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-Great Cultural Revolution
‘There is going to be a lot of disappointment in the law, a huge amount’
Functionally a summary of some of the ways Progressives have lost in the Supreme Court in 2021, and how Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor expects that to continue in the next session. Very heartening.
[CNN] Justice Sonia Sotomayor tells law students:


Days before the start of a tumultuous term, and after the Supreme Court justices divided bitterly over a Texas law that bars most abortions after six weeks, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned an audience of law students about the frustration of having to write dissents.

"There is going to be a lot of disappointment in the law, a huge amount," she said Wednesday at an event hosted by the American Bar Association. "Look at me, look at my dissents."

Earlier this month, Sotomayor penned a scathing opinion when the court's majority allowed the Texas law to go into effect, calling the action "stunning."

"You know, I can't change Texas' law," Sotomayor said Wednesday, "but you can and everyone else who may or may not like it can go out there and be lobbying forces in changing laws that you don't like."

The justice then caught herself speaking about a contentious case currently before the court.

"I am pointing out to that when I shouldn't because they tell me I shouldn't," she said. "But my point is that there are going to be a lot of things you don't like" and that the public can change.

On Monday when the new term starts, Sotomayor will likely enter a new season of dissent. The court is set to grapple with some of the biggest cases in Sotomayor's tenure, including another abortion case that represents a full-frontal attack on Roe v. Wade, as well as a Second Amendment dispute that could lead to the invalidation of gun restrictions in the country.

No one expects the 67-year-old justice to be in the majority in those cases.

"She is crafting arguments for future advocates, she is creating these road maps for how to restore rights to disempowered people," Columbia Law School's Alexis Hoag said at a recent event sponsored by the liberal American Constitution Society. "I'm looking for lengthy dissents."

Last April, Sotomayor acknowledged that she was writing for the future at times. "Maybe," she said, "a later court will understand I was right."

George Washington University Law Professor David Fontana -- who once dubbed Sotomayor the "People's Justice" -- took to Twitter recently to highlight her role after the court's majority allowed the Texas law to go into effect.

"Sotomayor has chosen a different path," from Chief Justice John Roberts and others who are more moderate in their dissent, Fontana wrote. "Better to push and develop and alternative perspective by your vote rather than sacrifice the microphone."

"The Court's order is stunning," Sotomayor wrote at the time. "Presented with an application to join a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny, a majority of the Justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand."

Sotomayor added: "The Court should not be so content to ignore its constitutional obligations to protect not only the rights of women, but also the sanctity of its precedents and of the rule of law," she concluded.

Last term, Sotomayor dissented in more than half of the divided cases for the third time in eight years, according to statistics compiled by Scotusblog.
In one case , the court made it easier to sentence juveniles to life without parole. Sotomayor seized on the dispute, noting that the majority had gutted recently decided precedent.

She also wrote the main dissent when a 6-3 court invalidated a California rule that required charitable organizations to disclose the names of their contributors. She noted that the opinion could impact donor disclosures in the political sphere by allowing more anonymous, so called "dark money" into the system. The majority, she said, marks disclosure requirements with a "bull's-eye."

She was in dissent too when the court said that two provisions of an Arizona voting law that restricts how ballots can be cast did not violate the historic Voting Rights Act and she disagreed with the majority in cases that came to the court via its emergency docket.

In November, for example, the court denied a request from inmates in a geriatric prison to allow further protections from Covid.

"The dangers of COVID--19 to these especially vulnerable inmates were undisputed and, indeed, indisputable," she wrote.

In January, she lashed out at the Trump administration's push to execute 13 death row inmates after nearly a two-decade pause.

"To put that in historical context, the Federal Government will have executed more than three times as many people in the last six months than it had in the previous six decades," she wrote.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 10/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sotomayor has chosen a different path," from Chief Justice John Roberts

and then his lips fell off....
Posted by: Warthog || 10/01/2021 6:20 Comments || Top||

#2  “There is going to be a lot of disappointment in the law, a huge amount”


Not to those who will be saved from being slaughtered and go on to live productive lives.

