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-Lurid Crime Tales-
US attorney general: Epstein's death 'perfect storm of screw ups'
[Aljazeera] William Barr says he was initially suspicious of the death, but now does not believe there was foul play.

US Attorney General William Barr has said he initially had his own suspicions about financier Jeffrey Epstein's widely-speculated-on death while behind bars at one of the most secure jails in the United States, but came to conclude that his suicide was the result of "a perfect storm of screw-ups".

In an interview with the Associated Press news agency, Barr said his concerns were prompted by the numerous irregularities at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York where Epstein was being held.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/23/2019 05:29 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He added that he personally reviewed security footage that confirmed that no one entered the area where Epstein was housed on the night he died.

Ah'll believe it when I see the video timestamps AND can verify the cell location.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2019 7:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Ah Jesus, not him too.

Epstein didn't kill himself.

ABC and CBS both covered for him, and instead of rewarding the whistleblower, fired her. That is NOT how journalism operates.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 11/23/2019 8:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Said it before; when an incident requires the co-incidence of a number of unlikely factors, you're, in effect, multiplying fractions.
And that means you get to a very small value very quickly.
That's where "...and tell me it's raining" comes in.
To end the suspicion will require proving the failures happened frequently or perhaps regularly and not specifically all together this one night.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 11/23/2019 8:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Sounds like Barr is not ready to kill himself too...
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/23/2019 10:15 Comments || Top||

#5  He did kill himself! He did! The voodoo doll strangled itself, which made him do it too! It was a perfect suicide!
Posted by: Vernal Hatrick || 11/23/2019 10:16 Comments || Top||

#6  He added that he personally reviewed security footage that confirmed that no one entered the area where Epstein was housed on the night he died.

Not confirmation, a data point. Anyone who has been paying the least bit of attention the last few years knows that photographic evidence ain't what it used to be. Facial replacement is a standard visual effect. Even without CGI, Hollywood could stage the whole thing. Grainy security footage only makes the job easier. Show me the script and I'll show you the 'evidence'.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/23/2019 10:27 Comments || Top||

#7  SS Part 195
Posted by: Lex || 11/23/2019 11:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Said it before; when an incident requires the co-incidence of a number of unlikely factors, you're, in effect, multiplying fractions.

How to Calculate Probability
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2019 11:53 Comments || Top||

#9  A perfect storm brought about by an expert rain maker.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/23/2019 12:41 Comments || Top||

#10  Sometimes, one can work backwards from a desired outcome and project sufficient event unlikelyhoods to generate plausible doubt.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2019 14:30 Comments || Top||

#11  Still think they Pentangeli'd him. He probably did it in a way that would create the maximum amount of conspiracy guessing as a way to screw with whomever was screwing him.
Posted by: ruprecht || 11/23/2019 16:02 Comments || Top||


Senators demand details of Obama-Ukraine meetings
[WND] Two Republican senators are asking the national archivist to provide copies of records of meetings in 2016 between the Obama administration, the Ukrainian government and Democratic National Committee officials.

U.S. Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, addressed the letter to Archivist David Ferriero.

In January 2016, Ukrainian governmental officials and corruption investigators met with members of Obama's National Security Council, the FBI, the DOJ and others, including DNC contractor Alexandra Chalupa, who has been suspected of working with Ukrainian officials to undermine the Trump campaign, the senators say.

"According to Andrii Telizhenko, a political officer in the Ukraine Embassy in Washington, D.C., who participated in a January 2016 meeting, 'U.S. officials volunteered ... that they had an interest in reviving a closed investigation into payments to U.S. figures from Ukraine's Russia-backed Party of Regions,' which refers to the investigation that involved Paul Manafort," the senators write.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/23/2019 05:19 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the investigation that involved Paul Manafort

Is he spinning a sentence reduction?
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2019 6:03 Comments || Top||


Baltimore ex-mayor enters guilty pleas in fraud case
[APNEWS] The disgraced former
DEMOCRAT
mayor of Baltimore pleaded guilty Thursday to federal conspiracy and tax evasion charges involving sales of her self-published children’s books, a case that exposed anew the depths of corruption in Maryland’s largest city.

