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-Lurid Crime Tales-
AG Barr Appoints Prosecutor to Audit Criminal Case Against Trump Former Adviser Michael Flynn
[Breitbart] U.S. Attorney General (AG) William Barr has installed a federal prosecutor to review the criminal case leveled against retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, the New York Times reported Friday.

Barr appointed a prosecutor from outside the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington to handle the Flynn case.

Citing people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity, the Times revealed:

Mr. Barr has also installed a handful of outside prosecutors to broadly review the handling of other politically sensitive national-security cases in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, the people said.

The team includes at least one prosecutor from the office of the United States attorney in St. Louis, Jeff Jensen, who is handling the Flynn matter, as well as prosecutors from the office of the deputy attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen.

Over the past two weeks, the outside prosecutors have begun grilling line prosecutors in the Washington office about various cases ‐ some public, some not ‐ including investigative steps, prosecutorial actions and why they took them, according to the people.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reportedly refused to comment on the Times’ findings.

According to the newspaper, "The review is highly unusual and could trigger more accusations of political interference by top Justice Department officials into the work of career prosecutors."

Barr’s decision to appoint a prosecutor to scrutinize the Flynn case seemingly comes after the DOJ inspector general (IG), on December 9, exposed a string of abuses by the FBI in obtaining Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) wiretaps on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

The wiretaps were part of the Russia collusion hoax probe by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2020 05:59 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Perhaps the wheels of justice are finally beginning to turn.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2020 6:02 Comments || Top||

#2  could trigger more accusations of political interference by top Justice Department officials into the work of career prosecutors.

Now that is just plain funny. The DoJ was packed with the most far left (of an already far left profession) lawyers that the that Obama's Marxist minions could find. It perfectly explains the subversive behavior of the DoJ, FBI and CIA for the past several years. It wasn't incompetence. It was by design.
Posted by: Chomolet Tojo7446 || 02/15/2020 20:32 Comments || Top||

#3  It perfectly explains the subversive behavior of the DoJ, FBI and CIA for the past several years. It wasn't incompetence. It was by design.

Frantically reaching for my Oakley's.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/15/2020 21:12 Comments || Top||

#4  It wasn't incompetence. It was by design.

Bingo. Truer words were never spoken.

Corruption, hidden in plain view.
Posted by: Lex || 02/15/2020 22:20 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Ilhan Omar's husband discovered she was cheating on him with her chief fundraiser when he walked in on the lovers in pajamas - and now the congresswoman is paying ex $250,000 for his silence
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/15/2020 00:52 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  How you gonna keep her down on the goat farm after she sees the big city lights?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 1:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Watch: She'll use campaign funds
Posted by: Frank G || 02/15/2020 6:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Isn't there something in the Koran about adultery?

Seem to remember it involved rocks?
Posted by: AlanC || 02/15/2020 7:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Watch: She'll use campaign funds

That was my first thought as well, and they still won't do anything to her when she does.
Posted by: Raj || 02/15/2020 8:32 Comments || Top||

#5  I was thinking taxpayer funds. You know that congressional nookie slush fund. I’ve always wondered if that had been replaced.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/15/2020 10:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Sounds like she is a nymphomaniac
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442 || 02/15/2020 11:11 Comments || Top||


Curb Your Enthusiasm: MAGA Hat
Posted by: Fred || 02/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If someone would deploy their superior skills to post the video, I’d be grateful. In passing I note that Larry David is Bernie Sander’s cousin, which was revealed to him by that PBS genealogy show.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/15/2020 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Thank you, someone! ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/15/2020 12:06 Comments || Top||

#3  :-)
Posted by: Frank G || 02/15/2020 12:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Can't speak for Cali, but the hat would be no help if you cut off a biker here.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 12:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Should have had a crazed lefty attack him for waring the hat.
Posted by: ruprecht || 02/15/2020 19:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Typically f---ed up anti-Trump logic on display.

Fantasy: "Trumpers excuse any kind of shitty behavior or bad manners, provided they're accompanied by displays of political rectitude."

Reality: Anti-Trumpers define good behavior as "politically correct" behavior.

It's the Left that invented the term "PC," fer chrissake. We have seen an orgy of nasty, hysterical, deranged, occasionally violent spasms from the Left in the last 3 years-- and all of it is motivated by an hysterical political ideology.

