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You want to send a message? Tell your friends and family to withhold their children from the DoD recruiters. Dry up their replacement pool from the very population that the government now considers their enemy.
If it were not the SCOTUS, I would support this type of action to my politicians. At the least they are greedy enough to know they need votes to get elected.
But the SCOTUS should only sit in judgement based on the US Constitution, not Public or political agendas.
I never want my Constitutional Rights and my day in court based on the whim of a fickle constantly changing Public Opinion, a MOB, or some political party's latest agenda.
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The reality is that SCOTUS is cognizant of public opinion. The ideal is as NN2N1 said. Lifetime appointments were supposed to lend some stability and immunity from public opinion. This didn't necessarily occur as both parties try to shape the court system.
Ideally, the Constitution should be the guide for SCOTUS. It provides the needed stability for the Court.
#8
If I were writing the justices, and I’m fairly confident that liberals will be inundating the justices and it might be nice to balance that out—just for sake of argument, I would probably address the letter like:
#9
One of many possible examples under the subject of election fraud:
Honorable Justices and Chief Justice Robert:
With complete respect, I hope this Honorable Court will take judicial notice of both;
1) the fact that in these United States of America prompt and efficient vote recounts and challenges are part of our election process — ensuring FULL and FAIR elections for centuries; and
2) that the restraint displayed by the American people does not reflect a lack of rage or storied indomitable spirit in the face of clear and convincing widespread systemic determinative federal law violations in the most recent Presidential Election.
[Breitbart] The Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier has deleted a tweet that proved the backlash against the disgraced cable news network has exploded.
On Saturday, yours truly wrote about how the backlash against Fox News hit Defcon 1. To backfill my case, I specifically focused on the withering responses to an innocuous tweet posted by Fox’s Special Report anchor Bret Baier...
TUCKER takes aim at Neil Cavuto for cutting away from the Trump campaign's press conference today:
"You can't just cut away from coverage you don't like. Force doesn't work in a democracy. That's a dictatorship. Telling voters to shut up is never enough." pic.twitter.com/uxFbxdIJFR
#7
Fox has steadily become just a tabloid outfit, alternating between 'OMG did you see what this celebrity said on Twitter' and 'OMG did you see what CNN said' which is what they think the rubes in conservative land what to read.
Now they've just bet the house on a Biden administration. In the age of Trump, masks fall easily.
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Can't wait for Brett or Neil to tweet again. Same for that smug little Martha.
#10
I haven't paid for TV content in almost five years. Whenever I had to endure a sales pitch for a CATV or DirecTV bundle, I used to say "If you can sell me just Food Network, Velocity (Speed channel) and Turner Classic Movies, I'd consider it." Of course, they can't offer that, so they just shrug. Now that the classic movies are being butchered or censored for PC Wokeness purposes, I would be down to just two channels.
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Food Network is just reruns of multiple Guy Fieri shows.
#12
Murdoch sons (and their wives) and others have put Fox on a path of self-destruction. They shot themselves in both feet by p!ssing off their audience. They have become MSNBC/CNN/NBC/ABC/CBS/NPR and thus diluted their audience bigly. There used to be a saying: "Keep your pecker out of the cash register (don't fool around with the employees)." The saying ought to be modified to say "Keep your politics out of the cash register" as well.
#13
Murdoch sons (and their wives) and others have put Fox on a path of self-destruction.
Why watch a lukewarm version parroting MSNBC / CNN talking points when you can watch the original? They had a "market niche" and killed it dead.
[StarTribune] A police shortage has officials looking at deals with Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, Metro Transit Police, primarily helping to respond to violent 911 calls.
#3
Sandline? If they're talking about actual sworn cops, from where do they expect to get them? And how on Earth do they expect them to agree to show up? Does Minnie expect to stab the outsiders in the back as they did they own guys?
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"You will be issued a firearm and will be at risk of being charged with murder any time it suits the political needs of city council and or the Chief of Police / Police Commissioner. Oh, there is a pension, though..."
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[IsraelTimes] Russian holdout allows delay in addressing fraught question of how to improve ties; leaders of China, Brazil, Mexico and Turkey also yet to wish the US president-elect well.
When Trump won in 2016, Putin was prompt in offering congratulations — but Trump’s challenger in that election, Hillary Clinton, also conceded the day after the vote.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... is more than 90 percent effective, a health ministry official said on Monday.
The announcement came after US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech announced that their own experimental vaccine was more than 90 percent effective.
Visit our dedicated coronavirus site here for all the latest updates.
"We are responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of the Sputnik V vaccine among citizens who have received it as part of the mass vaccination programme," Oksana Drapkina, director of a research institute under the Russian health ministry, said in a statement.
"Based on our observations, it is also more than 90 percent. The appearance of another effective vaccine - this is good news for everyone," Drapkina said.
The COVID-19 virus has infected over 50 million people and claimed the lives of more than 1.2 million. And tens of thousands more deaths are feared in the coming months, with the onset of cold weather and the holidays.
