[BEE] WASHINGTON, D.C. — Attorney General Merrick Garland's integrity was called into question during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday when Republican lawmakers noted the "Kill Trump" tattoo emblazoned on his forehead.
"You can't sit there and pretend you're impartial," chairman Jim Jordan (R) said, calling out the AG's conspicuous tattoo. "It literally says 'Kill Trump' on your face."
Television coverage of the event was forced to blur the attorney general's forehead, making it impossible for independent fact-checkers to weigh in, but they did anyway.
"I didn't see any tattoos on my TV. I couldn't even see Merrick Garland. I just saw some blurry figure that may or may not have been bigfoot," reported Politifact. "We therefore declare the attorney general's integrity as 'through the roof' and give this story about a 'Kill Trump' tattoo five Pinocchios."
At publishing time, Merrick Garland returned to the seedy tattoo parlor so he could have "K-I-L-L" and "M-A-G-A" inked onto his bare knuckles.
"One feels so elite being cross
With those nazis!"
"Too right! Let's emboss
Their holiest sign
On a face so malign
And confused its defeat is no loss!"
[Hot Air] Merrick Garland is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee.
His performance is a tour de force. It is difficult to imagine that anybody has consistently lied to Congress more and gotten away with it. Alejandro Mayorkas is in the running considering the sheer quantity of lies, but Garland beats Mayorkas by a mile when it comes to verbal dancing. Mayorkas is a plodding liar, while Garland is a master sophist, which is why Obama wanted him on the Supreme Court.
It’s hard to say which of the two presents a greater danger to America. Mayorkas threatens our economy and our physical security as a nation; Garland wields a dagger that plunges into the heart of our democratic values.
Both men should be impeached, removed, and jailed for perjury. None of those three things will happen, and you could argue that impeachment would be worthless because the process is now purely partisan. The hope that Congressmen and Senators would rise above party loyalty to defend the integrity of the country is so laughable that not a single person believes that any government official would be held accountable for anything other than stabbing his own party in the back. Not even that, See: Romney, Mittens
Perhaps 10-15% of our elected representatives have any integrity left. A few do, and one suspects that their colleagues disdain them for their naivete. Once a critical mass in any institution gives up on defending it one becomes a fool for not joining in the plundering.
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When I watch Merrick speak, the sensation is similar to the cases where my geriatric dog has a diarrhea event on the dining room carpet. I know that something needs to be done and that it is everywhere. I detect the variety of the dog food in the aroma of the disgusting feces as I get down to business after briefly considering the possibility of burning my house down as an alternative to the cleanup. That is how I feel about Merrick Garland.
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I only watched the hour I was a captive audience on the treadmill at the gym. But the best moment by far was due to, of all people, Jerrold Nadler. When Garland was being grilled on Hunter Biden's gun violations, Jerrold said that these laws were "rarely enforced."
Which does make me wonder why we have them in the first place?
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[Federalist] A clip of comedian Louis C.K. on the Joe Rogan show has been circulating on X (formerly Twitter) this week in which he goes on and on about how opening up the southern border would be a good thing because Americans shouldn’t have such a high standard of living compared to the rest of the world, how poor people in other countries just want what Americans have, and how it’s not fair that we have so much. "It shouldn’t be so great here," he says. So open the border and let them pour in.
It’s possible he’s joking, that it’s just a comedy bit he’s practicing. That’s what my friend Inez Stepman thinks. Get liberals to nod along in agreement and then expose the consequences of such an insane idea. You can judge for yourself:
I don’t think it comes off as a joke but as an almost perfect distillation of globalist liberalism. Louis C.K. cannot fathom why Americans should have a say about who comes into their country and who does not. He clearly has no real allegiance to his country or countrymen, and is actually embarrassed by their prosperity — and presumably his own as well.
There is nothing special about America, according to this view, and no reason the rest of the world should not enjoy her ill-gotten riches. Opening the border is the least we could do for the cause of justice.
Whether it’s a joke or not, the substance of what Louis C.K. articulates is the logical endpoint of leftist ideology. It’s what the mainstream left actually believes — and the Biden administration has been actively working to accomplish at the southern border.
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Louis C.K. One of the legion of not at all, in any way funny "comedians." To people who pay money to see him, well, bless their hearts, as is said in the South.
As to what Americans "deserve," our system seems to allow for a very confused "majority" to make those decisions.
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Ep. 25 Liberals like Karl Rove just tried to annihilate Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. It didn't work. Paxton just joined us for his first interview since his acquittal. pic.twitter.com/SAJGNN5LXW
[YouTube - The New American] The United Nations is hosting the Sustainable Development Goals 2023 conference to supercharge the UN push to implement this so-called "masterplan for humanity," warns The New American magazine Senior Editor Alex Newman in this episode of Behind the Deep State. The SDGs, as they are known, cover every area of life, and are a recipe for global technocratic government. All of this is a prelude to the Summit of the Future scheduled for 2024.
