CEO in money laundering case
[DAWN] The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Monday jugged
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Axact Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Shoaib Sheikh after the Sindh High Court (SHC) accepted the agency's appeal against his earlier acquittal in a money laundering case.

Setting aside an earlier decision by a district and sessions court, the SHC ordered that the case be heard again by a trial court. The district and sessions court had acquitted Sheikh in the case in 2016.

Following the acceptance of its appeal, FIA officials had set up pickets at the court's exits to arrest Sheikh.

The Axact chief, along with his lawyers, had holed up inside the court's premises for several hours to avoid arrest. His counsels had meanwhile insisted that the court had not ordered for Sheikh's arrest and that he should be given time to approach a court for bail.

During this period, Sheikh had also applied for interim bail, arguing that the FIA should be barred from arresting him. The Axact chief had assured the court that he was ready to face trial in the lower courts, but the court turned down the plea.

Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Olde Tyme Religion
Saudi Arabia, Malaysia to establish ‘King Salman Center for Global Peace' (2017)
[Arab News] RIYADH: Wide-ranging talks in Kuala Lumpur between Saudi Arabia's King Salman and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak have stressed the need to find solutions to the crises in Syria and Yemen, as well as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The two countries also announced the establishment of an international center for peace and harmony that will carry the name "King Salman Center for Global Peace."

In a joint statement released on Wednesday, the two countries reiterated the urgent need to find solutions to the conflicts in the Middle East, and expressed concern over "the growing Iranian interference in the internal affairs of the Arab countries."

The joint statement covers political, commercial and cultural issues that were discussed during King Salman's four-day visit to Malaysia.

Regarding the proposed King Salman Center for Global Peace in Malaysia, the statement named the stakeholders in the project, which are: The Saudi Ministry of Defense, the Center for Security and Defense at the Malaysian Ministry of Defense, the Malaysian University of Islamic Sciences and the Makkah-based Muslim World League (MWL).

"These bodies shall coordinate to complete the necessary arrangements to implement the launch of the center within 90 days from the date of its announcement," said the statement.

The statement also said that Saudi Arabia and Malaysia have identical views on key issues in the Middle East region.

"Within the constructive spirit that prevailed at the meetings between the two sides, the two leaders reviewed political issues in the Middle East, particularly the Palestinian cause, and stressed the importance and need to achieve a lasting, comprehensive and just solution, in accordance with the Arab Peace Initiative and relevant UN resolutions," the statement said.

The two sides also reaffirmed the need to "find a solution to the Syrian crisis on the basis of UN Security Council Resolution 2254 and the importance of providing humanitarian assistance and relief to Syrian refugees in Syria and abroad."

The two sides also stressed the importance of maintaining the unity of Yemen, and of achieving its security and stability, as well as the importance of coming up with a political solution to the Yemeni crisis, based on the Gulf initiative, outputs of the Yemeni national dialogue and UN Security Council Resolution 2216.

The statement said that the Kingdom and Malaysia "lend all support to the legitimate authority in Yemen, and to the efforts exerted in this regard, as well as facilitating access of aid to all regions of Yemen."

The two countries expressed deep concern about Iranian interference in the internal affairs of countries in the region, emphasizing "the need for Iran to commit to the principle of good neighborliness and respect for the sovereignty of states."

In the field of defense cooperation, the statement said: "The two sides agreed to strengthen military cooperation, develop training and joint exercises and exchange military experience."

The Kingdom and Malaysia have been on the same page over the need to address common security issues, including those posed by Daesh and other terrorist groups.

Malaysia and Saudi Arabia share a strong commitment to countering extremist ideologies and misconceptions about Islam, which are contrary to the moderate and peaceful nature of this world religion.
Pertinent to the Vienna meeting article.
Posted by: KBK || 02/27/2018 09:02 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  Huh. I first thought how weird it was that they were honoring our deceased local San Diego Bail Bonds King, King Stahlman...
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2018 9:41 Comments || Top||

#2  ‘King Salman Center for Global Peace' through submission?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2018 11:13 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Russia Claims It Now Has Lasers To Shoot Satellites
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/27/2018 07:55 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As does the USA.
Posted by: G. Whotha5763 || 02/27/2018 12:39 Comments || Top||

#2  I think it would be much more fun to treat space as a giant vacuum tube and just have a war of electron beams in space... heh..
Posted by: 3dc || 02/27/2018 13:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Real fun will begin when satellites have their own powerful lasers and can shoot back, or just shoot DOWN.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/27/2018 15:06 Comments || Top||

#4  I think i'd prefer using b-bs or something small and kinetic that would look like debris afterwards. Fired from the far side of the Earth so as to intersect the targets orbit and you have total deniability. With a satelite in a fixed orbit you could even do the math and fire the bb's so that they intersect x orbits later when your spaceplane or whatever has landed and the pilot is enjoying a refreshing beer in town.

