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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Here we go - Why Osama bin Laden Support Biden
[FOX] Osama dead Laden wanted to kill Obama so 'totally unprepared' Biden would be president, declassified docs show

Osama bin Laden wanted to assassinate then-President Barack Obama so that the "totally unprepared" Joe Biden would take over as president and plunge the United States "into a crisis," according to documents seized from bin Laden's Pakistan compound when he was killed in May 2011.

The secretive documents, first reported in 2012 by The Washington Post, outlined a plan to take out Obama and top U.S. military commander David Petraeus as they traveled by plane.

"The reason for concentrating on them is that Obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make [Vice President] Biden take over the presidency," bin Laden wrote to a top deputy. "Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis. As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour ... and killing him would alter the war's path" in Afghanistan.

Bin Laden specifically wanted fellow goat boy terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri to shoot down Obama.
Everybody in the world knows how Useless Biden and the Democrats are... Everyone but the Democrats
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/23/2020 04:23 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  WAPO releases a hit piece on Biden. I'll take a wild stab in the dark; the left-wing establishment a.k.a. the Deepstate, doesn't want Biden as their candidate in 2020. Too much baggage; a sure loser.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/23/2020 8:06 Comments || Top||

#2  "Biden is totally unprepared for that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis. "

What's changed? He's still unprepared for the post; I could kill 1/2 a bottle of vodka and be more coherent than he is.
Posted by: Raj || 04/23/2020 8:26 Comments || Top||

#3  I read this as a Fox hit piece digging up old dirt.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2020 8:27 Comments || Top||

#4  But nothing like the "old dirt" Justice Kavanaugh had to endure (and nothing like Joey Biden will endure).
Posted by: Clem || 04/23/2020 8:36 Comments || Top||

#5  And Baraq was prepared? Could have fooled me.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/23/2020 11:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Hillary in the wings
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 11:48 Comments || Top||

#7  "Dr." Jill preparing to play Edith Wilson
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2020 12:09 Comments || Top||

#8  TW you are likely right but honest this is the first time I heard about it.
(slow one in the group)
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/23/2020 17:27 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ No slow ones in the group Woodrow.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2020 17:36 Comments || Top||

#10  Obama bin Laden
Posted by: JFM || 04/23/2020 20:06 Comments || Top||

#11  but honest this is the first time I heard about it.

A lot has happened since 2012, Woodrow dear, and it would be folly for me to compare my porous memory with anyone, not to mention there is so very much to remember after all these years. Fortunately that was not why they hired me. ;-) But the article mentions the events of 2012, and you did thoughtfully add the link as you worked up the thing for submission, which nicely matched up to the Related/name link search I added at the bottom for us all.

I should not have been surprised that Fox resurrected this particularly sticky handful of mud yesterday, but even at my advanced-ish age I do not think in those terms — so it is equally fortunate you lot do. Even after nearly two decades I learn something new here every day, and am grateful for it. So much better than crosswords or Sudoku!
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/23/2020 21:51 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
The COVID-19 scandal: Billionaire Globalists Bill & Melinda and WHO
[WND] The coronavirus scandal, with billionaire oligarch "pandemic expert" Bill Gates pushing horror scenarios into the media, has contributed to politicians' reaction of fear.

This, combined with mass media hysteria, has, in turn, caused a once-in-a-century financial depression. The economic depression may not be due to the virus itself, but rather the panic reaction that was created with the corresponding government shutdowns, as advised by Gates.

At The Herland Report we suggested early that the crisis should be seen in relation to the current U.S.-China trade war. We wrote about the topic of World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros' possible politization the day before President Trump addressed it. Two days later it was headlines across the world.

The close relationship between Dr. Tedros and Bill Gates is illustrated by Tedros calling Gates "my brother" when opening speeches. Everyone else, such as the WHO-favored Norwegian prime minister, Erna Solberg, are addressed as dignitaries. Through its CEPI work, the current Norwegian government is allied with Gates, Norway funding billions into vaccine programs.

A strong defender of the current strategies of the WHO leadership, now under scrutiny for its mismanagement in reporting during the COVID-19 scandal, Solberg has taken a remarkable strong stance while other European leaders question the WHO.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2020 11:54 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Pope Francis: 'We Have Sinned Against the Earth ... the Earth Never Forgives'
[PJ] On Wednesday, Pope Francis gave an impassioned speech on the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day, calling on Christians across the world to undergo an "ecological conversion" from below, spurred on by popular movements. He claimed that humans have "sinned against the earth" by disobeying God's command to be good stewards of it.

"Because of our selfishness we have failed in our responsibility to be guardians and stewards of the earth," the pope said. "We have polluted and we have despoiled it, endangering our very lives. For this reason, various international and local movements have sprung up in order to appeal to our consciences. I deeply appreciate these initiatives; still it will be necessary for our children to take to the streets to teach us the obvious: we have no future if we destroy the very environment that sustains us."

Francis went on to confess that humans had "sinned against the earth," and the planet will have its reckoning.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/23/2020 10:24 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I would pay real money if he would just shut the fuck up.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/23/2020 10:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Gaia?

