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ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Killed
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
James Comey Says He's Moving To New Zealand If Trump Wins Reelection (If He's Not In Prison)
[Townhall] Former FBI Director James Comey says he will move to New Zeland if President Trump wins reelection. But depending on the report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz, Comey may not be traveling anywhere at all. The Department of Justice announced last week that it was opening a criminal investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation.

At Politicon 2019 in Nashville on Saturday, during a "conversation" with Never Trumper MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, Comey said, "Our leaders must reflect the glue that holds us together. They can’t be people who lie all the time. They just can’t. And I hope people see that’s true whether they are Republicans or Democrats. Wallace then asked, "What if he wins again? Will you still believe that?" Comey said, "I will be, from my new home in New Zeland, I will still believe in America."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/27/2019 03:08 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They don't have extradition with USA?
We kinda hoping you'll be arrested before the elections James.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/27/2019 3:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Try Russia. No extradition treaty and Comey is fully trained in their kind of work.
Posted by: Pancho Flerens6518 || 10/27/2019 3:49 Comments || Top||

#3  ^By their standards he isn't even a dilettante - more like a LARPer.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/27/2019 4:11 Comments || Top||

#4  I will still believe in America.

Somehow chucking that oath to the Constitution clearly says just the opposite. Actions > Words.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/27/2019 8:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Considering nobody ever does this, can we make such announcements carry revocation of their citizenship when they don't follow through?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/27/2019 9:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Isn't it funny how all these assholes decide that when they have finally have enough of Us Deplorables they want to go to a lily-white country like New Zealand?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/27/2019 9:49 Comments || Top||

#7  And isn't it also funny that after all the whining and pretend hysterics, not one of these lying coddled POS (what is the plural of that??) actually make the move?
Hypocrites, down to the last drop (Sorry Maxwell).
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 10/27/2019 9:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Yank his passport.
Posted by: One Eyed Ghibelline9404 || 10/27/2019 9:59 Comments || Top||

#9  Last I heard New Zealand was severely restricting immigrants.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/27/2019 10:15 Comments || Top||

#10  If there was an Olympic event for smug, self-righteous sanctimonious douchebags, Comey would win gold, silver and bronze.
Posted by: Raj || 10/27/2019 10:44 Comments || Top||

#11  A criminal indictment might make that move problematic, Jimmy
Posted by: Frank G || 10/27/2019 11:03 Comments || Top||

#12  So Barr better wrap up before the election.
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/27/2019 14:17 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Gov Gavin Newsom Struggles To Stay In Control As California Goes Dark, Wildfires Spread, And Gas Prices Spike
[Daily Caller] Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is warning citizens that they could be in for a long weekend as the state’s public utility announced Saturday plans to shut down huge sections of the electric grid.

The Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s move could black out an estimated 940,000 homes and businesses in parts of more than 30 counties up and down California. PG&E is trying to prevent potential wildfires from spreading through the state while keeping tabs on downed power lines.

Newsom, who is under pressure as gas prices increase, told Californians things are going to be tough for the next few days.

"The next 72 hours will be challenging," the Democrat said at a news conference. "I could sugarcoat it, but I will not."

The rolling blackouts could surpass those of the 750,000 customers who dealt with similar shut-offs earlier in October. Newsom started to circulate blame for many of the problems Californians are facing, including the blackouts and rising gas prices.

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/27/2019 04:34 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Call Caracas for advise?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/27/2019 9:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Bet the lights at his house will be on this weekend.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 10/27/2019 12:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Preparing the people for life in the 3rd world.
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/27/2019 14:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Wesley Mouch in real life.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/27/2019 15:04 Comments || Top||

#5  How soon until Greens are lynched in California?
Posted by: 3dc || 10/27/2019 15:35 Comments || Top||

#6  When's the first trial of wreckers scheduled?
Posted by: charger || 10/27/2019 16:45 Comments || Top||


Mathematics a tool of racial oppression, Seattle public schools committee says
[AMERICANTHINKER] Something called the "K‐12 Math Ethnic Studies Framework," created by a Seattle Public Schools "Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee," is intended to instruct students that math is intimately connected to racial oppression. Students will be taught "how technology and/or science have been and continues [sic] to be used to oppress and marginalize people and communities of color." The framework, the final draft of which is scheduled to be completed by September 2020, will also attempt to "explain how math dictates economic oppression." That's correct: math.

