[NBC News] President Donald Trump on Friday declined to say if he would pardon Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser who recently pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
"I don't want to talk about pardons for Michael Flynn yet. We'll see what happens," Trump told reporters as he departed the White House to deliver a speech to FBI academy graduates.
"Let's see. I can say this: When you look at what's gone on with the FBI and with the Justice Department, people are very, very angry."
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It would be interesting to know more about Flynn's two instances of lying to the FBI. What were the circumstances under which this supposedly occurred? Is this one of those political retribution things like Arpaio? Glad Trump is not ruling this out.
[Charlotte Observer] MIAMI - Two days before her 94th birthday, Juanita Fitzgerald was arrested and hauled off to jail.
The Eustis, Florida, woman’s crime?
She was being evicted and had fallen behind on her rent, WFTV 9 News reported. Instead of vacating her home at the National Church Residences’ Franklin House, a senior living community, she was accused Wednesday of refusing to leave her unit.
Fitzgerald’s 94th birthday is Friday.
When Eustis police officers arrived at the community, Fitzgerald refused officers’ commands to leave and told them, "Unless you carry me out of here, I’m not going anywhere," according to the Eustis Police Department report obtained by the Miami Herald.
"Juanita Fitzgerald was made well aware the day prior of her being evicted today," according to the police report. "While on scene, Juanita was asked several times to leave the property and was advised she was currently trespassed and could no longer stay at this location."
As officers attempted to escort her from the front lobby, Fitzgerald "intentionally slid out of her chair and onto the floor," according to the report. At one point she grabbed the glasses from a deputy’s face.
Eventually, the five-foot, 100-pound woman was escorted out of the building and into the rear seat of Officer David Perez’s police car and taken to Lake County Jail.
She was charged with trespassing, according to the police report.
But she was given one liberty. "Due to Juanita’s age, it was deemed necessary to transport her without handcuffs to reduce risk of injury," the report read.
Franklin House staff offered to help her move, according to the police report, but Fitzgerald refused.
She also refused assistance from the Department of Children and Families, The Homeless Coalition, Department of Elder Affairs and eight other agencies, officers said.
They can’t force her to accept help, but it isn’t fair to require the nursing home to provide an expensive service without recompense.
Her prisoner property report inventory listed a purse with contents inside, a bag with miscellaneous contents ‐ and one walker.
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My 91-year old mother moved to a retirement community near me a few years ago. She loves it there, but she is healthy and has no significant mental deterioration. She has commented that it is very, very hard for those around her to admit when they have deteriorated physically and/or mentally enough to need to move up to assisted living or the Alzheimers ward, often taking that refusal to the point where it is physially dangerous for them to continue where they are.
The fact that Ms Fitzgerald has run out of money —or forgotten to pay the rent, a different problem — and refused to accept the help the building social worker clearly organized for her, is an indication that more is going on than just the owner being mean to a dear, little old lady.
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There's another article on the same story. It says the facility stopped accepting her payments after September because they were putting her out; blaming her for mold in her unit.
Sure, she exacerbated her situation by being a stubborn feisty old woman. But the residence people aren't blameless in this situation either.
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Eventually, the 94 yo, five-foot, 100-pound woman was escorted out of the building and into the rear seat of Officer David Perez’s police car and taken to Lake County Jail.
Really...REALLY!?
What happened to "Serve and Protect"?
This is one the Useless, FL blue team should have passed on.
but it isn’t fair to require the nursing home to provide an expensive service without recompense.
No? Perhaps they should have a transitional exit strategy in the contract they administer to those of already diminished capacity rather than a termination clause.
They were happy enough to take her money when she wasn't any trouble or they couldn't rent the room for more. I hope the lawsuit breaks the back of the property operations group and forces the small minded police chief to resign.
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Dude!
Tell us how you really feel.
The Police can't choose which laws to enforce any more than they can choose to use deadly force or not (huh?) during an arrest.
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Yeah, especially when the facility administrator is the mayor's sister-in-law or butt buddy or something. Who's paying for the blue tide Christmas party?
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Sorry, not!
It seems this story engaged my INCENSED circuit. Perhaps I carry some residual guilt from having been in close proximity to this before.
