[BIZPACREVIEW] The left-wing city of Philadelphia rang in the New Year with more death and grief, continuing a cycle that’s plagued the city since far-left, Soros-funded prosecutor Larry Krasner was voted into office in 2017.According to Philly station WTXF, three people were fatally shot and seven maimed within the first few hours after the New Year had begun at 12:00 a.m.
"[P]olice were called to the 100 block of East Luray Street New Year’s morning, around 1:30, on a report of shots fired. Responding officers found a 33-year-old man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the chest. He was rushed to Temple University Hospital where he died," the station reported.
"Just before 2 a.m., Philadelphia and Temple police responded to multiple calls regarding gunshots on Cecil B. Moore, between Willington and 17th Streets. Officers found two unidentified people suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. They were rushed to Temple were (sic) they both died," according to WTXF.
The report was published at 6:35 a.m., meaning there was still plenty of time for additional murders to be committed on New Year’s Day. As disturbing as that may sound, this is, sadly, what one might call the "my truth" of Philadelphia.
According to a statement published by Philadelphia City Council President Darrell L. Clarke fairly early on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, 559 people had by then been killed and 2,300 shot in Philadelphia in 2021 alone.
"More than 60 homicide victims were children or teens. No neighborhood is immune. More lives were lost to gun violence this year than any year in Philadelphia history," he wrote in a statement on New Year’s Eve.
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Starting the New Year with a bangety-bang-bang!
[Breitbart] Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and host of the Drill Down podcast, said on Thursday that former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) enriched himself and his family by leveraging his political power.
Reid “enriched himself and his family,” Schweizer said on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, “but you’ve got to give him credit. He had staying power. He had enemies in Washington, DC, but he always seems to overcome them and win.”
[Daily Wire] A left-wing activist with ties to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) nominated by President Joe Biden to be a federal judge has argued photo ID and proof of citizenship constitute "voter suppression."
Nancy Gbana Abudu, the deputy legal director at SPLC, was picked by Biden in December to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. The 11th Circuit covers parts of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. The vacancy came about upon the retirement of Judge Beverly B. Martin — a President Barack Obama appointee.
Abudu worked for the ACLU from 2005 to 2019 and was an 11th Circuit staff attorney from 2002 to 2004. Along with U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs, she was part of Biden’s twelfth round of judicial nominees, according to a White House memo.
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Abudu was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia, the daughter of immigrants from Ghana.[1] After graduating from Mercersburg Academy in 1992, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor from Tulane University Law School in 1999.[2][3]
Abudu received her master's in judicial studies from Duke University School of Law in 2016.
It sounds like she was either a child of privilege, though, or lots of scholarships.
[DENVER.CBSLOCAL] The brother of one of the victims killed in a fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... crash on Interstate 70 is blasting Gov. Jared Polis for reducing the sentence of the truck driver convicted of causing four deaths. Polis commuted the sentence for Rogel Aguilera-Mederos to 10 years in prison, shaving 100 years off the original sentence. Duane Bailey, who lost his brother William "Bill" Bailey in the crash, called Polis a "despicable human being."
"As far as I’m concerned, [Polis] undermined the integrity of the courts," Duane Bailey told CBS4 on Saturday morning.
The clemency was announced Thursday, during the height of mass evacuations prompted by the Marshall Fire. Duane Bailey took issue with the sentence reduction — and the timing of the announcement. A reconsideration hearing had previously been set for Jan. 13.
The crash killed Miguel Angel Lamas Arellano, 24; William Bailey, 67; Doyle Harrison, 61; and Stanley Politano, 69.
"The governor has decided political and social media pressure is more important than the victims of this crash," Duane Bailey stated.
More than five million people signed an online petition to reduce the driver’s 110-year sentence. The movement made headlines nationwide and caught the attention of celebrity activist Kim Kardashian West, who called on Polis to take action — and then praised his decision.
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Hard cases make bad law. The "mandatory" part of the sentencing rubbed many the wrong way, and not just on the left. That said, if every case is to be second-guessed by social media, and that second-guessing rubber-stamped by timorous governors, we are in for a "men (and lots of stupid young kids and box wine aunties) not law" era in this country, such as it is tending towards being.
Also, if the driver had been "Tom Smith from Arkansas," he'd be doing the max and Kim Kardashian wouldn't care.
