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IDF: Airstrike targeted terror operatives who were heading to attack troops in Gaza
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Biden commutes sentence of official who stole $53M from small Illinois town, sparking outrage
[FoxNews] Biden commutes sentence of former Dixon, Illinois, comptroller Rita Crundwell, convicted in largest municipal embezzlement in US history.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/14/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She shared with the big guy?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/14/2024 4:09 Comments || Top||

#2  So why is this a Federal crime? Presidential pardons can't be applied to State crimes.
Posted by: Warthog || 12/14/2024 9:37 Comments || Top||

#3  $5,300,000 For the big guy, huh?
Posted by: alanc || 12/14/2024 10:16 Comments || Top||

#4  It would be a federal crime if some of the funds stolen were provided by the federal government.
Posted by: Ed || 12/14/2024 10:28 Comments || Top||

#5  This is all a smoke screen for the truly outrageous pardons to come. This is why you don’t elect a senile guy who is being controlled by political actors who can use his signature for their own purposes with no accountability.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/14/2024 11:07 Comments || Top||



-Short Attention Span Theater-
‘Never heard of him’: Notable Columbia prof says he isn’t sure Obama attended Columbia University
The mystique is most assuredly fading if he can say this for publication, and not even a little anonymously.
[CampusReform] In a recent interview, a well-known professor who taught at Columbia University for 46 years questioned whether or not President Obama actually attended the Ivy League school.

Prominent Columbia professor Henry Graff says he isn’t sure President Barack Obama
I inhaled. That was the point...
ever attended the Ivy League school.
*Snip* Article from 2013, as pointed out in comments. Mea maxima culpa.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/14/2024 2024-12-14 00:59 || Comments || Link || [11140 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "During Black History Month, Columbia News features articles on Black alumni, including this one from February 2022: 10 Decades, 10 Black Columbians You Should Know"

Columbia Celebrates Black History and Culture...
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/14/2024 5:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Professor Henry Graff and I have much in common. He has never heard of Barry Soetoro at Columbia. I simply never wish to hear of Barry Soetoro again.

Recruited asset? Yes, not unlike the FBI J6 recruited assets we learned about earlier in the week.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/14/2024 5:59 Comments || Top||

#3  This is an old article from back when believed that Columbia was a prestigious university with academic integrity.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/14/2024 11:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Yes, 2013.

Funny to post it after that attempted hit on Vance.

Of course he may have been going as one of his other, what, three avatars? Or just isn't memorable on his own.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/14/2024 11:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Obama is a black Columbian? They told me he was from Kenya.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/14/2024 12:38 Comments || Top||

#6  It's like that game where one draws some cards and has to make up a story which uses the cards' elements.

Strangely enough, there were numerous references to Sarah Palin in that 'game'. Weird, Weird.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/14/2024 15:22 Comments || Top||

#7  This is an old article from back when believed that Columbia was a prestigious university with academic integrity.

Yes, 2013.


Good catch, gentlemen. My apologies for missing that key datum.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/14/2024 17:49 Comments || Top||

#8  It’s fine. We need to keep reminding ourselves about this issue periodically. Thanks, TW.
Posted by: KBK || 12/14/2024 19:01 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ True, but since O'Biden kept using 2013 policies...
Posted by: Frank G || 12/14/2024 19:23 Comments || Top||

#10  *blush* You are ever gallant, dear KBK.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/14/2024 22:14 Comments || Top||


Biden admin says it doesn't have authority to shoot down mysterious drones as Trump offers action plan
[FoxNews] A series of drone sightings over New Jersey and near U.S. military installations that began in mid-November has residents concerned and lawmakers demanding answers as their origins and purpose remain unknown.

FAST FACTS
  • A series of unidentified drone sightings near U.S. military installations and over residences in New Jersey since mid-November has caused alarm.

  • White House national security communications adviser John Kirby has said many of the purported drone sightings are actually lawfully operated manned aircraft and that there is no evidence of a national security or public safety threat.

  • Frustrated residents who believe the government's answers are insufficient have threatened to take matters into their own hands and shoot them down.

MAYORKAS SAYS GOVERNMENT DOESN'T HAVE AUTHORITY TO SHOOT DOWN DRONES
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday said the government doesn't have the authority to shoot down drones and believes reports of some sightings are cases of mistaken identity.

Mayorkas appeared on CNN when he was asked about why the federal government doesn't take down one of the many drones that have been spotted across multiple states in recent weeks.

