[NYPOST] A Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, judge was ambushed and robbed of his Rolex at gunpoint by three masked men in broad daylight while he walked to work last week, police said.
Alameda County Judge Kevin Murphy had parked his car at a parking garage in downtown Oakland
...that was his first mistake...
Thursday morning and began the two-block trek to his office in the René C. Davidson Courthouse building when the suspects accosted him.
One of the suspects whipped out a rod on the judge while the others ordered him to hand over his Rolex, car keys, wallet, and other personal items, according to ABC7.
He was wearing a Rolex? Figure $50,000+ for the car... in 2019 prices. Heaven only knows what cars cost today — my grocery store mascara has doubled in price since the last time I bought one.
The cost of the items was not revealed.
The judge was left unscathed and called the police immediately after the thieves expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.
"We are happy to report the judge was not injured. The suspects are described as three unknown males wearing masks," the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
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Robbing a judge is a good thing. Politicians, judges and Da’s journalists who have allowed the absolute chaos to run wild need to be victims, dead if possible of the system that they created.
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OK that is darn funny. Wondering if the judge wasn't butt violated too.
[Patriot Alerts] Democrat Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has declared the nation’s capital as the "gayest city in the world," even as critics implored her to focus on the city’s rising crime rates.
Bowser made the announcement on Thursday, as corporations and government entities begin to focus on gender and sexual identity in recognition of Pride Month.
"I am proud to be the Mayor of the best city in the world, and the gayest city in the world," Bowser said in a tweet that was accompanied by a video of her in a crowd waving a rainbow flag.
[Gateway] As The Gateway Pundit reported in 2020, election fraud whistleblowers came forward in December following the controversial election, including one who witnessed the shipping of an estimated 144,000-288,000 completed ballots across three state lines on October 21.
The new information was made public at a press conference by the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, a national constitutional litigation organization.
The Amistad Project said that they have sworn declarations that state over 300,000 ballots are at issue in Arizona, 548,000 in Michigan, 204,000 in Georgia, and over 121,000 in Pennsylvania.
They claim that their evidence reveals multi-state illegal efforts by USPS workers to influence the election in at least three of six swing states.
[JustTheNews] Concerns have been raised regarding DEI programs and the capacity of the Marine Corps to be prepared while getting rid of military equipment.
President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Marine Corps is raising concern among war hawks and others about whether his appointment will continue what they see as an ongoing effort to strip the military branch of its internal and external might and prowess.
Gen. Eric Smith, now the assistant commandant for the Marines, was nominated last week by the White House to be the next Marine Corps commandant.
The current commandant is Gen. David Berger, who is finishing his four-year term and preparing for retirement.
Berger and Smith worked together on transforming the Marine Corps to be more high-tech, which has included giving all 400-plus of its tanks to the Army.
"I love tanks," Smith said in February. "I used them in Iraq. I used them in Afghanistan."
However, he argues, they have become increasingly vulnerable to newer, more high-tech attacks because they cannot move quickly.
"When an enemy can hit a tank 90 kilometers away with long-range fire, I can't move them on time to be in a position to do something that I need them to do," Smith also said. "It's not that they're bad, it's that I can't afford to use them in my current mission."
Under Berger, the Marine Corps got rid of "21% of the personnel in infantry battalions, 100% of the tanks, 67% of the cannon artillery batteries, 33% of the assault amphibious companies, nearly 30% of Marine aviation, and almost all assault breaching equipment," retired Marine combat veteran Francis "Bing" West, wrote last month for the Hoover Institution.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich recently cited the West article in an essay in which he further argues the cuts were made "for a stunningly stupid investment in a land based anti-ship mission against China that will not work."
"It is competitive rather than complementary with the Navy and Air Force, and it is a scandalous misallocation of Marine resources. Inserting by sea three or four small Marine units, with no support, on atolls in the South China Sea invites capture and defeat," Gingrich also says.
In April 2022, more than two dozen retired generals came out against Berger's plan, arguing the radical shift in focus for the Marine Corps is inadequate to meet the requirements for the military branch.
The retired generals tried unsuccessfully to get Congress to pause the plan that members had already passed.
The Marine Corps said the ideas have been stress-tested for years, before Berger took office.
In addition, some lawmakers have disapproved of Berger's attitude toward diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) training in the service branch.
In March, Berger made his case for supporting DEI initiative, saying,"At the end of the day, the goal is to make sure that the unit is prepared for combat. That's why we have a Marine Corps – to try and prevent a conflict, and if one comes, to make sure that we win it. So, building cohesive teams is part of that. I have seen zero evidence of any policies that detract from that."
Berger's comments were in response to GOP lawmakers who wrote a report in November 2022 that criticized DEI programs in the military.
