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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Feds probe 'suspicious activity' in Jesse Jackson Jr.'s finances: sources
The snowballing troubles of Jesse Jackson Jr. took a new turn Friday with the revelation that federal investigators have launched a probe into "suspicious activity" in the South Shore congessman's finances.

Focusing on a completely new area of scrutiny for the son of the famed civil rights leader, the investigation is not related to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's attempted sale of a U.S. Senate seat, a scandal that has ensnared Jackson in the past, sources told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Rather, the probe -- based in the Washington, D.C., FBI field office --is focusing on "suspicious activity" involving the congressman's finances related to his House seat and the possibility of inappropriate expenditures, the sources said.

The probe was active in the weeks prior to Jackson taking a leave from his U.S. House seat on June 10, a leave his office ultimately attributed to his need for treatment for bipolar disorder, the sources said. It was unclear whether the investigation involved the congressman's official House spending account or his campaign finance account. But one source said it was an account monitored by Congress.
Postage stamps?
All members of the U.S. House receive an allowance to operate offices in Washington and in their districts. The allowances for rank-and-file members ranged from $1.4 million to $2 million in 2010, according to the House website.

Jackson's congressional spokesman Frank Watkins said he was unaware of any investigation, had no comment and had no immediate way to get a hold of the congressman.

One of Jackson's attorney's, Paul Langer, repeatedly said "no comment," when asked whether Jackson was under investigation related to his finances. When asked if he was still representing Jackson or if the congressman had retained another attorney, Langer said:

"I can't even comment on that."

News of the probe -- first disclosed by the Sun-Times -- comes as questions increasingly swirl around Jackson's absence from not only his official duties in Washington, but the campaign trail as the Nov. 6 election nears.
Posted by: Cleter Snart2444 || 10/14/2012 05:45 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Having a problem with eye nose candy ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/14/2012 7:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Hurry up with the formal charges will you! There is no way a Presidential Pardon can be issued once the new administation takes office!
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/14/2012 8:08 Comments || Top||

#3  No charges coming; Holder will see to that, then the case will'dissappear' before President Romney can act......
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/14/2012 9:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Having a problem with eye nose candy?

Heard it was a bit of partaking in BOTH 'eye', 'nose' and 'horse' candy. Something about him having a "mental breakdown due to his marriage falling apart" due to extraneous wimmen and blow. Also that he may have tried offing himself. Hence the media blackout.

If it was simply depression, the family would be a lot more open about it to the press.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/14/2012 11:00 Comments || Top||

#5  He's not depressed because he's a scumbag. He's depressed because he got caught being a scumbag.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/14/2012 23:38 Comments || Top||


Nursing Home Companies File RICO Lawsuit Against SEIU
HealthBridge Management and CareOne, related companies that own and operate nursing homes in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and two other states, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the New England Health Care Employers Union, also known as Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1199NE, and United Healthcare Workers East, also an affiliate of SEIU.

The lawsuit claims the unions violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act through the use of threats, sabotage, and intimidation in a "shake-down" to coerce the companies to accept union demands. The health care companies charge that SEIU's use of the help of politicians and liberal activists to intimidate them amounted to criminal extortion.

Approximately 600 SEIU members, from six nursing homes, have been striking since July over pay, health insurance benefits, and HealthBridge contributions to their pensions. HealthBridge hired 450 replacement workers, and, in addition, some strikers returned to work. HealthBridge claims that, for 17 months, the union made "untenable demands, while refusing to engage" in negotiations.

In Connecticut, several politicians, including Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-WFP), Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman (D-WFP), and Attorney General George Jepsen (D-WFP), walked picket lines with 1199NE employees in a show of support for the strike.

In July of this year, Gov. Malloy accused HealthBridge Management of New Jersey of violating labor laws in its five branches in Connecticut.

"Let's be honest. What HealthBridge is attempting to do illegally is to break the union. That's what they want to do," Malloy said. "They want to be the new model in the state of Connecticut, and we don't want them to be."