With a laser you have to get line of sight.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2018 16:21 Comments || Top||

#5  Recall the movie clip from 'Gravity' a couple of days ago?
That's the scenario proposed. The Russians blew their own satellite and the shrapnal destroyed a shuttle and ISS.
Posted by: Tarzan Omomorong4055 || 02/27/2018 17:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Their spy ships were using lasers against our military planes (to blind pilots) in the 80s.
Posted by: Woodrow || 02/27/2018 18:41 Comments || Top||

#7  when your spaceplane or whatever has landed and the pilot is enjoying a refreshing beer

Next year, and the future is here:
"Oh dear, this is frightfully queer.
You might think it funny,
But, bartender, honey,
I fear there's a rod in my beer."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 02/27/2018 21:30 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Philippines police in pursuit of murdered Filipina worker’s recruiters
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Philippines Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) is on the hunt for the recruiting company of Joanna Demafelis, the Filipina worker whose body was found in a freezer in Kuwait early February.

The Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte had ordered the arrest of those who recruited Demafelis, and to place them under investigation to make sure her contract was fair according to the law.

The Filipina, who went missing two years before her body was found, was recruited by the Our Lady of Mt Carmel Global E-Human Resources Incorporated company, whose license has been revoked since the incident, according to the Rappler news site.

"The CIDG's effort is ongoing to look for the recruiters of Demafelis. CIDG already has a lead," the news site reported the Philippine National Police’s Director General Ronald dela Rosa as saying.

The police’s efforts are an addition to ongoing investigations by the country’s Department of Labor and Employment and the national Bureau of Investigation.

The woman’s body was returned to the Philippines on February 17 in the presence of hundreds of relatives and supporters.

Her employers, and the main suspects in the case, were tossed in the clink
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in Syria on Saturday according to a Lebanese judicial official.
Posted by: Fred || 02/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
OFFS: David Hogg wastes NO time calling for ANOTHER boycott…this time involving stock
[Twitchy] It didn’t take long for David Hogg to jump on the "boycott FedEx" movement after the shipping company announced they would not end their NRA discount.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This child is a media made menace.
Posted by: newc || 02/27/2018 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Why isn't this child back in school getting ready for graduation?
Posted by: Roth LaDoad || 02/27/2018 0:32 Comments || Top||

#3  This Child is being groomed by his father who works in high government office.

And they love him so he will be the progeny next idiot commie to run for office.
I see right through this and get depressed every time I see his stupid face on tv with all this false doctrine.

Reminds me of owners son on "Therewill be blood"

A preacher of his own religion, and a following of un-suspecting CNN "town hall" nit-wit followers with a complacent host - "Let me bless this oil well or it will be cursed attitude"
Posted by: newc || 02/27/2018 3:55 Comments || Top||

#4  It's his chance for the big time
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2018 4:05 Comments || Top||

#5  He showed his chance last summer in LA pissing off a lifeguard.
Posted by: newc || 02/27/2018 4:22 Comments || Top||

#6  'Tis what happens when a person lacks the skill of ice dancing.

Personally, I want moar Hogg facetime. His demands and approach, absolute gold. I can see it, "Dude, some prick who can't hold a Zima is gonna tell me to cancel my ticket to Spring Break?"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/27/2018 9:37 Comments || Top||

#7  I agree with #6. He's an angry little jerk, Rosie O'Donnell angry. He will be the gift that keeps on giving.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/27/2018 11:21 Comments || Top||

#8 
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 02/27/2018 12:36 Comments || Top||

#9  Go the 5:05 mark for some fun!

Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 02/27/2018 12:56 Comments || Top||


#11  I have gotten to the point I want to punch that little shit in his rat face every time I see him.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/27/2018 19:05 Comments || Top||

#12  Just a quick question - is there any proof that he actually went to that school? Seriously with CNN involved I don't believe anything...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/27/2018 23:32 Comments || Top||


As country listens to Florida teens, Black Lives Matter youths feel ignored
The poor darlings.
[ChicagoTribune] The young people of Black Lives Matter are hurt. And they have every right to be.