You sort of over looked "You shall have no other gods before Me"?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/23/2020 10:34 Comments || Top||

#3  This pope ain't catholic.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/23/2020 10:39 Comments || Top||

#4  But bears still sh*t in the woods, and that is a comfort.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 04/23/2020 10:42 Comments || Top||

#5  This Pope ain't sh!t.
Posted by: Clem || 04/23/2020 10:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Waht no reference to Kong Island?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/23/2020 10:56 Comments || Top||

#7  G*d forgives but Gaia doesn't.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/23/2020 11:18 Comments || Top||

#8  If the Earth, Gaia, never forgives, well what are we on about anyway?
Posted by: Cesare || 04/23/2020 11:42 Comments || Top||

#9  is this guy a Pope or a Druid?
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 04/23/2020 11:44 Comments || Top||

#10  "Sinned against the earth"? Or against that other guy... whatshisname... god, I'm forgetting my catechism... or maybe I'm just going with the flow, like our Vicar of Gaia
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 11:45 Comments || Top||

#11  Really trying to drive Catholics into sampling the other flavors of Christianity.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/23/2020 11:51 Comments || Top||

#12  "to undergo an "ecological conversion" from below"

Below? Uh-huh.

"disobeying God's command to be good stewards"

Every indication is Christian nations ARE good stewards. It's the commies who leave hopelessly poisoned wastelands behind.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/23/2020 11:51 Comments || Top||

#13  Ref #10: Vicar of Gaia

Sending that one over to the awards committee later this afternoon.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2020 12:19 Comments || Top||

#14  Jesus who?
Posted by: Tom || 04/23/2020 13:22 Comments || Top||

#15  still it will be necessary for our children to take to the streets

Bastard.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/23/2020 13:31 Comments || Top||

#16  Not with our children you don't, Bergoglio.

Purge your own rotten crime syndicate of your f---ing p-do priests before you come within a stone's throw of our children
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 13:36 Comments || Top||

#17  Praying to the goddess of dirt...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2020 15:25 Comments || Top||

#18  What is it with Hispanic Popes? This putz is right up there with Rodrigo Borgia. Seems like he's channeling the Arch-druid of Canterbury.
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/23/2020 15:28 Comments || Top||

#19  Communist Social Justice Jesuits
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2020 15:31 Comments || Top||

#20  South American Jesuits are the worst.
Order of S.J.W.
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 15:33 Comments || Top||

#21  He is such a Pagan.

Posted by: newc || 04/23/2020 15:38 Comments || Top||

#22  My cousin, who was a Jesuit missionary, was excommunicated by/from the Jesuits. Long story. He was/is a fine person. Screw the Jesuits. Fiends.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 04/23/2020 19:23 Comments || Top||

#23  This pope is scum, I say that as a Catholic. He needs to 'retire' to a small cell, be flogged daily until he can comprehend reality or he croaks.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/23/2020 20:18 Comments || Top||

#24  Put him in with "The Rottweiler".
Posted by: Clem || 04/23/2020 21:56 Comments || Top||


Economy
Massive layoffs and pay cuts are likely coming to state and local governments as federal aid goes elsewhere
h/t Instapundit
[CNBC] - State and local governments are warning of a wave of layoffs and pay cuts after getting left out of the federal coronavirus relief package expected to pass Congress this week.

In many places, those painful reductions are already taking shape:

Los Angeles plans to force city workers to spend 26 days on unpaid leave as revenues are forecast to drop as much as $600 million next fiscal year.

Detroit has proposed laying off 200 workers and furloughing thousands more.

In Ohio’s Hamilton County, Commissioner Denise Driehaus is taking a 10% pay cut alongside county workers.
Every cloud ...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/23/2020 03:47 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Virus union busting. Silver G...
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/23/2020 5:31 Comments || Top||

#2  And mass layoffs of healthcare workers in Southeast Michigan. Go figure.

The economic panic is spiraling out of control - at the same time that the curve has been flattened.
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 5:38 Comments || Top||

#3  No more fat positive transgender social workers? Say it isn't so!
Posted by: Cesare || 04/23/2020 7:18 Comments || Top||

#4  We are about to hear of all the things you have to do "in person," because being able to do them online or via mail "just won't work." Of course, voting somehow won't be on the list.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/23/2020 7:34 Comments || Top||

#5  i wish i could get worked up over this but experience with all sorts of government workers has jaded any kind of empathy towards them.

oh i'm sure many are hard-working and they will be the first to tell you that
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 04/23/2020 7:46 Comments || Top||

#6  revenues are forecast to drop

And exactly what do you produce to earn that "revenue"?

Sounds like an unsuccessful bank robber.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/23/2020 8:04 Comments || Top||

#7  revenues are forecast to drop

Wait! I was told by those who occupied the highest office "You didn't build that."