Thanks for reminding me why I've always hated left-wing Hollywood "humor."
Posted by: Lex || 02/15/2020 20:06 Comments || Top||

#7  I understood it as lefties drawing vicious false conclusions about even people they know well once they see a Trump connection, Lex — Mr. David is no less leftwing and anti-Trump at the end of it than he was at the beginning.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/15/2020 21:12 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
REVEALED: Judge secretly savaged bid to prosecute former FBI chief Andy McCabe for lying to agents calling it 'like a banana republic'- then case was dropped hours before his fury was about to be made public
The Justice Department has told former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe it isn't prosecuting him and it considers the matter 'closed' – despite the president's string of furious tweets about McCabe and a judge's warning the a prolonged investigation had a whiff of retribution.

Federal prosecutors closed an investigation into whether McCabe lied to federal officials about his involvement in a news media disclosure, McCabe's legal team said Friday.

The end of the two-year probe of McCabe came just hours before it was revealed a federal judge scolded prosecutors and flagged President Trump's repeated tweets on the case as being like a 'banana republic.'

U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Barnett Walton made the comment as he heard a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in relation to the case.

'The public is listening to what's going on, and I don't think people like the fact that you've got somebody at the top basically trying to dictate whether somebody should be prosecuted,' Walton, a George W. Bush appointee, told prosecutors in September.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/15/2020 00:50 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All the animals are equal - but some are more equal then the others?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 02/15/2020 3:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Reggie Walton - Wikipedia
[Reggie Barnett Walton (born February 8, 1949) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He is the former presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Get the picture?
Posted by: b || 02/15/2020 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  They make one law for us and keep another for themselves.
Posted by: Cesare || 02/15/2020 8:42 Comments || Top||

#4  A big problem with all this s#it is the length of time the dawdle.

2 years? It shouldn't take 2 months to get enough evidence to prove a charge like lying to the FBI. All the extra time does is give the vermin plenty of opportunity to dig new holes to hide in.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/15/2020 8:51 Comments || Top||

#5  He is the former presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Get the picture?


Bingo. Our FISA Court is itself a feature of a banana republic.
This is nothing more than a classic Deep State redirect.

Not quite SS material -- the judge is playing the game with much more skill than Mueller, McCabe, Strzok et al. played it, and he's not going on cable and posturing a la Brennan -- but it's a redirect nonetheless.
Posted by: Lex || 02/15/2020 11:49 Comments || Top||

#6  This judge truly exists in a bubble if he thinks his rant is in line with mid America thinking. McCabe is dirty, we all know it, the IG recommended firing for lying (lacking candor) and illegal leaking. Trump simply pointing out the obvious is hardly telling anyone how to handle the case. What the heck is going on with our "justice" system. It is a dangerous joke.
Posted by: Ips Prez || 02/15/2020 20:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Hello impeach both of these bastards! Enough of asshat Roberts.

Appointed by John Roberts
Posted by: Woodrow || 02/15/2020 21:19 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
BREAKING: Mike Bloomberg 'wants Hillary Clinton as his running mate'
[Daily Mail UK- Where America gets its news]
Well, technically, he will have killed himself - with this decision...unlike Epstein
You knew it was coming.
Posted by: Jan || 02/15/2020 11:24 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  sorry for screwing up my post, please fix for me.
I was struck by a comment I heard how Bloomberg may join the Clinton Body Count if he adds Hillary to the ticket
Posted by: Jan || 02/15/2020 11:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Mike needs to become of the body.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 11:31 Comments || Top||

#3  The Uniparty Strikes Back
Posted by: Lex || 02/15/2020 11:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Fixed
Posted by: Frank G || 02/15/2020 11:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Thanks Franik
Posted by: Jan || 02/15/2020 11:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Thanks Frank
I have caffeinated fingers this morning
Posted by: Jan || 02/15/2020 11:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Wunnerful. Put all your rotten eggs in one basket,then lose the basket.
Posted by: Thravinter Squank2031 || 02/15/2020 11:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Ah no, doesn't look like the super rich trying to buy the presidency at all, no no no.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2020 12:08 Comments || Top||

#9  Open season then.
Posted by: Goober Tingle7365 || 02/15/2020 12:20 Comments || Top||

#10  Guess he's feeling suicidal.
Posted by: charger || 02/15/2020 12:35 Comments || Top||

#11  Mike Bloomberg didn’t kill himself.

#arkancide
Posted by: KBK || 02/15/2020 15:50 Comments || Top||

#12  I imagine she'd really just like access to Mike's checkbook. 'Til after the inauguration.
Posted by: ed in texas || 02/15/2020 17:41 Comments || Top||

#13  Access to the Clinton Political Network.

