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He used to 'stroll' the West Belmont Ave./North Halsted St./North Broadway area in Chicago, gorb.
But only at night.
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Is that where he would meet girlfriends and stock up on supplies for his favorite hobby before he met Michelle and started squatting living in the Crackhouse Whitehouse?
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Trump should do a massive federal audit of it three years from now.
No need - just delay the application forever if it hasn't been granted already. If it has, 'review' and suspend all first-year applications (indefinitely). See how he likes it. That's why I wanted to be the IRS commissioner. Awarded Rantburg Minister of Karma with hefty two vote margin.
[Rooters] President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats and sanctioned Russian intelligence officials who Washington believes were involved in hacking U.S. political groups in the 2016 presidential election. Still waiting for the evidence to be presented...
The measures, taken during the last days of Obama's presidency, mark a new low in U.S.-Russian relations which have deteriorated over serious differences on Ukraine and Syria.
"These actions follow repeated private and public warnings that we have issued to the Russian government, and are a necessary and appropriate response to efforts to harm U.S. interests in violation of established international norms of behavior," Obama said in a statement from vacation in Hawaii.
It was not immediately clear whether President-elect Donald Trump, who has repeatedly praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and nominated people seen as friendly toward Moscow to senior administration posts, would seek to roll back the measures once he takes office on Jan. 20.
Obama is seeking to deter Russia and other foreign governments from leveraging cyber attacks in the future to meddle in U.S. politics, former officials and cyber security experts said.
Obama has been under growing pressure from within his own administration and lawmakers of both political parties to respond more forcefully to the cyber attacks, which included leaked emails of Democratic Party operatives that became part of the media coverage in the campaign for the Nov. 8 presidential election.
The Russian foreign ministry said on Thursday the sanctions were counter-productive and would harm the restoration of bilateral ties. Moscow denies the hacking allegation.
Obama sanctioned two Russian intelligence agencies, the GRU and the FSB, four GRU officers and three companies "that provided material support to the GRU’s cyber operations.
PERSONA NON GRATA
Obama said the State Department declared as "persona non grata" 35 Russian intelligence operatives and is closing two Russian compounds in New York and Maryland that were used by Russian personnel for "intelligence-related purposes". The State Department originally said the 35 were diplomats.
A senior U.S. official told Reuters the move would affect the Russian embassy in Washington and consulate in San Francisco.
The Russians have 72 hours to leave the United States, the official said. Access to the two compounds, which are used by Russian officials for intelligence gathering, will be denied to all Russian officials as of noon on Friday, the senior U.S. official added.
"These actions were taken to respond to Russian harassment of American diplomats and actions by the diplomats that we have assessed to be not consistent with diplomatic practice," the official said.
The State Department has long complained that Russian security agents and traffic police have harassed U.S. diplomats in Moscow, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has raised the issue with Putin and his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov.
"By imposing costs on the Russian diplomats in the United States, by denying them access to the two facilities, we hope the Russian government reevaluates its own actions, which have impeded the ability and safety of our own embassy personnel in Russia," the official said.
The U.S. official declined to name the Russian diplomats who would be affected, although it is understood that Russia's ambassador to the United States, Sergei Kislyak, will not be one of those expelled. Yeah... this will end well...
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"This'll teach you to show the facts to people!"
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Could it be there really was Russian interference in the election? If not, this sounds like an awfully dangerous move, just to delegitimize Trump's election.
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So instead of expelling the Saudis and Sunni Islamists who OPENLY bought US foreign policy from the Clintons and fund the Caliphate....
instead of deporting the SUnni Islamofascist monsters who burn people alive in cages, trade in sex slaves and crucify/behead people...
those people aren't deported
the people who are deported are.... Russians? On no evidence? it is only "alleged" hacking which is not proven and wasn't even the source of Wikileaks which was an INSIDER LEAK not a hack
[DAILYCALLER] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Gov. Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown ... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it ... said Monday his state will bypass Washington, D.C., and work instead with foreign governments on ways to reduce climate change.
Brown, a Democrat, said that he and other Golden State politicians would work directly with other countries to strengthen some of the most stringent environmental policies in the world.
"California can make a significant contribution to advancing the cause of dealing with climate change, irrespective of what goes on in Washington," Brown told news hounds.
The governor made similar comments in December when he said California would launch its own climate-reading satellites if President-elect 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... pulled funding for NASA’s climate research program.
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...his state will bypass Washington, D.C., and work instead with foreign governments on ways to reduce climate change.
