Never thought I'd see this day. Shit, the taliban never thought they'd see this day.
[OpIndia] The reputation of the New York Times has been falling fast in recent years due to its questionable editorial standards. The liberal bias of the newspaper has led to a situation where it has sacrificed objective reporting of events for brownie points in liberal circles. The falling standards of the ’failing’ New York Times were once again on display when they provided a platform to an Islamic Terrorist from the Taliban.
In the opinion-editorial, the terrorist who happens to be the deputy leader of the Taliban proceeded to whitewash the crimes of his brethren and say laughable things such as "I am convinced that the killing and the maiming must stop." The terrorist also said, "Our negotiation team, led by my colleagues Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and Sher Mohammed Abas Stanekzai, has worked tirelessly for the past 18 months with the American negotiators to make an agreement possible."
Sirajuddin Haqqani stated, "We stuck with the talks despite recurring disquiet and upset within our ranks over the intensified bombing campaign against our villages by the United States and the flip-flopping and ever-moving goal posts of the American side." In the oped, Haqqani also claimed that they were "forced to defend" against the USA and its allies does not mention the legitimacy of the Afghan government.
Haqqani is the leader of the Pakistan-based Haqqani Network comprised of fighters affiliated with al-Qaeda. He is wanted by the FBI and the United Nations for being "actively involved in the planning and execution of attacks" against US troops. He is also wanted in connection with a 2008 terrorist attack on a hotel in Kabul and an assassination attempt against Afghanistan’s president. The US announced a bounty of up to $10 million for information leading to his arrest.
The NYT appears to be ever willing to go to any length in order to oppose Donald Trump, the President of the US, and providing a platform to the Taliban to run their propaganda appears to be one an instance of it. The NYT’s conduct is in sync with that of the western press at large. For instance, the Washington Post described ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as an "austere religious scholar" after he was neutralized by US forces on the orders of Donald Trump.
Bloomberg News, owned by presidential aspirant Michael Bloomberg, glorified al-Baghdadi by describing him as someone who came from a small village and then achieved great success against all odds. The Western press’ glorification of terrorists and terrorism is something India encounters on a daily basis. They go to great lengths to whitewash the Jihad in Kashmir and call it a ’freedom struggle’. It’s only now that the people in the West are realizing the extent of the moral depravity of its mainstream media.
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Pravda by the Hudson. We are at war. S.J.Res.23 -
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES.
(a) In General.--That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.
Only need two witnesses (not necessarily the entire circulation) to adjudge treason during time of war.
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ICE agents arrested two illegal aliens in a courthouse in Northern California, defying a state law that says they needed a warrant from a judge to do so.
ICE flouted a new state law that requires the warrant before arresting an illegal on courthouse grounds. After the predictable outcry from courthouse officials and others, ICE calmly gave their rationale.
Los Angeles Times:
ICE said in a statement that California’s law doesn’t supersede federal law and "will not govern the conduct of federal officers acting pursuant to duly enacted laws passed by Congress that provide the authority to make administrative arrests of removable aliens inside the United States."
"Our officers will not have their hands tied by sanctuary rules when enforcing immigration laws to remove criminal aliens from our communities," David Jennings, ICE’s field office director in San Francisco, said in the statement.
Greffex said Wednesday that they had finished development of their vaccine for the virus that has killed more than 2,000 worldwide
Their shot is now ready for animal testing, followed by human trials
Scientists at Greffex are among dozens worldwide racing to develop shots and drugs to prevent and treat the virus that's struck nearly 76,000 worldwide
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Better than dying, of course, but in general I'd like to see these things get 10-15 years of field time. It's amazing how many problems are discovered well after a drug is approved as "safe."
[PJMedia] So it was rather surprising to discover that mainstream news stories about the first openly gay White House Cabinet member – ever, ever – were left on the newsroom floor.
Rick Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, was just named to head the Department of National Intelligence by President Trump.
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'It is an absolute disgrace that they took two years, and put my family through this experience for two years, before they finally drew the obvious conclusion and one they could have drawn a long, long time ago,'
What the hell did McCabe do to other people's families with his part in spying, FISA abuse, and the Mueller SS?
Holder ought to just fade into obscurity. He was never a good AG.
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Agree P2k. Holder should man up and take one for the team for the Fast and Furious murders that resulted. Of course only just Mexicans and a couple of Border Patrol agents died, so to Holder, no big deal. Eggs and omelettes, ya know.
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...extradite him to Mexico for his part in Fast and Furious.
An excellent suggestion.
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[CNBC] State reports of 512 coronavirus cases on Friday traced back to four prisons in mainland China, including two in Hubei, the center of the disease’s outbreak.
Nothing yet from Chinese Uyghur re-education centers and concentration camps
[CDN] The Iranian regime officers have repeatedly summoned people to participate in the upcoming elections. The international observers’ judgment and attitudes depend on this stuff", has affirmed Ali Khamenei, supreme leader of Iran. He also believes that a strong parliament with high participation of voters is necessary to cope with the international isolation that has put the regime into a crisis.
The regime has always used elections to determine its legitimacy to the international community. However, the mid-November 2019 uprising and the brutal killing of at least 1,500 young people by the Revolutionary Guards have created a legitimacy crisis.
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Persians love us for killing that POS - soleimani had the guns and muscle, the true power behind gov't. Persians hate the Mullahs and they hate their fake puppet politicians just a tad less. Shia islamists didn't sweep to victory, Persians protested the sham election and stayed home.
Globalists media like WaPo and DailyMail love to fellatiate some soleimani, while
#iraniansdetestsoleimani.