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[PJMEDIA] Jacob Lang has been awaiting trial without bail in the D.C. jail for his involvement in the January 6 riot at the Capitol for almost a year, along with many others who have been charged with crimes connected to that day. With no trial date in sight, he and his fellow inmates languish in a jail they say is inhumane. The J6 prisoners’ complaints about filthy conditions and inhumane treatment resulted in a surprise inspection that found everything they were saying was true. As a result, over 400 prisoners were moved to different facilities—none of them J6 prisoners.
Lang has been in contact with PJ Media and several other media sources and was recently giving an interview on Newsmax TV when the jail cut off his phone access. Afterward, Lang reported to PJ Media that the jail took away all access to the internet and cut off phone privileges for all the detainees. They are now on lockdown and Lang says he’s not even able to call his lawyer.
Regardless of what crimes these people are charged with, there is a protocol for how prisoners are supposed to be treated, especially pre-trial detainees who have the presumption of innocence. None of that seems to have been followed in the cases involving the J6 arrestees.
In a text sent to PJ Media by Lang’s family, Lang wrote, "I am being held in true solitary confinement, locked in my cell 22 hours a day. In response to my viral Newsmax interview yesterday, where the D.C. jail cut my interview mid-sentence, and the automated message rung [sic] out on live national TV, ’this call is being terminated by the jail.’ I have now been completely cut off from the outside world! They have suspended my phone and tablet access. I cannot talk to my family or my attorney. I literally have nothing left but food and my Bible."
Lang says he has "no lawyer access, no visitation, no calls, no haircuts, and no religious services."
Lang is charged with assaulting a police officer and was seen on video wielding a baseball bat. He claims it was in self-defense and in the defense of others who were suffocating to death and being trampled. Lang also claims he did not bring the bat but found it on the ground. Lang says that police were attacking people, including Roseanne Boyland, who died after being pulled out from the bottom of a pile of people Lang says police created.
On December 27, a few days before the Newsmax interview, Lang spoke to PJ Media and said that the solitary confinement began before Christmas in response to alleged covid outbreaks. Lang says he doesn’t know anyone who is sick in his jail pod. "We are literally being mentally tortured in here," he said. "Solitary confinement over 10 days was ruled by the Geneva convention to be cruel and unusual punishment and I’ve lived like that the first 200 days I got to this jail." After that, the prisoners were given five hours a day out of their cells, which Lang says is a little better. But that all changed before Christmas. "Now we’re back to this 22-hour lockdown and two hours out a day."
"They let out two or three people at a time so we get minor human interaction," he said. "There are some people in here who have really been drained by this."
Lang says they are treated like animals. "We are considered innocent until proven guilty and we are supposed to have all of our rights afforded to us except our freedom of movement," he said. "Our privacy rights are supposed to be maintained. Our freedom of speech rights are supposed to be maintained. How could I have my freedom of speech rights if I’m locked in a cell away from my lawyer, away from my family, away from doing interviews?"
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" In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence."
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."
Im old enough to remember when the Constitution meant something.
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Lang says he’s not even able to call his lawyer.
They're just rubbing our faces in it now. Show trials. Stasi tactics. Political loyalty tests. They're not even going through the motions of upholding the Constitution.
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Sympathy for them, but the Geneva Conventions don't apply to accused criminals. Does he claim to be a POW? Unless he was in uniform, that may turn out worse for him.
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#2 That's my take as well. Those J6 prisoners that have not appropriately and publicly repudiated Trump will be the 1st to go.
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The process is the punishment. However, this kind of process is also how you make a Trotsky or a Stalin. The Czar's prisons and Siberian exiles created determined revolutionaries.
[NBC New York] Alvin Bragg has already notched one historic first, taking office Saturday as Manhattan’s first Black district attorney. Now he’s weighing another: whether to make Donald Trump the first former president ever charged with a crime. Or to prosecute anyone else on the right who dares to challenge the corrupt Bidens/DNC hold on US power.
As district attorney, Bragg inherited an investigation into Trump and his business practices from his predecessor, Cyrus Vance Jr., who declined to seek reelection last year after 12 years in the high-profile job.
After weeks of speculation about whether Vance would close his tenure with a bang by indicting Trump, the former D.A. has passed that decision to Bragg, a 48-year-old civil rights lawyer and former federal prosecutor who was sworn in at a private ceremony, in part because of COVID-19 concerns.
Bragg told CNN last month that he’ll be directly involved in the Trump matter. He also said he has asked the two veteran prosecutors who led the case under Vance — general counsel Carey Dunne and former mafia prosecutor Mark Pomerantz — to stay on and see it through.