Catherine Pugh pleaded guilty in federal court in Baltimore to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the government and two counts of tax evasion. She pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
to seven counts of wire fraud that were included in the indictment unsealed a day earlier.

The case centered on sales of her self-published "Healthy Holly" books to nonprofits and foundations to promote her political career and fund her run for mayor. Pugh, a veteran Democratic politician who was elected mayor in 2016, resigned under pressure in May.
At least it made the second third paragraph
Pugh faces up to 35 years in prison at her scheduled Feb. 27 sentencing. U.S. Attorney Robert Hur said she could be sentenced to about five years based on sentencing guidelines, but a judge would make the final determination. Hur added that Pugh’s admissions of guilt "demonstrated that she betrayed the trust placed on her."

Posted by: Fred || 11/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Could we have a picture of Ms. Pugh next to JarJar Binks?
Posted by: Lex || 11/23/2019 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Uncanny ain't it ?

Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/23/2019 1:57 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Embarrassing moment Joe Biden lists FOUR potential female vice presidential picks - but can't remember any of their names
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2019 18:16 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Joe Drool will still get the nomination. He'll get crushed by Trump in 2020 at which point the Dems will attempt to impeach him for elder abuse
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/23/2019 21:29 Comments || Top||

#2  He can only identify a woman through scent.
Posted by: Solomon Ebbeart6591 || 11/23/2019 21:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Or feel...
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 11/23/2019 22:26 Comments || Top||


Prince Andrew's accuser to twist the knife: BBC Panorama interview with Jeffrey Epstein's 'sex slave' Virginia Roberts WILL be broadcast on December 2
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2019 06:47 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Complaints of human and animal excrement on streets of San Francisco are up 35% with more than 28,000 grievances lodged last year - forcing city to launch a 'poop patrol' for cleanup
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2019 06:50 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What a job that's going to be. I'd like to yell at them :

"For God's sake vote Republican, people ! The fucking third world is trying to forget the things you're discovering !"
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/23/2019 9:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Well ait that the shits....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/23/2019 9:48 Comments || Top||

#3  The only obvious way to handle programs like this, is to cut power yet still charge clients for "Estimated Normal Usage".
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/23/2019 10:20 Comments || Top||

#4  When you are keen on turning your back on Western Civilization, you deserve it hard, really hard.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/23/2019 11:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Leftists are animal excrement.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/23/2019 13:53 Comments || Top||

#6  But pot's legal Erb.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2019 14:26 Comments || Top||

#7  SS, Open-Air Theater version
Posted by: Lex || 11/23/2019 14:51 Comments || Top||

#8  This is San Francisco's natural state. People have gotten spoiled since the Dot Boom. When I lived there in the 80's much of the city was *brutally* nasty. I remember stepping over a corpse to get through a door in a SOMA alley. Got drunk, spent the night there, and when I came out the next morning the corpse was still there, rotting away.

That's your City By The Bay.
Posted by: Secret Master || 11/23/2019 22:54 Comments || Top||

#9  I looked at the map. It makes sense. The Tenderloin is the worst spot... just like it was thirty years ago.
Posted by: Secret Master || 11/23/2019 22:57 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Report: Navy Secretary, SEAL Leader Threaten To Resign If Trump Blocks Plan To Expel Gallagher
[HotAir] The secretary of the Navy and the admiral who leads the SEALs have threatened to resign or be fired if plans to expel a commando from the elite unit in a war crimes case are halted by President Trump, administration officials said Saturday.

The Navy is proceeding with the disciplinary plans against the commando, Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, who counts Mr. Trump as one of his most vocal supporters. After reversing a demotion in recent days, the president suggested on Thursday that he would intervene again in the case, saying that the sailor should remain in the unit.

The threats by the Navy secretary, Richard V. Spencer, and the commander, Rear Adm. Collin Green, are a rare instance of pushback against Mr. Trump from members of the Defense Department. Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper and Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, scrambled to come up with a face-saving compromise this past week in the hope that Mr. Trump could be persuaded to change his mind.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/23/2019 16:16 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Make my day.

