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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Loretta Lynch Used Her Grandmother’s Name as Alias to Communicate with DOJ Officials
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] I seem to recall that Secretary Clinton and her staff had pseudonyms too...
Posted by: Fred || 08/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  wanna bet "Grandma" voted in the last three elections too?
Posted by: Frank G || 08/06/2017 8:22 Comments || Top||

#2  So she knew she was doing something wrong and wanted to hide it? That's a good starting point for an investigation as well as the FBI cover-up.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/06/2017 9:24 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Maxine Waters Accuses Democratic Law School Professor of Being a ‘Racist’ in Defense of Trump
[FREEBEACON] Rep. Maxine Waters
U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, and previously the 35th and 29th districts, serving since 1991, a total of 25.68017035560372 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the 12 black women currently serving in the United States Congress, is a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 40.678116967513375 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was brighter she'd be a Communist...
'>Comrade Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) on Friday accused Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz of being "racist" for saying that the Trump administration will be facing an "unfavorable" locality for a grand jury because it is "solidly Democratic" and has a "ethnic and racial composition" not favorable to Trump.Dershowitz, who has donated thousands of dollars to Democrats, told WABC radio host Rita Cosby on Friday that the new D.C. grand jury orchestrated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is unfair to Trump.

"It gives the prosecutor a tremendous tactical advantage... the case now can be brought not in Northern Virginia, which is a swing area, sometimes Democrat, sometimes Republican... but the District of Columbia, which is always solidly Democratic and has an ethnic and racial composition that might be very unfavorable to the Trump Administration," Dershowitz said.

Cosby asked Dershowitz whether he thought the geographic move will be a disadvantage for the president. He responded, "Yes, I do."

MSNBC host Chris Hayes played some of the audio from the interview during his show and asked Waters whether the comments were "unfair."

"Oh it's absolutely unfair," Waters said. "What he is saying is ’all of those black people are there and they don't like Trump and so he's not going to get a fair trial and so they should take it out of that jurisdiction. It shouldn't be there to begin with.' I don't like that, and I'm surprised that Alan Dershowitz is talking like that."

"We will not stand for it. We will push back against that because that is absolutely racist," she said.

BBC DJ ‘suspended over sexist and racist Whatsapp group messages’


Sally McManus ratchets up campaign against 'racist' work-for-the-dole program

A $1.5 billion work-for-the-dole program that overwhelmingly targets Indigenous communities has been labelled racist by Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Sally McManus, with the prominent unionist arguing the government's policy denies Aboriginal people rights enjoyed by other Australians.

In a speech to the Garma Festival on Sunday, Ms McManus will ramp up a union campaign against the Community Development Program, which covers approximately 37,000 mostly Indigenous Australians. While the ACTU has long been hostile to the CDP, the speech marks the union leader's highest-profile and clearest attack on the program since she was elected in March.

Bruce Willis’ ‘Death Wish’ remake slammed as ’racist’ after trailer drops

Colin Kaepernick’s girlfriend shares racist tweet about Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti and Ray Lewis

The shocking rise in 'racist abuse' suffered by West Midlands Police officers



Posted by: Fred || 08/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lady Justice weeps with Water's sense of justice. First, Lady Justice needs an interpreter or psychiatrist to figure out what the hell this women is saying.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/06/2017 8:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Racist like Nazi is just another over used pejorative (as in the 'N' word) hurled in hate. That's why the SJW are now pushing 'white nationalism' as a new pejorative in a country composed of 75%+ whites.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/06/2017 9:03 Comments || Top||

#3  A couple years ago, I was called "Cracker" by a black dude. I think what stung him most was my laughter.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/06/2017 9:17 Comments || Top||

#4  A "white nationalistic" is someone who loves their country and doesn't want to see it go down the dumper at the hands of these morons?
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/06/2017 9:18 Comments || Top||

#5  This from a former chair of an organization who only admits people of a certain skin color and who's very name is racist. I'm talking about the Congressional Black Caucus of course.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/06/2017 11:03 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
ACLJ: DOJ Document Dump Shows Lynch-Clinton Tarmac Summit Planned, Media Coverup
[LI] When former President Bill Clinton met with then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch at an Arizona airport, the gross impropriety of the "tarmac summit" was immediately evident. Clinton’s wife and 2016 Democrat presidential hopeful was then under FBI investigation for her server and email scandals. The impropriety was pooh-poohed away by a defensive AG, a disinterested media, a complicit FBI, and the corrupt Clinton clan.

