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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Mexico's President Lopez Obrador calls El Chapo's life term 'inhumane' after the drug lord is flown to US Supermax prison within hours of sentencing
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/19/2019 09:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Narcos

#1  Whaaaa.... keep your trap shut before we block all traffic heading north, cancel the trade deal and build a real wall and stop all remittances from people in the US to Mexico.

Your economy and country would collapse within a week.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/19/2019 11:11 Comments || Top||

#2  He is responsible for horrible deaths of thousands of Mexicans besides other people. How can any punishment for such a monster be "inhumame"?
Posted by: 3dc || 07/19/2019 11:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Another Narco Nation
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 07/19/2019 11:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Inhumane? A generation ago we would have hung him by the neck or fried him in the electric chair but too many of us think that's inhumane these days. But I dunno. That way it's all over in the blink of an eye. Now he gets to spend the rest of his life in a little concrete cell with nothing but a bunk and a toilet. Oh well. Cost of doing business...

I think there must be a whole bunch of Mexican politicians who are just as guilty as El Chapo and that's why Mexican jails couldn't hold him. So now we have him here. I bet we still have room for AMLO if he doesn't behave himself.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/19/2019 11:43 Comments || Top||

#5  He may be in supermax. The sinaloa remains.

Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/19/2019 11:53 Comments || Top||

#6  creo que AMLO se = narco
Posted by: Lex || 07/19/2019 12:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Is Obrador virtue-signaling, or is he thinking of the people ElChapo will still be controlling from inside the Supermax (and hoping for a shorter life sentence)?
Posted by: james || 07/19/2019 14:47 Comments || Top||

#8  I was thinking the latter.
Posted by: gorb || 07/19/2019 17:40 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Immigrant advocates file lawsuit against new Florida law prohibiting 'sanctuary cities'
[AMP.USATODAY] Florida’s new so-called "sanctuary cities" law, which prohibits local governments from enacting sanctuary policies and requires local law enforcement to help ICE detain immigrants colonists without warrants, is being challenged as unconstitutional.

A coalition of immigrant rights groups, including Florida Immigrant Coalition, Farmworker Association of Florida, WeCount!, Americans for Immigrant Justice, Hope Community Center, QLatinx, and the City of Miami filed the suit in federal court in Miami this morning. The injunction request is the first lawsuit to target the controversial law.

Rather than make Florida communities more secure, the lawsuit said, the law will lead to "the erosion of trust in law enforcement, racial profiling, and the violation of the constitutional rights of hundreds of thousands of Floridians."

The lawsuit also contends that hate groups drafted the original version of SB 168 and recruited state politicians "to turn their anti-immigrant agenda into state law."
Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  is being challenged as unconstitutional.

Eh?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/19/2019 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Because having a legal system of like laws and stuff is totally unconstitutional.

Shenanigans like this are great fun and get the lunatic base fired up (Hi, Mr Alinsky!), but I can't see it playing well with Mr & Mrs Middle America.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/19/2019 1:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Up = down
Night = day
Illegal alien = citizen
Posted by: Lex || 07/19/2019 2:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Good thing Trump's been appointing judges...
Posted by: Bobby || 07/19/2019 10:37 Comments || Top||


Manholes in Berkeley will now be called 'maintenance holes'
[MSN] At a Tuesday night city council meeting, Berkeley became the first city in America to ban the use of natural gas piping in new construction. But that was not the only utility-related issue they saw fit to attend to. No, there was another matter on deck: Eliminating the gendered connotations of words like "manhole" in the city municipal code.

No longer will the streets of fair Berkeley be dotted with manholes, nary a womanhole or nonbinaryhole in sight. With Tuesday night's vote, they have all been transmuted into "maintenance holes," that highest, hardest glass manhole-cover finally shattered.