Tracy Castro-Gill, the ethnic studies program manager at Seattle Public Schools, noted that the framework is intended to redress the fact that the district has not been properly serving minority students. Castro-Gill said, "The goal is to disrupt the status quo and do something different." Disrupting the status quo is the goal ‐ and sacred quest ‐ of all progressives. She added, "It's important to break down barriers while valuing our differences." Those of her ilk love breaking down barriers. And fences. And standards.

The framework curriculum will consist of four themes: Origins, Identity, and Agency; Power and Oppression; History of Resistance and Liberation; and Reflection and Action.
Posted by: Fred || 10/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  People always talk about how racist math is. IMO, why they ignore how sexist it is?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/27/2019 2:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Teachers in the US must have it so tough. I mean real educationists, not recognition hungry idiots. And my wife complains about difficult parents too interested in their kid's progress, and incessant reports and activities they must organize.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/27/2019 7:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Math is a religion just ask baby Sheldon and the church of mathology!
Posted by: Angens Turkeyneck2026 || 10/27/2019 8:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Ah, so THAT'S why there is such a high incarceration rate. They can't understand what "10 to 20" means.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/27/2019 9:23 Comments || Top||

#5  "Math is HARD!"

Barbie
Posted by: no mo uro || 10/27/2019 11:59 Comments || Top||

#6  The only way you. can logically follow this line of reasoning is to accept the underlying assumption that people of color are less intelligent and therefore can’t as easily grasp non contextual data. In other words, they are limited to reasoning only in the context of their sub-culture. A damning admission if you accept the premise.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/27/2019 14:03 Comments || Top||

#7  Algebra was invented by Arabs so this is racist!

Also, STEM jobs are higher paying jobs so these idiots are pushing people of color away from good jobs. That's also racist!
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/27/2019 14:18 Comments || Top||

#8  But the drug dealers are good at math, how else can they figure out the cost per weight and cash flow and all that?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 10/27/2019 14:33 Comments || Top||

#9  All them bridges, damns, electronics and building must be tools of racial oppression too. Get rid of 'em!
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/27/2019 14:48 Comments || Top||

#10  @#8..so we need more math labs?
Posted by: Classer || 10/27/2019 16:56 Comments || Top||

#11  You can tell from her picture, she never counted the dollops or the pancakes. That's Castro-Gill, woke activist teacher. That woman's oppressing the earth just by being !

Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/27/2019 17:04 Comments || Top||

#12  Algebra was invented by Arabs so this is racist!

According to a long and detailed Wikipedia post on the subject, neither the Arabs nor the Muslims invented algebra, which dates back to the Babylonians, but they did name it. So that’s something.

Add it to the long list of inventions and discoveries claimed by the Muslims — like the discovery of America — to which their connection came very late in the game.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/27/2019 17:11 Comments || Top||

#13  Aren't the Babylonians basically Arabs before Islam?
Posted by: ruprecht || 10/27/2019 19:06 Comments || Top||

#14  @ #11 WOW, what a babe! I want her for her body AND her brains.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 10/27/2019 20:17 Comments || Top||


Cyber
Not just Pierre & Carlos: Secret Twitter Accounts for Comey, Supreme Court Justice & Clerks
[WashingtonTimes] Former FBI Director James Comey, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and, of course, disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who called himself “Carlos Danger,” sought refuge in private social media accounts.

Ms. Feinberg previously outed Mr. Comey’s hidden Instagram account, formerly “@reinholdniebuhr” after Mr. Comey hinted at having both a private Twitter and Instagram account where he monitored social media chatter.

Justice Breyer began using a hidden Twitter account nearly a decade ago. He told the House Appropriations Committee in 2011 that he had set up a private account to keep tabs on the political unrest in Iran.

“The open secret of Supreme Court advocacy in a digital era” is that the new way to argue in front of the justices is to reach them online via such avenues as blogs, podcasts, and social media posts, they wrote in the Cornell Law Review.

Mr. Fisher and Ms. Orr Larsen studied the Twitter habits of Supreme Court law clerks who help craft the justices’ decisions and thinking, and found the clerks’ social media habits had a definite impact.

“In particular, we show that the Twitter patterns of law clerks indicate they are paying close attention to producers of virtual briefing, and threads of these arguments (proposed and developed online) are starting to appear in the court’s decisions,” wrote Mr. Fisher and Ms. Orr Larsen for Cornell Law Review in 2019. “We argue that this ‘crowdsourcing’ dynamic to Supreme Court decision-making is at least worth a serious pause. … The confines of the adversarial process have been around for centuries, and there are significant risks that come with operating outside of it, particularly given the unique nature and speed of online discussions.”
Posted by: Lex || 10/27/2019 05:40 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  C'mon, man - a little teaser first - the Examiner has way too many annoying popups; I'm not gonna read an article with all that crap hitting me.

