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-Land of the Free
Holder cancels appearance in OKC amid protests
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/24/2014 18:33 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More pushback, this time from police departments.

Wonder when the political balloon will be floated to bring the red state police forces under DHS umbrellas....
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/24/2014 18:35 Comments || Top||

#2  ....A 'national' police force would solve a lot of problems, wouldn't it? All it would take would be a handful of high-profile scandals involving the treatment of Downtrodden Minorities and the Poor, and someone would trot out a report that just happened to be standing by showing how that would change if there were national police standards, administered of course from the wise and benevolent masters in Washington.

I'm really not sure if I'm serious here or not, but you've got to believe somebody inside the Beltway has thought of it.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 04/24/2014 19:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Now that Cliven Bundy has taken his naďve and stupid pill by mentioning African Americans and cotton picking in the same sentence, perhaps Holder can feel safe to travel.

Shame on old Cliven for straying from his gov't established, 'First Amendment Zones.' I recommend Cliven contact someone at 'Weber Shandwick,' Champ's PR firm. He could use some help.

I thought Krauthammer was going to recommend a Simon Wiesenthal arrest warrant for Bundy on the news this evening.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/24/2014 19:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Bundy's stupid statement in no way invalidates the government's stupid actions.

Loads.
Posted by: badanov || 04/24/2014 19:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Mr. Bundy's unfortunate statement is now being conflated with the "sending women and children to the front" meme by Sen. Reid. Hope he, Sen. Reid, steps on his di*k soon.
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 04/24/2014 21:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Hope he, Sen. Reid, steps on his di*k soon.
Unless it's severed and put on the floor I am certain it is anatomically impossible.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/24/2014 21:43 Comments || Top||

#7  Good. Now Eric "My People" Holder has the time to investigate Harry "Light Skin Negro" Reid's connections to our modern Indian Removal Act, which back then at least went before Congress.


80 year old rancher speaking in Middle American has a problem with a culture based on not working. Go work a 5 to 9 in the desert, probably with some caballeros at times, get home grab an iced tea turn on the tube and get...Rachel Jeantel.

I'll play advocate, and I don't agree with statements like this any more than I agree all white people sit in run down houses and do meth, or all Mexicans pack full trailor homes and drink tequila, etc. Slaves don't have opportunity, all those groups there and there is a word for every ethnicity who chooses, on their own, to make a living by being not successful, taking money to not work. That's not just a Black problem today, it is an American problem.

But none of that is the point. The point is what is the law and what is an acceptable way to enforce it. These land grabs happen all over flyover country, glad its getting attention, sorry this fellow said something not 21st century, eat a dick Reid.

I was mad that all that tax money I had to send in, what would be my entire grocery bill for this year, would go to one plate for one guest at the White House, or 5 minutes of fuel on a trip to China. Now, did that money go to buy the kit the Feds are using to take my neighbors' property? Look at it like that, and that the government keeps proving the consiracy kooks correct, maybe that helps.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/24/2014 22:23 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Over 40,000 voters are registered in both Virginia and Maryland
[FOXNEWS] A crosscheck of voter rolls in Virginia and Maryland turned up 44,000 people registered in both states, a vote-integrity group reported Wednesday.

And that's just the beginning.

"The Virginia Voters Alliance is investigating how to identify voters who are registered and vote in Virginia but live in the states that surround us," Alliance President Reagan George told the State Board of Elections.

George acknowledged that the number of voters who actually cast multiple ballots is relatively small. In the case of Maryland and Virginia, he revealed that 164 people voted in both states during the 2012 election.

But George said his group will expand their search for duplicate voters in the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia and Georgia.
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  “The Virginia Voters Alliance is investigating how to identify voters who are registered and vote in Virginia but live in the states that surround us,”

And vote Democratic.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/24/2014 0:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Remove them from both states rolls.
Posted by: Airandee || 04/24/2014 6:49 Comments || Top||

#3  And those are just the living ones!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/24/2014 9:30 Comments || Top||

#4  ...80,000 potential false votes, but we are assured that voter fraud is an insignificant problem.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 04/24/2014 9:39 Comments || Top||

#5  States should clear their voter rolls after every presidential election and have everyone re-register.

