[CNN] The time has come for President Obama to get off the Clinton campaign trail, take a deep breath and restore public confidence in the integrity of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.
How? Appoint a special prosecutor and a new FBI director.
Lately, the FBI, while acting without the customary supervision of the Justice Department, appears to be a runaway train on a collision course with the concept of fairness in next week's presidential election. Democratic Senator Harry Reid and former White House ethics counsel Richard Painter have accused FBI Director James Comey of violating the Hatch Act by illegally using his office to influence the election.
While the claim of a Hatch Act violation is a stretch, the appointment of an independent prosecutor and the replacement of Comey are nonetheless urgently required, if not outright overdue. The tangled relationship between the Clintons and Attorney General Loretta Lynch should have prompted appointment of an independent special prosecutor long ago.
Con't.
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Restore confidence? Trump as the POTUS would help. How about Trump saying "You're Fired" to Obama at the swearing in ceremony? That would be a good start prior to a good housecleaning in the Executive Branch.
[Real Clear Politics] Saturday evening on Fox News Channel's 'Justice with Jeanine Pirro' former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani suggested that a grand jury already has enough evidence, from WikiLeaks and the FBI, to charge "Clinton Incorporated" with racketeering under the RICO laws that were originally designed to go after the mafia.
"I was shocked, back in July," Giuliani said about FBI Director James Comey's recommendation against charges for Clinton. "He laid out almost a prosecutorial memo and then came to a conclusion that he shouldn't come to--that the Justice Department should--that she shouldn't be indicted."
"A special prosecutor should be appointed. A special prosecutor --a non-Republican, non-Democrat-- should redo this whole investigation. And Obama should be requred to promise he is not going to pardon any of these Clinton Incorporated-- I think it's a racketeering enterprise honestly," he said.
"I have a whole bunch of statutes they've violated," he said. "This is racketeering. This is a RICO statute--Clinton, Inc. I think it was one of the WikiLeaks that said this was 'Clinton Inc.' He does the speeches, they put the money in the pocket, she does the favors in the government. It all links up. Why did they destroy 33,000 emails? Because it shows the link."
"Whatever caused this [FBI announcement] is something very serious," he concluded.
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Giuliani, Gowdy, Chaffetz or Christie could be a special prosecutor. However, the job is kind of a dead-end. SPs are not well-liked--kind of like Internal Affairs cops or tire-biter prosecutors--people are reluctant to co-operate with them.
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All the heads of all the federal agencies, the DNC, the cabinet members, leaders of the congress and the president all need to be brought up on RICO charges. Along with some RINOs.
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If we had an Attorney General that had any integrity there would already be grand juries for all of these cases, with proecutors assigned to them. Obama is running the most crooked and corrupt Justice Department in recent history.
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[DAWN] ON a recent Turkish Airlines flight, I diligently read the two English-language dailies distributed onboard. Both contained many column inches of material castigating Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , the preacher who heads a vast network of educational and other social welfare institutions in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and abroad. He has been accused by the government of instigating the recent coup attempt that left hundreds dead and designated a terrorist. When the coup fizzled out in the face of civilian opposition, tens of thousands of military personnel were tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! ; close to a hundred thousand civil servants and teachers sacked;
...that's one way to cut an overburdened government payroll...
and scores of media outlets shut down.
Now, Turkey is demanding that the US hand over the runaway. But although a formal extradition request has been submitted, together with a dossier purporting to contain evidence of the holy man’s involvement, American authorities are reluctant to act until a court has scrutinised the documents to ensure that they will hold up in the face of a legal challenge.
While Recep Teyyep Erdogan, the Turkish president, has used the failed coup as an excuse to neuter all opposition, it is his controversial decision to enter the anti- krazed killerIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group campaign aimed at liberating djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... that is most worrying Turkey’s allies. Iraq has protested over the Turkish incursion, and there are growing concerns that the presence of Turkish Sunni troops will exacerbate existing sectarian tensions. As it is, many fear that once the IS is driven out of Mosul, Iraqi troops and Shia militias might clash with the largely Sunni civilians. So the presence of more armed Sunnis from Turkey only adds to these fears.