You work for him. Your choice is to carry out the order, or resign. It's not like we don't have a 'deep' team. As Charles de Gaulle is reported to have said - cemeteries are full of indispensable people.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/23/2019 16:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper and Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, scrambled to come up with a face-saving compromise this past week in the hope that Mr. Trump could be persuaded to change his mind.

Maybe, just maybe, the compromise should be coming from the other end of the chain of command and not the CinC. Otherwise, well, bye!

Posted by: SteveS || 11/23/2019 17:08 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't have any use for men like Gallagher, but if POTUS wants him retained... then he's fok'n retained.

People who threaten to resign should be automatically fired, end of discussion !
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/23/2019 18:29 Comments || Top||

#4  See - General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/23/2019 19:00 Comments || Top||

#5  U.S. Navy Secretary says he did not threaten to resign in dispute with Trump - "Not me. Those other guys? Shit. They're crazeee"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/23/2019 20:32 Comments || Top||

#6  It’s a start.
Posted by: KBK || 11/23/2019 22:31 Comments || Top||

#7  WTF ? They can... do that ? Like some bloody mill workers' Union ?

Gallagher's played the goof the for last time, why can't they just let things be and expect him to reform ? You're entrusting public spending and social services to known criminals everyday for fuck's sake.

In fact a capable defense, or even a commander with his heart in the right place could have spun it as an psy-op exercise against the local daesh, who aired the burning, beheading and maiming of American allies for months.

A lot of anal retentive propriety posturing if you ask me. Imagine doing this to your soldiers in an actual war. Over what ? An ISIS terrorist ? Are these people fucking sane ?! AAARGH ! I hate to see this shit done to honest, salt of the earth men.

I hope he gets book deals, a pvt security firm and a movie deal and retires in great spirits, while these ARBs play plastic golf in their living rooms with their bad backs and faulty livers. Fuck !
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/23/2019 23:50 Comments || Top||


CNN Bombshell: FBI Lawyer Altered FISA Court Warrant Application
More on this story from yesterday. In yesterday’s comment thread, Unaitle Panda6599 shared a link that claims the former FBI lawyer in question is one Kevin Clinesmith.
[SPECTATOR.ORG] An FBI lawyer since separated from the bureau faces a criminal investigation for altering a document relating to obtaining the Foreign Intelligence Service Act (FISA) Court warrant to surveil Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
campaign aide Carter Page, CNN reports.

The lawyer allegedly admitted making the change to Sherlocks for Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who referred the matter to U.S. Attorney John Durham. The longtime federal prosecutor, tasked by Attorney General William Barr with looking into the origins of the Russia collusion probe, reportedly has launched a criminal investigation into the FBI lawyer.

"The alterations were significant enough to have shifted the document’s meaning and came up during a part of Horowitz’s FISA review where details were classified," CNN reports. The question naturally arises as to whether the details gained classified status because officials sought to hide the deception or whether the details actually rated such a designation. The heavily redacted warrant application dropped jaws upon its release by referring to opposition research as "research," claiming a "law firm" rather than the Clinton campaign hired the Sherlocks, and seemingly labeling former MI6 spook Remington Christopher Steele as a "U.S. person." The notion that an FBI employee altered a report already criticized for deception further undermines the credibility of the probe.
Posted by: Fred || 11/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What did Trump-loathing CNN mean by releasing this story?

Likely that the complete story is even worse than it looks from this little tidbit. (Let us all recoil in our mutual surprise)
Expect the spin to be "just one rogue employee and a minor one at that".
Posted by: SteveS || 11/23/2019 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  CNN trying to stage a pre-emptive (non-fatal) strike in hopes of redirecting attention away from the much more serious, fatal (to the DS) charges to come
Posted by: Lex || 11/23/2019 0:37 Comments || Top||

#3  And not a single originating official complained.
Posted by: gorb || 11/23/2019 0:39 Comments || Top||

#4  CTH has been doing an outstanding job following the many coup plots by the Democrats and Bureaucracy against the elected President Trump.

