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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Illinois Republican Governor Signs Sanctuary State Law
[Breitbart] Illinois’ Republican Governor Bruce Rauner signed legislation shielding the nearly 500,000 illegal aliens from federal immigration law.

Rauner signed the sanctuary state bill into law on Monday, making it illegal for law enforcement to arrest or detain illegal aliens solely based on their immigration status, the Chicago Tribune noted.

The new law will essentially make it impossible for Illinois police to notify Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when they have a suspected criminal illegal alien on their hands, thus increasing the possibility that they will be freed back into the general public.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2017 01:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Unfortunately nothing new here. Sustaining tax revenues and federal aid money trumps the Rule of Law. Not unlike California, Illinois is bleeding taxpayers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2017 1:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Conspiracy to obstruct. And here I though Calexit would happen first. People floating crap paper as bonds, shouldn't set fires in the house they live.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/30/2017 7:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Next time around, I'll not vote for the Dem. candidate, but I won't vote for Rauner either.
Posted by: Flamble Elmavitch7205 || 08/30/2017 9:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Can't vote your way out of this. This corruption is like a disease that hasn't run its course.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/30/2017 11:10 Comments || Top||

#5  This is the most pressing problem in Illinois so that you take all you time and effort in doing it? Really?

Every day I'm happier we left Illinois back in 2000.
Posted by: Tom || 08/30/2017 11:25 Comments || Top||

#6  That will definitely help out the Illinois state budget, change its "failed state" status, and its dismal economic outlook (sarc).
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/30/2017 13:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Which is voting for the Democrat. Madigan needs you to stay home.
Posted by: Dopey Bumble8321 || 08/30/2017 18:17 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Trump and Melania lift spirits with visit to Texas
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The president and first lady were in Corpus Christi, Texas; they go to Austin next before a return to DC

  • Trump told a crowd of Texans who'd lined up outside a Corpus Christi firehouse he was visiting before he left that the recovery effort is 'going well' and his administration is 'here to take care of you'

  • President lauded state and federal officials for their response to Harvey this afternoon during his first of several stops in storm-stricken Texas, a firehouse in Corpus Christi

  • 'We want to do it better than ever before. We want to be looked at in five years, in ten years from now as, this is the way to do it,' Trump told Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a Corpus Christi briefing

  • Trump said: 'This was of epic proportion. Nobody's ever seen anything like this'

  • The president and first lady left the White House this morning just after 8:30 am for Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, he in a windbreaker sporting the presidential seal, khaki pants and brown boots

  • She wore classic black stilettos from the White House to Air Force One during the trip to Texas' flood zone

  • By the time the president's plane landed in Texas she was wearing white tennis shoes instead
Posted by: Fred || 08/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  •Trump said: 'This was of epic proportion. Nobody's ever seen anything like this'

"Every things bigger in Texas."
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 08/30/2017 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  She wore classic black stilettos from the White House to Air Force One during the trip to Texas' flood zone

For which the left is trying to manufacture a meltdown of some sort.
Posted by: gorb || 08/30/2017 1:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Is there nothing these leftest thugs will not critisize? If she wore flip-flops and a shower curtain she look just fine to me.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2017 1:41 Comments || Top||

#4  By the time the president's plane landed in Texas she was wearing white tennis shoes instead

Yes, but they were white tennis shoes. Oh, the humanity!
Seriously, is having the vapors becoming fashionable again?
Posted by: SteveS || 08/30/2017 2:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Nobody's ever seen anything like this

Cause history only starts someplace in your early lifetime. Is Galveston still there?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/30/2017 7:15 Comments || Top||

#6  More like, "We haven't seen this type of flooding here with so many people in a city this size"

There have been worse storms, but far fewer people were in the area.

Posted by: DarthVader || 08/30/2017 9:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Air Force One landed on the White House lawn? Is there anything this man can't do?
Posted by: Grunter || 08/30/2017 14:16 Comments || Top||


It Only Took A Day For The March To DC To Lose Nearly All Of The Marchers
[DAILYCALLER] The March to DC from Charlottesville, Va., started with nearly 200 marchers Monday, but by Tuesday morning there were only 35 marchers.

“Over 200 people came together today to take a stand against bigotry and hate,” march organizers said on Twitter. “We’re marching from #Cville2DC. Join us: cville2dc.us.”

The overnight rains were enough to keep all but “about 35” from marching Monday morning, the day after the pep talk when police escorted the group from Emancipation Park downtown Sunday.

“We have started the day!” the group tweeted shortly after 10:00am. “We have about 35 folks marching against white supremacy.”

Despite the drastic decrease in numbers, the group still declared a victory, saying “not rain nor sleet nor snow nor hail will stop us from marching from #Cville2DC.

The march was planned as a direct response to the “Unite the Right” rally held earlier this month in which protesters and white supremacists clashed, resulting in 19 injured and one dead in the violence that followed.

“This is the time to confront white supremacy in our government and throughout our history,” the group says on its website about the march. “We demand that President Trump be removed from office for allying himself with this ideology of hate and we demand an agenda that repairs the damage it’s done to our country and its people.”