With Kurdish peshmergas threatening to keep the area they liberate, many experts darkly hint at the possible break-up of the modern Iraqi state into its earlier Ottoman components of Kurdish, Shia and Sunni provinces. Indeed, Erdogan suggested such a possibility when he reminded the crowd at a recent rally in Bursa that "Mosul and Kirkuk were ours in the past". To him, this was a justification for Turkish involvement. He went on to state that the Ottoman Empire had been reduced from 20 million square kilometres to a mere 780,000 that comprise the Turkish state today.
An ethnic factor Erdogan uses to justify his intervention in Iraq and Syria is his stated concern for the welfare of the Turkmen minorities there. He is using their presence to counter the claims of the Kurds to statehood. Specifically, he is seeking to bolster and justify Turkish military presence to neutralise the Kurdish PKK and its Syrian offshoot. Indeed, he has recently invoked the so-called National Pact (or National Oath) to claim legitimacy for Turkish intervention in its southern neighbours. This ’pact’ dates back to 1918 when an armistice was declared between Turkey and the victorious coalition, and was intended to demarcate territory -- including Mosul and areas north of Aleppo -- held by Turkey at the time. But the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne that formally broke up the Ottoman Empire handed Mosul to the newly created state of Iraq, while Turkey agreed to relinquish land around Aleppo to Syria.
This was done at a time when Turkey lay exhausted and defeated after years of warfare. Kemal Ataturk, the creator of modern Turkey, was pragmatic and cautious, realising that his country was in no position to fight to keep territory. Indeed, his policy for years can be summed up thus: "Peace at home; peace abroad." Now, Erdogan is questioning the wisdom of the revered Turkish ’father of the nation’, arguing that a more patriotic leader would have fought harder to retain the borders promised under the National Oath.
Kemal Ataturk was a general before he became a revolutionary; Erdogan Bey "the much beloved" studied business and played semi-pro soccer before becoming a career politician. This may have something to do with their differing opinions on the subject.
Of course Erdogan has to tread carefully while criticising the iconic founder of modern Turkey. Ataturk’s statues and portraits adorn public squares and official buildings across the country, and school textbooks praise him to the skies. And as he enshrined secularism in the new constitution, Erdogan, a conservative Moslem,
has struggled to introduce religion into public life. So by criticising Ataturk’s lack of patriotism, he hopes to undercut his secular ideals. Indeed, this is the major fault line in Turkish politics today.
Sure, but the secular Turks are the ones not having babies, so they won't be arguing for much longer.
As Turkey’s troubles in the region have multiplied, and its long-time American ally has sought to distance itself from Turkish policy towards the Syrian Kurds, Erdogan has sought to normalise ties with Russia, Israel and Egypt.
...each of which is problematic in its own way...
In particular, the Turks are peeved with Washington for its perceived lack of sympathy over the failed coup, and its refusal to hand Gulen over.
The ongoing PKK and IS campaign of terror against Turkey has underlined the high cost of Turkish policies. And while PKK has targeted police and army personnel, IS has been indiscriminate in its attacks. The result has been a steep fall in the number of tourists visiting Turkey, with an accompanying decline in revenue.
While these can be seen as short-term problems that can be overcome, the real worry is about Turkey’s political trajectory. More and more, Erdogan sees himself as an Ottoman pasha master of all he surveys from his garish new 1,000-room palace in Ankara. His increasingly authoritarian pronouncements do not chime with the demands of a modern democracy. With virtually all independent media outlets silenced, and the judiciary under threat, there is virtually no check on Erdogan’s power. And with ongoing discussions to hold a referendum on giving him even greater authority under an executive presidential system, Turkish democrats fear the worst.
Once viewed as a potential member of the EU and an inspiration to Moslem nations struggling to evolve into democracies, Turkey is increasingly being seen as a country regressing towards autocracy. Sadly, Erdogan is doing everything he can to reinforce this impression.
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[Breitbart] Canada’s immigration minister has declared that the country will rapidly increase immigration rates with targets close to half a million people per year.
