#3
"Pat, pay every murderous mother
To not shoot his sister or brother!"
"Twould be more efficient,
Dear Mike, and more pleasant,
To pay them to pop one another."
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"10 individuals". Wow, what a sizable test group!
Posted by: Frank G ||
09/02/2021 15:57 Comments ||
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[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] At a presser Tuesday morning to address a weekend of shootings across the city, Interim Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz said, "So far, year to date, there have been over 100 additional shootings compared to the same time last year in 2020."
Following the presser there were multiple shootings the same day in the city, including a 58-year-old female victim who was shot and injured in a robbery in the Green Lake neighborhood.
Prior to the multiple incidents Tuesday, there had been 16 shootings in the last week alone. As of Tuesday morning, there have been more than 380 shots fired, 135 victims and 35 gun killings in the city so far this year.
Seattle is on pace to match or exceed 2020's 25-year record high of homicides. King County is also on track to eclipse last year's record high number of homicides.
According to the King County prosecuting attorney’s latest report on shootings released last week, 197 people have been shot so far this year, up 61 percent over the past four-year average. That number of victims is the highest number, through the 2nd quarter, since the prosecuting attorney’s office began keeping gun violence data in 2017.
The cause cited by police and safety experts is the slashing of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) budget and the demonizing of officers by public officials. Though the crime wave is spread across the city, victims are typically those in poor and minority communities.
In 2021, in the wake of a year with ongoing riots in the city following the death of George Floyd, the Seattle City Council cut the police budget by an $35.6 million on top of cuts made in 2020, roughly 20 percent of the department's budget.
As part of an annual report on the city's consent decree, Diaz described that "amidst often hostile rhetoric," SPD "experienced an unprecedented exodus of officers to other jurisdictions." Since Jan. 1, 2020, close to 300 officers have transferred, resigned or retired. US District Judge James Robart, who oversees a consent decree signed by the city and the Department of Justice in 2012, recently said, "I have seen too much of knee-jerk reaction and not enough forethought," the judge said. "We have to be religious in continuing to reduce bias and disparity, at the same time we need to recognize ... there is an essential requirement for public safety."
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Please show me in the text of the Constitution where the federal government has any say in the question without resorting to citing a house of cards of judicial 'interpretations'.
I can cite you this - The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
#3
Great news for thousands of babies in Texas who will now live. Thank you, Texas--and 5 Supreme Court justices who still have some semblance of a conscience.
Posted by: Tom ||
09/02/2021 8:36 Comments ||
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That would be the Netflix where the 1/3rd missing immigrant children are tracked down by Liam Neesom as Joe Biden, where he finds them at a youngster twerk dance hall, where it turns into something entirely inappropriate.
#8
Dems are pissed that this law may be challenged up to the Supreme Court and if they don't have a very well crafted narrow focused case, Roe v Wade may be in jeopardy.
That and all that siding with trans against women now has a way Dems can try to shove them back to the plantation.
#10
celebrating or weeping over the SCOTUS decision is not warranted,
majority specifically stated they would revisit this when there is a 'real' plaintiff
Posted by: Lord Garth ||
09/02/2021 18:05 Comments ||
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Noble cause, dicey means. Abortion is a "right" created from thin air, but it isn't hard to imagine e.g. New York doing the same thing with real rights--"deputize" citizens to sue ammo sellers, or anybody who suggests that an election wasn't honest.
Posted by: james ||
09/02/2021 19:04 Comments ||
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It WAS challenged to SCOTUS and 5-4 was OK'd
Posted by: Frank G ||
09/02/2021 19:30 Comments ||
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The SCOTUS told the challengers to follow procedures; they weren't going to rule on it yet.
Posted by: james ||
09/02/2021 20:57 Comments ||
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As planned, the administration now has a massive new hostage crisis and mission to deal with. Our friends the communist Chinese may be called upon to assist. The media and Klingons to the rescue? Who knows, possibly Vlad Putin as well. Joe Biden leading a multi-nation coalition credited with the rescue of US citizens. .......all just before the election. UBL redux anyone ?