In return, as the Bidens have shown, she gets a seat at the big tables again.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2020 19:26 Comments || Top||


Finally, President Trump Moves to Gain Control of the White House Personnel System and His Administration
[Red State] - Earlier, I posted a story on a speech by former White House Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly in which he revealed that he was basically opposed to President Trump and his agenda and yet took a job in his administration anyway, apparently seeing himself as some sort of fail-safe device.
DC bar offers drink specials every time Trump fires White House staffer
This is an example of a larger problem and an ongoing critique of the Trump administration which runs something like this: he hired the guy, he knew what he was getting. Or as the TDS sufferers like to say, ’he hires only the best people.’ (I really, really loathe those people.)

...Unlike a George Bush (either of them), Donald Trump arrived in Washington, D.C. with no connections to the DC policy establishment. In fact, he arrived after a bruising primary and general election that left him alienated from the GOP establishment. The GOP establishment might not have called his supporters "a basket of deplorables" but they nodded their heads and chuckled when they heard it. The same establishment had gotten rich and fat off illegal immigrant labor and outsourcing American jobs to wherever. They were used to keeping the GOP base in line with promises and crumbs (George W. Bush had GOP majorities for 6 of his 8 years, how much did they accomplish in regards to slowing illegal immigration or reducing abortion?) while delivering zero. When Trump arrived in Washington he was reliant upon the very same people who had opposed his election to staff his administration.

Some hard-core NeverTrumpers were hired in an attempt to placate factions in the GOP. Some cabinet secretaries, like, for instance, James Mattis and Rex Tillerson, pressed to retain Obama appointees or bring in registered Democrats with whom they had worked into senior policy positions. The head of the White House personnel office overseeing the hiring of political appointees went to an "end of the world party" when Trump dispatched Ted Cruz in Indiana. A guerrilla war was fought against the Administration by using the security clearance process to force out many of Trump’s most loyal followers.

Personnel, as they say, is policy. It makes no difference what Trump wishes to do if he doesn’t have the people in place to vigorously follow through and make sure things happen.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/15/2020 04:34 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  First thing he should do is have someone demand to look at Shadow's (spegheti) source code used in Iowa's caucus that was written under DNC Perez's over sight.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 02/15/2020 7:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Seems like dem voters caucus-goers in IA would have standing for a class action suit on the software SNAFU and could ask for the code in discovery.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 10:30 Comments || Top||

#3  The upshot of all this is that elections will not solve our problems because they will not be permitted to solve them.

Sure, we can vote (for now) and maybe we'll even get a few decent officeholders elected--- but when it comes to them actually accomplishing anything in office that the Overclass opposes, well, we've seen what happens.

The whole panoply of Deep State power will be activated to cripple, if not destroy them.

From the civil "service" to the courts, to the media and high tech, and even the careerists in the Fake Opposition Party (I see you, Jimmy DiStefano), all the machinery will operate to crush anyone who tries to execute the will of the voters.

I've resigned myself to the fact that nothing will truly change until a critical mass of normies also come to this conclusion and act accordingly.

Assuming that ever happens.
Posted by: charger || 02/15/2020 12:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Perfecting Trump

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/15/2020 14:47 Comments || Top||


Como Se Dice SHITSHOW? Buttfug fugs up VIRTU-signaling pander attempt, no habla de buen espanol...
[Breitbart] Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg tried to kick off a town hall event with Latino voters on Thursday night by showing off his Spanish skills, but he immediately stumbled.

In Spanish, he said, “Thanks for inviting us to speak…” before pausing and resorting back to English to conclude, “…this evening.”

Buttigieg stumbled over the Spanish pronunciation of invitarnos” (inviting) which sounded like “inventarnos” which means “inventing.”

He also appeared to forget how to say “this evening” in Spanish, resorting to English instead.

Many of the crowd in North Las Vegas, Nevada, laughed at Buttigieg, prompting him to blame his stumble on the lack of sleep on the campaign trail.

“Not quite sleeping enough but delighted to be with you,” he said.

