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-Lurid Crime Tales-
‘Kill Kavanaugh' Tops Twitter Search and Hashtag Suggestions
[Breitbart] Typing "kill" into Twitter’s search function currently returns a shocking result at the top of its search suggestions: "#KillKavanaugh." It’s also currently the third autocompleted suggestion in searches for "ki" and the fourth suggestion in searches for "k" as of this writing.

That’s right ‐ by typing a single letter into search, Twitter is suggesting that its users might be interested in a hashtag about the murder of a federal judge and SCOTUS nominee.

The search suggestion was spotted by Instapundit earlier today and has been confirmed by Breitbart News.

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Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2018 07:26 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  People in Hollywood tossing around these threats should have been severely punished from the start.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2018 7:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, the Dems and their Antifa/Screaming Harpy International Team (S.H.I.T.)(tm) have already shown themselves to be in revolt against the legal government and Constitution of the US. 600,000 casualties the last time the Dems tried this. How many this time?
Posted by: Albemarle White5859 || 10/07/2018 8:25 Comments || Top||

#3  How did Twitter algorithm's know that "Ki" wasn't the beginning of "Kiss" or "Kindest for" or "Kindlier" or "Kibitzer?" unless the AI was programmed to do this? How about kill the AI? Other words that begin with "Ki." There are many.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2018 8:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Kindest for Kindness for
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2018 8:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Flood the searches so "Jerk Dorksey" rises to the top...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/07/2018 9:01 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Holder questions legitimacy of Supreme Court after Kav confirmation (opens to video)
[FOX] Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder reacted to the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court Saturday by questioning the legitimacy of the court and arguing that it needed to regain the nation's trust.

Holder -- who served as the nation’s top lawyer under former President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2015 -- said the treatment of former Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland by Senate Republicans, as well as Kavanaugh’s confirmation, meant the legitimacy of the court was in question.

"With the confirmation of Kavanaugh and the process which led to it, (and the treatment of Merrick Garland), the legitimacy of the Supreme Court can justifiably be questioned," he tweeted. "The Court must now prove - through its work - that it is worthy of the nation’s trust."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2018 08:02 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  he tweeted. "The Court must now prove - through its work - that it is worthy of the nation’s trust."

According to Holder, the Court must prove it is innocent of charges.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2018 8:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Holder and Kagan must have dipped into the same 4:00 a.m. Dropbox.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2018 8:45 Comments || Top||

#3  What a coincidence!
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2018 8:45 Comments || Top||

#4  What (Fast and Furious) Holder is doing outside jail?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/07/2018 8:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Translation:

"The left doesn't own the SC anymore so it can't be legitimate."

Eat a dick, bozo.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/07/2018 9:21 Comments || Top||

#6  This is rich, coming from the only AG in history to be held in contempt of Congress...
Posted by: Raj || 10/07/2018 9:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Extradite this POS to Mexico
Posted by: Frank G || 10/07/2018 9:46 Comments || Top||

#8  The Robespierre Democrats yell, "J'accuse!".

Posted by: Victor Emmanuel White5282 || 10/07/2018 12:30 Comments || Top||

#9  At least he speaks much more than Sessions. Now that Trump has the Supremes ïn his corner and the pubs p/o'ed at the Dims, he should start saying, "You're Fired!" to some key dead beats and cut throats.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 10/07/2018 13:23 Comments || Top||

#10  Saw a cartoon today. The Dems Dream ticket for 2020 - Weiner-Holder.
Posted by: Cremp Bluetooth8082 || 10/07/2018 20:09 Comments || Top||


Departacus aka Cory Booker: The WaPo Is A "Left-Leaning Newspaper"
[Hot Air] It seems as if the battle over Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation is getting under everyone’s skin and, in some cases, putting them off their game. This may be particularly true of New Jersey Senator (and frequently mentioned presidential hopeful) Cory Booker. He was on Don Lemon’s show on CNN on Thursday, expressing his opposition to Kavanaugh, which is nothing new or surprising. But in order to make his case and prove how opposing the judge’s confirmation was a mainstream idea, he decided to cite the editorial board of the Washington Post. (The WaPo formally opposed Kavanaugh’s confirmation.) The problem is that Booker appeared to be swept up in the moment and spoke a bit more truth than he probably intended.

I suppose we should applaud Booker for his moment of honesty, but his advisers have probably had a word with him about this already. Um, Senator? You’re not supposed to say that out loud...
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2018 02:21 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And, what was this "wrap-up smear" Stretch Pelosi was talking about?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/07/2018 4:58 Comments || Top||

#2  I am not an ass clown. I am not an ass clown. I am not an ass clown. I am not an ass clown. I am not an ass clown. I am not an ass clown. I am not an.....
Posted by: Booker || 10/07/2018 7:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Departacus? "Like."
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2018 8:43 Comments || Top||


Weird That Someone Whose Career Wasn't In Politics Can Have Better Instincts Than The Politicians:
[Instapundit] Again and again, President Trump was instructed not to do it. A cadre of advisers, confidants and lawmakers all urged him ‐ implored him, really ‐ not to personally attack the women who had accused Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual assault.

