[Breitbart] Saturday, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) said that if Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein does not turn over the unredacted documents requested by Congress related to FISA, FBI and more then impeachment could be in order.
"Rod Rosenstein can call Michael Horowitz, who has the documents, and say just give them to Congress. If he doesn’t do that ... there is a growing consensus of holding them in contempt of Congress, but it’s not enough to stop there. We have to have someone willing to do the job. If the deputy attorney general is not willing to do it and not willing to allow us to have our Constitutional Oversight Authority supported, then we’ll find someone who can," said Meadows on Fox News Channel’s "Justice."
He added, "I think that if he does not turn over the documents, that there are a growing number of us on Capitol Hill who believe that someone else needs to do the job. And what happens there is, Constitutionally, we have some things that we can do."
Meadows went on to explain that the documents already show that there was coordination with the Barack Obama White House and with the state department, adding that the Department of Justice and the FBI have been hiding such information from Congress for months.
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Meadows went on to explain that the documents already show that there was coordination with the Barack Obama White House and with the state department, adding that the Department of Justice and the FBI have been hiding such information from Congress for months.
[Daily Caller] President Donald Trump berated the FBI and Justice Department on Saturday, accusing the agencies of "stalling" and "slow walking" the handover of documents to Congress.
"What does the Department of Justice and FBI have to hide?" Trump asked in a mid-afternoon tweet.
"Why aren’t they giving the strongly requested documents (unredacted) to the HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE? Stalling, but for what reason? Not looking good!" he wrote.
He added in another tweet that House Judiciary Committee members were "angrily accusing" the Justice Department of missing a deadline set for Thursday to hand over 1.2 million documents related to several different matters. The committee requested documents about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email investigation, about the FBI and DOJ’s applications for surveillance warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, as well as a report from the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility recommending the firing of Andrew McCabe as the FBI’s deputy director.
"Slow walking ‐ what is going on? BAD!" said Trump, who has blasted the agencies on Twitter in the past.
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I'm not fully conversant with the hiring/firing power the Executive has, when combined with Congressional power to confirm or reject appointees, in this situation.
But given that Trump is the Executive and the GOP controls both houses, there is a whiff of kabuki in all this.
I know a little about blue slips and the like, but it seems to me that this is a failure of will on the part of the GOP (including Trump).
Either that, or they're actually fine with all this and just want to rile up the rubes.
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If Trump fired Comey he can certainly fire Wray or Rosenstein or anybody else and if they refuse to comply with a request from Congress it's about damn time to do so.
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@#4 The problem is that there is a Republican anti-Trump element in Congress and the bureaucracy, which makes hard for Trump and his allies to know who to trust and they have to find trustworthy & competent people to drain the swamp. I doubt McConnell and Ryan can be considered allies.
[MAIL] A federal immigration raid that took 97 people into custody at a Tennessee meat processing plant is the largest employment crackdown under President Donald Trump's administration, civil rights activists said Friday.
Eleven people were arrested on criminal charges and 86 were detained for being in the country illegally, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Tammy Spicer said in a statement Friday.
The Thursday raid on Southeastern Provision, a meat processing plant in Bean Station in eastern Tennessee, is the largest single worksite immigration enforcement action since the administration of President George W. Bush, said Jessie Hahn, labor and employment policy attorney at the National Immigration Law Center.
'This is part of the stepped-up Trump mass deportation enforcement agenda for sure,' Hahn said.
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I can see it now...
Line Manager: "Jiggers, it's ICE! You guys hide in this here hopper"
Management spokesdroid: Nope. No illegals here.
Tomorrow's headline: Soylent Green(tm) is Undocumented Workers
[TAMPABAY] John Wise always said "hello" to neighbor Kelly Garrison, but it wasn’t until they shared some strawberry daiquiris that he ever got to know her.
Barely two minutes after she left his Carrollwood apartment that night, Dec. 30, he heard a scream "like nothing I’ve ever heard before."
It was coming from Garrison’s front door. Wise, 54, kicked it in.
It was dark, but he saw a man wearing a hoodie and a headlamp pinning Garrison down. Her gasps for air sounded like her last.
He kicked the assailant in the head and lifted him off her. The two struggled for several minutes before the attacker fled.