Pfizer and BioNTech, are now is on track to apply later this month for emergency-use approval from the US Food and Drug Administration, once it has the necessary safety information in hand.
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Let us not mock Russian medicine. Back in the 70's they had a treatment for the common cold - one pill in the morning on an empty stomach and 7~10 days later, your symptoms were completely gone!
#4
Methinks the country that birthed the Great Russia Hoax, dozens of fake-rape show trials, the "1619 Project" & and "Peaceful Protests" and the Nov. 2020 Goat Rodeo should not be criticizing Russia about anything
#5
I saw some guy on the news saying this vaccine needs to be refrigerated and that it would be a huge problem to distribute. Maybe our general in charge of logistics for our military can piggyback on some ice cream trucks since refrigerated trucks are such a problem, at least according to the doofus reporter.
#6
Lots of widely distributed medications require refrigeration. The news guy is an idiot (but I repeat myself).
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According to Worldometers, Russia is in pretty good shape in terms of deaths/million and Serious/Critical/million. They can't be wrong all the time.
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A #Russian soldier suspected of killing three of his colleagues using an axe and a gun at a military base has been detained after a huge manhunt, say officials.https://t.co/xPSnabGhSU
The 20-year-old soldier identified as private Anton Makarov was detained following a massive manhunt.
An unidentified source told the Interfax news agency that the shooting started when an altercation broke out between the soldier and an officer during an inspection.
The soldier “grabbed a handgun” from the officer’s holster and fired, Interfax reported.
Shootings at military bases in Russia are not uncommon and rights groups have sounded the alarm over brutal hazing rituals that were routine in the 1990s but have improved in recent years.
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[American Thinker] It's well-known enough that China's pleased to see the chaos in U.S. elections -- the snide remarks coming from its state propaganda press suggest as much to start. It goes without saying they've never liked democracy and can use it as a means of propagandizing its people to claim that communist tyranny is better.
But there's also news that China's neighbors are nervous, for the exact same reasons. Amid U.S. election chaos, all signs are on that China is at least thinking about retaking Taiwan.
That's why the claims to Biden winning the presidency has prompted headlines like these across the Pacific:
#1
Biden will dither, prevaricate, mumble, then accept the act as a fait accompli. Meanwhile, some of the ruling caste will see their bank accounts blossom.
[BigLeaguePolitics] Free speech microblogging platform Parler became the most downloaded app on Apple’s app store on Monday, indicating the popularity of the Twitter alternative as the latter continues a roving purge of conservatives, nationalists and Trump supporters.
The platform, which was established in 2018, suffered several crashes and service bugs on Monday as its infrastructure was tested by considerably large numbers of new users joining the site, a problem its administrators are pledging to fix.
Parler’s administrators have expressed a First Amendment vision, in which anything "that can be said on the streets" in permitted on the platform. Many political figures banned by Twitter already use the platform regularly.
Conservative commentator Dan Bongino is a partial owner of the platform. He debunked a rumor asserting that the rapidly growing platform had been sold.
Conservative talk radio host Mark Levin urged his listeners to join the platform, announcing that he didn’t plan to stay on globalist Big Tech platforms such as Facebook and Twitter much longer after being robustly censored by both of them.
Most Big Tech alternatives have washed out or failed to broadly catch on, but Parler has a considerable user base, healthy levels of engagement, and a large and growing number of Republican elected officials, pundits, and organizations present on the platform.
#1
The up and coming social media app appears to be a haven for Republicans and in the wake of the 2020 presidential election results - it appears a flood of new users have joined Parler. Parler CEO John Matze said in a post on the platform that he expected a “million or so people today... but 2? You guys are crazy."
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People don't like censorship and the picking of winners and losers by the media and big tech.
[Yahoo Finance] It’s tough enough for fixed-income investors — retirees, life-insurance companies, pension funds — to find high-yielding assets, with the Federal Reserve holding rates so low. It’ll get even tougher when negative yields comes to the U.S., according to one prominent investor.
Scott Minerd, chief investment officer at Guggenheim Investments, predicts that the yield on 10-year Treasury notes — currently around 0.82% — could flip to negative 0.5% by 2022. That could trigger a ripple effect that would eventually cause the Fed to assume risk, Minerd told Yahoo Finance Live.
Fed officials embarked on a listening tour over the past couple of years to gather not just data, but anecdotal evidence from their constituents. "The clients who I have who are insurance companies, who are pension funds, made the case to them that their policies were basically destroying their business," Minerd said. But he said the Fed didn’t see it as an urgent issue, focused on its dual mandate of price stability and full employment.
Indeed, the Fed is pumping liquidity into a financial system stressed by the coronavirus pandemic, and Fed Chair Jerome Powell said this week that the central bank is poised to help further if necessary.
"Is monetary policy out of power or out of ammo? The answer to that would be ’no,’" Powell told reporters following the Federal Open Market Committee’s decision to hold rates at near-zero.