Canadian Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Minister John McCallum has revealed new targets for immigration rates that are much higher than current numbers. The Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is looking to substantially increase the number of migrants into the country to cope with what it labels "demographic challenges", reports the CBC.
The current number of migrants per year to Canada has hovered around 250,000 for almost a decade. According to the Liberal government, this number is not enough to stem the problems of a Canadian population that, like many others in the Western world, is becoming older.
The government claims that the new migrants, who if trends continue will likely come from India and China, will make up the shortfall in medical workers and others that will be needed to care for the elderly population. The economic growth advisory council of the government has advised an increase of up to 450,000 migrants within the next five years, an almost doubling of last year’s 239,800 immigrants.
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As a baby boomer approaching old age I reject this nonsense about the need for young Arabs and Mexicans to change my diaper when I get too old to do so myself. When it gets to that point just put me on an ice floe like an Eskimo or one of those platforms the Indians used for their old folks because I'm not interested in that kind of life style anyway.
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#3: If only that would happen as I've been praying for such an event for many years. The bulk of the new arrivals will settle in Vancouver and Toronto and make them even more uninhabitable than they currently are.
[Free Beacon] More than a quarter of federal government employees would consider quitting if Donald Trump were elected president, according to a new survey.
Government Executive polled more than 1,000 federal workers to see if the outcome of the presidential election would impact their decision to continue to work for the government.
Twenty-seven percent of federal workers said they might consider leaving their jobs were Trump elected. Sixty-five percent said they would not, while another 9 percent were not sure.
A majority of federal workers support Hillary Clinton for president, with 53 percent, compared to 34 percent for Trump.
Among those who said they would consider quitting the government, 49 percent said they would retire, while 39 percent said they would look for another job outside the government.
In his latest campaign push Trump has promised to "drain the swamp," and said he would place a hiring freeze on the federal government, and decrease the size of the workforce through attrition.
Though more Democrats were polled than Republicans, a higher amount surveyed said they currently lean more to the GOP.
The survey sample comprised of 34 percent Democrats, 25 percent Republicans, and 32 percent Independents. However, when asked, "as of today do you lean more to the Democratic Party or the Republican Party?" 43 percent said Republican, compared to 42 percent who said Democrat.
Only 1 percent of Clinton voters said the most appealing aspect of her candidacy is her "personality."
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about 15% of the federal workforce is retirement eligible and are just working to increase benefits -- they consider retiring every day
another 10% are generally ticked off and consider quitting every day or are political appointees and would be kicked out if Trump were elected
that leaves about 2% whose views are Trump specific
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I call BS.
First of all, I've seen other better-conducted polls indicating that 95% of the federal "work" force will be voting for Clinton.
Second, these people are in federal employment because federal employment provides anxiety-free income at an easy job that can never be taken away short of committing a felony (actually, Lois Lerner DID commit several and she got to retire with a six-figure salary) and, nearly to a person, they have no skills that would allow them to make as much money in the private sector.
We're talking about people who would let the police power of the state kill their neighbor's children if they thought doing so would perpetuate their rice bowl.
Such as these NEVER quit.
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If "the deal" changes enough, anything is possible...
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Doubt it. Their jobs are too cushy and they can't cut it in the private sector.
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Strange isn't it how the one part of the Executive they both have no problem 'downsizing' are the grunts et al over at DoD, even though national defense was one of the fundamental justifications for the ratification of the Constitution.
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They think this would deter people from voting for Trump? They should be fired for being that stupid! Quit now and beat the rush, fools. We don't need you if this is all the integrity and devotion to the nation that you can muster.
[The Hill] Amid multiple reports drawing different connections between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia Monday night, the New York Times reported that FBI officials' investigations of the GOP nominee have yet to confirm ties between the two.
FBI officials said their investigations have yet to find a connection between the GOP presidential nominee and Russia.
The bureau has been investigating the Russian government’s role in the U.S. presidential election. But the FBI believes that the country was likely trying to disrupt the overall race, and not trying boost Trump’s chance of getting elected.
