Mark Glaze, a prominent gun control advocate, died by suicide on October 31st, at Lackawanna County Prison, Pennsylvania, following a DUI arrest in September
He was arrested for fleeing the scene of a car accident involving death or personal injury, abandoning a vehicle on the highway and careless driving
Glaze, 51, was once referred as the 'face of the gun movement' by the WSJ and is credited as being one of the main founders of the anti-2A campaign
He worked for some of the largest gun-control advocacy groups in the US, including Everytown for Gun Safety, and cared for LGBTQ and human rights
He also served as an advisor to the Commission on Federal Election Reform led by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker
Glaze came from Colorado, where his parents owned and ran a gun store, backed by the NRA
Prior to his death, Glaze struggled with alcohol, depression and anxiety
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Mark Charles Glaze, a longtime D.C. resident who was gay, died Oct. 31 in Scranton, Pa., by suicide while being held on DUI and other charges at the Lackawanna County Prison. Replacement
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Mark Charles Glaze Obituary written by his supporters and advocacy groups he supported in life.
His replacement
Meet the new LGBTQ liaison for the Democratic National Committee
(link above does not pick up the original article - editing suspected - distancing)
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The article does not tell us how Mr. Glaze managed to kill himself in a jail cell. Who, What, When, Where, How and Why are the questions that every reporter should try to answer. That's Journalism 101. Hell, that's junior high school journalism. It's one thing if all the answers are not readily available but, if the questions are not even asked, you have to wonder what the reporter is hiding.
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I'm guessing he choked on his cellmate
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^ Ow!
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If we have a Cringey Snark of the Day, Mr Frank just won.
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Also, team Snark-o-the-Day for Frank G with Abu Uluque for set-up.
Besoeker gets a special moderator mention for his at #1.
Separately and seriously, I note the fact that the former gentleman took his rebellion against his gun store owning parents much further than is customary, even among troubled boys.
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the former gentleman took his rebellion against his gun store owning parents much further than is customary
He took his beef to the level of wanting to abrogate the Constitutional right of the entire US adult population. Yes, that's too far by quite a margin.
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the former gentleman took his rebellion against his gun store owning parents much further than is customary
So, Daddy issues. It's always daddy issues with the Left. Were they weaned to early?
[GP] The Duchess of Cornwall met President Joe Biden at a climate summit on Monday, but the emissions she was left talking about had little to do with the environment, according to a new report.
According to a report in the Daily Mail, Biden passed gas while chatting with Camilla at the COP26 Summit on Monday — and she can’t stop talking about how gross it was. "Why the long face?"
"It was long and loud and impossible to ignore," the source said. "Camilla hasn’t stopped talking about it."
The Mail report says, "the President met the Duchess during a reception on Monday at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery, attended by Prince Charles, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Boris Johnson."
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"I sat next to the Duchess at tea. It was just as I feared it would be. Her rumblings abdominal, Were simply phenomenal. And everyone thought it was me!"
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"Camilla hasn’t stopped talking about it."
That seems a bit ill-mannered for both a grown adult and a member of the Royal Family. Perhaps the Queen could speak to her.
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The Duchess of Cornwall met President Joe Biden at a climate summit on Monday, but he told her an American joke, generally reserved for children and other naïve personalities --- 'pull my finger' - Well she took him at his word and did ----
The rest as 'they say' is now International Diplomatic History -- Something Joe Usually Blows Off Verbally, but this time he used another alternate Orifice.
[Anchorage Daily News] Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued an administrative order Tuesday prohibiting state agencies from assisting with a proposed federal vaccination requirement for large employers. It also requires Alaska’s attorney general to review all federal vaccination mandates and determine whether the state can challenge them in court.
Those measures are two of six points in the order, which the governor said is intended to "guard the Constitutional rights of individual Alaskans from federal overreach."
The restrictions on state agencies do not apply to the University of Alaska, which announced Tuesday that it will require some employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 starting Dec. 8.
UA President Pat Pitney said the requirement is necessary to keep the university eligible for competitive federal grants, and while she personally opposes the federal mandate, she said she does not see an alternative.
