Rep. Trey Radel, a freshman Republican from Florida, was arrested on Oct. 29 for possession of cocaine in the District of Columbia, according to D.C. Superior Court documents.
Radel, 37, was charged with misdemeanor possession of cocaine in D.C. Superior Court on Tuesday. He is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday
Radel faces a maximum of 180 days in jail, as well as a possible fine up to $1,000.
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Rep. Trey Radel (R-Fla.) pleaded guilty on Wednesday morning to possession of cocaine before a D.C. Superior Court judge and will be on supervised probation for one year.
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and will be on supervised probation for one year.
Slap on the wrist, the Judge must use cocaine too.
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[NATIONALREVIEW] Representative Jan Schakowsky (D., Ill.) has announced she will fast for a day as part of a push for amnesty. She will join an effort by activists on the National Mall who began fasting over a week ago. I've been fasting since breakfast.
"I'm so inspired by the fasters and . . . how they're willing to put their bodies on the lines, their health on the line to raise attention to an issue that is really tearing at the fabric of our country," she said in an interview with Politico.
Schakowsky, who has planned her fast for Thursday, encouraged her colleagues to join her in the day-long activity. "Some 500 feet from our offices, these fasters are putting their health on the line to emphasize that general amnesty cannot wait, and that the House must act," she wrote in a letter to fellow congressmen.
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I had to fast all yesterday....the doctor stuck a camera up my butt today.
If she wants to fast can we stick something up her butt?
I got to wonder if a 'day' is a workday (8-hours), sunrise to sunset (abt. 12 hours until Allah can't see them eat), or an inspiring (at least to the other donks) 24 hours...
And is this a Cindy Sheehag fast where they can scarf down all the smoothies they can stomach?
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Fasting to protest something only works if you are willing to starve to death and someone cares if you do. For most Democrat politicians neither appertains.
Nearly 50 years after an assassin killed President John F. Kennedy, his daughter was triumphantly received as Americas ambassador to Japan in the country that made her dad a hero. Japan was receiving ambassador's in Hollywood? That's odd...
Caroline Kennedy arrived at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo Tuesday in an ornate, horse-drawn carriage befitting the Princess of Camelots role as American royalty One might say more like Marie Antonette - but that role is already taken...
to present her credentials to Emperor Akihito.
Meanwhile, back at home, images of her standing stoically at her fathers funeral were being replayed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his death this week.
Kennedy, 55, is the first female US envoy to Japan, Americas fourth-largest trading partner.
Caroline Kennedy was appointed ambassador after helping President Obamas re-election campaign. Not for her Diplomatic skills or experience... but as a political payoff. And I don't think the Japanese missed that little factoid.
Honored to present my credentials to His Majesty the Emperor of Japan. What a memorable day! Kennedy tweeted later, sharing a photo of her alighting from the carriage at the palaces Pine Hall. It's all about ME!
In a meeting with reporters, Kennedy described the ceremony as wonderful.
I am honored to serve my country, she said.
The appointment was a soft landing after her failed attempt to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Senate after Clinton became Obamas secretary of state.
Despite critics who said Kennedy doesnt have the gravitas to follow in the footsteps of other former US ambassadors to Japan, including Walter Mondale and Tom Foley, she has said she is well aware of the responsibilities.
This appointment has a special significance as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of my fathers presidency, she told a Senate committee in September before being confirmed for the post. It's all about ME! (oh.. and my daddy)
I am conscious of my responsibility to uphold the ideals he represented a deep commitment to public service, a more just America and a more peaceful world. Kind of like the wolf performs a public service in culling the herd of sheep of its weak, ill, and tasty...
Kennedy handed the emperor a letter from Obama with her credentials, along with a letter of resignation from her predecessor, John Roos, according to the Imperial Household Agency. What? No IPOD! This is an outrage!
The emperor usually receives about 40 new ambassadors each year.
Thousands of Japanese lined the streets of Tokyo to catch a glimpse of the new ambassador as she waved from the century-old carriage. It's all about ME!
Japan is also home to the Navys 7th Fleet and 50,000 American troops.
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Caroline Kennedy arrived at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo Tuesday in an ornate, horse-drawn carriage -- befitting the Princess of Camelot's role as American royalty
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Pray hard + keep your fingers crossed that "Sweet Caroline" can find a mutually acceptable + PERMANENT SOLUTION to preventing Sino-Japanese war in the East China Sea aka NE Asia, as opposed to a PCorrect-Deniable temporary solution = "band aid" that merely delays Sino-Japanese or East Asia war, NOT prevents one.
