[LID] New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s boyfriend, Riley Roberts, was found to have a government email address. Her team was quick to say that Roberts was not a member of AOC’s staff. Therefore he’s not earning a salary. But their denial doesn’t really pass the smell test. If they’re being honest and Roberts is not on the payroll, it’s a different violation of Congressional ethics.
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The whole civil service system needs to be redone so that any kind of ethical lapse results in immediate dismissal and jail time for serious effronts like participating in a coup attempt. I doubt that congressional aides are covered by civil service, given how critters exempt themselves from laws, but maybe they should be.
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TW, I couldnt respond to your argument for the Catholic church yesterday. I will give you Pope Sylvester 2nd, but beyond that there is more to discuss
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TW, I couldnt respond to your argument for the Catholic church yesterday.
746, The Catholic church is a human organization, and therefore will never be perfect. The question, in my opinion, that must be asked is whether overall it has been significantly less imperfect than other large organizations over time, and whether it has been a force for good or evil.
Pope Sylvester II does have a long and interesting resumé. But in modern times Rantburg’s own True German Ally, who unfortunately died years ago after surviving both Nazi concentration camps and Soviet gulags, was very pleased that his former neighbour and chess opponent became Pope Benedict XVI. Among other things, Pope Francis’ predecessor changed how the church deals with investigating and punishing sexual abuse.
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tw, thanks for the information about TGA, some of which I hadn't known. In my mind I always imagined him as a great man (and a great poster.) And I thank you also for the rest of your comment.
For whatever it's worth to you, the very first day I started attending a Catholic High School, and I mean right after "Hello", we all went to the school auditorium and watch an unvarnished film about the Holocaust. And I've stood with Israel ever since.
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She claimed this was so he could see her calendar, which strikes me as odd.
It's not just odd, it's bullshit - she could have given the guy remote access to her congressional server and limit his access to the calendar / scheduler application, read access only.
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So many passed: PD, TGA, Ship, Thing 1, a lot of time since 2001 when I first alit here, via Glenn, I think?
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I found Instapundit from the Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web favourite sites list. I no longer remember if Instapundit sent me here, or BotW, Little Green Footballs (before he went nuts), or some other site. But it was some time in 2003, and I was so awed by the conversation that it was positively ages before I dared say anything at all.
information about TGA, some of which I hadn't known.
You’ve been busy having a high intensity law career, Matt, whereas I’ve had time to just hang out here.
[DailyCaller] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi deleted her original tweet sympathetic for "Empire" actor and singer Jussie Smollett amid reports that Smollett may have staged the alleged January 29 attack against him.
Smollett claimed to law enforcement he went to a local Chicago Subway eatery at 2 a.m., and he was physically assaulted by two men in ski masks who poured a bleach-like substance on him and tied a rope around his neck like a noose.
Smollett, who is gay and black, also told police his attackers yelled racial and homophobic slurs at him as well as told him, "This is MAGA country."
Politicians and celebrities alike rallied around Smollett, including Pelosi, who tweeted on January 29, "The racist, homophobic attack on [Smollett] is an affront to our humanity. No one should be attacked for who they are or whom they love." except Deplorables, right?
However, as the case unfolded over the past two weeks more questions arose as to whether Smollett was telling the complete truth about the January 29 incident. Hoping the original tweet took her 18.5-minutes to post...
[BIZPACREVIEW] House Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. But without her, they'd never have gotten back in. Count on that! Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional mental wandering... is in her later years, but that’s OK, since plenty of others in the government are older, including President 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... What’s maybe not OK ‐ and if anything rather concerning to some ‐ is Pelosi’s habit of mispronouncing words, suffering brain freezes and getting the most basic details wrong.
Take for instance dates. If you know what day it happens to be, congratulations, because you apparently know more than Pelosi, a woman so confused she got Valentine’s Day mixed up with Thanksgiving.
*facepalm*
"Happy Valentine’s Day," she initially said Thursday after the House passed a bipartisan omnibus spending bill. "We saluted our victory ‐ or the victory for the American people ‐ earlier with chocolate. Chocolate from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, I call it the champagne of chocolate. So again, I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving. You should go home now to your loved ones."
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When you fly with turkeys, then everyday is Thanksgiving. Good on ya, Nan.
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Is there not something equivalent to the 25th Amendment for Speakers of the House. Shouldn't you have to be able to speak (w/cynicism)?
[NYDAILYNEWS] Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem represntative from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus. She is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details.. , in the aftermath of Amazon’s 25,000-job snub of the city, believes New York’s workers can do better than toiling for the internet giant.
Speaking at her delayed inauguration in the Bronx, the first-year congresswoman received a raucous greeting from some 300 giddy constituents Saturday at the Renaissance School for Musical Theater and Technology.
