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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Hunter Biden Told To Get a Job By Judge (Who the Hell Would Hire Him!)
Hunter, Meet Your New Mama
[FoxNews] A federal judge in Delaware on Wednesday ordered Hunter Biden to "actively seek employment," abstain from drugs or alcohol, submit to random drug testing and not possess a firearm as conditions for staying out of jail.

The conditions were laid out by U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika as part of the ongoing investigation in Delaware centering around the first son.
Posted by: Enver Dingle4916 || 07/27/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'll take some onion rings with that, big guy...
Posted by: Raj || 07/27/2023 1:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Zelensky.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/27/2023 5:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Why judge, don't you know that's racist! (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/27/2023 6:39 Comments || Top||

#4  I think the artwork prices just dropped a couple (or three) 0's
Posted by: Frank G || 07/27/2023 6:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Hunter Biden Plea Deal Falls Through After Bribery Check Bounces
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2023 7:02 Comments || Top||

#6  He is literally doing his job.

Raj, I'd think ordering Onion Rings from Hunter will get you something....unexpected.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/27/2023 8:26 Comments || Top||

#7  They will hire him as part of Joe’s reelection campaign, but they will try to hide from the public where he is on the payroll.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/27/2023 9:32 Comments || Top||

#8  This is from more than a decade ago, but it's apropos of #6...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/27/2023 9:36 Comments || Top||

#9  I understand John Edwards did a stint in telesales.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2023 10:45 Comments || Top||

#10  I bet he could make you A Pizza with Extra Parmesan.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/27/2023 11:17 Comments || Top||

#11  He has some experience in grief counseling on his resume.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/27/2023 11:20 Comments || Top||

#12  I'm waiting for the Random Drug Testing at his CA residence. The Conservative Tree House this morning posted a copy of the Affidavit and revealed Attachment A of the now failed Plea Agreement which was submitted as a Statement of Factsby his own lawyers. It reveals an addiction so deep that he was using crack every 15 minutes. It tells of repeated relapses through 2019 but stops at that point without commenting further. Does anyone honestly think he has achieved sobriety currently?

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/27/2023 12:31 Comments || Top||

#13  I wonder how many times he's been resuscitated.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/27/2023 12:38 Comments || Top||

#14  Hunter is not even on the same planet as Sobriety. Hell, he's not even aspiring to be a dry drunk. Me thinks the entire Biden cartel will have to crash and burn in spectacular fashion for him to have a chance at recovery.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/27/2023 12:53 Comments || Top||

#15  Sideshow Bob at the White House says Bidet will not pardon Hunter. Gee, I'm so sure she's telling the truth...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/27/2023 16:30 Comments || Top||

#16  Because there will be no conviction?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/27/2023 16:54 Comments || Top||

#17  Crack addiction is incredibly difficult to recover from. Much more addictive than just coke because of the chemistry involved.

If he was up to using every 15 minutes, I'm actually surprised he's still alive.

So far, the only substance abuse programs he's gone through have been short-term 'spin dry' ones. Nothing like a year to 18 month inpatient center. That said, he's probably still addicted (which would explain his sidling off for a quick snort on the White House balcony a few weeks ago).
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/27/2023 17:00 Comments || Top||

#18  He would have to want to get clean. Where's his incentive with The Big Guy running interference for him?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/27/2023 17:07 Comments || Top||

#19  Where's his incentive with The Big Guy running interference for him?

Hunter has a lot of dirt on Pops.
Posted by: Enver Dingle4916 || 07/27/2023 17:59 Comments || Top||

#20  Is the special deal Hunter got because Hunter is blackmailing Joe?
Posted by: lord garth || 07/27/2023 20:25 Comments || Top||

#21  They are codependent. In his current state Hunter has leverage on nobody for longer than 14 minutes.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/27/2023 20:57 Comments || Top||


Economy
Federal Reserve hikes key interest rate to highest level in 22 years
[CBSNEWS] After briefly pausing its war on inflation last month, the Federal Reserve is resuming the battle by hiking its benchmark interest rate to the highest level in 22 years.

The central bank concluded a two-day policy meeting on Wednesday by announcing that it is raising the federal funds rate by a quarter of a percentage point, lifting the Fed's target rate to between 5.25% and 5.5%.

The Fed left the door open to further rate hikes this year, with Chair Jerome Powell telling news hounds in a news conference that additional tightening is possible unless inflation continues to cool rapidly.

"What our eyes are telling us is policy has not been restrictive enough for long enough to have its full desired effects. So we intend to keep policy restrictive until we're confident that inflation is coming down sustainably to our 2% target, and we're prepared to further tighten if that is appropriate," he said. "The process still probably has a long way to go."

The Fed's current rate-hiking cycle, its most aggressive push to tighten monetary policy since the 1980s, has proved effective in dousing the hottest bout of inflation in four decades by raising borrowing costs for consumers and businesses.

