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Witness: ISIS publicly executes 25 'spies' in Mosul
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Marilyn Mosby's Office Says Baltimore Cops' Lawyers 'Spew Invective,' 'Distort Facts'
[DAILYCALLER] In the latest salvo in the Freddie Gray case, the office of Baltimore city state's attorney Marilyn Mosby is accusing the attorneys for six officers charged in the 25-year-old's death of "spew[ing] invective, hoping that vitriol will trump logic."

In a motion filed Wednesday, Mosby's chief deputy, Michael Schatzow, responded to the defense attorneys' calls for the 35-year-old prosecutor to recuse herself from the case because of her personal and political conflicts of interest.

"They make arguments for which they can find no authority," Schatzow said of the defense lawyers. "They distort facts when they do not invent them. They abhor logic, so they do not use it."

In his latest missive, first published by The Baltimore Sun, Schatzow responded to a defense motion filed last week which claimed that Mosby directed the police department's Western district to beef up narcotics patrols at an intersection near where Gray was apprehended on April 12. After being detained and put in a police van, Gray suffered a broken neck at some point during the ride to central booking. He died a week later.

But in their motion last week, defense attorneys cited a March 17 email Joshua Rosenblatt, the division chief of Crime Strategies Unit in Mosby's office, to Western District police commander Major Osborne Robinson. The email indicated that Mosby herself wanted coppers to target suspected drug pushers.
Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another case of size 12 ego in size 3 brain---the wonders of affirmative action.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/21/2015 6:36 Comments || Top||

#2  The email indicated that Mosby herself wanted coppers to target suspected drug pushers.

It would seem that targeting a specific 'high crime' area would be a positive, something to embrace.... unless of course the targeting was against specific drug pushers and tribal 'turf' violations.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/21/2015 6:43 Comments || Top||

#3  One might wonder if pols get kick backs from merchants of unregulated pharmaceuticals who are granted de facto monopolies in their 'turf' much like those limited wholesale licenses granted in the legalized alcohol trade.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/21/2015 8:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Classic case of institutionalized incompetence.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/21/2015 9:46 Comments || Top||

#5  She can't rebut with actual facts so does what leftists usually do. Insult and name-call.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/21/2015 13:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Another Affirmative Action hire. Sigh.
Posted by: Hellfish || 06/21/2015 14:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Projection.
Transference.
Posted by: JHH || 06/21/2015 17:51 Comments || Top||


Marilyn Mosby Responds To Defense Motion For Recusal -- Petulance, Inexperience Permeate Motion Language
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE]
Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Here is the essence of her response:

"Liar! Liar! Pants of fire!"

This person is very dangerous. She had already caused several deaths by basically preventing the cops, Good and bad, from doing their jobs for fear of being prosecuted.

And now I hear they are planning in inditing even more cops. That is going to work real well...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/21/2015 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Mosby and her Marxist clan are simply lashing out at colonial occupiers. The best course of action is to pull out and permit them to pursue their Boko Haram-lite, urban tribal governance undeterred.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/21/2015 6:06 Comments || Top||


Baltimore Police Chief Batts: More officers likely to be arrested, forced out as result of reforms
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] More Baltimore coppers likely face arrest as the result of reforms in a scandal-ridden department that requires "wholesale change," Commissioner Anthony W. Batts wrote in a wide-ranging opinion piece published in The Baltimore Sun.
It will be interesting to watch the West Side become all of Baltimore. Unfortunately, I still have family living in the city. Leonard Bernstein's dead, so he can't write another "West Side Story."
"Our reform efforts will very likely see more coppers lynched incarcerated,"
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
Batts wrote. "We will have more officers who are forced out because their outdated, outmoded views of policing do not match the standards the community expects and demands."
The bad guys want to kill cops and the chief wants them jugged. Good luck with finding recruits.
The piece was published Friday on The Sun's website and appears in Sunday's print editions.
The Sun used to be one of the country's great newspapers. Of course Baldymore used to be a great city, too.
Batts, appointed commissioner nearly three years ago, said he inherited a department stuck in a "cycle of scandal, corruption and malfeasance" and that Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake hired him to reform the agency and rebuild community relationships.
Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah - they should just fire the whole department. Maybe bring in the New Black Panthers or Nation of Islam to replace them. That will insure "justice" - at least for a few favored blacks. Of course, every white person, and many blacks would immediately move out of the city. Which would make it much easier for looters. So, mission accomplished.