Posted by: Fred || 08/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Snowflakes.
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 08/30/2017 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Golly. It seems they ought to be able to march further for something they really cared about.
Posted by: gorb || 08/30/2017 1:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Stonewall (RIP), notes his foes lack of am vigor.
Posted by: Shipman || 08/30/2017 6:15 Comments || Top||

#4  We now know who will fade when shit gets rough.

See Houston rescuers (both volunteer and professionals) for comparison.

Still feel like kicking off a civil war snowflake?
Just say when.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/30/2017 9:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Delaware? Didn't even cross the Tupperware.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/30/2017 10:15 Comments || Top||

#6  It's roughly 115 miles from Charlottesville to downtown DC. They scheduled 10 days to make their journey.

I remember Meade noted that the 6th corps marched approximately 32 miles overnight to get to Gettysburg. Jackson's 'Foot Cavalry' usually marched 25-35 miles in a day.

A 'leisurely' march for most units was around 15 miles per day.

With gear.

And undeveloped roads and/or trails.

But there were no Starbuck's.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/30/2017 11:00 Comments || Top||

#7  In a country with 300mm+ people, I care about stories about 35 people because????

There are more people at a Little League baseball game. Cover that, instead.
Posted by: Tom || 08/30/2017 11:27 Comments || Top||

#8  You have this all wrong!

You see those people who left are showing Trump how to resign - by example!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/30/2017 11:50 Comments || Top||

#9  They made headlines; that's all that mattered.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/30/2017 12:45 Comments || Top||

#10  These marchers don't seem to have much starch.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/30/2017 14:52 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
SPLC Steps on Crank
On Monday, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
,hate group,
removed the historic Iowa town Amana Colonies from its "hate map" that inspired a terrorist attack in 2012. The SPLC had targeted Amana Colonies as a refuge of "hate" because of an alleged link to the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer. The Amana Colonies is a historic landmark, the site of seven German Pietist villages that produced a self-sustaining local economy for eighty years.
Proving once again the SPLC is not an organization that helps poor people.
"We're thrilled for them changing the map and correcting it to what it should be, and not having the Amanas as a hate group," David Rettig, executive director of the Amana Colonies Convention and Visitors Bureau, told the Iowa City Press-Bulletin.
Allegations = conviction.
The SPLC "had previously designated the historic settlement as the home of the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi and white supremacy news and commentary organization," the Press-Bulletin reported. On Monday, one of the Amanas leaders received word that the SPLC had changed Daily Stormer's designation to "statewide."

The town had previously contested the claim, but the SPLC had stood by its marking the Amanas on the "hate map." Why? The organization claimed "it had confirmation that a group of individuals met sometime in September 2016 at a restaurant in the Amanas."
Big Brother is watching.
"The First Iowa Stormer Bookclub was a success!" a user with the screen name Concerned Troll posted in a September 26, 2016, thread. Concerned Troll did not provide specific details about the visit, but went on to suggest a subsequent meeting in Des Moines.

Local officials shot back, explaining that there are no such groups active in Iowa County. Amanas leaders denounced hate groups and their activities, saying none of their messages or activities are welcome in their town. They demanded that the SPLC remove their community from the "hate map."
Sue them for inciting terrorism.
While Amana had been previously marked on the "hate map," the local leaders remained unaware of this designation until Daily Stormer became infamous following the white nationalist riots in Charlottesville, Va., on August 12.

On Monday, the SPLC finally agreed, removing the town from the map.

This incident should not be lightly brushed over, however. The SPLC's "hate map" inspired a terror attack in 2012.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/30/2017 10:54 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Proving once again the SPLC is not an organization that helps poor people.

Of course it is - it helps them reproduce and become multitudes.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/30/2017 14:19 Comments || Top||

#2  The SPLC has a bias against anything conservative. Conservative is defined as anyone who is white and "around" center or to the right of center.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/30/2017 14:24 Comments || Top||

#3  The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group who's goal is to have Laws to keep people in Poverty.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/30/2017 15:31 Comments || Top||

#4  The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group who's goal is to have Laws to keep people in Poverty.

You forgot about "raising money".
Posted by: Pappy || 08/30/2017 19:36 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Robert Mugabe: ‘Why Do Whites Still Have Power In Your Country'
[Newsweek] Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe attacked South Africa over the weekend for affording white people too much power and pointed the finger of blame at Nelson Mandela, the country’s first black president.

Mugabe, 93, spoke Saturday at the funeral of two former members of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF coalition in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital.

South Africa abandoned apartheid, a system of enforced racial segregation and white-minority rule, in 1994, when Mandela, then president of the African National Congress (ANC), was elected as president for South Africa’s first multiethnic government. But racial inequality remains a hot-button issue in South Africa.