There is no sign that "post-US", "Mahanist" China is giving up its desire for "sole" overseas PLA Milbases + strategic access into WESTPAC + far Pacific vee the First Islands Chain: nor is Japan giving up its sovereignty oer disputed islands + Okinawa - ditto as per the PHIL, etal. in South China Sea. AS WID ANY GREAT POWER OR WANNABE IN HISTOIRE', CHINA AS THE WORLD'S SELF-PERCEIVED ONE-N-ONLY SUCCESSOR TO THE SUPERPOWER US ["Manifest Destiny"] IS UNLIKELY TO WAIT FOR ITS REAL OR ANTICIPATED RIVALS OR ANTAGONISTS TO GET TOO MILPOL STRONG IN RELATION TO ITSELF.
* IDRW.ORG > CHINA CLAIMS NEW H-18 [supersonic]STEALTH BOMBER IS ABLE TO REACH GUAM WID NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
Possibly also Hawaii wid LR TLCMS/ALCMS.
* WANT CHINA TIMES > [China-vs-USA] AREA IN DENIAL: WHO HAS THE CLOUT TO CLOSE OFF THE WESTERN PACIFIC.
* TOPIX > [English Dong-a Ilbo] CHINA'S GIANT PEARL NECKLACE.
SOKOR fears that widin 10 years, China's string of regional PLA Milbases will ultimately surround + prove effective in isolating South Korea = Korean Peninsula from the World, rendering the same all but completely irrelevant as per World affairs.
IIUC, IOW NORTH KOREA LOSES TO CHINA NOW, WHILE SOUTH KOREA LOSES TO CHINA CIRCA 2024.
ANOTHER REASON WHY THE TWO KOREAS [+ Japan?] NEED NUKES.
* CHINA DAILY FORUM > PHOENIX MILITARY DEFENSE COMMENTARY: EXPERTS CLAIM THAT IFF REPORTS OF PLA'S NEW H-18 LR SUPERSONIC STEALTH BOMBER ARE TRUE, THE BARRIERS OF THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" ARE NOW RENDERED MEANINGLESS AS CHINA CAN NOW CHALLENGE US CONTROL OF THE WESTERN PACIFIC AS FAR AWAY AS GUAM, MARIANAS AND "SECOND ISLAND CHAIN".
Okinawa, Guam-CNMI, + Hawaii? no longer safe for intervening US Navy CVNS, USMC Gator AmphibFors, + USAF assets.
Artic also read, GUAM + CNMI NEED US MISSLE DEFENSE SYS.
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Good Lord even the Brits had he common sense to send the Adbicated ex-King Edward VIII to the Bahamas to get him out of the way. We send Caroline to a very major trade partner and Ally. She should have been sent to Mongolia.
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...Just wondering: Princess Caroline's arrival in Japan couldn't have been delayed a few days until after the gnashing of teeth and rending of clothes ceremonies commemorating her father's passing?
Or was her entrance just too good an opportunity to pass up? After all, she didn't get her due a while back when she was the front runner for a Senate appointment until she opened her mouth. She probably figures the adulation and power is rightfully hers - a Kennedy, you know - and, well, Dad ain't getting any livelier. He'll keep. She has things to do. 2020, anyone?
Mike
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[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Toronto's disgraced mayor, who has admitted to smoking crack and binge drinking, has said he is "not perfect" and takes full responsibility for the embarrassment he has caused.
But, in interviews aired on Tuesday, Rob Ford, who on Monday was stripped of most of his powers, disputed he has an alcohol problem.
"I've embarrassed not just myself, my family, my friends, my supporters, the whole city," Mr Ford told NBC's Today show. "I take full responsibility for that. We've all made mistakes ... I'm not perfect."
However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... when asked if he was in an alcohol treatment programme, the mayor said: "No, I have a weight issue. Have been training every day."
In remarks to ABC's "Good Morning America" show, also aired on Tuesday, he pledged to reform his behaviour but noted that "talk is cheap."
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The man ("I won")had the Donk controlled Congress (Reid and Pelosi) pass it before anyone could read it and without any bipartisan negotiations or vote and now wants to desperately blame someone else for the failure of his 'landmark' achievement. Next 'counter revolutionary saboteurs' are to blame.
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I read the whole thing, and it could have easily been titled, "Health Care Law Still Has a Long, Long Way to Go".
Even if, as continues to be promised, the website handles 80% of the ... applicants on December 1st, there is another milestone in January pertaining to actually sending our hard-earned money to the insurance companies on behalf of those subsidized.
Unfortunately, most readers won't get past 'The Pubs Did It', because that's what they believe going in.
But DO read the whole thing - it is very telling.
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This is what Cruz's song and dance was about. Making it clear to the world who owned this and who oppossed it. Obama can't change that (well for the cool-aid drinkers looking for talking points he can but for rational folks).
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Theres probably no bigger gap between the private sector and the public sector than IT, Obama said. What we probably needed to do on the front end was to blow up how we procure for IT, especially on a system this complicated. We did not do that successfully.