“Our authorities are very limited,” Mayorkas told CNN host Wolf Blitzer, citing missions involving unmanned aircraft conducted by various federal agencies. "We have various authorities that are discreet to their particular missions. We can't just shoot a drone out of the sky."

Mayorkas said officials believe reported drone sightings are “cases of mistaken identity” where drones are actually small aircraft “where people are misidentifying them," noting that some can be purchased at "convenience stores."

“We know of no threat or nefarious activity,” he said.

Mayorkas noted that officials have asked Congress to expand the scope of authority to empower local and state officials to counter drone activity.

“Those authorities need to be expanded,” he said.

Earlier in the evening, President-elect Trump called for the Biden administration to start providing answers about the drones or shoot them down.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/14/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11142 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Look up feckless. Pretty much this entire administration.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/14/2024 0:44 Comments || Top||

#3  The Feds are exercising "Maximum Plausible Deniability" so that the boys at Area 51 can field their range toys! Not aliens people...not Iran or China (they're not hooping and hollering like they did over a single balloon)...flying only at night (that smacks of NORAD turning their cheeks)!
Posted by: Shuper Clairt5942 || 12/14/2024 5:21 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ crap

so that the boys at Area 51 can field their range toys

51 is a test range.
Other boy's toys are flown there.
NORAD =! NRO

Somebody's Mama stirred their alphabet soup too much.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/14/2024 5:33 Comments || Top||

#5  [RT] Drones spotted over main US military base in Europe
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/14/2024 8:24 Comments || Top||

#6  Somebody local will take action and the Feds will come down on them like a ton of bricks. It will be like the FEMA non-response in NC.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/14/2024 10:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Somebody's Mama stirred their alphabet soup too much.

Oh yeah? Then why do the letters keep sticking together in clumps of three?

Mayorkas is correct in that shooting down drones is not one of the Enumerated Powers, but one might hope that as Homeland Security Guy, he would be able to improvise, adapt and overcome.

I suspect the real problem and the reason for inaction is that we simply do not have a reliable means to accomplish the task. We are quite good at shooting things on the ground and we have air defenses against planes and missiles, both cruise and ballistic. But flying low and slow and being highly maneuverable, drones are none of these things. Based on watching the Ukr v Rus games, we might want to start planning for this. It is only going to get worse.

Same with high altitude Chinese balloons.


Posted by: SteveS || 12/14/2024 12:29 Comments || Top||

#8  Do we not have helicopters that could follow these drones back to wherever they are launched? I mean, sooner or later they will run out of fuel or their batteries will need to be recharged. Find out where they are launched, find the perpetrators and then deal with them accordingly. If it's a mother ship out in the ocean, sink it.

If Mayorkas and DHS can't or won't do it then use the military. What is even the purpose of a Department of Homeland Security if they can't provide us with security?

If we didn't have such a feeble excuse for a president our adversaries would not dare pull a stunt like this and, if they did, they would suffer the consequences.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/14/2024 12:53 Comments || Top||

#9 
Posted by: badanov || 12/14/2024 13:02 Comments || Top||

#10  No authority? Laughable. Biden has no authority to zero out student loan debt but that hasn't slowed him at all. It's curious those few portions of the Constitution that Dems are willing to go to the mats to defend while torching the rest.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/14/2024 13:19 Comments || Top||

#11  But flying low and slow and being highly maneuverable, drones are none of these things.

We had something for that.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/14/2024 13:33 Comments || Top||

#12  I haven’t seen any photos of the so called drones that are the size of small cars, or any of the other ones. Seems like a load of crap to me.
Posted by: Remoteman || 12/14/2024 14:21 Comments || Top||

#13  Too bad they can't get their hands on a Punt Gun.

Still legal to use in the US, just not for migratory waterfowl.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/14/2024 14:35 Comments || Top||

#14  Just don't shoot down any unidentified flying sleigh drones in 10 days...
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/14/2024 15:08 Comments || Top||

#15  LOL badanov. SUV Size!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/14/2024 15:16 Comments || Top||

#16  10th amendment?
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 12/14/2024 15:36 Comments || Top||

#17  So, use one of our anti-drone drones, and literally net one. Sounds like both good practice and good practice.
Posted by: KBK || 12/14/2024 19:07 Comments || Top||

#18  Oh yeah? Then why do the letters keep sticking together in clumps of three?

