[LEGALINSURRECTION] Well, look at this! Politico has revealed that those in the electoral college who wanted to cause a ruckus on Monday kept in close contact with 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... ’s top aides Jake Sullivan and Jennifer Palmieri. Politico reported:
The first conversation appears to have occurred on Nov. 29, when Sullivan and other aides joined a conference call that included Colorado elector Micheal Baca, a member of a group working to persuade Republicans in the Electoral College to abandon Trump. Baca relayed the group’s long-shot strategy: to persuade Democratic and Republican electors to unite behind an alternative candidate to Trump.
In an email after the call, Baca apologized to Sullivan for his urgent tone.
"Not at all! We all share a sense of urgency," Sullivan replied. "Look forward to being in touch."
The next day, after Baca updated Sullivan on the group’s progress, Sullivan wrote that he personally believed the Clinton campaign should not be involved because it might send "mixed messages." "But I’m consulting with our leadership," he added.
Logs do not show further communication between Baca and Sullivan. But Baca did attempt to persuade Hillary campaign chair John Podesta to back his group’s efforts. Podesta never answered back.
But Palmieri showed plenty of interest in staying in touch with Baca:
The two spoke by phone for 15 minutes on Thursday, according to a log of the call, four days before the Electoral College vote. Two days later, while Baca was in Washington trying to drum up support, he and Palmieri had a short text message exchange in which Baca made what he described as his "final plea" to the Clinton team for assistance.
"I know I will have done everything I could to stop Trump but I am just a guy at the end of the day," he wrote. "Thank you so very much and I’ll trust whatever happens was the right decision."
Palmieri replied, "I hear you. Are you doing a presser today?"
Baca described an event he was planning at D.C.’s Sylvan Theater and asked whether she’d suggest any messaging. "What are you planning to say?" she asked. After Baca provided a short summary of his remarks, there was no further response from Palmieri.
Baca also reached out to electors in Washington state. He messaged Washington state elector Bret Chiafalo on Facebook, which led to the "Hamilton Electors, a group intent on preventing Trump from winning the Electoral College vote." The group wanted to "persuade Democratic and Republican electors wary of Trump to unite behind a mainstream Republican alternative such as Ohio Gov. John Kasich or 2012 GOP nominee Willard Mitt Romney ...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals.... ." They only needed 37 of the 306 Republicans within the college to defect.
Their efforts died, though, and in fact did the exact opposite. Hillary lost more electors on Monday than Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... Baca kept his word to Palmieri, but not to the state of Colorado. Baca voted for Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich moments after he took an oath to vote for Hillary Clinton. Electors at the Colorado capitol booed and shouted at him for defecting. Baca now faces prosecution.
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Absolutely shocking! Who could have suspected such a connection.
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Well good. Carter was and is many things. He certainly was not a media darling. DC hated the man. He was not part of the partying that DC so loves. Doing things himself left him an easy target. I am inclined to think of Bush saying that based on the Intel your options were limited.
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Poppa Bush is too told to commit at this point. Younger Bush apparently became thin skinned all of a sudden after 8 years of being blamed for everything by Obama. Clinton is posturing and virtue signaling.
When the dust settles I suspect they will all be there (except maybe Clinton who might go to the anti-inauguration concert to score some babes).
[BREITBART] In the time-honored tradition of naming clogged urban thoroughfares after politicians, a group of Democrats in Los Angeles is proposing to rename a freeway after President Barack Obama If you like your coverage you can keep it... The proposal would rename Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, route 134, from Glendale to Eagle Rock, north-northeast of downtown Los Angeles, between CA-2 and US-210, near Occidental College and south of the Rose Bowl (lower left, above).
Obama studied at Occidental for two years before transferring to Columbia University, where he eventually graduated in 1983. Earlier this month, Pasadena unveiled a sidewalk plaque outside Obama’s former apartment from his Occidental days.
The freeway re-naming was officially filed earlier this week by State Sen. Anthony Portantino (D-La Cañada Flintridge).
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Why don't they rename the human trafficking superhighway along the US-Mexican border after him instead?
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Is it the one that has no direction as long as it goes to all the golf courses? Is it also the one that takes your money and you get nothing in return? Oh, I know, it's the one whose last exit is in Hawaii!
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It seems that every MLK freeway runs through the worst part of Anytown USA before ending up at the dump. Will this one deadend at the ocean and be used by smugglers for a boatramp?
[THEHILL] President-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... slammed the B.O. regime for its decision not to veto a U.N. resolution critical of Israel's settlements, promising that it would be "different" under his presidency.