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#1Conservative Iranian hardliners are set to sweep to victory in elections today after seizing on anger at US killing of terrorist general Qassem Soleimani
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I suspect that will be the explanation our media and other fellow travelers will use after the mullahs steal the election.
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^ Yep. "If only that warmonger Drumpf hadn't illegally assassinated an Iranian Hero Of The People™, the Moderates would've swept"
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In a recent discussion with Glenn Beck, bestselling author and investigative journalist Peter Schweizer described democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) successful, decades-long attempt to turn socialism "into a profession" that has ultimately "generated a lot of money" for his family.
Sanders, Beck said on his show Friday, is "the model" every politician "in every corrupt communist country" is seeking to emulate. "Here’s a guy who’s only worked in public service, or as a ’public servant’ ... and yet he’s a millionaire that owns three different houses."
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It's the truth. We still get clouds on rainy days, otherwise, it's mostly blue sky's and kinda nice here now. The next week will be really nice, 60-70 degrees, some rain so not perfect. We'll see how it goes.
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Here in Western Alaska we have had blizzards for weeks. Hoping to fly out today back to Anchorage. Drifted Global Warming fallout all over the village.
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Coronavirus has temporarily reduced China's CO2 emissions by a quarter
This is good. Sure, it's all a bit apocalyptic, but now we don't have to nuke them to save the Earth. For the Children! And the bunnies.
[Spokesman Review] A new report by faculty members at Eastern Washington University criticizes the athletic department as a drain on university resources and suggests NCAA sports aren’t worth the cost.
But EWU trustees and administrators have no plans to eliminate the athletic department or change its standing in the NCAA to free up money for academic programs, as the faculty report suggests. Some university leaders stepped up to defend the department over the weekend.
In an interview, EWU Athletic Director Lynn Hickey acknowledged her department spends more money than it raises and said she respects the concerns of faculty members. But, she said, "I don’t agree with how they’ve assessed our value."
"Eastern’s not doing anything outrageous. We’re not doing anything extravagant," Hickey said. "At the same time, we know that we need to be responsible, fiscally. But we’ve been proactive on that. We’re getting better."
The report, prepared by four professors for EWU’s faculty senate, says spending on athletics has had "no positive impact on our student enrollment, retention or recruitment" and proposes eliminating the athletic department entirely, among other options.
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It's just crazy talk, a slippery slope. There is more to education than learning and knowledge. Such a suggestion clearly violates academic core values such as group think, proper self-esteem, diversity and inclusion.
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As long as the athletic department is a profit center, let it be. But I don't understand why it should be subsidized.
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Only a few NCAA sports teams generate a profit. Football teams with a national following and/or that regularly go to postseason big TV audience bowls
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Let the NFL and NBA provide their own farm teams.
Good idea. Then, like Major League Baseball, prospective players would no longer have to pretend that they are students.
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I remember back in the caveman days the football players were constantly looking for "gut" courses they could take stay eligible. So a bunch of them signed up for Music Appreciation....big mistake. They had to be able to listen to about 5 notes and then identify, the piece, who wrote it, and when. Oh the lamentations of der women.
[10News] The San Diego County Sheriff's Department announced today it will comply with federal court orders seeking migrant-arrest data that California's sanctuary state legislation seeks to shield.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials served subpoenas on the sheriff's department on Friday to compel it to produce information on four recent cases involving arrests of Mexican nationals believed to be in the country without authorization.
It was the first time ICE had taken such a step in California. Though the passage of state Senate Bill 54 in 2017 sought to prevent local police agencies in California from helping enforce immigration law, they nonetheless are "obligated to comply with lawfully issued subpoenas,'' the sheriff's department asserted in a prepared statement.
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[Brownells] Replica of the Original AR-15 Prototype - As Back To Basics as You Can Get! -California Compliant
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First, the BRN-Proto® has the distinctive trigger-like charging handle on top of the receiver, under the carry handle, just like the early AR-10 models (remember, the AR-15 was developed second.). It has the uncluttered "slick-side" upper receiver of the early rifles and stock, handguard, and pistol grip of brown reinforced polymer that replicates the look - but not the weaknesses - of the original fiberglass furniture. If the round cross-section handguard looks oversized, that's because it is. Just as the original was a "borrowed" AR-10 'guard, it's actually lifted from our BRN-10® .308 rifles!
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The original was in 7.62 Nato if I recall correctly.
If you want something you can put a lot of 5.56 rounds through buy a Colt or FN. The cost is high but they are actually Mil-Spec not reversed engineered and best guess.
[Politico] Bloomberg stumbled badly under the barrage of criticism from Warren and others on stage.
Elizabeth Warren spent Wednesday night pummeling Mike Bloomberg on the debate stage. On Thursday morning, she swung even harder.
The Massachusetts senator expanded on her criticism of the billionaire former New York mayor, driving home her attacks on his past comments about women, record on law enforcement and his request that other candidates step aside so that he can take on Donald Trump in November.
A caller on Howie Carr's show yesterday suggested the first thing Bloomberg likely did after the debate on Tuesday is get his top opposition research folks together and told them 'Here's a few million bucks - I want her head on a pike'. The next two weeks should be lots of fun!
[AP] SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) ‐ A FedEx driver who stopped to help a stranded driver on a North Carolina highway fell 75 feet (23 meters) from a bridge and survived.
Jeremiah Cribb, 24, was driving a FedEx truck early Wednesday morning on Interstate 85 in Rowan County when he saw a driver stranded in the fast lane, news outlets reported.
