[NYPOST] Federal prosecutors indicted Mingo County Circuit Judge Michael Thornsbury on two counts of conspiracy Thursday, just hours after indicting County Commissioner Dave Baisden on extortion charges. Thornsbury attorney Steve Jory declined comment while Baisden's attorney did not return messages.
The state Supreme Court has suspended Thornsbury and his law license, and a replacement judge was set to take over his caseload Friday.
Both officials are free while awaiting trial, but the indictments were painful news in a community still reeling from the liquidation of its sheriff in April.
The indictment says Thornsbury tried between 2008 and 2012 to frame Robert Woodruff for crimes including drug possession, larceny and assault. The judge had been having an affair with his secretary -- Woodruff's wife, Kim -- and he tried to eliminate the competition after she tried to break things off, it says.
The schemes involved a state trooper, the county emergency services director and another man, the indictment says, but none of them panned out.
Thornsbury faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted, and a lawyer for the Woodruffs says he can also expect a civil lawsuit.
"My client should never have been placed under the stress of being charged criminally," said Charleston attorney Mike Callaghan, "nor should he have spent time in jail for crimes he did not commit.
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Just another example of Champ's Banana Republic vision for our once great nation.
[BREITBART] Convicted Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) is scheduled to receive $8,700 per month in government disability pay, as well as a partial federal pension of $45,000. That generous $8,700 in disability comes thanks to Jackson's sudden development of a "mood disorder" as the federal government began looking to indict him. Jackson, who was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison, had no history of mental illness during his prior 17 years in Congress. Rev. Jesse Jackson has defended his son's claims of mental illness, stating to the court, "This time a year ago I thought we may have lost him."
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Another interesting double standard. If a US military member is convicted of a felony, he or she loses pension and all. The current uproar over the murdering [yet un-convicted] MAJ Nadal Hasan is a case point. No conviction, no reduction in rank or forfeiture of pay.
As non-US citizen, you may join the US military and eventually gain US citizenship. Stay long enough to earn a retirement, no problem. Decide to renounce your US citizenship and move back to country of origin for the tax advantage or other any other reason? Your pension and benefits are relinquished as well.
As a US military retiree and you or your spouse wish to get treated at a US Military Installation medical facility abroad, your US TRICARE does not follow. Some facilities may bend the rules and permit treatment on a Space-Available basis. Want to pick up some smokes at the PX/BX or top off the tank before you leave the gate, not in Germany. US military retirees are prohibited from shopping on base. Eating in the food court, no problem.
....yes, that line of hundreds of foreign national employees at the base Officer's Club Sunday seafood brunch, no problem.
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Some (note well, some) of that's SOFA - status of force agreement, which is literally a treaty between the host nation and the US. Normally, it would be totally exclusive to only members and their family members serving in country by such agreement, but some (note again, some) local commanders 'interpret' the constraints and extend a few amenities to others.
Host nations normally view 'consumption' (gas, smokes, etc) entities as heavily tax revenue sources which they waive in the case of those 'on orders' to be there, but refuse to extend to anyone else. They are not really keen in waiverning any of it to begin with. Try getting the clerk at your next hotel stay here in the States, to waiver the local room tax.
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Try getting the clerk at your next hotel stay here in the States, to waiver the local room tax. Posted by Procopius2k
Point taken sir, but the clerk and owner here in the States might be a bit more favorably disposed to providing a discount, had I spent 60+ years encamped in wet, freezing snow behind their establishment, keeping them safe from the communist hoards.
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As a retiree, Holiday Inn Express gives me a nice military discount. They've even extended it to family members when I put the charges on my card. Try that in a gasthaus or B&B anywhere in Europe.
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It's one of those small things that makes this still America. Most (excluding the usual suspects, particularly urban and coastal) have had sons, nephews, cousins, fathers, (and the other natural gender) etc who have served and grasp the significance of the 'willingness to give the last full measure of devotion'. It's the real 'demo' in democracy. It's amazing the contrast with the rest of the world where the old school view of the military and its link to social class/caste status still predominate.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] A spinoff of the scandal-ridden community organizer group ACORN received more than $200,000 in federal housing grants despite a ban on money going to ACORN affiliates, watchdog organization Judicial Watch announced Thursday.
ACORN, which officially folded in 2009 after a string of scandals, rebranded into more than 100 spinoff groups, including Affordable Housing Centers of America -- also now defunct -- and Mission of Peace, an affordable housing nonprofit.
In February, the Department of Housing and Urban Development transferred $201,222.07 from AHCOA to Mission of Peace "specifically to pay for the activities of former AHCOA affiliates," according to a memo obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request.
HUD approved the transfer despite a federal ban on tax dollars being used to fund any ACORN affiliate.
"None of the funds made available under this Act or any prior Act may be provided to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, or allied organizations," according to the 2010 budget appropriations act.
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Pfft. That's what the LAW says. Obama says it's OK, so it's OK. After all, who is going to stop him? The Congress? The courts? The people? It is to laugh.
Or to weep.
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If the Affordable Care Act is to survive, the host must also be fed. One gov't initiative facilitates selective birthing, the other facilitates the selective termination of the unproductive elderly.
Welcome to Oceanian province and Airstrip One. Please do not attempt to disable or tamper with your automobile's black box. A silent alarm will engage and you will be subject to arrest.
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Some enterprising Congressperson needs to call the HUD clown who approved this to a very publicized hearing and ask that person why he/she shouldn't be prosecuted for breaking the law.
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[NJ] "The first thing we said to each other was, 'That's enough,'" Hoffman said of his conversation with Fuentes.
Together they decided to fast-track efforts already in the works to send more state troopers into Trenton to aid the city's police force, down 140 positions following mass layoffs nearly two years ago.