When they were protesting in the streets of cities across America, much of the country didn't bother to listen to their message. They were not embraced by the mainstream for their bravery, their determination or resolve to bring attention to reckless police killings that disproportionately impact young African-Americans.

Some labeled them troublemakers, even terrorists. And in the aftermath of the student uprising over the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., they are taking to social media to vent their disappointment.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: 746 || 02/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Speaking of Chicago and black lives...In Chicago, 309 people have been shot this year. And by "this year", we mean in the last 2 months.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/27/2018 0:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Every snowflake melts.
Posted by: newc || 02/27/2018 1:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Black Lives Matter youths feel ignored

So, just kill somebody.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2018 3:17 Comments || Top||

#4  I wish the left would grow up.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/27/2018 5:08 Comments || Top||

#5  ME, ME, ME! Over here!

File under - When useful idiots are no longer useful.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2018 9:16 Comments || Top||

#6  351, SteveS.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 02/27/2018 11:37 Comments || Top||

#7  Black Lives Matter may want to take a moment and reflect on the fact that whites don't give a squat about whites that are shot while attacking the cops and being thugs. Why would we care for blacks when they are shot attacking cops?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/27/2018 11:47 Comments || Top||

#8  My (white) 33 year old nephew was shot and killed by police last year. Nobody protested, nobody rioted. (He was armed, and possibly drunk at the time. He had been threatening his ex-girlfriend. I bear no anger at the police. )
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/27/2018 13:00 Comments || Top||

#9  You mane to tell me you are angry at being upstaged by the murder of 17 school kids? I think that's the worst thing I ever heard.

How marvelous.
Posted by: regular joe || 02/27/2018 13:03 Comments || Top||

#10  I stopped caring about their cause almost immediately, but have nothing but contempt for them since those thugs kidnapped and tortured a mentally disabled kid -- and are apparently getting off without punishment.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 02/27/2018 19:02 Comments || Top||

#11  Maybe try a new hairstyle?
Posted by: charger || 02/27/2018 19:46 Comments || Top||

#12  How about you fucksticks stop breaking the law and being violent?
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/27/2018 19:48 Comments || Top||


Government
In blow to Trump, Supreme Court won’t hear appeal of DACA ruling
The shortcut didn’t work, so the original plan continues.
[NBC] The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the Trump administration's appeal of a federal judge's ruling that requires the government to keep the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program going.

Under a lower court order that remains in effect, the Department of Homeland Security must continue to accept renewal applications from the roughly 700,000 young people who are currently enrolled in the program, known as DACA. The administration had intended to shut the program down by March 5, but that deadline is now largely meaningless.

In a brief order, the court said simply, "It is assumed the court of appeals will act expeditiously to decide this case."
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/27/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  it is assumed that the 9th circuit will affirm the lower court ruling that the unconstitutional DACA executive order must remain in effect
Posted by: lord garth || 02/27/2018 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  UGH
Posted by: newc || 02/27/2018 0:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Donks shouldn't teach pubs to do these kinds of things.
Posted by: G. Whotha5763 || 02/27/2018 1:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, Tyrannosaurus Don tried to compromise.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/27/2018 3:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Fine - simply enforce the law as written.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/27/2018 8:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Department of Homeland Security must continue to accept renewal applications from the roughly 700,000 young people who are currently enrolled in the program, known as DACA.

Let em know the registry created will be used when the deportations start
Posted by: Frank G || 02/27/2018 9:51 Comments || Top||

#7  In blow to Trump the Constitution as written, Supreme Court won’t hear appeal of DACA ruling

FIFY

This is known as a punt, the court is hoping the Donks come to their senses and compromise to make it constitutional or hope that the appeal drags through 2020 before they have to hear it.
Posted by: Procopius || 02/27/2018 9:55 Comments || Top||

#8  oops, be me
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2018 9:56 Comments || Top||

#9  Department of Homeland Security must continue to accept renewal applications from the roughly 700,000 young people who are currently enrolled in the program, known as DACA.

Just reassign the IRS personnel, who handled the Tea Party non-profit paperwork, over to DHS to process them.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/27/2018 9:58 Comments || Top||

#10  But government lawyers also asked the Supreme Court to take the highly unusual step of agreeing to hear the case, bypassing the appeals court.

President Trump is in part driven by expediency. It's his trademark. The Supremos not so much.

He's going to get his wish, but in due time.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 02/27/2018 13:32 Comments || Top||

#11  Ignore the headline. The SCOTUS only said that due process has to occur before they slap down the Ninth Circus Court. Again.
Posted by: gorb || 02/27/2018 13:56 Comments || Top||



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