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Ukraine tightens the noose on Putin's armies: 'Saboteurs' destroy bridge in Melitopol choking off key supply route for Russia's troops
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Non-binary Biden nuclear official Sam Brinton fired after multiple luggage theft charges: reports
[NYPost] Yeah, THIS freak
Waste disposal
"Sam Brinton is no longer a DOE employee. By law, the Department of Energy cannot comment further on personnel matters," a spokesperson for the DOE told the Daily Beast on Monday. 
Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
The Post has reached out to the agency for comment.
Posted by: Frank G || 12/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This IS a surprise. I would have thought that he would have been promoted.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/13/2022 1:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Felony arrest warrant has been issued. Would love to see what pronouns they used in the warrant for "it".
Posted by: Mad Eye Omeretch7959 || 12/13/2022 2:40 Comments || Top||

#3  ...Was talking to a friend about this the other day, and I bet him a shot of the whiskey of his choice that when this guy shows up in court....it'll be in the most masculine, well-tailored, 3-piece suit he can find.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/13/2022 3:39 Comments || Top||

#4  I bet him a shot of the whiskey of his choice

Hope he doesn't choose the Boston blend.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/13/2022 6:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Felony arrest warrant has been issued.

As I opined when this story broke, felony charges are not compatible with security clearances.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/13/2022 7:59 Comments || Top||

#6  I throw up in my mouth a little every time I see this pic.
Posted by: Chris || 12/13/2022 8:32 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ You'll need a higher threshold for the gag reflex, brother. For I think the Democrat menagerie holds curiosities worse than this waiting to assault our senses.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 12/13/2022 8:53 Comments || Top||

#8  Joan Rivers could have used that pictured for a Who Wore It Better comparison with Reese Witherspoon.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/13/2022 9:28 Comments || Top||

#9  Conta Mike's thought (and he's probably right), I hope Sammy goes to his arraignment in a prom dress.
Posted by: Raj || 12/13/2022 10:20 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ It will demand a jury of they / their peers.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/13/2022 10:25 Comments || Top||

#11  ^#6 Chris, at least 'it' looks like 'it' has a regular hygiene habit unlike the Antifa freaks 'individuals' you see mug shots of.
Posted by: magpie || 12/13/2022 11:39 Comments || Top||

#12  It's kinda symetrical. He was in charge waste disposal, now this waste has been disposed of.
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/13/2022 11:48 Comments || Top||

#13  Ref #10: "The Justice Department will frequently 'shop' for a friendly court, and on National Security matters none s friendlier than the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA). Besides judges who come down hard on leaks no matter what the motivation, juries can be largely made up of current or retired CIA, FBI, and Defense Department officers...."

John Kiriakou, "Doing Time Like a Spy' Page 110.

My guess is Sam will find a "friendly court" somewhere. He'll like be back to work within 90 days or so.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/13/2022 11:59 Comments || Top||

#14  For I think the Democrat menagerie holds curiosities worse than this waiting to assault our senses.

Like constant one-upsmanship to the movie 300 and Xerxes' tent of freaks.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/13/2022 12:05 Comments || Top||

#15  A little bit of John Riggins mixed with Milo.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/13/2022 12:32 Comments || Top||

#16  But the people who hired him are still there. That's very disturbing because now they have to decide what to do about this:

A Fusion Energy Breakthrough? Watch Live as US Scientists Make Major Announcement
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/13/2022 12:44 Comments || Top||

#17  @#13 - I think all the charges are state level (Minnesota and Nevada). I think it was the 2nd case that sent him back to the dressing room. 1 case ... a good lawyer and a few phone calls could handle that. 2 cases...back to the bargain bin make-up aisle at Macys for he/she/t.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 12/13/2022 13:24 Comments || Top||

#18  She-it..
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/13/2022 13:49 Comments || Top||

#19  /\ "She-it"... #18 for Tersest Snark O' Day.
Posted by: magpie || 12/13/2022 14:48 Comments || Top||

#20  Why does the post call him non-binary? He is a man in a dress. NY Post cant tell a man from a woman.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/13/2022 15:02 Comments || Top||

#21  ...our (current) government can't (or won't).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/13/2022 15:17 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Capitol Police officer injured on Jan. 6 cites 'trauma' of riot in resignation letter
[NBCNews] U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, who was injured in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, announced plans to leave his job this week in a letter shared with NBC News.

Gonell said in a letter Friday to Police Chief J. Thomas Manger that his departure would take effect next Saturday.

"It is with immense sadness that I announce my formal separation from the Department effective December 17, 2022 to continue to focus on healing, both physically and mentally, from injuries I sustained in the line of duty on January 6, 2021," Gonell wrote.

"After speaking with my orthopedic doctor, my mental health providers, and my family, I think it’s in my best interest to take time off away from the daily reminders that keep re-triggering my trauma," he added.

Gonell was injured in his hands, his left shoulder, his left calf and his right foot in his efforts to protect the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Six months after the riot, Gonell testified before the House Jan. 6 committee about the violence he witnessed, saying that he was called a traitor and a disgrace and that rioters had shouted that he should be executed.

