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Easing frayed ties, Turkish court allows US pastor to go free
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Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/12/2018 13:50 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And she ain't over yet.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/12/2018 15:59 Comments || Top||

#2  She's just articulating what the Left truly seeks, the abolition of anything that obstructs their attainment of absolute power. The only part of the Constitution they want is the blind obedience of the prols to whom ever claims it as theirs.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/12/2018 16:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Venezuela it is! Hugo and Maduro have changed their with rubber-stamped packed tools of legislature. Glorious the Bolivarian Revolution! Pass that TP?
Posted by: Frank G || 10/12/2018 19:46 Comments || Top||

#4  The message is: You have no stuff. Other people have stuff. We can fix that...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2018 19:56 Comments || Top||


Ouch
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/12/2018 03:50 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  KFC sign: Taylor Swift Special: Two bony thighs, two small breasts and a left wing.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2018 6:47 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Nice!
Posted by: Raj || 10/12/2018 9:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Daang.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/12/2018 9:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Also alleged online that swift doesn't mind a box meal...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/12/2018 14:31 Comments || Top||


#6  "Your genes, however, I can do nothing about"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/12/2018 16:14 Comments || Top||


Trump defies California senators with 9th Circuit judge nominations
[SacBee] Made themselves "unconsultable" did they? Elections, and Disgusting actions, have consequences, beyotches After months of negotiations and delays, the White House is moving to fill California's three vacancies on the influential 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ‐ over the strenuous objections of the state's two Democratic senators.

White House officials had been negotiating with Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, earlier in the year about filling these and other federal court vacancies in the state. But that dialogue collapsed this past summer, Senate aides said.

On Wednesday night, the Trump administration announced it was nominating three attorneys to the Ninth Circuit, the largest and busiest federal appeals court in the country. Among the thorny issues the court has tackled or could decide on are the legality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program for undocumented young people brought to the country as children, the president's travel ban on people from several Muslim-majority countries, and a lawsuit challenging the White House's attempts to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities.

The White House also announced nominees for three district court vacancies in California on Wednesday.

President Trump's nominees for the appeals court ‐ litigators Daniel Collins and Kenneth Lee and Assistant United States Attorney Patrick Bumatay ‐ are all based in Southern California, are prominent members of the conservative Federalist Society, and have worked for Republican administrations. None of the three were approved by Feinstein or Harris via a process known as a "blue slip," the senators' offices confirmed Thursday.

"Last night the White House moved forward without consulting me, picking controversial candidates from its initial list and another individual with no judicial experience who had not previously been suggested," Feinstein said in a statement.

"Instead of working with our office to identify consensus nominees for the 9th Circuit, the White House continues to try to pack the courts with partisan judges who will blindly support the President's agenda, instead of acting as an independent check on this Administration," Lily Adams, Harris' communications director, said in a statement.

Traditionally, presidents have deferred to home state senators when nominating federal judges, agreeing not to nominate people unless those senators returned their blue slip in support of the prospective judge.

President Trump and Senate Republicans, however, have done away with that custom, angering Democrats as they pushed forward controversial nominees for appeals court posts in Ohio, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

As the leading Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Feinstein has more clout than the average Senate Democrat. And the White House and Senate Republicans were initially careful to engage her. Last spring, White House sent Feinstein and Harris' offices a list of possible nominees to fill vacancies left by the retirements of two 9th Circuit judges and the death of a third. That list reportedly included Lee and Collins.

Posted by: Frank G || 10/12/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Last night the White House moved forward without consulting me,..." Feinstein said in a statement.

You slapped Trump in the face and now are shocked, shocked!, that he returns the same courtesy. To quote the great Sage Bugs Bunny: "What a maroon!"
Posted by: magpie || 10/12/2018 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Consider this partial payback, DiFi and Kamala - emphasis on partial.
Posted by: Raj || 10/12/2018 1:17 Comments || Top||

#3  State of California is in de Facto rebelion against the federal government. This is war, makhasheyfe!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/12/2018 2:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Who's in charge the president or minority party opposition senators?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/12/2018 3:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Consider this a favor returned.

Daft bitch.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/12/2018 9:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Letter to G. Soros

"Dear George,
We are at a loss of what to do next. The usual tactics we employ seem to be failing. The GOP deplorables are no longer acting like sheep. Even the reliable Lindsey G. has grown a spine. e.g The latest USSC appointment.

While it might be useful to "double-down" on the calls to violence by the useful idiots, Americans who usually don't give a shit are enraged.

Perhaps we should heed the warning of Yamamoto after Pearl Harbor.
"I fear all we have done is awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.."
What should we do next?"

