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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Judge Shuts Down Obama Donor's Attempt to Pay-Off Teen Sex Victim
[FREEBEACON] A proposed civil settlement by gay activist and Obama bundler Terry Bean that would have cleared Bean of criminal charges for an alleged sexual encounter with a 15-year-old boy was rejected by a Eugene, Ore., judge, according to Oregon Live.

Bean, who raised over $1 million for President Barack Obama
Ready to Rule from Day One...
's two presidential campaigns, was incarcerated
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
last November and charged with two counts of third-degree sodomy and one count of third-degree sex abuse. The charges stemmed from allegations that the 66-year-old Bean and his 25-year-old boyfriend had sex with the teenage boy in a Eugene hotel when he was 15.

Last week, Bean's lawyer cleared the court and attempted to sell a settlement agreement that had been reached with the teenage boy, but the deal was rejected by the judge who learned that Bean had avoided similar charges through a civil agreement.
Bean seems like such a nice chap. His links to pedophilia are no doubt over blown and isolated.
Posted by: Fred || 07/21/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Won't there soon be an Ambassadorship opening in Cuba?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/21/2015 3:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Gays, women*. Child rape has different outcomes than straight white males. All animals are equal, just some are more equal than others...cause the responsibility and punishment are not.

*scroll the whole list of the Instapundit's chronicle.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/21/2015 9:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Plus, he can't moonwalk worth a damn.
Posted by: JHH || 07/21/2015 14:41 Comments || Top||


Economy
More children living in poverty now than during recession
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/21/2015 10:37 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Minorities hardest hit thanks to Obamanomics!
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/21/2015 10:38 Comments || Top||

#2  No, no, Darth. Minorities have been hardest hit because the evil Rethuglicans in Congress are racist and won't give them more money.

Especially Mia Love and Tim Scott.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/21/2015 10:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Not to be confused with the children living in 'real' poverty as in Haiti or Central America.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/21/2015 11:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Fear notteth, Kiddies, as per OWG NAU ITS MEXICO + CANADA + GREENLAND COMING TO YOUR RESCUE!

Oh wait ...

Yokay, I'll bite, methought ...

* LUCIANNE > [NY Observer] RICK PERRY AND DAVID PETRAEUS: THE RISE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CENTURY.

Did CONUS-NORAM [Americas = New World] win the Mackindrian fight to be the World-ruling "World Island", NOT the USSR-now-Putinist-Russia + SCO-CSTO-BRICS = Eurasia???

Once again ...

[VINNY "I'M SO CONFUSED" BARBARINO here].
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/21/2015 23:14 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Donald goes TRUMP
h/t Instapundit
John McCain has called his own constituents who want a secure border "crazies." No one in the news media or the establishment, including the Republican National Committee, criticized the senator for those comments.

Now, as respected reporter Sharyl Attkisson has proved point by point, the news media are also distorting my words. But that is not my point. McCain the politician has failed the state of Arizona and the country.

...Thanks to McCain and his Senate colleague Bernie Sanders, their legislation to cover up the VA scandal, in which 1,000+ veterans died waiting for medical care, made sure no one has been punished, charged, jailed, fined or held responsible. McCain has abandoned our veterans. I will fight for them.
He, he, he
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/21/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  McCain is a fool.
Posted by: jvalentour || 07/21/2015 6:49 Comments || Top||

#2  McCain is running to keep the Senate seat warm for his daughter (who, like her father, is intellectually challenged).
Posted by: Clyde Borgia7976 || 07/21/2015 10:20 Comments || Top||

#3  I am happy to see that Trump got the issue out there before he burned out.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/21/2015 10:26 Comments || Top||

#4  I kinda resent being called a crazy person just because I think we should secure our border with Mexico. But I didn't think much of it because I figured it was just par for the course with McCain. But now Trump has called him on it and everybody is flipping out. It is highly entertaining to listen to the piggies squeal.

McCain has been trading on his war record for his entire political career. But aside from getting shot down and held in a POW camp, what has he done? Let's see. He co-sponsored the Dream Act. He went merrily along while Obama doubled the national debt. He wanted to get us into a war in Syria, then he wanted to get us into a war in Ukraine. Where else? Libya? He is a crooked old fool. I hate to say this but I'm afraid we're actually better off with Obama in the White House than we would have been if McCain had won in 2008.

McCain served his country in Vietnam back in the 1960's and 70's but if he really wanted to serve us now he'd resign from the Senate, go home, sit on his rocking chair and shut the fuck up.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 07/21/2015 12:03 Comments || Top||

#5  I'll post again, Benedict Arnold, taken POW in the failed Canadian expedition, exchanged for British prisoners, fought damn hard and critically at the Battle of Saratoga insuring victory. Then his ego and resentment got the better of him and he joined the other side. I guess he had enough of those 'crazies' as well. Seems to be a similar current here in the flow of history.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/21/2015 15:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
"Fine. I'll order the lowering of the damn flag. Happy?"

President Obama has ordered flags at the White House and other public buildings to fly at half-staff after mounting criticism over the delay in honoring five armed forces members killed last week by a gunman.

Obama's proclamation calls for the flags to remain at half-mast through Saturday "as a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence perpetrated on July 16."

Obama announced his decision hours after Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) ordered flags at the U.S. Capitol to be flown at half-staff.

Ahead of Obama's decision, conservatives lined up to pan the president for failing to lower the flag. They noted that various governors around the country have done so and that the White House had lowered its flag after other mass shootings.

Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Armed Service Committee, issued a statement earlier Tuesday asking Obama to do the "right thing" by lowering the flag. And Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, panned Obama as well.

"Five service members were killed on American soil, and the idea that the Commander in Chief is so far unwilling to lower flags in their honor is unconscionable," he said.

"The flag and all it represents is sacred to our military, and the President must know that lowering the flag is a signal of honor and respect. The President should make this call immediately."

Marcus Luttrell, a retired Navy SEAL whose story became the bestselling book Lone Survivor and a movie starring Mark Wahlberg, also took to Facebook on Monday night to call on the president to lower the flag.
Posted by: Frank G || 07/21/2015 13:43 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He only did it because it was making him look bad.

Now if we can just make him deport himself....
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/21/2015 14:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Kathryn Steinle could not be reached for comment regarding any resemblance to Champ's offspring.
Posted by: JHH || 07/21/2015 14:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Must not have been any black Marines killed.
Posted by: gorb || 07/21/2015 17:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Yet another example of leading from behind.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2015 18:02 Comments || Top||

#5  I was trying to think of a witty reparte using "lead" and "behind" for this metro-sexual ass-clown however the country is taking it in the shorts from this "so-called" man so nothing is funny
Posted by: Warthog || 07/21/2015 19:28 Comments || Top||

#6  And a NOT-A-LITTLE-CORPORAL = MAYOR shall lead the way!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/21/2015 19:30 Comments || Top||

#7  I am convinced this man will become more and more openly racist/biased/hateful and finally showing his true disdain for white America and our history and institutions. The American people elected the most dishonest politician in our history and increasingly, he plans to rub their noses in their utter stupidity... wait until the pardons/commutations volume becomes thousands a week!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/21/2015 19:51 Comments || Top||

#8  "I'm a king of particular kind
Who can lead the illegal and blind:
I'll rally the shamblin'
From all over Hamelin...
To the lamp that shines out my behind!"
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 07/21/2015 19:51 Comments || Top||



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