The item, originally on the council agenda for March 12, was sponsored by councilmembers Rigel Robinson, Cheryl Davila, Ben Bartlett and Lori Droste, reports Berkeleyside. The ordinance eliminates all gendered pronouns from the city code, replacing "she" and "he" with "they."
City Council to be referred to as "Jackholes"

Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Banning new natural gas piping. Go ahead. Go back to the 19th century. Grab the popcorn.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/19/2019 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Fortunately, "$hithole" is still allowed. Would be hard to describe Berkeley if it weren't.
Posted by: Lex || 07/19/2019 3:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Now referred to simply as POS.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/19/2019 6:54 Comments || Top||

#4  A$$ holes?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/19/2019 8:17 Comments || Top||

#5  Nothing new. Back in the mid-90's when I was working at Oak Ridge we got instructions to call manways person access, man hours person effort, and anything gender specific changed to gender neutral.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/19/2019 8:25 Comments || Top||

#6  'Man'-tenance?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/19/2019 9:07 Comments || Top||

#7  Per'son'? They're access hatches, access corridors, etc.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/19/2019 10:46 Comments || Top||

#8  There was a suggestion to call them "womanholes" but that got the MeToo panties in a wad.
Posted by: warthogswife || 07/19/2019 11:53 Comments || Top||

#9  I would be curious to know. How many persons not identifying as a man actually lifted up a Maintenance Hole and went into a sewer?
Posted by: Airandee || 07/19/2019 15:36 Comments || Top||

#10  How many persons not identifying as a man could actually lifted up a Maintenance Hole cover?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/19/2019 19:06 Comments || Top||

#11  Pneumatic sexism. Hose connections, both male and female.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/19/2019 19:24 Comments || Top||


Britain
Politician Pushing ‘Gender Neutral’ Toilets Charged with Child Sex Crimes
[BREITBART] A politician who pushed for the introduction of "gender neutral" toilets shortly after his election has been charged with nine counts of sexual touching of a child.

David Smith successfully petitioned the Mayor of Middlesborough to trial gender neutral toilets at Middlesbrough Council shortly after his election to the local authority in Teeside, Yorkshire, as a politician representing the Conservative Party, according to the BBC.

Councillor Smith resigned from the notionally right-leaning party ‐ described as "not really conservative" by Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage in a recent interview with Breitbart News ‐ with "immediate effect in light of the allegations" against him.

He added that he "completely reject[s]" the "spurious allegations", however, claiming that he was only "removing myself from the party [to] ensure I can focus all my efforts on fighting to clear my name."

Nevertheless, reports suggest he intends to remain on the council ‐ allowing him to continue receiving a reported £6,378 in basic allowance ‐ for the time being.

Smith said he had "worked hard to ensure I serve the people of Coulby Newham" ‐ the ward to which he was elected only around two months ago ‐ "to the best of my ability."

The 30-year-old claimed "tackling the issue of pot holes", "ordering bollards to be installed", and "being a very proud advocate of the local LGBTQ community" as career highlights.

"This is who I am as a person and a community activist," he said, insisting that "The allegations made against my character are nothing more than damaging lies and moving forward, I will seek to prove this is the case in a court of law."

Smith was previously the subject of controversy when it emerged that he had suggested the country has issues with "rotten pond life families that should be sterilised and washed" while posting on an association football forum under the moniker "Smoggy89".

A front man for Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone,
...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ...
Police confirmed that Smith it "due to appear at Teesside Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 7 August."

Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh, bollards will be installed alright. Just wait till he gets to prison.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/19/2019 11:47 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Bill Clinton Press Secretary Joe Lockhart Calls Trump Supporters ‘Resentful, uneducated people screaming for blood from people of color’
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Joe Lockhart, press secretary to President Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is...
during his second term impeachment, went on an epic 21 tweet meltdown over President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
Wednesday afternoon. Lockhart calls his anti-Trump Twitter tantrums "shadow briefings" in lieu of the Trump administration cancelling daily briefings by the press secretary. Wednesday’s shadow briefing was insane.
Republicans, you know, use the blood of progressive babies to make meatloaf.
Lockahart not only attacked Trump and his administration, he also viciously attacked Trump supporters attending Wednesday night’s reelection campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina, calling them an "angry crowd of resentful, uneducated people screaming for blood from the people of color who are stealing everything from them."

"1. Welcome to the WH #shadowbriefing where all the questions get asked and a few actually get answered. Since @PressSec has not done a single briefing yet, only the shadow briefing is here for the American public. To quote @ChrisCuomo let’s get after it."
Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Private practice with Robinson, Lake followed, where he handled publicity for the Al Nahayan family during parts of the BCCI scandal.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/19/2019 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Stop throwing racist "white priviledge" labels at caucasions and practicing reverse discrimimation, low life.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 07/19/2019 0:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Early life and career
Born in The Bronx,[4] Lockhart is the son of Raymond Lockhart, a longtime NBC producer associated with the Huntley-Brinkley Report and special-events coverage. He grew up in Suffern, New York. In 1978 he moved to Washington D.C. to attend Georgetown University where he received a BA in History. In 1980, he worked on Jimmy Carter's presidential reelection campaign.