Cribb said he got out to help the driver but soon noticed a tractor-trailer barreling toward them, so he jumped out of the way to avoid getting hit. Cribb thought he was jumping onto a grass median of the same height but instead jumped off the Yadkin River Bridge and landed on a sandbar 75 feet (23 meters) below.
"When I realized he was going to hit the car, which he did, ... I just reacted. It’s pitch black dark. I was thinking I was hopping over a median," Cribb said. "I just started free-falling."
Salisbury firefighter Jacob Vodochodsky rappelled down the bridge and initially thought Cribb was paralyzed, but found him able to stand. Despite some dizziness and shortness of breath, Cribb was able to get into a harness to be pulled to safety, Vodochodsky said.
"To be honest, (it’s) entirely miraculous," Salisbury Fire Battalion Chief Nicholas Martin said. "We would not anticipate the outcome from such a fall would be so positive."
Cribb has three fractured ribs and a collapsed lung. He is expected to remain in the hospital for a few days.
"I was not supposed to get up," Cribb said. "I just thank God I’m alive."
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence officials told lawmakers last week that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election campaign by aiming to cast doubt on the integrity of the vote and boost President Donald Trump’s re-election, a person familiar with the briefing said on Thursday.
The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity, said Trump’s Republican allies on the Democratic-led House Intelligence Committee questioned the assessment presented by officials of the Office of National Intelligence last Thursday.
"The Republicans responded as you would expect. They went nuts," said the person. "They questioned the intelligence."
The briefers warned the committee in the classified briefing that Russia was working to cast doubt on the integrity of the Nov. 3 vote while at the same time boosting Trump’s election to a second four-year term.
"They (the Russians) are favoring one candidate while they do it," said the person, adding that the briefers identified that candidate as Trump. The source declined to elaborate.
- Sold our most potent missile defense system to both Poland and Sweden.
- Reversed Obama's policy of refusing lethal military aid to Ukraine.
- Reversed Obama's Syria policy and directly confronted Russia on the ground, killing scores of Russian mercenaries and soldiers in Syria.
- Tripled defense initiatives to deter Russian aggression in Europe, staged maneuvers on Russia's borders, increased the anti-Russian defense budget by ~50%.
- Sanctioned ~40 oligarchs and Russian officials, expanded the Magnitsky sanctions list, closed consulates & diplomatic annexes, expelled 60 diplomats.
Ah, but never mind the above: Trump MUST be Putin's puppet. The Mad Hatter said so.
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Which "Russia" is interfering? Isn't the Russian ruling class a mob of oligarchs presided over by Putin? In that case it would be no surprise if some oligarchs favor Trump and some don't... This considering Russia, or China for that matter, as a monolithic entity is sophomoric.
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the screwball press takes information and distorts it. in this case the reported statement was that the Kremlin did not oppose Trump's reelection. This became, as reported through an unnamed person, that it supported Trump's reelection.
Typical?
The other odd fact is that if classified information is leaked by a member of the intelligence community that is a felony. However leaking something false is perfectly legal.
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[Babylon Bee] RENO, NV‐Bernie Sanders supporters were shocked today when they saw him hobble into a campaign event looking quite battered and covered in one hundred dollar bills. Sanders claims this was the result of an attack by a group of billionaires.
Sanders said he was out in the streets of Reno at 2 a.m. to purchase a can of beans to eat when suddenly he was approached by two billionaires in ski masks and expensive tailored suits who shouted, "This is billionaire country!" The billionaires began pelting Sanders with stacks of one hundred dollar bills while yelling derogatory things at him, like, "You’re just a millionaire; that’s only one step above being poor!"
"Billionaires are a menace!" yelled a shaking Sanders to a crowd of supporters. "They’re after me, and they must be stopped!"
Some have questioned the details of the attack, as it was extremely unusual for Sanders to still be up at 2 a.m., since he usually goes to bed at 6 p.m. after his 4 p.m. dinner. Still, police are questioning all nearby billionaires, and unfortunately, most of them don’t have alibis, as billionaires do tend to disappear at night, either to fight crime as costumed vigilantes or to manage hedge funds.
[Right Scoop] Bolton spoke last night about impeachment in a bit more of a candid way than he has thus far. Essentially, he slammed the House for making impeachment so partisan that no Republican would vote for it. But in the end, he said his testimony would not have mattered:
Former national security adviser John Bolton said Wednesday he was surprised that Senate Republicans rejected his offer to testify in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. But he said that even if he had testified, it wouldn’t have changed the outcome of the trial because of how House Democrats handled their investigation.
"I think the House committed impeachment malpractice," Bolton said at an event at Vanderbilt University with Susan Rice, who was national security adviser during the administration of former President Barack Obama. "The process drove Republicans who might have voted for impeachment away" because "it was so partisan," he said.
But, he added, "my testimony would have made no difference to the ultimate outcome."
The way he describes it, I wonder if he wanted Republicans to vote for impeachment.
[American Thinker] President Trump brings razor-sharp instincts to the political picture, and nowhere was it more obvious than in his appearance in Bakersfield, California, signing a bill to clean up the junk-science federal "research" on water for the parched Central Valley and, better still, ordering the feds to give California's Central Valley farmers the water for their farms that they already paid for.
"What they're doing to your state is a disgrace," Trump said. "After decades of failure and delays in ensuring critical water rights for the people of the state, we are determined to finally get your problems solved."
The official water "record of decision" was signed Wednesday, outlining endangered species rules for California's main water hub. Central Valley politicians have railed for years against water restrictions intended to help salmon and smelt that inhabit the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and Delta further north.
