[HuffPoo] In March of 2016, President Barack Obama granted Carol Denise Richardson a commutation of the life sentence she received in June 2006 after being convicted on two counts of conspiring to distribute crack cocaine and other drug-related charges. Her long criminal history included two previous felony drug offenses, which brought her a lifetime sentence for her later convictions.
Richardson was one of 1,715 federal inmates, including 567 others serving life sentences, selected by the Obama administration’s far-reaching clemency program. A major focus of the clemency effort was easing punishments meted out to nonviolent drug offenders serving lengthy sentences.
When she was released through the clemency program from a federal prison for women in Aliceville, Alabama on July 28, 2016, Richardson had served almost 10 years of her sentence. A condition of her release was that she remain under court supervision for the next 10 years.
But less than a year later, on April 13 this year, Richardson was arrested in the Houston suburb of Pasadena for allegedly stealing $60 worth of laundry detergent. Her court-appointed lawyer said she planned to sell the detergent to buy drugs, since she had relapsed into addiction to crack. In addition to the theft arrest, federal prosecutors said Richardson had violated five other conditions of her release -- among them failing to tell the court of her arrest or her change of address, and having been fired from a job for not showing up for work.
Now 49, Richardson lives in the Galveston area and has four children and two grandchildren. Her former husband, Eskico Garner, 37 years her senior, died in prison after drawing a 30-year sentence (later reduced to 20 years) for heading up a drug operation.
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She and the others got a second -- or some higher number -- chance, courtesy of the gentleman who acted on all the Progressive shibboleths he could get away with. It will be useful for future considerations to see how many of those receiving this particular largess, like this woman, could not give up the pleasures of criminality.
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Constitutional lawyer (smirk) Obama was not a very good a judge of character. As TW said, "O" was following the shibboleths of Progressivism and Saul Alinsky (Hillary and Obama's human god; long ago titz up.) and not the rule of law. Recall what Alinsky said in the dedication of Rules for Radicals:
"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom." — Lucifer.
[CIRCA] The State Department argued at a federal hearing Thursday that its ability to process the 100,000 Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... emails ordered released under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has been hindered by a lack of manpower due to a "hiring freeze" and that the urgency to release the documents has been diminished by the public's lack of interest in the subject, according to the watchdog group that won the lawsuit for the document's release.
No, the public most certainly does not lack interest. Sorry. Oh, and did you check with the big boss before staking out this hill to die on?
But Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that sued the State Department in May 2015 for the thousands of emails and documents, isn't buying it.
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton is accusing the State Department of slow-rolling the emails being sent from the FBI to the State Department, a large number of which Clinton "failed to disclose" to the government when she served as secretary of state, he said. 'Urgency?' What 'urgency?' Peter W. Smith, a GOP operative and Republican donor who had told the Wall Street Journal he'd tried to obtain Hillary Clinton's missing e-mails from Russian hackers, was found dead just days after the interview.
On July 15, the FBI allegedly turned over to the State Department a new disk of emails belonging to former Clinton aide Huma Abedin. The emails were apparently discovered on a laptop owned by Abedin's estranged husband, Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner ...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac six-term New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City... . Weiner pleaded guilty in May to sending a number of text messages and sexually explicit pictures last year to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.
There apparently are 7,000 emails from Abedin on Weiner's laptop, said Fitton, who added that State Department and Justice Department lawyers are "claiming they have to appraise them, whether they are personal or government, and then sift through what can be shared publicly."
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...that the urgency to release the documents has been diminished by the public's lack of interest in the subject, according to the watchdog group that won the lawsuit for the document's release.
Fine. Is there a CyberSecurity Group in the Defense Department that can handle the job that State is too incompetent to handle? Don't you think that the DoD spooks would love to look through States's files. *Evil Grin*
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The beaucrats of the state department are just practicing 'suicide prevention' .
Seeing how investigating the Clintons tend to give one an overwhelming desire to kill oneself, or be robbed by robbers, or 'die of natural causes'...
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State Department spokeswoman Pooja Jhunjhunwala told Circa "the Department takes its records management responsibilities seriously.
Yeah sure. Like when the State Dept. and Obama knew and allowed Hillary to send and receive top secret and SAP documents from her home-based, unprotected personal commuter? Cough up the damned emails and quit trying to protect this sleazy, evil, crook.