It’s about money, not following the science. But at least she is honest about the transactionality of the thing.
An official at the Alaska Railroad, which faces a similar problem and rejected a mandate, said it is waiting for further legal guidance.
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#2: "Sumter at last" ... not there yet but i hope soon. We need a new government with new leaders in a new central location (Topeka?) and a stripped down constitution (no penumbras). yea Gov Abbott! First president of the CSA (conservative states of america)
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Ref #6: I still think 'Sumpter' will happen along the TX - Mex border.
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Kansas Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly criticized President Biden's vaccine mandate on private businesses on Friday, saying, "While I appreciate the intention to keep people safe, a goal I share, I don't believe this directive is the correct, or the most effective, solution for Kansas."
Ha ha ha hahahahahaha You Lost The Cat Lady! hahahahahaha
[Free Beacon] House Democrats on Wednesday added a tax on vapes to their $1.85 trillion Build Back Better Act, which experts say would target poor Americans and boost a dangerous black market.
The plan would tax vape products at a rate of $50.33 for every 1,810 milligrams of nicotine they contain. If passed, the tax would make vapes more expensive than cigarettes, which are taxed on a per-product basis. The tax would disproportionately hurt poor Americans, who are more likely to use vape products. President Joe Biden has pledged to not tax anyone who makes less than $400,000.
House Democrats had scrapped an earlier plan to tax all tobacco products in order to pay for Biden's trillion dollar spending bill. Tim Andrews, director of consumer issues at Americans for Tax Reform, said Democrats reintroduced a nicotine tax to pay for their proposed State and Local Tax reduction, a $500 billion tax cut for the wealthy.
"This is literally a case of reverse Robin Hood," Andrews told the Washington Free Beacon. "This is taking from the poor to give to the rich."
Andrews emphasized that taxing vape products would push nicotine users toward more dangerous tobacco products. Taxing vapor products at the same level as other tobacco products could deter more than 2.75 million smokers nationally from quitting, according to a 2019 study from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
"This is completely immoral," Andrews told the Free Beacon. "It will lead to more people smoking—it will lead to more people dying."
The Middle Class is carrying the Tax burned.
We are now at about 33% Federal, about 8% to 12% in State and some cities also have 3.0% to 3.8% for income taxes. Then about 15.3% FICA, property taxes take between 0.31% and 2.13% also.
These all are collected on top of state and city sales taxes, gas tax, a handful of hidden taxes, Utility taxes, “Misc. fees" and the mandatory ObamaCare tax mandate.
Heck my county even has a Rain Tax... seriously no joke, we do.
So many of us are already paying taxes well over 60 cent out of every paycheck dollar we earn or take in.
Leaving us LESS THAN 40 cents out of every dollar our families and ourselves. Even Kings and Rulers only inflicted such high tax burden on their subjects during time of War.
So, I guess Vaper's will have to suck it up and eat a little less ☺.
[CitizenFreePress] The mayor who let Kenosha burn, the DA, and the lead detective in the Kyle Rittenhouse case are all members of the same family.
Kenosha Mayor John Antaramain has been mayor since 2016 and was elected in 2020 for his sixth term until 2024. He also served as mayor from 1992 to 2008. After this term, he will have been mayor for 24 years. Many sources have told us he will not be seeking a seventh term because of the immense backlash from the Kenosha Riots of 2020. Most Kenosha residents view his response as very poor — he is the chief executive of the city, including the police department. We didn’t hear from him. He didn’t lead. Many joke that he was hiding in his basement. Some tell us he was hiding in Lake Geneva. We don’t know for sure — he wont tell us. John has a lot at stake in the Rittenhouse trial. He wants Kyle convicted. He wants Kyle to take the blame and distract us from his failures as our leader. Lucky for John, he has a lot of powerful family members in charge here in Kenosha.