[IsraelTimes] His controversial remarks have damaged the image of Paleostinians on the world stage and hindered potential peace efforts
Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... does not like change. Stuck in the past, he preserves the status quo, standing still as opportunities come and then go. Most of the time he appears tired and lost, becoming animated and determined only to solidify his own authority. He fears breaking down barriers to a better situation for Paleostinians.
Every day, Paleostinians lose so much due to a leadership that is living in the past, playing faded old cards. While Abbas’s senior aide Hussein al-Sheikh shuttles to Riyadh to explore options for the benefit of Paleostinians, Abbas reprises past controversies, most recently going on a rant blaming Jews for antisemitism. Abbas claimed at a Fatah party conference that Hitler killed Jews because they lent money at high interest rates, not because he hated Jews. He also trotted out the old trope that Ashkenazi Jews are not originally from Israel but from an ancient Turkic people known as the Khazars, who collectively converted to Judaism.
Steffen Seibert, the German ambassador to Israel, quickly responded to Abbas’s controversial claims, calling them "an insult to the memory of millions of murdered men, women and kiddies."
It’s almost as if Abbas was trying to undermine his aide’s mission in Riyadh, as if he were saying, "I sent them an olive branch, but in my hand, I hold the axe that cuts olive trees from their roots."
Is it his backers and funders who are encouraging him to sabotage what is being done for the benefit of Paleostinians? Or is it a radical wing in Israel that is not pleased with the progress in serious peace negotiations? Whatever his motivation, the Paleostinian people deserve better leadership that takes them into the future, rather than focusing on a past that Abbas still lives in.
The reality is that Paleostinians need a leadership that more effectively represents their aspirations and desires. This authority needs someone who will lead efforts toward achieving lasting peace and cooperation with neighbors.
The controversial statements Abbas has made in the past highlight how disconnected he is from current developments and global trends. These remarks have damaged the image of Paleostinians on the international stage and hindered potential peace efforts.
For real progress to be made, Paleostinian leadership must deal with reality and build positive relations with all international partners, including Israel.
A peaceful future for the Middle East requires wise leaders committed to peace and progress, wiling to let go of outdated agendas and entrenched prejudices. The wounds and debates of the past serve no purpose in the search for a better future.
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All those people who converted to Islam, are they not true Moslems because they do not belong to the same tribe as the Prophet Mohammed? What about Christians — are all Christians who do not belong to the Jewish tribe of Benjamin actually not Christian at all?
Independent of the fact that not all of the Khazars converted, there were plenty of Jews in the world then and since whose Jewishness long predates the action of the Khazars, and has continued to this day. The fallacy around the claim is breathtakingly stupid.
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actually, ethnographic evidence (mostly literature , correspondence, markings on graves and buildings) indicates that a number of the Khazars were Jewish or identified as such
there is no archeological evidence of a mass conversion but it not likely that such evidence (e.g., testimonies on paper) would have survived this long
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The gun you don't have with you is a waste of money.
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When we were in Israel in 2011, one of the things that struck me was seeing groups of school children on field trips. They were always accompanied by an ARMED adult - usually a rifle.
Of course, the number of uniformed soldiers in full battle rattle wandering around also struck me.
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[HOT AIR] You’ve probably heard the idea at some point in your life that suppressing negative thoughts or emotions is bad for you. If you suppress them they’ll just erupt in some unexpected way. Therefore it’s better, so we’ve been told, to spend time in therapy talking through those negative thoughts at length. That’s the path to healing.
But a newly released study by researchers at Cambridge University suggests those ideas may be fundamentally wrong. Dr. Michael Anderson, the director of the new research connected the findings all the way back to Freud.
... things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
They say that revenge is sweet, and there is evidence from neuroscience that they are right. In a 2004 study published in Science, researchers scanned participants’ brains using positron emission tomography (PET) while they played an economic game which centred on trust, and sometimes led to vengeful actions.
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If I find that you express negative thoughts all the time, I will do my best to run away when I see you. It may look like stumbling. If you do corner me for a conversation with a pitchfork like Bill Murray in Caddy Shack, I might appear to be listening to you, but, in reality, I will be devising my escape plan.
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#9
You mean like not slowing down when you see a bunch of people who've glued themselves to the road in some protest?
I'm not that vicious but I'm planning for the next event. When those clowns closed down I-93 outside of Boston about six / seven years ago, I grabbed an empty bottle of Pine Sol and created a magical mix to pour over their glued hands (and the rest of their body) if I ever got caught up in the next one - used beer (if ya know what I mean), ammonia and bong water. It's been in my trunk ever since.
Nasty mix, that stuff...
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.
[BEE] WASHINGTON, D.C. — Attorney General Merrick Garland's integrity was called into question during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday when Republican lawmakers noted the "Kill Trump" tattoo emblazoned on his forehead.
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
