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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Republicans demand White House hand over documents on 'disturbing' trend of Biden relatives 'profiting' off the presidency after Hunter's $500K paintings raised serious ethics concerns
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As long as the Republicans do not have majorities in the House and Senate, they can demand all they want, but it won’t get them anything except excited voters.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2021 2:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Nothing will happen until the Pub's control the congress. Then Biden resigns. Corrupt f#ck he is.
Posted by: Spoter B || 07/15/2021 2:25 Comments || Top||

#3  As has been attributed to Joseph Stalin: "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

Pubs haven't yet figured out that there are two systems of justice? Have the last 4 years kangaroo courts, star chambers and show trials not taught them anything?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/15/2021 10:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Could question John. I'm leaning toward a 'no' nothing much at all.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/15/2021 11:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Republican Sherrifs are all hat, no cattle.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 07/15/2021 11:53 Comments || Top||



Hard times as NYC soft on crime, doomed by reforms
[NYPOST] It’s beginning to look like ­going soft on crime — especially juvenile crime — wasn’t such a hot idea. Is it time to reform New York’s "reforms"? Obviously, it is.

And a reasonable place to begin is with those concerning children who bear adult arms — and who use them with deadly abandon.

The problem is stark and clear, the most recent example being three murders in The Bronx — teenagers killed by other teenagers in what police say were gang-related tit-for-tat shootings of a sort not seen regularly in New York since the ’90s.

That is, not since the last time New York grew tired of the bloody consequences of lax law enforcement and concentrated its prodigious energies on protecting all of its citizens.

The results were spectacular — a city so secure that over time safe streets came to be seen as nature’s way. But complacency set in; activists and their apologists chipped away the policies and practices keeping criminals at bay — and then the dominos began to fall.

Perhaps most relevant right now, and among the most corrosive, is the 2017 "Raise the Age" law, a statute strongly backed by Gov. Cuomo that reset the age of criminal responsibility in New York from 16 to 18.



Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


-Great Cultural Revolution
Left-wing candidate who threatened to blow up school bus endorsed by bus-riders union
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Ubax Gardheere, the embattled progressive county council candidate, who threatened to blow up a school bus filled with children, has been endorsed by a radical activist transit union whose logo is ironically, a bus.

The Transit Riders Union (TRU) is well known in Seattle for being activist foot soldiers for radical causes and Marxist candidates like Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant
...Socialist Seattle city council member who has difficulty distinguishing between her money and the city's...
The TRU announced the endorsement after national attention was brought to Gaardheer’s past, and a video of the incident itself, published by The Post Millennial went viral.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  You were hoping this was the Bee, weren't you? Alas...
Posted by: SteveS || 07/15/2021 1:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Called it a few days ago. Threatening to blow up a school bus full of kids in Seattle gives you 'cred'.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/15/2021 2:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Its what she did in the back of the bus that gives her creed

If the bus is rock'n, don't come a knock'n...

We Endorse, We endorse, We endorse....

We want to get Fooocked, we are Dems, and you're to one who foooks anyone, just like Kamala.
Posted by: Glens Gonque4291 || 07/15/2021 2:10 Comments || Top||

#4  The Bee is going out of business. The truth is now stranger than fiction...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 07/15/2021 12:10 Comments || Top||

#5  a radical activist transit union

...Dafuq?

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/15/2021 12:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Thought it was surely th Bee.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/15/2021 23:35 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Biden wants to boost policing — after spreading toxic lies that tore it down
[NYPOST] Forced to confront the lethal violence engulfing US cities, President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?...
now says he wants to refund the police, as he indicated at a meeting with Eric Adams
...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black...
. Astonishingly, Biden is recasting himself as a supporter of law enforcement.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  President Joe The Big Guy Biden now says he wants to refund the police,

Pay no attention to what he says. He's the biggest damn liar in the White House since Lyndon Johnson. Watch what he does.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/15/2021 12:30 Comments || Top||

#2  What they want to do is replace the local police with their chosen brownshirts.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/15/2021 16:10 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Dems lose their minds over voting laws
[NYPOST] For Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
, it’s "the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. That’s not hyperbole, since the Civil War."Good God! What insurrection or secession is he talking about? What threat to our union?!

Turns out it’s voting laws.

Sorry, Joe, that’s the very definition of hyperbole. The Democrats, who, as a pandemic safety measure, introduced universal mail-in voting without either ID or even asking for a ballot, now say that any change or restriction to that system is literally the confederates attacking Fort Sumter.