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This is supposedly a church home therefore they should be aware of the scripture that forbids what they did to this elderly woman as a Christian entity. But no worries. There is a place in hell waiting for these fakes.
[NewsTribune] Jaireme Barrow got tired of people stealing his packages, so he came up with a loud, outside-the-box solution.
Well, not quite. Its more of an inside-the-box solution.
The Tacoma natives blank-firing device thats rigged to a fake package on your doorstep is now available for purchase.
The devices are available from TheBlankBox.com, starting at $50.
Twice on recent Fridays, wannabe porch pirates have taken the bait.
One was a man who was dropped off by a comrade nearby. The man went through Barrows fence and grabbed the package.
The shotgun blast scared the man so badly he looked like he'd been shot, Barrow said.
"It almost looked like he was trying to do the invisible box challenge," Barrow said. "He was running through the air like Road Runner.
"That made my day. He looked back for maybe a split second, and after that, he was gone."
The other unwanted visitor was a woman who was walking down the street and opened the gate in Barrow's fence to grab the package.
When the device went off, she forgot about the gate.
"She figured the best way to get out of there was to jump right over it," Barrow said. "She didn't look back or stop running. I think she may still be running now."
Also available on Barrow's website: a T-shirt with the words "Don't touch my package!"
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I see he's wearing HALO wings. Perhaps someone could take him up to 20k AGL on a dark night, ten to twelve kilometers south of Duke Field and let him show us how it's done.
[PRESSTV] Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in a report that Kenyan security forces raped, beat and assaulted civilians during the recent election turmoil across the East African country.
Kenya has been in turmoil since September when the Supreme Court nullified the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta over "irregularities and illegalities".
The court ordered a rerun in October that was boycotted by opposition leader Raila Odinga, handing Kenyatta a landslide of 98 percent of votes cast by just 39 percent of the electorate.
The leading international rights group on Thursday said it recorded "police use of excessive force against protesters, killings, beatings and maiming of individuals, looting and destruction of property".
The report also cited multiple gang-rapes by men in uniform in the slums of the capital, Nairobi, and the opposition strongholds of Kisumu and Bungoma.
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"irregularities and illegalities"
Too friendly with L3?
[The Telegraph] Britain has emerged as the unlikely first recipient of gas from a sanctioned Russian project after fears of a winter supply crisis drove prices close to five year highs.
Russian President Vladimir Putin opened the £20bn Yamal project on Russia's northern coastline last week. Shortly after, British wholesale gas prices soared to four-year highs when a crucial North Sea pipeline was put out of action by a crack and a distribution hub in Austria was hit by an explosion.
Now a deal has been struck to bring the debut cargo from Yamal to the Isle of Grain import terminal via a specially built ice-breaking tanker by the end of the month.
Britain rarely receives deliveries of liquid natural gas (LNG) in winter because prices are typically far higher in east Asian markets. However rocketing demand in Europe drove the price for gas delivered to the UK to more than $10 per million British thermal units. This put the UK on a par with Asian gas markets, which are some of the most expensive in the world.
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You have to understand. It's COLD in Britain right now, and a crack in the largest pipeline out of the North Sea caused most of that production to be shut-in.
You can have principles or you can be warm. Stiff note to follow.
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Kinda surprised RFK Jr. didn't jump on this after his idol Hugo died
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[AirForceTimes] WASHINGTON ‐ Two U.S. F-22 Raptors intercepted and fired warning flares at two Russian Su-25s over the tightly congested air space in Syria along the Euphrates River on Wednesday.
The Russian fighters had crossed an agreed upon deconfliction line that runs parallel with the Euphrates River. The U.S. and its Syrian partner forces, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, operate on the eastern side of the Euphrates, and it’s a region Russia and its Syrian regime allies are supposed to steer clear from.
"On December 13, two Russian Su-25s flew into coordinated Coalition airspace on the east side of the Euphrates River near Abu Kamal, Syria, and were promptly intercepted by two F-22A Raptors providing air cover for partner ground forces conducting operations to defeat ISIS," said Lt. Col. Damien Pickart, a spokesman for U.S. Air Forces Central Command.
The F-22s conducted maneuvers and fired warning flares and chaff to convince the pair of Russian fighters to leave the deconflicted airspace, he said.