New York Times Confirms Peter Strzok Team Underling, Kevin Clinesmith, is FBI Lawyer Who Altered FISA Application
Posted by: Unaitle Panda6599 || 11/23/2019 3:46 Comments || Top||

#5  The way the MSM has used it, bombshell now means I was disappointed in the can and have to drink more coffee and hope for the best later.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/23/2019 15:02 Comments || Top||


Pennsylvania Lawmaker Leaves Increasingly ‘Purist’ Democrat Party, Will Caucus With Republicans
[DAILYWIRE] Pennsylvania State Senator John Yudichak announced on Tuesday that he will be switching his political affiliation from Democrat to Independent due to a disconnect with an increasingly leftward-moving party.

"As an Independent, I will continue to put people above politics," Yudichak said in a blurb. "I will continue to support Democratic ideas as well as Republican ideas when it is clear that they serve the greater good and help government work for people rather than the narrow interests of partisan ’purists.'"

The state politician has represented Pennsylvania’s 14th senatorial district for three terms and is not up for re-election until 2022. Yudichak suggested that leaving the party is the only way he can faithfully serve his district, which covers the northeastern part of the state and includes Carbon, Luzerne, and Monroe Counties.

"From an administrative standpoint if there was an independent caucus I’d be in the independent caucus but there were only two. That’s something that I’m trying to change," Yudichak said over Twitter. "I’d like to change the conversation where we get out of this idea that it’s us vs them. I think it’s a false choice for Pennsylvanians, I think it’s a false choice for Americans."

Pennsylvania Democrats were able to flip five State Senate seats blue during the 2018 election cycle, which reportedly pulled the party even further to the left. Yudichak’s decision to leave the party will make him the commonwealth’s sole Independent state senator and brings the minority caucus from 22 seats to 21; Republicans currently control 27 seats, with one vacant seat in a solidly red district scheduled to be filled in January through a special election.

Posted by: Fred || 11/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Kamala Harris Blames Weed Arrests for Mass Incarceration
[FREEBEACON] Democratic presidential candidate Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, now a senatrix from California and 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, indistinguishable from the others...
lamented the mass incarceration of those convicted of marijuana-related offenses Thursday. The former Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, attorney general did not acknowledge that on her watch, 1,974 people were incarcerated for the same infraction.

"I mean, you want to talk about ’gateway,' that approach is the gateway to America's problem of mass incarceration..." Harris told Stephen Colbert on Thursday. "So not only do I intend to legalize marijuana, but I will also tell you, Stephen, that part of the big issue is we've got whole populations of, in particular, black and brown men and women who have been incarcerated, who have been designated felons for life, who now should be coming out, we should be releasing them, we should be expunging their records."

Harris neglected to mention her own role in incarcerating those black and brown men and women. A Washington Free Beacon investigation first reported that Harris, as attorney general of California, sent at least 1,560 people to state prisons for marijuana-related offenses between 2011 and 2016.

Presidential rival Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D., Hawaii) brought further attention to Harris's record during a July presidential debate, noting that she "put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana." Harris called that claim a "lie," but a fact check by the the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
Chronicle found that the initial Free Beacon report actually understated the number of jail sentences and "1,974 people were admitted for hashish and marijuana convictions during that period."

Posted by: Fred || 11/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Kamala
💘
Herb
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/23/2019 2:35 Comments || Top||

#2  I mean the plant. [snigger]
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/23/2019 2:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, she's not wrong. Weed shouldn't be illegal. It's about 1000x less harmful than alcohol.

Fun fact: did you know that weed (known then as hemp and an excellent fiber for industrial use) was outlawed so that DuPont wouldn't have any competition for its new product, nylon. Yup, that happened. Combined with fake news about how weed was making black men rape white women, which weed doesn't make you an aggressive rapist.

Who here thinks that weed makes users into crazed criminals? Lol. It makes you want to sit on the couch and eat cookies. Ask any bouncer who worked a crowd of weed smokers to see a band and how they compare to the usual crowd of drunks who usually come to shows.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 11/23/2019 4:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Who here thinks that weed makes users into crazed criminals?