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Who runs the payroll over there. Just delay their monthly checks one day for every week of delay. There's less urgency as the deplorables people have a low interest in your work as well.
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State Department's doing something right - got our renewal passports back in two weeks, including Post Office time back and forth, without any expedited service. They had said allow 6-8 weeks.
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Is the WH still doing the citizen petition thing? I've got a feeling there would be an over-whelming response in the affirmative for expedited handling of Hildabeest's emails.
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What we have now or 535 Kid Rocks? Go! (I'll take the 535 Kid Rocks).
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Poll of Kid Rock vs. the Democratic incumbent has those who have an opinion preferring Kid Rock at 54% to 46%. Granted, 44% had no opinion whatsoever, but at the moment it's interesting in the former Blue Wall state.
Kid Rock, Ted Nugent? They couldn't f&%k it up any worse than the "politicians for life" or Minnesota's failed comedian and unduly-elected, Al Franken and others of that ilk.
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I have a friend who is a Kid Rock fan, I suggested if he won he might make fewer albums, tour less, not do the cruise ship thing she goes on every year, etc. She didn't care and I suspect she might consider moving to be able to vote for him. Yeah, don't laugh.
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What about Dolly Parton and Willy Nelson--a country signer and a stoner? They could probably work together. However, Dolly said she is not available a few years back. She said they don't need any more boobs in Washington.
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US Representative Sonny Bono 1995-1998 (accidental death while in office). The C-SPAN program I watched was quite complimentary about him, which was an eye-opener for me because I had never really paid attention to him as he was another state's rep and had never seem to engage in high-volume theatrics...
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When what you have isn't working, you try something else.
BTW and IMHO, Sonny Bono was a great song writer, entrepreneur, solid Republican congressman and all around great guy. The skiing accident was a tragedy.
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Bono copyright term extension was a tragedy. The tree was Darwin kicking in.
Wall Street Journal reporter Joseph Rago, 34, was found dead at his Manhattan home Thursday, July 20, 2017.
Joseph Rago, who wrote Pulitzer Prize-winning editorials for the Wall Street Journal, was found dead at his home in Manhattan. He was 34-years-old.
Rago was found by police at 7:40 p.m. Thursday after he didn't show up at work, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Police said they found no visible signs of trauma and that the cause of death would be determined by the city medical examiner’s office.
“It is with a heavy heart that we confirm the death of Joseph Rago, a splendid journalist and beloved friend,” Paul Gigot, editor of the Journal's editorial page, said. “Joe and his family are in our thoughts and prayers, and we will be celebrating his work in Saturday's paper.”
Rago won a Pulitzer Prize in 2011. The prize committee praised his “well crafted, against-the-grain editorials challenging the health care reform advocated by President Obama.”
A graduate of Dartmouth College, Rago joined the paper as an intern in 2005.
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Rago won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for a series of editorials about the Affordable Care Act, which were praised as being “well crafted, against-the-grain editorials challenging the health care reform advocated by President Obama.”
“No matter where you fall in the debate of health care reform, the arguments advanced by Joseph Rago in his series of editorials in The Wall Street Journal were impossible to ignore,” the judges noted. “Not paying attention to these editorials was not an option for policymakers.”
Rago’s last editorial, a criticism of Republicans’ failure to repeal ‘Obamacare’ and replace it with a better plan, ran Wednesday.
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Vanity Posted on 7/22/2017, 9:54:47 PM by TigerClaws
Wall Street Journal writer Joseph Rago found dead in his apartment .
He was reportedly investigating Hillary’s involvement in the purchase of Russian drug company Veropharm by Abbot Labs at a time in 2014 when sanctions against Russia would have prevented the sale. The purchase was accomplished by a US shell company named Kew Garden Hills, LLC (registered in Delaware –and- Hillary Clinton’s home State of New York) acquiring approximately 98% of Veropharm shares—and then their being bought by Abbott Laboratories. Hillary has ties to both Abbot Labs and Kew Garden Hills LLC.
Critical to note about Abbott Laboratories acquiring Veropharm, this report explains, is that it was accomplished on 12 December 2014—which was 9 months from the March 2014 Obama regimes sanctions against Russia prohibiting such company takeovers—and that only someone with Hillary Clinton’s power and lust for money could make happen.