Apparantly it is impossible to keep the rolls up to date the previous way.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/24/2014 14:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Progressive fantasy #2 - there is no voter fraud
Posted by: P2Kontheroad || 04/24/2014 15:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Well, I may have been one of those. Lived in MD and voted, moved to Virginia and *I* certainly didn't remove my name from the MD roles.

BTW - I now live in Texas, and did not zorch my name from the Virginia roles. But I don't vote (D), so removal is prolly automatic!
Posted by: Bobby || 04/24/2014 17:24 Comments || Top||


Government
General Electric to investors: Obamacare is hurting our medical business
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/24/2014 16:07 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Considering how hard GE lobbied for Obamacare to be passed...

Cause, meet effect.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/24/2014 16:08 Comments || Top||

#2  No worries. Extra special tax credit will soon be available to GE. Their taxes owed will be negative.
Posted by: Airandee || 04/24/2014 16:19 Comments || Top||

#3  But, but, but I thought the 'fix' was in ?

In February 2009, >[former GE CEO and close Champ advisor] Jeff Immelt was appointed as a member to the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide the president and his administration with advice and counsel in fixing America's economic downturn.[14] When President Obama chose to put Jeffrey Immelt at the head of the Economic Advisory Board, he felt that Immelt had attributions in knowing what would help the global economy. Obama has reported that Immelt has emerged as one of his top economic advisors in regards to trying to rebuild America's economy.[15]

On January 21, 2011, President Obama announced Immelt's appointment as chairman of his outside panel of economic advisers, succeeding former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker.

Posted by: Besoeker || 04/24/2014 17:49 Comments || Top||

#4  In the end, the Obama-supporting execs will not feel the pain. That's reserved for others.
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 04/24/2014 21:16 Comments || Top||


Sheriff Arrested by his own Deputy
Nye County Assistant Sheriff Rick Marshall remained on the job and in charge of the rural police department Wednesday, less than 24 hours after he was arrested by one of his own deputies.

Marshall and longtime sheriff's office volunteer Ben Gulley were taken into custody Tuesday night for allegedly stealing and destroying 40 to 50 political signs aimed at defeating Marshall's bid to replace outgoing Sheriff Tony DeMeo in November's election.

According to Nye County Sheriff's Office arrest reports released Wednesday, investigators targeted the men after receiving a report on Sunday from Steven Lee, a 15-year Pahrump resident and the president of a political action committee, Citizens to Elect an Ethical Nye County Sheriff.

Lee says he told police he suspected Marshall and Gulley of stealing and destroying his signs, many reading "Anybody But Rick."

Marshall was booked on charges of conspiracy to commit a crime, possession of stolen property and resisting arrest. Gulley was booked on charges of conspiracy to commit a crime and possession of stolen property, according to the arrest reports, which note that more charges are pending.

The men were arrested at about 7:15 p.m. Tuesday at an intersection in central Pahrump. Lee says he was keeping an eye on his signs in the area when he saw Marshall pull an "Anybody But Rick" sign from the ground and throw it. He then saw Gulley put it into a dark Bronco "towing a trailer with Rick Marshall campaign signs in the back," the reports say.

A short time later, a patrol deputy stopped the Bronco, which Marshall was driving.

Gulley told the Pahrump Valley Times he was shocked when a least half-dozen other sheriff's cars converged on the scene bearing deputies who pulling their weapons and ordering the men out of the truck. The 76-year-old said he was sure he and Marshall would be shot.

"They hollered 'don't move, don't move' and I seen them take their guns out," Gully said. "I said what the f--- is going on Rick, they're going to shoot us.' Then I started to open the door and I just fell on the ground with my hands open."

Gulley, an unpaid volunteer for the sheriff's office for more than 10 years, said the experience was terrifying, that he's never been in trouble with law.

The volunteer said while he was being questioned by Detective David Boruchowitz he saw deputies get physical with Marshall.

"I heard him say 'No, no, they're too tight,' when they were putting the handcuffs on him, and when I turned around they were manhandling him. They were throwing him around, and I was like 'what are you guys treating Rick like that for? What are you doing? Why are you doing this to him?' Last time I seen him they threw him into the back of the car and he hit his head. I said 'you guys can't do this, you can't do this to him!'"

In Marshall's arrest report, deputies claim it was the assistant sheriff who got physical first.