It came at a time when a tape came out of Democratic standard-bearer Michael Bloomberg belittling American farmers as not having much "gray matter" along with a smarmy claim that "I could teach everyone in this room how to farm." Really, Mike?
The video of Trump's retort, honoring the farmers, and getting the farmers' roaring support in return, was a thing of beauty:
[JPost] ..."Any administration, Democrat or Republican, will have to work by the new realities," he said. "They will have to take the new situation into account. You can’t work based on falsehoods. Any attempt to advance a US plan that is based on falsehoods will crash due to the realities. That is what happened again and again and again. Of course, a Democratic POTUS would be a disaster, but Bibi can't say that.
..."If there’s an Israeli government that is weak on Iran, as Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid have been, then obviously we’ll be in trouble," he said. "As long as I am prime minister, Iran will not have nukes." We had two former chiefs of general staff as PM in the past: Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak
..."Benny Gantz can’t form a government without relying on the support of Ayman Odeh, Ahmad Tibi and the Joint List," he said. "The numbers are just not there. With Labor and Yisrael Beytenu, he has 50 to 52 seats. If Likud doesn’t win, there will be either a fourth election or a left-wing government headed by Gantz and dependent on Ahmad Tibi and the Joint List."
...When asked how he would be able to govern while on trial, he said, "What I do in one hour my opponents can’t do in a year because they lack the orientation, the experience and the ability".
[Jpost] - The Attorney-General’s Office on Thursday ordered a criminal probe of left-wing activist Jonathan Pollack for an article he published in Haaretz, calling it incitement to terrorism and violence. It also froze a private criminal-style proceeding against Pollack by right-wing NGO Ad Kan.
[The Hill] President Trump’s budget proposes closing a network of climate science centers, prompting concerns the administration will hamstring climate change research while booting employees from the federal workforce.
Trump’s fiscal 2021 budget would slash funding for the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers, eliminating all $38 million for research to help wildlife and humans "adapt to a changing climate."
Rather than fund all eight regional centers along with the national one, the budget instead calls for just one center, at a cost of $20 million.
The restructuring plans follow similar steps employed by the Trump administration, where agencies with research ties are reshuffled or relocated, often prompting a reduction in staff.
"They have a track record of doing this," said Aaron Weiss, deputy director at the Center for Western Priorities, an environmental watchdog group. "In a normal administration, you wouldn't blow up eight other regional climate centers without going through Congress. I don't know exactly what they’re going to do, but, this being their wishlist, I won't be surprised if they try to put some of it into action without approval from Congress."
The administration previously moved two research wings of the Agriculture Department to Kansas City. One of those agencies, the Economic Research Service, lost nearly 80 percent of its nearly 200-plus person staff and had trouble producing required reports.
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I would also recommend slashing the leading "scientific" lights in that field - with a knout, for every gross distortion of known facts in their papers.
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#1 I would also recommend slashing the leading "scientific" lights in that field - with a knout, for every gross distortion of known facts in their papers.
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I'd recommend a cudgel myself, but I'm kinda traditional that way.
Mike
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In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.
[Breitbart] Thursday on MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell reacted to reports that President Donald Trump was angered after intelligence officials told a bipartisan group of House members that Russia was attempting to get Trump re-elected.
O’Donnell said, "The president is a Russian operative. That sounds like the description of a bad Hollywood screenplay, but it is real. It is Vladimir Putin’s greatest achievement, decades after America’s victory in the Cold War and collapse of the Soviet Union, the president of the United States is now helping the president of Russia help the president of the United States to get re-elected. So that the president of Russia will have four more years of the president of the United States who he wants in the Oval Office, this is one of those shocking news days if you retain the capacity to be shocked in the Trump era by the Trump regime, which might be better labeled the Trump-Putin regime."
Discussing outgoing Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire being replaced by Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell after the briefing, O’Donnell said, "Donald Trump is operating in the White House in conjunction with Vladimir Putin to hide what Vladimir Putin is doing to help Donald Trump get re-elected. Donald Trump is a Russian operative ‐ if tonight’s reporting by The Washington Post and The New York Times is true. And everything else we know about Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin indicates that it is true."
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Great cover for a Russian agent would be to get a job in the broadcast media and then use that job to accuse the most effective American President since Reagan of being a Russian agent. It all fits when you think about it. And don't get me started on "Natasha" Maddow.
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CET4 (Chinese English Test 4) is for first and second year Chinese college kids. It has a written section of 120 words, where you fail if they see the same word 3+ times. Just saying, she could not pass an English test seated next to a Chinese kid in China. Just saying.
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Recycling this cr*p because they think people have short attention spans?
Pretty much - next week we'll see (again) stories about Trump's alleged temper tantrums and probably one or two more about Donnie Two Scoops (nice mob nickname!).
[IsraelTimes] Judges reject appeal by al Qaeda-linked suspect accused of war crimes in Timbuktu, paving way for July court date.
International Criminal Court judges on Wednesday rejected an appeal by an alleged Islamic bully boy from Mali who argued that the charges against him were not serious enough to merit standing trial at the global court.
The decision clears the way for the trial of Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohammed Ag Mahmoud to start later this year for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Timbuktu, including torture, rape and persecution.
Prosecutors allege Al Hassan was responsible for the torture and mistreatment of the people in the ancient Sahara Desert city from April 2012 until January 2013 while it was occupied and ruled by Islamic bully boys.
Al Hassan allegedly was a key member of Ansar Dine ...a mainly Tuareg group that controlled areas of Mali's northern desert together with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and MUJAO in early 2012... , an Islamic bully boy group with links to al-Qaeda that held power in northern Mali at the time. Prosecutors say Ansar Dine imposed a brutal regime on Timbuktu residents including public floggings, amputations and forced marriages.
