[NY Post] The Big Apple’s staggering surge in shootings amid the COVID-19 pandemic has led nearly 9,000 terrified New Yorkers to apply for gun permits — but the NYPD has signed off on fewer than 1,100
Andy Chernoff, who's owned Coliseum Gun Traders in Uniondale, Long Island, since 1979, said, "If I had to rely on New York City business, I'd be out of business."
"This isn't going away anytime soon. I bet these people don't get their licenses for a year and a half."
An NYPD source familiar with the situation said the License Division was too short-staffed to deal with the flood of new applications and also blamed an unofficial reluctance to process them.
"The politicians are generally against giving licenses, to begin with, so it's not a priority," the source said.
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I heard there's lots of rich folks in the NRA. What about gun seller associations or makers? Can't they all buy off the NYPD licensing authority?
The enemy is ready to part with his/her life and dignity to win. Can't the home team part with some cash?
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Can't they all buy off the NYPD licensing authority?
What I understand is you have to know the right people to even be invited to the club. The payoff is just cost of admission.
Back before the State of Kansas affirmed Conceal Carry is a right, the County Sheriff got to confirm a Conceal Carry Candidate's License, and 'certain County Sheriffs' were more and more just granting to 'those cut from a certain cloth'.
[Wash Examiner] A judge delayed the sentencing of a former FBI lawyer ensnared in special counsel John Durham's criminal inquiry into the Russia investigation until after Inauguration Day.
Kevin Clinesmith, who pleaded guilty in August to falsifying a document related to the secret surveillance of 2016 Trump campaign aide Carter Page, now faces a sentencing date of Jan. 29, more than a week after President-elect Joe Biden is set to take office.
Durham, the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut, asked U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of the D.C. District to sentence Clinesmith to as many as six months in prison to "send a message that people like the defendant ‐ an attorney in a position of trust who others relied upon ‐ will face serious consequences if they commit crimes that result in material misstatements or omissions to a court."
Clinesmith's lawyer requested probation and community service for his client, arguing a more lenient sentence would be a "just punishment," as the fired FBI lawyer's "reputation has been ruined, his professional career is in shambles, and he has been unable to support his family financially at a time when he and his wife are expecting their first child." "And a pardon"
Biden has not yet said how he will treat Durham's inquiry, but Attorney General William Barr, who left the role this week, elevated the prosecutor to special counsel status in October, which provides extra protections and independence to complete his work.
Boasberg reset the sentencing date this week as he set a deadline for responses on Jan. 5. A coalition of victims rights groups filed a motion for relief last week in support of Page's motion for relief under the Crime Victims' Rights Act. Page was suspected of acting on behalf of Russia, but he denied any wrongdoing and was never charged with a crime.
"If this Court grants Dr. Page the opportunity to provide a victim impact statement before it imposes sentence, then the public will have greater confidence in the case's outcome ‐ which is one of the reasons why Congress included victims in the criminal justice process by enacting the CVRA," they wrote in the filing.
#4
When the dust settles on whatever is going to happen, we really all need to sit down and figure out how to fix the activist judges problem in our judicial system and make sure it doesn't happen again.
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figure out how to fix the activist judges problem
The fix cannot be an isolated response to just one of our governmental institutions.
The rot is deep, it is widespread, it transcends parties and regions and ideologies.
Outside of routine enforcement of traffic laws, and day to day voluntary business interactions, deals, contracts etc, our government no longer works.
We no longer have rule of law. The Bill of Rights is no longer operative. Ordered liberty is a thing of the past. If you think this is exaggerated then just look in the mirror and ask yourself these simple questions.
Can I worship freely? Not in the lockdown states.
Do I truly enjoy the exercise of free speech? Not if my employer or neighbor is woke.
Do I enjoy equal protection and due process? Only if my cause or affiliations meet with the approval of the authorities.
Do we as a nation have majority rule based on the principle of one man, one vote? Please - our elections are a laughingstock.
This is not our country any more. Getting rid of a few "activist judges" will not destroy the disease that has disfigured and hollowed out our beloved Republic.
Incompetent Commies gotta Commie
[NY Post] With a budget time bomb ticking down, Mayor de Blasio has finally ordered city agencies to think about finding some savings ‐ too little, too late.
The mayor at last admits that Washington most likely won't be coming to his rescue as the city faces a $3.8 billion deficit next year, so he's ordered his minions to draw up plans to cut spending 1 percent over the next six months and to propose added cuts of 2.5 percent in the next fiscal year.
Meanwhile, some cuts are too much: With shootings and murder up across the city, City Hall has told the NYPD and Correction to come up with 3 percent cuts. This, when he's looking to expand his utterly failed ThriveNYC initiative. His Commie wife's failed effort to win a paid Council sinecure
And even as school enrollment plummets because Chancellor Richard Carranza's Department of Education failed miserably amid the pandemic, Hizzoner is only asking the DOE to find 2.25 percent trims in its outlays for FY 2022.