First off, the lead detective in this case is Benjamin Antaramian, his nephew. Benjamin wants Kyle convicted. Benjamin was very thirsty to connect Kyle Rittenhouse to the "Kenosha Guard" Facebook page. He grilled Dominic Black about if they had seen the page or not. They desperately wanted to connect the two. They could not. Mark Zuckerberg ...the Peewee Herman clone who owns Facebook. He's got more money than Croesus and thinks he should be regulated by the government because it does such a nifty job with all the other stuff it regulates. Until it does, he's not going to stop doing the things he sez need regulated... of Facebook told this to the public twice, once on a Facebook Q and A and again in front of the U.S. Senate. This is a common myth that is repeated by the media and naive folks. Kyle came to Kenosha of his own accord on the 25th — to volunteer removing graffiti. Law enforcement at the federal level, Facebook, and other forensic reviews have determined there was no such connection. The "Kenosha Guard" was simply a plea for help when our local leaders like John the Mayor and Tony the Governor would not help. Benjamin will be sitting at the prosecutor’s table for every day of the trial. Today, he held up the rifles that were carried by Rittenhouse and Black, Kyle’s friend
The mayor’s cousin is the Kenosha City Attorney, Ed Antaramian (D). His nephew is the Kenosha City Judge Michael Easton (D). His other nephew is Thaddeus (Tip) McGuire (D), State Representative. His other cousin is Laura Belsky (D) County Board Supervisor.
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The mayor who let Kenosha burn, the DA, and the lead detective in the Kyle Rittenhouse case are all members of the same family. The mayor’s cousin is the Kenosha City Attorney, Ed Antaramian (D).
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Well, the electorate in Kenosha voted for it. They're getting it. Good and hard...
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Kenosha was a Chicago Mob 'bedroom community' for a long time and things were run in Kenosha very similar to Chi-Town up until about two decades ago.
Then American Motors closed their Kenosha plant in 1988 and the 'funding' dried up.
They've gotten a bit better, but not by much.
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[Just the News] Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Friday appointed a retired Supreme Court justice as special counsel to oversee an expanding investigation into the November 2020 elections in that battleground state.
Vos said former Justice Michael Gableman would have the resources and authority to conduct a "top-to-bottom investigation" after retired law enforcement officials who were hired part-time said they did not have enough resources to do the job.
"Many questions have been raised about the November election that expose weaknesses and faults in our current election system," Voss said. "... To restore full integrity and trust in elections, we have decided to change direction, giving more authority and independence to Justice Gableman."
Vos said the probe should be wrapped up in the fall and its goal was to "ensure there is confidence that every vote will be counted, and laws concerning future elections will be faithfully and uniformly followed."
[AP] A week after abruptly canceling plans to attend the United Nations climate summit in Scotland, California Gov. Gavin has receded from public view to deal with unspecific family obligations.
When the surprising announcement was made Oct. 29, his office said Newsom planned to participate virtually in the conference this week. But he did not. Spokesperson Erin Mellon now says he will appear virtually next week.
Newsom’s last public appearance was Oct. 27, when he received a coronavirus booster shot. His office did not respond to questions Friday about what the governor has been doing this week.
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Hopefully Pelosi and Schumer are at his bedside.
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Wonder if he's at the same desert lair that Jackaka snuck away to a month ago?
Is there another Epstein Ranch-style hideaway in the Mojave where Democrat pols now go when they want secret medical treatments, assignations, meetings on the QT with felonious billionaires?
[Fox News] Cedric Richmond claimed that Biden is informed, but the DOJ will make its own decisions
White House Senior Adviser Cedric Richmond would not confirm nor deny that the Biden administration would be making payments to illegal immigrants who were separated from their children under the Trump administration, but insisted that President Biden is up to speed on the situation despite seemingly contradictory comments on the subject.
On Wednesday, Biden had denied that a report about possible $450,000 payments to people separated from their families was real, leading the ACLU to claim that he "may not have been fully briefed" about what the Department of Justice was doing. On Saturday, the president came out in support of payments.
"The president’s in the loop," Richmond told "Fox News Sunday," noting that Biden said all along that his Justice Department would be independent.
Biden's claim that the payments were not real came in response to a question from Fox News' Peter Doocy, who asked whether they would incentivize illegal immigration.