At a hearing last year, the court’s Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told judges Al Hassan was the de facto chief of the Islamic police and "played an essential and undeniable role in the system of persecution established by the gangs throughout the period of occupation of Timbuktu."
His trial is scheduled to start July 14.
Set up in 2002, the ICC is a court of last resort established to prosecute grave crimes when local authorities cannot or will not take legal action.
[ToloNews] Abdul Jalil Sadiq, head of Mine Action Coordination, in the west of Afghanistan, said that more than 110 civilians have been killed and at least 130 others have been maimed over the past year due to mines and other kabooms originating from the Soviet invasion-era.
Sadiq said that most of the victims are children.
"In 2019 year, 241 persons were martyred and maimed due to the earth-shattering kaboom of kabooms. Five were martyred in Badghis and nine were maimed. In Farah 42 were martyred and 54 were maimed. In Ghor 22 were martyred and 16 were maimed. In Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... 42 were martyred and 49 others were maimed," said Sadiq.
Sadiq said they have neutralized 80% of threatened areas but 20% still has mines and other kaboom.
Sadiq said they have neutralized 80% of threatened areas but 20% still has mines and other kaboom.
"252 square kilometers have been cleared of kabooms. 42 square kilometers still have mines and other kaboom," said Jalil.
Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels... Abdul Qadir, a military analyst, said that efforts by the government and mine-clearing institutions are not enough.
"1700 square kilometers have mines and other kabooms--it shows that the activity of the government and other organizations is not enough," said Abdul Qadir.
Ghulam Daud Hashimi, deputy governor of Herat province, said that security institutions and mine clearing organizations cleared the entire province of mines.
"Based on the reports given to us, all areas under threat were investigated and cleared of mines," said Hashimi.
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who succeeded longtime leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika in December, is asking for more time to implement “radical” changes, according to an interview with French daily Le Figaro.https://t.co/GB3Z2w7jEK
The Iranian government has suspended schools, universities and higher education institutes in the city of Qom due to the “spreading” of the new #coronavirus.#Iranhttps://t.co/ryys7mEmn5
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Police identified the shooter as James Thomas Hodgkinson, aged 66, whose last permanent residence was in Belleville, Illinois. He was severely injured in the shootout and transported to the George Washington University Hospital, where he died from his injuries.
A Bernie Bro and associated with Dick "Dick" Durbin. They're trying to memory-hole this
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[Twitter] 9/ Iran health officials say source of coronavirus & path to Iran is not clear. People who died had not traveled & had no contact with foreigners suggesting virus has spread to public spaces
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It was all over Persian socials. Gov't civil servants might not know the source, but Persian citizens do know that Iran evacuated a bunch of citizens and students from Wuhan. Then didn't isolate them or take any precautions on their return.
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I agree about our troops getting out of the area. This ME petri dish of non sanitation will be a breeding ground for for the virus, as much as they imitate life.
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Hey, it's Iran, I'm sure their world class scientists, the ones that came up with all that cool stuff that is better than ours, will cure it in a week.
* Ilhan Omar told friends years ago that the man who went on to become her second husband was in fact her brother, DailyMail.com can confirm
* Abdihakim Osman is the first person to go on record to speak of how Omar said she wanted to get her brother papers so he could stay in the United States
* It has long been rumored that Omar and Ahmed Elmi are siblings, but because of a lack of paperwork in war-torn Somalia, proof has never been uncovered
* Osman said: 'She said she needed to get papers for her brother to go to school. We all thought she was just getting papers to allow him to stay in this country'
* Omar was married to her second husband Elmi in 2009 by a Christian minister - although she is Muslim
* She was first married to Ahmed Hirsi in 2002 in a Muslim ceremony, before they split in 2008 - but she later had another child with Hirsi while legally wed to Elmi
* Osman said: 'When [Hirsi] and Ilhan got married, a lot of people were invited. It was a big Islamic wedding uniting two large clans in the community'
* He added: 'When she married Elmi, no one even knew about it... No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the certificate years later'
Her spokesman told DailyMail.com that Omar, 37, does not comment on her family or personal life.
'The Congresswoman is focused on the work her constituents sent her to Washington to accomplish,' he said.
Omar married her first husband Hirsi in 2002 in a Muslim ceremony that, like many in the immigrant community, was not registered with the state.
Their first child Isra was born the following year and a second followed.
But in the late 2000s Elmi appeared in Minneapolis, said Osman, who referred to Hirsi by his nickname 'Southside' throughout the interview.
'People began noticing that Ilhan and Southside (Hirsi) were often with a very effeminate young guy,' Osman said, who spoke in Somali through an interpreter.
'He was very feminine in the way he dressed ‐ he would wear light lipstick and pink clothes and very, very, short shorts in the summer. People started whispering about him.
'[Hirsi] and Ilhan both told me it was Ilhan's brother and he had been living in London but he was mixing with what were seen as bad influences that the family did not like.
'So they sent him to Minneapolis as ''rehab''.'
Osman, who runs a popular Facebook blog called Xerta Shekh, which comments on Somali issues, said that Omar kept her marriage to Elmi quiet, with no one from the Somali community invited to the wedding.
He explained: 'When [Hirsi] and Ilhan got married, a lot of people were invited. It was a big Islamic wedding uniting two large clans in the Minneapolis community.
'I would say there were 100-150 people there.'
But, he said: 'When she married Elmi, no one even knew about it.'
Osman said at the time Hirsi was better known than Omar among Somalis. 'He was a footballer, he promoted a lot of Somali shows, he was very popular.
