[NY Post] A nunchuck-wielding nutjob with a lengthy rap sheet attacked a podcaster in Midtown — but was promptly cut loose with no bail by a Manhattan judge, The Post has learned.
Bryant Kenyatta, 50, apparently left podcaster Stevie Lew with a fractured arm in the unprovoked attack at Seventh Avenue and 35th Street around noon March 12 — after following Lew and screaming, “F–k you! I’m going to f–k you up,” the victim said on a podcast.
But Kenyatta — who has 12 prior arrests — was put back on the streets Tuesday on supervised release by Judge Marva Brown, the same judge who made headlines two months ago for setting another alleged violent attacker free.
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This story should be accompanied by a Carl Douglas soundtrack.
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I thought the simple possession of nunchucks in NYC was grounds for serious arrest. Maybe not as serious as possession of a spork in the UK, but pretty serious.
[NY Post] Buying votes illegally with YOUR money
The Biden administration is canceling another $7.4 billion in student loans for 277,000 borrowers, amounting to $153 billion in total debt forgiveness approved by the president.
The Education Department announced Friday that it had approved the extra loan cancellations for almost 4.3 million student borrowers nationwide through its Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan.
“Today’s announcement shows — once again — that the Biden-Harris Administration is not letting up its efforts to give hardworking Americans some breathing room,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement.
“As long as there are people with overwhelming student loan debt competing with basic needs such as food and healthcare, we will remain relentless in our pursuit to bring relief to millions across the country.”
But critics of the move have often pointed out the financial burden is only being shifted to the majority of US taxpayers who do not have some sort of college degree.
“The administration is tone deaf. There’s no other way to put it,” said House Education and Workforce Committee chairwoman Virginia Foxx, who criticized the Education Department for botching its federal student aid programs while prioritizing the debt cancellation “scheme.”
“That has been frustrating, especially since it has jeopardized the academic journey of millions of students,” Foxx (R-NC) said. “But what is absolutely maddening is that the administration is STILL not doing its job and instead focusing on its student loan shenanigans.”
Under the Biden administration’s various student loan cancellation programs, at least 10% of borrowers have “now been approved for some debt relief,” according to the Education Department, making good on a 2020 campaign promise from the president.
“From day one of my Administration, I promised to fight to ensure higher education is a ticket to the middle class, not a barrier to opportunity,” President Biden said in a statement. “I will never stop working to cancel student debt — no matter how many times Republican elected officials try to stop us.”
Biden, 81, began the income-driven repayment plan after the Supreme Court struck down his $430 billion student debt cancellation gambit for more than 40 million borrowers in June 2023 — but the SAVE plan is expected to cost US taxpayers even more.
According to a Penn Wharton Budget Model estimate, SAVE costs will soar to $475 billion over the next 10 years.
The Republican attorneys general of Kansas and Missouri are already challenging the plan with federal lawsuits that are backed by their opposite numbers in Alabama, Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas and Utah.
Good.
“Last time Defendants tried this the Supreme Court said that this action was illegal,” the lawsuit states. “Nothing since then has changed, other than introducing more legal errors into this Rule’s underlying analysis.”
A recent court filing by Kansas AG Kris Kobach added that it was “unrealistic to think that any loan forgiveness that occurs during this litigation will ever be clawed back.”
The SAVE plan is already serving at least 8 million student borrowers, allowing many to make lower payments and some to make no payments on their debt until their income rises above a certain threshold.
Under the plan, borrowers who originally borrowed $12,000 or less are eligible for forgiveness after 10 years. Those who took out more than $12,000 can get cancellation but on a longer timeline. For each $1,000 borrowed beyond $12,000, it adds an additional year of payments on top of 10 years.
On Friday the administration also said it’s canceling loans for 65,000 borrowers who are enrolled in older income-driven repayment plans and hit the finish line for forgiveness. It also announced cancellation for another 5,000 borrowers through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
That’s on top of a pledge Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris made to voters in the swing states of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania earlier this week to cancel up to $20,000 in accrued interest for more than 25 million debtors who went to college.
