[Just The News] Alan Dershowitz, the famed Harvard law professor emeritus, said Kyle Rittenhouse "should be acquitted" of injuring a man and killing two others in Kenosha, Wis., and sue media outlets that are claiming he's guilty of vigilante justice.
"If I were a juror, I would vote that there was reasonable doubt [and] that he did act in self-defense," Dershowitz told Newsmax on Saturday.
"Then he'll bring lawsuits, and that's the way to answer... vigilante justice is what CNN is doing, not what a 17-year-old kid under pressure may have done right or wrong. It's CNN who is involved in vigilante justice. It's The New Yorker that's guilty of vigilante justice."
Dershowitz referenced then-Kentucky high school student Nicholas Sandmann and how he sued and settled with CNN and The Washington Post for defamation as they accused him of being racist following viral videos of an encounter he had with a Native American activist in Washington, D.C.
"The idea is to make the media accountable for deliberate and willful lies," he said.
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Prediction:
Rittenhouse will be convicted on whatever flimsy charges the prosecution ends up with. Rather than getting caught up in the tradition after-acquittal festivities, the jurors will kick the can down the road. Rittenhouse will win the appeal, but that will take years.
#4
Gun charge just got tossed. Judge says jury isn't allowed to speculate on provocation, they either see it or don't. He's basically unpantsing the state's case before final arguments begin.
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Happy to hear but why wasn't the gun charge tossed at the outset?
#6
The judge's reputation is for being careful and giving wide latitude to juries. The technical argument on the rifle's barrel length was something the state hemmed and hawed about until today.
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This could be a double-edged sword... What if the jury includes a few diehard anti-gun nuts who are determined to bail Kyle on something / anything?
Not having this lesser charge option deprives the normal jurors of a compromise option.
Might be a hung jury, mistrial and then the poor lad's back in the soup
An editorial by S. Machinsky about the excavation of a Russian village in the Leningrad region, the residents of which were massacred by German troops in 1941.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Moved to my personal blog: By S. Machinsky Continued on Page 49
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Stalin needed or at least thought he needed a Polish buffer zone between him and the West/Germany/NATO and he didn't want to take any shit about it from the Poles. War tends to get that way.
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No, I haven't, Bad; just get tired of the Rus crying "I'm a poor victim, so don't watch what I'm doing/"
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Igor Polezhaev.
[VK] Following the talks at the level of the heads of the foreign ministries, Washington and Kiev signed a charter“ on strategic partnership ”. This happened on another wave of accusations against Russia, which, according to the Americans, "is preparing an invasion of Ukraine." The US allegedly transferred information on this matter to the EU. What is it - ethereal fears or the announcement of your own provocation?
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Are we prepared to go to war to defend the current political configuration in Ukraine?
Really?
In defense of what vital interest of the United States?
Can anyone say?
Or is it because we're upholding some new strategic doctrine that this president recently articulated in a major speech?
If so, I missed it. Or is it just the Biden Shit-Yer-Pants Doctrine?
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Because the Russian government is utterly, completely innocent. For the first time in Putin's reign.
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11/15/2021 7:12 Comments ||
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Ok so Putin's not "innocent." Must sternly-word him. Bad Vlad!
But warships in the Black Sea? Why? To preserve what, exactly, in Ukraine-- freedom of ... this newly vital SLOC? Our brother-Slavs in Kiev?
Or are they now GoodWhites and Russian speakers in the east are BadWhites?
The obvious solution to this mess would have been to partition that miserable country and demilitarize it -- no nukes, no standing armies, and no prospect, ever, of Ukrainian NATO membership. That's what Bush the Elder, Major, Kohl and Mitterrand's governments all promised Gorbachev.
They lied. Or more precisely it was Clinton and his mendacious assholes who overreached and overruled and pushed NATO into Russia's backyard. That was over YELTSIN's strenuous objections, not Putin's. Long before anyone ever heard of Putin.
We didn't create this dumpster fire, but we just pushed it, Joseph Rosenbaum-like, right up to the gas pumps.
Can we stop being so f--king stupid in our post-Soviet Russia policy? For once?
#4
Ukraine.
Belorussia-Poland.
Taiwan.
Estonia.