Not this cat. Since I live in Mass., we've now effectively legalized pot in this state, and believe it or not I liked it better when it was illegal. I don't think it helps when you encourage society by making drugs legal, because there are still negative effects. For example, if you're baked and driving a vehicle, there's little question your reaction time is reduced, although that may be partially offset by the tendency to drive slower. That said, legalization seems to be the way we're headed.
Posted by: Raj || 11/23/2019 5:43 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Absolutely right. Some things should be acceptably illegal, like narcotic substances. To be indulged in only by braving the law, but never to be given free reign. It is one of the dichotomies every modern State faces, in a quest to balance public health and security directives with human rights and liberties.

A mature society deters its children from wanton recreation with such substances, but since societal mind-set has malfunctioned all over, it's up to the State to deter individuals.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/23/2019 6:09 Comments || Top||

#6  It was already illegal to drive under the influence.

"Wanton recreation"? What the hell does that even mean? If I want to go get rip-roaring drunk, I can. That's my business. If I want to get stoned out of my gourd and watch Akira, that's my business. There is simply no harm that the government is protecting me from.

Weed is *not* a narcotic. Who told you that? Opium is a narcotic. Weed doesn't even addict the human body. What public health directive?

You know what does tremendous harm? Putting people in jail for weed. That does more harm than all the driving while high on weed incidents put together in all 50 states.

DuPont's nylon was a success. It's time to repeal the law protecting it from its onetime competitor.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 11/23/2019 7:55 Comments || Top||

#7  since societal mind-set has malfunctioned all over, it's up to the State to deter individuals.

Dron, this is a paradox that I dealt with in Poli Sci 50 years ago.

The state IS the incarnation of the societal mind-set so .........
Posted by: AlanC || 11/23/2019 8:21 Comments || Top||

#8  The state IS the incarnation of the societal mind-set

I have to disagree a bit. The State can be an extension of the overall culture. It is practically exterior to the contemporary mores and conventions of society that make a mind-set. Which is why the American republic still perseveres in its conservative estate even after the 60s and this post millennial madness.

I'm not for a fascist concept of State, but every once in history the individual does need to sacrifice his/her prerogatives in the larger interest.

Which brings me to what Herb says. That for him subjectively, it's a fantastic product. It does no harm According to some real fervent research. to peoples' bodies and in fact makes them happy and pliant.

Pliant... remember that word when I tell you the Left wants you to partake of it in larger numbers, and that the 'wellness science' behind it may be just as spurious as that of climate change.

Again, I'm not against the darn thing itself. I've certainly done my share of experimentation, even abuse. I can handle the effects at this stage in my life. But do I want every schoolkid, young boy and girl in my country to have access to cannabis derivatives as easy as buying cigarettes ? While a hostile predatory community of criminals is prowling seeking pliant prey ? While certain politicians are depending on the MSM and 'liberal' groups to induce a 'freedom frenzy', take it to anarchist levels ? Hell no. Not while I'm alive.

You might say that's being unequal. Yes, it is. But in trying to protect our societies from being overrun by hostile ideologies and enemies with relatively healthier lifestyles, we must impose restrictions on certain elements which seek to compromise our indigenous demographics.

Would you sleep better if your children were by themselves and in possession of their wits, or if they were surrounded by idiots and wolves while stoned ? Because that's what the practical reality boils down to.

With time, the world shall get even more difficult to deal with for our future generations, more chaos, more pressures, more frustrations and angst. Individuals will seek escape. And given escape, more and more will take it, most of the time.

I like to be intoxicated, but it's my personal failing. I love my children and will not let them do what I do, because I know it's bad for them in so many ways. It's very simple. But today everything is about logic. If it can be refuted by stats, then it's stupid and if an 'elite' can advertise it, espouse its intrinsic value with the help of cooked up numbers, it's the brightest thing to do.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/23/2019 9:10 Comments || Top||

#9  The rant was for Herb, not AlanC of course.