Depth of working memory.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/14/2024 19:29 Comments || Top||


Don Lemon rages against Time magazine over Trump ''Person of the Year''
[NYPOST] Former CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
host Don Lemon blasted Time magazine as a "joke" after it revealed President-elect Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
as its Person of the Year.

Lemon hosted a TikTok Live in which he referenced the long-running publication for honoring Trump after winning the 2024 presidential election and overcoming both felony convictions and liquidation attempts.

"For marshaling a comeback of historic proportions, for driving a once-in-a-generation political realignment, for reshaping the American presidency and altering America’s role in the world, Donald Trump is Time’s 2024 Person of the Year," the magazine wrote.

Lemon was furious at the decision, attacking the magazine for picking someone who he said doesn’t stand for democracy.

"If they wanted to make someone Person of the Year, I don’t know, they could’ve done it with any person. They could have done it to someone who actually stood for democracy, who stands for democracy in the country," Lemon said.


Posted by: Fred || 12/14/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11140 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ah, come on Don, it's the second instance that Time had 'Hitler' on its cover. /s
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/14/2024 6:17 Comments || Top||

#2  What is offensive is that a “news” organization paid a moron like Don Lemon as an on air talent for decades.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/14/2024 10:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, yeah, Time Magazine has been a joke for a long, long time, possibly from the first day it was ever published.

I also find humor in people like Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg making pilgrimages to Mar-a-Logo. And did you hear the one about Amazon donating $1 million for Trump's inauguration? Funny.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/14/2024 13:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Don who?
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/14/2024 16:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Another case of TDS.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/14/2024 17:37 Comments || Top||


#7  Would be nice to require Lil Georgie to quit sitting on phone books during interviews as well.

Oh well, I can wish
Posted by: Frank G || 12/14/2024 19:57 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
84-Year-Old Pelosi Breaks Hip After Nasty Fall Down the Stairs in Luxembourg
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Former Speaker of the House Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
has suffered a significant injury that could have detrimental consequences after her nasty fall from the stairs earlier today.

As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, Pelosi is in the hospital after falling downstairs while traveling in Luxembourg as a part of a bipartisan Congressional delegation to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge.

According to her spokesperson, Ian Krager, Pelosi is receiving treatment from medical professionals in the tiny European country. He claims she can still work but will be unable to attend the remaining engagements.

Here is his full statement:

''While traveling with a bipartisan Congressional delegation in Luxembourg to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi sustained an injury during an official engagement and was admitted to the hospital for evaluation.

''Speaker Emerita Pelosi is currently receiving excellent treatment from doctors and medical professionals. She continues to work and regrets that she is unable to attend the remainder of the CODEL engagements to honor the courage of our servicemembers during one of the greatest acts of American heroism in our nation's history. Speaker Emerita Pelosi conveys her thanks and praise to our veterans and gratitude to people of Luxembourg and Bastogne for their service in World War Il and their role in bringing peace to Europe.

''Speaker Emerita Pelosi was personally and officially honored to travel with the distinguished delegation, many of whom had family members who fought in World War II — including her uncle, Johnny. She looks forward to returning home to the U.S. soon.''

The Daily Mail.com reported she fell down some stairs during the visit but that her injuries were not serious.

Unfortunately, we now know this report is false.

The New York Times

...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

revealed this afternoon that the 84-year-old Pelosi suffered a fractured hip during her fall, which was the reason for her hospitalization. It does not take a genius to figure how potentially dire such an injury could prove to an elderly person like Pelosi.

Posted by: Fred || 12/14/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why you shouldn't drink like she does.
Posted by: 3dc || 12/14/2024 4:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh and pride does come before the fall...
Posted by: 3dc || 12/14/2024 4:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Was she pushed?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/14/2024 5:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't fear the Reaper, Nancy.
Posted by: Gerthudion Spusoper3271 || 12/14/2024 8:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe she'll be doing a fact-finding tour of Obamacare.

On a related note, AOC could barely contain her glee..."Baby Jane" Pelosi has a nice ring to it..."