Now you're saying these people are dependent upon others? You think they'd get a clue and work to maximize that source of revenue? /rhet question
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/23/2020 8:21 Comments || Top||

#8  State hacks getting the boot and national media taking it in the ass too? For a schadenboner lasting more then four hours, do NOT call your doctor!
Posted by: Raj || 04/23/2020 9:00 Comments || Top||

#9  LOLOL! Raj! A national treasure!
Posted by: SR-71 || 04/23/2020 9:54 Comments || Top||

#10 
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/23/2020 10:31 Comments || Top||

#11  Voters should be allowed to decide when the quarantine of state and local government folks can be ended and they can return to work.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/23/2020 11:53 Comments || Top||

#12  New wrinkle but expected. In Maryland you apply for unemployment now you will not get card anytime soon. They have run out of cards. One fellow applied and was approved but has waited two weeks and no card received.Tuesday many did not receive payments. One fellow has gone a month without payment. This will get ugly quickly. Call and no one answers.
Posted by: Dale || 04/23/2020 12:11 Comments || Top||

#13  /\ Call and no one answers.

Try contacting someone in the USPS about an undelivered or potentially lost package, I dare ya.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2020 12:14 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
'Haystacks' Abrams Pressures Biden For VP Slot
This fat loser needs a nickname and Haystacks Calhoun just jumped out for some reason. I'll blame the hangover. Let's hear it from the Rantburg regulars - what's your nickname for the Walking Double Whopper?
[Hot Air] - Stacey Abrams has issued quite a few hints in the past few weeks that she is tan, rested and ready to be Joe Biden’s VP. The tan part is a bit of a joke only not really. Today Abrams made her pitch on The View where co-host Sunny Hostin asked if Biden should commit to not only selecting a woman VP but a woman of color. Abrams tried to be diplomatic but her answer basically came down to agreeing that he needed to do that. Here’s how it went:

"Stacey, this is something that is concerning to me," Hostin said. She continued, "Biden has committed to a woman as vice-president but has stopped short of committing to a woman of color. How important is it, do you think, for Biden to make that commitment? Do you think that not choosing a woman of color, a black woman actually, is a slap in the face to the black female voters who are credited with really reviving his candidacy?"

"I think Vice-President Biden is going to make a smart choice," Abrams replied. She added, "I would share your concerns about not picking a woman of color because women of color, particularly black women, are the strongest part of the Democratic party."
Such grace and subtlety! This broad, if nominated to the VP slot, would make Geraldine Fereraro look like Golda Meir or Margaret Thatcher by comparison.
Posted by: Raj || 04/23/2020 09:49 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Biden already has 90-95 % of that sector's vote. What's to be gained ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2020 10:04 Comments || Top||

#2  I bet she can whistle very well between her teeth
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/23/2020 10:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Fat Kurva...or, just Piece of Egesta
Posted by: Clem || 04/23/2020 10:53 Comments || Top||

#4  I might go for Stacey the Hut as a nickname
Posted by: lord garth || 04/23/2020 11:15 Comments || Top||

#5  ^You owe me a keyboard.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/23/2020 11:25 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/23/2020 11:36 Comments || Top||

#7  I needed a napkin to wipe off my desk.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/23/2020 11:37 Comments || Top||

#8  Plugz's veep will be seen as the real nominee. Can't be this specimen. Still betting on Cuomo or Hillary.
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 11:41 Comments || Top||

#9  Rested and ready I could not speak to, but the survival girth, aye now, that's where she got me.
Posted by: Cesare || 04/23/2020 11:44 Comments || Top||

#10  Planet Abrams?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/23/2020 11:54 Comments || Top||

#11  Saggitarius A, mock her at your own peril.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2020 12:02 Comments || Top||

#12  OK, a couple serious Snark O' The Day entries here. The day is still young
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2020 12:07 Comments || Top||

#13  She's already proved she can lose Georgia, so there is that.
Posted by: Tom || 04/23/2020 13:25 Comments || Top||

#14  Lord Garth, that's perfect. Stacey the Hutt she is from now.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/23/2020 13:34 Comments || Top||

#15  Just received a survey invite from a Progressive mailing list... it's all about preferred VP choices and the shortlist of 5 potential choices they provide has The Hitt at the top of the list. The others in descending order are
2. KamalHo
3. Tank
4. Fauxcahontas
5. Whitless

From which I conclude that they're actually serious about this specimen. Unbelievable.
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 14:19 Comments || Top||

#16  # 10's really catchy, isn't it? Great job, NoMoreBS!
Posted by: Raj || 04/23/2020 14:56 Comments || Top||

#17  Why are we still talking about this ? "Tank Abrams" is the clear winner - you can call her M1A1 for short.
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/23/2020 15:25 Comments || Top||

#18  'Haystacks' Abrams Pressures Biden For VP Slot

Where's all the #metoo language protesters?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2020 16:39 Comments || Top||

#19  Trump has been getting a larger and larger percentage of the black vote in polls before the virus. Odds are the polls were already weighted and he still got those numbers.Abrams hopes to take advantage of these facts.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 04/23/2020 16:52 Comments || Top||

#20  Stacey "Michael Strahan in Drag" Adams? No, I still like "Tank"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2020 20:23 Comments || Top||


The (Clown) Mask Comes Off
[Independent Sentinel via WhatFinger] Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden published his plans to gut the Second Amendment with oppressive gun laws in a 3,100-word agenda found on his campaign website.