Herb, you're ok with getting high and being by yourself. Can you really vouch for what the 21 year old mother of a 15 day old will do, or not do ?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/23/2019 9:24 Comments || Top||

#10  Why should anyone have to vouch for a 21 yr. old with a 15 day old baby?
Posted by: chris || 11/23/2019 9:50 Comments || Top||

#11  Don't smoke or deal weed, won't be arrests. I know plenty of people who have gone their entire life without it, so it's easily done.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/23/2019 10:22 Comments || Top||

#12  JFC, "Herb", we get it -- you're a pothead. Your sole god is pot, and nothing bad ever came from it, as far as you're concerned.

No go smoke something and leave the discussion to the adults.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/23/2019 10:24 Comments || Top||

#13  Oh yeah. I understand that weed isn't consequence free. It's just that it's not nearly as bad as it's been made out to be.

Let's consider that the negative effects of legal weed are -100. The negative effects of illegal weed are -10,000,000.

Moreover consider the effects on the Mexican cartels. Overnight they are deprived of one of their revenue sources. Mexico becomes a better place and we get fewer illegals.

I have to say, it feels strange to be engaged with actual arguments, even if I disagree with them. So much at Rantburg is name calling and personal insults.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 11/23/2019 10:27 Comments || Top||

#14  So much at Rantburg is name calling and personal insults.

Actually, very little of the discussion here is like that. But we're glad you have given up on the neocons/endless war/evil America stuff. It was becoming tiresome.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/23/2019 10:38 Comments || Top||

#15  negative effects of legal weed are -100. The negative effects of illegal weed are -10,000,000.

Those are words like politicians and hack journos spout. Here's another such statement:

'The -10,000,000 you know is better than the -100 you know jack shit about.'

Why do you have a problem with buying overpriced weed from dealers for yourself and using it in private ? Does your individual liberal adventure have to be taken on trust as sound judgement and applied as state policy for 330 million people ? It sounds like the same kind of insistence that some people show for welcoming everything from voodoo to islam into their society just because they prefer black dicks or arab accents.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/23/2019 10:47 Comments || Top||

#16  #12 oh yeah, there's the made-up positions I don't hold combined with personal insults I've come to expect from Rantburgers.

Seriously, what is you people's *deal* with inventing things, accusing me of saying what you said, and then criticizing me for what you made up? This is how the SJW Left argues, people.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 11/23/2019 11:00 Comments || Top||

#17  America isn't evil. Globalists are evil. Neocons are evil. You know, the ones who hijacked America into bombing the shit out of countries who never attacked us? Once AGAIN, we have people creating strawmen. Sigh.

Does your individual liberal adventure have to be taken on trust as sound judgement and applied as state policy for 330 million people ?

Absolutely not and once again, *I didn't say that*. Illegal weed creates an absolutely staggering amount of harm in our society. Legal weed doesn't bring it to zero. But it absolutely reduces the harm from astronomical levels to manageable levels.

Do you understand it is wrong to put people in prison for weed? The entire reason it's illegal in the first place was to remove a competitor to DuPont's nylon. Yes, that's right. This happened. I encourage you to do your own research. It's not because weed was some kind of societal scourge that was going to make 21 year old mothers neglect their 15 day old children.

And even if there WAS an epidemic of child neglect from stoned mothers, it would STILL be not just less harmful, but stupendously less harmful than putting all those people in prison.

State policy for 330 million people should be legal weed, regulated and taxed the same as we do for alcohol and tobacco. Remember how Prohibition was an utter disaster, didn't work to stop people drinking, and only resulted in skyrocketing crime and the creation of powerful mafia organizations? Yeah, pretty much the same thing.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 11/23/2019 11:32 Comments || Top||

#18  How long before we have affirmative action for people who willingly impair themselves with weed? Public drunkenness and DUI are still on the books, but I can see the day where there are laws against drug testing for employment and insurance companies won't be allowed to refuse to underwrite insurance for business that have drug impaired people on their payroll.

I'm sure it will all work out. /sarc
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/23/2019 12:37 Comments || Top||

#19  Increased restrictions and labeling of cannabis as a poison began in many states from 1906 onward, and outright prohibitions began in the 1920s.