/sarc off
Posted by: Warthog || 12/14/2024 9:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Key question in these incidents is did the break come before of after the fall? Was she hit by a hammer like her old man?
Posted by: alanc || 12/14/2024 10:23 Comments || Top||

#7  She continues to work? Her and McConnell too. She won't take a hint from an injury this severe and retire? Won't the pain meds fog her brain? Or is she just taking Advil? Exactly who is she serving by continuing to limp along? Does she plan to keep working out of spite until she dies like Ginsberg?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/14/2024 13:36 Comments || Top||

#8  She continues to 'serve' because while she's in congress, she can make sure nobody investigates her. Let the money laundering continue!
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/14/2024 14:00 Comments || Top||

#9  Tripped over her sagging tiddies?
Posted by: Regular joe || 12/14/2024 14:10 Comments || Top||

#10  Speaker Emerita??? Seriously? Yes, she’s the former Speaker, but she lost that job a couple years ago, then she turned over the job of House Whip to Hakeem Jeffries. So she’s Congresswoman Pelosi. These are not royal titles.
Posted by: Remoteman || 12/14/2024 14:28 Comments || Top||

#11  /\ THIS!
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 12/14/2024 14:33 Comments || Top||

#12  Speaker Emetic
Posted by: Frank G || 12/14/2024 14:47 Comments || Top||

#13  A serious injury at any age.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/14/2024 15:03 Comments || Top||

#14  #7 Some people die AFTER retiring.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/14/2024 15:09 Comments || Top||

#15  I hope the bottle didnt break. That would be a horrible loss.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 12/14/2024 15:38 Comments || Top||

#16  Please Deutscheland: Do hook her up to a wine box on adequate drip rate as should 1st World Medical Level of Care? And of course chart it for the record? Thanks.
Posted by: Blackbeard Johnson2717 || 12/14/2024 15:45 Comments || Top||

#17  Wonder is she tripped over a stack of insider trading tips??
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 12/14/2024 15:57 Comments || Top||

#18  Quick fly her to Canada for medical treatment!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/14/2024 17:17 Comments || Top||

#19  ^Snark of the Day?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/14/2024 17:22 Comments || Top||

#20  She should have read the Obamacare bill before passed it.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/14/2024 17:22 Comments || Top||

#21  You know darn well we was protecting her flask over her hip. She must have hit the Class 6 equivalent in SHAPE or Chièvres AB.

Luxembourg, huh? Visiting Patton's grave? That's a small drive from Malmedy.

Posted by: DooDahMan || 12/14/2024 18:46 Comments || Top||

#22  Might be a good time to stop wearing those stiletto heels!
Posted by: KBK || 12/14/2024 19:11 Comments || Top||

#23  Top heavy.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/14/2024 23:49 Comments || Top||


DC Food Workers Vow to Commit Economic Suicide by Making the Restaurant Experiences of Incoming Trump Officials Miserable
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Several DC food workers wallowing in Kamala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's' former mistress
's landslide defeat promise to make Trump administration officials pay should they decide to visit their establishments, even at the cost of their livelihoods.

The Washingtonian on Thursday spoke to industry veterans, bartenders, and servers in our nation's capital who have made crystal clear that they are willing to sacrifice dollars in an attempt to 'own' those trying to make America great again.

Nancy, a bartender for a fine dining establishment, said she would not only refuse to welcome certain Trump officials but also make those she decides to serve miserable.

''There is power in making it known that you're not comfortable with a situation, and it doesn't necessarily have to be this big dramatic show,'' she stated. ''It's just little bits of resistance that add up, and little bits of resistance that other people will see and hopefully feel empowered to stand on those convictions as well.''

''This person theoretically has the power to take away your rights, but I have the power to make you wait 20 minutes to get your entree,'' she added. ''There's a lot of opportunities for us as workers to feel like we're taking our power back, while not necessarily ruining someone's life. Giving them a subtle inconvenience feels like a little bit of a win for us.''

Suzannah Van Rooy, a server and manager at Beuchert's Saloon on Capitol Hill, also said she would refuse service to Trump officials whom she viewed as 'amoral.'

''I personally would refuse to serve any person in office who I know of as being a sex trafficker or trying to deport millions of people,'' she said.

''It's not, 'Oh, we hate Republicans.' It's that this person has moral convictions that are strongly opposed to mine, and I don't feel comfortable serving them,'' Van Rooy continued.

One other restaurant worker who asked to remain anonymous stated she would not refuse service but do other things to make her Republican patrons feel unwelcome, such as an unfavorable seating arrangement.

''I'll only give them a bad table but will otherwise guarantee decent and polite service,'' she told the Washingtonian. ''I feel like them getting a bad table is nothing compared to the harm they'll be inflicting.''

