[Dr. Robert Owens Chronicles the History of the Future] IMPEACH TRUMP! IMPEACH TRUMP! IMPEACH TRUMP!
That is the screech we’re about to hear emanating from the denizens of the swamp. Sure Maxine Waters and a few others have been singing this song since election night when their plans for the last nail in our coffin went down in flames. Now it’s beginning to percolate through the monotone media megaphone. And though this was predicted in this column by this author before the inauguration it still has a jarring impact on the senses.
Back in the Dream Times when the Deep State was able to turn Watergate into a Silent Coup the precedent was set. If someone tries to overturn the moneychanger’s tables they must be destroyed. If it’s a president, even one elected for the sole purpose of adding some reality to the mirage of our functioning oligarchy which portrays itself as a dysfunctional democratic republic, they must be hounded out of office, disgraced, and discredited.
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[Wash Examiner] Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey wants gas station owners to post warnings at the pump that say customers are spurring climate change by filling up their tanks.
The idea came up in oral arguments in Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Tuesday in a case challenging Exxon Mobil’s record on addressing the threat of global warming and the attorney general's claim that the company misinformed the public over the threat.
Justice Frank Gaziano asked how gas stations are involved in "deception or fraud related to climate change."
"Because, your honor, the gas sold at those gas stations is among the premier contributors to global warming," Healey's lawyer, Richard Johnston, responded.
Healey has asked for information from Exxon related to the marketing of fossil fuels in Massachusetts, "including advertisements, in particular," Johnston said.
"So, I own Joe's gas station on the corner, I'm a franchisee, and you're telling me that I have information that relates to how Exxon Mobil, this gi-normous corporation, has marketed and lied on climate change?" Gaziano asked.
"If they’re doing sales and marketing in Massachusetts, and they know things that they should be telling people ‐ either consumers or investors ‐ that would be relevant to the consumers or investors’ decisions, then they’ve gotta make that part of their advertising. They can’t simply go around and say, ’We’re selling you this terrific product,’ and keep to themselves what they know about the possible impacts of those products on global warming," Johnston said.
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They can’t simply go around and say, ’We’re selling you this terrific product ideology,’ and keep to themselves what they know about the possible impacts of those products policies and regulations on global warming your wealth and happiness," Johnston said
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And speaking of asses, and gases...
More people in relevant classes
(in winter, Ms. Healey,
when things don't flow freely!)
Are killed in your state by molasses.
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"Damn, it's cold here!" "Better fill up with more gas and warm things up a bit!"
Seriously, what global warming, I haven't seen any and the data I see are fake, cherry picked to make it look worst than it really is. Sea level is still the same.
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Last I checked - admittedly, it was 15,000 years ago - those gas pumps were under a half mile of ice. Maybe a little global warming ain't such a bad thing considering the alternative.
California is the only state in the country that blocks prosecutors from seeing entire police personnel files. It's also one of 22 that keeps information on officer discipline from the public.
But now a list compiled by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department of about 300 deputies with histories of dishonesty and misconduct has been obtained by the Los Angeles Times. The document is dated 2014, the year it was first put together by the then-sheriff, John Scott.
The Times cross-checked the list with court records and news reports to find out why the officers on it were placed there. The roster includes an officer who pepper-sprayed an elderly man, another who forced a woman he pulled over to perform oral sex on him, and one who doused a shirt with taco sauce to replace a bloodied shirt that went missing as evidence.
According to the Times, 69 percent of the officers were on the list for dishonesty. The top reasons after that were family violence, "immoral conduct," stealing, and sex.
The sheriff's department wanted to share the list with prosecutors to warn them of potentially problematic witnesses. Were the list shared with prosecutors, prosecutors would be obliged to share it with defense attorneys too. A police union—the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs—sued to keep the list private.
According to the Times, the officers on the list were potential witnesses in more than 62,000 felony cases since 2000. That represents a gross miscarriage of justice if even a small fraction of those cases actually saw these problem cops serve as witnesses.
There's an argument to be made that many of these officers shouldn't even be allowed to hold on to their jobs. One of the most effective ways to reduce police brutality is to remove problem cops as soon as they present themselves instead of waiting until they commit an unnecessary act of violence and then get defended anyway. Instead, layer upon layer of protection—state civil service rules, union contract provisions, and so on—often inoculate officers from any real consequences for their actions.
"Do we go back and overturn every conviction now?" Elizabeth Gibbons, an attorney who has represented the police union, asked the Times. "That's a can of worms that gets opened if the court adopts the department's argument in this case."
Well, yes: If the convictions are wrongful, they ought to be overturned. The criminal justice system should be centered on justice, not convenience. And if police misbehavior makes justice less convenient, that's an argument for removing bad cops sooner rather than later.
The police union thinks the list should be secret because it could harm bad cops' careers or threaten prosecutions in which they participated. But dishonest and abusive officers should see their careers harmed.
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Note that this is the FA County Sheriff's Office, not LAPD.
No bad guys there. Oh, no.
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There's an argument to be made that many of these officers shouldn't even be allowed to hold on to their jobs.
