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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Thousands of convicted pedophiles in California are being released from prison in less than a year for horrific acts, including rape, sodomy and sexual abuse of kids under 14, DailyMail.com investigation reveals
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • An analysis of a California sex offenders database shows thousands of child molesters are being let out of prison after just a few months

  • DailyMail.com's investigation reveals more than 7,000 sex offenders were convicted of 'lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age'

  • Those 7,000 pedophiles were released the same year they were convicted

  • Others who committed some of the worst child sex crimes, including sodomy and rape of children, served similarly short sentences

  • Current and former Los Angeles sex crime prosecutors tell DailyMail.com that the figures are 'terrifying' and 'shameful'

  • Deputy DA Jon Hatami blames Proposition 57, a 2016 bill allowing early parole for nonviolent felons which was supported by his boss, LA DA George Gascón

  • 'Thousands of child victims are being denied justice and George Gascón and his group of radical prosecutors can care less,' Hatami said
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Musk has his amnesty and Gavin Newsom has his.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/29/2022 9:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Some little girl's daddy will succumb to the temptation to take the law into his own hands and then he'll be the one who goes to jail. Tragic.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/29/2022 12:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Deputy DA Jon Hatami blames Proposition 57, a 2016 bill allowing early parole for nonviolent felons which was supported by his boss, LA DA George Gascón

I was always under the impression that raping a child is pretty damn violent.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/29/2022 12:20 Comments || Top||

#4  It's not rape-rape according to Whoopi
Posted by: Frank G || 11/29/2022 12:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Sometimes its as gentle as a casting couch.

Maybe that is what Whoopi was getting at?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/29/2022 18:49 Comments || Top||

#6  For Whoopi, it would not have been a couch, it would have been a bouncy castle.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/29/2022 19:06 Comments || Top||

#7  I think it has something to do with her being the bouncy castle, and why she didn't have eyebrows.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/29/2022 19:51 Comments || Top||

#8  she was trying to excuse Roman Polanski drugging and sodomizing a young teen, IIRC
Posted by: Frank G || 11/29/2022 20:35 Comments || Top||

#9  Some took it as evidence that there is (are) a club where his behavior was within the limits of club rules. If you were in the know, you knew not to have drinks with Bill Cosby, for example. That the casting couch, even if drugs were involved, is within club rules. Its all within their culture, you see, to ask the child Princess of The Neverending Story for a nude role.

Boy are they showing those crazies wrong!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/29/2022 22:05 Comments || Top||

#10  Remember, when children are charmed
By our least diverse business, or harmed
By its music and vids,
THEY DO NOT WANT YOUR KIDS,
And we'll all be much safer disarmed.
Posted by: Squinty Spomp3849 || 11/29/2022 22:38 Comments || Top||


Den of Thieves
[HotAir] You may remember how, a few months back, the Biden Administration was proudly parading its LGBTQ++ credentials with its high profile appointment of Sam Brinton as a Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Energy. He has been pictured along with the menagerie of Biden officials of various nonstandard genders and sexualities, and has been sent to diplomatic functions as a representative of the United States.

Presumably the effort is designed to prove how hip and accepting the new (or very old) breed of Democrats is. It is clearly a PR campaign, since it is hardly low profile. Brinton attended the Bastille Day celebration at the French Embassy along with Admiral Rachel Levine, the first transgender Admiral. That is a pretty big deal. Well that didn’t work out so well for them. It turns out that Sam Brinton is a brazen thief, having been charged with a felony theft that took place in my neck of the woods, the Minneapolis-St Paul Airport.

Alpha News, also from my neck of the woods, has the story. Nobody else does, despite the fact that Brinton is on leave from the DOE presumably due to his being caught stealing a woman's luggage. If you don’t read Alpha News you definitely should.

Felony theft. And somehow that has escaped the notice of the MSM. I wonder why. His appointment was obviously high profile, and as you search the web you can find all sorts of stories about his appointment, his bizarre sexual fetishes (including puppy play and bondage), and his status as a hero and fighter for the transgender community. He has been celebrated, taught bondage and sex play at colleges, and is quite high profile in the Biden Administration. But not newsworthy, apparently.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/29/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:


#2  SMASH THE THEYTRIARCHY! Or at least their embarrassingly stupid pronoun stuff. Please?
Posted by: Bubba Pholuque6299 || 11/29/2022 4:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Classic entitlement mentality story.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/29/2022 7:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Felony, huh? Doesn't this freak's job entail having a security clearance? How will a felony conviction affect that?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/29/2022 8:37 Comments || Top||

#5  The Biden administration is continuing another path blazed by Obama - to make the abnormal normal, except with Prada handbags and S & M gear.
Posted by: Raj || 11/29/2022 8:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Felony, huh? Doesn't this freak's job entail having a security clearance? How will a felony conviction affect that?