"As to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th," Trump tweeted Friday.
Trump’s tweet came about an hour after The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement building in occupied territories.
The U.S. had the ability to veto the resolution but abstained from doing so despite pressure from Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. politicians.
The B.O. regime’s decision to let it pass represents a break from the longstanding U.S. policy of shielding Israel from U.N. reproaches.
Israel’s settlements are seen as human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... violations, and some say they are an obstacle to achieving peace between Israel and the Paleostinians.
Trump pressured Obama before the U.N. vote to veto the resolution.
"As the United States has long maintained, peace between the Israelis and the Paleostinians will only come through direct negotiations between the parties, and not through the imposition of terms by the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... ," the president-elect said in a statement Thursday.
"This puts Israel in a very poor negotiating position and is extremely unfair to all Israelis."
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Trump understands that you block the flow of money, people get compliant pretty quickly.
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And hold them accountable. All terrorist nations should have their seats removed from everything. Oh and move the UN to someplace nice, like Thule Air Force base. Then the representatives won't have any distractions.
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Hey, if they can survive getting from the AFB to the nearest town on foot, they can annoy the Greenlanders. In Zimbobwe, it's too easy to survive and too comfortable. There's people nearby to abuse.
Current law prohibits individuals from buying a gun if, because of a mental health issue, they are either a danger to themselves or others or are unable to manage their own affairs.
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has indicated that it will begin the rulemaking process to ensure that appropriate information in its records is reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The reporting that SSA, in consultation with the Department of Justice, is expected to require will cover appropriate records of the approximately 75,000 people each year who have a documented mental health issue, receive disability benefits, and are unable to manage those benefits because of their mental impairment, or who have been found by a state or federal court to be legally incompetent.
The rulemaking will also provide a mechanism for people to seek relief from the federal prohibition on possessing a firearm for reasons related to mental health. Unconstitutional. Period. Shoot it down.
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I think the rule as written is fine. We're only talking about people on full disability for mental illness AND who have a legal gaurdian because they are incompetent. If they can't sign their own checks or manage their own affairs, maybe they shouldn't possess firearms. The worry is, of course, this is just one small step toward the ultimate goal of banning firearms completely. But we should consider reasonable acts like this.
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Sorry JC but that is just the camels nose, or a hair of the camels nose. It's called precedence. Once they establish precedent of denying the 2nd for one group for a subjective medical reason they will start expanding it to include other subjective conditions. Each widening the breach just a little bit.
It's how we ended up with something like Roe vs Wade. Or any number of Federal incursions into states rights
[WASHINGTONPOST] Before lunchtime Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... said he would expand the U.S. nuclear arsenal, upending a reduction course set by presidents of both parties over the past four decades, and called for the United States to veto a pending U.N. resolution that criticized Israel’s settlements policy.
The policy prescriptions, communicated in morning tweets, followed calls since last month’s election to reconsider the arms-length U.S. relationship with Taiwan and to let China keep an underwater U.S. vessel seized by its navy. Trump declared within hours of this week’s Berlin terrorist attack that it was part of a global Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... campaign to "slaughter Christians" and later said it reaffirmed the wisdom of his plans to bar Moslem immigrants colonists.
Late Thursday, Trump suggested in another tweet that the U.S. military’s years-in-the-making plans for a new stealth fighter, Lockheed Martin’s F-35, might be reconsidered, saying he had "asked Boeing to price-out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet!"
With weeks to go before he becomes president, Trump has not hesitated to voice his opinions on national security issues of the day and to publicly advise the current president on what to do about them.
[IsraelTimes] Speaking during a marathon end-of-year news conference that was televised live, Putin said he sees "nothing unusual" in Trump’s pledge to strengthen the US nuclear forces, calling the statement in line with the president-elect’s campaign promises.
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27 days until President Trump then we get to unshackle ourselves from our Saudi overlords and jettison the waste into space
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Lots more Putin Quotes pertaining to the Donald and stealing the elections, touched on yesterday.
"Trump understood the mood of the people and kept going until the end, when nobody believed in him," he said of Trump's election performance. "Except for you and me."
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Hillary Clinton
[DAILYCALLER] Jimmy Carter is the only former president who has confirmed that he will be at Donald Trump’s inauguration.
[BREITBART] In the time-honored tradition of naming clogged urban thoroughfares after politicians, a group of Democrats in Los Angeles is proposing to rename a freeway after President 
[THEHILL] President-elect 
Current law prohibits individuals from buying a gun if, because of a mental health issue, they are either a danger to themselves or others or are unable to manage their own affairs. 
