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At least 103 killed in Iran 'terrorist attack' at event honoring Soleimani
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Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/03/2024 07:09 || Comments || Link || [28 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Kind of too late 'eh?

What can be done now?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 01/03/2024 10:24 Comments || Top||

#2  What can they do now? Update their challenge lists and do it again — this time driving to completion.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/03/2024 11:32 Comments || Top||

#3  At least Stacy’s sister wasn’t assigned the case.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/03/2024 12:55 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: DooDahMan || 01/03/2024 16:23 Comments || Top||

#5  They are two peas in a pod in a steaming crock on the Golden Corral buffet line.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/03/2024 17:38 Comments || Top||


Congressional 2023 Stock Performance
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Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [34 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They spend millions to run for an office that pays less than $300k per year. One of the reasons why.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/03/2024 2:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Stuff that would have had us in jail for insider trading our elected (?) officials get away with.

Although I don't see Maxine Waters' name on that list, she's evidently done quite well for herself as a member of Congress. And I'm sure Sam Bankman-Fried aka Scam Bankrupt-Fraud helped a bit.

Peter Schweizer's book Throw Them All Out (2011) was quite enlightening. Their trading activities at the time were blessed by their respective "ethics" committees.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 01/03/2024 3:50 Comments || Top||

#3  "There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress." Mark Twain
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/03/2024 5:42 Comments || Top||

#4  #1 and when they 'retire' they get to convert that reelection boodle to personal use.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/03/2024 7:21 Comments || Top||

#5  It would appear 160 years has not changed much, at least as compared to Richmond.

"I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving."

~ Robert E. Lee
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/03/2024 7:39 Comments || Top||

#6  I wish my 401K plan had an investment option called Congressional Index. It would invest in whatever stock congress critters were.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 01/03/2024 9:53 Comments || Top||

#7  /\ Novel idea! A Congressional Stock Index !!!!!
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/03/2024 11:19 Comments || Top||

#8  Some names that I expected are missing. These are only the folks that are leveraging the stock market. Others are using a more traditional Bidenesque method.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/03/2024 12:52 Comments || Top||

#9  Also, as Harry Truman supposedly once said "You can't get rich in politics. Unless you are a crook."
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 01/03/2024 13:24 Comments || Top||

#10  I have been a small time investor for decades. Nobody makes those types of annual returns without an edge.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/03/2024 13:46 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Prosecutors Recommend 6 Months Of Prison For Ray Epps
[Daily Wire] I'll believe it when I see it
Posted by: Frank G || 01/03/2024 12:37 || Comments || Link || [34 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  An inconvenient man.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/03/2024 12:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Any half way competent prosecutor would threaten Epps with 30 years of hard time unless he divulged information on who put him up to his shenanigans. But I take it this is one of Merrick The Weasel Garland's prosecutors recommending a slap on the wrist in exchange for Epps' silence.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/03/2024 13:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Epps pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds

Nothing about “seditious conspiracy” to “overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States” or to “by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States”?

A lot of J6 protesters who are doing hard time will be interested in this information.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/03/2024 13:33 Comments || Top||

#4  He was a gov't plant. This conviction is simply a convenient cover for action. He will be well compensated for his inconvenience. His legal team (not discussed here), will see to it.

Both patently obvious and sickening.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/03/2024 13:42 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: badanov || 01/03/2024 21:47 Comments || Top||

#6  That made me smile.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/03/2024 22:12 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Donald Trump fights exclusion from Maine primary ballot
[GEO.TV] Former US President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
is fighting to overturn a decision by Maine's election official, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, that disqualified him from participating in the state's Republican presidential primary ballot next year.

Reports from US media reveal that Donald Trump appealed on Tuesday, contesting Bellows' decision, attributing his exclusion to his alleged involvement in the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack.

Donald Trump, currently the leading contender for the Republican nomination, approached a state Superior Court, seeking a reversal of Bellows' ruling that barred him from the ballot set for March 5. Bellows, a Democrat, deemed Trump ineligible for office under the US Constitution, citing his alleged role in inciting the insurrection post his defeat in the 2020 election.

Trump's legal team has consistently refuted claims of his involvement in the insurrection and challenged Bellows' authority to exclude him from the ballot.

The decision stemmed from a plea by former Maine politicians urging Bellows to keep Trump off the ballot, citing a constitutional provision disqualifying individuals who engage in "insurrection" after swearing allegiance to the United States.
Posted by: Fred || 01/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

Notice to all BLUE States.
Quit acting acting like a Banana Republic you are required follow the US Constitution.

BTW: Its a Federal election and not a State Election.
So such a massive Civil Rights violation of voter rights would normally have you in Prison.

If it weren't a Politically controlled Banana Republic DC Justice system.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/03/2024 6:40 Comments || Top||

#2  This just in.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/03/2024 7:44 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ If his Russian oligarchs could learn to speak English, they might be even more like us.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/03/2024 7:48 Comments || Top||

#4  This attention-seeking bitch was on the Tube saying she was "elected". She is not, at least by the People:

The secretary of state is elected biannually by ballot of members of both houses of the Maine Legislature assembled together,[2] identical in procedure to its neighbor, New Hampshire.[3] The position is elected at the start of the first session of the Maine Legislature, which also sits for a two-year term, concurrent with the other constitutional officers of Maine.[2]
Posted by: Frank G || 01/03/2024 8:54 Comments || Top||

#5  ^she is elected, just not by voters. I bet she runs for a Congressional seat after this.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/03/2024 12:54 Comments || Top||



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