Faithfully,
Diane

P.S. Tell me you're not backing that tool DeLeon please!
Posted by: Warthog || 10/12/2018 9:58 Comments || Top||

#7  It might be a good time to break the 9th Circuit into two or three bits.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/12/2018 10:06 Comments || Top||

#8  I was ne’er if these are part of the 16 that were confirmed today?
Posted by: 49 pan || 10/12/2018 11:03 Comments || Top||

#9  break it up and move part to NV, part to ID, and part to UT
Posted by: 746 || 10/12/2018 11:09 Comments || Top||

#10  ...or move it to Hawaii, just before we sell the place to the Chinese to cover our debt.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/12/2018 16:35 Comments || Top||


Staffers for TN Senate Candidate Phil Bredesen Caught on Tape Admitting He Lied About Supporting Kavanaugh
[PJMEDIA]
Posted by: Fred || 10/12/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, he's a democrat, ain't he?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/12/2018 2:55 Comments || Top||

#2  The old McCain "I support the wall" spiel?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/12/2018 6:26 Comments || Top||

#3  But it's unfair to call politicians liars, ya know...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2018 6:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Get any politician by themselves and most will spout all sorts of interesting bullshit about how they are lying.

Seems the demoncrats have an especially hard time not self implicating themselves.

Keep it up, guys!
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/12/2018 9:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Taylor Swift unavailable for comment
Posted by: Warthog || 10/12/2018 10:13 Comments || Top||

#6  This is the second video in Project Verita’s Election 2018 series. The first was released October 8th:

Oregon Governor Kate Brown, Fmr Campaign Manger Details "Graft & Corruption"
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2018 10:28 Comments || Top||

#7  This is another reason why I think drug and alcohol testing to should be mandatory for elected officials and their staffs. I'm not sure how many will be caught but as it's a requirement for my employment due to the negative impacts on life, limb and property that can occur, I see no reason why it should not apply to those who pass laws affecting the same.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/12/2018 11:15 Comments || Top||


Democrats' Arizona Senate Nominee Caught on Tape Bashing...Arizona
[TOWNHALL]
Posted by: Fred || 10/12/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  See Bredesen story above. They think the electorate in their states are stupid. They're probably mostly right...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2018 6:49 Comments || Top||

#2  She doubled down.


New video of her calling Arizona the "Meth lab of democracy"
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/12/2018 12:19 Comments || Top||

#3  I think it's like Project Veritas. They have an archive of her Commie/Anti-Arizona bullshit on tape and they're gonna dribble it out til election day.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/12/2018 15:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Have Cindi and Meggie endorsed her yet?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2018 16:06 Comments || Top||


‘Mentally ill’, ‘illiterate’, ‘incel’: Liberals vent fury as Kanye West visits Trump in White House
[RT] Accusing political opponents of being mentally ill used to be frowned upon in democracies, yet that was the prime tactic media and Twitter voices deployed against Kanye West, who was also labeled an "incel"
They are calling the husband of Kim Kardashian an involuntary celibate?
and "boot licker."

The 41-year old rapper was at his most bombastic, as he wore a MAGA hat to the White House on Thursday, where he was personally received by US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
, who gave him a hug.

While Kanye has previously expressed sympathies for the current administration, the visit provoked an outpouring of unadulterated condemnation from the mainstream.
Posted by: Fred || 10/12/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Trump/Kanye 2020!
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 10/12/2018 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Sooner or later these libs are gonna start dying from aneurysms.
Posted by: Raj || 10/12/2018 1:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Not soon enough
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/12/2018 2:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Notice how quickly they sink into homophobic, racist, misogynistic dialogue when someone goes off the plantation. Thus revealing the Freudian Projection of all those accusations they hurl at others.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/12/2018 6:14 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm afraid I see a lot of people getting way too excited about a self-promoter who's just working an unusual angle. But I'm a cynic...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/12/2018 6:52 Comments || Top||

#6  It used to be people understood you do what it takes to get push your cause. Liberals don't care about that now, they are the new Puritans and any compromise with Republicans is EVIL.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/12/2018 10:07 Comments || Top||

#7  Did he stay in the Lincoln bedroom?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/12/2018 10:08 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ golf clap
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/12/2018 13:55 Comments || Top||

#9  I saw some guy this AM on MSM call West Trump's ventriloquist dummy. These people are becoming unhinged.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/12/2018 13:58 Comments || Top||

#10  Becomming, AP?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 10/12/2018 15:58 Comments || Top||

#11  It's hilarious, because the Left loved Kanye back in the Katrina days when he blasted GWB. "George Bush doesn't care about black people..."
Posted by: Dar || 10/12/2018 16:45 Comments || Top||

#12 
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 10/12/2018 19:15 Comments || Top||



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  Easing frayed ties, Turkish court allows US pastor to go free
Thu 2018-10-11
  Afghan officials get 20 years for handing secrets to Pakistan
Wed 2018-10-10
  Turkey to search Saudi Consulate for missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Tue 2018-10-09
  Nikki Haley Resigns As US Ambassador To The UN
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  IDF fires at Gazans launching incendiary balloons at Israel
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  Defying Israeli occupation, Golan Druze pledge loyalty to Syria’s Assad
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  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
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  'Ricin poison' packages sent to Pentagon
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  21 ISIS militants killed in drone strikes in Nangarhar province
Mon 2018-10-01
  Houthi naval force targets Saudi patrol boats inside Jizan Port
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  Chad troops kill 17 Boko Haram fighters after Lake Chad attack
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