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/01/2021 7:09 Comments || Top||

#3  in Constitution 2.0, judges keep their fool mouths shut unless the law is sitting before them.
Posted by: Retard Strength || 10/01/2021 7:14 Comments || Top||

#4  ^1 Fontana wrote that, not Roberts.
Posted by: james || 10/01/2021 16:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Sonia's the quintessential affirmative action hire. A mental midget and an embarrassment to the bench.
Posted by: Wiseguy Latino || 10/01/2021 16:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Two systems of justice, the rigging of the justice system, things like the Mueller farce, using the full power of the goverment against citizens, abuse of basic Constitutional rights, a lack of accountability in government and a rigged election system have made for a very jaundiced view in many, many people. We are heading torwards (or already there) a 1930's Germany if something doesn't change.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/01/2021 19:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Not by Americans.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2021 22:08 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Biden Traps Young Woman During Congressional Baseball Game
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] During the Congressional Baseball Game on Wednesday night, President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant. Just look at the competent way he dumped Afghanistan...
made an appearance and was booed by many in attendance.

At one point during the night while in the dugout, the maskless Joe Biden boxed in a young woman, putting his hands around where she was so she couldn’t move.
Ick.
"Ever seen a grown man naked?"
Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
And with that, he announced,
"Let The Games Begin!"
Posted by: Unising Snailet7888 || 10/01/2021 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  My guess is he had something on her or someone in her family. Seems that's his target - the wife, daughter, or person who really needs his approval for something.
We know he likes to do much worse when he's alone with someone.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/01/2021 1:16 Comments || Top||

#3  dare we play the game But What If Trump?
Posted by: Retard Strength || 10/01/2021 7:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Wonder what his SS escorts thought of that?

Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2021 8:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Judging from her fists, Jo-jo is lucky his nose is still unbroken.
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/01/2021 10:06 Comments || Top||

#6  I doubt his SS detail would protect him. Apparently old Pervert Magoo is in the habit of groping the SS wives as well - per Gateway in 2017:

According to the source, a Secret Service agent once got suspended for a week in 2009 for shoving Biden after he cupped his girlfriend’s breast while the couple was taking a photo with him. The situation got so heated, the source told Cassandra Fairbanks, that others had to step in to prevent the agent from hitting the then-Vice President.
Posted by: Burn Loot Murder || 10/01/2021 11:16 Comments || Top||

#7  But remember, Trump just talking about such behavior was much much worse...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/01/2021 14:02 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
NYC Mayor de Blasio sparks outrage after by saying the NYPD needs to focus on 'customer service' HOURS after 16-year-old boy was shot dead outside a Walgreens
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2021 07:03 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So now NYPD will field Customer Service Representatives, whose job is to generate 'service pathways'. The CSR will go to the call first, and decide what service unit you need (fire, ambulance, mental health).
Try not to bleed to death in the meantime.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/01/2021 10:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Mogadishu on the Hudson
Posted by: Burn Loot Murder || 10/01/2021 11:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Because Child Services has worked so well.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2021 21:58 Comments || Top||


Gov. Gavin Newsom signs restrictive police reforms, including raising age for new cops to 21, taking away badge for 'racial bias' and creating new oversight body despite dozens of unions objecting
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2021 07:01 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A general strike is in order...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/01/2021 10:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Californians getting what the voted for...good and hard. Well, we didn't all vote for it. But those of us who didn't will suffer the consequences just as if we did.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/01/2021 12:05 Comments || Top||

#3  How many young men and women, after being told they can't become police until they are 21, will go into other lines of work and forget all about the police?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/01/2021 12:07 Comments || Top||

#4  So if you patrol a vibrant, ethnic neighborhood, your career will end early due to "racial bias".
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 10/01/2021 16:06 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Hero Marine who rescued baby from Kabul airport during Afghan airlift is now under investigation by his unit for appearing at Trump rally last weekend
[MAIL] The Marine pictured helping hoist a baby over the walls of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul last month is under investigation by the U.S. Military after he appeared on stage with Donald Trump at a rally in Georgia on Saturday.

'The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) has initiated a command investigation regarding LCpl Hunter Clark's attendance at the event last weekend to determine if any DoD policies were violated,' Captain Kelton Cochran, a spokesman for the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, said, according to Task & Purpose.

