[Ynet] The son of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson was sentenced to two and a half years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to scheming to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on TV's, restaurant dinners, an expensive watch and other costly personal items.
Jesse Jackson Jr., a former Democratic Congressman once seen as a possible candidate for U.S. president, gave an emotional speech to the judge during the sentencing hearing, apologizing and saying he wanted to "take responsibility for my actions." "I misled the American people," said Jackson.
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he wanted to "take responsibility for my actions.
yet his paid spokeshole Atty tried to strongly hint that his "bi-polar disorder" was the source of his selfish greedy crimes. Full responsibility for a pol is a fluid thang
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30 Months Prison For Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr(D)
[NEWS.CINCINNATI] Hundreds of Hamilton County poll workers will be retrained -- and 163 "retired" -- as a result of voting problems in the 2012 election.
That includes 94 workers at 16 precincts that will be completely restaffed because of a high number of errors. The others failed to vote themselves and/or performed poorly on Election Day.
Those 163 poll workers represent about 5.6 percent of poll workers -- the most ever who aren't being asked back.
I confess there may be things about being a poll worker that I don't understand. I've never done the job (though I was a poll watcher in the 2010 election). I'm sure there are things about the job that aren't apparent to the public.
But how much mental capacity does one need as long as one is honest...
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This is part of the public trust- if a poll worker is incompetent time to say adios. enough said, but of course Ranters have other opinions.
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That includes 94 workers at 16 precincts that will be completely restaffed because of a high number of errors.
I'm quite proud of my neighbors in the next county. I haven't yet been able to find voter turnout by precinct, but I suspect that the ones whose entire staffs were just summarily fired were a bit odd in that way.
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Any that require retraining were caught in such aggregious voter fraud episodes that they should be on trial. This is just a way to train them to not get caught (legally or by cameras) next time.
[BBC] What an amazing coincidence. He too, claims to have a 'mandate from the people'. The only obvious difference, he went for the farms and land first, then the businesses.
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I thought this guy was dead....wishful thinking i guess.
Posted by: Captain Dark Lord of the Faeries8536 ||
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No, Mugabe is still very much alive. His regime is being propped up by South Africa. The South African regime, propped somewhat clandestinely by the United States and the west. Zim now uses three different currencies, the SA rand, the US dollar, and the Euro. Telling, no ?
...No one in America has both the power and the determination to hinder Obama from doing whatever he wants.
...And so with President Obama and federal courts' rulings: they have no means of enforcing their rulings. As any intemperate two-year old knows, you can do anything you want until someone compels you to stop. And so Obama can order whatever he wishes until he is compelled to stop.
The courts lacks the means of such compulsion. That leaves the Congress to rein in the executive. (Please excuse me while I erupt in peals of derisive laughter.) Congress's only authority to rein in a president consists of two things:
Withhold funding for departments and agencies under executive authority, or
Impeach him.
That's it. (In 1834, the Congress voted to censure President Andrew Jackson. Jackson correctly declared that there was no Constitutional authority for it and basically told the Congress they could either impeach him or get stuffed, although he put it a little more pithily.)
Since those are the only two options available, and since the Congress is controlled by the Democrats (the Republican majority in the House meaning nothing here), neither loss of funding nor impeachment will ever be used to restrain this president.
The goal of the entire Democrat party is to be the permanent, sole political authority in the country. This is the actual transformation that Barack Obama promised to great applause in his 2008 campaign. And we are getting transformed good and hard:
No one, and I mean absolutely no one, in the Democrat party is in the slightest interested in reining in Obama's expansion of executive diktat because they know what few of the rest of us are awakening to: the Democrats are never going to lose that executive authority again. Let me be clear, with a promise to elucidate another day: there is never going to be another Republican president. Ever.
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I'll agree that no Republican will ever be president of the future People's Democratic Slavery Union of Subhumans, vermin and things-that-slithered-out-from-under-rocks. As for me, I plan on remaining in The Republic of Texas.
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That's a cheery little essay you've found for us, g(r)omgoru.
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When you wake up and start telling your sons and daughters, cousins, etc to don't enlist/re-enlist to defend the oligarchy, they'll find out that when no one will defend their system, it collapses.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco),is supporting an anti-deportation bill in Sacramento along with 27 other California Democrats in Congress.
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The article doesn't explain very well exactly what the law would do. But it sounds like they want to make it legal for illegals to commit crimes in California. If that's not exactly the case then it really does sound as though they want to keep these criminals in California prisons instead of deporting them. This is in a state that is just about bankrupt due to the size of its prison population. This is in a state where they periodically have to release prisoners early because the prisons are so badly overcrowded, effectively reducing their sentences. Pelosi is an evil witch.