It bans so-called "assault weapons," includes more onerous background checks on all gun sales and transfers, seeks to destroy gun manufacturers and dealers by making them responsible for crimes committed with their guns, restricts the number of firearms someone can buy in a month, "safe storage" and so many regulations that bearing arms will become a heavily-regulated privilege, Ammoland reports.
Read the whole POS
Posted by: Glamble Glaiting3010 || 04/23/2020 07:58 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Biden plagiarizes Virginia's Gov. Ralph Northam's (D) agenda.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/23/2020 10:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, I got my $1200 check now I know what to do with it. I've got a rifle, think I need a pistol to go with it.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/23/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Good luck finding one, and ammo for it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2020 13:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Rifle...check
Pistol..check
Shotgun..check
Ammo for all three...check

USMC 1962-1966
Posted by: crazyhorse || 04/23/2020 13:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Is there any decent militia out there?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/23/2020 20:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Cajun Navy
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2020 22:10 Comments || Top||


Rep. Wotta-Maroon: Americans Should "Just Say No" To Going Back To Work After Society Reopens
[RealClearPolitics]
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 06:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You first.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/23/2020 8:25 Comments || Top||

#2  I fell for the click-bait headline Lex. Had to see which Maroon was saying this; there are so many.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/23/2020 8:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Who else would say something so galactically stoopid? This broad, that's who.

Also - I'm down $1 already - NOT the Bee!
Posted by: Raj || 04/23/2020 8:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Let's hope she stays home until Jan 20, 2021. She can then file for unemployment or go back to selling Sex on the Beach.
Posted by: Phusotle Dingle5823 || 04/23/2020 8:37 Comments || Top||

#5  This dimwitted, mouthy little bint doesn't worry me anywhere near as much as the morons who elected her to public office. What the bloody hell is wrong with those people???
Posted by: Dave D. || 04/23/2020 8:53 Comments || Top||

#6  People just need to say no to her.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/23/2020 9:35 Comments || Top||

#7  What the bloody hell is wrong with those people zombies?

FIFY. Hey if the dead can vote....
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/23/2020 10:35 Comments || Top||

#8  There's another disease afoot, a degenerative brain condition that's affecting Biden, Pelosi, Mule-Chompers, Whitless ...
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 13:51 Comments || Top||


Democratic congresswoman tapped for pandemic oversight failed to disclose 2019 stock sales
Hard to believe a former Clintonite would be corrupt?
[JustTheNews] Rep. Donna Shalala, D-Fla., who was recently tapped by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve on the special committee overseeing coronavirus relief spending, is acknowledging through her office that she failed to disclose stock sales conducted in 2019.

The lack of disclosure constitutes a violation of federal law, according to the Miami Herald, which reported that the STOCK Act stipulates transactions should be reported within 45 days.

The newspaper noted that Shalala, a former Cabinet secretary, said she sold stocks in 2019 to steer clear of any possible conflicts of interest following her November 2018 election to Congress.

"She had a misunderstanding about the periodic transaction report process and her need to report the sale of these stocks while preparing a blind trust," spokesperson Carlos Condarco told the Miami Herald. "As a new member with a broker and attorney who were not familiar with the congressional disclosure rules, there was a misunderstanding."

The congresswoman was appointed by Pelosi earlier this month to help oversee billions of dollars in pandemic relief funds. "Treasury got a huge pot of money to bail out large industries, specifically airlines," Shalala said. "What we're really after is mischief. We're after fraud."

The Miami Herald reported that Shalala's office revealed that between November 2018 and November 2019 the congresswoman sold stocks in businesses the could possibly pursue bailout funding as well as two organizations that the news outlet said are "advising the U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Reserve on the disbursement of loans and funds: Moelis and BlackRock."
Posted by: Clem || 04/23/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "She had a misunderstanding about..." That's why you hire professional advisors to handle things like this, so... Try again because your explanation only makes me laugh.
Posted by: magpie || 04/23/2020 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Now (IMO), that's unfair - where would Nancy find an non-corrupt senior Democrat?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/23/2020 3:55 Comments || Top||

#3  I really wish I had invested on the coattails of this grifter. She went directly from HHS to the board of that poster child for shitty corporate behavior, UnitedHealth. What a ride that would have been.
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 4:56 Comments || Top||

#4  She was chancellor at UW-Madison from 88-93. Helped the campus transition from a leaning institution into a cesspit of Marxism.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/23/2020 8:54 Comments || Top||

#5  'learning'
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/23/2020 8:54 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/23/2020 20:08 Comments || Top||

#7  LOL
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2020 20:24 Comments || Top||


Intelligence chief Grenell hits back against Schiff criticism of agency reorganization
[THEHILL] Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell on Tuesday hit back against recent criticism of the reorganization of intelligence community (IC) agencies from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff
...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"...
(D-Calif.).

Grenell wrote to Schiff that the reorganization under his leadership came on the heels of calls for change from intelligence committee staffers.

"Career IC officials have conducted four studies in the last two years calling for reforms at the ODNI [Office of the Director of National Intelligence], and the career officials are eager to implement the recommendations," Grenell wrote in a sharply worded letter to Schiff. "It is my duty to listen to these ODNI career employees who have ideas on how to improve the work we do for the American people."