'Any details pertaining to this incident are not releasable while the investigation is being conducted,' Cochran said.

Lance Corporal Hunter Clark was helping guard the Kabul airport during the withdrawal from Afghanistan in August. A picture of him went viral as he helped save a baby being lifted up by an Afghan outside of the airport walls.

On Saturday, Clark appeared with former President Trump on stage at the Georgia National Fairgrounds & Agriculture Center in Perry, Georgia for a massive rally.

An emotional Clark introduced himself as the 'guy that pulled the baby over the wall' and choked up as the crowd chanted 'USA'.

It is, however, against Defense Department rules for active-duty troops to 'speak before a partisan political gathering, including any gathering that promotes a partisan political party, candidate, or cause.'

Clark did not wear his Marine uniform while on stage with Trump and he did not campaign for any political candidate — even though the former president was there to rally for three different Republican candidates in Georgia.

The appearance, however, comes as the military is increasingly cracking down on servicemembers' behavior.

Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller was relieved of command after he posted a video to Facebook critical of higher up military leadership and demanding they take responsibility for Kabul falling to the Taliban in the withdrawal. He is currently being held at the Brig on Camp Lejeune, a Marine Corps base in North Carolina.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Was he being tailed for doing something good or did he violate UCMJ at rally?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/01/2021 8:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Not in uniform if that makes a difference.
Posted by: Mercutio || 10/01/2021 10:04 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ it used to. Looks like not any more
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/01/2021 12:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Candidates and/or former Presidents can express appreciation to service members.

The left tried to purge the military of non-Biden service members and this is a part of that communist effort.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 10/01/2021 17:35 Comments || Top||

#5  He got a tail as soon as that scene went iconic. Donahue, I suppose, will get a sprocket.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/01/2021 18:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Baby saved by Marine at Kabul Airport now living in Arizona

The baby's father had been working for US military continuously for weeks and had not been able to see his daughter. While working with US forces, he was communicating with his wife to try to get them into the KIA (where he was) for evacuation. Father was inside the wall while his daughter was handed over. He says,
He reached out to a Marine standing on a vehicle, along the barbed-wire fence, and pointed out his baby on the other side. "He told me the only thing he could do was lift her over the barbed wire, but he said she'd be hurt. I told him I'll take the chance. I'd rather her get hurt than die," he said.

The Marine agreed. Hameed helped stabilize the Marine's legs, which allowed him to lean over far enough to grab Liya by her right arm, and lift her over the barbed wire. That was the moment Hameed got to meet his newborn for the first time. He held her for two minutes, before returning to help with the evacuations. Sadia had collapsed from exhaustion, and he still had to figure out how to get her through the gate.

Hameed handed Liya to a Marine, not knowing where she'd be taken or when they'd be able to reunite.

"That day I handed over my baby to a total stranger. The only thing I trusted is that he was a Marine, and that my daughter would be safe," he said.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 10/01/2021 20:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Where's his MoH?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2021 22:06 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Generals Contradict Biden, But WH Insists Otherwise
[Real Clear Politics] The Biden administration never expected congressional oversight to be comfortable, but even as lawmakers were busy grilling top military brass Tuesday about their handling of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Jen Psaki said the hearing was necessary and good.

"We feel this is a part of democracy," the press secretary explained from the White House podium. After all, she continued, President Biden "welcomes the candor" and "welcomes the debate." That candor is a reflection of his leadership, "and that’s the kind of president that he will continue to be."

All the same, this hearing was particularly problematic for the president. Just hours before Psaki embraced the oversight, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley and the head of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Frank McKenzie, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that they had recommended keeping at least 2,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan to prevent the country from collapsing. The obvious problem: Biden had gone on the record in August saying he never got that advice.

The president told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos that his military advisers did not recommend leaving a residual force, insisting that "no one said that to me, that I can recall." Now, the White House says a closer reading of the transcript shows Biden was referring to "a split" between generals who argued a residual force was necessary and those who said it was not. "So, what should everybody take from that?" Psaki asked reporters, setting up the answer to her own question. "There was a range of viewpoints."

Milley and McKenzie, as their testimony made clear Tuesday, were on the losing side of that argument. Who were the military commanders who won the debate? For now, that remains a mystery.