"If you guys keep sending that garbage out, yeah. But it’s not true," Biden responded.
On Saturday, however, Biden said an immigrant — legal or illegal — would "deserve some sort of compensation no matter what the circumstances" if they were separated from their child.
Richmond claimed that this was not a contradiction because when Biden responded to Doocy’s question, he was really saying that "it was an absurd question from the beginning" because "no one’s coming somewhere to lose their child." This, despite Biden stating that "yeah," it would be an incentive if it were true, insisting that it was false.
When asked by "Fox News Sunday" guest host Bill Hemmer how much the payments would be, Richmond said did not have that information, nor would he confirm that there would even be any payments.
"That’s for the Justice Department to decide," he said, "if it shows that it saves taxpayers money, if it rights a wrong, and the Justice Department determines that there is compensation that should be paid. That is an independent Justice Department." Read elsewhere that the payments could total $1 billion. Cloward-Piven on steroids.
Can the executive branch just pay out the money at will, or do they need a bill passed into law by both Houses of Congress in the usual way, given that Congress has the power of the purse?
They can’t impeach until the Republicans have veto-proof majorities in both House and Senate, Merrick dear. Nor anything else except refuse to along in the House, and line up with Senator Manchin to block votes in the Senate. The Republicans simply don’t have the numbers to do more.
So if you want President Biden impeached you’ll need to help get more Republicans elected, even the ones you don’t like.
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I'm not against electing Republicans. Go Youngkin. Hurrah. Now is the time for all good men, etc.
But this party spirit, rally round the GOP approach ignores a simple overwhelming fact: our elections are now easily rigged by local state and national Democrats.
As I type, the ludicrously corrupt Democrat leader of the New Jersey state Senate is touting the miraculous addition of some 12,000 undiscovered absentee ballots -- as FrankG pointed out yesterday, that would be about 16% of the total -- four days after the polls closed.
None of our certifying bodies, not the Jeague of Women Voters, not the OSCE observers, not Jimmy Carter and his crew-- no one competent and honest would certify this country's electoral practices as worthy of a first-rate republic that has rule of law.
Do you now see why millions of people no longer trust this system?
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We need to run elections just like football games and horse races. Here's the finish line. There's the clock. When the deadline hits, any additional "ballots" found go in the shredder immediately. I do tend to agree that absentee ballots are overused. How bout the same strict scrutiny being applied to COVID mask and vax waivers for individuals be applied to requests for mail in ballots? You must prove you are really too sick to go to the polls or that you will be out of town on election day. And, as for "early voting," if you feel so strongly about casting a vote, then get your a$$ to the poll between 8 am and 8 pm on election day. The federal election need not be a national holiday, but any employer who actually has someone working a 12 hour shift on election day should be required to let those employees take as much time as they need that day to arrive late to work or leave early or even take the whole day if necessary to get to the polls. What you do about corrupt elections officials is bring in the guys who run the counting rooms at large ca$inos to oversee the count and "back room" anyone caught screwing with ballots.
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^ At least until they are in an actual majority legislative position to stop it. See: Obamacare.
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If you are a Dem, do you want to go into the 2022 election as having taken American taxpayer $$$ to pay off Illegals for breaking our immigration laws?
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^^^--- only if you know you will win no matter what.
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.
[GP] The Duchess of Cornwall met President Joe Biden at a climate summit on Monday, but the emissions she was left talking about had little to do with the environment, according to a new report.
[Anchorage Daily News] 
The Biden mandate is an orchestrated 'cover for action' media frenzy. 
[Free Beacon] House Democrats on Wednesday added a tax on vapes to their $1.85 trillion Build Back Better Act, which experts say would target poor Americans and boost a dangerous black market.
...the Peewee Herman clone who owns Facebook. He's got more money than Croesus and thinks he should be regulated by the government because it does such a nifty job with all the other stuff it regulates. Until it does, he's not going to stop doing the things he sez need regulated...
[Fox News] Cedric Richmond claimed that Biden is informed, but the DOJ will make its own decisions