"I was fighting for my life," Wise said.
But Wise wasn’t there Thursday morning when Kelley James McDonald tracked Garrison, his 35-year-old ex-wife, to her sister’s home in Georgia.
In a few horrific moments, McDonald fatally shot both women then himself, orphaning the 2-year-old daughter the couple had together, authorities said.
McDonald, 39, also shot a 16-year-old girl in the home, seriously injuring her, according to the Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office.
Garrison, who taught elementary grades at Corbett Preparatory School in Carrollwood, was harassed and threatened by her ex-husband for more than two years, according to a petition for protection she filed in Hillsborough County a few days after the Dec. 30 attack.
That led the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office to secure a warrant for McDonald’s arrest on charges of breaking and entering and assault, sheriff’s records show. Deputies trying to find him heard from one family member that he was hiding out, the records show.
An injunction granted by the court ordered McDonald to stay at least 300 feet away from Garrison and to surrender any firearms to the Sheriff’s Office.
Four months later, however, McDonald was still at large. On Thursday, he arrived in Dahlonega, Ga., about an hour north of Atlanta, and found his daughter and ex-wife at her sister’s house, Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said at a Thursday afternoon news conference.
"They had left the Florida area to come here and hide for safety and the suspect found them at this location," Jarrad said.
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If only she had a restraining order..or a gun handy.
But mostly a gun handy
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[FOXNEWS] An Alabama teen laughed Thursday as a judge sentenced him to 65 years in prison for murder and theft after he rejected a plea deal that would have given him 25 years behind bars. Another story about feral youths with funny names...
Lakeith Smith, 18, of Montgomery, Ala., was sentenced to 65 years by Judge Sibley Reynolds for “felony murder, armed burglary, second-degree theft and third-degree theft,” FOX8 LIVE reported. "Hey, yo! Jhavarske! Let's go burgle somebody's house!"
Smith smiled and laughed "Hyuk yuk yuk!"
while being sentenced at the Elmore County courthouse. He had turned down a plea deal that would have recommended he spend 25 years in prison on the charges. "Hey, yo! Mister DA! I don't need no measly 25 years! Gimme some significant time!"
“I don’t think Mr. Smith will be smiling long when he gets to prison,” C.J. Robinson, chief assistant district attorney, said. “We are very pleased with this sentence. Because the sentences are consecutive, it will be a long time before he comes up for even the possibility for parole, at least 20 to 25 years.” "Hey, yo! Jedge! I can do twenty years standin' on my head!"
Judge Reynolds said Smith seemed to show no remorse for his crimes during the trial and did not apologize. He also overhead the teen say, “I don’t have time for this.” Actually, it was "Hey, yo! I don't have time for dis schnitt!"
“You got plenty of time for this,” Reynolds told Smith before announcing the sentence. “When I called the case earlier you said you ain’t got time for this, so I didn’t know if you had time for this now?” "Hey, yo! I showed up, dint I?"
Smith laughed and said he did not know Reynolds heard his comment. "Hyuk yuk yuk! Hey, yo! Jedge! You be eavesdroppin' on me?"
“You just don’t get it, do you?” Reynolds asked. "Get whut?"
"He hasn't said I'm sorry yet. He hasn't acknowledged to this court that he shouldn't have done, shouldn't have come around, in fact, his attitude toward this court and life, in general, has been sour.” "Hey, yo!..."
"Shuddup."
Smith’s grandfather pleaded with the judge and the teen to give him a chance to apologize. "Please let him apologize, jedge! He ain't a bad boy. He's just a nitwit."
“He’s had every opportunity,” Reynolds said. "I’ve asked two or three times today.” "Hey, yo! Apologize fer whut?"
“Are you sorry?” the grandfather asked Smith. The teenager replied that he was. "I'm really sorry I got caught!"
Smith was charged under Alabama’s accomplice law, “which holds co-defendants can be guilty of murder if a death occurs when they are committing a crime,” the Montgomery Adviser reported. "Hey, yo! Accomplices! A'Donte be dead!"
"Dead? A'Donte ain't got time to be dead!"
On Feb. 23, 2015, Smith, along with four other people, broke into two homes in Millbrook. Police responded to calls of the robberies, and the suspects fired at the officer who entered the home they were raiding. "You in the house! Yer surrounded! Come out witcher hands up!"
