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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Twitter: Trump revokes John Brennan's security clearance
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/15/2018 14:51 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good. Next!
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/15/2018 15:23 Comments || Top||

#2  now lock him up with big bubba and the gay boys at the nearest high security facility
Posted by: 746 || 08/15/2018 16:58 Comments || Top||

#3  He'd probably enjoy that, 746.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 08/15/2018 17:25 Comments || Top||

#4  He still has his Mooslim clearance.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/15/2018 17:56 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
The Legacies of Robert Mueller's Investigations
[AmGreatness] Some 450 days ago we were treated to melodramatic announcements from the media about the start-up of Robert Mueller’s "dream" and "all-star" team.

Reporters gushed in the general hysteria of the times that Mueller would no doubt soon indict President Trump, some of his family, and almost anyone else in his campaign‐and therefore end the Trump aberration.

Press puff pieces highlighted the résumés of his superstars‐of Lisa Page (no comment needed), Peter Strzok (less than no comment needed), Jeannie Rhee (a former attorney for the Clinton Foundation, Ben Rhodes, and for a bit Hillary Clinton), Andrew Weissman (Clinton zealot, Obama and DNC donor, and the cheerleader to Sally Yates’s refusal to carry out a presidential order), Aaron Zebley (the former attorney for Clinton staffer Justin Cooper who set up the infamous Clinton home server and smashed to bits her mobile devices), and a host of other pros, who were all shortly to prove Trump-Russian "collusion."
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Posted by: 746 || 08/15/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It appears that the Crooks are well placed and patently a threat to the Republic. But no one wants to see a Civil War. The possibility of nearly 50 % of the United States not accepting this sort of behavior in the echelons of the Elite is real.
The FBI is an Augean stable of Corruption. The Justice dept. is taking a nap. Sessions is sitting on a sewer.with a buttplug and an embarrassed smile.
Trump is a fat Clinton type with his pants around his ankles and a real pattern of success for the Economy, but I wouldn't introduce him to my friends or invite him inside my home. Other than that I wish him the best with the Leftist swine who hate him tight back.
Gun sales are up and the smell is everywhere.
See you in Church ? Neither side will ask God since neither side knows His address. Long term is in the dresser drawer fully loaded in case the doorbell rings. Take your kids out to the School bus and look both ways.

Oh, and turn off the Television and cancel the newspaper if you haven't already. It's your country , Chuckie. The Police will back the people who pay them down at the County.
Posted by: Theremp Angamp5619 || 08/15/2018 4:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Did this word salad make any sense to anyone else?
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 08/15/2018 5:15 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Hemingway waxing pseudominous. Probably a Moslem thing... fly whisks, sough of the punkahs and all that.
Posted by: Thraviper Speaking for Boskone1762 || 08/15/2018 7:53 Comments || Top||

#4  You nailed it, Thraviper Speaking for Boskone1762, and utterly delightfully, too.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/15/2018 8:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Actually, Hemingway's signature style was clear precise simply constructed sentences and paragraphs.

As for this piece, I vote for Faulkner. Anyone read Faulkner lately? You'll understand
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 08/15/2018 9:46 Comments || Top||

#6  The original Hemingway or ours, Sock Puppet of Doom? They are two very different creatures, separated by half a century in time and the difference between talent and lack of that critical article.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/15/2018 15:33 Comments || Top||

#7  If Mueller had anything at all on Trump, it would have been leaked to the media by now. Or been turned into actual charges.

The way the prosecution is leaning hard on Manafort and Flynn suggests that they ain't got nuthin on Donny Two Scoops and their prospects are looking dim.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/15/2018 15:39 Comments || Top||

#8  TW,

Ma'am, I am referring to the original article when I wax eloquently about Papa and his writing.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 08/15/2018 15:48 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Trump revokes security clearance for ex-CIA chief John Brennan
[NY Post] President Donald Trump on Wednesday yanked the security clearance of former CIA Chief John Brennan ‐ one of the president's loudest critics on national security.

