Jury selection in the trial of David DePape, the man accused of breaking into Nancy Pelosi’s Pacific Heights home last October began on Monday
Nancy Pelosi was in Washington, D.C., at the time, however, DePape is accused of attacking her husband Paul Pelosi with a hammer fracturing his skill
DePape has pleaded not guilty to breaking and entering and attempted murder charges
...at the time it appeared that he had been invited, but hitting someone over the head with a hammer can in no way be considered love play, as far as I can tell, so he ought to be convicted of that much, at least...
- If convicted, DePape faces 13 years to life in prison
Reminds me of Bobby Seale. Or the OJ Simpson trial. They watched that one all over the world, with extra explainers for American laws and courtroom procedures.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Tensions quickly flared as Trump took the stand in the $250million fraud trial
Judge Arthur Engoron told his legal team to get the ex-president under control
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Fuck that judge. He wants Trump to just stand by and get crucified. The witness for the defense get to tell his story. This judge needs to meet a short rope and get a taste of his own medicine. What I find irrepresentable is our DOJ and FBI are letting this happen. This is living proof that the conspiracy against Trump was and is no conspiracy, it was a coup and he is being politically persecuted.
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Starting to look like both this and the J6 case being heard in Florida are being handled so incompetently that either the fix is totally in or they realize the jig is up and they're throwing the game.
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The judge is a mental midget sparring with a heavy weight. Of course he wants to keep Trump quiet.
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Huge spate of online articles about the Judge and his penchant for posting semi-nude pictures of himself. Coincidental I'm sure, but it does make you wonder about his judgement.
#8
This is also lifting up the rock to look at all the slithering legal types. Take notes for reference.
Personally, I think judges should be on a limited term reappointment schedule, let's say 12-15 years max, with reappointment necessary, no continuous service. No lifetime gigs.
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^ I'll go ya one further: All judges should be limited to 5 cases overturned on appeal.
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She is Assyrian. The same people in antiquity God used to carry out certain tasks against the ungodly. This one thing strikes me as amazing that a people of antiquity, are boldly here now.
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Lots of that about, Enver Dingle4916. Since I found Rantburg I’ve discovered that the Hittites are still here, and the followers of John the Baptist.
[Federalist] If Biden Gets His Way, Your Next Adventure Out West Will Be Canceled
There is a plan underway to close the great open spaces of the American West to you, me, our children, and our children’s children. The federal government — which owns most of this land — is determined to move from a “use and let use” system of accessing Western public lands to a permission-based system that will mean reservations, permits, and closures.
Just last month, the Bureau of Land Management issued a final decision to close 317 miles of historic and popular off-road trails near Moab, Utah. For decades, these trails — which are mostly old uranium mining roads — have been enjoyed by everyone from Jeep owners to dirt bike riders to base jumpers looking for a place to land. They have evocative names like Gemini Bridges, Mashed Potatoes, and Dead Cow Trail. They appear in guidebooks. Some of them are even featured in the hugely popular Easter Jeep Safari.
The plan is already being implemented, and it threatens the freedom enjoyed by tens of millions of Americans who hike, camp, Jeep, mountain bike, ATV, fish, swim, canoe, kayak, trail run, overland, base jump, raft, and backpack the millions of acres of free space that make “the West” the West.
I have enjoyed our public lands my entire life. There is nothing like a sip of coffee as you watch the first rays of dawn begin to break on the red rocks. You don’t realize how tough your kids are until they shrug off a chilly 15-degree night in a sleeping bag. And you don’t really appreciate how unfathomably vast the West is until you spend three days exploring the backcountry without seeing another human soul.
All of these experiences — and many others — take place on public lands. There is no entrance fee. There is no permit required. You just lace up your hiking boots, or jump in your pickup, or hop on your mountain bike, and you go. Simple as that. So long you don’t litter or destroy or cause a ruckus, you are left to your own devices. It is something that unites Americans of every class, creed, color, and political persuasion.
But now, that freedom to roam is under assault from a plan to close everything off and make you ask permission before you enjoy it. If nothing is done to stop it, one of the last, great, unifying forces in American public and private life will be fundamentally transformed and left unrecognizable before most people realize what is happening.
Zooming out, the aggressive rate of federal trail closures is part of the larger “30×30” plan that President Joe Biden announced shortly after taking office. The alleged intention is to “conserve at least 30% of U.S. lands and waters and 30% of U.S. ocean areas by 2030.”
There is no evidence that users of these trails have been damaging them. Indeed, people cherish these lands. Go drive the trails and you will rarely encounter even a single piece of trash. That is why they have been in use for decades with no appreciable degradation.