Grenell added that he would "encourage" Schiff to "think of the relationship between your committee and the IC as that between the legislative and executive branches of government, rather than that between a hedge fund and a distressed asset, as your letter suggests."

Grenell’s letter was sent two weeks after Schiff sent him a missive strongly criticizing steps he had taken to reorganize the intelligence community since being appointed acting director of national intelligence.

Schiff noted that Grenell was pursuing leadership changes at intelligence agencies without seeking authorization from Congress and raised questions about the removal or departure of every Senate-confirmed official at the ODNI.

Schiff also accused Grenell of allowing his staff to "interfere with the production and briefing of intelligence information" on election security that was given to Congress during a March 10 all-members briefing on election security.

Grenell wrote to Schiff that intelligence community staff were "offended" by his allegations that they did not give "unvarnished" intelligence reports to Congress.

"As the Acting DNI, I am compelled to defend these career officers from unsubstantiated indictments of their motivations and judgment," Grenell wrote. "Many are offended by the accusations that they did not share unvarnished assessments. If you share with me the reports you believe provide evidence for these claims, I can promise you that I will review them with the seriousness such accusations demand."

Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Call me when he used a baseball bat - word are useless with Schiff.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/23/2020 3:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Thank god we finally have an intelligent and fierce DNI who will put this Shitshow Clown in his place.

Go get 'im, Grenell.
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 4:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Grenell, all in for Trump and pretty snarky. Schit got a bit bitch slapped.

Trump's New Intelligence Chief Has A History

Though the tweets have since been removed, the Washington Post had reported that Grenell posted that the then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was “starting to look like [former Secretary of State] Madeline Albright.”

Despite serving on the then Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich’s congressional transition team in 1994, Grenell made a similar tweet criticizing Gingrich’s third wife, Callista. In his tweet, Grenell wrote that at events she often “stands there like she is wife #1” and asked if her “hair snaps on.”

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow should “take a breath and put on a necklace,” Grenell wrote in another tweet. He also tweeted similar comments at other women, including former First Lady Michelle Obama.

Outside of Twitter, Grenell has also cultivated a reputation for sometimes being abrasive with members of the press, rarely one to shy away from telling a reporter when he believed they were in the wrong.

Knew this was coming,,, smiling over my coffee.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/23/2020 4:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Outside of Twitter, Grenell has also cultivated a reputation for sometimes being abrasive with members of the press,

Just like my belt sander, 60 grit.
Posted by: Raj || 04/23/2020 9:04 Comments || Top||


De Blasio’s Snitch Hotline Shuts Down Because America Is Awesome
[BREITBART] New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
’s "snitch line" has been forced to shut down because America is still America and the blowback was freakin’ awesome.

Oftentimes we use George Orwell’s seminal novel 1984 as a metaphor for something we don’t like, a metaphor for government overreach and the like. In this case, a metaphor is not necessary. Thanks to Comrade de Blasio, we are now allowed to use the word "literally" while referencing 1984, as in de Blasio is literally embracing 1984’s villainous Big Brother by literally asking Americans to snitch on their fellow Americans — to call the police should a friend or neighbor go for a walk, or something.

On Saturday, de Blasio unveiled his NYC311 system to encourage New Yorkers to snitch on outlaw New Yorkers for violating the state’s stay-at-home and social distancing rules.

The response was glorious.

The Daily Mail reports the hotline had to be shut down after "members of the public vehemently criticized the ’tyrannical overreach’ the hotline posed and within hours it was flooded messages of contempt for de Blasio instead."

"[M]essages included photos of extended middle fingers and links to articles about de Blasio breaking his own social distancing instructions."

One amazing American who deserves a Pulitzer "photoshopped the video of de Blasio announcing the tip line, adding a Hitler mustache to his lip and a Schutzstaffel Nazi logo to his suit jacket[.]"
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The huge volume "dick" photos says it all.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/23/2020 4:56 Comments || Top||

#2  The response was glorious

LOL
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 4:57 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Vinegar Spolusing6485 || 04/23/2020 5:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Love, politics, war, the French, Nazis, moody American expats....everything you ever wanted to know in one great old movie.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2020 12:07 Comments || Top||


John Kerry Questions Trump’s Leadership — ‘There Is No Leader of the Free World’
[BREITBART] Wednesday, former Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, unsuccessful presidential candidate, and utterly failed Secretary of State...
called into question President Donald Trump
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
’s leadership during the ongoing coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic.

Instead of leading, Kerry suggested on MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" that Trump is "playing out an election strategy" and "attacking governors" and members of the media in a way he said he has never seen by a president.

"Look, the truth is, and everybody in America, I think, is beginning to come to understand that this president is not leading now, he’s playing out an election strategy," Kerry stated. "He’s more focused on getting the economy moving before all the experts say you ought to be putting people back together in close quarters again and without the adequate rules by which people will be required to behave, and certainly, without the adequate testing that other countries are doing. I think Mike Barnicle, a moment ago, listed the countries, almost 20 countries or more. I mean, most of the countries dealing with this crisis at a high level are doing better than the United States of America on testing. And the truth is, you cannot get us back to real normal. You cannot get the economy churning at the rate it wants to and needs to unless American citizens have confidence when they come back to the workplace. And they won’t today."