In a statement from the president read by administration spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the president accused Brennan of using his access to the nation's secrets for personal benefit
Posted by: Frank G || 08/15/2018 14:51 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Finally.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 08/15/2018 17:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Yay! At this rate, we'll have the swamp drained in glug glug glug
Posted by: Sneck the Elder7851 || 08/15/2018 18:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Where's Brennan's GoFundMe page? Should've been up by now.
Posted by: Raj || 08/15/2018 18:50 Comments || Top||

#4  If it's handled right, the people who leak to Brennan should be low hanging fruit.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/15/2018 19:07 Comments || Top||

#5  #2 Yay! At this rate, we'll have the swamp drained in glug glug glug

My money's on when the Sun reaches its red giant phase.
Posted by: charger || 08/15/2018 19:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Everything comes to him who waits. More, more, please.
Posted by: Dale || 08/15/2018 20:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Schumer - Illegal Immigration is Wrong
YouTube video from 2009. My word, how times change!
Posted by: Bobby || 08/15/2018 09:57 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "These are my principles. If you don't like them, I can get more"
Posted by: Frank G || 08/15/2018 15:09 Comments || Top||

#2  WEalthy Republicans should cut a deal with Cuban government to offload a ton of unhappy freedom seekers. Provide a boat and drop them all off in Florida. See how long the Democrats love illegal immigration.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/15/2018 18:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Why don't those who advocate for open boarders open their houses to the homeless? Same principles.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 08/15/2018 18:36 Comments || Top||


Update on the 60 Separate Defamation Lawsuits Against the SPLC Under Consideration
h/t Instapundit
Leaders of Christian organizations the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) unfairly labels as "hate groups" told PJ Media that a massive legal onslaught is headed toward the SPLC ‐ and it could involve as many as sixty separate lawsuits in different states around the country. Rather than one big defamation lawsuit, the left-wing attack dog will face a scattershot approach.

"What we're considering is not a class-action lawsuit," Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, a Christian nonprofit branded a "hate group" by the SPLC and currently suing the charity navigation site GuideStar, told PJ Media on Monday. "These are individual lawsuits that we're looking at, not class action."

He explained that the roughly 60 organizations considering the suit intend to "make the SPLC defend itself all over the country."

"The people we're talking to are looking at individual lawsuits ‐ could be up to sixty but definitely quite a number of cases," Staver explained.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/15/2018 02:58 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  *makes popcorn* "It's going to be biblical!"
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/15/2018 7:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Make the Silicon oligarchs co-defendants as they use SPLC as a screen tool for their social media and deep deep pockets.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/15/2018 9:54 Comments || Top||

#3  The Silicon Oligarchs will turn on the SPLC in a second nano-second as soon as it looks like a trial... No Honor Among Thieves.
Posted by: magpie || 08/15/2018 14:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Karma's a bytch when it comes knocking.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/15/2018 17:58 Comments || Top||


Chelsea Clinton: Roe v. Wade Helped Add $3.5 Trillion to U.S. Economy
[Free Beacon] Chelsea Clinton praised the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion on Saturday, saying it helped add $3.5 trillion to the U.S. economy.

Clinton was speaking at a pro-abortion rights event "Rise Up For Roe," which was organized in opposition to President Donald Trump's nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, CNS News reports.

Clinton said that abortion rights were something that everyone has to care about if they take justice issues seriously.

"Whether you fundamentally care about reproductive rights and access rights, because these are not the same thing, if you care about social justice or economic justice, agency‐you have to care about this," Clinton said.

Clinton then tried to connect the controversial 1973 Supreme Court ruling to the American economy.

"It is not a disconnected fact, to address this t-shirt of 1973, that American women entering the labor force from 1970 to 2009 added three and a half trillion dollars to our economy. Right?" Clinton said. "The net, new entrance of women‐that is not disconnected from the fact that Roe became the law of the land in January of 1973. So, I think, whatever it is that people say they care about, I think that you can connect to this issue."

Clinton campaigned for her mother, Hillary Clinton, during the 2016 presidential election, and she has been pressed by some progressives to make a political run of her own. She has never held office.

Democrats have warned Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court could imperil abortion rights, although Kavanaugh said during his 2006 confirmation hearing for the D.C. Circuit Court that he would follow Roe v. Wade as "binding precedent."
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/15/2018 01:08 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It really is 'all about the money' with these people isn't it ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/15/2018 1:12 Comments || Top||

#2  What's the lost GDP from 60 million aborted Americans and their never to be conceived children?
Posted by: Thumper White1952 || 08/15/2018 1:35 Comments || Top||

#3  BTW, the number of aborted Americans equals the number of third world immigrants allowed in. Which would have been better for America?
Posted by: Thumper White1952 || 08/15/2018 1:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Competing with Alexandria, are we?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/15/2018 2:45 Comments || Top||

#5  A Mr Bastiat on the phone asking to speak to Chelsea
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/15/2018 5:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Who knew the sale of baby body parts was so lucrative.

