[NYPost] David Jakubonis clearly has serious mental issues, but that’s hardly reason for him to be walking free after his alleged potentially deadly attack on GOP gov candidate Lee Zeldin. Blame New York’s insane no-bail law and the progressive drive to keep everyone out of jail.
All accounts say Jakubonis, 43, went after Zeldin (who’s also a sitting member of Congress) with bladed key-chain "ornament" like ones marketed as a self-defense tool. Yet he was released just hours later, after Monroe County DA Sandra Doorley charged him with second-degree attempted assault, which didn’t allow the judge to set bail, let alone order him detained.
Here’s the "logic" of Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Gov. Kathy Hochul et al: Zeldin fought off the attack (with assists from his running mate, ex-NYPD commander Alison Esposito, and Assembly candidate Joe Chennelly) and so didn’t actually get stabbed — so his attacker isn’t dangerous enough to even let a judge consider locking him up.
Well, maybe the judge could’ve had the option if Doorley’s office had been tougher, and charged first-degree assault or attempted murder: A lucky hit might have, say, severed his carotid artery.
But the prosecutor has embraced the "decarceration" movement: Facing a George Soros ...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true... -backed progressive challenger in 2019, she declared, "I understand that locking people up does not promote public safety."
Which makes us at least sympathetic to Andy McCarthy’s argument for a federal prosecution of Jakubonis.
Again, it’s entirely possible that Jakubonis belongs in a mental institution, not prison. But he shouldn’t be walking loose: All the facts suggest he remains a ticking time bomb.
But New York’s government doesn’t favor locking up dangerous crazy people any more than outright thugs. Isn’t it ironic that the best way to change those perverse priorities is to vote for Zeldin?
[Breggin] The good news first. The global predators have not won. They are in a pitched battle for our very identities, our souls, and our lives. But they have not won. If they had won, we would already be completely discouraged, enslaved, and isolated. The fact that you are reading this, that you are seeking information about how to protect yourself and uplift yourself and your family and your friends, shows they have not won.
In any war, it is vital to understand the enemy’s tactics in order to counter them.
The global predators — that elite cabal that wants to run the world and every one of us — are in an unrestricted war to get us to bend to their will.1,2,3 Propaganda, manipulation, and confusion are weapons they use against us — to break our will.4 They want to create apathy so that we will submit to anything they ask. They want to create humiliation. They want us to beg to be rescued from the chaos they are sowing in our lives, our cultures, and in our civilization. The globalists want our society so collapsed and degraded that we willingly submit to the overlords of the New World Order, now openly promised by President Joe Biden.
We must recognize and fight the effects of this propaganda upon ourselves, our neighbors and friends, and upon our children.
Steel yourself against hopelessness. This is a battle for our lives and our souls. For humankind.
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07/23/2022 10:41 Comments ||
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Nah. Put them on an island and make them live in the style they intend for us proles. Replace NPR with a live video feed of the island and its inhabitants.
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[Aljazeera] Mbeki says president has failed to deliver on his promises to address poverty and curb government corruption, as the latter battles the scandal of a $4m theft on his farm.
"One of these days it’s going to happen to us, you can’t have so many people unemployed and poor, one day it is going to trigger an uprising," he said.
According to a World Bank report, about 30.3 million South African citizens are living in poverty, while 13.8 million people are facing food insecurity that has been worsened by rising food prices due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Mbeki also addressed the issue of corruption, saying citizens are "faced with a leadership in the ANC where they see people, one after another, being accused of corruption".
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"One of these days it’s going to happen to us, you can’t have so many people unemployed and poor, one day it is going to trigger an uprising,"
But Ramaphosa will not be blamed. The usual suspects will be rounded up, their property confiscated, and the lucky ones ushered off to foreign lands such as AU, NZ, UK, USA.
[Blade of Perseus] The Left should be ecstatic that Joe Biden has given them everything they wanted.
The Left likes inflation. It reduces the value of old money by printing lots of new money. Those richer who have it, lose the value of their money; those poorer who don’t have any money, suddenly do.
When combined with low interest rates, inflation roars even louder. Not since Jimmy Carter has a Democrat been so insistent on inflating the money supply.
For decades, the Left has amplified former Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s 2008 dream that the government must spike fuel costs up to European levels. That was seen as the best way to force unsophisticated Americans to quit burning gas and transition to renewable energy. Biden took that sermon seriously.
He canceled federal energy leases. He shut down ANWR. He canceled pipelines and warned the oil industry its days were numbered. Biden has done more than any other Democrat to ensure fossil fuels were unaffordable, forcing America’s supposedly unthinking consumers to drive less or consider ditching their gas-engine cars altogether.
The hard American Left always wanted unlimited illegal immigration. Biden agreed and destroyed the southern border as we knew it.