When pressed by a reporter from ABC for that information, Psaki refused to name names. "The president made clear that the advice was split. He didn't outline what every individual conveyed to him in private," she replied, adding that Pentagon officials were "testifying before Congress today. They're answering questions accurately. They're providing more detail on their advice, as they should."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/01/2021 07:16 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This dipshit lies badly and the lapdog reporters Democrat Stenographers won't call her on it, except for Doocy
Posted by: Frank G || 10/01/2021 9:02 Comments || Top||

#2  She's a real prize.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/01/2021 9:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Baghdad Jen
Posted by: Burn Loot Murder || 10/01/2021 9:51 Comments || Top||

#4  "These are not the droids you are looking for."
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/01/2021 9:53 Comments || Top||


Arabia
National security adviser Jake Sullivan has planned on discussing high oil prices with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Damn gas is high!"
"Yep."
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2021 8:38 Comments || Top||

#2  My advise to him is don't piss into the wind.
Posted by: Dale || 10/01/2021 9:36 Comments || Top||

#3  "Damn gas is high!"
"Yep."
"I'm buying $TRMLF and $OGZPY -- all I can get."
"You too??"
Posted by: Burn Loot Murder || 10/01/2021 9:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Create the problem and then scurry around acting like you are solving the problem. Meanwhile everyone gets their cut.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/01/2021 10:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Plus 10% for the Big Guy.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/01/2021 11:55 Comments || Top||

#6  APA, MRO, WMB and CVX for years and years.
Picked up quite q bit of MRO around $4 a while back.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 10/01/2021 12:03 Comments || Top||


Economy
Smith and Wesson to move headquarters from Massachusetts to Tennessee
[CBSNEWS] Smith & Wesson is moving its headquarters from Massachusetts to Tennessee, citing the southern state's "unwavering support of the Second Amendment" as well as its lower cost of living. The decision to depart New England was "an extremely difficult and emotional" one, Mark Smith, the gun-maker's president and CEO, said Thursday in a statement. The company, based in Springfield, Massachusetts, since 1852, will spend $125 million on the relocation, it said.

As many as 750 jobs will move from Massachusetts, Connecticut and Missouri to Maryville, Tennessee, by the summer of 2023, according to Smith & Wesson.



Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Seem to remember S&W was the 1st to bail during the Obama or was it the Clinton push for gun maker lawsuits.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/01/2021 8:35 Comments || Top||

#3  700 jobs gone, just like that.
Posted by: Raj || 10/01/2021 9:49 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ as intended. More proles to add to the UBI rolls.
Posted by: Burn Loot Murder || 10/01/2021 9:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Tennessee becoming the arsenal of democracy?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/01/2021 10:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Don't worry. They'll get sued anyway.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/01/2021 16:40 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Biden continues string of family-related hires with nomination of Rep. Clyburn's daughter to fed commission
[FOXNEWS] President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. An incredibly corrupt version of Jar-Jar Binks, only well into his dotage. The dumbass who abandoned Afghanistan.......
is continuing his string of family-related hires with the nomination of House Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn
...Democratic Representative-for-Life from South Carolina. He has been warming his safe seat since 1993...
’s, D-S.C., daughter to a federal commission.

JBiden nominated Jennifer Clyburn Reed t to serve as the federal chairperson of the Southeast Crescent Regional Commission (SCRC), a currently inactive commission established in 2008 that was "created to address economic distress" in the southeastern region of the U.S.

The nomination raises some questions as it appears to be the latest trend in family-related political hirings by the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra)
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
While Reed’s father, the House majority whip, does not have a hand in administration dealings, he did give a critical endorsement to Biden in the packed South Carolina Democratic primary election.

The political capital that Clyburn gained from his endorsement of Biden could have played a role in the president’s decision to nominate Reed to the position over someone who may be more qualified, according to government oversight group American Accountability Foundation, which uncovered the possible tie between the endorsement and nomination.