If you don't think this is being co-ordinated from some dascha you probably still write letters to Santa.
#5
The real flash point right now is the border between Belarus and Poland. If you really want a fight, there it is. Never mind the Syrians who might get caught in the crossfire. They're the enemy too.
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Gotta protect the hard drives of certain banks, dontchya know?
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"When committing to war, appoint those into leadership positions who talk of war like a parade, so as to make yourself as predictable as possible."
-Sun Tzu
[NYPost] Asked during a hearing a couple of weeks ago by Pennsylvania Congressman Fred Keller why "women-held positions [were] disproportionately affected by COVID-19," Inez Stepman replied: "That’s a question you should take up with Randi Weingarten."
Stepman, a senior policy analyst at the Independent Women’s Forum (where I also have an affiliation) was right about that. The major reason why so many women had to drop out of the labor force in the past 18 months —and why 300,000 left the workforce in September alone — was the shuttering of schools. And Weingarten, the head of the nation’s largest teachers union, was doing everything she could to keep them closed.
This fall, even if they were not doing remote learning, many schools have been periodically quarantining large segments of their population or sending kids home with stuffy noses and waiting days for them to get negative COVID tests. It’s hard to hold down a job with this nonsense going on.
For mothers of younger children, too, there has been a shortage of daycare facilities. Because they lost so much revenue during the pandemic many of them had to close. And those that remained open are experiencing staffing shortages. According to a survey by the National Association for the Education of Young Children, 80 percent were having trouble finding workers.
Of course, this problem is a bit of a chicken and egg situation. Women are dropping out of the workforce because other women who take care of their children are dropping out of the workforce.
But there are other reasons too. Women’s employment — just like men’s — was hardly encouraged by federal and state governments dropping money into their laps, either in the form of COVID relief, child tax credits or guarantees that they could not be evicted from their homes even if they didn’t pay their rent. Many upper- and middle-class Americans were able to sock away some money during the pandemic, thanks to these programs but also thanks to the fact there wasn’t much to spend money on during 2020 — no vacations or sporting events or other forms of entertainment.
While economists predict that savings is going to start to run out soon, the question of whether all those women will come rushing back to the labor force remains an open one. In survey after survey, even highly educated women — particularly those with young families — say they prefer part-time work. A study in JAMA from 2019 found that among doctors with kids, 31 percent of women and 5 percent of men worked part-time. Even more interestingly, 64 percent of women have considered changing to part-time compared to only 21 percent of men.
Given the School and Pre-K closings over the last almost 18+ months. Someone needed to stay home. Females have always had better control of the brats, and management of the house, than the sperm donor.
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And they've had over a year of budget management, learned to prioritize what is really important and what is simply self gratification for its own sake. Close the restaurants and dining out stop being an option and an expense (compounded by Bideninflation to nip the practice on the reopening). Suddenly, many discover it has been a rat race.
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^Not in today's world. Men are out of the family unit.Much happier as a result.Nurses quitting healthcare and are taking jobs at Dollar Generals. Taking early retirements also. Women better at childcare hardly. Taking drugs and letting the kids run wild is the new normal. Several children from different men. ADD, OCD, bipolar you name it. I see it every day. The new normal. The man who is sucked into a relationship is most likely the loser. Child support, child threatens abuse or she does and you know how that goes. Money is the first loss. Freedom a close second. So the school has a problem with a child. The mother replies when contacted(if at all) if you can do a better job, take them. City kids family these days is most likely a gang.The new normal and this has been coming on for several years now.
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Don't forget the other clarifying effect of this: Zoom instruction by incompetent public schoolteachers. Moms (and dads) got a felony-row seat at the circus that is most public school classrooms: semi-literate teachers, infantile curriculums, kids checked out and not learning a damn thing. No responsibke mom would go off to work knowing that her school aged children were in the hands of such lunatics.
Now the parents know why so many US kids are either fat and ignorant or striving but neurotic and depressed all the time. Our culture is sick and our schools reflect this rot.
All of which has been true for more than three decades of stupid fads like Common Core. Or the sixty-year reign of "phonics," that now-acknowledged debacle which rendered two generations of Americans less literate than their mid 20c- educated predecessors.