Excerpt added.
Posted by: Raj || 10/27/2019 10:39 Comments || Top||

#2  I will say this. I don't use my name on Twitter...
Posted by: 3dc || 10/27/2019 15:34 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The Plundering of Ukraine by Corrupt American Democrats
[UNZ] Top Dems are involved in the plundering of the Ukraine: new names, mind-boggling accounts. The mysterious ‘whistleblower' whose report had unleashed the impeachment is named in the exclusive interview given to the Unz Review by a prominent Ukrainian politician, an ex-Member of Parliament of four terms, a candidate for Ukraine's presidency, Oleg Tsarev.

Mr Tsarev, a tall, agile and graceful man, a good speaker and a prolific writer, had been a leading and popular Ukrainian politician before the 2014 putsch; he stayed in the Ukraine after President Yanukovych's flight; ran for the Presidency against Mr Poroshenko, and eventually had to go to exile due to multiple threats to his life. During the failed attempt to secede, he was elected the speaker of the Parliament of Novorossia (South-Eastern Ukraine). I spoke to him in Crimea, where he lives in the pleasant seaside town of Yalta. Tsarev still has many supporters in the Ukraine, and is a leader of the opposition to the Kiev regime....

And President Zelensky? Is he free from Clintonite Democrats’ influence?

If he were, there would not be the scandal of Trump phone call. How the Democrats learned of this call and its alleged content? The official version says there was a CIA man, a whistle-blower, who reported to the Democrats. What the version does not clarify, where this whistle-blower was located during the call. I tell you, he was located in Kiev, and he was present at the conversation, at the Ukrainian President Zelensky’s side. This man was (perhaps) a CIA asset, but he also was a close associate of George Soros, and a Ukrainian high-ranking official. His name is Mr Alexander Daniluk. He is also the man the investigation of Sam Kislin and of the DoJ had led to, the Finance Minister of Ukraine at the time, the man who was responsible for the embezzlement of three billion US taxpayer’s best dollars. The DoJ issued an order for his arrest. Naturally he is devoted to Biden personally, and to the Dems in general. I would not trust his version of the phone call at all.
RTWT - Quite interesting, informative and not reported by the MSM
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/27/2019 09:25 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wouldn't be the first time leftists plundered Ukraine.

It's mystifying that any Ukrainian would support Dems.
Posted by: charger || 10/27/2019 16:43 Comments || Top||

#2  The year was 2014 Hussein Obama was president when Putin took Crimea. The Biden crime family got Ukraine and the rest is history. Sad when you think about it.
Posted by: jpal || 10/27/2019 18:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Corrupt Ukranians working in concert with corrupt Dems to plunder Ukraine. The usual Soros model: dump a ton of other people's money into a destabilized country to finance a left-wing revolution, put in a puppet government, reap the benefits until the country is sucked dry. Say it's all in the name of social justice, human rights or some other make-up B.S. such as climate change or NWO.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/27/2019 23:21 Comments || Top||


'Be in their faces': CNN bigwig calls for hounding 'delusional' Senate Republicans at work, home
[WashingtonTimes] CNN’s political director urged the news team to get “in their faces” of all Republican senators on a daily basis, both at work and at home, about President Trump’s Ukraine phone call, according to undercover audio.

Project Veritas posted an audio snippet last week as part of its #ExposeCNN investigation on the network’s morning “rundown call” featuring CNN Worldwide CEO Jeffrey Zucker and political director David Chalian discussing how to “brand” Republicans.
The October 17th Project Veritas video can be seen at the link.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/27/2019 02:57 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Proper response - Hound CNN bigwigs until they leave the country...
Posted by: 3dc || 10/27/2019 3:56 Comments || Top||

#2  "We're objective journalists, we are."
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/27/2019 5:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Shitshow Part 153

CNN needs to be shut down. This is not journalism.
Posted by: Lex || 10/27/2019 5:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Like I said.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/27/2019 8:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Local law enforcement should arrest this asshole for inciting violence. I'm getting really sick of this shit....
Posted by: Raj || 10/27/2019 10:24 Comments || Top||

#6  Mr. Zucker pushing the network to be “fully committed” to the House Democrats’ impeachment push, which has received extensive coverage from virtually all national media outlets.