A spokesperson for Clyburn’s office did not answer Fox News’ question on whether the House majority whip’s endorsement played any part in Biden’s nomination of his daughter, instead pointing Fox News to the White House.
Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Criminals, commies and relatives -- what's not to like about Biden nominees?
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 10/01/2021 21:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Hmmm...daughters with Daddy's that owe you their jobs? Fair pickings!
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2021 22:03 Comments || Top||


Teachers call angry parents terrorists: School officials beg Biden to send in the FBI to protect them
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The National School Boards Association urged the president in a letter Wednesday to mobilize federal agents to protect them from protesting parents

  • NSBA President Viola Garcia and Interim Executive Director and CEO Chip Slaven penned the complaint, which was also published online

  • The correspondence states that outbursts from 'extremist' parents irate over vaccine and mask mandates should be treated as 'domestic terrorism'

  • The letter to the US president requests 'immediate assistance' for school staffers and board members, who they say are under 'immediate threat'
Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some of my teachers were WWII vets. They didn't need the FBI to protect them.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/01/2021 10:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Next step will be to create an American Stasi within the security services. Mission: protect the Woke by ferreting out insurr3ctionists from every town and precinct across the land.
Posted by: Gropey Joe Plugs || 10/01/2021 11:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Some of these outraged parents need to run for school board.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/01/2021 12:24 Comments || Top||

#4  After decades of the left screeching about "getting in their faces" and throwing tantrums at school boards, city halls, the halls of Congress, and the Supreme Court, they're demanding protection because someone else is using their tactics against them.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 10/01/2021 12:42 Comments || Top||

#5  With the political clout teacher unions have I would not be surprised if they get protection.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 10/01/2021 13:21 Comments || Top||


Durham issues fresh round of subpoenas in his continuing probe of FBI investigation into Trump, Russia
[CNN] Special Counsel John Durham has issued a new set of subpoenas, including to a law firm with close ties to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, an indication that Durham could be trying to build a broader criminal case, according to people briefed on the matter. So far, Durham's two-year probe into the FBI's Russia investigation hasn't brought about the cases Republicans hoped it would.

The grand jury subpoenas for documents came earlier this month after Durham charged Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann with lying to the FBI in a September 2016 meeting. During that meeting, Sussmann handed over data purporting to show links between the Trump Organization and Russia's Alfa Bank. That tip became part of the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election but the FBI ultimately couldn't find evidence of a link.

In seeking additional documents from Sussmann's former law firm, Perkins Coie, investigators from the special counsel's office appear to be sharpening their focus on the Democratic political machinery during the 2016 campaign and efforts to tie Trump to Russia.

Perkins Coie's clients in 2016 included the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The law firm also hired on the campaign's behalf a research company that commissioned the dossier from ex-British spy Christopher Steele that alleged that Trump was compromised by Russia.

Durham has already accessed reams of the law firm's records, such as billing records, meeting calendars and a log of documents that the firm protects under attorney-client privilege. Some of the newly sought-after documents have been guarded so far by attorney-client privilege.

An attorney for the law firm didn't respond to requests for comment.

Durham's new subpoenas could lead to a court fight over privileged information and draw more about the Clinton campaign into the open.

While working for Perkins Coie, Sussmann also represented Rodney Joffe, a cybersecurity expert referred to in Durham's indictment as "Tech Executive-1." In 2016, Joffe, who has not been previously identified, worked with researchers to collect internet data about the Trump Organization that Sussmann took to the FBI.

Durham's continued use of the federal grand jury in Washington, DC, signals that he could be interested in adding to Sussmann's charges or bringing cases against additional defendants.

Still, more than two years after being commissioned by then Attorney General William Barr to investigate whether federal authorities improperly targeted the Trump campaign, Durham has little to show for his efforts. His special counsel probe, which has lasted longer than Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, has so far brought only two lying charges against little-known figures, including the case against Sussmann, who has pleaded not guilty.

The results have underwhelmed Trump supporters who had hoped former top FBI and intelligence officials would be prosecuted for "spying" on Trump and his campaign.

Already the scope of Durham's probe has narrowed after Barr announced last year that investigators had found no wrongdoing by the CIA. Yet Durham has continued his investigation, largely in secrecy, working out of a non-descript office building near trendy Washington's Union Market.

Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail has more on the subject.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why bother John? You didn't exactly burn the midnight oil to "bring the guilty to justice". Although, this does set up a perfect black-mail opportunity for charges to be dropped given certain conditions. Somebody in Perkins Coie or on the Hildabeast's team pissed of their fellow travelers somewhere.
Posted by: Warthog || 10/01/2021 6:13 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder when he will hang himself
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/01/2021 7:59 Comments || Top||

#3  It is 2042 Durham announces ......

Why does it feel like a slow boil w/o ever cooking something?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/01/2021 8:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Glacially slow. Cleaning out the swamp or protecting it?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/01/2021 9:54 Comments || Top||

#5  One of the first things you learn working in a union shop is Don't Kill the Job!
tl;dr: Do not hold your breath waiting for results.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/01/2021 12:17 Comments || Top||

#6  The only "round" I care to read about is severe prison terms being handed out to the miscreants of the Deep State to break up this kind of crap forever. As if!
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 10/01/2021 21:52 Comments || Top||

#7  How long can you hold your vote breath?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2021 22:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Nancy Pelosi bails on a vote for Biden's bipartisan infrastructure bill as House progressives launch full revolt
Thank goodness. Our children and grandchildren will be grateful for that failure.
[BUSINESSINSIDER] House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, pulled a vote on President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us...
's $550 billion infrastructure bill originally planned for Thursday. It's a major setback for Democrats as moderate and progressive feuds deepened over Biden's domestic agenda.
The vote was yanked after it became obvious that House Democratic leaders didn't have enough support to clear the bill and send it to Biden's desk. Despite a three-vote margin of error in the 220-212 chamber, Pelosi had predicted success and tried brushing aside the sizable hurdles before her.

"I'm only envisioning taking it up and winning it," she said at a Thursday presser, adding, "you cannot tire, you cannot concede. This is the fun part."

House Democrats were advised that a vote could be rescheduled on Friday. The White House said Congressional Democrats would continue trying to resolve their wide-ranging differences as they negotiated a larger social spending bill capable of drawing support across the party.

"A great deal of progress has been made this week, and we are closer to an agreement than ever," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job...
said in a statement. "But we are not there yet, and so, we will need some additional time to finish the work, starting tomorrow morning first thing."

The blow to Biden's agenda comes as progressives launched a full revolt after the California Democrat decoupled the bipartisan infrastructure bill from passage of the larger $3.5 trillion social spending plan earlier this week. The latter measure is aimed at ensuring tuition-free community college, affordable childcare, Medicare and Medicaid expansion, and a renewal of the child allowance among other measures.
"Human Infrastructure" according to their bullshit spin

Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2021 00:16 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  in other news, popcorn stocks skyrocketed ..
Posted by: Warthog || 10/01/2021 6:23 Comments || Top||

#2  The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill is sometimes said to be $1.2T, sometimes $1T, sometimes $550B

It is, in some ways, all three.

$1.2T is total authorizations but this includes funds that were previously authorized in various Covid relief.

$1T is the amount is you pretend any physical thing is infrastructure.

$550B is the amount of new spending authority.

The amount of useful infrastructure is probably about $200B and of that most is Congressionally designated, a.k.a. port barrel. Some of it is 'green' e.g., replacing diesel buses with electric buses that is almost certain a waste of money but does involve actual products and results in rolling stock that can be used.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/01/2021 8:31 Comments || Top||



Democratic Texas Mayor Says Border Security Was 'Working' Under Trump
Which is exactly why his successor had to put a stop to it.
[DAILYCALLER] A democratic Texas mayor said Thursday that the southern border was secure under former President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
, according to the Washington Free Beacon. He added that it’s time for President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The guy who lost Afghanistan, aka Biden's Bungle...
to get things under control.Laredo Mayor Pete Saenz told the outlet that the city’s resources have been strained over recent months as the city provides migrants colonists with aid, medical service and transport. As concerns about the threat of COVID-19 ramp up, Saenz admitted the border was secure and Laredo residents were safe when Trump was in office.

"We need to truly secure the border," Saenz told the Washington Free Beacon. "It was working under Trump, call it whatever you want to call it, but it was working."

Saenz appeared to suggest Trump’s "Remain in Mexico" policy was working and needs to be reinstated to curb the flow of illegal immigration.