In Texas, the proposed law would set hours for early voting, require voters to request an absentee ballot and then write in their driver’s license number or other identification, and set rules for poll watchers. Rather than vote for it, Texas Democrats fled to DC and sang "We shall overcome."

When Oregon Republicans pulled such a stunt in 2019, Vox said they were "subverting democracy." When the Texas Democrats did it, Vice President Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California, and then a former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful. She dropped out because she was polling in negative numbers because of racism. Her father is a Marxist professor emeritus at Stanford and her mother is an Indian of the Hindoo tribe. She is reputedly the proud descendant of a long line of women. Joe Biden picked her for her skin tone, feeling she could also bring in the Native American, women's, and bimbo votes. She's an outstanding exemplar of the Peter Principle, proudly displaying her level of competence in her handling of the Biden Border Surge
called it "as American as apple pie."

This is a common refrain. When Democrats change the voting laws, draw the Congressional districts, restrict who can even get on the ballot (looking at you, New York Democratic Machine), or use the filibuster it’s just democracy in action. When Republicans do it, it’s apocalypse now.

These laws will pass, the Republic will stand. But as with his other overwrought warnings of doom, President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S., father of Hunter......
will prove again that he’s not to be taken seriously.
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  46th* president of the U.S., father of Hunter

FIFY
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 07/15/2021 2:23 Comments || Top||

#2  My Precious!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/15/2021 7:04 Comments || Top||

#3 

Democrats/Socialists:
We own or control the Voting Machine Companies.
We don't need to worry about any stinking Voters Laws.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/15/2021 7:24 Comments || Top||

#4  After all, its is as has been said: "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/15/2021 10:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Dims want to turn Texas Blue via voter fraud.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 07/15/2021 16:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Wonder when excrement hits the fan, if all those 'voters' will turn out to give the last full measure of devotion on the streets, in the hill, and on the beaches.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/15/2021 19:35 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Democrat Candidate Harley Rouda Calls Trump Voters 'Morons'
[BREITBART] Former Democrat Rep. Harley Rouda (CA), who is running to get his old seat he lost to Republican Rep. Michelle Steel (CA), called Republicans who voted for former President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
"morons."
Rouda’s comments were made at a town hall hosted by the Laguna Beach Democratic Club, Fox News reported.

During his remarks, Rouda said, "Trump being at the top of the ticket" in 2020 was one of the reasons he lost his House seat, according to an "audit" he did.

He went on to say that "The fact that six million more ’morons’ voted for this man, is mind-boggling to me," but he noted, "Thank goodness about 11 more million Americans voted for [President] Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
Rouda also blamed Democrat "low-propensity, uninformed voters who came out and voted for Trump and the down the ticket." He said that "impacted" him.

He continued, "When you look at this district, it was 89 percent turnout. So 89 percent of the registered voters voted."
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2021 00:10 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So much for the crossover vote.
Posted by: Raj || 07/15/2021 1:31 Comments || Top||

#2  there are no cross over votes at this point.
Posted by: Chris || 07/15/2021 1:42 Comments || Top||

#3  YOU CROSSED THE LINE BUB !

I'm a Cretan and I'm insulted that you called me and my family maroons. We Cretans go back eons & not knowing that you are an Imbecile, I know that because my uncle on my fathers side is one, and we stay way away from him, because he is just like Joseph Robinette Biden Jr...your perverted, usurper, fake leader of the USA.
You will be ground into DUST Harley.
Posted by: Chusing Grumble7392 || 07/15/2021 1:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Here in the OC, we call them Lagunatics for a reason..
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 07/15/2021 2:51 Comments || Top||

#5  morons

I.e. In 2020, Rouda lost reelection as the Trump wave swept Republicans into office (in CA no less) as the Democrats neglected to cheat as massively in down ballot races.
Posted by: Snomoth Whereling9836 || 07/15/2021 2:57 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Trump was obviously at the top of the ballot, and 'easy fix' (little math required). Down ballot candidates were too numerous and involved various districts and candidates. Simply too many different ballots to contend with for effective cheating. I'm sure the dems have a down ballot fix in the works somewhere.