To how this takeover was completed in order to evade the Obama regime sanctions against Russia, this report details, was accomplished by a US shell company named Kew Garden Hills, LLC (registered in Delaware –and- Hillary Clinton’s home State of New York) acquiring approximately 98% of Veropharm shares—and then their being bought by Abbott Laboratories.
Handling this takeover transaction, this report continues, was the Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital—who are most to be noted for their having paid former President Bill Clinton $500,000 for a speech he gave before their top executives in Moscow.
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TW, Abbot Labs now owns the largest manufacturer of generic drugs in Russia, so they can effectively outsource their domestic manufacturing for less expense and import foreign generics without FDA inspection or import tariffs. The 'all cash' transaction probably paid Bill's speaking fee.
They had Guiliani, then they chose Bloomberg. Then most of them didn't bother to vote, which got them this gentleman. But when one has a rent controlled apartment, my dear, and with that dreadful man in the White House... My sympathy for the Republican enclaves, and those who must keep their political inclinations quiet. May President Trump's vote commission lead to something useful there.
[SPECTATOR.ORG] As New York City’s descent into pre-Giuliani disorder and squalor continues, Mayor Bill de Blasio busies himself with left-wing causes beyond satire. This week he unveiled a "cultural plan," which consists largely of threatening museums with budgetary cuts unless they bump up their "diversity" hires. The Big Apple’s museums are too "elitist," said de Blasio. Never mind that most of these museums are indistinguishable from minority studies programs at local colleges.
It is impossible to visit a NYC museum without encountering PC exhibits of one kind or another. Indeed, those dominate most of their collections. It is hard to see how these museums could get any more "minority-friendly."
In describing these museums as "elitist," de Blasio is in effect saying that too many white liberals work at them. His "cultural" plan is just a political gift to the minority groups he needs for his re-election.
Incidentally, why did de Blasio name his son Dante? That appears awfully elitist and Euro-centric of him.
Dante is off studying in Germany, which de Blasio used as an excuse for his jaunt to Hamburg. He said that he needed to check in with Dante before joining the protests against capitalism and Trump.
The word on the street is that no matter how badly he governs he is assured re-election, owing to all the unions and minority organizations in his pocket combined with the absence of any well-organized and well-financed opposition. At the same time, he is widely, even feverishly, detested. Police officers regard him as the most dangerous jackass to run city hall. Their backs remain turned to him.
Were it not for security cameras, they say, crime in the city would go unpunished. The other day I was walking near Crown Heights in Brooklyn and ran into a retired cop. "You could walk these streets for hours and not see a police officer," he said. "Under Giuliani, we were all over this neighborhood."
Reeling from threats of litigation and stifled by PC guidelines, cops, he said, avoid interacting with potential criminals. "They don’t want to lose their pensions," he said.
Last week a woman returning from church in Queens was sexually assaulted by five thugs. She tried to stop them by crying out falsely that she was "HIV positive," but that didn’t work. The thugs, you see, had evidently gone through one of the city’s "safe sex" programs. Consequently, they restricted their assaulting to oral sex while one of the thugs darted off for "protection" from a corner store. The horrifying episode captured the hideousness of life amidst the ruins of a culture that prizes condoms over cops, a culture for which its greatest boast is that even its rapists practice "safe sex."
Security cameras minus neighborhood policing translates into solved crimes but not stopped ones. In Giuliani’s New York, cops patrolled neighborhoods to keep the barbarians at bay. Now neighborhoods feel abandoned. Yes, security cameras inhibit some crime. But they won’t save you from determined criminals, and this poor woman ran into some. Initially, the thugs intended to rob her. But she didn’t have much on her, so they took her body and psyche instead.
The liberals of Hollywood would never make another sequel to Charles Bronson’s Death Wish. But de Blasio’s New York City cries out for one. The atmosphere of random crime that that movie evoked is returning with a vengeance.
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NY under de Blasio is like a remake of "Escape from New York."
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] In her speech to the Strafford County Democratic Committee’s annual picnic goers, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Congresswoman Maxine Waters U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, and previously the 35th and 29th districts, serving since 1991, a total of 25.644829945369736 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the 12 black women currently serving in the United States Congress, is a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 40.64277655727939 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was brighter she'd be a Communist... Comrade Maxine Waters unleashed on President Trump.
"This man is deplorable, dishonest, a liar, a bully and I want him impeached," Waters told New Hampshire Democrats.