Since the central bank began tightening in March 2022, mortgage rates have more than doubled while the costs of car loans and credit cards have surged. The hikes have also squeezed technology companies and banks that were reliant on low interest rates, putting some out of business and forcing others to cut tens of thousands of workers.

Inflation around the U.S. is now just half its level from a year ago, with prices rising at a roughly 3% annual rate — lower than the pace of workers' pay increases. Still, the Fed has expressed concern that core inflation, which leaves out food and fuel prices, remains well above the bank's 2% target. Core inflation was at 4.8% last month.
Posted by: Fred || 07/27/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OBAMA ADMIN 2.
Interest rates go up.
Living Prices go up.
But incomes levels stay the same and buying power drops.

House prices climb 21+% and local/state gov. reassess your property value and charges more for required sevices. So you lose another $1000 or so paying higher taxes, while already having 15 to 21+% less to spend.

One way or another we all are paying for The DC SWAMP spending us in to $32+T debt. All while they feast at our expense.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/27/2023 3:31 Comments || Top||

#2  The hidden tax to pay for Biden's spending.
Posted by: CrazyFool in Texas || 07/27/2023 11:58 Comments || Top||

#3  So why is the stock market up?
Posted by: Bobby || 07/27/2023 15:39 Comments || Top||

#4  The actual "on the ground" annual inflation rate has to be double digits. I can't for the life of me figure out why this isn't common knowledge. EVERYTHING is way, way, more expensive than it was 24 months ago.
Posted by: Crusader || 07/27/2023 18:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Inflation is calculated by the gummint as the price of "a basket of things that excludes most every normal daily essential."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/27/2023 18:54 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Biden Family Scandals Are So Much Bigger Than Hunter's Hookers And Burisma Bribery
[The Federalist] When the New York Post broke the news that documents recovered from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop implicated Joe Biden in a pay-to-play scandal, the corporate media — to the extent they didn’t frame the story as Russian disinformation — pretended the reporting solely concerned Hunter Biden’s personal life.

The scandal, however, was never about Hunter’s sordid sex life and history of drug abuse. Rather, it concerned Joe Biden’s abuse of power as vice president for financial gain. But now it reaches much further — including 10 distinct scandals.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2023 02:07 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:


#2  "According to detailed information, Joe and Jill Biden declared a total of $4,122,376 in pretax income on their federal tax returns for tax years 2001 through 2016 -- this works out to an average of $257,648 annually during the sixteen-year period when he finished his career as senator and, later, became vice president. Leaving aside, for the moment, fair questions concerning how Biden managed to sustain living costs for his large family from his home in Wilmington and also save for retirement, his years with educator Jill Biden do not appear to show proven ability to derive investment income, or garner outsized compensation. "

"Joe and Jill Biden saw their pretax income climb from $338,464 in 2016 to a whopping $9,578,639 in 2017 -- an amount that was more than 28 times Biden pretax income for the prior year and more than twice, in just one year, total Biden pretax income for a 16 year period from 2001 through 2016."

" Buried back on page 23 of a 103-page tax filing for 2017, we learn that two subchapter S corporations, each formed in 2017, somehow managed to send more than $10 million dollars together in their first partial years of operation, to the Bidens."

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/07/biden_hiding_in_plain_sight.html
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/27/2023 12:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Another nice wash is the CCP 'donations' to the UPenn Biden foundation. I wonder how many properties UPenn owns and manages?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/27/2023 12:31 Comments || Top||

#4  this works out to an average of $257,648 annually during the sixteen-year period when he finished his career as senator and, later, became vice president.

Between 2000 and 2007, Senator salary averaged ~$157,200/yr. VP salary for 8 years @ $255,800/yr

Average reported income for just Joe over that time therefor would be about $210,000/yr.

So Dr. Jill must have brought in the other $47-48K, or they had some decent investment income.

The big spike in 2017 was likely deferred comp, you know from stuff that one can't have as income while a government employee.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/27/2023 17:15 Comments || Top||

#5  That is a good estimate based on reported income. Much of what the Bidens do is off the books so I might double both his Senate and VP wages. The rent payment that Hunter makes to Joe is ridiculous. It would probably take some forensic accountants some time to sort it all out. I suspect that there would be a lot of laughing from their war room concerning some of Hunter’s expensing of donkeys, midgets and Jello,
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/27/2023 21:07 Comments || Top||

#6  The Dems stole the Oval Office, and they are going to become ruthless to keeping it.
Posted by: Jeremiah Jomosing7109 || 07/27/2023 22:53 Comments || Top||

#7  And with GOP'ers such as Jim Jordan and Mittens Romney, it won't be too difficult to be ruthless.

Where is Ruth, by the way?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/27/2023 22:55 Comments || Top||



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