The Monday night report comes after CNBC reported earlier in the day that FBI Director James Comey argued against accusing Russia of interfering in the election due to the timing, and because he did not want the accusation against Russia to come from his agency.
And Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) alleged earlier in the day that the FBI has "explosive information" about a connection between the two, suggesting federal investigators have "explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors and the Russian government" and must make it public.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and critics have criticized Trump for praising Russian President Vladimir Putin. But Trump has pushed back that he has "nothing to do" with Russia and doesn’t know Putin.
The conclusions also comes amid a report from Slate that an unnamed computer scientist found a connection between a Trump organization server and two servers registered to a Moscow bank.
The FBI is also reportedly looking into former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s foreign business and political dealings, according to NBC.
FBI officials declined to comment for the Times story, but intelligence officials have said in interviews over the past several weeks that apparent connections between Trump aides and Moscow motivated them to open a larger investigation.
So far, no evidence that has surfaced that Trump has any links to Russia.
[Free Beacon] Top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has not been on Clinton’s campaign plane for the last three days, CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin reported Monday.
Baldwin said Abedin was like a "surrogate daughter" to Clinton and that the two are exceptionally close. She then asked CNN correspondent Dana Bash whether she knew why Abedin has not been present on the campaign plane.
"We don’t know exactly why, except I don’t think it would be a bridge too far to have informed speculation that she has now become such a huge part of the story because the only reason why we’re discussing this [email scandal] is because of a computer that her estranged husband allegedly had her emails on it," Bash said.
"So that is no question [a] big part of the reason. Maybe she’s also dealing with her lawyers. We’re just not sure," Bash continued
Bash said that she agreed with Baldwin’s characterization of Abedin as Clinton’s "second daughter."
"I don’t think you can overstate how close these two are and second daughter is just sort of one aspect. I think she’s‐her official role is Hillary Clinton’s right-hand woman, but it’s not just hand: it’s arm, it’s brain, it’s everything," Bash said. "She is the person who thinks what Hillary Clinton is going to think before she thinks it and makes things happen for her, and that’s how close they are and have been for years and years and years."
Abedin was pushed back into the public spotlight on Friday when FBI Director James Comey informed Congress that the bureau had discovered new emails related to Clinton’s previous investigation into her email use as secretary of state. Federal and local law enforcement had been investigating Abedin’s estranged husband and former Congressman Anthony Weiner (D., N.Y.) when they discovered pertinent emails on Weiner’s devices, some of which Abedin used as well, the Washington Free Beacon previously reported.
Federal and local law enforcement officials have been investigating Anthony Weiner since last month over reports that he sent sexually explicit text messages and photos to a 15-year-old girl, which was first revealed by the Daily Mail.
News surfaced Friday afternoon that the FBI would revisit its investigation into Clinton’s email practices.
"In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation," Comey wrote in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. "I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation."
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One consort is pretty much the same as any other at this point, eh, Hil?
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Actually, seeing how inconvenient people with email accounts can be, I bet Hil goes for a service animal instead from here on out...
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Breaking up is always hard when your significant other is also a Muslim brotherhood agent and your defacto chief administrative gofer. That she just ruined your coronation is more than annoying, it's potentially fatal in any national park.
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As one see's CNN reporters are speaking on behalf of Huma and Hillary so this further cements CNN's roll as the DNC's Information Ministry.
Do you have any idea how jealous that makes the folks at ABC, NBC and CBS?
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Since her internship Huma has been a true believer in all things Hillary. She is also a true believer in the Islamic Brotherhood and Wahhabis. He Clinton arranged marriage is a farce, and she will do whatever it takes to be at Hillary's side, including marrying a pedophile. Now that it has gone to hell she will have to do whatever it takes to protect Hillary and more importantly protect the nation and family she is truly working for. I expect this suicide to be the only self induced on of all the Hillary associate suicides. She will either take the fall for her or kill herself early. She is too loyal.
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My suspicion is she is either:
1)in a safe house protected by MB bodyguards.
or
2)buried right next to Jimmy Hoffa.
Al
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Ima thinkern some place without an extradition treaty.