He continued, "[Y]ou’re not going to fill restaurants, and you’re not going to get people out there when the medical experts are saying, you know, it’s not safe to do it yet. And the president is not heeding that. He’s not leading. The fact that he’s attacking governors, he’s attacking members of the media. I mean, these rallies that he has on TV may appeal to his base, but watching a president of the United States engage in such extraordinary behavior in direct insults to people who are just calmly sitting there asking a question is stunning. ... I’ve never seen any president, Republican or Democrat alike behave like that. So, it may be entertaining as a reality show, but it has no relationship whatsoever to presidential leadership. And that’s what Americans are judging now to a greater degree."

Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lurch is another one who just needs to go away and stock ketchup bottles.
Posted by: Clem || 04/23/2020 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  The US President should lead the US, as he does.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2020 1:00 Comments || Top||

#3  I took the simple test and forgot what I wanted to say.
Posted by: Voldemort and Tenille1633 || 04/23/2020 2:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Oh yeah! Kerry is one of too many who yearn for a "leader" of the world.
Posted by: Voldemort and Tenille1633 || 04/23/2020 3:00 Comments || Top||

#5  What do you mean "there is no leader of the Free World" - what's Bibi, chopped liver? 😎
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/23/2020 3:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Go Away, Little Girl
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 4:37 Comments || Top||

#7  Leader of the US, Trend setter for the nations of the world...

Not a breaker of the Logan act like Kerry.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/23/2020 5:19 Comments || Top||

#8  Go back to your buddy Zarif and check on those numbered Swiss accounts of yours, you corrupt fortune-hunting bastard
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 5:24 Comments || Top||

#9  What is odd, how Tickle Dick thinks He's relevant. Hum visions of Miss Lurch drowning in a Catsup factory accident.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/23/2020 5:29 Comments || Top||

#10  Note to the bots: a great site for replenishing your lexical corpus is Engrish.com.

New York Sick: I love you!

Thank you for come with us. Have a Nice Day!!!
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 6:21 Comments || Top||

#11  without the adequate rules by which people will be required to behave,

And if that phrasing doesn't perfectly define these fascist bastards I don't know what does.

Kerry is like all the rest of them, "do as I say not as I do". I hope he falls off his yacht during a shark feeding frenzy.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/23/2020 8:24 Comments || Top||

#12  Apart from the mind numbing idiocy, the man's frantic and implacable need for attention is beyond belief.
Posted by: Cesare || 04/23/2020 8:30 Comments || Top||

#13  /\ He'll literally break a leg for it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2020 8:32 Comments || Top||

#14  John Kerry and the former Boston Globe plagiarist Mike Barnicle - two of the phoniest men on the planet. Kerry wouldn't know leadership if it bit him in the ass.
Posted by: Raj || 04/23/2020 9:06 Comments || Top||

#15  Logan Act violator. Lock Lurch up.
Posted by: Regular joe || 04/23/2020 11:05 Comments || Top||

#16  If Kerry had his way there would be no free world.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/23/2020 11:51 Comments || Top||

#17  Sure John, whatever. Next you'll be telling us Keyser Söze never existed. Now shutup and pass the ketchup, please.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/23/2020 11:59 Comments || Top||


Judge dismisses NH lawmakers' challenge to Sununu’s authority to spend COVID-19 relief funds
[WMUR] Decision allows governor to bypass legislative committee approval in deciding how$1B in federal funds are spent.
Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Faster. Will see if the Gov is honest.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/23/2020 5:21 Comments || Top||


Bill de Blasio claims California drivers stop at every intersection
[NYPOST] Mayor Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
on Wednesday claimed Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, drivers stop at every intersection — offering his latest in a series of ever-shifting justifications for why New York can’t follow other cities, like Oakland and Minneapolis, and redo streets to make more room for pedestrians and cyclists.

"In California drivers stop at intersections even if there’s no light or stop sign. They stop when people are trying to cross the street, even, in the middle of the street a lot of time," the mayor claimed during his morning City Hall press briefing.

Californians on Twitter quickly pounced, wondering if the mayor had spent any time in the Golden State, where drivers are notorious for rolling through stop signs and disregarding pedestrians.

"A ’California roll’ is when one slows down and drifts through a stop sign while other drivers clear," user @BVanDeynze wrote. "Has DeBlasio ever been to California? Or even driven a car?"

"The mayor of New York thinks drivers in Los Angeles stop... at... every..... block???????" asked Laura Nelson, the Los Angeles Times’ transportation news hound. "I needed this laugh today. Thanks, Bill de Blasio."

One of her colleagues responded: "I’ve jaywalked in cities all over the country. The only place I’ve truly feared for my life is LA."

Posted by: Fred || 04/23/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bill de Blasio claims

He's god
Ice cream comes in tubes
His wife didn't steal a 1/2 billion
He hears pelicans, in his head
Michelle Obama is his boyfriend

New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...

Stop on Frank
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/23/2020 5:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Our pols are losing it: Biden's dotage, DeBlasio's idiocy, Whitmer's madness, Pelosi's wicked gibberish...