Posted by: Fred || 12/14/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any halfway intelligent owner/employer would get their names and fire them in advance. Better yet, send in shills wearing MAGA hats to test the servers.
Posted by: Elmaper+McGurque1612 || 12/14/2024 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Bold talk. But we've just spent a month watching the wealthy and powerful fold up like well-bleached hotel towels. Now, maybe some waiters and waitresses in North America's most corrupt city are "tough guys." But they sound like the opposite in this article.
Posted by: Secret Master || 12/14/2024 0:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Sounds like a business opportunity
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/14/2024 0:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Who hasn't had their food spat on.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/14/2024 5:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Sack lunches and a soda. The Washingtonian is bird cage liner material.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/14/2024 8:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Wait till all the pizza places close.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/14/2024 9:34 Comments || Top||

#7  LOL
Posted by: KBK || 12/14/2024 19:13 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
DEI Official Fired After Allegedly Saying Jewish Students Are 'Wealthy And Privileged,' 'Controlled' University
[DAILYCALLER] A diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) administrator was reportedly fired from the University of Michigan (UM) after making antisemitic statements, The New York Times

...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

reported Thursday.

The administrator, Rachel Dawson, said that the university was ''controlled by wealthy Jews,'' and that Jewish students were ''wealthy and privileged'' and not in need of the university's diversity services, according to The New York Times. The university has experienced countless antisemitic incidents since the start of the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
on Oct.7, 2023.

The employee was also accused of saying ''Jewish people have no genetic DNA that would connect them to the land of Israel,'' according to a complaint from the Anti-Defamation League of Michigan obtained by the NYT. Dawson's lawyer told the NYT she plans on suing the university.

Several students were charged for incidents relating to anti-Israel protests at UM in April after setting up an illegal encampment on campus and clashing with police, according to the Michigan attorney general's office. On Monday, a Jewish regent's home was vandalized, with pro-Paleostinian messages spray painted on the regent's cars and a mason jar filled with a ''foul-smelling liquid'' thrown through a window of the house, according to the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
News.

The University of Michigan hosts the largest and most expensive DEI program in the nation, but the efforts may soon be coming to an end after reports circulated showing the program's failures, such as intensifying racial relations on campus and failing to increase campus diversity.
Posted by: Fred || 12/14/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wakanda strikes again.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/14/2024 1:49 Comments || Top||

#2  For the rest of her life she and her supporters are going to insist that her firing proves she was right. It had to be done, but there it is.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/14/2024 9:37 Comments || Top||

#3  The Ann Arbor area seems like a powder keg to me. If there are riots coming anywhere, that’s where I think they would be.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/14/2024 10:51 Comments || Top||

#4  "That's a man, baaaby!"
Posted by: Frank G || 12/14/2024 10:56 Comments || Top||

#5  My UPS driver has a twin ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/14/2024 11:53 Comments || Top||

#6  "We triplets, honey!"

Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 12/14/2024 14:39 Comments || Top||

#7  Looks like the (shocked, shocked?) colleague who called that creature out has been contentedly running with the Social Justice (nice one, Loyola!) behemot for years. Married a guy who ran Trunk against the Exalted Donklops, though, so who knows?
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 12/14/2024 14:52 Comments || Top||

#8  Gored

"So great... wait... so hateful! So crass!"
Professor, what brought this to pass?
"Well, I never met woke
I disliked till the poke
That red heifer just gave my red ass!"

Or, By Her Own Pet, Hard.
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 12/14/2024 15:00 Comments || Top||

#9  #7 An admin mouthing off at endowed chair - it explains why melanin didn't save her.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/14/2024 15:19 Comments || Top||

#10  Married a guy who ran Trunk against the Exalted Donklops,

Looked him up — he sounds fascinating. A man who turned childhood hobbies into profitable ventures that have benefitted society. The Republican run was in 1994, the heyday of Mitt Romney and George HW/George W. Bush country club Republicans. The good professoress sounds like a limousine liberal who is finally being clubbed over the head in a way she can’t ignore about what those “caring” stock phrases really mean. Hopefully she will take the right lessons from it.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/14/2024 16:44 Comments || Top||


14 State Attorneys General File Suit Against Glock Handguns
Democrats taking a issue that’s already been resolved and suing about it anyway to damage the target.
[Breitbart] Attorneys General Matt Platkin (D-NJ) and Keith Ellison (D-MN) are joined by 12 other state attorneys general in suing Glock, one of the most popular handgun makers in the world.

The 14 state attorneys general are also joined by the District of Columbia, according to WNYT.

The suit is over the criminal use of switches that convert semiautomatic Glock handguns into fully automatic firearms. Glock does not make the switches, and their use in the U.S. is already illegal, but the attorneys general claim Glock needs to change the way their guns are made so that the switches will not work.