[Guardian] The emails currently roiling the US presidential campaign are part of some unknown digital collection amassed by the troublesome Anthony Weiner, but if your purpose is to understand the clique of people who dominate Washington today, the emails that really matter are the ones being slowly released by WikiLeaks from the hacked account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta. They are last week’s scandal in a year running over with scandals, but in truth their significance goes far beyond mere scandal: they are a window into the soul of the Democratic party and into the dreams and thoughts of the class to whom the party answers.
The class to which I refer is not rising in angry protest; they are by and large pretty satisfied, pretty contented. Nobody takes road trips to exotic West Virginia to see what the members of this class looks like or how they live; on the contrary, they are the ones for whom such stories are written. This bunch doesn’t have to make do with a comb-over TV mountebank for a leader; for this class, the choices are always pretty good, and this year they happen to be excellent.
They are the comfortable and well-educated mainstay of our modern Democratic party. They are also the grandees of our national media; the architects of our software; the designers of our streets; the high officials of our banking system; the authors of just about every plan to fix social security or fine-tune the Middle East with precision droning. They are, they think, not a class at all but rather the enlightened ones, the people who must be answered to but who need never explain themselves. Con't.
Read these emails and you understand, with a start, that the people at the top tier of American life all know each other. They are all engaged in promoting one another’s careers, constantly.
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LinkedIn Yes, Except that they eat their young and throw each other under the bus occasionally.
1. WikiLeaks might just have Hillary's 33,000 deleted emails and about to release them.
2. Might be that these 33,000 emails were also on the Weiner-Huma computer and Assange is just waiting to see whether there will be an attempt the powers-to-be to bury these emails.
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One major sign points to HRC's email luggage being one of the upcoming wikileaks releases -- none have been in the Podesta releases.
Yes, if wikileaks is strategic about this, they will wait until this Friday to see how the ruling class attempts to hide HRC's crimes, before they shine the light on these cockroaches.
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The real crimes aren't the server(s), emails or classifications. They're bad, but can be glossed over.
The real crimes (that they REALLY wanted to cover up but may have some problems doing so now) are the Clinton Foundation's briberies, collusions, pay-to-play, skimming, laundering and disbursements.
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[Breitbart] Behold, the Revenge of The Weiner. Only in the world of the Clintons could a lecherous serial oversharer like Anthony Weiner become such a star.
It was the Clintons, after all, who introduced The Weiner to the young and glamorous Huma Abedin, who has served Hillary Clinton in the closest capacity for two decades, starting out as an intern.
By the way, what is it with the Clintons and their interns? Why must they always disgrace and defile and destroy them? Is it simply that they cannot resist taking complete advantage of anyone who comes to them so young and impressionable?
Famously, the Clintons encouraged the romance and union between The Weiner and their intern. The former intern surely envisioned herself and The Weiner as a budding power couple tightly orbiting the famous and powerful Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Remember the opulent and glamorous photo shoot under the trees in wedding attire that ran in some glossy fashion magazine? And Bill Clinton officiated the nuptials? (NOTE: Kids, if you are thinking of getting married and Bill Clinton is the guy performing your wedding ceremony, you might ask yourself whether this is the healthiest of relationships you’re getting into.)
I remember the first time I met The Weiner. It was on Capitol Hill years ago before he became such a disgrace that even Congress would not have him anymore. We dined at a restaurant a few blocks from the Capitol.
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YCMTSU! And yet what is surprising is that there are a significant number of people who plan to vote for another corrupted Clinton. Let's hope the number is not significant enough or we will all be treated like her lap dogs.
#4
Early voting among blacks and other minorities appears to be down when compared to the last presidential election. The deplorables appear to be coming out in greater numbers.
1. Weiner was so angry at Huma Abedin for leaving him that he copied all of her emails onto his computer so she would be vulnerable to perjury charges – paybacks are hell.
2. The Russians (or someone else (NSA/CIA/DGSE/ISIS?) actually DID hack HRC’s server and already had all the emails - then, to preserve plausible deniability, also hacked into Weiner’s laptop and downloaded them all so they could be “discovered” by U.S. law enforcement.