No effect at all. One set of rules for thee, another set for me.
Posted by: Nguard || 11/29/2022 9:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Ugh...did you have to post that photo? Definitely ruined breakfast for me...not enough eye bleach in the world...
Posted by: Warthog || 11/29/2022 9:52 Comments || Top||

#8  I bet he has quite a collection of luggage at home. He is probably a little disappointed if the clothes are not his size or turn out to be knock-offs. Those go right to the Good Will.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/29/2022 9:53 Comments || Top||

#9  It probably would have gotten away with it but It was caught on survielance camera.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 11/29/2022 13:51 Comments || Top||

#10  Is the bag of money still on the carousel?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/29/2022 19:55 Comments || Top||

#11  I'm surprised the feebs didn't roll up the actual owner of the luggage before this story broke.

It will be labelled a Russian disinformation op.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/29/2022 20:40 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
US rule would limit methane leaks from public lands drilling
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Interior Department on Monday proposed rules to limit methane leaks from oil and gas drilling on public lands, the latest action by the Biden administration to crack down on emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to global warming.
Proposed? That’s a little different than imposed...
The proposal by Interior's Bureau of Land Management would tighten limits on gas flaring on federal land and require energy companies to better detect methane leaks that add to planet-warming greenhouse gas pollution.

The actions follow a more comprehensive methane-reduction plan announced by President Joe Biden earlier this month. The Nov. 11 proposal, announced as Biden attended a global climate conference in Egypt, targets the oil and gas industry for its role in global warming even as the president has pressed energy producers for more oil drilling to lower prices at the gasoline pump.

Oil and gas production is the nation´s largest industrial source of methane, the primary component of natural gas, and is a key target for the Biden administration as it seeks to combat climate change.

The proposal announced Monday would prevent billions of cubic feet of natural gas from being wasted through venting, flaring and leaks, boosting efficiency while at the same time reducing pollution, administration officials said.

"This proposed rule will bring our regulations in line with technological advances that industry has made in the decades since the BLM´s rules were first put in place, while providing a fair return to taxpayers," Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a statement.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Investigate the energy policy.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/29/2022 10:06 Comments || Top||

#2  I will fart while on public lands if I want too!
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/29/2022 10:36 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
White House leaves out Hunter's daughter he had with a stripper out of wedlock from stocking display for a second year in a row
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] And so they always will. As far as the Bidens are concerned, she is an unwanted accident who wasn’t eliminated before birth.
"In our eyes she was properly aborted"
  • First Lady Jill Biden unveiled the White House Christmas decorations on Monday that featured stockings over the fireplace for the eight Biden grandchildren

  • Even Peter Neal, Naomi Biden's new husband, first dog Commander and first cat Willow got a stocking

  • But little Navy Joan Roberts, the four-year-old daughter Hunter Biden bore out of wedlock four years ago, was left out of the display

  • The Biden family, including Hunter, reportedly never met Navy, though she was born in August 2018 to Lunden Alexis Roberts
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She got lucky. Joe is a little handy when he dresses as Santa.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/29/2022 9:57 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
White House DEFENDS deal to drill oil in Venezuela and rejects claims Biden is reducing production on American soil - less than a month after President said 'no more drilling'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Over the Thanksgiving holiday the Biden administration quietly granted a license to Chevron to resume oil production in Venezuela

  • The move eased sanctions imposed on the dictatorship in 2019 due to human rights violations

  • 'Our expectation is there won't be a lot of oil coming out of there. And it will have to be shipped to the United States,' spokesman John Kirby said
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1 

Now the unasked and answered question:

How Much will Socialist Venezuela get out of the deal, and who in the OIL industry is donating to the LSD's or DC Swamp family pockets?


BTW: Read in Forbes some years ago. "How Venezuela Ruined Its Oil Industry"

Chávez the then Socialist Dictator of Venezuela and close friend to Castro, demanded changes to the Oil Drill agreements made by the international oil companies that would give PDVSA majority control of the projects.

He then proceeded to siphoned off too much Oil $$$ to fund his Socialism regime, failed to re-invest in oil operations and fired those that knew how to drill and operate oil rigs and replaced them with his Socialist Cronies.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/29/2022 8:44 Comments || Top||

#2  No sane company would want to be involved in the environmental disaster that the Chavez Maduro regime has created in Venezuela. They ran off all the competent employees. Incompetent oil drilling is not something you clean up with a roll of Bounty and jug of dish washing soap. No sense getting caught holding the bag in what will equate to a national superfund when the pendulum of justice scythes down the current clowns.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/29/2022 10:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Creating a comeback opportunity for that Danziger guy...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/29/2022 10:50 Comments || Top||

#4  He then proceeded to siphoned off too much Oil $$$ to fund his Socialism regime...

I think what he was funding was his own private lifestyle.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/29/2022 12:18 Comments || Top||

#5  As I recall, President Chavez then pre-sold something like five to ten years of production to China in return for China funding the running costs, a significant discount over the oil price at the time.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/29/2022 14:00 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ BINGO

China.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2022 14:06 Comments || Top||

#7  'Why does Biden hate Brown People and The Rain Forest?'
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/29/2022 17:45 Comments || Top||

#8  "A carcass, Caracas, eh?"
"Yup."
"A pig in a poke."
"Such a shtup!"
China takes to the skies.
[doorbell rings]
"We're the guys
That the government sent to clean up."
Posted by: Squinty Spomp3849 || 11/29/2022 18:39 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Fauci Couldn't Name Any Studies Showing Masks Work Against COVID
[Epoch Times] About two months later, Fauci and other top officials reversed course and issued widespread masking recommendations, regardless of symptoms.