That LEO idiot who arrested the nurse on duty in the ER a few months ago, should not even be allowed to have a driver's license. The only job he is fit for is shoveling pig manure.
I think that is a good thing. I told an NRA fundraiser a few weeks ago that, in my view, the law is unconstitutional and will probably not survive a court challenge. I regard the law as a needless expansion of current US federal power over an area they should not even be regulating. I told the NRA fundraiser they should focus on bringing down the entire gun control edifice. He asked, "Do you think that's possible?" I don't recall my reply, but my sentiment now is if the NRA wants another $50 emergency donation, they had best start moving to restore gun rights nationwide.
A commenter at Hershel Smith's blog mentioned something that bears repeating here: a number of southern states already recognize each other’s Carry Concealed permits. I would add that establishing compacts among several states is an acceptable and time tested means of resolving regional matters without federal government intervention.
Debates on more gun control laws rage on social media. I was perusing a local TV news Facebook page, and saw comment after comment about how the government has gun control laws to protect us, literally dozens of them to every one against gun control. It is a massive mountain of ignorance and stupidity that impels individuals to state that they are pro government fascists, refusing to see that when gun owners' rights are destroyed, the government will come after everyone else's.
It is why ”Molon labe,” famously said by the Spartans battling against overwhelming odds, has such resonance.
Gun owners, especially AR and AK owners, are the last line of defense against the power of government.
Loads.
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[Doug Ross @ Journal] In an interview with a local D.C. TV station, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein admired the monster he created, who now runs an alleged investigation into supposed Russia-Trump collusion but which quickly morphed into what amounts to a silent coup against a sitting President of the United States:
Rosenstein has much to be accountable for. Yes, Virginia, this is a witch hunt. Robert Mueller III was appointed special counsel after his friend, the vindictive former FBI Director James Comey, committed a federal crime by leaking a memo which was a government record to the press. Mueller has picked staff and prosecutors as if he were stocking Hillary Clinton’s Department of Justice. He has picked a bevy of Clinton donors, an attorney who worked for the Clinton Foundation, a former Watergate assistant prosecutor, and even a senior advisor to Eric Holder. Objective professionals all.
Thanks to Rosenstein, Mueller is in fact colluding with Comey and Clinton moles to enact revenge on President Trump for Comey’s firing, something which even Comey said Trump was constitutionally entitled to do. There is no evidence of collusion with Russia or obstruction of justice. It is not obstruction of justice for a President to exercise his legal and constitutional authority.
The facts and the lack of an actual crime will not stop Robert Mueller. Just show him the man, or woman, and he will show you the crime. As Professor Alan Dershowitz writes in the Washington Examiner:
[Breitbart] Thursday, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said if elected, Alabama GOP Senate hopeful Roy Moore would cause "long-term damage" to the Republican Party’s brand.
Elietist worries and Rhino rubbish. That train left the station hours, no, years ago.
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It's going to damage THEM, which is only a good thing. The sooner the GOP dies, the better. It simply doesn't represent anyone, and neither does the DNC. Both of them agree that the American working class and middle class should be exterminated and replaced with immigrants.
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Flake: Roy Moore Will Cause ‘Long-Term Damage' to the country club United States Chamber of Commerce GOP Brand
O Knight of the Dusky Camellia
Who fights for Ms. Hemmings, I feel ya!
But why should a slave of such station
Repatriate? Back to what nation?
That said, if you'd like to go with her,
Well, pull up your roots and go thither!
[Wash Examiner] Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called President Trump’s controversial decision to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel a "no brainer."
"I guess the reason it's an issue is because there are countries around the world that would prefer that it had not been done," Rumsfeld told Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night. "It's a no brainer. It's the right thing to do. President Trump made the right decision ‐ he stepped up and did it. It's inevitable that there will be some criticism about it. But I just can't imagine any country in the world that doesn't believe that they have the right to have their capital where they want it."
The status of Jerusalem is highly controversial, as both Israelis and Palestinians have claimed it as their capital.
Ingraham asked Rumsfeld if Trump would be blamed should the decision provoke terrorism or attacks on U.S. embassies.
"I don't see it that way at all," Rumsfeld responded. "It seems to me that the president made the right decision. He stepped up and did it. It's inevitable that there will be people that don't like it and will make noise about it, but the idea that it could lead to a stream of terrorism, I just don't see that at all."
The State Department issued warnings to American embassies around the world to increase security, ahead of the expected announcement, and Hamas, a Palestinian militant Islamic group, said they would call for a new Palestinian uprising if the U.S. named Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
[Jpost] It’s a seismic event, a great decision and a historic watershed. This is where blackmail and intimidation are faced down. This is where appeasement ends.
President Trump’s speech recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital has signaled that, for America, the century- long Arab attempt to destroy Israel’s legitimacy ‐ the essence of the Middle East conflict ‐ has failed.
...Appeasing those who threaten violence doesn’t reduce it. It encourages it. The more concessions are offered, the more the Palestinians believe even greater violence will deliver them final victory. That’s why the Oslo-process offer of a Palestine state led to the Second Intifada; that’s why the expulsion of Israeli residents from Gaza led to the all-out rocket onslaught against civilians in southern Israel.