Nevertheless, the federal government is now implementing a plan to close hundreds of miles of cherished trails. And that is why the BlueRibbon Coalition — the nation’s premier group dedicated to preserving motorized access to wilderness — has joined with the Colorado Offroad Trail Defenders to challenge the plan in court. They are represented by my organization, the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
What the Biden administration’s plan really means is an aggressive plan to close those lands to use by the public. Well, not to the entire public — crunchy backpackers and hikers are still beloved by the left. But the executive decision will limit access for the “wrong” kind of outdoorsy people — people who drive Jeeps and Toyotas and ride ATVs and dirt bikes, and who look like they might be having a good time without suffering under a heavy backpack.
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So basically, only wealthy and loyal democrat donators will be allowed to use the land?
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Maybe another shot as gas-powered vehicles. WIll EVs get favored treatment?
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11/07/2023 10:31 Comments ||
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Mostly about control, taxes, and more bureaucracy.
Posted by: Bobby ||
11/07/2023 11:42 Comments ||
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WIll EVs get favored treatment?
The EVs wouldn't last very long on some of the roads/trails mentioned.
Too heavy, low ground clearance and not enough 'juice'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
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Over 500 million acres are owned by the Federal Govt west of the Mississippi. About the equivalent of the states of Alaska and Texas combined.
Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, Forest Service and Dept of Defense each manage a lot of land.
It has been obvious for many years that it would be best if the Federal Govt sold a lot of this.
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RV camped in the Moab/Arches area recently. Very popular place for off-road folks and their families. This will not go over well. More of the same elitist crap.
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It has been obvious for many years that it would be best if the Federal Govt sold a lot of this.
It would be best to turn it over to the sovereign states its in. Let them sell it.
Could you imagine the outrage if the Feds decreed that anywhere outside of the original 13 states, that when a person dies, their land reverts back to the national government.
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If the Feds can't identify a national need for the property, it should revert to the States
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11/07/2023 18:12 Comments ||
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I'm a long-time foe and critic of the BLM. (In fact, I'm a co-litigant in a lawsuit against them right now.) The solution to the problem of the BLM is a simple one: devolution to the states. They need to be disbanded as a federal agency, state agencies need to be established, and all of their personnel and property need to be transferred to those newly established agencies.
At this point in history the BLM exists to keep rural Americans poor. Sixty three percent of my state (Nevada) is owned by the Bureau of Land Management; 85.9 percent is owned by the federal government in total. Nobody in DC cares about what happens to Nevadans - except maybe for the people who live within the city limits of Las Vegas. As a state we are rich in only one thing: land. And that's controlled by an agency that doesn't care about us, isn't answerable to us as a polity, and has no incentive to do anything that benefits us whatsoever.
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When they formed the Department of Homeland Security I knew the end was in view.
"Homeland Security" is the the kind of name that that only a totalitarian could love. It has such a stalinesque flavor to it. (Needs a 'Public Safety Commission added to it...)
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[Zero Hedge] Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness,
Incriminating video at link.
Anew report provides fresh evidence that infamous January 6 provocateur Ray Epps may have been an FBI plant.
In the first of a two-part series, "Truth in Media" host Lara Logan spoke with Anthime Gionet, also known as "Baked Alaska," a right-wing influencer formerly associated with the "alt right." Video footage from January 5, 2021 and earlier indicate that Epps appeared to be particularly interested in Gionet, who was later sentenced to two months in prison for his participation in the riot at the US Capitol.
Gionet (Baked Alaska) was one of several people who filmed Epps on the evening of January 5, 2021 outside BLM Plaza as he told Trump supporters "we need to go into the Capitol!" At first, Gionet said he was amused by Epps’ exhortation to breach the Capitol, and yelled ’let’s go!’ in response, but after he saw him repeat the line several times to different groups that night, he became convinced the "boomer" was an FBI plant and was up to no good.
Gionet is the one who started the "Fed! Fed! Fed!" chant that went viral on social media.
"I’m someone who creates funny content so I just like to agree with everyone and if someone’s saying something crazy, a lot of times, I’ll just agree—say yeah, yeah," Gionet said, explaining that he does it to encourage a subject to keep talking.
But the activist said he felt "weirded out" by Epps and quickly moved on to another group.
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The video shows Ray Epps as you've never seen him, close up and obnoxious as hell. There is no way the feds can deny that he was doing their bidding. Every bit as chilling is Baked Alaska telling how he was banned from Twitter and prevented from showing this information anywhere. All the nazi motherfuckers who were involved in this caper are in desperate need of hard time in prison.
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[PJ] Chris "Kristy Kreme" Christie has absolutely no chance of becoming president. He didn’t when he announced; he doesn’t now; and he never will. He knew it then just as he knows it now. But he has a job to do: attack-dogging Trump on behalf of the donors who prop up his sad exercise in narcissism.
Related: Chris Christie Concedes on MSNBC That His #1 ’Job’ Is Attacking Trump For the Democrats
Americans are done with this class of politician — a pure, reprehensible donor creation with nothing to offer but the same standard focus-grouped talking points developed by sad hacks like doughball Frank Luntz that GOP candidates have been offering for decades.
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.