Buttigieg appeared at the League of United Latin American Citizens Presidential Town Hall on Thursday to talk about his campaign.
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#1  Yo queiro Taco Bell
Posted by: One Eyed Grinetch1216 || 02/15/2020 0:11 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Twas me. Browser flush.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 0:13 Comments || Top||

#3  No pasaran, maracon
Posted by: Lex || 02/15/2020 0:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Cheech trying to teach Chong how to pronounce "pendejo."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 0:30 Comments || Top||

#5  [ Lim'rick, por favor? ]
Posted by: Lex || 02/15/2020 0:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Haiku:

Mayor Pete
Maricon pendejo
Spanglish patois fail
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 1:30 Comments || Top||

#7  And that's espectáculo de mierda to you, gringo...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 2:30 Comments || Top||

#8  "Gracias de me culo"
Posted by: Frank G || 02/15/2020 6:26 Comments || Top||

#9  Lo siento, Lex, por no limerick postar. Mi no espejo thees till now, notwithstanding tan Spanish limerick elsewhere. Gotta run walk and sleep drink coffee, after which inspiration will possibly strike.
Posted by: Bugs Clatch8989 || 02/15/2020 8:28 Comments || Top||

#10  Is this the Spanglish section of Rantburg? Entertaining, actually...
Posted by: Raj || 02/15/2020 8:57 Comments || Top||

#11  Cinco de Mayo llega temprano a Rantburg!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 10:27 Comments || Top||

#12  Cinco (but not with MAYO) Culo
Posted by: Lex || 02/15/2020 11:54 Comments || Top||

#13  * not with "MY-o"
Posted by: Lex || 02/15/2020 11:55 Comments || Top||

#14  Pico de gallo
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 12:36 Comments || Top||

#15  Si se puto
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 13:10 Comments || Top||

#16  ^ Snarco del Dia!
Posted by: Lex || 02/15/2020 13:25 Comments || Top||

#17  Nobody expect the Spanish Inquisition!
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/15/2020 14:40 Comments || Top||

#18  The Queer Opposition to Pete Buttigieg, Explained.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/15/2020 14:43 Comments || Top||

#19  ^ That's, like, totally gay...
Posted by: Raj || 02/15/2020 14:53 Comments || Top||

#20  Queer as in peculiar?
Posted by: Lex || 02/15/2020 15:09 Comments || Top||

#21  Queer. Gay. Fruit. Perfectly good words shot to shit by a bunch of fudge ( oh, hell, there's another one) packers. Shirt lifters, butt pirates, turd burglars. And so on...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 16:43 Comments || Top||


In an interview with Telemundo, Tom Steyer and Amy Klobuchar could not remember the name of the president of Mexico
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Ready to govern on day one..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Ricardo Montalban?
Posted by: Lex || 02/15/2020 0:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Rich Corinthian leather
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 1:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Joaquín Guzmán Loera
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 02/15/2020 6:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Does anybody think US pro drug, anti police Dems, including NY Bloomberg, are not benefiting from open borders that works for his sons who are managing the store (Mexoco)?
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 02/15/2020 7:14 Comments || Top||

#6  What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: Heriberto Something Four Digits || 02/15/2020 8:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Clever auto-nym for 'erb at #6?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 10:25 Comments || Top||

#8  Good one VS1454.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/15/2020 12:17 Comments || Top||


Russian Comedians Pose As Greta Thunberg And Prank Bernie Sanders
[DailyCaller]
Posted by: Fred || 02/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Next they can do Joe with some lines from Johnny Dangerously:

"You farging ice hole."
"You no good sems bitch."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  "Thanks fuh the oppahtooniddy tuh chat...."

Can anyone imagine this vulgar, crazed, ignorant shithead as leader of the free world?
Posted by: Lex || 02/15/2020 0:32 Comments || Top||

#3  I coulda been somebody. I coulda been a contendah...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 1:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Mother Russia! The last refuge of Comedy?
Posted by: Cesare || 02/15/2020 8:45 Comments || Top||


Rashida Tlaib arrested protesting with airline workers
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat, was arrested at bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
Metro Airport Friday while joining a protest by airline workers.

Photos by a spokeswoman for the hospitality workers' union UNITE HERE showed Tlaib joining catering workers for Delta Air Lines, who were protesting for higher wages and better healthcare.

Tlaib was detained briefly and then released, according to the ABC affiliate for reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
A spokesperson for Tlaib could not be reached for comment.