/sarcasm
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/21/2015 0:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Fort McHenry looking like prime real estate.
Posted by: Shipman || 06/21/2015 1:58 Comments || Top||

#3  For any of Baltimore's Police Officers reading this, the city of Lakewood, WA is hiring and they fully support their PD.
Just sayin'....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 06/21/2015 12:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Someone could write a damn fine country anthem about watching, from Ft. McHenry, the bombardment of Baltimore. My mind's ear totally lost it when the mic was tossed to the ghost of Frederick Douglass for a chorus or two. Then EAP. Then FSK. And why not Mosby, for a moment of comic relief?
Posted by: Zenobia Flogge || 06/21/2015 13:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Every agency within 100 miles is lickin their chops waiting for the lateral applications from trained, experienced and certified officers.
Posted by: Punky Panda5331 || 06/21/2015 19:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Spengler: Genosuicide and its causes
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 06/21/2015 20:08 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
The Backstory To The Weirdly Awkward John Kerry / James Taylor Charlie Hebdo Thing
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] History needs to be corrected. In the post Charlie Hebdo attack aftermath, every media outlet said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry asked James Taylor to fly to Paris. Actually, the opposite is true; James Taylor’s wife asked Secretary Kerry to come to Paris. Nice to know what’s actually driving our diplomatic endeavors….
Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Moar Airplane! diplomacy.

"Sorry babe, top secret mission to pachystain, can't make it."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/21/2015 11:47 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Alexander Hamilton, Poor Bastard
[WEEKLYSTANDARD] Alexander Hamilton can't get no respect. First, he gets born with at least four strikes against him---in the British West Indies, not exactly the hub of the universe; poor, illegitimate, dead-beat dad, and mother dead when he was eleven; then he blunders into the first great sex scandal of the nascent Republic; then he gets murdered at age 49, shot in a duel by the sitting vice-president, a sociopath who was running a side-line in plotting secession, creating a new state in which he'd be King. Now, two weeks before the 211th anniversary of the duel that killed him, comes the unkindest of cuts: the move to oust his loveable visage from the ten dollar bill, to be replaced by some yet-to-be-picked-out person of gender, to atone for years---nay, decades and centuries----of 'otherness,' dissing, and grief.

Everything is wrong with this ill-advised project, among them the fact that Hamilton eclipses in impact all but a very small handful of presidents, much less the well-meaning but much more obscure list of social workers etc. the feminists want to see in his stead. Why can't they see that this makes them ludicrous? Why can't they go for the two-dollar bill---Jefferson still has the nickel---or one of the less-used denominations, filled by less worthy men? Why should women get on a bill before African Americans do, who have suffered much more (sorry, ladies), and have people, like Frederick Douglass, with much greater claims upon consequence? And why not wait for a woman to come along who really deserves it? The bullpens are filling up with some serious talents, and it won't be long now.
Hamilton and Franklin are as far as I can recall the only non-presidents to grace our currency. It was not always thus. The silver dollar used to carry a portrait of Liberty, represented by the face of the concept as a woman in profile. A grand and lovely lady she was. They took her off the dollar and retired her to a nursing home, where she died on January 21st, 2009.

Hamilton, a Dead White Male, contributed much of substance to the making of Our Fair Land, starting with founding an artillery company at the start of the War for Independence and serving as General Washington's chief of staff. He was a founder of the Federalist Party and Secretary of the Treasury. He was killed in a duel by the despicable rascal Aaron Burr. That was before there were secret service details.
Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hamilton is a dead mostly white male. He may very well be the blackest person of/on note.
Posted by: Shipman || 06/21/2015 2:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Coinage will change first. Then street and city names. Lastly the flag. Not a difficult pattern to follow actually. I hope it can be stopped.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/21/2015 6:09 Comments || Top||

#3  A picture of Ayn Rand would make the leftists head explode.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/21/2015 13:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Someone suggested the image of Molly Pitcher. A picture of her in front of the flag, serving her cannon alongside the men, would make liberal heads explode.

Al
Posted by: frozen al || 06/21/2015 14:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Gotcher perfect candidate right here. Progress must not be denied!
Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) || 06/21/2015 14:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Who told you O & Co are going to replace Hamilton with an American woman.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/21/2015 15:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Just from a design POV, I've always wanted to see Angela Davis (or other huge fro) on a coin. But for the new ten, for a sharp stick in the eye of everything that sucks today, how about John and Abigail Adams?
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 06/21/2015 15:17 Comments || Top||

#8  The only logical choice of a woman to grace a 10 would be Bo Derek.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/21/2015 16:26 Comments || Top||

#9  Why can't they see that this makes them ludicrous?

Because in the eyes of the average My Free Shit LIV Hurr Durr SJW (i.e., the people who actually run this country now) it doesn't make them ludicrous.

They think it's only fair, you guys.
Posted by: charger || 06/21/2015 17:36 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
How Government Stifled Reason's Free Speech
[REASON] Yes, the feds can compel magazines and websites to cough up user information about obviously non-threatening trolls, while barring them from even acknowledging it.
Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When the judiciary assumed the powers of the old state aristocracy without challenge, this is what you get. No life appointments in a republic.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/21/2015 8:21 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Hillary Clinton condemns 'institutional racism' in US
[Iran Press TV] The former US secretary of state made the remarks in a speech in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
on Saturday, days after a 21-year-old white man slaughtered nine African-American worshippers at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

"Race remains a deep fault line in America," Clinton said, speaking in front of the US Conference of Mayors in San Francisco. "Millions of people of color still experience racism in their everyday lives."

She stated that "it's tempting to dismiss a tragedy like this as an isolated incident, to believe that in today's America bigotry is largely behind us, that institutionalized racism no longer exists."
Yes, a failed America and more Obama snake oil remedies required.
"But despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished," she added.