Platkin commented, “For decades, Glock has knowingly sold weapons that anyone with a screwdriver and a YouTube video can convert into a military-grade machine gun in a matter of minutes.”

On March 19, 2024, Breitbart News reported that the city of Chicago was suing Glock, claiming the gunmaker was liable for the ease with which a “Glock switch” can be used to convert the semiautomatic handguns into full-auto.

Ironically, Chicago partnered with Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety in filing its suit. The 14 state attorneys general are working with Everytown as well.

In our March report, Breitbart News noted that while Chicago and Everytown pointed to China as one of the sources for “auto sears” uses in the switches, they do not explain the degree to which China is allegedly committed to saturating the United States with such switches.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) suggests the 14 state attorneys general have banded together in hopes of circumventing the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA).

NSSF senior vice president and general counsel Larry Keane said, “Attorneys General Platkin and Ellison, along with the other colluding states, are attempting to extend the frivolous claims that have no foundation in law and abuse taxpayer dollars to advance an unconstitutional gun control agenda.

He added, “These claims are a devious manipulation of the courts by attempting to force a gun control agenda through judicial fiat and are contrary to the will of lawmakers and are expressly prohibited by federal law. This is the very definition of ‘lawfare’ and should be rejected by the courts.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/14/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just looking at the headline
I wonder how many are liberal (D).
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/14/2024 6:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Step 1: Determine what side of an issue Ellison is on

Step 2: Support the opposite position
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/14/2024 8:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Keith Elison?

Gardahmmit Minnesota, your yard is full of junk.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/14/2024 9:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Glock should countersue because these states allow firearms to fall into the hands of criminals.
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/14/2024 14:07 Comments || Top||

#5  They should make holding pistol sideways a crime too,but then gangstas would never learn the meaning of stove pipe.
Posted by: Regular joe || 12/14/2024 14:37 Comments || Top||

#6  the city of Chicago was suing Glock

Is it because Chicago is broke and needs money after decades of left-wing rule and nutty mayors?
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/14/2024 17:29 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Meet the Judge Who Ordered the Release of a Chinese National Arrested for Taking Drone Shots of a Military Base
[X]

Posted by: 3dc || 12/14/2024 04:15 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  She wouldn't happen to have family in China now would she?

Who appointed her?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/14/2024 6:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Curious. A Korean freeing a Chinese. Check her bank account.
Posted by: Albert Pelosi3459 || 12/14/2024 7:11 Comments || Top||

#3  two Koreas, Al
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/14/2024 8:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Her Honour was appointed in 2015, so that would be President Obama. She went to Stanford Law, and has been in California ever since.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/14/2024 9:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Me free you long time....
Posted by: Warthog || 12/14/2024 9:33 Comments || Top||

#6  At some point of this next four years of rehabilitating our republic, we need to impeach some judges.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/14/2024 10:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Does she know what a woman is?
Posted by: Crusader || 12/14/2024 13:11 Comments || Top||

#8  The judicial system needs a thorough looking into and scrubbing.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/14/2024 16:59 Comments || Top||

#9  ^Power without accountability.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/14/2024 17:21 Comments || Top||


Great White North
'Proud feminist' Justin Trudeau slams US voters for not electing Harris
[FoxNews] 'Outnumbered' panelists react to the back and forth between the two world leaders as President-elect Trump makes his historic return to the White House
Video. The man really does have more hair than sense.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/14/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11138 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Well his mother's open c..t photos at Plato's Retreat in NY City and open sex are still floating about. I assume his whore mom taught him that's what Feminism is?
Posted by: 3dc || 12/14/2024 4:09 Comments || Top||

#3  [RT] Canadian mayor fined for LGBT thought crime of refusing to bend over
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/14/2024 8:17 Comments || Top||

#4  I assume his whore mom taught him that's what Feminism is?

Sock fetish. Divorced. Proud Feminist.