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Illegals are basically legal now excep they don't have to pay taxes, serve jury duty, or get to vote. I'm sure Pelosi is targetting that last issue as next years civil right.
Former Florida Rep. Allen West said Wednesday that Congress needs to appoint a special committee to investigate the Sept. 11, 2011, fatal attacks on America's consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
"We've got a lot of questions," he said, on Fox News. "This is why I believe we have to have that select committee to get to the bottom of these incidents. Right now, we have had this investigation across five different committees in the House of Representatives. We have not gotten anywhere." But 'getting nowhere' is the precisely the goal.
Mr. West suggested a committee with subpoena powers -- similar to what's been proposed by Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf for months.
"If we have one focused committee with subpoena powers that can get the survivors from Benghazi, get some of these CIA agents and operatives. And I think you need to depose Hillary Clinton and bring her back and talk about why Ambassador Chris Stevens was in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of September 11," he said.
His recommendation comes on the heels of a report from an attorney who's representing a whistleblower who said 400 hundred U.S.-made surface-to-air missiles were mysteriously "taken from Libya" during the consulate attack. Mr. West questioned the incidents surrounding these missiles.
"Where did these surface-to-air missiles come from? Were they part of [former dictator Moammar] Gadhafi's stash? Or somehow were we trying to funnel weapons through Libya to Turkey, into Syria?" he said. Perhaps investigative journalist Michael Hastings knows something. Oh WAIT !
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An Observation: East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet ... Congress is in the East, West is from the South and the Oliver North of the Benghazi saga is nowhere to be found, and likely never shall we eveer meet.
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#1 An Observation: East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet ... Congress is in the East, West is from the South and the Oliver North of the Benghazi saga is nowhere to be found, and likely never shall we eveer meet.
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Twain, huh? Hmmm. CAIRO! Cairo, Illinois. Trouble. Right there in River City. To the north: Illinois, the bountiful bodacious motherland that nurtured our Moses through his journeyman years. To the west: Missouri, the bitter, mocking, self-appointed father figure that does whatever it can to spoil his triumph, like that baldheaded Pharaoh dude. Rodeo clowns. Rush Limbaugh (hometown Cape Girardeau half an hour northwest of CAIRO!). Josey Wales with all his empty-chair seditious freedom nonsense. To the east: Cain-tuck. KY. Bumf-ck Egypt, you might say. Not too much there. Couple miles up the road is Future City. And a few miles southwest is Charleston. Dammit, I knew it! CHARLESTON! FUTURE! IL! MO! KY!
Get me that Eternal General on the phone quick. And the NWA. And Rachel Maddow and Toure. The world must know!
[Fox News] Journalist Michael Hastings, who was killed in a fiery car crash in June, reportedly had been working on several big stories including one on CIA Director John Brennan before his death.
San Diego 6 News reports that Hastings had focused his latest project on Brennan, the former White House counterterrorism adviser and current CIA director. San Diego News 6 article.
Note the pastoral setting of the Hastings foto used by Fox. Could easily be Harrowdown Hill, near Oxfordshire. Quite eerie I'd say.
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Elmert Hupens2660. Posted that link weeks ago as a story, but was denied visibility. Thanks for getting in as a comment.
Clandistine federal government agencies have the ability to control the speed of motors, controls, switches, etc., etc. by rewriting the firmware that controls the above mechanical components. Remember STUXNET that caused the centrifuges to spin too fast in Iran?
Obama regime operatives with access to such knowledge have the ability to simply unlock the auto with a remote, connect a small device, and flash the firmware with malicious code of any of the Obama regime's domestic American dissidents just like the same group can rig any voting machine for many years to come. That ability and the operatives who carry out that ability can keep the regime in power through murder, voter fraud, etc. and therefore is a key component of the regime's attack on the right.
Its for real. It's the new normal. It IS critical, life and death domestic terrorist information for which the Obama regime IS a terrorist regime.
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Brietbart, who played key roles in the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal, the resignation of Shirley Sherrod, and the ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy, an editor of the left's hated Drudge Report ... collapsed walking home at such a young and tender age also.
Merchants of Death have the will, Merchants of Death have the way...
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and on the flip side. no matter how low your ratings go, how low your advertising dollars drop if you carry water for the administration you will be heard.
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.
[NEWS.CINCINNATI] Hundreds of Hamilton County poll workers will be retrained -- and 163 "retired" -- as a result of voting problems in the 2012 election.
