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Miserable Twitter Troll Doxes Everyone Who Donated to #GoFundTheWall
[PJMedia] Just a heads up if you are one of the many who together donated over $13 million to the effort, dear Reader, and if PJ Media is not one of your regular stops.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And who is this troll?
Posted by: jvalentour || 12/23/2018 0:09 Comments || Top||

#2  ...my guess, the nexus would indicate that GoFundMe may have an internal problem, either plainly very poor automation security or its an inside job. Given the number of breaches in corporations in the past few years, you bet the credit card companies are doing their damnedest to prevent repeats. That would imply the breach has to go back to the point of centralization.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/23/2018 6:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Companies couldn't leak information if they didn't have it in the first place. That would be my preference at least.
Posted by: Iblis || 12/23/2018 11:25 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 (or some variation of the scenario) is almost certainly the answer.
Posted by: charger || 12/23/2018 12:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Real world consequences need to be physically imposed on these hateful "anonymous" idiots.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 12/23/2018 19:13 Comments || Top||

#6  you bet the credit card companies are doing their damnedest to prevent repeats.

If the list of donors is from more than one cc company, it would have to be GoFundMe somehow.
Posted by: gorb || 12/23/2018 22:51 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Congress wants to keep space industrialization a regulation nightmare.
[twitter] Space Frontier Act fails to get a 2/3rds majority needed for passage under suspension of the rules.


Posted by: 3dc || 12/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good. Maybe it'll teach those Carbon Criminals with their primitive kerosene-powered rockets a lesson about how important it is to protect the atmosphere.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/23/2018 9:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like "space" is angling for more kickbacks to senators.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/23/2018 11:07 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Corey Booker And Mazie Hirono Attack Judicial Nominee For Being Catholic
[Red State] One would think it is rather cut-and-dried. Article 6 of the US Constitution reads, in part:

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

This is not all that hard to understand. But, for progressive Democrats, an orthodox Christian causes a reaction much like Lucifer coming into contact with Holy Water. When Amy Coney Barrett was being grilled by Dianne Feinstein at what was supposed to be a confirmation hearing but looked more like an atheist auto-da-fé, there was this remarkable exchange.

When you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you. And that’s of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have fought for for years in this country.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2018 01:56 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But Spartacus and Hazy Morono are down with druids, wiccans, atheists and satanists, no doubt.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/23/2018 11:25 Comments || Top||

#2  And if Barrett converted to Islam all they'd ask is whether her chair was comfortable.
Posted by: Matt || 12/23/2018 12:30 Comments || Top||

#3  no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

This bears repeating. At close range, and high volume, into Sen Booker's and Sen Hirono's faces.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 12/23/2018 12:53 Comments || Top||

#4  It would serve them right if Barrett (who has a whiff of squish about her) were replaced by a more hardcore nominee.
Posted by: charger || 12/23/2018 13:47 Comments || Top||


Lawmakers shrug off shutdown drama - What's the problem, we're still getting paid
[The Hill] Call it the tranquil shutdown. As the government careened toward a partial closure Friday night, lawmakers in both parties did a peculiar thing: they started heading home.

The absence of urgency ‐ and the utter disregard for the bad optics of conceding failure before the clock ran out ‐ strikes a sharp contrast with spending impasses of the past.

Previous debates were marked by a fierce scramble to find agreement right up to the deadline ‐ complete with marathon midnight meetings and wee-hour floor votes ‐ followed by hours or days of frantic negotiations to reopen the government, if only as a public demonstration of congressional competence.

Not this time.

As roughly a quarter of the federal government went dark at midnight Friday, there were few signs of life in the Capitol. The halls echoed with emptiness as leaders in both parties had departed hours before and many rank-and-file lawmakers were already on planes back home for the December holidays.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2018 01:08 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  congressional competence.

....Oh, okay. See, there's yer problem right there..