Yeah, he's a Diddler alright.
-slams a hondo on the table-
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/14/2024 9:27 Comments || Top||

#5  We decided not to follow up a senile guy with a moron who marinates her Fruit Loops in chardonnay. Justin can call us silly names, then climb back into his couch pillow fort, snivel along to some Swifty ballad, and return to suppressing Canucks who don’t like his leadership.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/14/2024 10:33 Comments || Top||

#6  We saw what happened in Canada when they elected a bitch, so we declined.
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/14/2024 16:09 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Karine Jean-Pierre refuses to deny that Biden is preparing pardons for Liz Cheney and Anthony Fauci
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/14/2024 2024-12-14 01:27 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:


#2  There will be pardons. We need to understand the scope of each pardon. Will Hillary’s clear her of involvement in murder, for instance, or child trafficking? Some of the pardons will make it possible to compel testimony.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/14/2024 11:00 Comments || Top||

#3  What KJP says doesn't usually correspond to reality, so it's unimportant noise.
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/14/2024 16:06 Comments || Top||


Journalist Lee Stranahan discovers he was a target, tells how FBI spied on Kash Patel for 5 years while acting as lawyer for House Intelligence Committee
Lee Stranahan, from X post today:
I Take This Personally

In a democracy, the press should never have to fear becoming the target of government overreach. Yet, I've found myself at the center of one of the most unsettling revelations about how the federal government operates (SNIP)

At the end of 2018, as Democrats prepared to take control of the House, the Intelligence Committee released a report critiquing how Republicans handled the Russia investigation. When someone pointed out that my name appeared in the report, I was blindsided. It alleged I had ignored a request from the committee in May 2017 and suggested issuing a subpoena against me. The problem? I never saw the request.

What I initially dismissed as an administrative hiccup became a sobering reality. After digging through my spam folder, I discovered the email from Congress buried there. This was not a story of missed communication but a small glimpse into a much larger problem: the ease with which even reporter - those tasked with holding the government accountable - can become ensnared in bureaucratic strong-arming.

When I reached out to the committee to clear things up, I was lucky. Kash Patel, a senior staffer at the time, approached the situation with professionalism. Once I explained the misunderstanding, he assured me there was no need for a subpoena. But this was a brush with the kind of overreach that can destroy reputations and careers. And as the New York Post recently revealed, Kash Patel himself was a target of far worse.
Let's hope he gets in where Trump has nominated -- DON'T LOOK AT fake UFOs. DEFEND AND PUSH IN TRUMP's TEAM
For five years, the FBI spied on Patel. A lawyer for the House Intelligence Committee, Patel had been leading an investigation into abuses of power within the FBI's Trump-Russia probe. But instead of respecting the boundaries of his role, the FBI went after him with secret subpoenas, even misleading judges about his actions. His communications with whistleblowers and witnesses were monitored - an unprecedented intrusion into the work of a congressional investigator.

Patel's ordeal is horrifying. It should send chills down the spine of anyone who believes in checks and balances, and for me, it resonates on a personal level. If a congressional lawyer tasked with investigating FBI misconduct can be targeted, what chance does an independent reporter like me have?

The Inspector General's report reveals just how broken the system is, exposing a pattern of deception and abuse that extends far beyond Patel's case. As I argue in my book, these tactics are not new. The FBI's domestic overreach today mirrors the kind of morally dubious strategies the CIA once employed during the Cold War - short-term gains at the expense of long-term trust.

So yes, I take this personally. Being called before Congress to reveal my documents was a wake-up call. It was a stark reminder that the work I do - asking questions, uncovering truths, holding power to account - makes me vulnerable. And the fact that people like Kash Patel, who fight from within the system, are being targeted with such ferocity should alarm us all.

Patel vows to reform the FBI, to root out the systemic abuses that corrode public trust. His resolve gives me hope, but it also underscores the stakes. This is a fight for accountability and transparency, for the survival of our democracy. And it's a fight I take very, very personally.
Posted by: anon1 || 12/14/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The FBI's domestic overreach today mirrors the kind of morally dubious strategies the CIA once employed during the Cold War - short-term gains at the expense of long-term trust.

That is because it is foking identical.

Exective Order (EO) 12333 prohibits the Agency from collecting on US Persons (other than incidental collection). The FBI operates under no such prohibition and of course they share. 'Five Eyes' sharing is yet another example.

The terms "sharing" and "tasking" can sometimes be difficult to sort out.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/14/2024 8:01 Comments || Top||


#3  What they did was illegal.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/14/2024 10:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Of course the FBI spyed on the likely incoming FBI chief. They spy on all of them.
If you don't think they spy on each other, you don't know how the secret police operates.
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/14/2024 14:03 Comments || Top||


Biden Quietly Commuted Sentences Of Chinese Spies
[Federalist] President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he was granting 39 pardons and 1,499 commutations in what his administation called the "largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history." But it’s not Thursday’s set of commutations that have caught the attention of concerned Americans — it’s those that were quietly given weeks ago to Chinese spies.