'So the scandal was about [Hirsi's] brother-in-law more than Ilhan's brother.'
It has long been rumored that Omar and Elmi are brother and sister.
But because of a lack of paperwork in war-torn Somalia where they were both born, positive proof of their relationship has never been uncovered.
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You could pay a few dozen somalis to come forward and claim she married them too. At least until their very own imaams and somalis in Minnesota begin to hate her, and the somali word for WHORE becomes Ilhan.
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What's the Somali word for WH0RE? That would be "Omar".
"Some people did some things and I did my gay brother for fun and (prophet)." Omar sounds like is fun for the whole inbred Somali family. How about looking into Omar’s brother. If she nefariously kept him in the country, deport him too.
This racist Jew hating anti-Christian muslim is complaining about anti-muslim Christians? And I'm not just referring to Osama Bin Obama.
Omar was also on the defensive when reports surfaced that she also married two of her dad's goats.
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Did she consummate her marriage with her brother Elmi? In reading this hurriedly yesterday, I thought she had a child with Elmi but this doesn't seem to be so. She had three children with Hirsi. A complicated and randy life that Omar leads.
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nothing in the MN Star Tribune today (Omar's hometown newspaper) as they decide how to report it without admitting they missed the story and were scooped by a UK tabloid
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they haven't missed it (per Powerline), they've actively and complicitly buried it - smothering it with a pillow
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The streets of South Korea’s fourth-largest city are abandoned, with residents holed up indoors after dozens of people caught the #coronavirus in what the authorities describe as a “super-spreading event” at a church.https://t.co/1UYSguGuc3
In South Korea, Daegu Mayor Kwon Young-jin told residents to stay indoors after 90 people who worshipped at the Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony showed symptoms of infection and dozens of new cases were confirmed.
The church had been attended by a 61-year-old woman who tested positive, known as “Patient 31.” Korea’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention described the outbreak there as a “super-spreading event.”
“We are in an unprecedented crisis,” Kwon told reporters, adding that all members of the church would be tested. “We’ve asked them to stay at home isolated from their families.”
Describing the abandoned streets, resident Kim Geun-woo, 28, told Reuters by telephone: “It’s like someone dropped a bomb in the middle of the city. It looks like a zombie apocalypse.”
South Korea now has 104 confirmed cases of the flu-like virus, and reported its first death.
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Al-Mayadeen correspondent: Russian fighter jet intercepted a Turkish F-16 fighter which was spotted over northern Syria near Tell Rifaat. Turkish jet left the Syrian airspace.
Turkey will activate the S-400 missile systems it bought from Russia and there “should be no doubt” about this, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar says.https://t.co/upwQGYYyVf
The United States, which has curbed relations with South Sudan over its political impasse, welcomes a deal on reaching a long-awaited unity government.https://t.co/EmwClM7Yrc
Resumed talks between Libyan rival sides in Geneva result in a deal to exchange prisoners, the United Nations’ Special Envoy for Libya Ghassan Salame tells Al Arabiya.https://t.co/deuZIZxX85
Coronavirus update: - 76,188 cases worldwide - 5,248 suspected cases - 2,245 fatalities - 11,728 in serious/critical condition - 15,827 recovered - Most cases in China - Growing number in South Korea - 27 countries reporting cases
US Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg’s campaign spent $220.6 million in January, with most of the money going to television advertising, according to his campaign.https://t.co/KWhfV2E14l
Kuwait's ports authority suspends the movement of people to and from Iran until further notice because of concerns about the #coronavirus outbreak in that country, state news agency KUNA reports.https://t.co/QQnu1K9YW5
Blockades on road in Ukraine's Poltavska oblast, where almost 50 evacuated Ukrainians from Wuhan are expected to be quarantined. Heavy police presence. @WHO has warned against stigmatization of people impacted by the #coronavirus. #CoronavirusOutbreakpic.twitter.com/FoizTNbkhy
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas blasts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to build thousands of new settler homes in east Jerusalem as a pre-election tactic that risks fueling further violence.https://t.co/OitR5A8gFF
Turkish special forces launched an operation to recapture the town or al-Nairab near Saraqeb, Idlib. The operation is supported by Turkish MRLS fire. A Russian drone was downed, possibly again by Turkish special forces using MANPADs. pic.twitter.com/X7iOP3a7XV
Iraq prepares quarantine centers along its territories bordering Iran after Tehran announced at least 5 people tested positive for the coronavirus.#Iraq#Iran#Coronavirushttps://t.co/x7GxMwSP7q
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Contrary to that
This latest news means it is no purely airborne and can travel long distances
If none of these cases can be contact traced to a traveler to Hubei then the epidemiological crap has hit the fans
I always thought that Stephen King’s the Stand was prophetic about the dangers of genetic manipulation of pathogens
Drastic measures may have to be taken and we may have to sacrifice thousands to halt the spread maybe millions
This news out of Iran is really the worst yet
#2
for the curious here's the Gang of 8 accounting for more than 75 percent of methamphetamine seized in the US in 2019:
DEA has identified eight major methamphetamine transportation hubs: the cities of
Atlanta
Dallas
El Paso
Houston
Los Angeles
New Orleans
Phoenix
St. Louis.
Spot the pattern?
Mexico: failed state, exporting its toxins to the US.
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Open borders. Sanctuary cities. Drug trade is big business for Democrats.
Attempting to block the distribution of methamphetamine is racist!
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Virtually all methamphetamine in the United States comes through major ports of entry along the Southwest Border and is transported by tractor trailers and personal vehicles along the nation’s highways to major transfer centers around the country. It is often found in poly-drug loads, alongside cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl.