So he did it anyway.

Addressing thousands at a boisterous rally in Mississippi, Trump relied on his own visceral sense of the moment and mocked Christine Blasey Ford for gaps in her memory, directly impugning the accuser’s credibility.

Establishment Republicans initially reacted with horror. But Trump’s 36-second off-script jeremiad proved a key turning point toward victory for the polarizing nominee, White House officials and Kavanaugh allies said, turbocharging momentum behind Kavanaugh just as his fate appeared most in doubt. . . .

"How did you get home? ’I don’t remember,’ " Trump said, reenacting Ford’s hearing. "How did you get there? ’I don’t remember.’ Where is the place? ’I don’t remember.’ How many years ago was it? ’I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know.’ "

The riff lasted less than a minute, but had lasting ramifications. The senators whose votes Kavanaugh was wooing said they were aghast at the president’s rally-stage behavior. But Kavanaugh allies saw a clear benefit: An argument by the president that bucked up Kavanaugh, discredited Ford and became a clarion call for conservatives.

More than two dozen Trump supporters interviewed at the president’s campaign rally Thursday in Minnesota said they wish he had not gone after Ford, fretting that doing so was not presidential. Yet many also acknowledged the president had simply spoken aloud what many of them thought privately.

Everybody knew her story was bunk, but ‐ since she was a white, upper-class, professional, liberal woman ‐ everyone said she was "credible." But she wasn’t, and only Trump was willing to say it. Once he did, well. . . .
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 10/07/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Instincts don't matter if you are a "bought" politician.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2018 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  The art of the deal.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/07/2018 3:17 Comments || Top||

#3  And how to deal with vermin.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/07/2018 3:18 Comments || Top||

#4  The boy who said the Emperor has no clothes.

A cadre of advisers, confidants and lawmakers need to reassess their position in society. Particularly those who are no better than sock puppets for the Donk LSM.
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 10/07/2018 6:23 Comments || Top||

#5  I give great credit to his team building abilities. Just look at this picks; Bolton, Mattis, Kelly, Pompeo, Jay Seculow, Munchen, Kelleyanne Conway, Carson, Ross, and others.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2018 7:22 Comments || Top||

#6  I recall that Hillary wanted Trump to run because she thought he would be the most beatable. How's that for intuition?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2018 8:27 Comments || Top||

#7  team building abilities

I'm very happy with the results. If they could have been achieved without omarosa and Bannon I'd be even happier. And did George Conway actually keep his mouth shut during the Kavanaugh hearings or was I just lucky enough to be doing something important when he said something stupid?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/07/2018 9:16 Comments || Top||

#8  More to come. Trump is doing the work that has needed to be done for years. Trump and Giuliani are a dynamic duo. People can't keep up with them. So with these two I can see much more to come. The media is lost. The Democrat is lost. "Lets get ready to rumble". America first. American people first.

Why are they lost?. They do things politically. Reality is a dear teacher if they able to learn, which I doubt.
Posted by: Dale || 10/07/2018 9:45 Comments || Top||

#9  DJT makes the decisions of a good GM in (pick your sport). He won't hit on 100% but he'll hit a good average. Also, he doesn't seem to let perfect get in the way of good enough.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/07/2018 9:59 Comments || Top||

#10  Reminds of what Jesse says in Breaking Bad about Mr White, 'He's smarter than you, he's luckier than you, and whatever it is you think is going to happen the exact opposite is going to happen.'
Posted by: Cesare || 10/07/2018 10:29 Comments || Top||

#11  Beo, remember the old adage about only hiring people smarter than you. As long a he can remain the alpha, he will keep winning...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/07/2018 14:00 Comments || Top||


Justice Kagan is Concerned About the Supreme Court's 'Legitimacy' if Kavanaugh is Confirmed
I agree! She is now 'illegitimate' and must quickly resign from the court.
[Townhall] During a talk at Princeton University on Friday, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan expressed deep concern over the legitimacy of the Court after Justice Anthony Kennedy retired. Kagan is concerned that the "middle position" ‐ also known as the unpredictable vote ‐ is now gone and Kennedy could be replaced with someone (Judge Brett Kavanaugh) whose views fall more on the conservative spectrum.

Kagan explained that Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor did something important for the Court: they made it look "impartial and neutral and fair."

"Part of the Court's strength and part of the Court's legitimacy depends on people not seeing the Court in the way that people see the other governing structures of this country now," Kagan explained. "In other words, people thinking of the Court as not politically divided in the same ways. It's not an extension of politics, but instead somehow above the fray."

Kagan believes it's important for the Court to uphold that integrity, especially because we live in a deeply divided political climate.