In addition, Clinton called for a "commonsense" approach to gun reforms and vowed to take swift action to tighten gun control laws if elected.

She said that President Barack Obama
teachable moment...
is right on gun control legislation, adding that the "politics on this issue have been poisoned but we can't give up."
Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You mean like the UC system systematically keeping highly qualified American Asians out of their fiefdoms? BTW, don't the marxist-socialist basically operate that institution?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/21/2015 8:13 Comments || Top||

#2  While I'm impressed by Hilly's bold stand against mass murder (although I see that she had to wait for the focus group results to come in), what I really want to see from her is a price list. Exactly how many dineros is my vote worth to you? Although I'm sure it would be out of my price range, just out of curiosity how much would a night in the Lincoln Bedroom cost me? I mean, if we're going to have a cash-and-carry presidency, let's at least be above board about it.
Posted by: Matt || 06/21/2015 12:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Jerry Pournelle has a perfect comment
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/21/2015 15:10 Comments || Top||

#4  P2k, I think you mean Affirmative Action. There. I said it. I'm sure that's not what she means although it is the most egregious form of institutional racism since the Third Reich.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/21/2015 16:22 Comments || Top||


Hillary Gets Reporter's Name Wrong
[WEEKLYSTANDARD]
Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why would she care what someone's name is?

All you need to know is who she is.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 06/21/2015 7:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Mini-strokes.... the downside.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/21/2015 8:03 Comments || Top||

#3  As long as she didn't call him Helen Thomas
Posted by: European Conservative || 06/21/2015 8:11 Comments || Top||


Government
Obama: I spend most of my time on the economy
[NEWS.INVESTORS]
Posted by: Fred || 06/21/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah.
Destroying it.
Posted by: newc || 06/21/2015 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Jimmy Carter never looked so good.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/21/2015 6:52 Comments || Top||

#3  In that case I'm rather glad he didn't spend most of his time on foreign policy.
Posted by: European Conservative || 06/21/2015 7:56 Comments || Top||

#4  View from the last meeting with the Fed Chair

Posted by: Lemuel and Company6787 || 06/21/2015 8:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Obama: I spend most of my time on the economy

Well, there's yer problem right there.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 06/21/2015 8:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Focused like a laser, he sez.
Posted by: Mugsy Glink || 06/21/2015 8:29 Comments || Top||

#7  That must be a code word for golf.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/21/2015 8:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Then he should spend less time on it.

Stick to your fundraising, BO.

It's the one thing you're good at.
Posted by: charger || 06/21/2015 11:49 Comments || Top||

#9  Dunno - maybe he's a rookie Technical Analyst (with all due respect to Technical Analysts) totally amazed by the squiggly lines?
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 06/21/2015 12:29 Comments || Top||

#10  He's actually right. He does spend most of his time on the economy. He spends taxpayer money like there is no tomorrow.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/21/2015 13:16 Comments || Top||

#11  That’s why, on issue after issue where Congress has failed to act, my administration has partnered with mayors and governors across the country to advance economic priorities that most working families in America are in favor of right now.

"We had to burn the village in order to save it"?
Posted by: Pappy || 06/21/2015 14:14 Comments || Top||

#12  He didn't say helping or fixing the economy. It takes time and effort to funnel the vig to his cronys.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 06/21/2015 14:15 Comments || Top||

#13  "It just refuses to die, no matter what I do."?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/21/2015 15:40 Comments || Top||

#14  Though "O" was, for lofos, metonymy,
It's "0" who lased the economy,
For not even Nero
Could out-burn the Zero,
Our stingy pink prince of mononymy.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 06/21/2015 16:08 Comments || Top||

#15  Economy must be part of the EZGO line.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/21/2015 16:14 Comments || Top||



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Sun 2015-06-21
  Witness: ISIS publicly executes 25 'spies' in Mosul
Sat 2015-06-20
  ISIS beheads three of its own amid fighting and regime raids in Syria
Fri 2015-06-19
  Al-Qaeda War against ISIS in East of Libya
Thu 2015-06-18
  Chad bans Islamic face veil after suicide bombings
Wed 2015-06-17
  US targets leader of Al Qaeda in Yemen with CIA drone strike
Tue 2015-06-16
  Kurdish forces seize most of Islamic State-controlled border town
Mon 2015-06-15
  US Airstrike "likely" killed Mokhtar in Libya
Sun 2015-06-14
  US Moves Six Yemeni Guantanamo Detainees To Oman
Sat 2015-06-13
  American Teenager Pleads Guilty to Helping ISIS
Fri 2015-06-12
  Al-Nusra kills 20 Druze
Thu 2015-06-11
  Al Qaeda militants in Libya attack Daesh after leader killed
Wed 2015-06-10
  IS Claims Capture of Libya's Sirte
Tue 2015-06-09
  Saudi-led air strikes kill 44 in attack on Yemeni army compound
Mon 2015-06-08
  Coalition bombing kills ISIS governor in Tal Afar
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