"At one point, one Su-25 flew close enough to an F-22A that it had to aggressively maneuver to avoid a midair collision," Pickart said. "During the incident, a Russian Su-35 also flew across the river and was shadowed closely by one of the F-22As."
The incident lasted nearly 40 minutes and the Russian aircraft eventually flew back to the west side of the river.
The U.S. used a special hotline designed to deconflict ground and air operations with Russian forces to convey their concern over the incident, Pahon said a spokesperson for the Pentagon said.
Despite the liberation of Raqqa in mid-October, operations along the Euphrates River and in Deir Ezzoir province continue as U.S.-backed fighters clear remnants of the Islamic State terror group from the region.
That region is still hotly contested and is also controversial because of the many lucrative oil wells that dot the landscape.
In late September, U.S.-backed Syrian fighters claimed Russian jets bombed one of their positions near a contested gas field, killing several of their forces.
The battle for control of southern Syria and the Middle Euphrates Valley has been contentious this year, and today’s provocations by Russian fighters and their allies are not the first such incident.
"Since agreeing to this deconfliction arrangement, the Russians have flown into our airspace on the east side of the river six to eight times per day, or approximately 10 percent of the Russian and Syrian flights," Pickart said.
During the summer, U.S. warplanes down two Iranian Shahed 129 drones that threatened coalition and partner forces in Syria. And in June, a U.S. F/A-18 Super Hornet downed a Syrian Su-22 after it dropped bombs near U.S-backed fighters in Syria.
"The Coalition’s greatest concern is that we could shoot down a Russian aircraft because its actions are seen as a threat to our air or ground forces," Pickart explained.
"We are not here to fight the Russians and Syrians ‐ our focus remains on defeating ISIS. That said, if anyone threatens Coalition or friendly partner forces in the air or on the ground, we will defend them," he added.
This article has been updated to include comments and information from U.S. Air Forces Central Command. The wages of a compromised politic?
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"fired warning flares and chaff"
Uhh, I thought you did that to confuse air to air missiles. This is like holding your arms up in front of you a yelling 'don't hit me' to stop a bully...
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Maybe they wanted to warn the Soviet pilot in a way that would not spook him? After the Turkey shoot down lighting him up with the radar might have resulted in a missile snap shot in replay
[Breitbart] The flood of Chinese imports into the U.S. does not just cost jobs. It shuts down factories and businesses altogether, with devastating consequences for the communities where they are located.
After years of denial, it is now widely known that the opening of the U.S. market to Chinese imports was devastating, inflicting deep and lasting damage to many areas in the U.S. Regions most exposed to competition from China not only lost manufacturing jobs, they saw overall employment decline and never recovered. Areas with higher exposure have also been shown to have more people relying on food stamps and disability payments, more people addicted to opioids, lower rates of marriage, higher rates of political polarization, and higher rates of incarceration.
New research suggests that one of the main reasons the damage has been so deep and lasting is that the jobs lost from Chinese imports were not just from companies downsizing or becoming more efficient but from closing manufacturing plants altogether. The paper by four economists ‐ Brian Asquith of the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of California at Irvine’s Sajana Goswami, David Neumark, and Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez ‐ finds that the so-called "China shock" operated mainly through "deaths of establishments."
This makes the job losses from the China shock fundamentally different from other adverse shocks, such as recessions, that can hit the U.S. labor market. In those situations, job losses are primarily from contractions of the number of people employed at a plant, rather than the outright closing of a plant.
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You might want to toss in Europe and elsewhere for this one. Around say 150 years of advances in worker's rights in the US are abandoned in China, India et al., where it can extend down to the level of slave labor in some cases.
Fortunately due to lower rates of marriage and higher rates of incarceration, we seem to have a temporary handle on all of this.
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Absolutely true, though manufacturing has been picking up in recent years, what with new products and after all sorts of robotic efficiencies were installed — and the problems inherent in corrupt third world societies with poorly educated work forces discovered, leading some companies to on-shore after having off-shored. Bloomberg reported last month that manufacturing growth has been steady for the past two years, and factory employment has grown as well.
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Not a big surprise. Most people in fly-over land have aware of this for sometime. One of the many reasons Trump got elected. I don't recall getting to vote on this issue. I guess it was like Obummer's and Kerry's middle-of-the-night deal with Iran--very shadowy and a one-sided deal.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Oil prices came under pressure on Thursday after the International Energy Agency (IEA) increased its forecast for growth in US oil output next year, raising the prospect of excess supply.