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Is this never going to stop?
Reckless federal spending had already pushed intrest rates up to levels we haven't seen in over 20 years. Glad I'm not a first-time homebuyer trying to get a mortgage right now.
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Go ahead, unilaterally break contracts because gummint.
That won't end well.
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And his Condtitutional authority for this is......?
Reckless federal spending had already pushed intrest rates up to levels we haven't seen in over 20 years. Glad I'm not a first-time homebuyer trying to get a mortgage right now.
Posted by: Tom 2024-04-12 09:15
My son is in the process of being a first time buyer - the only reason he was able to pull it off at all is because he's a veteran who could go with a VA loan.
And the place still came in at just over $170K for 1100 sq. ft. Big yard though.
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first time buyer - the only reason he was able to pull it off at all is because he's a veteran who could go with a VA loan.
Back in 1982 the only reason we were able to pull it off was because the sellers were willing to let us have an FHA loan. We felt very lucky to only have to pay about 19.5% interest for a 30-year fixed with 2% down. But we were those cute youngsters eager to start married life in a home of our own, so they were willing to go through extra inspections and repairs to get the sale approved. When we sold, we did the same for the buyers who came after us.
[FoxNews] The state auditor found that despite roughly $24 billion spent on homeless and housing programs during the 2018-2023 fiscal years, the problem didn’t improve in many cities.
California GOP leaders are calling for more accountability after an audit released earlier this week indicated that the state spent around $24 billion to tackle the homeless crisis over the past five years but did not consistently track whether the huge outlay of public money did anything to actually improve the problem.
The state auditor’s report found that despite roughly $24 billion spent on homeless and housing programs during the 2018-2023 fiscal years, the problem didn’t improve in many cities, according to the state auditor’s report.
Among other things, the report found that the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH), which is responsible for coordinating agencies and allocating resources for the homelessness programs, stopped tracking whether the programs were working in 2021.
To be fair, it’s kind of hard to track the homeless when you can’t leave home to see where the clients are.
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Speaking of accountability. Telemundo, a Dallas Spanish speaking station did a news segment on how Bidenflation is hitting the Hispanic community hard. Telemundo interviewed Hispanics at the gas pumps, etc.. Biden and the DNC is losing the Hispanic vote!
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Like the old saying goes Follow the Money. A good chunk of this l would suspect boils d oi wn to simple incompetence in small community "help" organizations (1). Suddenly having a bunch of money handed to them they go nuts. Another issue is if you solve homelessness the money goes away. Or goes to another issue.
The Fentanyl vote. Says a lot about California politics and politicians doesn't.
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How much is the state budget deficit? Seems like audits are in order across the board.
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My guess, having watched the way politicians operate in this state for decades, is that most of the money went to developers. The scam is: politicians scream about the need for more "affordable" housing for the homeless. Then they contract with developers to build "affordable" housing at half a million dollars or more per unit. Of course the units are not really affordable at all but no matter. The developers get rich and then contribute to the politicians' election campaigns.
It's all perfectly legal because the politicians write the law that way. It's been happening this way for decades. As long as I can remember, and that's a long time, they've been screaming about affordable housing. They've been building as many houses as they can as fast as they can, making a mess of this state and overloading the infrastructure, and yet housing costs continue to sky rocket. It's all a scam.
The pure folly of it is that the kind of people who become homeless are mentally ill drug addicts who are incapable of managing their own affairs. They need to be incarcerated and supervised in dormitories, barracks or tent cities out in the boondocks so they won't be a threat to normal citizens. If you leave them unsupervised in an apartment, condo or house they will destroy it and most likely damage neighboring properties in the process.
The truth is, the only way to make California affordable for all the people all over the world who want to live here is to turn it into the kind of slum where nobody wants to live. Newsom and his pals are dead set on doing just that.
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^ Favelas'R'Us...
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Hold out your hands, stick out your tush
Here comes the gov to give you a push
Make no mistake, they're doing La Lassive Francais
Voila!