X user Nick Sortor posted that "Joe Biden just pardoned multiple Chinese spies and an individual convicted of possessing child p*rnography. WHY?"

But the thing is, Biden didn’t "just" commute the sentences for these criminals — he did it quietly only days before Thanksgiving.

While most Americans were finalizing their menus and getting into the holiday spirit, Biden commuted the sentence of Yanjun Xu on November 22. Xu was convicted in 2022 for "conspiracy to commit economic espionage; conspiracy to commit trade secret theft; attempted economic espionage by theft or fraud; attempted theft of trade secrets by taking or deception."

But according to Biden’s pardon, "it is in the national interest that the term of imprisonment related to the aforesaid conviction not be served in its entirety."

Xu was ordered to leave the United States and never return or commit any other crimes against the United States, according to the pardon.

Similarly, spy Ji Chaoqun was convicted of "conspiracy to defraud the United States; impersonating agents of foreign governments; statements or entries generally." Ji arrived in the United States in 2013 on an F1 Visa before later enlisting in the U.S. Army Reserves "under a program allowing legal immigrants with special skills to serve," according to the Chicago Sun-Times.According to the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, "Ji worked at the direction of high-level intelligence officers in the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security, a provincial department of the Ministry of State Security for the People’s Republic of China."

But Biden commuted his sentence. "On Nov. 22, Biden, with no fanfare or public announcement, granted clemency to Ji and Xu," the Chicago Sun-Times reported, noting that the move may have been part of a prisoner swap. Notably, Biden doesn’t indicate in either document granting clemency why he chose to do so.

Damon Cheronis, the attorney who represented Ji, told the Chicago Sun-Times he was not notified about the clemency beforehand.

"I learned about it [Wednesday] morning, when he was released," Cheronis told the Chicago Sun-Times. "It was not something that anyone was made aware of, including my client."

Even more disturbing, Biden also granted clemency to Shanlin Jin, who was convicted after "police found more than 47,000 images and videos of child pornography in his computer." One such video allegedly showed "an adult male sexually assaulting a female infant," according to The Dallas Morning News.

The three commutations were reportedly part of a prisoner swap in exchange for Mark Sweden, Kai Li, and John Leung, according to Financial Times.But prisoner swaps are typically hailed by the president and the media. When basketball player Brittney Griner was released from Russia (in exchange for the man known as "Merchant of Death"), Biden held a press conference at the White House celebrating Griner’s return.

Biden similarly held another event when Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan were released.

So why was Biden and his administration so quiet about this Chinese swap?
Not just Chinese spies:




Posted by: 746 || 12/14/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  You can get an idea who's really running the WH by these pardons.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/14/2024 6:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Services rendered - cha ching.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/14/2024 10:38 Comments || Top||

#3  This is to be expected from a man who took millions of dollars from the CCP.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/14/2024 13:55 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Amazon plans to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration
[CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
] Amazon is planning to donate $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
’s inauguration, a person familiar with the matter told CNN. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is expected to visit with Trump in person in the coming days, as he and other tech founders seek closer relationships with the incoming president.

Amazon will donate $1 million in cash to the inauguration and it will make a $1 million in-kind donation by streaming the event on Amazon Video, the company confirmed to CNN Thursday evening.

Bezos and Trump spoke over the summer after the first liquidation attempt. Bezos publicly praised Trump at the time.

"Our former President showed tremendous grace and courage under literal fire tonight," Bezos wrote on X at the time.

Trump has been warming up to tech giants. He has flaunted his private conversations with them in interviews and appearances and now heaps praise on companies he once blamed in part for his 2020 electoral defeat.

The Wall Street Journal first reported the planned donation.

Bezos joins other tech leaders in looking to foster a closer relationship with the president-elect.

Posted by: Fred || 12/14/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bank of America says it will donate undecided sum to Trump's inaugural committee
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/14/2024 5:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Gonna be a great party!
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/14/2024 5:34 Comments || Top||

#3  What do they think they will get for their money?
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/14/2024 10:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Love it. Zuck offers $1m, and Bezos matches the bid.
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/14/2024 14:05 Comments || Top||

#5  What do they think they will get for their money?

Everybody Moonwalking their positions.

Heard a commercial for Juan Deere on the radio, "Our equipment, built in 'Mercia, ... see our page about manufacturing etc.."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/14/2024 15:07 Comments || Top||



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