US West Texas Intermediate futures fell 29 cents to $56.31 a barrel, down from a high of $56.93.
Brent crude futures were at virtually unchanged at $62.45 a barrel at 14.44 GMT, after hitting a session high of $63.14.
The Gay Paree-based IEA said US crude output next year would increase by 870,000 barrels per day (bpd), up from its November forecast of 790,000 bpd.
The change mirrors upward revisions issued by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and the United States government.
"The IEA underlined the same take that the US Energy Department had the day before yesterday and OPEC had yesterday," said Bjarne Schieldrop, chief commodities analyst with SEB Bank, adding that further upward revisions might follow.
With cash pouring into the US shale oil industry, the United States is on track to deliver up to 80 percent of the world’s oil production gains through 2025, the IEA estimates.
Revised estimates
OPEC revised its estimate for US oil output growth for 2018 to 1.05 million bpd, while the US Energy Information Administration increased its growth forecast to 780,000 bpd.
The IEA expects the oil market to have a surplus of 200,000 bpd in the first half of next year before reverting to a deficit of about 200,000 bpd in the second half. That means 2018 overall should show "a closely balanced market"".
For now, Brent prices remain underpinned by an outage on the Forties crude pipeline that is expected to last several weeks.
Operator Ineos declared force majeure on crude oil, gas and condensate deliveries from the pipeline, a source familiar with the matter told Rooters on Wednesday.
A fall in US crude inventories last week also lent some support. Stocks fell by 5.1 million barrels in the week to Dec. 8, the fourth consecutive week of decline, to 442.99 million barrels, the lowest since October 2015.
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Along with increased consumption in China, India, Indonesia and any number of other places. I'm all foor increasing milage standards to a point. But like all mandated technology fixes the last 10% is very expensive.
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If you are concerned about the price at the pump, don't blame Big Oil. Look at the Fed and Treasury debasing the currency for the last 10 years. 'Creating' money without backing. 10 years ago a penny could be produced at par, 100 for a dollar. Today, they can mint about 42 for a dollar. It's not that gas has gone up, rather the dollar down.
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If you are concerned about the price at the pump, don't blame Big Oil. Look at the Fed and Treasury debasing the currency for the last 10 years.
Currency debasing is a debt reduction strategy.
It's been around for a while, possibly since coming off of the gold standard. Need evidence? Take a Morgan Silver Dollar to any bank and see what they give you for it. Big business and big oil have pretty much always been targeted as the enemy.
EU leaders formerly endorsed the harmless sounding Permanent Structured Cooperation, or PESCO, pact on Thursday evening in Brussels. After the shock of Brexit, the goal of defence integration was revived by former military foes, Germany and France, supported by Italy and Spain, in a show of EU unity. A similar proposal was blocked by the French parliament in the 1950s (see below). Now a treaty has been signed which sees the defence union complete by 2025 in what has been described as "one of the most tangible steps in EU integration since Brexit".
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Rantburg called it back before the vote, 'If Brexit succeeds, watch the EU form an army'.
Need that Poland/Czech/Slovakia/Hungary pact to get going because, and I'm not sure I need my foil chapeau here or not, EU troops seizing major airports to make sure these countries take their properly dictated quota off rapefugees.
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Germany provides troop training, France runs the mechanized units and meal service, the Spanish in charge of scheduling and logistics, all while organized by the Italians...while answering to Brussels...or Strasbourg, depending on the month.
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...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA NO.
The EU no longer has the willpower to do this, nor will they spend the money for the state-of-the-art weaponry and gear they will need. And it's REALLY unlikely they'll buy enough transports to go anywhere. This is, to use the current phrase, a nothingburger.
Mike
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Good, leave a MAG team in Brussels, bring everyone else home.
[Miami Herald] WASHINGTON - Andrea Ramsey, a Democratic candidate for Congress, will drop out of the race after the Kansas City Star asked her about accusations in a 2005 lawsuit that she sexually harassed and retaliated against a male subordinate who said he had rejected her advances.