...But of course, recognition reflects a far deeper and broader reality ‐ which is why it’s much more important than moving the embassy. For it makes explicit what by moving the embassy would only be implicit.
This is because the Arab war against Israel is not a conflict about the division of land. It is a war of extermination based on a refusal to accept that the Jews have any right to that land. And Jerusalem is central to that refusal.
...Which is why the refusal by Western countries to recognize the unique Jewish right to Jerusalem has been so malevolent. It’s not just that this made Israel into a second-class country, uniquely prevented from asserting its own capital. Much worse than that, it gave legitimacy to those who wanted to eradicate altogether the Jews’ right to the city and the land.
By their opposition to Trump’s speech the British, French, Germans and the rest have revealed that, like the Palestinians, they don’t think the Jews have the right to any part of Jerusalem at all. They appear to think that Jewish Jerusalem, part of the State of Israel since its creation in 1948, can be bargained away to those who would destroy the Jewish homeland altogether. Israel is a symbol of Nation State Civilization - European elites are its deadliest enemies. Of course they hate Israel.
[Jpost] Three visual elements caught the eye when US President Donald Trump announced his decision on Wednesday to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and begin plans to move the embassy.
The first were the Christmas trees in the room. The second was the manner in which Trump ‐ famously known as someone who ad libs during speeches ‐ appeared to be reading this announcement word for word from a carefully crafted script. And the third was the presence over his shoulder of Vice President Mike Pence.
Pence, an Evangelical Christian, is an unabashed, unapologetic supporter of Israel who ascribes religious meaning to the rebirth of the Jewish state.
Those who say that Trump’s decision removes the United States as an honest broker in the Middle East peace process and who see the removal of this "honest broker" tag from the Americans as something that is a negative, should consider what Pence said three years ago in Jerusalem.
At a town hall event put together by Republicans Abroad Israel, Pence ‐ then the governor of Indiana and a possible 2016 presidential candidate ‐ said that America should not aspire to be an "honest broker" in the Middle East, but rather communicate to the world that while it wants an honest and fair solution to the conflict, "we are on the side of Israel."
...Interestingly, Trump’s proclamation about correcting a historic anomaly and letting Israel enjoy the right, like every other country in the world, to decide where its capital is, was only one of two significant developments in Washington this week touching upon the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
True, that proclamation garnered banner headlines, triggered condemnation from European states-people, sparked furious responses from Palestinian, Arab and Muslim leaders, and led to the declaration of three "days of rage."
But another significant development took place on Tuesday when the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the Taylor Force Act, named after the US citizen stabbed to death by terrorists in Tel Aviv in 2016.
That bill, which is likely to pass easily in the Senate and be signed into law by Trump, would significantly cut the annual $280 million in US assistance to the Palestinian Authority unless it stops paying subsidies to jailed terrorists and their families. And knowing Trump, we can suspect that the timing of the embassy proclamation is not incidental
[Townhall] It’s nearing Christmas, and everyone knows the best gifts come in small packages. The same can be said of government and of schools, too.
Micro-schools are an emerging trend of what Education Next defines as "one-room schoolhouse meets blended learning and home schooling meets private schooling." According to EdWeek, "The definition of a micro school is still being hammered out, but a consensus seems to be coalescing around a few core details: Schools have no more than 150 students in grades K-12; multiple ages learn together in a single classroom; teachers act more as guides than lecturers; there’s a heavy emphasis on digital and project-based learning; and small class sizes, combined with those other factors, make for a highly personalized education."
The micro-school movement is spreading like wildfire in some places. Acton Academy, a system of micro-schools based in Austin, Texas, describes itself as, "One-room schoolhouses for the 21st century," and has expanded to a network of more than 50 schools since its inception in 2009. What people seem to like about these tiny schools are the benefits that are also inherent in limited government and all institutions that are small in scope: They’re accessible, easy to manage, give the consumer a say in how things work and are relatively inexpensive.
"As we look at our comprehensive high schools in America, they’ve been competing over years to offer more courses, more athletics, and it increases their cost structure," a micro-school parent told EdWeek in 2016. "We see the same thing in higher education. But increasingly, there’s a segment of their market demographic that feels overserved.
"With small buildings, few faculty and staff members, and a curriculum built largely around free, online programs, micro-schools strip education down to the bare essentials,"EdWeek also reported.
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Public high schools should be abolished altogether and replaced with private trade schools. Kids who don't go to trade schools can go to college, work on farms, join the army or starve.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Doug Ross @ Journal] In an interview with a local D.C. TV station, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein admired the monster he created, who now runs an alleged investigation into supposed Russia-Trump collusion but which quickly morphed into what amounts to a silent coup against a sitting President of the United States:
[Breitbart] Thursday, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said if elected, Alabama GOP Senate hopeful Roy Moore would cause "long-term damage" to the Republican Party’s brand.
[Jpost] Three visual elements caught the eye when US President Donald Trump announced his decision on Wednesday to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and begin plans to move the embassy.
[Townhall] It’s nearing Christmas, and everyone knows the best gifts come in small packages. The same can be said of government and of schools, too.
