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-Lurid Crime Tales-
'We need to now stop the domestic terror that we're living out every day in these cities': Eric Adams finally gets tough on Manhattan's woke new DA Alvin Bragg and says there 'must be consequences for inappropriate actions'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Eric Adams tore into new DA Alvin Bragg Thursday night, criticizing the prosecutor's soft-on-crime approach as crimes continue to plague the Big Apple

  • 'We need to now stop the domestic terror that we're living out every day in these cities,' Adams, 61, told host Rita Cosby Thursday night on The Rita Cosby Show

  • The former police captain credited the increase to policy changes made by Bragg last month that lighten punishments for armed robbery and burglary

  • The DA's policies, announced in a memo last month, allow career criminals and repeat offenders back on the streets after committing violent, felony offenses

  • The mayor said 'there is no appropriate response to [criminals'] bad behavior' thanks to Bragg's policies, which nix prison sentences for all but serious crimes

  • The new mayor described New York City as 'a failing company' because of skyrocketing crime, and proclaimed 'I’m the new CEO'


'It's not safe out here': Terrified New York woman films a homeless man following her through Union Square, threatening to 'knock her out' and 'slit her throat'

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The woman, who goes by @shamsiaaaa on TikTok, said that the man was making her uncomfortable by staring at her while she sat on a bench

  • When he stood up, she got up to leave and walked away, but he followed

  • As she began filming, he said he would 'knock her out,' 'slit her throat,' and 'knock her f***ing teeth out'
    What is the gentleman’s accent? I can’t tell.
  • She said the video was interrupted by an incoming call, but he also threatened to put a bullet in her before finally walking in a different direction

  • She also said that she didn't know that the was homeless until TikTok commenters said they recognized him as a homeless man who is frequently seen around Union Square, the East Village, and Washington Square Park.
    So I’m not the only one — he looked to me to be well-groomed, unlike the homeless guy stereotype
  • According to the newest statistics released by the NYPD, the seven 'major crimes' tracked by the NYPD are up 37.66% year to date

  • The NYPD data reports a 26.5% increase in rape, a 32.9% increase in robbery, and an 11.5% increase in felony assault, but a 18.8% decrease in murder
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Got to protect our phoney baloney jobs!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/05/2022 7:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Remind me, was this Alvin Bragg elected to office or not?
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 02/05/2022 10:52 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Judge Overrules Gov. Youngkin's Ban on Mask Mandates in Schools
[Epoch Times] A Virginia judge on Friday afternoon granted a temporary injunction to seven school districts in Virginia to allow school boards to continue to mandate mask-wearing for students.

One of Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s first executive orders sought to give parents flexibility in whether to allow mask-wearing for their children in education settings. Several school boards, in response, filed a lawsuit in the Arlington Circuit Court on Jan. 24.

Arlington Circuit Court Judge Louise DiMatteo ruled in favor of seven school boards involved in the lawsuit. The judge ruled that Youngkin cannot override the decision of local school boards on mask-wearing under a 2021 state law.

DiMatteo also ruled that she believes the current policies of universal masking are beneficial.
You ruled what you believe?
"Keeping rules in place that have been established over the school year helps children, families, and staff understand how they may be impacted during the pandemic. Without a restraining order, children and staff would have to reassess certain health conditions they believe are impacted by a mask policy," she wrote.
How about reassessing policy based on the recent reduction in covid cases? Or maybe you don't believe those stories?
Posted by: Bobby || 02/05/2022 07:25 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Science denier
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 02/05/2022 8:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Keeping rules in place that have been established over the school year helps children, families, and staff understand how they may be impacted during the pandemic.

Interesting. How does that apply the student rapists' policy?

More on topic, Judge Louse is not only impartial, but making the case that whether a policy is legal or illegal, so long as the school year has started policy cannot be changed.

So say a policy is illegal. Like covering up tranny rapists. Hold that policy until the end of Spring semester?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/05/2022 12:41 Comments || Top||

#3  So a newly elected governor can't undo what a previous governor mandated? It's not a law.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 02/05/2022 14:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Political overtones for certain.
Posted by: Dale || 02/05/2022 14:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Another leftist conflation: Executive Order = legislative law. When convenient.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/05/2022 15:40 Comments || Top||


Obamas Prepare to Ditch Spotify amid Joe Rogan Scandal
[NN] The former president and former first lady are said to be frustrated with the slow pace of development at Spotify amid music stars making their exit from the platform amid the "woke" backlash.

The Obamas are now looking at new deals with other companies, according to sources.

As The Daily Mail reported:

The duo’s Higher Ground Audio company signed a three-year deal with Spotify in June 2019, but sources say it can be hard to get a show green-lit at the Swedish music streamer.

Moreover, according to Vanity Fair, the Obamas are more interested in putting forth "young new voices" rather than carrying shows themselves, which first reported rumblings of the couple’s dissatisfaction.
because that would require actual work. Lazy bastids
Last week, Spotify caved to the "woke" mob and introduced new rules to crackdown on free speech.