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Under Obama when Texas at threatened to seceed people complained. Now that caliphornia threatens to seceded, people applaud. Tells you something doesn't it.
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Under Obama when Texas at threatened to seceed people complained. Now that caliphornia threatens to seceded, people applaud. Tells you something doesn't it.
Indeed it does Nero. It tells us almost as much as the tens of millions who voted for HRC.
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Uncredentialed foreign agent? I think there's a law about that...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
12/29/2016 9:40 Comments ||
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I hope Trump pulls funding for that BS high speed train between LA and SF when he gets into office. That's just a way to transfer money into CA coffers as a reward for throwing themselves on the sword of liberal policies.
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I suppose this is the part where the rest of y'all are going to be unionist and constitutional and all that bullshit and keep the rest of us from putting Tariffs on goods California wants to export to our states?
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...no,no. I want to renegotiate the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to return most of the coasties to Mexico. Then deal with Mexico over NAFTA as Trump has articulated.
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Re #7: CA asked for a $15 M Federal loan for some of the High Speed train stations and 'stuff;' The loan request was submitted before the election when it was a sure thing Cankles would get elected.
Well she didn't and the loan was rejected. Now Moonbeam is way short of $$ for his Lionelfromhell.
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Ref #11: I'll bet Moonbeam isn't the only one left holding an empty purse. I fear for Trump and Pence from now through inauguration day. I hope their security details are up to scratch. I suspect there are people out there who would do anything to prevent them from taking office.
Technically, I like the idea of trains. A high speed train from LA to San Francisco would be good, if it could be done on time and budget without all the graft that one must expect with the criminals running California. Bakersfield to San Jose not so much.
Another good idea would be to put a real, functional subway system into LA. Driving in that town is a nightmare. The cost would be astronomical but the hours and the gasoline lost on those freeways are astronomical too. I know, I know. Just don't ask Texans to pay for it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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As for secession or the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, here's the deal:
We know that beginning with Bill Clinton or most likely with Bush Senior a drastic, almost biblical demographic redistribution was undertaken in the southwestern United States. We know that before then California, even with San Francisco and Los Angeles, was a red state that gave you presidents like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. We know that the demographic redistribution was largely responsible for turning California from red to blue and we know that was the purpose of the redistribution.
Wouldn't it be smarter to find a way to turn California back to red than giving it to Mexico? Let us consider the politics of the possible instead of the cynical. The first step, of course, would be to deport illegal aliens. We are a sovereign nation and we have a right to do so. Another step might be to defang and/or defund the university system and the teachers' union. If Democrats can mess with peoples' lives on a grand scale then so can Trump.
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Likud ministers competed Wednesday in their attacks on US Secretary of State John Kerry, following his address on the future of the Middle East.
Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev called for dividing Washington instead of Jerusalem. She said Kerry gave terrorists hope that they can destroy Israel in stages.
...Oded Revivi, chief foreign envoy of the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria, issued a scathing assessment of John Kerry and his abilities: "John Kerry is a stain on American foreign policy.
He has chosen to eternalize his legacy as the worst secretary of state in history. He chose to stab his closest ally in the back while rivers of blood flowed like water across the Middle East. I can personally attest to the fact that he knows very little about the realities in Judea and Samaria and instead chooses to defame us from afar by repeating fictitious mantras against us." I imagine, in the future, there will be hundreds doctorates in american history attempting to explain Obama era.
Ah yes, our capable 'nation builders' at werk. And it's gone so very well with the Castro Bros, Robert Mugabe, Nelson Mandela, the Diem Regime, Jacob Zuma, Arafat, Hamid Karzai, and now our old friend Mahmoud Abbas.
Please sit, sit, sit Muhammet Fethullah Gülen. We may yet need your services.
Time to leave these people to their work and stay the fok at home !
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- President Barack Obama designated two national monuments Wednesday at sites in Utah and Nevada that have become key flashpoints over use of public land in the U.S. West, marking the administration's latest move to protect environmentally sensitive areas in its final days.
The Bears Ears National Monument in Utah will cover 1.35 million acres in the Four Corners region, the White House said. In a victory for Native American tribes and conservationists, the designation protects land that is considered sacred and is home to an estimated 100,000 archaeological sites, including ancient cliff dwellings.
It's a blow for state Republican leaders and many rural residents who say it will add another layer of unnecessary federal control and close the area to new energy development, a common refrain in the battle over use of the American West's vast open spaces. Utah's attorney general vowed to sue.