A little before Erb's 'rope over nylon' popularist meme.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/23/2019 14:18 Comments || Top||


#21  Couch stoners don't get out much.

Everyone knows it's a Bayer conspiracy.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/23/2019 15:17 Comments || Top||

#22  I work in an industry where inattention can mean instant death or maiming for you or one of your co-workers. If you want legal weed, fine, change the laws. But here's the thing, if you accept tax money in any form or fashion, be it welfar, snap, EBT, social security, no weed. If you want to do weed, and you are caught driving, death penalty. Make it the same for alcohol. If you want to have a gun, no weed. If you are caught smoking it in public, death penalty. Oh and any weed without the $100/ounce tax stamp that has to go through the process from the DEA that NFA items do from the ATF, death penalty. You are caught growing your own, death penalty. All JOBS must drug test weekly, fail, shotgun to the fax, no questions asked.

I DO NOT want people around me stupid cause of beer, liquor, wine, drugs of any kind. I still have all my fingers, toes and limbs oh and eyes, so yeah, I'd like to keep them. Not everyone I know does.

You can sit in your hole in the ground and smoke your very expensive crap and die of cancer or stroke. I want no part of it. And I don't want it near me or my kids.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/23/2019 15:37 Comments || Top||

#23 
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#24 
Posted by: 3dc || 11/23/2019 19:12 Comments || Top||

#25  Couldn't have said it better than Silentbrick.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/23/2019 22:20 Comments || Top||


Dem Rep: Trump ‘Trying to Use the Court System’ Is ‘Obstruction of Justice’
[FREEBEACON] Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D., Wash.) argued Friday that President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
seeking legal recourse in U.S. courts amounts "in and of itself [to] obstruction of justice."
She has a face like a dog chasing parked cars
"We're not going to fall into their tactics of delay and trying to use the court system. That is, in and of itself, obstruction of justice and that's what the president does not seem to understand," she said.

Jayapal echoed the sentiments of Speaker of the House Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
(D., Calif.), who also raised the question of obstruction at a Thursday presser. Jayapal said appealing to the judiciary to prevent testimony from administration figures would undermine Congress's ability to hold Trump accountable.

"We are not going to allow the president to use obstruction of justice and obstruction of Congress to stop us by saying ’well, we need to call more witnesses,'" Jayapal said.

She alleged that Trump had incriminated himself with his own comments and that the "evidence is clear" that he obstructed justice regarding the investigation into his phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. Public testimony in the impeachment inquiry concluded Thursday, and it remains an open question where Democrats' impeachment effort will go from here.

Trump has used executive authority to keep some of his advisers and staff from speaking to Congress. Pelosi has said she is not waiting on a decision from the Supreme Court on whether Congress can compel them to testify.

"They keep taking it to court, and no, we're not going to wait till the courts decide," Pelosi said. "We cannot be at the mercy of the courts. The courts are very important in all of this. Those cases will continue."

Posted by: Fred || 11/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Up = down
Night = day
Justice system = Obstruction of justice
Posted by: Lex || 11/23/2019 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  The Dem/Socialist party is moving the entire nation toward political prosecutions and away from criminal prosecutions.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 11/23/2019 2:32 Comments || Top||

#3  More s#!+, same wall.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/23/2019 5:01 Comments || Top||

#4  I don't think she understands.It's amazing that they think everyone just believes whatever they say .
Posted by: chris || 11/23/2019 9:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Nor do they care, Chris. We are supposed to care, and believe, like those we should aspire to be like. Deplorable people do not matter; we must unlearn what we have learned.
Posted by: Bobby on the road || 11/23/2019 10:03 Comments || Top||

#6  Proud representative from Washington's 7th District which is the People's Commune of Seattle... 'enuf said.
Posted by: magpie || 11/23/2019 12:45 Comments || Top||

#7  We are truly Through the Looking Glass.
Posted by: Lex || 11/23/2019 13:43 Comments || Top||

#8  Jackwada Jayapuke. (D) Legoworld.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/23/2019 15:04 Comments || Top||