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Manhattan’s first Black district attorney.
I have become wary of anyone being marketed as the first black|woman|gay|trans|POC|BIPOC|QWERTY|WHATEVER. Somehow, promoting your phenotype is just not as convincing as saying I'm good at my job.
The Trump thing is tricky. One one hand, it's great fun being the little chihuahua barking and tugging at President Trump's pant's leg. On the other, it keeps Trump in the news. You don't want Trump playing the media. He is better at it than you are. And given that he was a rich real estate developer - a prime target for auditors, inspectors, lawyers and accountants - likely nothing new will turn up. It's going to be tough to resist though, what with all that Soros money as a lubricant.
[NYPOST] Chief Justice John Roberts issued a blunt warning Friday about the danger of political meddling in the nation’s federal courts."The Judiciary’s power to manage its internal affairs insulates courts from inappropriate political influence and is crucial to preserving public trust in its work as a separate and co-equal branch of government," Roberts said in his year-end report released Friday Fox News reported. "Decisional independence is essential to due process, promoting impartial decision-making, free from political or other extraneous influence."
The high court has become increasingly partisan in recent years with both parties jockeying to lock in sympathetic jurists inclined to support their legislative agenda.
Former President Trump appointed three judges to the high court and sparked called from liberals to pack the bench in order to dilute conservative judicial power.
President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us...... formed a special commission to study the issue in April, but they ultimately punted on whether they felt the packing scheme was a good idea.
Roberts made no mention of the commission in his remarks.
The Chief Justice — who has led the court since 2005 — also used the address to highlight reporting from the Wall Street Journal which found that 131 federal judges had overseen cases in which they had a financial interest.
"Let me be crystal clear: the Judiciary takes this matter seriously," Roberts wrote. "We expect judges to adhere to the highest standards, and those judges violated an ethics rule," Roberts said.
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"Let me be crystal clear: the Judiciary takes this matter seriously," Roberts wrote. "We expect judges to adhere to the highest standards, and those judges violated an ethics rule," Roberts said.
World-class codswallop - if it was taken seriously, there would have been 131 fewer federal judges the next day.
[BUCHANAN.ORG] "’Hope’ is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul," wrote Emily Dickinson. "And sore must be the storm / That could abash the little Bird / That kept so many warm."
Staring ahead on New Year’s Eve, at what appear to be the coming storms of 2022, this once-hopeful country is going to have to fall back on its reserves.
What storms?
Suddenly, the omicron variant of 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... is sweeping the nation, shutting schools, shops, restaurants and bars that were only lately reopened. In this last week of 2021, new infections twice set records.
Is a fifth wave of the pandemic arriving, just two years after the first wave hit in March 2020?
What is hopeful here?
While the numbers of infected are exploding and deaths are rising anew, the omicron variant appears to be less severe and less lethal than the delta variant — and possibly less enduring.
From the medical community one hears the hope that the omicron variant could displace the delta and, as has happened in South Africa, burn itself out.
Still, if the present rate of infections and deaths continues, we could have a virus-related million American deaths by spring.
A second storm is economic, with inflation now running at 6.8%, the highest rate since the last days of Jimmy Malaise Carter ...peanut farming former nuclear sub officer, who succeeded Gerald Ford as president. Carter perfected the approach later used by Joe Biden to get elected, presenting himself as a moderate whose Zero-based Budgeting was going to so away with the federal deficif. Once in the hands George McGovern's rejects, who were ever so much more virtuous than the rest of us, the nation immediately spun into a Malaise®. By the time Jimmeh, as he was contemptuously referred to, was running against Ronald Reagan, the liberal columnists were pronouncing the nation's problems as too severe to be solved by anyone; they were simply unsolvable, or maybe insoluble. That was why Reagan was such a flop. After Obama, Jimmeh's's only the second worst president ever, and by the time Biden's done maybe the third. Depending on how many Dems we elect in coming years, he may even end up looking competent... and first days of Ronald Reagan.
Should this trend continue, inflation could be crushing to President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier. Of course Corn Pop is a real person.... ’s party and presidency next November. And, according to Thursday’s Washington Post, that may be what is coming:
"Strong consumer demand, continuing supply chain troubles and the emergence of the omicron variant of the coronavirus threaten to prolong sharply rising prices well into 2022, potentially making inflation the premier economic challenge of the new year."
As for U.S. economic growth, forecasts for the first quarter of 2022 are being cut back from 5.2% to 2.2%.