Multiple sources with knowledge of the case told The Star that the man reached a settlement with LabOne, the company where Ramsey was executive vice president of human resources. Court documents show that the man, Gary Funkhouser, and LabOne agreed to dismiss the case permanently after mediation in 2006.
Ramsey, a 56-year-old retired business executive from Leawood, was one of the Democratic candidates vying to challenge Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder in 2018 in Kansas’ 3rd District.
She was running with the endorsement of Emily’s List, a liberal women’s group that has raised more than a half-million dollars to help female candidates who support abortion rights.
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If a guy were going to get groped or harassed by a woman, I hate to be shallow, but this woman ain't bad looking. I guess, I'm like Frank G; I stand guilty of being a ":lookist." Please don't send me to a NOW meeting to shock me into some kind of weird reality.
[Daily Caller] Democrats are attacking Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s credibility after the Department of Justice released text messages showing a top FBI agent on both the Clinton email investigation and the Russia probe rooting for Clinton while he was investigating her and discussing an unknown "insurance policy" against Trump in case he won the election.
The pro-Clinton, anti-Trump messages were, ironically, discovered as part of an investigation into the DOJ and FBI launched by the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General (IG) in response to Democratic politicians demanding a probe into possible anti-Clinton bias at the FBI.
Democratic politicians and left-wing media have attacked Rosenstein’s credibility in response, claiming he should have blocked the messages’ release.
Democratic Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, one of 58 House Democrats to vote in favor of impeaching Trump, attacked Rosenstein and the Department of Justice on the House floor on Thursday.
Raskin claimed the release of the text messages shows "that there are people in the Department of Justice who apparently are cooperating with this effort to undermine the integrity and the strength of this special counsel investigation."
The DOJ, Raskin argued, should have withheld the damning messages, which were exchanged on taxpayer-funded cell phones.
Raskin said "the key thing to understand is that all of those text messages are totally irrelevant" and claimed they were nothing more than political opinions. A violent rocking motion using the air brakes is strongly encouraged.
Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein told Mother Jones on Wednesday that the messages “are being used for propaganda purposes.” She added: “I think there’s an ongoing effort to malign both Bob Mueller and the work that that Special Counsel Office is doing. They are grabbing at every single thing to try to demean him.”
The text messages go well beyond simple political opinions and are part of a larger pattern of bias on Mueller’s team.
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From watching that video yesterday in which Jim Jordan reams him a new one, I'm guessing Rod doesn't like it any more than Raskin or Feinstein.
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Of course they've got their panties in a wad, the messages show how FUBAR the investigation is and point to a wide spread conspiracy to tilt the election to that woman.
[Bus Insider] Fourteen former national security, intelligence, and foreign policy officials who have served at senior levels in Republican and Democratic administrations recently wrote an amicus brief as part of a lawsuit brought against President Donald Trump's campaign and Roger Stone, his longtime confidant.
The lawsuit was filed in July by three private citizens ‐ Roy Cockrum, Scott Comer, and Eric Schoenberg ‐ whose personal information was stolen in hacks of the Democratic National Committee and published by WikiLeaks. The plaintiffs have argued that the Trump campaign, Stone, "and those they conspired with arranged for the hacked information to be provided to WikiLeaks."
The Trump campaign and Stone have filed motions to dismiss the complaint. The plaintiffs responded on December 1, laying out, among other things, a "motive to collaborate" between the campaign and Russia, as well as points of contact.
Among the former officials are the usual suspects who filed the amicus brief on December 8 are John Brennan, a CIA director; James Clapper, a director of national intelligence; and Michael Hayden, a director of the National Security Agency; Avril Haines, a deputy national security adviser; Michael McFaul, a US ambassador to Russia; and Michael Morell, an acting CIA director. Emphasis added.
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Was this the same Scott Comer who was Hildabeest's campaign finance chairman? I seem to also recall a Scott Comer who was in one of James O'Keefe's undercover stings of the DNC.
BLUF:
[Right Scoop] The co-founder of Trump dossier firm Fusion GPS confirmed in court filings on Tuesday that he met last year with Justice Department official Bruce Ohr and hired Ohr’s wife to help with the opposition research firm’s investigation of Donald Trump.
Glenn Simpson said in a declaration filed in federal court in Washington, D.C. that he met "at [Ohr’s] request" weeks after the presidential election. Simpson stated that Ohr, who recently held the position of deputy assistant attorney general, sought the meeting "to discuss our findings regarding Russia and the election."