Latest Emerson Poll: Most Now Oppose Impeachment
Posted by: Lex || 11/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shitshow's wearing out its welcome.
Posted by: Lex || 11/23/2019 0:42 Comments || Top||

#2  The Dems keep acting like lunatics and we'll be looking at a Thousand Year TrumpReich.
(Yeah, I'm trolling. But a boy can dream, can't he?)
Posted by: SteveS || 11/23/2019 1:12 Comments || Top||

#3  In a land full of Democrats dancing
With foreigners, fans of Charles Manson,
And Hollywood molochs,
One man has the bollocks
To stand up and holler, "Heil Hanson!"
Posted by: Greans Hupager2902 || 11/23/2019 5:58 Comments || Top||

#4  Still dont trust polls.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/23/2019 9:13 Comments || Top||

#5  The polls just need a slight correction-- revise the #s upward 3-6 points in case of Trump support, or downward by a similar margin for measuring his detractors.
Posted by: Lex || 11/23/2019 11:03 Comments || Top||

#6  They been faking polls for years...LA times lied about Gov Davis poll in Calif during his recall...they got caught and it cost them 15,000 subcribers in the first two weeks.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 11/23/2019 16:37 Comments || Top||


Lindsey Graham Launches Senate Probe into Bidens' Burisma Actions
Dems try to impeach Sen. Graham in 3,2,1.
[Breitbart] Sen. Lindsey Graham on Thursday requested State Department documents related to former Vice President Joe Biden’s communications with former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

Graham, R-S.C., sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requesting the documents to assist in answering questions regarding allegations that Joe Biden was involved in the termination of Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in order to end an investigation into natural gas company Burisma Holdings, where his son Hunter Biden served on the board.
Posted by: Unaitle Panda6599 || 11/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


The Impeachment Clock
[NationalReview] Adam Schiff’s impeachment inquiry is incoherent. Given the impossibility of a senatorial conviction, the only strategy is to taint the president with the brand of impeachment and weaken him in the 2020 election.

Yet Schiff seems to have no sense that the worm has already turned. Far from tormenting Trump and the Republicans by a long-drawn-out Schiff extravaganza, Trump’s supporters are beginning to feel that the longer the farce, the better the optics. Polls show that Trump is almost back to where he was in popularity when Schiff unleashed his late-September Ukrainian caper. And the point, after all, was again to drive down Trump’s popularity and render him politically inert.

From the day Schiff reemerged after his licking his wounds in hibernation, following the Mueller implosion, his efforts have insidiously gone downhill. Once Trump released the transcript of his July 25th call with Ukrainian president Zelensky, the nation learned that the Schiff’s gold-standard whistleblower was no such thing. Instead, he seems a rank partisan and sloppy leaker whose machinations and background are already boomeranging back on those who put him up to this present circus.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: 746 || 11/23/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This article was absolutely gold. I wish more writers could so lucidly describe things as they are.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 11/23/2019 2:43 Comments || Top||

#2  You just keep effin that chicken, Schiff.
Posted by: gorb || 11/23/2019 4:18 Comments || Top||

#3  And, gorb, the Nat'l Rev is a bastion of the Never Trumper cabal.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/23/2019 8:35 Comments || Top||

#4  It's Victor Davis Hanson - no Never-Trumper like Goldberg and the rest of the NRO losers
Posted by: Frank G || 11/23/2019 9:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Some of the more lucid Democrats, if there are any (and I know that's a big if), might be concerned that if the Schiff Show goes to the Senate it's likely to blow the lid off of a whole lot of things the Democrats would prefer to keep covered. MSM won't be able to keep it all hidden. Their precious Baraq might be exposed. Biden's chances in 2020 have already been dashed and he was the only candidate they had who wasn't far and away over the rainbow. Vindman's career will never recover. How much more damage are they willing to sustain? Or are they all too far gone to understand what they're doing to themselves?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/23/2019 13:08 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Boomerang. Headed fo' yo' head.
Posted by: Lex || 11/23/2019 13:30 Comments || Top||

#7  Dems: Ready, Fire ,....Aim.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 11/23/2019 16:16 Comments || Top||



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