Posted by: Airandee || 08/15/2018 6:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Sorry, Webb. Your bastard child is a privileged idiot
Posted by: Frank G || 08/15/2018 7:11 Comments || Top||

#8  And a tenth of that was from her dad paying for abortions!
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 08/15/2018 7:14 Comments || Top||

#9  How much did slavery add to the US economy 1792-1860?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/15/2018 7:24 Comments || Top||

#10  Next week Chelsea discusses how Auschwitz added to the Polish economy...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/15/2018 8:41 Comments || Top||

#11  Well, there were those subtle indicators.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/15/2018 11:06 Comments || Top||

#12  Those women entering the workforce would all have been barefoot and pregnant without Roe? Is that really what she's saying?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/15/2018 11:36 Comments || Top||

#13  every democrat candidate for office should be asked if they agree with Chelsea Clinton that abortion has been spectacular for the economy and does that justify abortion
Posted by: lord garth || 08/15/2018 12:05 Comments || Top||

#14  It should be pointed out that once again, human lives simply equate to money in the hearts and minds of Democrats. They truly are the party of slavery. People are merely commodities and resources to them.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 08/15/2018 12:26 Comments || Top||

#15  The complete depravity of this party never hits bottom.

Keep voting democrat. I'll curse this place.
Posted by: newc || 08/15/2018 14:13 Comments || Top||

#16  What a sick perverted way of rationalizing abortion.
Posted by: jvalentour || 08/15/2018 14:20 Comments || Top||

#17  It may be about money but it may be more than about money.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/15/2018 15:23 Comments || Top||

#18  Well, maybe she meant deferred welfare payments.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/15/2018 15:33 Comments || Top||

#19  I saw a contributor over at PJMedia say, "She inherited her father's morals and her mother's charm."

And the worst looks of both of them.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/15/2018 17:04 Comments || Top||


#21  #19 I saw a contributor over at PJMedia say, "She inherited her father's morals and her

IMO, HRC has the charm of a black widow spider without the good looks.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/15/2018 18:40 Comments || Top||

#22  An opinion piece regarding:

Is Chelsea Clinton Starved For Attention Or Just Plain Stupid?
Posted by: Anomolous Sources || 08/15/2018 19:14 Comments || Top||

#23  #22 - Yes
Posted by: Frank G || 08/15/2018 19:49 Comments || Top||

#24  Ms Clinton has absolutely no aptitude or interest in politics, but unfortunately that could be said about every other profession as well. Remember how disastrous she was in front of the television camera? How fortunat nobody openly compares her dismal performance to that of one of the George W. Bush daughters.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/15/2018 20:08 Comments || Top||

#25  Let's get the women out of the house and into the factories! Destroying the family is a minor issue. Add $3.5 trillion to the GDP so we can spend it on self-gratification instead of posterity. Make everyone dependent on the Federal government to insure they vote Democrat.
Posted by: KBK || 08/15/2018 20:18 Comments || Top||

#26  Wow, Planned parenthood sold that much in baby parts?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/15/2018 23:05 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2018-08-15
  101st Airborne, US Special Forces Called Into Ghazni Battle
Tue 2018-08-14
  Islamic State member sentenced to death over killing security personnel in Nineveh
Mon 2018-08-13
  The FBI Finally Makes Peter Strzok Redundant
Sun 2018-08-12
  Antifa to Protest ‘Alt-Right’ in D.C.: Abolish ICE, No Borders, Close Prisons
Sat 2018-08-11
  Iraqi cleric "Tater" Sadr wins election vote recount
Fri 2018-08-10
  Report: Ceasefire reached between Israel and Hamas
Thu 2018-08-09
  Dozens dead after school bus carrying "children" in Yemen hit by airstrike
Wed 2018-08-08
  Israel pounds Hamas after 15 injured in rocket barrage
Tue 2018-08-07
  11 Children Rescued From New Mexico Compound Run by Army Muslim Extremists
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  Saudi Arabia declares Canadian ambassador persona non grata, orders him to leave in 24 hours
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  Iran protesters attack religious school in province near Tehran
Sat 2018-08-04
  Death Toll Rises To 30 In Bombings On Paktia Mosque
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  Jordan army clashes with Islamic State militants fleeing Syrian forces
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  Egypt police kill five members of terrorist group Hasm in Nile Delta shootout
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