"The key, ultimately, is removing the incentive to come to the border and file for asylum. I believe in the asylum process. It needs to be followed or changed. If we don’t like the way people are attempting to come, we can have them apply remotely or from either the country of origin or some other place that is close to the country of origin," Saenz said.



Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  In addition, water is wet
Posted by: Warthog || 10/01/2021 6:05 Comments || Top||

#2  This mayor's career as a Dem is be limited. The mayors best gambit might be to just walk away from the Dems.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/01/2021 10:15 Comments || Top||


Biden Education Secretary Dodges When Asked If Parents Should Be 'Primary Stakeholder' Of Child's Education
[DAILYWIRE] Education Secretary Miguel Cardona stopped short of claiming that parents should be the "primary" stakeholders in their children’s education on Thursday.

Cardona sat before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Thursday to testify on school reopening strategies and policies around COVID-19. Under questioning from Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN), Cardona refused to call parents the "primary stakeholders" in a child’s education.

"Do you think parents should be in charge of their child’s education as the primary stakeholder?" Braun asked the Education secretary.

Cardona responded, "I believe parents are important stakeholders, but I also believe educators have a role in determining educational programming."

"And I think that’s going to be a little out of focus," Braun shot back. "What I think you’re going to find across all elements of education, since they pay the bills, they raise the kids, they probably need to be the primary spokespeople for their own kids’ good education."
Posted by: Fred || 10/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Where's Dr. JILL!
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2021 22:03 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ jilling off with Raggedy Jen
Posted by: Sapphic Sis || 10/01/2021 22:17 Comments || Top||


Nancy Pelosi fines GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw $5,000 for refusing to go through the metal detectors at the Capitol
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The House Committee on Ethics said that the fine will come directly from Crenshaw's paycheck giving him no opportunity to refuse to pay

  • House lawmakers are fined $5,000 for their first offense bypassing the detectors and $10,000 for subsequent offenses

  • Crenshaw's offense allegedly occurred on Sept. 23, when he entered the Republican cloakroom without passing through metal detectors
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If its universially enforce I have agree with.... I hate say it... Nancy. What if one of the SQUAD decided to strap on bomb vest?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/01/2021 8:44 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Eh, "metal detectors"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/01/2021 8:45 Comments || Top||

#3  But the border is wide open.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 10/01/2021 13:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Nancy's afraid of getting 'snipped'.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2021 22:07 Comments || Top||


Biden's nominee for Comptroller of the Currency thinks the Fed should 'end banking'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Saule Omarova is a Cornell Law School professor who graduated from college in Moscow, where she attended on a scholarship named after Vladimir Lenin

  • She wrote a paper advocating for the Federal Reserve to take over Americans' personal banking in order to have more policy clout against big banks

  • The agency she would oversee is tasked with regulating the country's banks

  • Republicans and bank lobbyists already oppose her nomination to lead OCC

  • A regulatory body Omarova proposed is included in a House bill introduced by progressive Rep. Maxine Waters aimed at expanding affordable housing

  • She previously worked in the White House within George W. Bush's Treasury

  • Admires the Soviet Union's economy because there was 'no gender pay gap' and says hedge funds are an 'a**hole industry'
Dunno which is worse. The Moscow State University pedigree, or the law degree.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  not just a law professor but tenured and in an endowed chair

thinks the Soviet Union was a model for women's equality

thinks capital should be allocated by committees of academics rather than by the market
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/01/2021 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  A Commie Comptroller of the Currency is Biden's way of "building back better"
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 10/01/2021 20:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Snuff'er.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2021 22:08 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Germany: Wind turbine collapses hours before official launch
[AyPee]
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/01/2021 18:08 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If a turbine falls in the forest, does it make a watt?

Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/01/2021 18:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Blow me down.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/01/2021 21:56 Comments || Top||


Rand Paul drops the MOAB on Xavier Becerra…
Has anyone looked at worldometers lately and checked the covid cases and deaths worldwide ? The United States has the worst record worldwide with the leadership of President Jim Jones , the CDC and Dr. Kevorkian over at the NIH pushin the vaccine bullshit are killing Americans .. Look at India with a population of over 1billion compared to the USA with a little over 300million ..since switching to ivermectin India has destroyed covid since August and Japan has started ivermectin and their covid numbers dropped like a rock
To be fair, American numbers are inflated by something between 50% and 200%.
'You Sir, Are The One Ignoring Science': Rand Paul Battles Becerra Over COVID-19

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) grilled HHS Sec. Xavier Becerra during a Senate Health Committee hearing on Thursday.