Another 13 people on board a cruise ship that was quarantined off the coast of Japan have been diagnosed with the new #coronavirus, the country’s health ministry says, bringing the total to 634.#DiamondPrincesshttps://t.co/IUfZM17RQj
The Trump administration sanctions five Iranian officials, accusing them of disqualifying thousands of candidates from running in the country's upcoming parliamentary elections and depriving the Iranian people of a “free and fair” elections.https://t.co/LgF0Kb9cU2pic.twitter.com/fxEBCK9dHX
[The Zman] What made the show, of course, was Mike Bloomberg. He spent most of the night looking mildly irritated by the whole thing. It was as if he had used a crazy act in court to avoid being sent to prison, but was instead sent to the asylum. He knew he had to keep up the act, but desperately wanted to start shouting that he was not insane like the people around him. The only thing missing was a big Indian to throw a sink through one of the windows to close the show.
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..seems the big Indian dwarf-tossed him across the stage.
#2
All Bloomberg's money and all Jonah Goldberg's and Bill Kristol's clout comes to this. It's so anti-semitic...
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And meanwhile Trump likes Jews more than they like themselves...
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loved the reference to One Flew Over the Cookoo Nest
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The whole shit show was a redux of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. If only Kesey was here today charged up with a little LSD. The Dem candidates as his kind of characterture write themselves.
Sudanese Scholar Abd Al-Hayy Yousuf: We Cannot Normalize Relations with the Jews; They Raise Their Children to Kill Arabs, Hate Muslims pic.twitter.com/iLE3dakpF7
A missile intercept by #Saudi forces in #Yanbu just two hours ago. Yanbu is located by the Red Sea and is the largest oil terminal on that coastline. Exports a couple of million barrels per day mostly via the Suez Canal for delivery to Europe and North America. #OOTTpic.twitter.com/vvheCAIWHC
Saudi Air Defense Patriot missile system working very well in the city of Yanbu tonight. Multiple incoming missiles were destroyed. Likely target was a large Aramco oil terminal at the nearby port. Yanbu is nearly 600 miles from Yemen!#SaudiArabiq#Yemenhttps://t.co/3Y4GZ7zcYL
A team of IMF experts has met with Prime Minister Hassan Diab at the start of a visit to provide Lebanon with advice on how to tackle an unprecedented financial and economic crisis, Lebanese broadcasters LBC and al-Jadeed report.#HassanDiab#Lebanonhttps://t.co/FUFKpMRP0U
Lebanon’s banking association urges Lebanese President Michel Aoun to find a quick resolution of uncertainties over the country’s fast-approaching Eurobond maturities, saying falling bond prices were creating losses and piling pressure on banks.https://t.co/bCGS8WnEFH
Many of the victims of the shooting in the German town of Hanau had an immigrant background, German magazine Focus says based on a report from news agency dpa that cites security sources.#GermanyShooting#Germanyhttps://t.co/IkRmGr0rNn
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There is no case. The shooter took himself out. A conviction as solid as the enemy's. Sadly, research was off. No one worth killing at shisha bars. Waste.
[Gulf News] A gang of four men cut three toes off an Emirati man and assaulted his nephew over a heated argument, a Dubai court heard on Thursday. A Paleo gang?
The incident started when the 37-year-old victim received a call from the 32-year-old Emirati defendant, who asked him to meet to solve a dispute between the victim’s nephew and friends of the defendant.
"He said that his friends assaulted my nephew and asked me to come to his residence to settle the dispute. I went alone and saw the defendant with other members of his gang. They served me with tea and water as I called my nephew to come to settle the problem," the victim said in official records.
The victim was angry when the 20-year-old Emirati nephew came and signs of physical assault were clear on his body.
"They start pushing me and the defendant held me from my neck. Others came and raised knives and physically assaulted me. They hit my head with a brick and held me while someone started cutting my toes until I fell unconscious," the victim added.
The nephew testified that he had a fight in the Mirdif area with the 21-year-old Emirati man who is part of the defendant’s gang and chased him when he tried to escape.
They had a car chase and crossed red signals all the way from Mirdif to the Abu Hail area.
Later he received a call from his uncle to come and settle the dispute when he saw the defendant and other three men assaulting his uncle and cutting his toes.
He took his uncle to hospital to recover from his severe injuries.
Dubai Public Prosecution arrested the nephew, the defendant and three members of his gang.
The four defendants were charged with assaulting the uncle and causing permanent disability.
The nephew was charged with physically assaulting one of the defendants.
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NEW: Turkey has asked the US deploy Patriot batteries, US official confirms to me. The request comes after two Turkish troops were killed in regime-backed airstrikes in Syria's war-torn Idlib province on Thursday. 1st reported by Bloomberg.
#BREAKING US official tells VOA the US is aware of the request from #Turkey for Patriots on their border with #Syria but no decision has been made on whether or not Patriots can be provided.
• Trump told Erdogan that he would sanction regime, issue strong-worded statements but nothing on military support • Pentagon is wary to issue any support to Turkey due to last year incursion against SDF • Interagency work is being donehttps://t.co/9pw5GcZgR7
Moscow urges Turkey to stop “supporting terrorists” in Syria, saying Russian planes had carried out air strikes against armed groups backed by Ankara.https://t.co/dORnAtWQdC
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Meh... useless unless at least 2100 ISIS fighters are incinerated alive, their ash mixed with the cement poured for the foundation. With the promise to add at least one 'sunni fly ash' brick ever year.