Have their brains been infected with some sort of virus?
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 5:42 Comments || Top||

#3  I think we are seeing live and in color what 'power' is doing to these people. Who knew how many Hitlers & Stalin's we're among us.
Posted by: Clem || 04/23/2020 6:59 Comments || Top||

#4  /\ Sometimes I hate autocorrect. Sorry for mistakes.
Posted by: Clem || 04/23/2020 7:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Who knew how many Hitlers & Stalin's we're among us.


the founding fathers knew, and H & S weren't even a bad thought yet
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 04/23/2020 7:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Good grief... the guy's as stupid as he is evil.

But New Yorkers elected him, so they deserve him. Idiots, all...
Posted by: Dave D. || 04/23/2020 9:08 Comments || Top||

#7  de Blasio---Ever heard of Hollywood stops at intersections? Study your California history.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 04/23/2020 10:46 Comments || Top||

#8  Try doing a Boston left in Palo Alto.
Posted by: KBK || 04/23/2020 15:12 Comments || Top||

#9  In California drivers stop at intersections even if there’s no light or stop sign.

My experience of California says "LOL".

I guess the tooth fairy told him so.


And my experience of NYC suggests that he tell its pedestrians not to do the red light rugby scrum when they are at an intersection.
Posted by: charger || 04/23/2020 18:03 Comments || Top||


Harvard finally agrees to return coronavirus relief millions
Shamed by OrangeManBad, they finally had to cough it up
[NY Post] After mounting pressure from President Trump and many others, heavily endowed Harvard University finally caved on Wednesday and said it would return the $8.6 million in coronavirus relief it received from the federal government.

"Harvard will not accept funds from the CARES Act Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund. Like most colleges & universities, Harvard has been allocated funds as part of the CARES Act. Harvard did not apply for this support, nor has it requested, received or accessed the funds," the school tweeted.

But the Ivy League school ‐ which has an endowment of $40.9 billion ‐ also bemoaned the political pressure.

"We are concerned that intense focus by politicians & others on Harvard in connection with the program may undermine participation in a relief effort Congress created & the president signed into law for the purpose of helping those whose financial challenges may be most severe," Harvard whined.

"As a result of this, and the evolving guidance being issued around use of the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund, Harvard has decided not to seek or accept the funds allocated to it by statute."

The university had earlier said it would not return the funds, and stressed that it had not gotten any cash from the Paycheck Protection Plan, created to help small businesses struggling to survive during the pandemic.

Instead, the upper-crust school had argued, it applied for and received money from another fund specifically geared to colleges and universities.

"President Trump is right that it would not have been appropriate for our institution to receive funds that were designated for struggling small businesses," the school tweeted before the about-face.

"Like most colleges and universities, Harvard has been allocated funds as part of the CARES Act Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund."
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  $8.6 million are peanuts - just abolish the transgender-rights office: betcha, the yearly salaries make > $8.6 million.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/23/2020 4:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Total kabuki.*

Harvard Mgmt Corp earns more than $8m every day. Chump change for these guys.

* for those scoring at home (or even if you're alone), kabuki is not to be confused with The Shitshow. Kabuki lacks the latter's 2nd and 3rd essential features, gross incompetence and outrageous virtue-signaling. HMC's track record at least as I recall it shows them to be extremely competent and not at all given to useless virtue-signaling.
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 5:20 Comments || Top||

#3 

Kabuki Lex? Did hell freeze over and Harvard let orientals in?

Judge Appointed by (you guessed it) Barack Obama, rules in favor of Harvard in affirmative action case.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/23/2020 5:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Yearly tuition & fees at Harvard - $51,925, so the $8.6 mill equates to 166 students' tuition bills. Just sayin'...
Posted by: Raj || 04/23/2020 9:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Harvard College has some peculiar grants that don't get used often. There are a number earmarked solely for veterans with families if the veteran is a full time undergraduate. One got my children winter coats every year. Damned nice winter coats, the best that endowment could find. I found it very touching, and the coats were needed. A custom doll for the girls from Madame Alexander, who met with my daughter. A number of other things.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 04/23/2020 9:59 Comments || Top||


CHP temporarily bans rallies at California Capitol, other state facilities due to coronavirus
Some people are actually doing free expression - 1st Amendment Shit. Newsom objects. Racing MI to the bottom?
[10 News] The California Highway Patrol is temporarily banning rallies at the state Capitol and other state facilities because of the pandemic.

The change in policy Wednesday came after hundreds of protesters gathered on the Capitol grounds in Sacramento on Monday, many without wearing masks or following recommendations to remain more than six feet apart to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

The same group had planned additional rallies in coming days against Gov. Gavin Newsom's orders that people remain at home except for essential activities.

Additional similar rallies have been happening across California and the nation.

Protest organizers did not immediately respond to The Associated Press’ request for comment.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States Congress from enacting legislation that would abridge the right of the people to assemble peaceably.[1] The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution makes this prohibition applicable to state governments.[2]
Posted by: Thimp Clusort2035 || 04/23/2020 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  But only the Second Amendment and courageous people protect the First and Fourteenth...
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/23/2020 11:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Unbelievable. What was that Sinclair Lewis novel during the Depression? It Can't Happen Here

His wife Dorothy Thompson, the best journalist of the era, is akso worth reading on the Nazi takeover - she saw it firsthand as a leading foreign correspondent in Berlin, and testified before Congress as to how our own democracy was at risk.
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 11:39 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ This is wrong.