Simpson also disclosed that Fusion GPS hired Ohr’s wife, Nellie, to serve as a subcontractor on Trump-related work.
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I cannot accept monetary compensation. I work for the gov't. It just wouldn't look good. Let me introduce you to my wife Nel, she's a gifted writer and has extensive Russian contacts as well as useful contacts within the intelligence community. She has also recently become a HAM radio operator. Seems like a strange hobby doesn't it ?
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Remember Murtha? He couldn't accept "compensation", but he could accept money laundered donated to his charities and laundered invested in his district.
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#3 Well lets face it. Bruce knew that Fox News was probably never going to hire her.
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/Lookist. I denounce myself
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"Shady left-wing oppo research?" Sounds far more sinister than just oppo research. Every does oppo research. Here we have the wife of an FBI official working with Fusion GPS, a company paid by whom? The DNC or Hillary's campaign or the FBI working with a British agent working with Russia to gather phony info to be used against Trump to take him down. Moreover, it's looking like the phony dossier was used as the basis to obtain a FISA warrant that legalized unmasking and spying on Trump.
Add them to the ISIS suspects list. And include all the privileges therewith.
[MSN] Miss Iraq, Sarah Idan, and her family had to flee their homeland after receiving death threats over a photo she posted online last month.
Why? Because Idan posed with Miss Israel, Adar Gandelsman, at a Miss Universe International Beauty Pageant, the Times of Israel reported.
Idan came under fire for posting the photo to Instagram, captioned, "Peace and Love from Miss Iraq and Miss Israel," in addition to modeling a bikini. Gasp! That does not look like the requisite barbeque cover!
"The two of those things together caused a mess for her back home where people made threats against her and her family that if she didn’t return home and take down the photos, they would remove her (Miss Iraq) title, that they would kill her," Adar Gandelsman told Israeli TV, the paper reported.
In another Instagram post, Idan apologized to those who thought the photo was "harmful to the Palestinian cause," clarifying that it was not a political statement, but instead meant to "express hope and desire for peace between the two countries," the paper reported. Ignore them. We have them over here too. Whining about how the "Let it Snow" Christmas song is about rape, etc..
She added, it "does not signal support for the government of Israel and does not mean I agree or accept its policies in the Arab homeland."
Iraq country does not have formal diplomatic relations with Israel, and the two countries are considered enemies, the paper reported.
Despite the backlash, Gandelsman said her friend did not regret her decision to post the image to social media, which she has yet to remove from Instagram, reported the paper.
"She did it to so that people can understand that it’s possible to live together," she said.
[Wash Times] The Senate confirmed President Trump’s 19th federal judge Thursday, approving James Ho for a seat on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and further bolstering the judicial army that conservatives wanted to build.
Mr. Ho, confirmed on a 53-43 vote, becomes the first Asian-American on that appeals court. Democratic Sens. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota joined Republicans in voting for Mr. Ho.
He’s the third federal appeals court judge the Senate confirmed this week, and the 19th judge overall. That’s well ahead of the 14 that President Obama had won by the end of his first year, but behind the pace of Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
"If the tax bill does not pass, President Trump can claim the confirmation of judges as his most significant achievement in the first year," said Carl Tobias, law professor at the University of Richmond.
Mr. Trump entered office facing more than 100 judicial vacancies, including one on the Supreme Court. Justice Neil M. Gorsuch was his first court victory, and he’s followed it up with a series of confirmations, the majority coming on the federal appeals courts, which are particularly crucial.
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The National Review presents Mr. Ho’s resume withuot comment here. Texas, private as well as public legal experience, clerked for Clarence Thomas, only 44.
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Appoint young strict constructionist constitutional lawyers to the federal bench and the left's day of legislating from the bench may be at least slowed down for a while.
44? If he exercises and follows a healthy diet, and hires a taster, he could strike down leftist BS for almost 50 years.
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Whoa. Had me at "Thomas" and "Texas." And "Taiwan."
Though, Jimmy, ol' judge, I don't know you,
I urge you to husband your Ho-fu
So life will last long
As you go Kuomindang
On the pinkos. No mo' stinky tofu!
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.