The Obamas are copycats: More Artists Leave Spotify! Also Breaking: No One Cares.
Posted by: Frank G || 02/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Or their contract runs out.
What a great spin.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/05/2022 3:29 Comments || Top||

#2  rather than carrying shows themselves

That's too much like work!
Posted by: Bobby || 02/05/2022 7:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Since David Crosby is trending over demanding that his music be pulled from Spotify, I’d like to point out that he sold his catalog last year and doesn’t own or control his music catalog anymore.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 02/05/2022 8:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Sort of like Oxygen channel.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/05/2022 10:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Obama's? Who???
Posted by: 49 Pan || 02/05/2022 11:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Scraping the bottom.
Posted by: Angstrom || 02/05/2022 12:45 Comments || Top||

#7  because that would require actual work.

Have these two bums ever done an honest day's work in their sportin' lives?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 02/05/2022 15:29 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
NYC Mayor Eric Adams apologizes for calling white police officers 'crackers' and bragging about outperforming them in 2019 video
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Small dog surrenders the bone.
  • NYC Mayor Eric Adams, 61, bragged about outperforming white officers while calling them 'crackers' in newly resurfaced video from 2019

  • 'Every day in the police department, I kicked those crackers’ a**,' he said at an even in East Harlem at the time

  • The mayor has since apologized for his 'inappropriate comments' at an unrelated press conference on Friday

  • The presidents of the Police Benevolent Association and Detectives Endowment Association said they still supported the mayor, despite the comment

  • The video was posted by Thomas Lopez-Pierre, who voted for Adams, wrote off the comments as 'how black people talk'
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/05/2022 03:41 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'how black people talk'

And that 'gun violence' everyone is so worried about is just how black people engage in acts of commerce. Nothing to see, move along.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/05/2022 10:10 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't see why he should apologize - if it bothers some white cop much, he probably is too much of a wuss to be a good cop.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/05/2022 10:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Perhaps. Perhaps calling his colleagues in blue racists names is a sign of affirmative action type out-performance.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/05/2022 11:59 Comments || Top||

#4  The Apish Paddy, or... dunno, nothing really jumps out at me.

A mouthy young man of Dundalk
Transplanted from Louth to New York
Was branded a trigger
In Brooklyn. "Go figure.
I talk the way black people talk."
"And dem crackers down south dat we mock!"
Posted by: Clomoling Sproing4934 || 02/05/2022 18:23 Comments || Top||

#5  *happy sigh* Geography!
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/05/2022 21:13 Comments || Top||


Former clerk of SCOTUS contender Ketanji Brown Jackson changed her Wikipedia page to 'paint her in a more favorable light for a liberal audience' while altering those of her competitors to make them less appealing
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Ketanji Brown Jackson is a potential nominee for the Supreme Court

  • Her former clerk edited her Wikipedia page to 'paint her in a more favorable light for a liberal audience,' according to a Politico investigation

  • The anonymous editor was identified by a group of the judge's former law clerks as Matteo Godi who used to clerk for the judge

  • The user made more than 20 edits to the pages of seven judges seen to be in the running for Biden's nomination

  • Godi, a Yale Law graduate from Italy, clerked for Jackson from October 2019 to October 2020, according to his LinkedIn

  • President Biden said he will announce his nominee pick to replace retiring Justice Breyer before the end of February
Godi, who grew up in the Parma region of Italy, attended the Pierson College at Yale before going to law school at the Ivy League school. He completed clerkships with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and Judge Guido Calabresi of the Second Circuit.

Matteo was a visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School last fall, where he taught a course on Torts and Regulation.

During law school, he worked at NAACP LDF, Equal Justice Under Law, and the D.C. Public Defender Service.

The law clerks told Politico that their former colleague had edited Jackson's Wikipedia page 'as a matter of course' for several years.

The most recent changes to Jackson's page were on January 30 and February 1, and involved two rulings against the Trump administration that were later overturned.

The portion of the Wiki page detailing Jackson's most famous decision - to require former White House counsel Don McGahn to obey a congressional subpoena involving then-President Donald Trump - was altered.

The New York Times noted Jackson's 'slow pace' helped Trump 'run out the clock on the congressional oversight effort' before the 2020 election. Jackson's updated Wikipedia page shifts the blame for the ruling’s timing from Jackson to the D.C. Circuit court.

In the another, user H2rty cut a reference to Jackson's position on an advisory board of 'a Baptist school.'

Both were portions were replaced replaced with: 'Ahead of her confirmation hearing, 'Bloomberg Law' reported that conservative activists were pointing to certain decisions by Jackson that had been reversed on appeal as a 'potential blemish on her record,' in order 'to tarnish her so she won't get picked for the Supreme Court.'
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/05/2022 03:32 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:



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