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has released 413 pages of memos obtained from the DOJ that show the "tarmac summit" was planned and that the media was working with the Obama-Lynch DOJ to downplay and bury the entire incident.

The ACLJ in their article entitled, "DOJ Document Dump to ACLJ on Clinton Lynch Meeting: Comey FBI Lied, Media Collusion, Spin, and Illegality," reports:
Lengthy and disgusting.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/06/2017 01:50 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course the "tarmac summit" was planned. Why redact someone's discussions about grandchildren. Yoggi Berra 'coincidences' quote clearly applies.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/06/2017 1:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Excerpt from Powerline.

Right. Lynch’s DOJ created talking points about the meeting, but they apparently are secret, as they were redacted from all of the emails that contained them. How a FOIA exception could apply to those talking points, which were designed to be shared with reporters, is a mystery. But that is how the Obama administration responded to all FOIA requests on controversial matters: with evasion and obfuscation if not with outright lies. And President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions do not yet, and may not ever, control the Department of Justice.

My emphasis added.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/06/2017 2:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Just a criminal organization, albeit an incompetent one - because used to immunity.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/06/2017 6:33 Comments || Top||

#4  DOJ needs to be sued for the in-redacted version of these talking point notes. Actually, I think the suit is being filed tomorrow.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/06/2017 9:46 Comments || Top||

#5  "Unredacted." My spellcheck doesn't spell too well--me either.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/06/2017 9:48 Comments || Top||

#6  All of the apparatchiks are exercising their Bureaucratic Vetoes secure in the fact that they can not be fired. Sometimes it makes one nostalgic for the Spoils System...
Posted by: magpie || 08/06/2017 13:14 Comments || Top||

#7  8 years of salting the senior levels of the civil service in every agency with radical progressive sympathizers/agents during the Champ years is now on display. Secure in many cases of the double protections of affirmative action and civil service, they are covert sources for the left, and are being assured that they will be heroes of the revolution when the next Demorat takes office. Consider now the meeting of Obama, the Wookie, Oprah, Geffen and Tom Hanks on the yacht at a remote island resort. Wonder what was discussed? Wonder if ValJar was there?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 08/06/2017 13:28 Comments || Top||

#8  8 years of salting the senior levels of the civil service in every agency with radical progressive sympathizers/agents during the Champ years is now on display.

With the DoJ, State, and other agencies, it's been going on longer than that.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/06/2017 14:15 Comments || Top||

#9  ...and the only reason we know about any of this is because of one local reporter. I'm sure it's not an understatement to say 'what else have they done that we may never find out'?
Posted by: Raj || 08/06/2017 14:42 Comments || Top||

#10  secure in the fact that they can not be fired.

That can be changed. Governor Scott Walker set the precedent in Wisconsin.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/06/2017 14:57 Comments || Top||

#11  Question #1: Can't Jeff Sessions order these documents to be released without redaction?

Question #2: How can DOJ justify the redaction? Surely not national security. Could it be there is a pending indictment?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/06/2017 15:23 Comments || Top||

#12  Question #1: Can't Jeff Sessions order these documents to be released without redaction?

Yes, I love stories about grandchildren.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/06/2017 17:57 Comments || Top||

#13  ^ Mod Sarc O' The Day
Posted by: Frank G || 08/06/2017 17:59 Comments || Top||

#14  Ditto Frank. Snark of the day....

My biggest disappointment in escrow is the failure of some of Trump's appointees to uphold the rule of law as opposed to the rule of DC.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/06/2017 18:32 Comments || Top||

#15  What #7 NoMoreBS said. From the Clinton era and the Obama era, there has been a liberal salting of lefties in universities, governmental agencies, charities, activist groups, Wall Street, and the media.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/06/2017 19:48 Comments || Top||


Trump goes to golf club resort on 17-day vacation amid criticism for sloth
[Iran Press TV] US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
has gone on a 17-day holiday to one of his golf resorts near New York.