"Hey, yo! Youse'll never take us alive! [BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!]"
The suspects fled the home but continued to fire at the officer. [BANG! BANG! et cetera...]
One of the suspects, A’Donte Washington, 16, of Montgomery, who was armed with a revolver, allegedly pointed a gun at the officer, body cam footage showed. The officer fired at the teenager, killing him. [BANG!]
"Aaaiiieee! I ain't got time for... for... rosebud!"
Smith was charged with Washington’s death despite not firing the shots due to the accomplice law. A grand jury cleared the officer who fired the shots at Washington. "Dat ain't no gun! Dat's a egg sammitch!"
"Looks like his egg sammitch was out of ammunition!"
The other suspects, Jhavarske Jackson, 23, Jadarien Hardy, 22 and La’Anthony Washington, 22, entered guilty pleas of “felony murder, burglary and theft” but have not been sentenced yet. "Hey, yo! We'll take da plea bargain!"
“Standing there in court, I couldn’t help but have compassion for his grandfather, for his family," Robinson said. “Because of his stupidity, they have lost him for 65 years.” "I'll be waitin' fer yez when yez come out, sonny!"
"Hey, yo! Thanks, grampaw!" Classic in-lines, Fred!
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"Hey, yo! Jedge! I can do twenty years standin' on my headhands and knees!"
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Jail is not a punishment. Real punishment would be branding, flogging or castration for rapists. A good sturdy rope also has a 100% rate for preventing further crimes.
We will see how this Maltese flagged freighter has insurance coverage in the near future. As is usual, video of the whole incident was captured nearby.
[gCaptain] A Maltese-flagged bulk carrier crashed into a historic mansion on the shores of Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait on Saturday after its steering gear failed, according to media reports.
Ship traffic in the strait had been suspended in both directions.
Video from other boats in the area showed the ship, identified as the Vitaspirit, crash into the waterfront mansion. The vessel was later pulled back from the crash site.
There were no immediate reports of injuries, but photos and video showed extensive damage to the historic seaside mansion located under the Fatih Sultan Mehmet bridge.
The Hekimbasi Salih Efendi Mansion has stood on the shores of the Bosphorus Strait since the 18th century and is used to host weddings and concerts, according to the mansion’s website.
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But Osciffer they just pulled out in front of me, (hic) I couldn't stop in time (hic).
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Just an observation.
Have you seen the pictures of the 'Historic Mansion'?
It looks like a bar that fishing boats tie up at. Painted red and everything.
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[Breitbart] Former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Robert McDowell told Breitbart News Saturday that when he was an FCC commissioner, national security officials told him not to sign up for Facebook or Twitter, citing national security concerns.
McDowell told Breitbart News Saturday, "Our national security folks told me ’Do not sign up for that.’ I wasn’t on Twitter and I wasn’t on Facebook. They said that there were bad guys out there and bad states who can glean information from that and used that to guess passwords or who knows what to be used against you."
McDowell added that he was referring to "nation-states," when he said "bad guys."
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Here's the subject in a nutshell:
“There simply aren’t enough soybeans in the world outside of the U.S. to meet China’s needs,” said Mark Williams, chief Asia economist at Capital Economics.
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The dirty little secret that all of these vegan terrorist nutritionists want to hide is the extreme effects of soy upon the production of sex hormones.
Research shows that cultures that have high soy consumption have declining birth rates and in the case of Japan extreme disinterest in sex.
I'd say we double down on soy exports to China and let nature take its course in reductions in the birth rate in China...
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My friends that grow soybeans are troubled but haven't planted yet this year.
One is definitely increasing his production of popcorn for Jolly Time (your theater popcorn brand).
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Other stuff gets weird. One guy tried pinto beans in the mid-70s on 1/2 section. Ended up destroying the market as he grew more than Mexico with modern irrigated farming. Sunflower seed is just too much volume to grow any distance from a sunflower oil factory. Other crops have their problems.
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Nonsense, they could import from their yappy dog North Korea.