"He was asked what studies or study changed his mind in that interim, which is what he claimed—he claimed that it was studied. He couldn’t name any," Jenin Younes, one of the lawyers, told The Epoch Times.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who was also present during the deposition in Maryland, said on social media that Fauci "couldn’t cite a single study" to back up his claim that masks were effective against COVID-19.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made the change in masking advice on April 3, 2020, leading to widespread mask mandates. Officials, including then-CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield, said studies indicating asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 led to the change. They cited zero studies on mask effectiveness. Many studies on masks don’t support their usage, including a CDC study widely cited by top officials, researchers have found.
Actually, that study was cited by both sides.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/29/2022 11:30 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


The White House REFUSES to condemn China's crackdown on COVID protesters chanting 'freedom' - as US embassy urges Americans to keep a TWO-WEEK supply of medications, water and food at home because of threats of strict lockdowns
Rolled over from a late SKIDPOST from yesterday
[MAIL] The White House steered away from speaking out against China's response to protesters on Monday, saying it supported anyone's right to peacefully protest - but falling far short of offering solidarity with demonstrators demanding the removal of President Xi Jinping.

Earlier Chinese police tightened security at the sites of weekend protests in Shanghai and Beijing.

Crowds had gathered in anger over China's zero-Covid policies, and in some cases demanded the removal of Xi.

'We want freedom,' has become their rallying cry.

While President Joe Biden has recently spoken up enthusiastically in favor of protests in Iran, this time officials said he had no plan to comment on China.

'The president's not gonna speak for protesters around the world,' said White House National Security Council official John Kirby when asked about Biden's response to protesters freedom chants.

'They're speaking for themselves ...

'What we are doing is making it clear that we support the right of peaceful protest.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2022 00:24 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  No "condemnation" from fellow travelers, only admiration.

Something to watch in the coming weeks and months.

Posted by: Besoeker || 11/29/2022 0:35 Comments || Top||


#3  Don't want to give your own people any ideas?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/29/2022 7:45 Comments || Top||

#4  What China is doing has nothing to do with COVID. COVID is just the cover for more tweaking of the totalitarian screws.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/29/2022 8:04 Comments || Top||

#5  They are NEOCONs without the freedom slogans. Only the underlying corruption and hypocrisy remain.
Posted by: Super Hose || 11/29/2022 10:09 Comments || Top||


#7  China to US Embassy: everyone is required to have 5 consecutive negative Covid anal swabs or leave country.

While President Joe Biden has recently spoken up enthusiastically in favor of protests in Iran

Has he?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/29/2022 11:14 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Trump calls Special Counsel a 'hit man for Obama' and 'fully-weaponized monster' in rant claiming his family compared his election win to 9/11 and asking if the FBI will ever 'invade' Bill and Hillary Clinton's home
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Trump attacked the special counsel, who was named by AG Merrick Garland

  • Jack Smith former headed up DOJ's Public Integrity Section

  • Trump called him a 'fully weaponized monster'

  • He also said he 'did nothing wrong on January 6th'

  • DOJ probing government documents at Mar-a-Lago and election overturn effort

  • Trump complained about the search

  • 'When will you invade Bill and Hillary’s home in search of the 33,000 emails?'

  • Comes after conservative allies tried to paint Smith as partisan
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/29/2022 04:12 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Comes after conservative allies tried to paint Smith as partisan

Does he work for the DoJ? Then he is partisan.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/29/2022 7:42 Comments || Top||

#2  People like to say that Trump rants too much, makes himself look like a crazy man, has a persecution complex. But every time Democrats, RINOs or DOJ try to pull something like this "special counsel", it tells me that they fear him and the more they fear him, the more I want him to win. Anybody who scares the Democrats that badly has to onto something.

They've been trying to nail Trump for something, anything, for the past seven years now and still they come up with nothing. Who in this world could stand up to that kind of scrutiny and remain unscathed?

And, after seven years, it amazes me that more people don't begin to wonder if DoJ is full of incompetents, corrupt or both?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/29/2022 12:37 Comments || Top||


Voter Outreach Program
[GatewayPundit] Raphael Warnock’s campaign called US Veteran and homeless advocate Dom Lucre this weekend and asked him to vote for far left Senator Warnock in the December runoff election.

Dom Lucre lives in Tennessee.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/29/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Voter outreach or Ballot outreach?
Posted by: mossomo || 11/29/2022 12:34 Comments || Top||

#2 
Will say it over and over.

How can a Person claiming to be a man of GOD with the title of "Reverend" of the Christian Faith, be a member of a political party that openly attacks religious morality, openly attacks Christians, supports abortion, supports homosexuality and Transgenderism in schools with children?

Plus being Black, be a member of said party that supported the KKK, promoted Slavery, Jim Crow and massive segregation?

Aren't the LSD's just playing the Black community using COLOR, and the title of Reverend to get votes.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/29/2022 20:53 Comments || Top||



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