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"Caligua", a film where the script got out of hand and degenerated into a pron film about the fall of Rome. My Cortana tilted and her eyes spun about when I input " An LGBTQ Gaius? Fox's Shep Smith with a prime-time slot ?"
Besoeker, you know after this Donk-created Circus from Hell, I too would say anything is possible. Somehow, I think there is one last gasp from the Democrats in this race--look for a early Nov. surprise. I don't know what it will be but reality has shown us they are capable of anything. Probably something sleazy and very underhanded.
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I'm sure Huma set up email on her laptop and her phone. Then eventually she gave the sticky nasty laptop to Carlos Danger and just checked her phone forgetting the extra set of emails.
Seems our elite protect each other with their power but they are not all that bright (Podesta falling for the most basic email phishing scheme for example).
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1. Weiner was so angry at Huma Abedin for leaving him that he copied all of her emails onto his computer so she would be vulnerable to perjury charges – paybacks are hell.
They have a kid. I am sure Huma told him he would go away for so long he would never see his kid again. I am sure that is when Carlos Danger decided to show Huma and Hillary he had what he needed to take them to take them with him.
Checkmate. NOW they are going to do what they have to for him so everyone stays out of prison.
THAT I am sure where Huma is, putting out the flames.
[DAWN] AS the state scrambles to contain the menace of sectarian militancy, the faceless myrmidons have resorted to using novel methods, and increasingly hitting ’soft’ targets. Mass-casualty attacks have thankfully been averted this Muharram -- thanks largely to the multilayer security cordon around mosques, imambargahs and mourning processions. Perhaps in reaction, gunnies have decided to go low-tech. On Saturday night, suspects on a cycle of violence tried to barge into a women’s majlis in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... ’s Nazimabad area. Unable to enter the house where the event was being held, the gunnies took aim at people gathered outside; at least five people have been confirmed dead in the attack. This was the fourth sectarian attack during Muharram in Karachi. In earlier attacks also, people were shot outside their homes, while an IED was lobbed at a women’s majlis inside an imambargah. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... al-Alami, an offshoot of the dreaded sectarian outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, has grabbed credit for the Nazimabad attack. During the months of Muharram and Safar, countless religious gatherings take place across the country. While the major mosques and imambargahs are relatively easy to protect, securing majalis inside homes -- estimated to run into the thousands by police officials -- is a very difficult task.
While more intelligence-based operations are needed to bust krazed killer cells seeking to spread terror, a much bigger challenge stares the state in the face if it wishes to end sectarian bloodshed: confronting the ideological forces that provide oxygen to sectarian militancy. For several decades, the state looked the other way as jihadi and sectarian gangs spread their wings and became entrenched in society. Now, uprooting these groups is proving a formidable task. But it is pertinent to ask how hard the state is trying. While notorious sectarian killers have been eliminated in ’encounters’ and attempts have been made to limit the movement of rabble-rousing preachers, especially during sensitive religious periods, the fact is that overall, sectarian groups in Pakistain still have considerable liberty to operate. For example, last Friday, when the state was unleashing its might against political protesters in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, the ASWJ, a banned sectarian outfit, was able to hold a rally in the federal capital unhindered, in defiance of Section 144. Some days earlier, the leader of this outfit had met the interior minister as part of a Difa-e-Pakistain Council delegation. If the state is serious about implementing NAP and eliminating sectarian terrorism from Pakistain, it must confront these glaring contradictions.
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One hears a lot of talk about America turning into a Third World kleptocracy. I've worked in a lot of Third World kleptocracies, back in the days when the Reagan Revolution was fresh and the Reaganauts thought we could export free markets and democracy to the rest of the world. We didn't, of course. But I had the opportunity to see first-hand what separates a banana republic from the land of the free and the home of the brave. It comes down to the grit of a few people willing to do their job come hell or high water--not look the other way, not accept the stuffed envelope or its equivalent in post-government employment, but to treat a job as a sacred trust given by the people.