The Dems couldn't be any more committed. They are still a part of the cover-up/obstruction and thus they are aiding and abetting a felony.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/27/2019 11:14 Comments || Top||

#7  The Democrats are screwed. If they leave DC to campaign in their home states Trumps minions will be waiting for them, and he can make recess apointments of judges who can tie them up with lawfare. If The stay in DC they provide sound bites that the Trumps can play in their home states.
Posted by: Clyde Dribble8052 || 10/27/2019 13:44 Comments || Top||

#8  File a lawsuit for harassment and get restraining orders placed on every fuck 0 Crat there.
Posted by: newc || 10/27/2019 14:59 Comments || Top||

#9  Use the left's logic on the Second Amendment to their First Amendment rights.

There was no CNN or social media in the 1700s, therefore 1 A is inoperative for them.
Posted by: charger || 10/27/2019 16:47 Comments || Top||


Democratic leaders, presidential hopefuls to address J Street conference
See? It’s not that they’re Jew haters, it’s just that they can’t abide the icky kind of juices who fight for their own survival.
[Jpost] J Street, the progressive Jewish group, opened its seventh conference Saturday at the US capital, where key Democratic leaders will address the US-Israel relationship. Some 3,800 people are expected to participate in the four-day long event, including 1,200 students, making a record attendance for the conference, according to the group.

Speaker of the House Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
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Posted by: trailing wife || 10/27/2019 00:39 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And the dumb kikes are going to lapp it all up.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/27/2019 2:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Not surprising. There are outliers in any group.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/27/2019 9:07 Comments || Top||


Waters Pays Daughter $56K More From Campaign
[FREEBEACON] Other debts remain untouched
Posted by: Fred || 10/27/2019 00:03 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As PJ O'Rourke said, Parliament of Whores
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/27/2019 10:38 Comments || Top||


Kamala Throws a Hissy Fit And Cancels an Appearance... Because Trump Received an Award
[TOWNHALL]
Posted by: Fred || 10/27/2019 00:02 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Buttigieg unveils criminal justice plan
[CNN] Pete Buttigieg
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...
unveiled his criminal justice plan on Saturday, coinciding with a two-day swing through South Carolina -- a state where he has struggled to gain traction with African American voters -- and his participation in a presidential candidate criminal justice forum.
The South Bend, Indiana, mayor joins several other Democratic presidential contenders by proposing sweeping changes to the criminal justice system in an effort to roll back mass incarceration and address the system's disproportionate impact on black people.

Among the initiatives Buttigieg proposes is to reduce the incarcerated population by 50% at the federal and state levels, a proposal he introduced earlier this year; eliminating mandatory minimum sentences; legalizing marijuana, eliminating incarceration or drug possession offenses, reducing the sentences for other drug offenses; and pushing for changes to policing practices.

Buttigieg has faced criticism for rising violent crime in his home city as well as how its police department handled resident Eric Logan's killing by an officer.

Posted by: Fred || 10/27/2019 00:01 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The last paragraph is a joy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/27/2019 2:54 Comments || Top||

#2  The second last one is a hoot too, grom. He really means 'criminal justice'.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 10/27/2019 10:56 Comments || Top||

#3  His idea of criminal justice is to 'stick it up your backside'.

Oh wait, he's already good at that...
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 10/27/2019 14:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Did Buttigieg do anything as Mayor to impact crime in South Bend?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/27/2019 23:11 Comments || Top||


Biden campaign on 'life support'
[THEHILL] Former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant...
's campaign, it’s on life support after spending a million dollars on private jets shuttling in between fundraisers... only to end up with 9 million dollars in the bank

Biden's cash on hand totals rank him fourth in the Democratic field despite the candidate doing almost no national media and sparsely holding rallies. Literally the only thing he does is fundraise.

Despite that, the lackluster returns have led to a major reversal for the Biden campaign. After months of disavowing super PAC support, the Biden campaign put out a new statement saying super PAC support is now ok.

Biden is effectively trying to get his rich donors to bail him out of the race by greenlighting all the money that they can spend on his behalf in the early states. This is mightily hypocritical according to...Vice President Joe Biden himself back in a 2018 interview on PBS Newshour.

Not only did Biden say he is against taking super PAC money, he apparently gave the idea to Senator Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being a socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
! As with most things in Biden's record, there is something from his past that disputes what he is saying today. It just demonstrates the sheer desperation that his campaign is operating on to try and limp forwards towards the nomination.

Posted by: Fred || 10/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We'll see how far the party is willing to drag a dead horse towards the finish line.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/27/2019 9:09 Comments || Top||


Lee Smith: Deep State Used ‘Criminal Conspiracy' to Stop Flynn's Audit of Intelligence Agencies
[Breitbart] A multifaceted "criminal conspiracy" to destroy former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was launched by persons across the national security state apparatus to prevent audits of intelligence agencies' operations, said Lee Smith, author of The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History, in a Friday interview on SiriusXM's Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Rick Manning.