Attorney Rosemary Alito, of the firm K & L Gates, in New Jersey, and sister of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, Jr. filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for New Jersey. The lawsuit focuses on alleged corrupt intimidation practices of the unions and their political allies.

Posted by: Fred || 10/14/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No surprise that the people who hold old, sick people hostage to their thuggish greedy union demands, and the people who want death panels, are in the same party.
Posted by: no mo uro || 10/14/2012 14:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Who couldn't see this one coming?
Posted by: canalzone || 10/14/2012 20:31 Comments || Top||


Illinois paid over $2 million in unemployment to jail inmates
State officials in Illinois have revealed that they paid over 1,100 inmates more than $2 million in unemployment benefits while they are in jail.

According to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, the Illinois Department of Employment Security said one inmate in the Cook County jail in Chicago was able to collect nearly $43,000 in unemployment benefits, however most of the inmates were paid less than that.

While the fraud happened in county jails all around the state, the majority of the fraud occurred in Chicago's Cook County jail system where nearly 296 inmates appear to have collected over $722,000 in benefits.

According to the AP, Greg Rivera, a department front man indicated it was possible inmates may not have known they were being paid the benefits and they state would attempt to get the money back.

"Assuming that the individual knew that benefits were being paid for him, we would first start with that individual, take a look at the circumstances, take a look at the length of the fraud and take a look at their willingness to cooperate in repaying the dollars, and we would consider all of that," Rivera said.

With the consistently high unemployment rate which has resulted in millions of people being unemployed for over a year or more, states are often overwhelmed with the number of cases they receive.

Unlike years ago when individuals had to meet with a person face to face to obtain benefits, today the process is mostly done online or by phone. Once benefits are approved all a person needs to do is go online or make a phone call every two weeks where they state whether or not they have looked for work and are available to work .
Posted by: Fred || 10/14/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So who's gonna get fired?
Oh. Illinois? Nevermind...
Posted by: tu3031 || 10/14/2012 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  So who's gonna get fired?

The whistleblower---unless he/she gets cement overshoes.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/14/2012 2:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Being locked up and paid a minimal wage NOT to steal. In light of what we see today in Washington, this is a scheme which deserves further study.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/14/2012 3:43 Comments || Top||

#4  I hope they received the prevailing union wage.
Posted by: regular joe || 10/14/2012 10:12 Comments || Top||

#5  At least they didn't have to show ID - like voting.
Posted by: Bobby || 10/14/2012 15:50 Comments || Top||


Economy
Danish Wind Turbine Company That Received Over $50 Million In Stimulus Lays Off 800 Workers
A Danish wind turbine company whose subsidiaries received over $50 million in U.S. stimulus dollars announced on Friday it has cut more than 800 jobs in the United States and Canada this year and may be forced to lay off another 800 employees in North America.

This is yet another green energy
... the attempt to produce energy without using fossil fuel. The preferred methods are solar, wind, geothermal, phlogiston, philosophers' stones, and rattling bears' teeth. The approach with the most promise involves attaching generators to perpetual motion machines, but using Words of Power to summon energy-rich demons may also work. The green in the term refers to the vast number of greenbacks that have been thrown at the problem since 1973 with indifferent results...
company that received wasteful stimulus funds and does not even have anything to show for it.

According to Rooters, Vestas, the wind turbine maker, saw its order intake go down by 24 percent during the first half of the year.

"The U.S. wind industry has slowed, largely due to the uncertainty surrounding the Federal Production Tax Credit extension," said Martha Wyrsch, head of Vestas-American Wind Technology, Inc.

Vestas said without more tax credits and stimulus funds, the company will have trouble competing.

