Hat tip to Powerline blog. This article has lots of interesting links.
Yesterday the Senate Finance and Homeland Security Committees released their majority staff report on Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns. The report reveals what I believe used to be denominated corruption. Whatever it was, Hunter Biden was the beneficiary as the result of his father’s duties as vice president.
The report adds heft and detail to what was previously known. I urge interested readers to check out the 87-page report’s table of contents, executive summary, and key findings at pages 1-6, if not the whole thing. I doubt that much of it will make its way into mainstream accounts of the report.
[Babylon Bee] SAN FRANCISCO, CA—In a landmark ruling, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In a close decision, the judges on the court have ruled RBG's death unconstitutional and will block Trump from nominating a replacement.
Kim McLane Wardlaw, the judge who issued the ruling, said in a statement: "Justice Ginsburg's death was an affront to the constitution as well as our God-given right to abort as many babies as possible and sell their body parts for research. Death, at its core, is a construct designed to subvert the rule of law by taking pro-choice liberal judges away from us too soon. We cannot allow Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death to stand. By law, she will now be considered to be still alive."
Trump slammed the ruling as "idiotic" and called the court judges "a bunch of morons." Republicans pounced on this ruling like tigers that pounce on their prey before ruthlessly tearing it to pieces with their razor-sharp claws. "This is a terrible ruling because we're racist and we hate women," said a bunch of Republicans, according to anonymous sources.
Judge Wardlaw followed up on her ruling, saying: "We hereby rule any attempt by President Trump to appoint a replacement to be unconstitutional. We will block any attempt until we figure out a way to resurrect her or maybe clone her and restore her to her already 'legally alive' state. We're still figuring that part out."
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Thanks to President Trump and Senate Judiciary chair Mitch McConnell, the 9th circuit is nearly balanced — at least at the appeals level —resulting in a much reduced stupidity quota.
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Thanks to President Trump and Senate Judiciary chair Mitch McConnell, the 9th circuit is nearly balanced
It's 13R to 16D with 10 Trump appointees. Of interest, should Trump win a second term, there are 9 current judges in their 70's, all but two of which are D appointees.
[Babylon Bee] HOUSTON, TX—Joel Osteen invited Hunter Biden to speak at Lakewood Church this weekend and share the secrets to his abundant life. The wealthy son of the Democratic presidential candidate will speak to a packed audience about the blessings he has named and claimed over the years.
"My dear friend Hunter has been quite the inspiration to me," said Osteen. "In the years I have watched him, he's never been afraid to reach out and claim God's blessings for his life. He teaches us all how to look at our dreams boldly and say, 'That's mine!'"
Biden spoke to a crowd of reporters outside the church. "What's my secret? Um, I dunno. I think just being Joe Biden's son really helps. He's really good at bribing Ukrainian gas companies and stuff. And Russian oligarchs are super-rich. If you do favors for them they'll wire you millions. Oh yeah, and God helped. I just claimed what I wanted, you know?"
Unfortunately, Hunter's speech stalled towards the middle as he started to shake and sweat.
"You mind if I go backstage for a minute? I forgot something," he said nervously.
He walked backstage still wearing a lapel mic, and the audience heard two very loud snorting sounds over the loudspeaker, likely due to severe seasonal allergies.
Hunter returned to the stage looking much better and finished his inspirational speech. Afterward, he passed out signed copies of his book entitled The 12 Steps to Living Abundantly by Being Joe Biden's Son.
[Townhall] It appears FBI Director Christopher Wray is on very thin ice with the White House.
During an interview with Fox News Friday morning, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows lashed out at Wray and expressed frustration about the way he has handled the issue of voter fraud.
"With all due respect to Director Wray, he has a hard time finding emails in his own FBI, let alone figuring out whether there’s any kind of voter fraud," Meadows said.
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He should be, for slow-walking the Russiagate stuff, and for being so incompetent as to ignore Antifa and instead say White Supremacists are the biggest internal threat, sheer incompetence or else covering for the swamp.
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Screw the firings. Close the FBI. Put all money related stuff (bank robbery, counterfeiting, money laundering, gambling) with Treasury / Secret Service / US Marshals. Put all violent interstate crime with US Marshals. Put all interaction with the IC in the trash can.
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If Wray is not part of the problem, he ain't part of the solution, either. He should be sacked straight away.
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We know they are already working around the FBI in terms of tracking down and arresting the worst of the Antifa/BLM cadres and the financiers of the current riots, which would be a signal to the wise that his services were surplus to requirements.
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As a retired FBi Agent I would be saddened to see the demise of the agency. There’s got to be a way for the FBI to be removed from the ability to influence elections. Perhaps a DOJ-OIG Ethnics Division which is fed cases from all Federal agencies would be a better path. The imprimatur that a person running for high elected office is immunized from being indicted is laughable.
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/\ There’s got to be a way for the FBI to be removed from the ability to influence elections.
See #2 above.
No interruptions. No exceptions. Place SA Lon Horiuchi, Waco fire, 9/11 Tower Jumpers, Whitey Bulger, Tsarnaev Bros, Nidal Hasan, General Mike Flynn, and Carter Page photos here. Have a nice fok'n day.
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I know you honor Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity my friend and colleague, but more recent folks in the Bureau increasingly seem to think they are just words on a wall. You have to believe it and live it, not just say it!