"He attempted to use his feet to take deputies off balance and grabbed onto the metal bar on the trailer in an attempt to prevent them from putting his hands in handcuffs," the report reads. "Once placed in the vehicle he used his feet to keep NCSO deputies from closing the door."
The deputies knew this was the once in a lifetime opportunity to kick the boss's *ss!
Posted by: Bubba Graiting8281 || 04/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If his own deputies treated him like that, I can't wait to hear the backstories.
Posted by: Raj || 04/24/2014 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like Sheriff Rick is a Prick.

Even his own men turn against him.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/24/2014 0:46 Comments || Top||

#3  "Anyone but Rick", Is generally a sign that insiders know the candidate is a wrongun.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/24/2014 5:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Sounds like jack-assery has a significant function at the Nye County Sherriff's Dept.
(November election, and it's only April. Not knowing anyone involved, it don't look good.)
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/24/2014 8:11 Comments || Top||

#5  That's Nevada. Maybe the assistant sheriff is a friend of Senator Reid?
Posted by: Bobby || 04/24/2014 8:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Speaking of Pahrump, I had a great great aunt named Dorothy Richardson. Her dad (my great great grandfather) was a US Marshal out of Yreka, California. Dorothy married an airline pilot flying the South American routes in 1943. His last name was Dorothy. So she was Dorothy Dorothy. They eventually settled in Pahrump, where she was an active Republican. Her papers are in the UNLV library. And that's my story.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 04/24/2014 11:02 Comments || Top||

#7  Gulley told the Pahrump Valley Times he was shocked when a least half-dozen other sheriff's cars converged on the scene bearing deputies who pulling their weapons and ordering the men out of the truck. The 76-year-old said he was sure he and Marshall would be shot. Gulley told the Pahrump Valley Times he was shocked when a least half-dozen other sheriff's cars converged on the scene bearing deputies who pulling their weapons and ordering the men out of the truck. The 76-year-old said he was sure he and Marshall would be shot.

Now you know how citizens feel when the Sheriff's force descends on them. Gee tough.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/24/2014 19:25 Comments || Top||


Obama Is Eating At The Legendary 'Jiro Dreams Of Sushi' Restaurant
[BUSINESSINSIDER] On the first day of President Barack Obama
If you like your coverage you can keep it...
's trip to Asia, he and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dined at a legendary sushi restaurant made famous by a 2011 documentary.

The restaurant, Sukiyabashi Jiro, earned a rare three-star Michelin rating, which means it has "exceptional cuisine" and is "worth a special journey."

It is one of 13 three-star restaurants in Tokyo, and there are only 10 seats. That combination makes it especially hard to secure reservations. In early April the restaurant was already fully booked until the beginning of May.

Chef Jiro Ono, 87, is considered to be one of the top sushi chefs in the world. Ono prepares the sushi himself. His recommended special course -- which features a rare, endangered species of bluefin tuna -- starts at about $300. It includes more than a dozen courses served in about 20 minutes.

Obama and Abe's dinner lasted about an hour and a half.

"That's some good sushi right there," Obama told news hounds as he left the restaurant.

Obama and Abe were joined at dinner by the U.S. ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, and White House national security adviser Susan Rice.
Posted by: Fred || 04/24/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why Not, He's not paying for it.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/24/2014 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Came here to say that...
Posted by: Raj || 04/24/2014 0:51 Comments || Top||

#3  "That's some good sushi right there,"

This, from the Ivy-League educated, smartest man evah!
Posted by: Bobby || 04/24/2014 8:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Nothing but the very best for the God-King.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/24/2014 8:24 Comments || Top||

#5  "pass the polonium"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/24/2014 8:26 Comments || Top||

#6  I don't mind him eating sushi as Abe's guest anywhere near as much as when Moochelle, her mum and daughters went to Peking on my dime.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/24/2014 11:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Try the blowfish.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/24/2014 12:24 Comments || Top||

#8  DB, see if you can convince him to prepare his own blowfish.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/24/2014 15:26 Comments || Top||

#9  Eat Blowfish and die, eat Blowfish and die.
I can't remember the name of the sushi... but it was to die for one way or the other. You must have a serious license to serve it.
Posted by: Shipman || 04/24/2014 17:29 Comments || Top||

#10  I can't remember the name of the sushi...

Fugu.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/24/2014 17:43 Comments || Top||

#11  you don't have to swear, Ship just can't remember it...
Posted by: Frank G || 04/24/2014 18:50 Comments || Top||



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