Tlaib, 43, a staunch and often controversial liberal, is one of the four freshman House representatives know as "the Squad," a Democratic coalition of liberal women that also includes Reps. Ilhan Omar
...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side...
of Minnesota, Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez
Dem represntative from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details...
of New York, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts.
Posted by: Fred || 02/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ratshita Tlame
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  The Squat
Posted by: Lex || 02/15/2020 0:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Go away, vile pestilence
Posted by: Lex || 02/15/2020 0:38 Comments || Top||

#4  Palestinians & airlines
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 02/15/2020 3:22 Comments || Top||

#5  A real protestor would lock herself with a bunch of other protestors and block an interstate highway during the morning rush hour.

Get with the program, Rashida!
Posted by: Raj || 02/15/2020 9:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Isn't being arrested for breaking the law in violation of House ethics rules?
Posted by: Goober Tingle7365 || 02/15/2020 10:08 Comments || Top||

#7  they have ethics rules?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/15/2020 10:44 Comments || Top||

#8  I found the answer:

The Office of Congressional Ethics, established by the House of Representatives, is an independent, non-partisan entity charged with receiving and reviewing allegations of misconduct concerning House Members and staff and, when appropriate, referring matters to the Committee on Ethics. https://oce.house.gov/
Posted by: Goober Tingle7365 || 02/15/2020 11:09 Comments || Top||


NYCMayor plans to endorse @BernieSanders
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 02/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ah, yes, Bernie Sanders gets the gift of political corona virus from hizzoner duh mayor.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 02/15/2020 11:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Doesn't DuhBlahYoyo have other things to worry about?
Posted by: charger || 02/15/2020 13:03 Comments || Top||


Trump to attend Oracle Chair Ellison's fundraiser in California
[FoxNews] The event at Ellison's estate is just one of a series of stops Trump will make in California.

Related: Left Loses It Over Big Tech Chairman’s Pro-Trump Fundraiser
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/15/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If Oracle wins against gurgle in SCOTUS case watch the fun.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 0:17 Comments || Top||

#2  I forgot all about this one. Here's a pretty good summary of the case so far, set to be argued in late March.

Seems like Oracle's the underdog in this fight but since Google's involved, let them take this one in the shorts.
Posted by: Raj || 02/15/2020 9:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Gee, no big company wants to pay royalties for things that they steal. They have a right to copy patented things because they represent the public interest, they say. Paying a small royalty just because the stuff is patented. would be so unfair to them.
So they copied java. But only a few lines were obviously patented, so they should pay nothing, they say.
Posted by: daniel || 02/15/2020 13:04 Comments || Top||

#4  I love the idea of all Android phones suddenly becoming Oracle phones. Next up, all crapple phones become AT&T phones. Pay up bitchez.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 13:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Eh... copied Java? Oracle *bought* Sun Microsystems who 'owned' Java - or Java Standard - or the rights to the name.
Besides I believe Java is 'mostly' open source. 'mostly'.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/15/2020 13:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Netscape was built on software developed on the public dime, but Clark and Andreesen were allowed to profit off it because lots of that cash found its way into Clinton Inc. The "open sores" software movement is what Harlan Ellison called "a shuck."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/15/2020 13:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Oracle is going to win the Amazon challenge to Microsoft's DoD cloud.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/15/2020 22:42 Comments || Top||

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Sat 2020-02-15
  Six Cartel Kidnappers Busted with Mexican Border City Victim in Trunk
Fri 2020-02-14
  US navy ship seizes 150 Iranian-manufactured anti-tank guided missiles after boarding a vessel in the Arabian Sea
Thu 2020-02-13
  Hafiz Saeed sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for terror financing
Wed 2020-02-12
  Sudan will hand over Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court
Tue 2020-02-11
  Russians bomb a joint Turkish & Jihadi column
Mon 2020-02-10
  Ehsanullah Ehsan sends greetings from Turkey, thumbs nose
Sun 2020-02-09
  Multiple US troops killed during shootout in eastern Afghanistan
Sat 2020-02-08
  Khalid Haqqani and Qari Saifullah banged in Kabul
Fri 2020-02-07
  Syria says its troops enter the strategic city of Saraqib in Idlib and begins ‘combing’ its neighborhoods
Thu 2020-02-06
  Hazim Al-Halafi, a senior commander of Saraya Al-Salam dead
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  Trump acquitted by Senate on articles of impeachment for abuse of power
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  8 Turkish personnel, 13 #Syrian troops killed in north Syria festivities
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  Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula claims December shooting at Florida naval base
Sun 2020-02-02
  Iraq’s President Barham Saleh assigns Mouhammed Tawfiq Allawi with forming a new government
Sat 2020-02-01
  Qassim al-Rimi, the head of al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen tits up.


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