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Happy New Year, "Deplorables"!
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^ That word again and unintended consequences. My favorites.
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Here in Florida, not a single person has approached me in public about not wearing a mask in over 6 months. I was required to wear one at the doctors' office the other day and I can understand that as probably the home office's legal department talking more than anything else.
At the grocery store I'd say mask usage is under 30%. At other box stores even lower. We need to understand, if a complete cure / effective vaccine arrived tomorrow, we will all see people wearing masks as long as we live. It's a virtue flag, a vestment, a binky. The people who have adopted it for emotional rather than scientific reasons will not give it up.
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^ Some people just look better in a mask
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Mine's the Hannibal Lecter hockey mask print. When I got it, I thought it might scare kids, but most of them have no idea what it is.
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Tons of morons are wearing the face diaper in the cities of Boston & Quincy. Speaking of the latter, it's about 95% Asian who are wearing them. I understand lots of them are from Hong Kong, where it's normal behavior because of pollution & prior virus outbreaks.
[NYPOST] Mayor Eric Adams ...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black... had an eventful subway ride early Saturday on his first day in office — calling 911 to report an assault he witnessed while waiting for the J train in Brooklyn, and encountering drunk, mentally ill and homeless New Yorkers on the trip in.
"This is not my first day, ’So let me do, you know, some photo op.’ No. This how I flow. I’m a Metro card holder," Adams told news hounds shortly before 8:00 a.m. on the 30 minute ride between his Brooklyn home and City Hall.
"The joy of doing this is you’re carrying out an observation. If it’s happening on the J line it’s happening on the 4 line, it’s happening on the 5 line, the B line. So we have to think, ’What are we doing proactively?’ " Adams said.
The former transit cop and retired NYPD captain took the 30-minute commute without any noticeable NYPD security presence.
"I feel safe in my city," he said.
While waiting on the platform at the outdoor subway station at Kosciuszko Street, Adams witnessed three young men throwing punches on the street below. He called 911, only identifying himself to the operator at the end of the call as "Adams, Mayor Adams."
A few minutes later two squad cars pulled up, but left within seconds without questioning the young men, who’d stopped fighting and were getting inside a vehicle.
Adams said the coppers should have stopped and questioned the men. He vowed to use the incident as a "teachable moment" later Saturday, when he planned to speak to officers at the 103rd Precinct station house in Jamaica, Queens.
The new mayor also chatted briefly with a loud, inebriated rider and a man who was ranting and raving and asking if Adams wanted to see his identification. Finally, he acknowledged a third individual sprawled out sleeping on the train’s bench.
"These are real things that you see," Adams said.
"When I talk about the homelessness problem in the transit system it’s not a theoretical problem, I’m seeing it," he said.
Adams vowed to send mental health workers through the subway system to offer services to homeless and sick riders— to prevent a crime or violent mostly peaceful incident from occurring.
Hizzoner arrived to City Hall by 8:30 a.m., shaking hands with coppers and administration employees as he entered the building.
The new mayor had a packed schedule planned for his first day, starting with a cabinet meeting at 9:00 a.m. and ending with a 3:30 p.m. news conference after greeting police at the 103rd Precinct.
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This cancer has metastasized. So many infected I have little hope he can succeed. Those that flee these areas simply infect new areas expanding the infection.Only with the passage of time and significant reduction in their numbers will normalcy occur.Natural selection at work here. Natures way the final arbiter.
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When are you repealing the vaccine passport requirements, Mr. Mayor? That'll tell me everything I need to know and the fact you didn't say a damn word about it and still haven't tells me you'll only be marginally better than the doofus who just left.
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[BIZPACREVIEW] The left-wing city of Philadelphia rang in the New Year with more death and grief, continuing a cycle that’s plagued the city since far-left, Soros-funded prosecutor Larry Krasner was voted into office in 2017.According to Philly station WTXF, three people were fatally shot and seven 
Peter Schweizer, president of the 
[Daily Wire] A left-wing activist with ties to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) nominated by President Joe Biden to be a federal judge has argued photo ID and proof of citizenship constitute "voter suppression."
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[BUCHANAN.ORG] "’Hope’ is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul," wrote Emily Dickinson. "And sore must be the storm / That could abash the little Bird / That kept so many warm."
...46th president of the U.S. 
...retired New York City police captain, member of the New York State Senate, first Black Brooklyn borough president, law and order Dem after a brief fling with the Publicans. The New York Times isn't fond of him, suspecting he may not actually be black...