Trump arrived at Trump National in Bedminster, New Jersey on Friday for his extended break.

The Trump National Golf Club occupies 535 acres of rambling countryside in central New Jersey, 45 minutes away from New York City.

The president, who had repeatedly criticized his predecessor, Barack Obama
Because I won...
, for taking too many vacation days to play golf and even vowed during his election campaign not to go on vacation if he became president, left the White House in complete shambles.

This is his first long absence from the White House since he became president.

The White House said the president’s stay at his golf resort would be a "working vacation".

"The President will continue to work over the next two weeks," said White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters.
Telecommuting is supposed to be good for the environment...
The White House's faulty cooling and heating systems were cited as one of the reasons for the president's untimely leave.
Oh that's right -- the craftsmen kicked everybody out so they could do all sorts of delayed maintenance, including replacing the HVAC system and repairing leaks in the ceiling. Let's blame President Trump for another thing that shuold have taken place on President Obama's watch.
Trump's vacation has been scrutinized by international and local media.
Of course. Double standards are standards, after all.
Posted by: Fred || 08/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "...repairing leaks in the ceiling..."

Well done, sir, well done.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 08/06/2017 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump National is probably a more secure place from which to transact national affairs than the White House is.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 08/06/2017 0:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Good times to sweep for bugs and check the network for bugs as well.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/06/2017 0:47 Comments || Top||

#4  Well done, sir, well done.

Periwinkle commentary is Trailing Wife's.

As is her Cluebat.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/06/2017 8:45 Comments || Top||

#5  I guess he has his own people to sweep for bugs.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/06/2017 9:18 Comments || Top||

#6  As has been said, if Trump walked on water, he'd be criticized for not being able to swim.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/06/2017 9:44 Comments || Top||

#7  ...repairing leaks in the ceiling...

When I wrote that, I was thinking about the literally leaky ceiling, I think in the press room. But it works even better the other way -- thank you for pointing it out, dear Anomalous Sources.


Posted by: trailing wife || 08/06/2017 11:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Every time he leaves the left goes nuts because the cockroaches don't have bugs listening and leaking where he goes.
Posted by: Spike Spomoter7482 || 08/06/2017 12:42 Comments || Top||

#9  Anomalous sources, too true.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 08/06/2017 14:15 Comments || Top||

#10  Damn Passive-Aggressive Clusterchickenfuckshits don't want to let him get anything done but will complain if he dares leave the building?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 08/06/2017 17:23 Comments || Top||

#11  But the fact the white house will be shut down for air-conditioning repairs for 3 weeks matter nothing...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 08/06/2017 17:27 Comments || Top||

#12  Good times to sweep for bugs and check the network for bugs as well.

Sorry CF I figure it's time to reinstall any faulty bugs and add some new ones. My cynicism meter has been pegged since Jan.
Posted by: AlanC || 08/06/2017 18:37 Comments || Top||


Statue of Liberty as a Muslim? Painting in Rep. Lou Correa’s office sparks complaints
[OCREGISTER] A student painting that depicts the Statue of Liberty wearing a Moslem hijab, displayed in congressman Lou Correa’s Santa Ana office, is being attacked as an unpatriotic violation of the separation of church and state by members of We the People Rising, a Claremont-based activist group that advocates stricter enforcement of immigration laws.

The group, including several Orange County participants, has asked without success that Correa remove the painting hanging with other finalists from the Democratic congressman’s student art competition.

Because of the complaint, Correa said he asked the House Office of Legislative Counsel for advice and was told there was no legal issue. That has not appeased the activists, who are tentatively planning a Sept. 11 protest at Correa’s district office.

"It’s a bad example for our congressman," said Orange resident Mike McGertrick, an activist with We the People Rising. "He shouldn’t have anything religious in his office. ... I would like to see our Congress people be right-down-the-line patriotic."

McGertick went farther in his condemnation during a July 3 meeting with Correa’s district director, Claudio Gallegos, calling the hanging of the painting in the office "reprehensible and disrespectful."