In Nevada, a 300,000-acre Gold Butte National Monument outside Las Vegas would protect a scenic and ecologically fragile area near where rancher Cliven Bundy led an armed standoff with government agents in 2014. It includes rock art, artifacts, rare fossils and recently discovered dinosaur tracks.
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This isn't hard. Trump's second executive order (the first suspends ALL previously issued EOs) should declare that EVERYTHING is sunsetted every two years. Laws, regulations, the lot.
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Coming up next, the new Kissma Butte National Monument to be designated.
Last week, the Obama administration put the finishing touches on a new policy that would deprive recipients of disability insurance and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) of their Second Amendment rights. The administration will now characterize those citizens as "mental defectives," thereby having their ability to own a firearm subject to the federal Gun Control Act. Obviously if you want a firearm you are mentally defective.
Supplemental Security Income helps blind, disabled, and elderly people with little to no income. Previously, it was understood that "mentally defective" referred to one's mental health. Citizens who have been institutionalized against their will are restricted from owning a firearm. The new definition of "mentally defective" has nothing to do with being mentally ill. Opposition to The Once is a mental disorder.
The Social Security Administration released its final decision after a period of open comments that drew more than 91,000 responses, including a response from the NRA. Although Obama likes to empty out Guantanamo Bay of dangerous terrorists and commute the sentences of criminals guilty of breaking federal firearms laws, he doesn't like law-abiding American citizens to possess firearms.
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Great - taking a play out of the Joe Stalin playbook.
Guess I can unstarch my onsie knowing that when grandma breaks into my house, it will be against the rules for her to have a gun. Should make everything even.
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That's a heart warming little story, swksvolFF.
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swksvolFF---Sometimes, the only solution is the kinetic solution: 1/2xMx(V squared)
If you do not have a lot of V (velocity), you got to make it up by having lots of M (Mass). The 71 year old lady instinctively knew this and grabbed the frying pan and gave it enough V squared to put the hurt on the perp.
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So guess who the thugs go after, slow and crippled Sr. Citizens. They tend to live in low income housing these days. So there are plenty of people who will take an old person down to get $20 for a dose. I lost my guns in a boating accident.
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All democrats are mentally unstable and shouldn't be allowed guns, a driver's license, security clearences, a vote, or anything other than a long stay in an ECT intensive ward until reality has been seared....SEARED into their brains.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] When former Texas governor Rick Perry ran for president in 2012, he promised he'd abolish the U.S. Department of Energy (at least when he could remember it). Liberals wrote this off as typical conservative stupidity.
Why would anyone want to abolish the DOE? According to one liberal commentator, it was because the department "was established during Jimmy Carter ... the worst president ever. Maybe the second worst. The votes aren't all in yet... 's administration and it perhaps sounds like it might have something to do with solar panels."
Jimmy Carter created it, all right, but solar panels were only a symptom of the real problem. The DOE was conceived in dark and pessimistic beliefs and forecasts that have proven totally wrong. As Obama might say, the DOE is on the wrong side of history. As it stands the department needs to either be rethought or retired.
The original legislation justified a Department of Energy because, 1) we were rapidly running out of fossil fuels, especially oil and natural gas; 2) as a consequence of this we were becoming increasingly dependent on energy imports -- dependence that made us vulnerable to embargoes and political blackmail; and 3) so therefore we needed "a strong national [read government-directed] energy program."
Even before fracking proved the dire warnings to be utterly wrong, we had for the most part taken care of our energy dependence. We significantly reduced any possible vulnerability to an embargo by diversifying our suppliers; over sixty countries were supplying us with oil in the 2000s. Our No. 1 supplier? Canada. Mexico also has been in the top five. This information makes "foreign oil," a bit less scary, no?
Then again the fear of oil cartels was always overblown; from 1980 until the mid-2000s, oil importers like the U.S. thrived while the exporters were the ones who suffered because of excessive dependence on oil revenues.
In the meantime, we've endured wasteful, panicked policies such as massive subsidies for the wind and solar power, and electric cars. Worst of all, Congress has saddled consumers with ethanol subsidies and mandates. These boondoggles cost us billions of dollars, and none of them are commercially viable in their own right. In fact, the DOE has produced no dramatic breakthroughs in energy technology despite 40 years of trying (and failing) to pick winners.
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First move the nuke weapons part back to the defense dept.
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Hush Mr. B., farm roads, subsidized electricity and the peanut 'lotment along with National Defense are the only things the Feds should be allowed to do.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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