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/23/2018 7:17 Comments || Top||

#2  When the troops don't get paid, I'll tell you who history repeatedly says ends up running the government and it ain't a bunch of pols.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/23/2018 11:32 Comments || Top||

#3  They are the one group that should not be paid, and not reimbursed when its over.
Posted by: ruprecht || 12/23/2018 12:56 Comments || Top||

#4  The troops will be paid. From An Nahar yesterday:

About three-quarters of the government, including the military and the Department of Health and Human Services, is fully funded until the end of September 2019, leaving 25 percent unfunded as of Saturday.

Most NASA employees will be sent home, as will Commerce Department workers and many at the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, Agriculture and State.

National parks will remain open, but most park staff will stay home while Washington is unable to accomplish one of its most basic tasks -- keeping the government up and running.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/23/2018 13:12 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 12/23/2018 20:23 Comments || Top||

#6  "When the troops don't get paid, I'll tell you who history repeatedly says ends up running the government and it ain't a bunch of pols."

It was Obama that did that.
Posted by: newc || 12/23/2018 20:41 Comments || Top||


AOC calls for congressional salaries to be furloughed during next shutdown
[The Hill] Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Saturday called for congressional salaries to be furloughed during the next government shutdown.

Roughly a quarter of federal agencies closed when Congress failed to meet a midnight funding deadline on Friday. Lawmakers arrived Saturday at the Capitol as congressional negotiators try to find a path forward on a deal to end the funding lapse.

"It’s completely unacceptable that members of Congress can force a government shutdown on partisan lines & then have Congressional salaries exempt from that decision," Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter.

"Have some integrity," she added, calling for salaries to be furloughed for the next shutdown.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2018 00:47 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A pipe dream, but suddenly I find myself in love with this woman.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/23/2018 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Conditional love, Besoeker...........
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 12/23/2018 1:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Stopped clock syndrome.
Posted by: Thromong Trotsky2758 || 12/23/2018 6:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Beat me to it, TT...
Posted by: Raj || 12/23/2018 7:33 Comments || Top||

#5  She is right, but I would stop their pay until they pass an actual real budget, not these COR. Do your real job schmucks or no money for you. And no breaks either. Hell, we should start fining them as well. $10,000/day sounds right. Paid toward the debt.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 12/23/2018 7:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Next constitution, in the legislative section, decree that if appropriations for the following year are not passed by the fiscal year end date, all members of congress are barred from elected or appointed government positions for 10 years. You better believe they'll get it done with a lot of compromising regardless of party.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/23/2018 11:30 Comments || Top||

#7  She is an idiot, but like stopped clock getting the time right twice a day, she is right on this one.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/23/2018 12:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Anyone even leftist can observe an unfortunate situation, the problem is that the left's "solutions" are worse than the problem itself and caused by their deep ignorance/dunning kruger problems.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/23/2018 15:04 Comments || Top||



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  Somalia blast kills at least 16 near presidential palace
Sat 2018-12-22
  Nine new arrests in Morocco over murder of Scandinavian hikers
Fri 2018-12-21
  ISIS Blamed for Murder of Scandinavian Women on Camera in Morocco
Thu 2018-12-20
  Yemen's warring sides accuse each other of violating ceasefire
Wed 2018-12-19
  Jihadist Migrant Plotted to Bomb Vatican, Italian Churches at Christmas
Tue 2018-12-18
  KDF Arrests Al Shabaab Members Planting Explosives In Lamu County
Mon 2018-12-17
  U.S. airstrikes kill 62 al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia
Sun 2018-12-16
  Israeli Army Says Fourth Hezbollah Attack Tunnel Found Crossing From Lebanon
Sat 2018-12-15
  Heavy clashes breakout in Hodeidah after UN-backed ceasefire announcement
Fri 2018-12-14
  Maulana Samiul Haq's personal secretary arrested, labelled person of interest in murder probe
Thu 2018-12-13
  Egyptian military kills 27 terrorists in recent operations
Wed 2018-12-12
  IDF uncovers third attack tunnel dug from Lebanon into Israel
Tue 2018-12-11
  At least two dead, 11 wounded in French Christmas market shooting
Mon 2018-12-10
  Taliban’s shadow governor for Paktika province has been killed
Sun 2018-12-09
  In rain and mud, IDF exposes another tunnel from Lebanon into Israel


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