"In this day and age, we want to see that our elected officials are the utmost of patriotism," McGertick says in a video the group recorded and posted on YouTube.

Correa sees nothing objectionable in the painting, which comes at a time of controversy over Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s efforts to ban the entry to the U.S. of people from Moslem countries and about the treatment of Moslems in this country.
Posted by: Fred || 08/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "She’s There To Wave Them In"
Posted by: newc || 08/06/2017 2:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Analogous to the Mohammedan cartoons, no?
Posted by: Bobby || 08/06/2017 8:48 Comments || Top||

#3  I like the big eyes. Reminds me if those goofy Margaret Keane prints of the 80's.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 08/06/2017 12:47 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 08/06/2017 17:40 Comments || Top||


Democrats fear Russia probe blowback
[POLITICO] 'We need to talk about what people think about when they wake up in the morning, and it’s not Russia,' said one strategist.
Posted by: Fred || 08/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Democrats should fear Russia probe blowback, because frivolous persecution - of ordinary citizens, let alone the POTUS - should be, vigorously, discouraged.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/06/2017 3:25 Comments || Top||

#2  I recommend a Roswell Probe (some may actually enjoy it).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/06/2017 8:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Image result for splc cartoons

Deep-sixing the faux Russia-Trump-collusion Mueller witch-hunt needs to go ahead ASAP. Get on with taking down the real criminal enterprises which have been going on for too long. I might add, at the expense of the American people.

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Posted by: JohnQC || 08/06/2017 9:37 Comments || Top||

#4  What the Dems are afraid of is the way that, when they try to gather something on Trump, they (the Dems) keep running into Russians that they themselves have had dealings with.
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/06/2017 9:54 Comments || Top||


Civil rights group says it will sue Trump admin over transgender military ban
[THEHILL] Lambda Legal, an LGBT rights group, is gearing up to sue the Trump administration over President Trump's proposal to ban transgender people from serving in the military.

Trump announced via Twitter last week that he would revive a policy barring transgender people from serving openly in the military. But that announcement came with no formal guidance and the Pentagon said it would continue to allow transgender people to serve until it received new direction from the White House.

A report published Friday by the Los Angeles Blade, however, indicated that the White House had approved guidance for implementing the ban, which Lambda legal called a "mean-spirited and discriminatory attack" on the LGBT community.

Posted by: Fred || 08/06/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It would be pretty difficult for a 'transgender' person to serve sereptitiously.

An example of the sheer dishonesty of the reporting on the subject, blurring the distinction between transgender and gay.
Posted by: phil_b || 08/06/2017 4:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Any bets on the final form being something like "Trans-gendered can serve, but sex change operation is not included in medical benefits package"?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/06/2017 4:45 Comments || Top||

#3  ...nah, like the GI Bill, they can get them when they get out from the VA, and their waiting lists.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/06/2017 9:01 Comments || Top||

#4  #2g(r)omgoru "Trans-gendered can serve, but sex change operation is not included in medical benefits package"?

I've got a hunch these enlistments would go down without these medical benefits.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/06/2017 9:22 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 what about the VA record?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/06/2017 9:51 Comments || Top||

#6  ..the missing ones? Or the ones listing bonuses for administrators?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/06/2017 13:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Knowing the VA they may even bring back bonuses bounties for scrotums scalps.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/06/2017 13:19 Comments || Top||

#8  The problem is they require continual medical attention and meds. If they do serve, they should be instantly listed as "Non Deployable" like people with chronic high blood pressure. It is hard enough to get enough beans and bullets to a combat zone, let alone necessary medication.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/06/2017 13:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Then can I sue for being discharged for developing pulmonary sarcoidosis?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/06/2017 14:23 Comments || Top||

#10  Paraplegics can sue because the F-35 isn't ADA compliant? After all, they are patriotic and want to be jet fighter aces too.
Posted by: magpie || 08/06/2017 19:50 Comments || Top||



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  Governor of Galgaduud region shot dead in Somali capital
Sat 2017-08-05
  US confirms airstrike killed al-Shabab commander in Somalia
Fri 2017-08-04
  Al Qaeda frees South African hostage after six years
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  Gang who called themselves 'Musketeers' guilty of plotting UK bomb attack
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