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Sharpton: George Floyd's life won't matter until someone pays the cost for taking it
[UPI] The Rev. Al Sharpton asked for support for the family of George Floyd and called for police reform at a funeral service Tuesday at The Fountain of Praise church in Floyd's hometown of Houston.

"We must commit to all of this family. When the last TV truck is gone, we'll still be here," Sharpton said.

The minister thanked former U.S. President Barack Obama and athletes and celebrities who had reached out to Floyd's family, including actor Jamie Foxx and singer Al B. Sure!, who were in the congregation.
Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't worry. Officer Chauvin will very likely spend the rest of his life in prison. His life won't be worth a plugged nickel there.
That will not be enough to satisfy Sharpton and the BLM crowd, though.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/10/2020 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  They want blood, not justice. But you knew that already.
Posted by: Raj || 06/10/2020 0:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Rambler - he'll wind up like Whitey Bulger.
Posted by: Raj || 06/10/2020 0:32 Comments || Top||

#4  There have been at least six blacks killed in the rioting. Don't they matter?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/10/2020 0:50 Comments || Top||

#5  There have been at least six blacks killed in the rioting. Don't they matter?

It's like ISIS killing more Muslims than non-Muslims. Or like "Palestinians" willing to "sacrifice" a dozen of theirs to kill one Israeli.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/10/2020 1:05 Comments || Top||

#6  I offer up Sharpton's life for tribute!!
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/10/2020 8:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Where's Jesse Jackson in all this? Guess he's getting old. Well, once again, only the good die young.
Posted by: Clem || 06/10/2020 8:56 Comments || Top||

#8  "When the last TV truck is gone, we'll still be here"

"Well, maybe not me."
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/10/2020 9:45 Comments || Top||

#9  At least they refrained from putting spinners on those colonial-style carriages.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/10/2020 15:11 Comments || Top||

#10  Display of their nouveau riche status as beneficiaries of white guilt, and pointing the way to other blacks of how to work race as a cash cow and protection racket.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/10/2020 15:27 Comments || Top||

#11  Ben Crump, Esquire
Posted by: Frank G || 06/10/2020 16:09 Comments || Top||

#12  "Fuck George, pay me."
Posted by: charger || 06/10/2020 16:12 Comments || Top||


Lightfoot embraces idea of licensing police officers
[CHICAGO.SUNTIMES] “If I go get my nails done — which I don’t do, you can probably tell — but, if I did, the person who is handling my nails is licensed by the state,” the mayor said. “If I go get a haircut, the barber is licensed by the state.”
When my son went through the police academy, he got a uniform, and when he finished the course he got a badge and an assignment. The badge and the uniform are valid only within Maryland, except for special occasions when out of state. I'd call that a bit like a beautician's license, only on a lot more serious plane. Maybe Chicago should start with its police academy?
Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of course, having "licenses" for professions like beauticians is usually just a way for rent seekers to keep out the competition.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/10/2020 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Won't matter if she keeps them sidelined like she's been doing so far.
Posted by: Raj || 06/10/2020 0:33 Comments || Top||

#3  If Groot thinks this is a good idea, that's almost a guarantee that it isn't.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/10/2020 0:53 Comments || Top||

#4  After such huge success with gun control by leftists in Chicago, I can't wait to see how leftist cop control works for them.
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Glomonter1294 || 06/10/2020 3:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe Chicago should start with its police academy?

They'll do it like any other Human Resource office, farm it out to colleges to credential it. You got the magic piece of paper, you're in (not that you learned anything useful or has practical application).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/10/2020 4:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Chicago needs to start by clearing the upper ranks of their PD. It's filled with people qualified only by their connections, and they look after people who will help them keep power. They give their cronies the material for promotional exams, use the merit promotions for those willing to put out, and carefully manage internal affairs to keep their people out of trouble.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/10/2020 6:55 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ Yep. Second City Cop has all that
Posted by: Frank G || 06/10/2020 7:01 Comments || Top||

#8  Illinois licenses Daycare workers, too.

It's all about 'fee collection'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/10/2020 8:17 Comments || Top||

#9  I think we should start with licensing politicians.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/10/2020 9:10 Comments || Top||

#10  Darth, I believe everyone knows they are talking about licensing essential professionals.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 06/10/2020 9:29 Comments || Top||

#11  Sounds to me that this is a way to prevent independent citizens from setting up as police.

After all that's what occupational licensing is all about. Are independent police agencies a problem in Chicago?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/10/2020 9:44 Comments || Top||

#12  How about a mandatory proofs of sanity for Democrats running for any office?
Posted by: 3dc || 06/10/2020 10:36 Comments || Top||

#13  Sounds to me that this is a way to prevent independent citizens from setting up as police.