"We do not have to settle for scraps in the greatest city in the world," said Ocasio-Cortez two days after Amazon backed off its commitment to open a new Queens facility offering thousands upon thousands of new jobs.
"We did see that this week, when we fight for ourselves and we say, ’It’s not just about any job,’" she continued. "We need to have dignified jobs. We need to create dignified jobs in New York City, jobs that pay well. Jobs that contribute to communities."
State Sen. Michael Gianaris, one of a number of politicians at the event, doubled down on his opposition to the since-scuttled Amazon plans for a new headquarters in Long Island City.
"I bring you greetings from across the river in Queens, where I think we just showed we know how to throw down when we have to," the Democrat said to cheers and applause.
"This is the time for the oppressed and the downtrodden and those who are everyday people to band together and finally, finally claim the power that they have always deserved in this country," he continued. "... We set the tone in Queens this week, and we’re going to keep delivering the message."
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Let me guess, the 300 were all "artists" that don't do menial labor. I'm hip!
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It makes sense. Her constituents might not qualify for any job Amazon would have created in NYC.
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The average Amazon job would have paid $150,000/year.
Really? I was under the impression that part of the issue is that most Amazon jobs are only slightly above minimum wage. Is my understanding incorrect, Elmeting Omomonter9115?
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Re #16: gorb, IIRC, Congresscritters only get the lifetime pension after seeing 5 years. Which means she would have to get re-elected twice to collect. Of course, if she takes over Schumer or Gillibrand's seat, she gets it after one term.
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[NEWS.GRABIEN] ‘The America I see values basic human decency, not snatching children from their parents or turning our back on refugees at our border’
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So says Chester the Molester.
What is an absolute shame and scandal is the nearly a $trillion of American sent to other countries in trade deficits, military and economic aid each year. How much American wealth can be given away and the ordinary citizens robbed to enrich a few political and financial elites?
Let's have Occassio's revolution, then the citizens will have have the real revolution, guillotines included.
KABUL, Afghanistan — In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base.
“At night we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything about it,” the Marine’s father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012. He urged his son to tell his superiors. “My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it’s their culture.”
Eroding Western deterrence and harming Western vital interests by serving and submitting to and bribing hostile and very very evil 'allies' is the agreed upon consensus policy of Western political elites.
For many years the entire Western world has been an embarrassment.
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I'll say. We have a top 1% actor who couldn't act his way out of his own hate hoax. And to top it, he had hired foreigners to do the hate crime hoaxes Americans won't do.
[NY Post] Convicted ex-congressman Anthony Weiner has been sprung from prison ‐ and is now part of a federal re-entry program in New York, records show.
Weiner has been transferred from Federal Medical Center in Devens, Mass. where he served a bulk of his 21-month sentence for sexting a 15-year-old girl from North Carolina, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons records.
The 54-year-old is now being supervised by the federal Residential Reentry Management, which has a field office in Sunset Park and operates multiples facilities, the records say.
He is either in a halfway house or in home confinement, TMZ reported. It's not clear when the transfer took place.
Weiner is set to be released from federal custody on May 14, thanks to good conduct behind bars that shaved about three months off his sentence.
He'll spend three years on supervised release and will have to pay a $10,000 fine as well as register as a sex offender.
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[Daily Caller] Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar is scheduled to raise money in March with the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) only a week after she used an anti-Semitic trope to claim Israel has paid for GOP support.
Omar will be the keynote speaker at CAIR’s 4th Annual Valley Banquet on March 23 to discuss advancing justice and empowering Muslims, according to the organization’s invitation. Single tickets start at $55 per person and a table can cost upwards of $500.
Hassan Shibly, the chief executive director for CAIR-Florida, will also be speaking at the event. Shibly has emphatically stated that Hezbollah and Hamas are not terrorist organizations, reported Jordan Schachtel at Conservative Review.
Hussam Ayloush, the chief executive director for CAIR-LA, who is hosting the event, compared the state of Israel to the Islamic State during a speech in April. Shibley has repeatedly echoed those sentiments and spread propaganda describing U.S. armed forces as radical terrorists.
CAIR is a notable pro-Palestinian organization with ties to Islamic terror groups. The U.S. Department of Justice listed CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in funding millions of dollars to the terrorist organization Hamas. Additionally, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) named CAIR a terrorist organization along with al-Qaeda and ISIS in 2014.
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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
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.
Nancy 
Dem represntative from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus. She is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details..
[NEWS.GRABIEN] ‘The America I see values basic human decency, not snatching children from their parents or turning our back on refugees at our border’
[NY Post] Convicted ex-congressman Anthony Weiner has been sprung from prison ‐ and is now part of a federal re-entry program in New York, records show.
[Daily Caller] Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar is scheduled to raise money in March with the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) only a week after she used an anti-Semitic trope to claim Israel has paid for GOP support.