The CHP's number is 800-835-5247.

They confirmed that the order came from Newsom, it is in effect, and applies to any gathering of 10 or more people at the state Capitol "for the duration of COVID," whatever that means.

Calling Gov.'s office now for clarification.

No official announcement on the state's COVID website as to the logic of any behind "10 feet", or the definitions, criteria and metrics used to determine the duration of the crisis
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 14:10 Comments || Top||

#5  They can be in their cars and on city sidewalks.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 04/23/2020 22:15 Comments || Top||


Georgia Dem Who Endorsed Trump Quits Office Because Of Party Harassment
[Lidblog] On April 15th Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones (D) broke with his party by endorsing President Trump’s reelection bid, citing the president’s handling of the economy and support for historically black colleges. A week later citing the Georgia Democratic Party’s harassment of him and his party, Rep. Jones announced he was resigning and would not complete his term.

He released this statement earlier today:

"I’m sick and tired of me and my family being attacked and harassed by the Democrat Party for putting my country before my party. I take pride in being an independent thinker. My first amendment right to freedom of speech is under siege. I intend to help the Democrat Party get rid of its bigotry against Black people that are independent and conservative."

"I endorsed the White guy (Donald J. Trump) that let Blacks out of jail, and they endorsed the White guy (Joe Biden) that put Blacks in jail. Turn the lights off, I have left the plantation. Someone else can occupy that suite. Therefore, I intend not to complete my term effective April 22, 2020. However, I will remain woke and vigilant in educating and fighting for my people."

His family too? What? Are they refugees from an old mafia movie?

It sounds as if Rep. Jones ran into the liberal ideological purity steam roller.

Jones’ endorsement of the president incited nasty reactions from his party:

One party leader, John Jackson, declared of Jones’ support for Trump, "This is in no way acceptable." Jackson insisted, "Action will be taken."

Georgia State Democrat Party Chair Nikema Williams proclaimed that Trump is a — drumroll — "racist!" She added Trump has "made an all-out assault on black Americans," though she neglected to explain why she feels that way. Williams went on to say that Jones is "an embarrassment to the Democrat Party and he doesn’t stand for our values."
Posted by: Frank G || 04/23/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  To bad he didn't fight back. Or maybe...
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/23/2020 5:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Nikema Williams

"Nike - Ma"?

Or bastardized French a la nique-ta-mere?
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 6:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Rep. Jones has joined the ranks of New Jersey former Democratic Congressman Jeff Van Drew.

"Jones is "an embarrassment to the Democrat Party and he doesn’t stand for our values."

The Dems have values?

Posted by: JohnQC || 04/23/2020 8:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Too bad he didn't simply switch parties and hold out for another week; the lefties would find something else to blow a gasket over by then.
Posted by: Raj || 04/23/2020 9:23 Comments || Top||

#5  The Dems have values?

Sure they do! And if you don't like those they have another set all ready for you!
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/23/2020 9:36 Comments || Top||

#6  i was raised in a dem family and can remember my father putting me on his shoulders to see Harry Truman speaking from a railroad train in 1947. they now offer no leadership to commoners ie us working citizens
Posted by: Zebulon Hatfield1153 || 04/23/2020 11:44 Comments || Top||


#8  What, a man of principle? What is he doing in politics then?
Posted by: Clem || 04/23/2020 17:43 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Betsy DeVos tells colleges not to give coronavirus aid to illegal immigrants
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/23/2020 11:38 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So somewhere there is a discriminating registry of who is, and who isn't?
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/23/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Betsy, Betsy, who the f*** is Betsy?!
Posted by: Clem || 04/23/2020 13:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Devos is the Sec of Education and sister of Erik Prince.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/23/2020 13:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Giving aid to illegals is the educrats' ultimate Virtue Badge. Every elite university's admissions microsite touts this policy on its home page.

Nothing makes these jokers more confident of the rightness of their absurd social engineering processes than the belief that they're helping God's Children.

Betsy's up against a tsunami of misplaced Virtue.
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 13:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Erik Prince, grad of Hillsdale College. I like him already.
Posted by: Clem || 04/23/2020 13:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Not even a Greyhound ticket?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/23/2020 15:01 Comments || Top||

#7  The answer is simple, any college found to do that gets their staff tossed in jail for aiding and abetting criminals. They lose all federal funding and their students must immediately pay back all loans
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/23/2020 20:20 Comments || Top||


U. Pennsylvania anti-sexual assault group cuts ties with Penn Democrats over Biden support
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/23/2020 11:36 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Groovy. But until MSNBS and Clinton News Network starts digging/reporting on it........
Posted by: Clem || 04/23/2020 21:55 Comments || Top||

#2  S okay. I'll take it. Every vote counts, esp in PA WI MI
Posted by: Lex || 04/23/2020 22:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Hear, hear, Lex (or is it "here, here"?)
Posted by: Clem || 04/23/2020 23:34 Comments || Top||



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