I read it as one more way to *bleep* with the cops. After getting acquitted in court, the state or city could still revoke their license. Rather like the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs did with that barber in Owosso who refused to close.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/10/2020 12:35 Comments || Top||

#14  re #13

I didn't think the /sarc tag necessary, but couldn't the city just fire anyone they had a complaint with?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/10/2020 13:26 Comments || Top||

#15  We should license politicians. Part of the requirements is that they agree if they tell a lie, they lose their license and get burned to death in the public square.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/10/2020 13:26 Comments || Top||

#16  I get my hair cut, check my nails, city how you doin'? feeling burnt as hell.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/10/2020 15:23 Comments || Top||

#17  An annual, renewal fee and state agency license guarantees that any police officer can be denied renewal, by the centralized state agency, on an annual basism and therefore, every officer has a career only a long as he is renewed each year. Once it is created, control of the police is centralized in a single place, and careers as based on not having complaints or disputes that give basis for non-renewal, or probationary renewal. So your career and pension are based on pleasing the licensing agency of state government, and making sure you don't create adverse complaints. See the pattern....neutered and pliant police who will meet the unwritten standards of the mob they serve!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/10/2020 15:35 Comments || Top||

#18  but couldn't the city just fire anyone they had a complaint with?

It is a way from someone else to fire the cop in question if the city/police department won't do it. Illinois Governor Pritzker's thoughts:

We’ve been looking hard at (licensing),” Pritzker said Monday. “I think that you have to think about what are the methods by which people can be disciplined if they’re not going to get disciplined by their own police departments
Posted by: SteveS || 06/10/2020 23:33 Comments || Top||


Petition language to recall Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer approved by state board
[MLIVE] The language in a petition to recall Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender...
for the signing of nine of her executive orders during the COVID-19 pandemic has been approved by the Michigan Board of State Canvassers.

Albion resident Chad Baase, 39, was successful in his third attempt at coming up with "clear and factual" language to move forward with the recall petition process. He and his group -- the Committee to Recall Governor Gretchen Whitmer -- must come up with more than 1 million signatures from registered voters in 60 days or less to trigger a recall election.

"She didn’t put through effective measures with COVID to ensure businesses didn’t have to close their doors," Baase said. "Some places couldn’t social distance under the federal guidelines, but many businesses could have stayed open with safety guidelines in place and were forced out of work.

"You can’t take away someone’s income and say you’re eligible for pandemic unemployment but then you can’t speak with anyone. I’m still waiting on my unemployment. They owe me 10 weeks."

The Board of State Canvassers unanimously approved the recall language Monday, June 8, during a virtual meeting. The four-member bipartisan group unanimously approved the language, but rejected two other attempts to begin recall petitions, including a second petition to recall Gov. Whitmer and one to recall Attorney General Dana Nessel.

Petition language submitted by Baase, and approved by the board, lists out nine executive orders. They include the governor’s March 10 state of emergency declaration to the order and multiple orders that call for the temporary suspension of business and activities not deemed essential to maintain or protect life.

Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Petty vindictive bitch deserves the smackdowns she's been getting from the courts and the public. The press can cover up her forever. Tick tock Gretchen
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 06/10/2020 7:34 Comments || Top||


De Blasio: NYC will paint, rename streets to honor Black Lives Matter
[NYPOST] The city will paint its roadways and rename streets in each borough to honor the Black Lives Matter movement, Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
announced Tuesday."It’s time to do something officially representing this city to represent the fundamental power of Black Lives Matter," de Blasio said during his daily City Hall press briefing as he was surrounded by a group of social justice activists.

The mayor said the Big Apple will "name streets in each borough and to paint the words on the streets of this city in each borough at a crucial location — one of which will be here near City Hall — that black lives matter."

The announcement comes after thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of the city for more than a week to protest the May 25 killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis cop, as well as police brutality.

"We don’t want to have to name a street, but I’m glad that we are," Iesha Sekou, the founder and CEO of Street Corner Resources, an anti-violence organization, said during the press briefing.

Sekou added, "We also want to make sure that police are not allowed to act the way we’ve been seeing."

"We’re looking very much forward to holding the police accountable for their behavior," she said.



Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  All these years (since 9/11) I wondered why USA bends over & spread them for Muslims - no more, it's an ingrained habit.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/10/2020 1:12 Comments || Top||

#2  The Cult Dynamics of Wokeness
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/10/2020 1:54 Comments || Top||

#3  The Intersectionalist High Church
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/10/2020 1:56 Comments || Top||

#4  #1 we are reaping the consequences of not holding the Left responsible for when the Wall fell. Those institutions should have been purged of the losers or dismantled. It is just like the Western Europeans who did nothing while Germany rearmed in the 30s.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/10/2020 4:48 Comments || Top||

#5  Anybody but Wilhelm, that article would have been borderline "Bee" material.
Posted by: Clem || 06/10/2020 5:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh yeah! That will fix everything.