Oh...wait
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Soybeans are fungible like oil, right? So buyers in Europe could turn around and sell to China. When you have a billion people to feed you have to buy food somewhere. The only question is whether the Chinese will end up paying more or less but with the addition of European middlemen my guess would be more.
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The Chinese can eat the plastic toys they were going to dump into Toys R Us.
[AnNahar] Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Saturday demanded the release of two soldiers enjugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , arguing that they should not be "pawns to blackmail."
"Human life and human freedom are not, and should not be, pawns to power games and blackmail," Tsipras said in a statement to Documento newspaper.
Turkey is holding in pre-trial detention two Greek soldiers who crossed the border on March 2, claiming to have lost their way in the fog.
Greece had hoped to secure their release before Sunday's Orthodox Easter celebration.
Ottoman Turkish media have reported that the pair, held in the northern Ottoman Turkish province of Edirne, have been charged with espionage.
But Athens contends that Ottoman Turkish authorities have not given adequate details of the charges and on what evidence they are based.
According to Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency, the soldiers have been charged with "attempted military espionage" as well as entering a forbidden military zone.
The issue has strained an already tense relationship between the two NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... allies and regional rivals.
Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... and members of his government have escalated attacks on Greece after its failure to extradite eight Ottoman Turkish soldiers that Ankara said were part of an attempted 2016 coup.
The Greek Supreme Court has conclusively blocked the extradition of the eight Ottoman Turkish soldiers, arguing that they would not have a fair trial in their home country amid an ongoing purge of suspected Erdogan opponents.
Additionally, Ankara and Athens are at loggerheads over the exploration of gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean.
Tsipras earlier this week called on the Ottoman Turkish judiciary to "speed up" its processing of the case.
"In the past, we returned Ottoman Turkish soldiers who crossed a few metres into Greece whilst on patrol. I expect the Ottoman Turkish president to do the same," he said.
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[FoxNews] Galesburg, Ill., appears to be a typical small town, nestled in the farmlands of the Midwest.
But the unassuming slice of the American heartland, which was the site of an Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas debate in 1858, was invaded by the Russians during the 2016 presidential election through a cyberattack on the state's voter registration rolls. Galesburg is also home to Knox College, alma mater of one John Podesta - who is also an emeritus trustee. I can't help but wonder if his hacked emails are somehow involved.
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State officials said they took other steps to safeguard voters' information, such as resetting all passwords, adding encryption software, mandating two logins, instituting further firewall protections and monitoring web server logs daily to detect other possible attempts.
Isn't that, like, what they're supposed to do?
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"There is no evidence that they changed any vote, there is nothing like that. But they were exploring our system," Lankford told Fox News.
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Are they sure it's the Russians? It could be a leftist organization doing a "fake run" and leaving trails to make it looks like the Russians did it, thus deflecting attention from their own failings.
[DAWN] An eight months pregnant woman who had contracted a marriage of her own will was rubbed out allegedly by her brother over 'honour' in Sindh's Khairpur district on Friday evening, police said.
The victim, a mother of one, had willingly married a man from a caste different than hers in a court of Sukkur in August 2016 without her family’s approval.
Apparently angered by the move, the 25-year-old woman's brother opened fire on her while she was asleep in their family home, located within the limits of Wada Machhoon cop shoppe in Khairpur.
Police jugged You have the right to remain silent... the prime accused on Saturday, and registered a first information report (FIR) under Section 302 (premeditated murder) of Pakistain Penal Code against him, the victim's father and three others on a complaint of SHO Bagh Chand Oad on behalf of the state.
Addressing a presser in Khairpur, the husband of the dear departed woman revealed that the victim was taken away from his house six months ago by her family on the assurance that they would not hurt her and would bring her back after the delivery of their second child.
However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... they killed her after the woman's father during a jirga declared her 'kari', or a woman who has brought dishonour to her family, and asked his son to kill his sister, the husband alleged.
According to the husband, his wife who was eight months pregnant was killed a day before being produced in the Sindh High Court in Sukkur, where he had filed a petition seeking her recovery after finding out about the jirga’s pronouncement against the victim.
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[DAWN] A woman was allegedly subjected to brutal violence by her brothers in Khanewal on Saturday following a property dispute.
The victim, a local farm worker, had reportedly demanded that her brothers hand over her share of an inherited property. Upon facing rejection, she had threatened she would sue for her rights in court.