"The colonel said, 'I'm getting my people in there now,'" Hoffman said yesterday afternoon during a news conference at the Hughes Justice Complex.
Before dawn yesterday, more than 60 state troopers, sheriff's officers and federal agents descended on Trenton for a warrant sweep that ended with 15 fugitives in handcuffs, Hoffman said.
It was the leading edge of a new, stepped-up deployment of the State Police in the capital city to combat surging violent and gun crime that has left 29 people dead and more than 150 people shot in 2013. The effort is being paired with a new directive from the attorney general's office that makes harsher prison sentences for gun crimes mandatory, even in the cases of plea bargains.
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"The first thing we need to do is to disarm all the law abiding citizens. That's what they do in Chicago, New York, DC, and all the big cities".
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Precisely what will take place if the odious Hildebeast is elected as POTUS, possibly sooner if the fiscal wheels fall off and a Cairo scenario takes place.
Chicago's bond rating slipped this week. They're sinking under the spending and pension loads, just like Detroit and many other urban hives.
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It's an analogy of 'heroic' efforts to save a dying patient who's on life support and unlikely to face any recovery. Even if they pull through, they'll be a shadow of their former being.
Cities live and die. That's history. Unfortunately, the same people who push everyone else with 'green' philosophy about natural environments spend ungodly amounts of limited resources to 'revive' human environments that are unsustainable. They've clear cut and strip mined the economic and social structures to maintain the graft to keep the power, and they wonder why all the productive and contributory citizenry left.
[THEHILL] President Obama and his family went for a morning bike ride Friday following the president's national security briefing on Egypt.
The president and first lady were joined by their daughters, Sasha and Malia, who arrived on Martha's Vineyard Thursday afternoon for the final half of the president's eight-day sojourn. The first family rode through the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest, a 5,300 acre forest in the center of the Massachusetts Island.
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Problems in the Middle East...Egypt... Nah thats not a problem, but I really got a problem with my hook and slice .... now thats a problem I need to work on it, but you know I got 3 more years to work it out...2016 yup, just 4 more years.
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Now I ask you, is this a man concerned or worried about scandals? Concerned about his legacy? Concerned about the financial plight of a vast number of US citizens? Is he [the esteemed constitutional expert and Harvard grad] totally daft? Of course NOT! He knows he has absolutely nothing to worry about, either now or when he leaves office. No one could be that cavalier without being 'fully wired' and insulated. No one!
Constituent view: Fully supportive. It's our turn. He takes care of us, we take care of him. He's entitled and besides, it angers 'The Man' and causes 'The Man' to boil with anger, rage, and resentment, which can easily be exploited as racist.
Non-Constituent [The Man] view: Fully unsupportive. Seen as slothfulness, wasteful, and gross inattention to duty. Causes boiling anger, rage, and resentment which can easily be viewed as racist.
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Remember the snit the Left made about Prez Bush continuing to read to the school kids after he'd been told of a plane striking a building in New York. However, a few minutes later as second notice occurred, he was back on the job. Right back at you. Your guy is AWOL. Anytime, any place. One set of rule for everyone.
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It is remarkable how isolationist oriented el prez's domestic agitprop program is; how visually unaproachable he is yet has a vested interest in the kind of light bulp you use.
FDR: "Hey, you know what would make this whole Phillipines thing go away? Horseback riding, that's what. On a gay English draft horse named Blacky. Churchll named it. Where are my waffles?"
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If I remember correctly, TW, what is offered at the link is a three-dimensional representation of a four-dimensional object. Sort of like a tesseract.
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TW, those phony Klein bottles are just a commercial faux-Klein bottle.
I want one that passes through itself WITHOUT a hole. This whole crowd lives in the middle of their imaginary bottle that they made by gluing the edges of their Moibus strip intellects (no beginning, no ending, one dimensional) together. ;^)
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Bobby, AlanC -- yes to you both, and I do understand, AlanC, though I'm not up on tesseracts beyond the explanation in A Wrinkle In Time. Nonetheless, I've been gifting the things to select recipients for a decade now. All but the engineer received them with shrieks of glee. (The engineer looked at it and said, "Yeah. So?" which was terribly disappointing. But as I had married him, It became mine without further effort -- such being one of the major joys of married life.) This is the gentleman who manufactures them: Cliff Stoll -- TED Talk Mr. Wife remembers him from a mutual timeline intersection in the University of Buffalo dorms back when they were a good deal younger than either is now,
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TW, never thought that those bottles aren't way cool. I may have to ask for one for Xmas. 8^)
However, what would make it really cool would be trapping the souls of this regime and all their supporters in the endless loop. Of course that assumes that this crew HAS souls, probably not a good bet 8^(
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I own one of those bottles made by the Webmaster TW linked, if you've ever had a yen for one by it from him. The box it arrives in (hand lettered!) and the instructions are crazy good, also he's a nice guy.
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There is a flower within my heart,
Lazy, lazy.
I've always felt like a man apart;
I think I'm really swell.
Whether she loves me or loves me not,
I tolerate Michelle:
Without her there couldn't be Camelot,
This beautiful lazy shell.
Lazy, lazy, sweet land of liberty,
You're half crazy, watching me on TV.
That muslims might burn the coptics,
Could make for lousy optics,
But life is sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for me.
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.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] A spinoff of the scandal-ridden community organizer group ACORN received more than $200,000 in federal housing grants despite a ban on money going to ACORN affiliates, watchdog organization Judicial Watch announced Thursday.
[NJ] "The first thing we said to each other was, 'That's enough,'" Hoffman said of his conversation with Fuentes.
[THEHILL] President Obama and his family went for a morning bike ride Friday following the president's national security briefing on Egypt.