[FoxNews] 'I don’t trust you to protect us,' congressman tells FBI's Christopher Wray
Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Calif., blatantly told FBI Director Christopher Wray that he does not trust him, while accusing him of not being transparent and standing "relatively silent" about the southern border instead of helping to shape policies on the matter, particularly regarding national security.
Wray met with the House Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday afternoon urging Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to be reauthorized by Congress and to discuss next year’s budget, and while some of the discussion involved dollar figures, the FBI director was there to defend efforts to fend off terrorist attacks and the infiltration of the U.S. by violent gangs through the southern border, many of which are connected to the fentanyl epidemic.
When it was time for Garcia to question Wray, the Congressional representative did not hold back.
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If you don’t trust him, why are you funding him? Do something, anything.
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^ Yes. Specifically what they should do is defund the FBI. It is no longer a law enforcement agency. It is a political weapon in the hands of Democrats. It needs to be abolished.
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Let see 'them' pass a law that anyone who entered the US without going through the established legal process are barred from citizenship and voting for the remainder of their lives.
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Mayorkas's predecessor was Emilio González, also born in Havana, Cuba but a Republican who was run out of Miami by controversial Cuban immigrant Joe Carollo whose latest woes is the loss of a $63.5 million lawsuit in which his wages and assets continue to be garnished to cover by authorities.
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As much as l blame Biden for the current situation in the past both sides have been to blame. The Donks see future voters. The agribuz Pubs see cheap labor
[THEHILL] Japan’s leader on Thursday issued a passionate plea for Republicans in Congress not to turn away from America’s role as a leader on the world stage, in the face of anxiety over GOP stonewalling of aid for Ukraine and growing isolationism under the influence of former President Trump.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, addressing a joint meeting of Congress, was blunt in his criticism that politicians are suffering from "self-doubt" at a time when U.S. leadership is most needed.
"You believed that freedom is the oxygen of humanity. The world needs the United States to continue playing this pivotal role in the affairs of nations," Kishida said.
"And yet, as we meet here today, I detect an undercurrent of self-doubt among some Americans about what your role in the world should be."
It was the first speech by a foreign leader presided over by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who is overseeing a conference in chaos, with a small group of GOP politicians frequently blocking efforts to legislate based on their own criticisms.
At Kishida’s words, Vice President Harris, sitting next to Johnson, was seen picking up a copy of the prime minister’s speech and beginning to follow along.
Kishida’s government has drawn a direct line between supporting Ukraine in its defensive war against Russia as essential in deterring China from launching aggression against Taiwan and triggering a war in East Asia.
It was perhaps the most consequential of President Joe Biden administration's foreign policy decisions: How to bring home American troops from Afghanistan while keeping diplomats, American citizens and Afghan allies safe.
Yet when one of the State Department's key officials was quizzed by congressional investigators on how the effort descended into chaos he could not remember the details.
Hours of closed-door testimony obtained by DailyMail.com reveal how Derek Chollet, the secretary of state's top troubleshooter who compared himself with Winston 'the Wolf' Wolfe in 'Pulp Fiction', answered 100 times that he did not remember, could not recall or did not know details that might illuminate what went wrong.
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If he 'cannot remember' 100 times, by the very words he has uttered, he has demonstrated he is incompetent. Fire him.
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^^^ Ha, ha, ha. Accountability from an incompetent bureaucrat! Thanks for a good belly laugh on Friday morning.
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A cynical person would argue that Blinken's job is to be unaccountable and that he is doing it very well.
I can't find the interview where Blinken compared himself to the Winston Wolfe character in Pulp Fiction, although the meme seems to be everywhere at the moment. Given that the character's role in the movie is covering up a bloody crime, it does seem appropriate.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[THEHILL] Japan’s leader on Thursday issued a passionate plea for Republicans in Congress not to turn away from America’s role as a leader on the world stage, in the face of anxiety over GOP stonewalling of aid for Ukraine and growing isolationism under the influence of former 