Somewhere there are a handful of FBI agents who decided to do their jobs--to end the coverup of the Clinton private email server which was there to let Hillary turn high office into a cash cow. I don't know who they are or just how it happened, but some men and women told FBI Director James Comey that if he didn't step forward, they would--and they clearly had enough evidence to put Comey in a vise.
[Don Surber's blog] Chief Justice John Roberts is an embarrassment to the nation who should resign immediately because he just allowed the court to beclown itself by taking up a school bathroom case.
From CNN:
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to take up a case concerning a transgender high school student in Virginia who is seeking to use the boys' bathroom at school.
The case, which should be heard this term, marks the first time the Supreme Court has considered the controversial issue playing out across the country, most notably in North Carolina, where the Justice Department has filed a civil rights suit against the state's so-called bathroom law.
This is the Dumbest Case of the Century.
Are they justices or are they hall monitors?
Where in the Constitution does it say the Supreme Court decides who uses which bathroom?
If a principal in Virginia wants to decide, well, that's his job. Let's not make a federal case out of this.
And what happened to science? A girl in boys clothing is still a girl, and a boy in girls clothing is still a boy. Cosmetic surgery will not change that, either.
Nothing in the 14th or 15th amendments grants John Roberts or any other federal employee the power to usurp nature and science like this.
President Trump should replace Roberts at the first opportunity. I am thinking a rubber plant would do a better job.
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Where in the Constitution does it say the Supreme Court decides who uses which bathroom?
1 Where in the Constitution does it say the Executive Branch decides who uses which bathroom?
2. Where in the Constitution does it say the Supreme Court decides who uses which lunch counter? (See - slippery slope)
When the court decided to trash can the 10th Amendment* or abide by the branches of the federal government voiding it, you got yourself here.
There is no perfect. Perfect is the enemy of 'just good enough'.
*The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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PK2, what you say would go a long way to correcting many problems. The ship might be righted with the right Scalia-like appointees. All along, I thought our SCOTUS was there to bless Exec. Orders, legislation that was passed without reading, and social engineering causes. Look for them to bless Global Warming and carbon tax schemes soon. (sarc on).
[FOX] A federal judge has rebuked the Obama administration over the lack of Syrian Christians being admitted from the war-zone, calling it a "perplexing discrepancy" that only 56 of 11,000 Syrian refugees to the U.S. in fiscal 2016 were Christian.
The rebuke came in a Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals opinion on a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by The Heartland Alliance’s National Immigrant Justice Center ‐ a liberal human rights group that advocates for immigrants and asylum-seekers -- seeking information on certain terror groups.
As first reported by attorney and former FEC member Hans von Spakovsky for The Daily Signal, while the court found in favor of the government, Judge Daniel Manion addressed the refugee issue and took aim at the Obama administration over how few Christians had been admitted to the U.S.
"It is well‐documented that refugees to the United States are not representative of that war‐torn area of the world. Perhaps 10 percent of the population of Syria is Christian, and yet less than one‐half of one percent of Syrian refugees admitted to the United States this year are Christian," he wrote.
According to government figures, of the almost 11,000 Syrian refugees admitted to the United States in fiscal 2016, only 56 were Christian. Con't.
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[CNN] The time has come for President Obama to get off the Clinton campaign trail, take a deep breath and restore public confidence in the integrity of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.
[DAWN] ON a recent Turkish Airlines flight, I diligently read the two English-language dailies distributed onboard. Both contained many column inches of material castigating 
[Breitbart] Canada’s immigration minister has declared that the country will rapidly increase immigration rates with targets close to half a million people per year.
[The Hill] Amid multiple reports drawing different connections between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia Monday night, the New York Times reported that FBI officials' investigations of the GOP nominee have yet to confirm ties between the two. 
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[Don Surber's blog] Chief Justice John Roberts is an embarrassment to the nation who should resign immediately because he just allowed the court to beclown itself by taking up a school bathroom case.
[FOX] A federal judge has rebuked the Obama administration over the lack of Syrian Christians being admitted from the war-zone, calling it a "perplexing discrepancy" that only 56 of 11,000 Syrian refugees to the U.S. in fiscal 2016 were Christian.