"I asked one of the ANC ministers, ’How come whites have been left with so much power [in South Africa]?’" Mugabe said Saturday, South African news site eNCA reported. "And he said it was because of your friend Mandela. He is the one who made mistakes."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2017 08:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is Maxine Waters writing for the man?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/30/2017 10:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe south africa waited and watched to see how well Mugabe's all black government would work out and decided not to follow.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/30/2017 11:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Is Maxine Waters writing for the man?

Now that you mention it - has anyone ever seen the two of them at the same place at the same time???
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/30/2017 11:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe south africa waited and watched to see how well Mugabe's all black government would work out

Zim surely isn't the only example. The continent is chucked full of such colossal failures. Of course most are blamed on 18th through 20th century colonialism, not 40,000 years of genetically tuned tribal history.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2017 13:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Hypothesis: Agricultural tribes will spread along banks of rivers. Step 2: European Governments split territories along rivers (convenient geography feature marked on maps) separating tribes and arbitrarily mixing them with other tribes similarly split. Step 3: Chaos ensues.
Repeat this throughout Africa...
Posted by: magpie || 08/30/2017 15:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Please read the following book, it will explain why everything is happening today in Europe and Africa. Mandela was a good president.
The Fate of Africa; The History of the Continent Since Independence. Meridith, Martin
Posted by: Monkey Man || 08/30/2017 21:56 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
MSNBC Whines That Trump Is Going to Texas Too Quickly
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] If Trump raised a walking stick and the water receded back into the gulf, and the fishes baked themselves on the sidewalks for the hungry, they'd bytch and moan that he'd forgotten the beer and chips.
Posted by: Fred || 08/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 08/30/2017 0:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump went too soon. George W. didn't go to Katrina soon enough.

There is more enough evidence to justify disarming the MSM word merchants (journalists) of their keyboards, computers, smart phones.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/30/2017 13:32 Comments || Top||

#3  justify disarming the MSM word merchants (journalists)

Then they'd just be bloggers.
Posted by: Skidmark || 08/30/2017 15:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, let us know what is the right time to do something and we will totally ignore you do our best to comply with your wishes.
Thank you for your support.
Respectfully, Contemptuously yours,
The President and First Lady
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 08/30/2017 20:54 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Cops must never stand down against ‘antifa’ thugs
[NYPOST] Many on the left are starting to see the goons of Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
as the menace they are. Too bad the Berkeley, Calif., Police Department remains clueless.

The college town saw a large Rally Against Hate on Sunday, initially planned as a response to a right-wing demonstration that wound up canceled over security concerns.

A few pro-Trumpers and other miscellaneous rightists still turned out to show their flags -- and so did the ninja-wannabes.

Yet when hundreds of masked, armored thugs arrived in quasi-military formation, carrying shields banned under police rules, the cops were ordered to retreat.

Some 400 officers from the Berkeley, Oakland, UC Berkeley and Alameda County forces had been keeping control, confiscating anything that could be used as a weapon.

But when the goons broke through police barricades and checkpoints and started beating and pepper-spraying others, "We made a strategic decision to move our officers," said Berkeley police spokeswoman Officer Jennifer Coats.

As the police left, the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
Chronicle news hound Lizzie Johnson tweeted: "A sea of black masks as far as I can see. This is what WAS NOT supposed to happen."

Berkeley’s police chief, Andrew Greenwood, argued that his orders avoided violence: "The potential use of force became very problematic," and he didn’t see a "need for a confrontation over a grass patch."

Huh? It’s the duty of the police to use force responsibly to protect the peace. Facing a horde bent on violence, cops must protect the law-abiding from the law-breaking.

Instead, at least five people were attacked, while the police wound up arresting 13 for assault with a deadly weapon, obstructing a police officer and other charges.

Oh and here’s another tweet from the Chonicle’s Johnson: " ’Take his camera, take his phone,’ they are shouting at a journalist."

From the Los Angeles Times’ James Que­al­ly: "There is a complete mob mentality here. People are randomly accusing random people of being Nazis."

Posted by: Fred || 08/30/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  These masked punks are terrorists. Sessions needs to get off his arse and declare them as such.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/30/2017 1:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Put a bounty on Antifa scalps.
Posted by: gorb || 08/30/2017 2:43 Comments || Top||

#3  What does it tell us that Nancy Pelosi has a better position on "Antifa" than Ryan, McConnell, Rubio, Sasse and Romney among others? (even though her stance is entirely poll-driven).

I guess Trump was just prematurely anti-Antifa.

This is also why I don't get cocky when I hear about record-breaking fundraising and better poll numbers for the GOP.

What's it worth with people like CuckRyan My-Liberal-Democratic-Wife-Has-The-Balls-In-The-Family in charge?
Posted by: charger || 08/30/2017 9:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Trump calling both sides bad more or less put ignorant Trump haters in the pro-Antifa camp. Now they'll have to find a way to get clear of that without being covered in Communist blood and slime or looking like idiots. Good luck with that.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/30/2017 11:29 Comments || Top||



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  Turkish Army invades northern Syria, launches attack on Kurdish-held border town
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  Iraq forces recapture city of Tal Afar from ISIS
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