[TWITTER]
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 10/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Republicans are always demolish democrats in debates - according to republicans.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/01/2021 2:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Most people don't realize that it's not about controlling the disease...it's about ensuring power and control. We're raising an entire generation of kids to be afraid not to wear a mask even though they do more harm than good. May God help us since we don't seem to be able to help ourselves.
Posted by: Warthog || 10/01/2021 6:04 Comments || Top||

#3  You know all those "cases" the panic-pron mongers keep pitching? They're either false positives or people who got the lung crud. Must be in the bazillions by now.
Anybody think finding a positive is false removes it from the totals? Me either.
So...the numbers are grossly inflated and the remainder are immune.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 10/01/2021 8:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Republicans are always demolish democrats in debates - according to republicans.

Facts matter, you should try it.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 10/01/2021 9:01 Comments || Top||

#5  ^I guess, you demolished me.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/01/2021 9:02 Comments || Top||

#6  How could it not be for your own good? I mean, look at the source. The same people who vocally wish the entire country dead save for the odd urban enclave. The same people with the same incandescent hatred and contempt who are in the gleeful process of replacing the native population, destroying small business and criminalizing individual enterprise.

Besides, look at their own behavior. They 'always' practice full masking procedures. I mean except for birthday parties, red carpets, The French Laundry, and inside the governor's mansion, any, alright ALL.

Then again, how about those mandates? They are ironclad as well they should be. Well, except for the Post Office and that makes perfect sense, I mean come on, man. Then there are the Afghans and their delicate sensibilities along with all the other newly dispersed 'migrants', refugees' or whatever narrative term of art is en vogue at the moment.

But out of all of it, who can forget the very pinnacle of intellectual achievement, that we 'must protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated'. An observation and warning so profound that it is possible Western Civilization has hit a summit never before reached, and sadly never to be trod again.

No wonder the Plains' Indian called the white man wasichu, because the stench of this imbecilic decree sure lingers in the in the nostril of free people and civilization like the loud fart it is.

Mister, we could use a man like Sam Kinnison again.
Posted by: Cesare || 10/01/2021 9:58 Comments || Top||

#7  bullying isreali'
gettalife...
Posted by: 746 || 10/01/2021 11:47 Comments || Top||

#8  It's not fair. Bacerra is a mental midget trying to debate Rand Paul who really is a medical doctor, an elected office holder as opposed to a political appointee and, on top of that, a really smart guy.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/01/2021 12:35 Comments || Top||

#9  Your mask at work.

Notice the mask is on the other end of the scale from the chinese recycled paper masks.

Time to stop stuffing towels down our throats; especially the youngsters and teens.

Had to catch my daughter from straight laughing out loud at a true believer wearing one of those masks with the mouth cut out and replaced by plastic, I guess so people ran read lips or something. You know, when it isn't fogged over from breathing.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/01/2021 13:38 Comments || Top||

#10  Japan ends all emergency COVID measures.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/01/2021 13:58 Comments || Top||

#11  true believer wearing one of those masks with the mouth cut out and replaced by plastic, I guess so people ran read lips or something

homemade dental dam?
Posted by: Sapphic Sis || 10/01/2021 16:11 Comments || Top||

#12  "Thank you, Senator, for your comments. Now I'm going back to my office to do exactly as I please."
Posted by: Tom || 10/01/2021 16:48 Comments || Top||

#13  true believer wearing one of those masks with the mouth cut out and replaced by plastic, I guess so people ran read lips or something

homemade dental dam?


Shit if I know. From the side it looked like something out of Total Recall, like a black/dark blue Pac Man was emerging from her nose.

Had daughter been versed in Schwarzenegger, we could have movie pun quoted all the way home, all it would have taken is, "Its not a tumor!" "You're one ugly M-Fr" and gone cringe real quick, "Boys have a penis and girls have a beak face." or "Goooo! Get from the chompers!"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/01/2021 18:21 Comments || Top||



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