"Never let a good crisis go to waste." [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A week into the evacuation from Kabul, the US military was forced to take a drastic step: stop all flights from Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...Former president of Aghanistan, part of the problem not part of the solution... Continued on Page 49
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09/02/2021 00:00 ||
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#1
"In some way, everyone is to blame," a US official said on condition of anonymity.
Translation: No one is to be blamed. No one is to be held accountable.
#3
Blaming a senile, decrepit, old power-hungry fool who should be residing in an extended care facility, appears to be the preferred course of action.
One of the greatest political opportunities missed in the last century was that of Moscow's. If the Soviets, who had the means and geographical location, had rescued most of the hostages held by Iran the Politburo would have reaped political and economic benefits untold - most favored trade nation, hands off in Afghanistan, loans to keep their economy running, no election of Ronald Reagan and an unwinnable arms race, et al.
They just couldn't think out of box.
#6
/\ Interesting observation. I'm strongly encouraging Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) at Leavenworth to offer you an adjunct fellowship position.
If you can formulate plausible past event scenarios, future event calculations shouldn't be much of a problem. In the final analysis, the likelihood of potential future events need not be high or low, but they should never be dismissed out of hand. They must be planned for. Recent events in Afghanistan will back this up.
#7
"Everyone screwed up" is the classic narcisist dodge of resposibility.
NO, YOU SCREWED THIS UP. The rest of us screwed up by not hanging you from a lamp post.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
09/02/2021 11:09 Comments ||
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The last US troops left Afghanistan on Monday.
And we know that how? Would Biden tell us if we had left any Marines or soldiers behind?
We left three Marines behind in the Mayaguez incident in 1975, and as screwed up as the Mayaguez incident was, it was a master class in management compared to what we just saw.
Posted by: Matt ||
09/02/2021 11:30 Comments ||
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Kansas Dude: If BHO hadn't given away the OPM Database to China in 2012-2014, there's a chance that parts of the federal bureaucracy would still work for us instead of China, and everything from the virus to the bugout we just saw wouldn't have happened.
[Breitbart] He's not driven to hysteria
Von Spakovsky shared details of "unaccounted-for ballots" from a Daily Signal report
Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow of the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, said president Joe Biden’s margins of victory in Arizona, Nevada, and Wisconsin in the 2020 presidential election were narrower than the states’ respective totals of unaccounted-for ballots.
Biden’s margin of victory in Wisconsin was approximately 20,000 votes despite the number of ballots "missing or undeliverable" in the state amounting to 83,000, von Spakovsky noted.
"Remember the margin of victory in Wisconsin was only 20,000 votes, and that basically 82,000 ballots were either lost or undeliverable or were rejected," von Spakovsky said on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow. "That’s four times the margin of victory."
"Those are the numbers that the Wisconsin Election Commission itself reported to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission," he added. "[The Wisconsin Election Commission] said 6,500 absentee ballots they mailed out were sent back by the postal service as ’undeliverable’ [and] 3,000 ballots that came back were rejected. They don’t say why, but usually [a ballot is rejected] because, for example, the signature doesn’t match, indicating it may have been a fraudulent ballot," he remarked.
Wisconsin authorities cannot account for 76,000 ballots, von Spakovsky stated. "They don’t know what happened to them," he said. "In other words, voters requested an absentee ballot, or [Wisconsin officials] simply decided — in some places in Wisconsin — to simply mail out absentee ballots to everybody, and the ballot never came back, so it’s unaccounted for. These are the official numbers of the election commission [in Wisconsin], and we don’t know what happened to them. We don’t know if [the ballots] got lost [or] if they were stolen and somebody didn’t get to vote."