Clashes pitting Turkish forces and their Syrian opposition allies against pro-regime forces left 27 fighters dead, including two Turkish soldiers in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports.https://t.co/REp3UEptGU
Two Turkish soldiers have been killed and another five wounded in Syrian government air strikes near the northwestern region of Idlib, says Turkey's defense ministry, adding that more than 50 Syrian forces had been killed in retaliation.https://t.co/1XTr0BIjoc
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Have to admit. I wonder about the Turk in the street and what he thinks about Yip-yip's wars of aggression/acquisition. In favor of new Ottoman Empire? Or just keeping his/her head down to avoid catching Gulen Flu?
#Syria: - President Erdoğan has threatened an 'imminent' operation in Idlib if Damascus fails to withdraw behind Turkish positions - "Idlib operation only a matter of time." - Russia has warned Turkey not to attack Syrian forces.
[DAILYCALLER] Former Democratic Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Rep. Katie Nice Boobies! Hill ...Dem representative from California who ran as a bisexual, resingned from Congress when nude pictures of her came to light, along with information that she was being bisexual with one of her aides. Katie appears to be unacquainted with the word shame... claimed Thursday that "biphobia" played a major role in her resignation from Congress for allegedly violating House ethics rules.
In an interview on Good Morning America with George Stephanopoulos, Hill said that she "made the right call" in stepping down from her position, blaming "biphobic" rhetoric and the "sensationalization" of bisexuality on the end of her career in Congress.
"There’s a fantasy element of it. There’s biphobia that is rampant still, and certainly a misunderstanding of what bisexuality is." (’Misogynistic Culture’: Rep. Katie Hill Calls Her Decision To Resign A ’Double Standard’)
She also blamed misogyny for her resignation, saying that it was because "we haven’t seen as many sex scandals with women." "I feel so empowered"
Hill resigned from Congress last October days after explicit photos of her with a female campaign staffer were published by the conservative blog RedState, along with allegations of an affair with a male congressional aide. She denied the affair with her aide but admitted to and apologized for having a sexual relationship with the campaign staffer.
The House Ethics Committee ...think of a nudibranch pretending to be a vertebrate... was investigating the alleged affair with her congressional aide, which would have violated House ethics rules, at the time of Hill’s resignation. Speaker of the House Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... also said at the time that Hill made "some errors in judgment that made her continued service as a Member untenable."
The former congresswoman also told Stephanopoulos that she contemplated suicide over the scandal but was stopped by the support of her family and maiden of tender yearss looking up to her.
"Of all the girls and young women that looked up to me... if the ultimate outcome was that this destroyed me and I did away with himself then what does that tell them? That couldn’t be my final story."
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Katie, they're rated 'F' for fantasy for a reason. You kept missing the small print at the bottom of the screen - "Do not attempt at home. Performed by professionals on a closed set."
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How bout cut the "phobia" crap? I'm not afraid of muzz idiots or wymyn who like wymyn or Mayor Pete types. Disgusted? You bet. 'Fraid? Not one damn bit. Quit thinking so much of yourself...
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Ima 'fraid Amy K's gonna take that comb and eat yore salad, miss
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He'd have to understand 'tribbing' first, Skid.
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It's funny how they miss the point so badly. What you do in the privacy of your home, should remain that way. It's when you throw it out in public it's an issue.
[BREITBART] During his closing statement at the February 19, 2020, Democrat debate in Las Vegas, Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... suggested kids "hide under desks" and run evasively in corridors because of "guns." Sissies. When I was a kid, we hid under our desks because of nuclear weapons.
Biden said:
I’ve been knocked down a whole hell of a lot. I know what it’s like to get knocked down, but I know you have to get back up. We have to provide some safety and security for the American people. Right here in Nevada, the sight of the most significant mass murder in American history. Guns. Our kids are getting sent to school having to hide under desks, learning how to run down corridors to keep from getting shot. It’s immoral. I’m the only one who beat the NRA nationally, and I beat them twice.
Earlier in the debate, Biden doubled down on his push to open up gun manufacturers to lawsuits and hold them liable for the criminal use of their products.
NBC News reported him gesturing toward Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around... and saying, "The only companies we can’t go after are gun companies because of my buddy here."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[CNBC] State reports of 512 coronavirus cases on Friday traced back to four prisons in mainland China, including two in Hubei, the center of the disease’s outbreak.
[10News] The San Diego County Sheriff's Department announced today it will comply with federal court orders seeking migrant-arrest data that California's sanctuary state legislation seeks to shield.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence officials told lawmakers last week that Russia is interfering in the 2020 election campaign by aiming to cast doubt on the integrity of the vote and boost President Donald Trump’s re-election, a person familiar with the briefing said on Thursday.
[Babylon Bee] RENO, NV‐Bernie Sanders supporters were shocked today when they saw him hobble into a campaign event looking quite battered and covered in one hundred dollar bills. Sanders claims this was the result of an attack by a group of billionaires.
[American Thinker] President Trump brings razor-sharp instincts to the political picture, and nowhere was it more obvious than in his appearance in Bakersfield, California, signing a bill to clean up the junk-science federal "research" on water for the parched Central Valley and, better still, ordering the feds to give California's Central Valley farmers the water for their farms that they already paid for. 
[The Hill] President Trump’s budget proposes closing a network of climate science centers, prompting concerns the administration will hamstring climate change research while booting employees from the federal workforce.
[Breitbart] Thursday on MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell reacted to reports that President Donald Trump was angered after intelligence officials told a bipartisan group of House members that Russia was attempting to get Trump re-elected.
[Daily Mail] 
[DAILYCALLER] Former Democratic 
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
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