Excuse me, but it was no bid contract. Is he saying that he had no choice and so it had to be a no bid contract? And that he had no choice in vendors? That it just had to be an old crony of Moochelle's? Really? And WaPo let's him get away with that? WaPo doesn't challenge that remark at all?
[THEHILL] Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is inviting House and Senate Democrats in targeted reelection bids to make the case for ObamaCare.
"We are going to invite them and give them an opportunity to come to the RNC and set up the presser and tell the media and all the people in their district why it is that they believe ObamaCare is great for this country and great for their constituents," Priebus said on Fox News' "On the Record" Tuesday night.
Priebus said the RNC will send out blurbs and invitations to the event on Wednesday.
The RNC will also purchase domain names for senators who show up. For example, Priebus said, if Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) attends, the Arkansas Democrat will get "Pryor loves obamacare.com."
About 20 Democratic politicians will be invited, Priebus said, including Sens. Mark Udall (Colo.), Dick Durbin ...Senator-for-Life from Illinois and Democratic Party Whip. In April 2006, Time magazine identified Durbin as one of America's 10 Best Senators, so what's that tell you? He was the first United States Senator to support the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, then the junior senator from Illinois.... (Ill.), Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) and Kay Hagan ...Niece of former senator and Florida governor Lawton Chiles, married to a transaction lawyer, who has a net worth between $10.7 million and $40 million. He is a former Democrat ward heeler, which explains a lot. She defeated the listless Elizabeth Dole in 2008... (N.C.).
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Good let them talk about O-care and its impact on the economy.
[DEALBOOK.NYTIMES] Before he served as a United States senator, before he made a run at the presidency and before his political career collapsed amid a sex scandal and fraud trial, John Edwards ...Former senator from North Carolina, former vice presidential candidate, former Democratic presidential contender. Edwards was noted for his Two Americas stump speech and for his pretty hair. People started to notice which of the two Americas he belonged to when he got a $400 haircut in his private plane. While his wife, Elizabeth, was dying of cancer Breck Boy was porking a hussy named Riehl Hunter, with whom he fathered a child, then paid one of his aides to claim that the baby was his. He is currently trying to explain to the friendliest judge he can find how he happened to use campaign funds to do all that, rather than dipping into his own considerable fortune... was a trial lawyer.
Now, Mr. Edwards is returning to his roots and opening a new law practice. The plaintiffs' firm, Edwards Kirby, reunites him with his former partner, David F. Kirby, and includes on its payroll his eldest daughter, Cate Edwards.
"The reason we formed this firm is because we all believe in the same thing -- in standing up for the disenfranchised and those who need an equal chance," Mr. Edwards said in a telephone interview from his offices in Raleigh, N.C. "That's why we exist."
The path back for the 60-year-old Mr. Edwards began in earnest in May 2012, when a federal jury in Greensboro declared a mistrial on five corruption charges and acquitted him on one more. Prosecutors charged Mr. Edwards with misusing nearly $1 million in campaign donations to hide a pregnant mistress as he reached for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
Mr. Edwards walked out of court with his law license intact and vindicated legally, but the blow to his family, reputation and ego was devastating.
For nearly six weeks, a jury -- and by extension, a nation -- heard about Mr. Edwards's most intimate sexual secrets and the string of public lies he told regarding his affair with his campaign videographer and her subsequent pregnancy. The trial laid bare Mr. Edwards's efforts to conceal his mistress from his wife, Elizabeth Edwards, an accomplished lawyer who was engaged in a public fight with breast cancer.
Since the trial, Mr. Edwards has done much to repair his family and personal life. He has remained based in his sprawling home in the countryside not far from Chapel Hill, tending to Emma Claire, 15, and Jack, 13, two of the four children he had with Mrs. Edwards.
His son, Wade, was killed in a car wreck when he was 16.
Mrs. Edwards had separated from Mr. Edwards in 2010, but never legally divorced him, and died in December of that year.
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In Edwards' defense, he looks alot "safer" than Carlos Danger/Dangler.
[National Journal] Kimathi, using the online nom de guerre Oprah "the Irritated Genie," called for "ethnic cleansing" of "black-skinned Uncle Tom race traitors" on his website, which envisioned a massive race war on the horizon. "In order for Black people to survive the 21st century, we are going to have to kill a lot of whitesmore than our Christian hearts can possibly count," Simply can't terminate a government employee who can successfully build a website. What are they thinking ?
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
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[NATIONALREVIEW] Representative Jan Schakowsky (D., Ill.) has announced she will fast for a day as part of a push for amnesty. She will join an effort by activists on the National Mall who began fasting over a week ago.
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[THEHILL] Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is inviting House and Senate Democrats in targeted reelection bids to make the case for ObamaCare.
John Edwards