The result is that in less than two years, nearly 3 million illegal aliens have surged into the United States. Nearly all of them arrived unvaccinated, untested, and unaudited at a time of a COVID pandemic.
Biden worries little that record numbers of Americans are dying from drugs that now pour across the border. Cartels became richer and more powerful than ever under his watch, while child traffickers were freed from worries.
Biden did more than any prior Democrat to ensure massive illegal immigration as part of the leftist dream of flipping red states blue by changing the demography.
The Left rails about imperialism, neo-colonialism, and military expenditure. Joe Biden without warning simply yanked all troops from Afghanistan. He abandoned a $1 billion new embassy, a $300 million refitted U.S. air base, and $80 billion worth of sophisticated arms and equipment.
In other words, Biden did more than any other prior Democrat to ensure the United States was humbled abroad, and its expeditionary forces taught a lesson about the evils of foreign interventions.
The Left fetishizes race. It enshrined the idea of "good" racial discrimination: to stop racial bias, one must be racially biased.
Biden was the first president to promise in advance that his vice-presidential running mate had to be both black and female. For his cabinet picks, Biden ignored most criteria of prior experience or specific expertise, but instead ensured that his administration was "diverse."
No prior Democratic president has been so beholden to identity politics or so consistently used de facto racial, gender, and sexual identity quotas in his presidential appointees.
The Left for years has railed about the criminal justice system. It believes punishment does not really deter crime, which is instead a result of racism and a toxic capitalist system.
Biden agrees. Federal attorneys mimic the so-called George Soros city and county prosecutors who enforce the law largely according to ideological directives.
No prior president has managed to weaponize the Pentagon, the FBI, or the CIA in ways that have transitioned them from traditional institutions to woke avatars of social revolution.
No prior Democratic president has so attacked conservatives, a strict-constructionist Supreme Court, and the Republican Party.
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"The Left likes inflation. It reduces the value of old money by printing lots of new money. Those richer who have it, lose the value of their money; those poorer who don’t have any money, suddenly do."
I expect more from a guy like VDH. This is a silly statement.
The poorer don't have any more money with inflation, they know it because they aren't stupid.
And the richer know very well how to protect themselves against inflation. They don't keep their assets in cash.
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If by "richer" VDH is referring to the Middle Class then he is making a valid point. The Middle Class does not have the ability to "buy a Congress Critter" to protect their wealth like the Truly Rich do.
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It does amuse me to see the words "The Left" and "happy" in the same sentence. This will never happen.
Posted by: Tom ||
07/23/2022 11:11 Comments ||
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So. Other people are figuring out that Hanson is just a whiner. About time...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
07/23/2022 11:14 Comments ||
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Yes, a little short on the...finding of workable solutions. Perhaps it is the waters, or lack thereof. Some guys are finders. Some guys are fixers. I enjoy reading most of his stuff.
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its expeditionary forces taught a lesson about the evils of foreign interventions.
Well, foreign interventions ARE evil. We don't need any expeditionary forces. We defend the borders of other countries but cannot defend our own borders.
[Bee] After testing positive for COVID today, President Biden immediately rushed out of the White House to go sniff one last little girl before losing his sense of smell.
"You mean I won't be able to smell anything?" said a distraught Biden as his doctor broke the news. "I've got to go then, there's no time to lose! Fire up Marine One! Where's the closest elementary school?"
Biden's COVID diagnosis comes despite the President being twice-vaccinated and boosted. "The President has taken every precaution possible to ensure that his dearly beloved olfactory nerve remains healthy," said White House physician Dr. Elliot Reed. "Smelling little girls' hair and eating ice cream are his two great pleasures, and he guards those fiercely. He actually tried to combine them by making the National Science Foundation create an ice cream that smelled like hair, but aides shot that down."
Desperate for one last sniff before COVID took hold, Biden directed Marine One to land at nearby Maury Elementary School. "Hey, kids! President Biden is back once again for a surprise visit!" announced Principal Donna Cleary as she watched the helicopter land in the parking lot. "He sure does come to visit a lot. Such a great supporter of education!"
At publishing time, President Biden had reportedly ordered every ice cream flavor in America delivered to the White House after learning he could also lose his sense of taste.
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07/23/2022 00:00 ||
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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
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Breggin] The good news first. The global predators have not won. They are in a pitched battle for our very identities, our souls, and our lives. But they have not won. If they had won, we would already be completely discouraged, enslaved, and isolated. The fact that you are reading this, that you are seeking information about how to protect yourself and uplift yourself and your family and your friends, shows they have not won.
[Bee] After testing positive for COVID today, President Biden immediately rushed out of the White House to go sniff one last little girl before losing his sense of smell.