Sen. Marco Rubio, of Florida, and Rep. Chip Roy, of Texas, released the report, which in part stated: "Our military's singular purpose is to 'provide for the common defense' of our nation. It cannot be turned into a left-wing social experiment. It cannot be used as a cudgel against America itself. And it cannot be paralyzed by fear of offending the sensibilities of Ivy League faculty lounges or progressive pundits."
The report also noted several situations in which anti-white views were pushed by military members and sex-reassignment surgeries for transgender service members being paid for with taxpayer dollars.
"Rather than making the case for American greatness and protecting our nation, the military is parroting woke nonsense," Rubio told Fox News at the time.
Berger also suggested in March that Marines would be leaving the service if DEI training was an issue.
"If they sensed that the focus was not in fact on being prepared, being ready, but the focus was on other things and it was distracting … I think they would leave. And that's not the case at all," he said.
Rep. Mike Gallagher dispute that argument during a December 2022 panel discussion.
"You can debate the value of [diversity, equity, and inclusion] programs, you can debate whether they contribute to lethality, but I don't think it's debatable that it is a problem. It is happening," Gallagher said.
"There are hundreds of examples of this happening in the military, and I am hearing it. I'm hearing it from constituents who are on active duty, who have families in the military. So reasonable people can debate the value of the growing DEI bureaucracy, but there is no question that it is growing in the military, and that Americans are concerned about it."
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Under Berger, the Marine Corps got rid of "21% of the personnel in infantry battalions, 100% of the tanks, 67% of the cannon artillery batteries, 33% of the assault amphibious companies, nearly 30% of Marine aviation, and almost all assault breaching equipment," retired Marine combat veteran Francis "Bing" West, wrote last month for the Hoover Institution.
So ... what's left?
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Well, they've still got a helicopter driver for Joey.
Posted by: ed in texas ||
06/05/2023 9:31 Comments ||
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Fat people in high heels.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
06/05/2023 10:12 Comments ||
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Hey, we'll always have Key West.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
06/05/2023 10:44 Comments ||
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It [Marine Corp] cannot be turned into a left-wing social experiment. It cannot be used as a cudgel against America itself. And it cannot be paralyzed by fear of offending the sensibilities of Ivy League faculty lounges or progressive pundits."
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It seems CMC Berger thinks his force structure changes and the Navy Amphib needs assessments see a primary role for the USMC as a smaller amphib force to put ashore multiple BLTs (Battalion Landing Teams) with extensive land-based anti-ship assets to create a defensive envelope for the naval theater. The deletion of artillery and armor assets fits smaller, relatively unopposed landing ops, but really reduces the Marines to a defensive shield for Navy theater ops. Gone would seem to be the offensive, hard penetration, assault amphib option to directly take and hold enemy-held shores. I wonder if he sees the atrophy such a structure creates in the future of Marine Corps roles. The whole thing seems based on defensive thinking and Navy force protection from a dominant Chinese PLA Navy.
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Depends on what the USMC raison d'etre is, doesn't it? A light infantry, commando and COIN force like it was before the build up in WW2 ...or a complete 'purple shirt' multi-service (Land-Sea-Air) army?
If tough budget times are ahead then the knives in the Pentagon are going to come out. Think of it as preemptive measures...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a ban on the medical transitioning of most minors. In the months leading up to this, #trans activists became increasingly threatening to lawmakers & those who support the legislation. https://t.co/q1VxA0madv
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If they negate the waivers that prevent victims from suing the providers of those “treatments,” that industry will dry up immediately.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
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Always happy to see signs of sanity.
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Meanwhile let's compare and contrast TX with MA: "The Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth recommends parents be held liable for child abuse if they do not allow their children to receive transgender medical procedures." Want 100% guarantee of massive civil unrest? Target the children. Fun times await!
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So prepubescent children can elect without parental interference to have life-changing medical procedures but they can't drink a beer or go get a pack of smokes until they are 21. Yep, sure makes sense to me. All of it. This country is just the epitome of rational thought and actions...tip of the civilization spear, without a doubt.
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"The Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth recommends parents be held liable for child abuse if they do not allow their children to receive transgender medical procedures."
So, soon we get "my parents wouldn't let me get mutilated" lawsuits and a "my parents wouldn't let me transition" criminal defense stratagem too.
Great.
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^^^^
I wonder if the high-end law schools have an adjunct professorship focused on teaching prospective lawyers how to keep a straight face when asserting such drivel?
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.
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[Gateway] As The Gateway Pundit reported in 2020, election fraud whistleblowers came forward in December following the controversial election, including one who witnessed the shipping of an estimated 144,000-288,000 completed ballots across three state lines on October 21.
[JustTheNews] Concerns have been raised regarding DEI programs and the capacity of the Marine Corps to be prepared while getting rid of military equipment.