The will of 75,000,000+ voting morons simply had to be undone as quickly as possible.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/15/2021 4:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Harley seems to have that Biden 1000 yard stare.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/15/2021 8:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Living reminder of the the old saying, the only difference between a Hoover and a Harley is the dirtbag.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/15/2021 8:50 Comments || Top||

#9  Harley sez - "Just keep those donations flowing in."
Posted by: Bobby || 07/15/2021 11:03 Comments || Top||

#10  Psychology

(from da internet somewhere just now) Moron is a term once used in psychology and psychiatry to denote mild intellectual disability. The term was closely tied with the American eugenics movement. Once the term became popularized, it fell out of use by the psychological community, as it was used more commonly as an insult than as a psychological term. It is similar to imbecile and idiot.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 07/15/2021 11:59 Comments || Top||

#11  And Cretans any word on them ? ... Asking for a friend
Posted by: Clonter the Tiny8221 || 07/15/2021 12:06 Comments || Top||

#12  Cagey Cretins
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/15/2021 12:32 Comments || Top||

#13  Former Democrat Rep. Harley Rouda (CA), who is running to get his old seat he lost to Republican Rep. Michelle Steel (CA),...

Good luck with that, moron. It seems Orange County is not as far gone as you hoped and Michelle Steele will hold onto that seat as long as she wants it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/15/2021 12:34 Comments || Top||

#14  you called me and my family maroons

Wasn't that French slang for Hatians?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2021 13:20 Comments || Top||

#15  So Chusing, your family's from Crete, huh?
(Crete-> Cretans, amiright?)
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/15/2021 16:28 Comments || Top||


Inflation will only get worse if Dems' $6 trillion spending plan passes
[NYPOST] Democrats are united in the belief that laws of economics no longer exist. That you can spend trillions upon trillions — anything you want, really — with no downside.The laws of economics respectfully disagree.

Inflation is up 5.4 percent year-over-year, the largest increase in 13 years. Partly, that’s the bounce-back from the pandemic, but it’s also because of the massive spending bills pushed through by both the Trump and Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft
...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know...
s.

Some stimulus was clearly necessary, but now that the economy is heating up again, the Democrats want to spend even more — $6 trillion.

If they succeed, expect inflation to shoot up even more. Progressives don’t care. They’ll claim credit for an increase in wages and government aid. But chances are that won’t make up for the rising cost of daily necessities like gas, meat and milk. Inflation is, above everything, a tax on the poor.



Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It will because it will.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/15/2021 1:24 Comments || Top||

#2  I think the smart bet is they will even manage to screw up wasting money. Lots of the COVID stimulus was never "spent" because the bureaucracies involved couldn't move quickly enough.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/15/2021 9:56 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Have you checked their numbered Swiss accounts?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/15/2021 10:01 Comments || Top||

#4  As Designed.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/15/2021 10:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Not sure really what to do except heavy rock the other way, like a $1trillion, and take the bumps and bruises, and know what needs attention in '22.

Thing is, I think g(r)om is right, and cloud castles are on auction.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/15/2021 11:02 Comments || Top||

#6  We are already near 1970s levels. Might as well go for 1930 Germany.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/15/2021 16:12 Comments || Top||

#7  People might try to find a haven in property, gold or crytocurrency. I don't trust property as it already seems over-inflated. I am leery of crytocurrency as well. But then I am old engineer and not a financial guy. I've taken a hit a couple of times.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/15/2021 23:34 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Team Biden's petty, foolish push to undermine the Abraham Accords
[NYPOST] Team Biden seems determined to dismantle all its predecessor’s policies — even those that promised to transform the dysfunctional Middle East for the better.The White House "suspended the Abraham Fund indefinitely," Israeli financial paper Globes reported last week, citing US and Israeli sources. The public-private partnership was established last year after Israel signed the US-brokered Abraham Accords with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, the first peace deals between the Jewish state and Arab nations in decades.

The Trump administration called the Abraham Fund "an integral part" of the peace deals; it would "mobilize more than $3 billion in private-sector-led investment" to demonstrate "the benefits of peace by improving the lives of the region’s peoples." It was opened to Morocco and Sudan when they joined the accords too.

It was smart diplomacy: The fund would nurture more peace deals as it showed how Arab-Israeli cooperation brought prosperity all over the Middle East.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 07/15/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  putz
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/15/2021 8:47 Comments || Top||



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  Taliban Control Spin Boldak Crossing in Kandahar, and beyond
Wed 2021-07-14
  '261 Taliban Killed' in Past 24 Hours: MoD
Tue 2021-07-13
  Turkmenistan deploying troops, heavy weapon on border with Afghanistan
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  Anti-govt protests in Cuba
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  Possibility of civil war in Afghanistan, sez Atta Muhammad Noor
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  Taliban claim to control 85 percent of Afghanistan
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  Haitian President Jovenel Moise assassinated in his home
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