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not mentioned is the implosion in the leisure and hospitality sector of the economy
a lot of women are desk clerks, cooks, do housekeeping work, bar tenders, waitresses, etc.
employment in this industry plummeted during the lockdown phase of the pandemic
it is coming back now but still a long, long way to go as a lot of retail in downtown areas is tied to on site employment of office workers and if those people continue remote work, the retail will not fully recover
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Dunno what neighborhood you live in, Dale, but you sound terribly pessimistic. I prefer to think of it as shown in Besoeker's graphic with the little girl helping her mother to hang clothes on a line so they can dry naturally in the air without using all that icky gas and electricity.
I know things are somewhat different today but I remember my own mother never worked outside the home. We walked home from school to our own mother instead of some stranger. There were cookies and milk. The house was clean and orderly. Instead of buying new blue jeans, she sewed patches on the knees of the jeans we had. Then we could go outside and play in our own neighborhood with our little neighborhood brat pack. Boy, that was fun. Really. Running around unsupervised outside all that time, I'm sure we grew up tougher and more street wise than today's kids. If we did get hurt, we could always run home to mom who would take care of it. Somehow my dad provided for all that. We weren't rich. We didn't live in the nicest neighborhood. But we did alright.
But, yes, dad was definitely in the picture and mom did not drink or do drugs. We did not get food stamps or welfare either. Dad did it all the old fashioned way. He worked for it.
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^The problem growing older you can see the changes before and after. The G man, "G. Gordon Liddy as "a man of fantastic intelligence and complexity." Educated privately by Benedictines and Jesuits, Liddy earned a B.S. degree from Fordham University and an Ll.D. from the Fordham Law School, graduating as an editor of The Fordham Law Review". Wrote a book on the subject contrasting his early days to today. I relay what I see. I am a realist. I don't make this stuff up. DC was my home area. I can never go back. I prefer to remember DC as it was not what it is today. The mid sixties things began to change. When; if you are lucky, the family gathers for thanksgiving. Phones, TV all now compete for time. Many of the young can't even cook anymore. Today's world is a cheap counterfeit of what used to be. So where do I live now, small town USA near DC and Baltimore.
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The only schools that should be provided are k-12 with STEM, civics, and some 'Will Durant' humanities . No support for post k-12 except for vocational (trade) school.
[Red State] Recent reports revealed that Mexican drug cartels are taking full advantage of President Joe Biden’s border crisis, and it’s getting even more deadly. I previously wrote about how Biden’s immigration policies are empowering the cartels, which have benefitted from increased business with smuggling, and human and drug trafficking.
But now the situation has become even more dire, with cartels carrying out murders on U.S. soil with impunity. Lt. Chris Olivarez of the Texas Department of Public Safety said that on October 26, his agency discovered a woman who was presumably murdered by Mexican cartel operatives in Texas and that they believed she was mutilated, raped, and tortured before being killed. He told Fox News:
"These criminal organizations come across from Mexico to the US side and they murder individuals. We’ve had several incidents that have taken place along the border using professional-type weapons. Very professional and methodical about how they do it and then they go back to Mexico."
The official explained that cartels typically carry out these gruesome murders to send a message to their rivals. But previously, they hadn’t committed these atrocities on U.S. soil.
#1
Dereliction of duty to defend the Constitution and the integrity of the continental United States.
More than gross incompetence: this is treason.
IMPEACH THIS MOTHERFKER
#4
Our leaders are certainly getting a cut of the cartel action.
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^^^ Wasn't Harris assigned this job?
She ain't gonna let some old white man tell her what to do ... no sir ... she is the vice president,
and since she sees no vice goin on,
she's not involved... no sir...
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.
[NYPost] Asked during a hearing a couple of weeks ago by Pennsylvania Congressman Fred Keller why "women-held positions [were] disproportionately affected by COVID-19," Inez Stepman replied: "That’s a question you should take up with 
Perhaps 80,000 new IRS agents and those new Blue Bird school buses won't be needed after all. We're teaching life-skills right here at home now.
[Red State] Recent reports revealed that Mexican drug cartels are taking full advantage of President Joe Biden’s border crisis, and it’s getting even more deadly. I previously wrote about how Biden’s immigration policies are empowering the cartels, which have benefitted from increased business with smuggling, and human and drug trafficking.