Central banks around the globe are equally, if not more accommodative — which means there’s already plenty of negative-yielding debt. In fact, the amount of debt with negative yields reached a record high this week, with the the market value of the Bloomberg Barclays Global Negative Yielding Debt Index rising to $17.05 trillion.
Low- or negative-yielding debt has tended to push investors into higher-yielding — but riskier — assets. That’s one reason that many strategists cite when explaining the resilience of stocks.
When yields go negative in the U.S., it is "going to raise questions about the stability of the financial system, but the Federal Reserve and policymakers have basically been willing to socialize a lot of risks with the corporate bond purchase program," Minerd said. "So as time goes on, it will just force the policymakers into socializing more of these problems and making it the burden of the U.S. government."
That could dredge up a debate that reared its head during the Great Financial Crisis, the idea being that financial firms will take more risk if they think the government will bail them out.
#2
Central Credit pricing is the biggest economic error in world history. It will do to the entire world what central pricing did to the USSR.
and I wonder if that's actually the plan....
#4
Only a demented "investor" would loan money at a negative interest rate. It is bad enough to simply HOLD cash when the government is doing all in its power to decrease the value of cash.
BTW, just try borrowing a sum for a negative interest rate. You and I ain't in that club.
Will he be brought back if it turns out Donald Trump was reelected after all?
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#Estonia’s interior minister Mart Helme announces he will resign after calling US President-elect Joe #Biden and his son corrupt.https://t.co/OrmLQqVZZ5
#Canada is sure the #US administration of President-elect Joe Biden will reinforce the message to #China that its policy of arbitrarily detaining foreign citizens is not working, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.https://t.co/tlpKu2bF33
Mahboob Ahmad Khan, a member of Ahmadiyya community, was waiting at the bus stop after visiting his daughter, when unknown assailants attacked him at close range, killing him on the spot.#Peshawarhttps://t.co/FBDVCgeKUR
[DAILYTIMES.PK] A man named Manzoor strangled his two daughters Maryam and Kiran for wanting to marry by choice.
The incident happened in Gujarpura area of Lahore, where a man, with the help of his son Amir, killed his two daughters who wanted to marry men of their own choice.
Police sources say that Manzoor killed his daughters on suspicion.
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[DAILYTIMES.PK] After the medical reports determined Arzoo’s age to be around 14-15 years, Sindh High Court has ordered authorities to settle her at a shelter home.The court bench, comprising of two members Justice KK Agha and Justice Amjad Ali Sahito, heard the case on Monday, in which Arzoo’s reports by the medical bench were shared, declaring her underage. The bench was informed that the case is now registered under the Sindh Child Marriages Restraint Act 2013. Arzoo Masih is the 13-year-old Christian girl forcibly converted to Islam and married to a 44-year-old.
According to reports, upon inquiry, Arzoo denied being forced to convert to Islam, and expressed the desire to live with her 44-year old husband. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the SHC ordered authorities to shift her to a shelter home where only those people will be allowed to meet her who she wants to see.
Whatever you say, guys...
[Zero Hedge] - ESPN is cutting another 500 jobs as pressures from the Covid-19 pandemic are weighing on the sports network. Apparently, the restart of almost all major sports - albeit draped in political messaging for the last 6 months - hasn't been enough to save the network from a fresh round of layoffs.
The network is blaming the coronavirus, naturally, because it certainly can't blame its own politicized discussions during almost every major sporting event it has broadcast over the last few months.
A memo circulated on Thursday from Jimmy Pitaro, the head of ESPN, said the cuts will include 300 layoffs and the elimination of another 200 open positions. The company has 5,000 employees worldwide, according to the LA Times.
The memo said: "Prior to the pandemic, we had been deeply engaged in strategizing how best to position ESPN for future success amidst tremendous disruption in how fans consume sports. The pandemic’s significant impact on our business clearly accelerated those forward-looking discussions."
#4
I cut the cable several years ago and ESPN and FOX went away with a lot of crappy stations as well. I still have a ROKU connection via WI-FI. I have saved a bundle of money over the years and don't miss cable one bit. I get more TV than I can watch. NewsMax is a decent replacement for all the lying MSM/Dem propaganda.
#5
I watched a lot of ESPN up until about 4 years ago.
Loved Mike & Mike in the morning but go back to the days when Allie Sherman talked about the NFL and you could watch Aussie rules football. The more mainstream they got the less there was of interest.
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.
[Breitbart] The Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier has deleted a tweet that proved the backlash against the disgraced cable news network has exploded.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[American Thinker] It's well-known enough that China's pleased to see the chaos in U.S. elections -- the snide remarks coming from its state propaganda press suggest as much to start. It goes without saying they've never liked democracy and can use it as a means of propagandizing its people to claim that communist tyranny is better.
[Yahoo Finance] It’s tough enough for fixed-income investors — retirees, life-insurance companies, pension funds — to find high-yielding assets, with the Federal Reserve holding rates so low. It’ll get even tougher when negative yields comes to the U.S., according to one prominent investor.
[DAILYTIMES.PK] A man named Manzoor strangled his two daughters Maryam and Kiran for wanting to marry by choice.