"This didn’t just happen in Wisconsin. ... The margin of victory in Arizona for Joe Biden was only a little over 10,000 votes. Maricopa County alone has admitted that they sent 110,000 mail-in or absentee ballots to what turned out to be the wrong addresses," he continued
"They were labeled [and] returned as ’undeliverable’ by the postal service," he added. "Same thing in Nevada. ... Clark County sent out something like 93,000 mail-in ballots that are unaccounted for. In other words, they mailed it out [and] it never came back. We don’t know what happened to them, and remember, the margin of victory in the entire state was only a little over 33,000 ballots."
"There are literally tens of thousands of ballots out there floating around, and we don’t know what happened to them," he concluded.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation reported that approximately 15 million mail ballots were unaccounted for in the 2020 election.
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#1
If election officials take a single ballot and run it through the counting machine multiple times then by default you will be short paper ballots in a recount.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The White House said Wednesday it will use existing federal funds to build and provide 100,000 homes to low- and middle-income buyers and nonprofits over the next three years to bolster supply that is often snapped up by deep-pocketed investors.
President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...... believes Congress can bolster affordable housing by approving his mammoth spending plan for families, but the White House said it "can’t wait to take action," as economically battered Americans sought space during the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic only to find tight supply and runaway home prices and rents.
"The large and long-standing gap between the supply and demand of affordable homes for both renters and homeowners makes it harder for families to buy their first home and drives up the cost of rent," a White House fact sheet said. "Higher housing costs also crowd out other investments families can and should make to improve their lives, such as investments in education."
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge ...Dem Congresswoman for Ohio's 11th congressional district since 2008. She won a special election to succeed Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who gave up her office when carried out feet first. The strangely-shaped, but really not gerrymandered, district includes most of the black-majority areas between Cleveland and Akron. Fudge was Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus in the 113th Congress... on Wednesday will announce a series of measures to carry out the plan, from expanded financing through the Treasury and agencies such as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to relaunching a Treasury-HUD Risk Sharing Program that provides low-cost capital for affordable housing development.
The plan would prioritize families by limiting the sale of certain properties owned by HUD or insured by the Federal Housing Administration to investors.
The administration said it is also "expanding and creating exclusivity periods in which only governmental entities, owner-occupants, and qualified non-profit organizations are able to bid on certain FHA-insured and government-owned properties."
The White House said it needs to act because investors gobbled up one in every six homes purchased in the second quarter of this year.
"Large investor purchases of single-family homes and conversion into rental properties [speed] the transition of neighborhoods from homeownership to rental and drives up home prices for lower cost homes, making it harder for aspiring first-time and first-generation home buyers, among others, to buy a home," the fact sheet said. "At the same, these purchases are unlikely to meaningfully boost supply in the lower-cost portions of the rental market, as investors charge more for rent to recoup higher purchase costs."
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...Can't fight a war, tanking the economy, so let's build 100K houses for 'low-and middle-income' buyers and non-profits.
Which, by the time they're finished will be substandard, poorly adapted for real people/families, and cost $750,000 each.*
Mike
*In CA, they'll cost $2.5M each.
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
09/02/2021 6:59 Comments ||
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and Biden's brother will be doing the building
Posted by: Frank G ||
09/02/2021 7:47 Comments ||
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Public housing in the US is a disaster right now. Why will these be any different? Shouldn't they clean up the mess they have now before enlarging it?
Posted by: Tom ||
09/02/2021 8:38 Comments ||
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If "affordable housing" was feasible or made economic sense, someone would already be doing it.
#6
to bolster supply that is often snapped up by deep-pocketed investors.
These won't be affordable once they are built by government, and will also be snapped up by investment companies at distress sale prices.
#7
Public housing in the US is a disaster right now. Why will these be any different? Shouldn't they clean up the mess they have now before enlarging it?
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.
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] At a 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A week into the evacuation from Kabul, the US military was forced to take a drastic step: stop all flights from 
...... 46th president of the U.S. 
If "affordable housing" was feasible or made economic sense, someone would already be doing it. 