Vestas executives, according to Rooters, told investors that "it would stop non-profitable projects," especially in Europe and America, where demand for its products have plummeted.
Posted by: Fred || 10/14/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Betcha O & Co, for all their Ivy League degrees, never heard of Danegeld.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/14/2012 2:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Couldn't the turbinations have waited until after the election? This is obviously RACIALLY motivated! I blame Daneland.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/14/2012 7:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Green = economically unsustainable.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/14/2012 8:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Green=naive and ignorant, too.
Posted by: Grunter || 10/14/2012 9:33 Comments || Top||

#5  In a previous life, my former employer was courting Veatas to build the blades and the tools/molds; Vestas wanted a Cadillac at Chevy prices; the plan was to build then ship the tools to a new, as yet not finished plant in the Midwest.
When I left, they were still arguing about it, no doubt while still collecting stimubux.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/14/2012 10:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Oblahblah spreadin' the economic magic around the globe...
Posted by: regular joe || 10/14/2012 10:11 Comments || Top||

#7  FORWARD!
Posted by: tu3031 || 10/14/2012 10:20 Comments || Top||

#8  Silly landlubbers - SEA TURBINE, D *** NG IT, SEA TURBINE, NOT LAND!

FTLG the Co. main plexes isn't even based on high-altitude mountains or ridges.

Posted by: JosephMendiola1 || 10/14/2012 23:33 Comments || Top||


Interior to fast-track solar projects on public lands
The B.O. regime finalized a program Friday to fast-track solar energy projects on public lands in six Western states.
So that we can give away more money to Democratic Party insiders who can then go bankrupt and dodge the IRS...
The Interior Department set aside about 285,000 acres for commercial-scale solar in Arizona, Caliphornia, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. The federal government will offer incentives for development, help facilitate access to existing or planned electric infrastructure and ease the permitting process in the 17 zones.

"Energy from sources like wind and solar have doubled since the president took office, and with today's milestone, we are laying a sustainable foundation to keep expanding our nation's domestic energy resources," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said.

If fully utilized, Interior predicts the zones could produce 23,700 megawatts of solar energy, enough to power 7 million homes.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ...
(D-Nev.) joined Salazar in finalizing the plan in Las Vegas.

Reid and President B.O. have been outspoken proponents of solar power, especially in the Southwest, with Obama often mentioning solar power's potential in campaign stops.
Posted by: Fred || 10/14/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm all for promoting NT but the tech is suppos to be better, more effective or efficient, + ultimately more cheaper in LR than the techs in the present.

Espec given my belief that OWG-NWO is akin to future SPACE GOVT-ORDER.

However, other than the NT being "Green", the Govt. has failed utterly to demonstrate the Consumer, Industrial, or other free market merits to any of the above.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/14/2012 19:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Reminds me if AUSTIN POWER'S "DR. EVIL" CHARACTER LINE > D *** NG IT, "... THROW ME A FREAKIN' BONE HERE - I'M THE BOSS, I NEED THE INFO"!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/14/2012 19:43 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Snarlin' Arlen Specter Departs This Vale of Tears
Corrected spelling
Just go. I have little good to say about the mean little bastid who turned partisan traitor to save his hide.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/14/2012 13:05 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The ninth and last circle is ringed by classical and Biblical giants, who perhaps symbolize pride and other spiritual flaws lying behind acts of treachery.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/14/2012 13:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Nobody ever likes or trusts a traitor. After the Dems used him, they dumped him in the gutter.
Posted by: PBMcL || 10/14/2012 13:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Everyone makes this world a better place. Some by what they do here, some by leaving the scene.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/14/2012 14:38 Comments || Top||

#4  He's off to his eternal Borking.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/14/2012 15:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Not to be pedantic or anything, but my inner copy-editor is saying that it's really a 'vale of tears'.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 10/14/2012 15:39 Comments || Top||

#6  OK - Vale of Tiers
Posted by: Frank G || 10/14/2012 15:43 Comments || Top||

#7  Is there such a thing as a vale of see ya, wouldn't wanna be ya?
Posted by: SteveS || 10/14/2012 16:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Not surprised. Out of Congress, out of that Special health plan. Suddenly he's one of the little people.
Posted by: Charles || 10/14/2012 19:43 Comments || Top||

#9  Hey I just googled "shameless political opportunism" and this is the #1 Image.
Posted by: regular joe || 10/14/2012 19:48 Comments || Top||

#10  Like many of you I never cared for Specter but I also never read his entire bio before - an interesting mixed bag. Did some good things but overall too McCain-ish for me.