Over the summer, Gonell testified in the trial of Kyle Fitzsimons, who was convicted of assaulting him during the insurrection.

"Although my goal has been to return to full and unrestricted duty, my medical conditions are permanent," Gonell said in his letter. "Having to return to the scene of the crime almost every day has become taxing, unbearable and not conducive to healing."

Gonell revealed his intention to leave the department during a Jan. 6 committee hearing this year. He previously took medical and administrative leave after the attack.

Numerous coppers sustained Jan. 6 injuries that lasted far beyond the attack on the Capitol. Former Washington Police Officer Mike Fanone, who has also offered emotional testimony about the riot, suffered a heart attack and traumatic brain injury.

Last week, relatives of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died a day after the riot, refused to shake hands with GOP leaders in Congress at a ceremony recognizing officers who defended the building.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/13/2022 00:48 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Killing of Ashli Babbitt
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/13/2022 6:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Known as the crying capitol police officer.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 12/13/2022 8:31 Comments || Top||

#3  I think he still has it in him to stay in uniform. He should fill out an application at Foot Locker. If his settlement only allows for volunteer work, I think he has the right stuff to do crossing guard work in some communities.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/13/2022 9:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Just like they do it in Massachusetts - go out on a disability claim.
Posted by: Raj || 12/13/2022 10:17 Comments || Top||

#5  With Pelosi out as Speaker and the next Speaker a Republican the Capital Police no longer are under her control.
Posted by: Mad Eye Omeretch7959 || 12/13/2022 15:08 Comments || Top||


Federal appeals judges weigh fate of hundreds of Jan. 6 cases
[MSN - WaPo] Hundreds of prosecutions in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot were hanging in the balance as a panel of federal judges on Monday debated the constitutionality of the Justice Department’s lead felony charge.

Three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will decide the scope of a felony obstruction charge that members of Congress and a federal judge have suggested could be used to prosecute former president Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
. Two of the judges on the panel were appointed by Trump. The other was appointed by President Joe Biden
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Posted by: trailing wife || 12/13/2022 00:48 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Your drunk aunt who causes a commotion at at wedding is staggering into felony charges instead of an intervention.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/13/2022 9:36 Comments || Top||


Giuiliani Drops The Bomb!
[PeteSantilliShow] Even former Trump administration Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was involved in burying the story on Joe Biden, Russia, Ukraine, and Hunter Biden’s laptop — which altered elections and skirted free speech and the law — former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Newsmax.

“I’ve been living with this for 3.5 years when I first put out the information about Biden’s bribery in Ukraine, and I lived through that," Giuliani said. "I got up every morning from the first moment I got that hard drive, saying to myself, ’How can I get this to my fellow citizens? Because, you just read a just a little bit of that, you realize the candidate of the Democratic Party was a lifelong criminal, and I mean, there are 50-60 crimes outlined there and I’m not saying that lightly."
My edit: But talking about Dem corruption isn't helping.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 12/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pompeo is just Chris Christie before the Slim Fast binge goes into a ditch for the umpteenth time.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/13/2022 9:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Guliani's been dropping the bomb on his foot for a while now.
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/13/2022 11:52 Comments || Top||

#3  You mean he had a copy of the hard drive and didn't put it on a server somewhere when he had the chance?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/13/2022 17:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe the person who suppressed the story is in the mirror?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/13/2022 17:23 Comments || Top||


Kari Lake: It was Democrat sabotage. Impossible for all of the machines to go down as they did in Maricopa
[Twitter] We have an expert, a cyber expert, who spent nine years working for the same testing facility that tests Maricopa County equipment, saying that all of these machines that went down on Election Day could not have happened absent of intentional misconduct."
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 12/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I disagree. I think it was Republican sabotage.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/13/2022 9:29 Comments || Top||


Sedition trial set for four more Oath Keepers over US Capitol insurrection
[IsraelTimes] After two senior members of holy warrior group convicted of seditious conspiracy in January 6 plot, Justice Department will now try to prove charge against lower-level defendants

The defendants facing jurors in the latest trial are Joseph Hackett, of Sarasota, Florida; Roberto Minuta of Prosper, Texas; David Moerschel of Punta Gorda, Florida; and Edward Vallejo of Phoenix. They are charged with several other felonies in addition to seditious conspiracy.
After securing seditious conspiracy convictions against two leaders of the Oath Keepers, the Justice Department will begin Monday to try to make its Capitol riot case against four others affiliated with the far-right holy warrior group.

Openings statements are expected in Washington’s federal court less than two weeks after Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, and Kelly Meggs, who led its Florida chapter, were convicted of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors described as a violent mostly peaceful plot to overturn President Joe The Big Guy Biden
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Posted by: trailing wife || 12/13/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:



#3  see the article above about Germany restricting gun ownership because of an "attempted coup" and predict Biden's puppeteers' next move. You only get one guess.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/13/2022 9:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Can't wait for the FBI personnel who manipulated the election to be charged with sedition. Yeah, I'll wait. However, the more they keep pushing this, the more payback will be piling up.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/13/2022 13:16 Comments || Top||



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