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Former FBI? Welcome to my world. You need to give up on the idea that the agency you knew is the agency that now exists. I know, I saw it happen in the Intelligence Community. I have been saying for a decade that the CIA needs to be dismantled, much of it parceled out to other agencies, and then reconstituted with clearly defined roles and oversight. Add the NSA/CSS to that list as well. DIA not so bad, but could use a look. NGA and NRO and similar agencies are just technical agencies, no real politics to what they do.
But like the CIA, the FBI is now showing rotting from the inside that the politicization of the leadership under Bush did, which accelerated even harder to the left under Obama.
Its past repair. You're talking about scraping barnacles on a ship with a rotted keel, transom, and hull planking.
Time to rip it apart and rebuild it with a better eye towards preventing this sort of accumulation power that invites corruption.
[Babylon Bee] In anticipation of Trump's upcoming announcement of who he will nominate to the Supreme Court, the Democrats have posted a nationwide job listing for believable accusers to tarnish the reputation of whoever Trump nominates. The best candidates from all applicants will be invited to a casting call in D.C. to show off their "believable accusation" ability.
"We know that whoever Trump nominates will be an evil, mean, bad person," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. "That's just the kind of man Trump is. He hangs around evil, mean, bad people and he nominates them too. To prove this and save our democracy, we are hiring several believable witnesses to accuse Trump's nominee of whatever they probably did."
Listings have been purchased on ZipRecruiter, Monster, LinkedIn, and Craigslist.
Interested candidates will have just a few days to submit their applications before the Senate hearing. At the casting call, they will be judged on their ability to cry on command while telling a horrific story of abuse on camera.
"We need brave patriots to step up and save our country by destroying the life of this nominee," said Nancy Pelosi before pausing awkwardly. "um... Good morning! Sunday morning!"
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[Mises.org] Presidential campaigns in the United States tend to be discouraging affairs, even if one is not a libertarian who has zero expectations that anything good can come from American elections. The old saw that insanity consists of doing the same thing repeatedly and somehow expecting different results applies to presidential campaigns as well as to anything else.
For whatever reason, Americans (and especially the American media) seem to believe that the process by which voters select presidential candidates some day will produce a Marcus Aurelius (or some other philosopher king) as opposed to the final race we have between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, neither of whom will resurrect memories of orators like Daniel Webster or Frederick Douglass. Instead, it will be a race in which observers watch to see who commits the most malapropisms.
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The writer embellishes Carter, who was a micromanaging bumbling fool who WAS soft on communism and Iran as well as a poor leader
"Reagan, on the other hand, accused Carter of being weak on communism in general and on the USSR in particular. Like so many people caught up in the rancid politics of the Cold War, both men‐but especially Reagan‐saw the Soviet Union as an entity that would last for generations, despite the fact that the once mighty Evil Empire was only a decade away from collapsing."
as if that was fated without Reagan's military buildup
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Outspending the Soviets along with tanking oil prices (thanks, KSA) gave Yuri Andropov a cold & put the kabosh on the CCCP.
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Anderson was part of what became the McCain wing of the Swamp Party. Were it not for him, the first Reagan election would have been even more massive a victory.
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Revisionist bovine excrement.
I lived through that period and there were many people claiming that Communism was unstoppable. That Socialism had Won™ in Europe and that we should face reality and surrender.
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^ That's how I recollect it also. In fact, one of Reagan's major insights was that the Soviet Union could be beaten. "We win. They lose." But the MSM was flying topcover for the USSR almost as much as they do for the Democrats today, by odd coincidence, so they missed that entirely.
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Soviet Collapse surprised everyone.
Personal Anecdote just after the Berlin Wall 'Fell". I was in the line of a bank ATM listening to two graduate students discussing their friend's "horrible luck":
Said friend was ABD (All But Dissertation) with a International Political Science degree in, wait for it, Soviet Russia (AKA Kremlinology 101) and was certain that a cushy federal job in the State Department was right around the corner. And the Wall Fell and the Warsaw Pact collapsed AND his Soviet Russia knowledge became nearly worthless.
[Washington Times] Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò said the 2020 presidential election presents Americans with a "biblical" challenge "against the demonic forces of the deep state and against the New World Order."
The Catholic Church’s former Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S. once again warned voters that warring principalities unseen to the human eye will clash on Election Day. The archbishop previously framed the political landscape to a battle between "the children of light and the children of darkness" in June.
"Presidential elections in November represent an epochal challenge, a biblical challenge, the outcome of which will be decisive not only for the United States of America but for the whole world," he wrote in a letter offered, but not read, to Wednesday’s National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.
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Those who choose the light verses those who choose the darkness.Those who have faith in a higher being are moving forward speaking boldly of this belief. The man of our times leading the way.
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I have long thought this would be the Alamo election, I hadn't realized until recently who was in the role of COL Travis though I hope we do not see his terrible, swift sword.
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For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Written a long time ago, but it seems appropriate to our current situation. Whether Epstein killed himself or not.
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.
[Babylon Bee] SAN FRANCISCO, CA—In a landmark ruling, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In a close decision, the judges on the court have ruled RBG's death unconstitutional and will block Trump from nominating a replacement.
[Babylon Bee] HOUSTON, TX—Joel Osteen invited Hunter Biden to speak at Lakewood Church this weekend and share the secrets to his abundant life. The wealthy son of the Democratic presidential candidate will speak to a packed audience about the blessings he has named and claimed over the years. 
[Townhall] It appears FBI Director Christopher Wray is on very thin ice with the White House. 
[Washington Times] Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò said the 2020 presidential election presents Americans with a "biblical" challenge "against the demonic forces of the deep state and against the New World Order."