City Comptroller Scott Stringer reports that from March through October, total city tax collections were $2.2 billion below the same period in 2019: "Hotel tax revenue was cut by 66 percent, while real property transaction taxes were down 41 percent and sales tax revenues were down 24 percent." But business tax collections, led by Wall Street, exceeded the forecast by $378 million through October.
De Blasio has spent most of the pandemic-ridden year denying the fiscal reality, after years of swelling the city's labor force with tens of thousands of new workers. The present crisis is largely his own doing. and Cuomo's
To date, he's done nothing except kick the can down the road by moving a billion or so in various labor expenses to future years ‐ at the high price of new concessions to municipal unions, including no-layoff commitments. Yet agency cuts won't be enough unless he cuts the total public-employee headcount and gets the unions to agree to cutting other costs and boosting productivity.
His fecklessness will all too likely leave the next mayor taking over just as the fiscal bomb explodes. Any candidate that doesn't admit that reality should be laughed out of the mayoral campaign.
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So - three of the four sources of NYC's tax revenue have dropped by sizeable double digits and Captain Dipshit's talking about token single digit reductions. Yeah, that'll work.
#4
Raj, if they completely eliminated the police department, they might be able to make up the loss. Well, except the Praetorian Guard to guard the mayor and city council of course. /sarcasm
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The services of a Praetorian Guard can always be purchased by someone with even more money than the original purchaser.
#6
" Oh we are having a hanging in the Morning,
Ding Dong Billy's Neck is going to stretch ."
A slip knot is good enough ,
Slowly choking kind of rough ,
But the kids will enjoy the show ."
[Breitbart] Nearly 2.1 million Georgians have cast their votes through early in-person voting or absentee voting for the Georgia Senate runoff election taking place January 5, according to data provided by the state on Thursday.
The number represents more than a quarter of the state’s 7.7 million registered voters, and, as measured by the Georgia Votes tracking website, it trails the turnout at this point in the November 3 general election by just seven percent, or about 148,000 votes.
Of the 2.1 million votes accepted thus far, 1.3 million were cast via early in-person voting, which began December 14, and the remaining approximately 722,000 were cast via mailed-in ballots.
In the general election, a record-breaking five million votes were cast overall, and four million of those were done early.
Voter turnout is expected to again be high for the runoffs as they will determine the balance of power in the Senate. The Democrat candidates, Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock, need dual victories over Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler for Republicans to lose their Senate majority.
An analysis of note, given the state’s contentious battleground status, comes from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which found that nearly 76,000 new voters registered in Georgia after the October 5 general election deadline but before the December 7 runoff deadline. They represent individuals who have just moved to the state or just turned 18 — none have voted in the state before and all are now on the voter rolls and eligible to vote in the runoffs.
Early in-person voting will continue through December 30, and a select few polling locations will stay open through December 31. Voters can request absentee ballots through January 1, but ballots must be mailed in and received by the state’s 7:00 p.m. deadline on January 5.
The Democrats running for Georgia’s two US Senate seats each raised more than $100 million over two months, a massive haul that eclipsed campaign contributions to their Republican opponents and reflects the high stakes of the twin contests.https://t.co/byERit2smY
Jon Ossoff, who is taking on Sen. David Perdue, took in more than $106 million from Oct. 15 through Dec. 16, according to his latest campaign finance report. Raphael Warnock, who is trying to unseat Sen. Kelly Loeffler, was close behind with a little over $103 million.
Perdue reported $68 million over the same two-month span, with Loeffler taking in just under $64 million. Three of the campaigns reported their financial data on Thursday. Loeffler submitted hers a day earlier.
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Whores must have clients. This sent to me by a former colleague. Unfortunately, no link is available:
Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way that you can quickly understand them. This quote came from the Czech Republic. Someone over there has it figured out. It was translated into English from an article in a Prague newspaper.
QUOTE: "The danger to America is not Joseph Biden, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of a Biden presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Biden, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. The Republic can survive a Biden, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president"
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but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency.
Given the extent of cheating revealed thus far, seeing the results does not necessarily mean it was a depraved citizenry that chose Mr. Biden for the office.
#8
Especially if one extrapolates to the 2018 elections and the potential overall trending from the democrat party principals - viable they didn't take The House two years ago.
It would line up with pulling the sucker punch now instead of the traditional Fabian Way of waiting out a lame duck and doing this in 2024, a la 2008 - not that I'm saying that McCain was a good candidate, and maybe that is my point.
The top contributors to Jon Ossoff (D) includes names like University of California (why would they be interested in a Georgia race??), city of New York (I'm sure it was voter approved...), several other Universities, Department of Health and [In]Human services, and 'US Government' (also voter approved I'm sure...).
The corruption runs deep.
#10
Google ("Alphabet)", U. California admins and professors, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, all the usual suspects...
These are exactly the same assholes who screamed and and cried for years about the sinister influence of big money on US politics.
Now they're all using their extraordinary political power to do exactly what they criticized back in the McCain-Feingold era: shovel hundreds of millions to their Woke candidates in order to tilt elections in favor of monopolists and other politically-connected individuals.
Liars. Scumbags
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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.