"In the last, really 30 years, starting with Justice O'Connor and continuing with Justice Kennedy, there has been a person who found the center or people couldn't predict in that sort of way. That enabled the court to look as though it was not owned by one side or another and was indeed impartial and neutral and fair," Kagan said. "It's not so clear going forward. That sort of middle position, you know, it's not so clear whether we'll have it."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If she's so worried about it why doesn't she provide that middle position vote?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 10/07/2018 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  *Spit!* The classic natterings of an ideologue -- "You are can only be 'moderate' if you agree with ME!"
Posted by: magpie || 10/07/2018 0:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe a beer summit will help. No witnesses this time.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 10/07/2018 0:15 Comments || Top||

#4  ...and Kennedy could be replaced with someone (Judge Brett Kavanaugh) whose views fall more on the conservative spectrum.

You mean has been replaced. And if your goon squads didn't go after Kavanaugh like you did, there would have been a chance that would still be the case. Instead, you'll get someone as far to the right as Clarence Thomas, if not more so, and for the same reason, for at least thirty years.
Posted by: Raj || 10/07/2018 0:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe the Republicans should impeach and remove Kagan and the other one. What's fair for them is repair for us
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/07/2018 0:31 Comments || Top||

#6  The problem with that is Congress is not filled with Trumps; that's why it won't happen. That said, I'm happy with the small brass balls that the Senate GOP developed over the past few weeks. Grassley gets the big pair out of the bunch.
Posted by: Raj || 10/07/2018 0:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Somehow I doubt Kagan would be voicing any objections at all if Hillary (spit) had won and appointed two more hard left ideologues to the Court.

File this one under "the lamentations of their women."
Posted by: PBMcL || 10/07/2018 0:46 Comments || Top||

#8  Kagan was the Dean at Harvard Law School who hired Kavanaugh to teach 100s of law students during the past 11 years. Now, she questions whether he should be on SCOTUS for political reasons? Where's the blind lady of justice? Damned leftist idealogues!
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2018 1:04 Comments || Top||

#9  Elections have consequences.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/07/2018 2:10 Comments || Top||

#10  Kagan's a pig. And, oh, BTW, how did her nomination process go?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/07/2018 4:56 Comments || Top||

#11  I believe Kagan has just made the basis of recusal to any Trump cases before the court. Throw in Ginsberg's comments during the election, that's two recusals. Now let's talk about 'legitimacy' if you don't.
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 10/07/2018 6:18 Comments || Top||

#12  I would argue that it may be legitimate now that Kavanaugh is appointed. But only time will tell. The court should have been leaning conservative for years yet seemingly conservative judges actually leaned left. If Kagan wants a middle of the road justice then she is more than welcome to fill that role.
Posted by: Airandee || 10/07/2018 6:52 Comments || Top||

#13  They appear to have Roberts as the middle/unpredictable vote.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/07/2018 7:29 Comments || Top||

#14  Ya know, I'm beginning to think whether I've been right to oppose this "living Constitution" bullshit all these years. See my forthcoming article, "Penumbras of the Second Amendment: The M1A2 Abrams As A Militia Weapon".
Posted by: Matt || 10/07/2018 7:48 Comments || Top||

#15  Ref #14: Varoom, varoom, clank, clank, clank.

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Posted by: Besoeker || 10/07/2018 7:50 Comments || Top||

#16  you have one job. speak only when appropriate.
but we all know leftists can't resist flapping their gums
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 10/07/2018 8:16 Comments || Top||

#17  #14 Flamethrowers for home defense. Might need them in this day and age.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/07/2018 8:25 Comments || Top||

#18  When the four libs vote in lockstep, the conservatives should do the same. That would be 99% of the time
Posted by: Frank G || 10/07/2018 9:32 Comments || Top||

#19  Is she saying appearances are more important than the Constitution? A supreme court justice actually said that?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/07/2018 22:31 Comments || Top||



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  Defying Israeli occupation, Golan Druze pledge loyalty to Syria’s Assad
Sat 2018-10-06
  FFFFFFFinally: JUSTICE BRETT KAVANAUGH CONFIRMED 50-48
Fri 2018-10-05
  Yemeni army advances further into Saada amid violent clashes with Houthis
Thu 2018-10-04
  15 terrorists killed in shootout with police in North Sinai: Egypt's interior ministry
Wed 2018-10-03
  'Ricin poison' packages sent to Pentagon
Tue 2018-10-02
  21 ISIS militants killed in drone strikes in Nangarhar province
Mon 2018-10-01
  Houthi naval force targets Saudi patrol boats inside Jizan Port
Sun 2018-09-30
  Chad troops kill 17 Boko Haram fighters after Lake Chad attack
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  Tajikistan national among 48 killed, wounded in Kunduz operations
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  Rockets fired on Ghazni city during President Ghani’s visit
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  Kuwait: Houthi militias threaten international borders with Iran missiles
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