Anyone on here familiar w/Michael Smeerconish (sp?)? I was radio surfing on the way home one day and landed on his talk show (I was looking for Levin). Smeerconish seems like a nice enough guy and very civil to his callers but it was easy to tell that he's a total Rino or indy wuss. Not surprisingly he was going on about how a big Specter fan he was (puke).
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 10/14/2012 20:51 Comments || Top||

#11  Malebolge, or Antenora?
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 10/14/2012 23:01 Comments || Top||


-Election 2012
Biden 2016? It could happen, my friend.
It's at least as likely as 'Hillary 2016'...
There must be some probability between the usual zero and one where his success would fall. Given that he twice has been rejected as a presidential candidate -- in 1988 and 2008 -- Mr. Plugs, esq, as he prefers to the bare name, will likely find his presidential probability pegged hard to the zero end of things.
Before becoming vice president, Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body...
declared his intention to "restore the balance" between his office and that of the president. In his view, Dick Cheney had essentially created a separate power base, nearly independent of the Oval Office. Biden's vice presidency was going to restrain those impulses. He would integrate his role and staff more smoothly and fully with the White House, more in the style of Walter Mondale
...Former Senator-for-Life from Minnesota. He was Jimmy Carter's vice president, and was trounced by Ronald Reagan in 1984, losing every state except for his home state and the District of Columbia....
during Jimmy Carter's presidency and, to a degree, Al Gore in the Clinton years.

But Biden has hardly taken a back seat. Instead, he has become President B.O.'s workhorse on issues from war to budgets to economic recovery. The New Deal Democrat from coal-country Scranton has even become a liberal standard-bearer on same-sex marriage, nudging the president to publicly shift positions. While Gore was given unusually significant responsibilities on very specific areas such as the environment and government efficiency, Biden, much like Cheney before him, has had plenty of running room on an array of key administration policies -- a sort of de facto assistant president.

Unlike the grim Cheney often shunted to undisclosed locations, however, Biden has been a visible sidekick to Obama -- enough to keep speculation alive about his presidential aspirations for 2016.

In nearly four years as vice president, Biden has been the chief monitor of the economic recovery efforts, coordinating federal projects with mayors and governors. As Obama's emissary to the Republican congressional leadership during the 2011 debt-ceiling negotiations, he was nicknamed the "McConnell whisperer" by aides, according to Bob Woodward's new book. And he has overseen the U.S. military and reconstruction agendas in Iraq and Afghanistan, while encouraging Obama to hold fast to the troop-withdrawal timelines Biden has advocated since taking office -- a point he emphasized repeatedly in his debate with Rep. Paul Ryan
...U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President B.O.'s 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies...
(R-Wis.) on Thursday night.

While Biden showed distracting, Gore-like flashes of irritability toward Ryan, he filled in blanks that Obama had left unspoken in his own debate with Willard Mitt Romney
...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. More to the point, he isn't President B.O...
, and he brought the discussion back to the Democrats' standard defense of the middle class. In so doing, he provided a tonic his party needed after the president's flat performance.

Although Obama and Biden were not close in the four years they overlapped in the Senate,
Eh? I thought our beloved president only spent a year practicing in the Senate before hitting the campaign trail in 2007.
according to Obama strategists David Axelrod
...a Chicago-based political hack, political adviser to Barack B.O. Obama since 2004. Following the 2008 election, he was appointed as Senior Advisor to Obama and we all see how well that worked out....
and David Plouffe, their candidate was impressed with Biden in the 2008 Democratic primaries. After he delivered uncommonly pithy answers in debates, other contenders onstage would begin their responses with variations of "Joe is right." And in a South Carolina debate, when asked whether he could control his wagging tongue, Biden's straight-faced, one-word answer -- "Yes" -- brought the house down.
But that was before he discovered the joys of artificial laughter. He'll never dip his toe in the old river again.
While he may have caused the Obama team some anxiety in the general-election campaign with his freewheeling style, the running mates meshed quickly. Early on, Obama publicly called Biden the best vice president to date and told him he wanted him on the ticket again in 2012.
Posted by: Fred || 10/14/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, it could happen. Of course, him being in a mental hospital could also happen...
Posted by: tu3031 || 10/14/2012 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  An electorate that permits the likes of Plugs and Champ to ascend to postions of power and authority has more to be concerned about than politics.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/14/2012 3:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Biden could never win the Democrat primary so it's all moot.
Posted by: American Delight || 10/14/2012 5:39 Comments || Top||