Crystal Paradis, a self-proclaimed writer, "intersectional feminist," tweeted notable lines from Comrade Maxine Waters’ speech.
"Mr. President we are organizing. And we are organizing to bring you down. And bring your agenda down," threatened Comrade Maxine Waters.
The vehemently anti-Trump politician then went on to say about the President, "[t]his man is deplorable, dishonest, a liar, a bully and I want him impeached."
"It is our responsibility to make this country better every day," reminded Congresswoman Waters.
When she wasn’t spewing hateful anti-Trump bile, Auntie Maxie posed for a photo with Democrat State Senator David Watters.
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There are government people who respect the Democratic process. Those are the ones who respect the will of the people.
Then there are those who refuse to respect anyone who is in power other than them selves (Maduro, Castro, Mugabe, Stalin, etc.).
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"It is our responsibility to make this country better every day," reminded Congresswoman Waters.
Its your responsibility to leave the country alone instead of sticking yourself into every aspect of its daily life. Your words reveal your lust for power over the population. See - we're from the government, we're here to help you (aka one of the 10 great lies of life)
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I wonder which cookie jar she's had her hand in? Because I'm not buying that anyone that unhinged hasn't believed more than once that the rules didn't apply to her.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] An organization representing top state election officials is complaining it's being kept in the dark by the federal government after a new report showed the B.O. regime was quietly making extensive plans -- including the possibility of deploying armed troops -- in the case of an election day cyberattack or last-minute propaganda efforts from Russia.
Time Magazine reported on a document it obtained showing the administration's plans, which noted that state and local governments would have the primary jurisdiction, but called for the deployment of armed troops to counter a "significant incident."
The plan allowed for the deployment of "armed federal law enforcement agents" to polling places if hackers managed to halt voting. It also foresaw the deployment of "Active and Reserve" military forces and members of the National Guard "upon a request from a federal agency and the direction of the Secretary of Defense or the President."
The National Association of Secretaries of State, a nonpartisan group that encourages cooperation and information sharing between the top voting officials of the states, said they had no idea the administration was making such plans, which shows a continued lack of communication.
"Time and time again, state election officials who hold the constitutional authority to oversee the voting process have been left wondering why our federal leaders are being so opaque about their plans to help secure elections from foreign nation-state threats," said Kay Stimson, spokesperson for NASS.
"There won't be unlimited chances to get this right," Stimson added. "The feds don't even have authority to act without the consent of state and local officials. What is the point of gathering intelligence on foreign threats, only to withhold that information from the very people who can use it to bolster the defenses around our election systems?"
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The point is to rule you like a king, peasants. The feds are supreme and have big guns, and state and local officials can fuck right off.
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To paraphrase Euripides 2400 years ago: In a nation of barbarians, there can be only one truly free person.
To paraphrase George Carlin: And that one person ain't you!
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the B.O. regime was quietly making extensive plans -- including the possibility of deploying armed troops -- in the case of an election day cyberattack or last-minute propaganda efforts from Russia.
Jeh Johnson alluded to Federalization of voting in the 2016 election. There was considerable pushback to the idea. It was viewed as an end-around to make it easier to rig elections. These statists don't ever seem to catch on to the notion of unintended consequences. IMHO, it would have been a grave mistake to attempt to deploy agents/troops.
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The plan allowed for the deployment of "armed Black Panthers federal law enforcement agents" to polling places
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It was viewed as an end-around to make it easier to rig elections. These statists don't ever seem to catch on to the notion of unintended consequences
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...you mean sort of like the people pursuing to bring down a constitutionally elected president not understanding that they might ignite a civil war that brings them all down?
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The plan...It also foresaw the deployment of "Active and Reserve" military forces and members of the National Guard "upon a request from a federal agency and the direction of the Secretary of Defense or the President."
A Federal instrument for the 'whimsical' deployment of soldiers domestically, without the controls of declaring martial law, is now available for public inspection. Pretty scary.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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What would Judge Bean do ? 
Hillary Clinton
Wall Street Journal reporter Joseph Rago, 34, was found dead at his Manhattan home Thursday, July 20, 2017. 
U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, and previously the 35th and 29th districts, serving since 1991, a total of 25.644829945369736 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the 12 black women currently serving in the United States Congress, is a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 40.64277655727939 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was brighter she'd be a Communist...
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] An organization representing top state election officials is complaining it's being kept in the dark by the federal government after a new report showed the 