Just what we need, more empty symbolic grandstanding to distrtact the poor schlubs from the fact that the Dems havent done a damned thing for them, while trump had their unemployment at historical lows, etc. Anything to keep them from thinking, and keep them depending on the government.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 06/10/2020 7:32 Comments || Top||

#7  like 'Martin Luther King Jr Blvd' soon to be an indicator of bad neighborhoods
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 06/10/2020 7:57 Comments || Top||

#8  His Antifa daughter:
Posted by: 3dc || 06/10/2020 8:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Already got Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas Streets/Avenues/Boulevards? There are many more. They lead the first Black Lives Matter movement.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/10/2020 8:13 Comments || Top||

#10  Do the asphalt streets first. They're already black.
Posted by: SteveS || 06/10/2020 13:33 Comments || Top||

#11  Is there any part of NYC left that remembers being ashamed of this travesty that is your city government and Mayor? Is there nothing you will not tolerate? I'm all the way out in rural Nevada now and I'm ashamed for you...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/10/2020 15:23 Comments || Top||

#12  FFS Just rename the city to Wakanda and get it over with...
Posted by: John frum || 06/10/2020 16:03 Comments || Top||

#13  Renaming the street really encourages business' destroyed to rebuild on BLM BLVD.
Posted by: Airandee || 06/10/2020 16:38 Comments || Top||

#14  Black Lives Matter, Senior Citizens not so much.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 06/10/2020 17:22 Comments || Top||


Barr says familiar names among those DOJ is investigating in Durham probe
[FOXNEWS] Attorney General Bill Barr told Fox News' Bret Baier in an exclusive interview aired Tuesday that Americans will be able to recognize "some" of the names under investigation as part of U.S. Attorney John Durham's ongoing probe into federal surveillance abuses -- and that he is "very troubled" by "what has been called to" his attention so far.

Barr asserted that despite 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, the Durham team "has been working very aggressively to move forward," and that there "will be public disclosure" of his findings. Part one of Baier's interview with Barr aired on Monday.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 06/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just fuckin' get it done, guys. I'm tired of this shit.
Posted by: Raj || 06/10/2020 0:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Washington is a place where words are deeds and riots are speech.
Posted by: charger || 06/10/2020 0:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Oh, I don't know. Lockdown and insurrection have sort of been opening acts. This may or may not be the main event to play late summer/early fall, to bring the 'house down' so to speak. The one to break the leash and let the hounds loose.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/10/2020 8:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Barr said he didn't anticipate that Obama and Biden would be among the "familiar names." Seems wrong to me but maybe I'm missing the bigger picture..
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/10/2020 18:02 Comments || Top||

#5  Start low
Posted by: Frank G || 06/10/2020 18:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Barr said he didn't anticipate that Obama and Biden would be among the "familiar names." Seems wrong to me but maybe I'm missing the bigger picture..

No point in talking about them until the evidence is irrefutable.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/10/2020 22:19 Comments || Top||

#7  As I've said many times, until really prominent people are led away in orange jumpsuits, this is all just Kabuki theater. Wake me when it's over.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/10/2020 22:37 Comments || Top||

#8  That wind-bag Barr...zero confidence in him or the process.
Posted by: Clem || 06/10/2020 23:03 Comments || Top||


Ilhan Omar’s Second Highest Donor, Basim Omar Sabri, Is A Convicted Felon Who Regularly Raises Funds for Hamas
From February, posted in order to make it searchable. Hattip JohnQC. Note that this is the gentleman whose relative Muna Sabri owns Omar Investments, which owns the El Nuevo Rodeo Cantina where both police officer Derek Chauvin and victim George Floyd had worked for seventeen years.
[GatewayPundit] Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar’s second largest donor, Basim Omar Sabri,
...in our archives as simple Basim Sabri...
is a convicted felon who owns millions in property that is dilapidated and unsafe, receiving over 180 regulatory violations.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/10/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  And her first highest is George Soros?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/10/2020 1:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Local press and MN GOP are all over this.

Snark off.
Posted by: Woodrow || 06/10/2020 10:13 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2020-06-10
  Turkey sends missile frigate to Libyan coast
Tue 2020-06-09
  North Korea says it will sever
inter-Korean hotlines with South Korea
Mon 2020-06-08
  Egyptian M1 Abrams tank column heading to the border with Libya
Sun 2020-06-07
  Former Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shallah
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Sat 2020-06-06
  French forces kill Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb leader Abdelmalik Droukdel
Fri 2020-06-05
  US says Alaska man laundered nearly $1B for Iran through UAE
Thu 2020-06-04
  LA mayor cuts $150m from cops' budget and gives it to communities of color instead
Wed 2020-06-03
  Turkish ship delivers tanks to Libya amid mass build up: LNA
Tue 2020-06-02
  Small groups now canvassing LEOs' neighborhoods,
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Mon 2020-06-01
  Son of Minnesota's attorney general: 'I hereby declare, officially, my support for ANTIFA'
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