#4  No it couldn't---give Obama another 4 years, and the 22 Amendment is history.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/14/2012 6:46 Comments || Top||

#5  In so doing, he provided a tonic his party needed after the president's flat performance

Things have to be pretty bad if Mr. Biden's objective was shoring up his Party's base.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/14/2012 10:03 Comments || Top||

#6  Find out what that guy is smoking/drinking/snorting and distribute it among his circle of friends and acquiescence before November 6.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/14/2012 10:28 Comments || Top||

#7  Pappy's on it - just over three weeks before the election, and they're worried about shoring up their base?
Posted by: Frank G || 10/14/2012 10:38 Comments || Top||

#8  And monkeys could fly out of my ... Buick.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/14/2012 10:55 Comments || Top||

#9  Don't the donks realize what this looks like?

They're saying that the best candidate they'll have in 4 years is a 74 yr. old has been liar that has failed repeatedly.

Damn, Dude, that's a thhhiiiiiinnnn bench.
Posted by: AlanC || 10/14/2012 13:59 Comments || Top||

#10  Even Mr. Whitcover (the journalist/author of Biden and Democrat-fanboy books/writer of the opinion piece) senses all ain't right:

For all of Biden’s efforts against Ryan, it remains the president’s job in his debate rematch with Romney on Tuesday night to put their campaign back on track.

No doubt Mr. Whitcover's colleagues will be doing their utmost to help.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/14/2012 14:06 Comments || Top||

#11  He has a much better chance of being 'found' in Fort Marcy Park.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 10/14/2012 14:59 Comments || Top||

#12  This bunch in the WH has been lying to us for more than four years (counting the run-up to the election). For me, if a person lies once, their credibility is forever suspect.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/14/2012 18:30 Comments || Top||


Obama campaign asks court to allow early voting
President Barack Obama's campaign is urging the U.S. Supreme Court not to consider the Ohio secretary of state's appeal in a dispute over early voting in the presidential battleground state.

Attorneys say in a court filing the campaign said it submitted Friday that the court should let a lower ruling restoring early voting rights stand and not hear Secretary of State Jon Husted's appeal.

Husted appealed a ruling reinstating early voting the three days before Election Day and returning discretion to local elections boards. The Republican also asked the court to delay the lower court ruling while it decides whether to take the case.

Obama's campaign and Democrats sued Husted over part of a law cutting off early voting for most residents the Friday evening before a Tuesday election.
Posted by: Fred || 10/14/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More to the point, the law that the lower court overturned stopped early voting the three days before Election Day except for US military personnel and their families. There are reasons to stop early voting for a period before an election so records can be verified and cross-referenced. There are reasons to allow people who may be on exercises unexpectedly to vote early at the last minute. We can guess hat the reasons for this litigation are.
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 10/14/2012 4:48 Comments || Top||


Intelligence Community Responds To Biden 'bloviations'
Summary: He's a lying liar who lied. Also -- geography. They feel strongly about both. Life is going to get ever more interesting at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. over the next few weeks.
Posted by: Fred || 10/14/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Talking points and facts aside, Biden's demeanor at a time that so closely followed the internment of the dead from Benghazi was indeed shameful.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/14/2012 3:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Via Wretchard's site comes a discussion that this whole mess was meant to be Obama's October Surprise. Sure, it's a conspiracy theory. But the pieces seem to fit.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/14/2012 19:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Biden’s death rictus smile and feckless apologetics for Pharaoh’s regime make him the “Mr. Sardonicus” of our time. (Also: "Lunch Bucket Joe" has the record for the least charitable giving in the Exec. Branch)...a regulation prince of a guy.
Posted by: canalzone || 10/14/2012 21:09 Comments || Top||


Shot fired at Obama campaign office: reports
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] A shot was fired Friday at a campaign office for President Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
Very likely a false flag operation...
in the western US state of Colorado, shattering a window but injuring no one, police said.