Flynn sought to combat waste and fraud across intelligence agencies as President Donald Trump’s national security advisor via audits, said Smith.

"When General Flynn was coming to the White House, [he] was talking about conducting an audit across the intelligence community," Smith explained. "He recognized the amount of waste [and] the amount of money that had been misspent. He knew what people were doing. He knew that people were hiding these things in different black programs, and he was going to look and start to inspect budgets."

Smith continued, "He was going to get the entire senior intelligence service to hand in their resignations. Now, that doesn’t necessarily mean he was going to fire everyone. What it means, though, is he wanted everyone to prove what they were doing, that they were doing their jobs, they were doing good for the country, they weren’t wasting money, they weren’t wasting time, and they weren’t running operations like the one they ran against General Flynn."

"The intelligence community, at that point ‐ what has correctly and colorfully became known as the deep state ‐ they rose nearly as one and they realized that General Flynn was an existential threat," assessed Smith. "He was actually going to start looking at their budgets and start looking at what they did. They had to find a way to fight him.
Posted by: Pancho Flerens6518 || 10/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I wonder if anyone will pick this thread up and start pulling it to see what unravels?
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 10/27/2019 21:15 Comments || Top||


Hillary Clinton puts on her best black accent and goes to Elijah Cummings's funeral
[AMERICANTHINKER] Some people put on their best black garments for the funeral of someone considered, by his friends at least, to be an honored dignitary.

Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away...
's a little different. She put on her best black accent -- and uses it to spew bile.

The failed presidential candidate dropped the hard-edged corporate accent and got the cadence going with this one.

"He weathered storms and earthquakes, but never lost his faith. Like that Old Testament prophet, he stood against the corrupt leadership of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel."

She not only pretended to be black, pandering to presumably the black people in the audience, she bizarrely cited obscure Bible passages as if she'd been going to Bible studies for years as many black church-goers do, and threw out some not-disguised digs at President Trump, the perfect means of Wellstoning the funeral.
Posted by: Fred || 10/27/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: 3dc || 10/27/2019 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  I had Bee.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/27/2019 2:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Also clearly audible in the background of this (unembeddable) rendition of "Elijah Rock."
Posted by: Elmolulet Sholump2908 || 10/27/2019 3:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Congressional funerals are now another occasion for Two Minutes Hours Hate.
Posted by: Lex || 10/27/2019 4:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Ten forties of malt.liquor help!
Posted by: Angens Turkeyneck2026 || 10/27/2019 8:52 Comments || Top||

#6  and Noone stood up and called her a vicious religious fanatic or God Botherer striving to force her personal morality on other people...
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 10/27/2019 10:01 Comments || Top||

#7  and Noone stood up and called her a vicious religious fanatic or God Botherer striving to force her idea of personal morality on other people...
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain

It's not like she has any personal morality of her own.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 10/27/2019 14:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Did Hillary go in black face too?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/27/2019 18:43 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Before former ICE director speaks, Penn shuts the event down citing loud student chants
[Daily Penn] Perry World House abruptly ended a scheduled event Wednesday on immigration policy and escorted guests off the stage after one of the speakers, former United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan, was met with dozens of student protesters.

Students wielding signs that read, "Abolish ICE" and "No one is illegal on stolen land," gathered inside and outside of Perry World House minutes before the "Detention and Deportation from Obama to Trump" event, which was scheduled to take place from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Before the protest, more than 500 students and alumni signed a petition demanding that Penn cancel the event because of controversial policies Homan implemented when he led ICE.

At about 4:45 p.m., protesters lined the outside of the building and sat in the event room filled with attendees. The students inside were chanting, "No hate. No fear. Immigrants are welcome here" and "Go home Homan."

An official standing in front of the audience attempted to talk about Penn’s First Amendment rights and the event's intention over the protesters, but they continued chanting.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/27/2019 04:19 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not at all surprising. Thomas Homan is a stand-up guy who has earned his spurs.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/27/2019 4:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Keep it up, kids. Keep bleating your open borders nonsense and ensure Trump's re-election.

Nice to see this happening at a Pennsylvania university btw. Open borders / amnesty + "Ban Fracking" will ensure that Trump wins PA next November.

With OH in the bag and FL and PA, Trump will need only one swing state out of the remaining 5 or 6. Nice job, Dems.
Posted by: Lex || 10/27/2019 4:58 Comments || Top||



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