Before she could do so, however, her brothers allegedly came for her while she was harvesting wheat at a farm. Her legs were chopped off with an axe, the victim told police at District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital Khanewal. A doctor at the hospital said the victim's bones had been separated from her body.
She had been found by rescue officials in a severely injured condition and taken to DHQ Hospital Khanewal for treatment. The doctor there worried the injuries would most likely prove fatal, after which she was transferred to Multan Home of the Multan Sultans... ’s Nishtar Hospital. The victim remains in a critical condition.
Makhdoompur police have begun an investigation after recording the woman’s statement and have initiated a search to find the accused. However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... no arrests have been made yet.
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There's a "You're pulling my leg!" joke in here somewhere.
We had this article a few days ago about neuron growth in adults. Turns out there dozens of publications with thousands of citations - and it's all b*llshit
[SlateStarCodex] Gage’s Neurogenesis In The Adult Brain, published in the Journal Of Neuroscience and cited 834 times, begins:
A milestone is marked in our understanding of the brain with the recent acceptance, contrary to early dogma, that the adult nervous system can generate new neurons. One could wonder how this dogma originally came about, particularly because all organisms have some cells that continue to divide, adding to the size of the organism and repairing damage. All mammals have replicating cells in many organs and in some cases, notably the blood, skin, and gut, stem cells have been shown to exist throughout life, contributing to rapid cell replacement. Furthermore, insects, fish, and amphibia can replicate neural cells throughout life. An exception to this rule of self-repair and continued growth was thought to be the mammalian brain and spinal cord. In fact, because we knew that microglia, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes all normally divide in the adult and respond to injury by dividing, it was only neurons that were considered to be refractory to replication. Now we know that this long accepted limitation is not completely true
Subsequent investigation has found adult neurogenesis in all sorts of brain regions. Wikipedia notes that "In humans, new neurons are continually born throughout adulthood in two regions of the brain: the subgranular zone and the striatum", but adds that "some authors (particularly Elizabeth Gould) have suggested that adult neurogenesis may also occur in regions within the brain not generally associated with neurogenesis including the neocortex", and there’s also some research pointing to the cerebellum.
Some research has looked at the exact mechanism by which neurogenesis takes place; for example, in a paper in Nature cited 1581 times, Song et al determine that astroglia have an important role in promoting neurogenesis from FGF-2-dependent stem cells. Other research has tried to determine the rate; for example, Cameron et al (1609 citations) find that there is "a substantial pool of immature granule neurons" that may generate as many as 250,000 new cells per month. Still other research looks at the chemical regulators ‐ a study by Lie et al, cited 1312 times, finds that Wnt3 signaling is involved.
(which is making you more nervous ‐ the fact that I keep emphasizing how many citations these studies have, or the fact that one of the principal investigators is named "Lie"?)
But the most exciting research has been the work identifying the many important roles that neurogenesis plays in the adult brain ‐ roles vital in understanding learning, memory, and disease.
...Fun fact: there’s no such thing as adult neurogenesis in humans.
At least, this is the conclusion of Sorrells et al, who have a new and impressive study in Nature. They look at "59 post-mortem and post-operative slices of the human hippocampus" and find "that recruitment of young neurons to the primate hippocampus decreases rapidly during the first years of life, and that neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus does not continue, or is extremely rare, in adult humans." Also, the subgranular zone, the supposed part of the brain where neurogenesis begins, isn’t even a real structure. And you expect Truth from politicians, or journalists, or social "scientists"! I thought about tagging it under "Home Front: Culture Wars"
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.
[MAIL] A federal immigration raid that took 97 people into custody at a Tennessee meat processing plant is the largest employment crackdown under President Donald Trump's administration, civil rights activists said Friday.
[FOXNEWS] An Alabama teen laughed Thursday as a judge sentenced him to 65 years in prison for murder and theft after he rejected a plea deal that would have given him 25 years behind bars.
[Breitbart] Former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Robert McDowell told Breitbart News Saturday that when he was an FCC commissioner, national security officials told him not to sign up for Facebook or Twitter, citing national security concerns.
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
[DAWN] An eight months pregnant woman who had contracted a marriage of her own will was 