Staff were in the office when the incident occurred mid-afternoon.

"It looks like it was one shot that was fired into the structure," said Denver police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez, cited by The Denver Post.

A photo posted online by the Denver Westword showed a window broken at the front of the office.

Police were searching for a "possible vehicle of interest," said Lopez, giving no further details.

Obama campaign officials did not immediately comment on the incident, which comes as Obama and Republican rival Willard Mitt Romney
...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. More to the point, he isn't President B.O...
battle into the final weeks before the November 6 presidential election.
Posted by: Fred || 10/14/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This happened in 08.

It was a democratic staffer that did it.

This time I expect the same.

Sad they don't even change their playbook.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/14/2012 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  I suspect incidents like this will occur times again iff the econ continues to worsen, + Politicos continue to refuse to explain the merits, the need, or even to vote on "Globalism" + OWG to the electorate.

"SMART POLITICS" = PCORRECTNESS-DENIABILITY IS NOT ALWAYS GOOD OR PROPER LEADERSHIP.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/14/2012 0:12 Comments || Top||

#3  When I lived in Knoxville, TN the republican office down the road from me got got up by more than just one round. It didn't exactly make a huge splash like this is.
Posted by: Silentbrick - Schlumberger Squishy Mud Division || 10/14/2012 2:24 Comments || Top||

#4  The memory hole can't quite eliminate the record in '08 of shots fired in the other direction. Working our way up to the Bleeding Kansas phase.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/14/2012 3:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Mini-Reichstag moment.
Posted by: twobyfour || 10/14/2012 5:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Pro,

Should we now watch out for Congressmen with canes?
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 10/14/2012 6:17 Comments || Top||

#7  Police were searching for a "possible vehicle of interest"

These guys are off the hook:

Posted by: Glong Spith5491 || 10/14/2012 7:02 Comments || Top||

#8  Pro,
Should we now watch out for Congressmen with canes?


Given how surly Mr Reid appears to be, I'd be careful around the old dude.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/14/2012 8:32 Comments || Top||

#9  Shots probably came from inside the office, the last democrats.
Posted by: airandee || 10/14/2012 16:12 Comments || Top||

#10  I would question everything such as this.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/14/2012 18:27 Comments || Top||



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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.
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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2012-10-14
  Israel AF kills head of Al-Q affiliate in Gaza
Sat 2012-10-13
  96 Dead, Including 41 Troops
Fri 2012-10-12
  US names new diplomat to Libya to replace Stevens
Thu 2012-10-11
  US embassy security chief gunned down in Yemen
Wed 2012-10-10
  Turkey Intercepts Syrian Civilian Plane
Tue 2012-10-09
  Taliban bravely shoot Pakistani schoolgirl campaigning for peace
Mon 2012-10-08
  Syria Rebels Advance in North, Pushed Back in South
Sun 2012-10-07
  1 dead, 10 arrested in anti-terror sweep in France
Sat 2012-10-06
  US suspected drone kills five persons in Shabwa
Fri 2012-10-05
  18 Republican Guards killed in Damascus province
Thu 2012-10-04
  Violence and Protest in Iran as Currency Drops in Value
Wed 2012-10-03
  Syria shells kill five inside Turkey
Tue 2012-10-02
  More Than 130 Dead in Syria amid Clashes in Aleppo Souk
Mon 2012-10-01
  Children killed in Kenya church attack
Sun 2012-09-30
  Thousands rally in Karachi against anti-Islam film

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