He was press secretary for the 1984 presidential campaign of Walter Mondale, then worked for Paul Simon in the Senate. Stints with ABC and CNN followed, then the Michael Dukakis campaign. He moved to Robinson, Lake, Lerer & Montgomery with Mike McCurry, then back to ABC when they hired his (former) wife and colleague from the Mondale campaign Laura Logan. Another gig with NBC covering the Romanian Revolution of 1989 preceded his first on-air job with Sky News reporting on the Gulf War and then business. Private practice with Robinson, Lake followed, where he handled publicity for the Al Nahayan family during parts of the BCCI scandal.

Clinton presidential campaign and the White House
At a time when Lockhart was considering working for AOL,[1] Mike McCurry recruited Lockhart back into politics, and he joined the 1996 Clinton re-election campaign.[5] He served as the campaign spokesman and, following President Clinton's successful reelection, as Deputy Press Secretary to McCurry. After standing in for him on occasion to brief the press, Lockhart eventually succeeded McCurry and delivered his first briefing as Press Secretary on October 5, 1998.[6]

Lockhart handled the press during Clinton's impeachment and the 2000 Camp David Summit.

After the White House
Lockhart was brought on to the John Kerry presidential campaign as a senior advisor in September 2004.[7]

On September 8, 2004, CBS News aired a controversial report on presidential candidate George W. Bush's military record. The authenticity of the Killian documents used in that report are under scrutiny. In the course of the next few days, it was discovered that Joseph Lockhart, then senior advisor to presidential candidate John Kerry, had made a phone call to Texas National Guard officer, Bill Burkett on September 4, 2004.[8][9] Lockhart stated later that an unnamed female CBS producer asked him to contact Burkett.[8][9] Lockhart has denied that the call with Burkett had anything to do with the National Guard issue.[9]

Lockhart co-founded the consulting firm Glover Park Group, becoming its Managing Director.[10]

In June 2011, he joined Facebook as the head of the company's corporate, policy and international communications team. Not wanting to relocate to the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, he left the company in October 2012.[11]

On February 15, 2016, Lockhart was introduced as the new executive vice president of communications and top public relations official for the National Football League; he left the job after the 2018 Super Bowl to spend time with his family.[12][3]

Personal life
Lockhart was previously married to Laura Logan, Deputy Press Secretary for John Glenn's 1984 presidential run and a longtime ABC News producer.[13] In 2013, Lockhart married Giovanna Gray. [14]

In 2016, it was announced that President Obama and his family planned to rent Lockhart's Kalorama home after he left office.[15] It was later revealed that the Obamas purchased the house from the Lockharts in May 2017, saying that it made sense to own the property since they would remain in Washington for at least another two years. [16]

Posted by: 3dc || 07/19/2019 0:29 Comments || Top||

#4  You really, really, really want a civil war. Don't ya? This does nothing but inflame both sides.

When it does happen, you will die. Preferably at the end of a rope.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/19/2019 0:33 Comments || Top||

#5  A true operative of the Democratic party invasively infiltrating the Press, Facebook and the NFL while supporting a BCCI insider family. For those too young - BCCI, Pakistani Bank helped collapse US Savings and Loans in the 80s with the money financing Pakistan's nuclear bomb and certain key Democratic Party Insiders ...
Posted by: 3dc || 07/19/2019 0:35 Comments || Top||

#6  He's just making stuff up, but the scary part is that in his mind we really did say these things. That's literally hallucinating.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 07/19/2019 2:14 Comments || Top||

#7  ....screaming for the blood of people from color.

Classic tribalism and projection. I can think of few better examples.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/19/2019 5:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Uneducated ?

I'll bet even a meagre collective of Trump supporters can beat the scores of the entire Congress in a fair exam, any day.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 07/19/2019 7:05 Comments || Top||

#9  The incessant prating about the isms has left me saying "I don't care if you call me rayciss or sexiss or whatever. I. Just. Don't. Care." Like the race card it's overplayed and tapped out.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/19/2019 7:08 Comments || Top||

#10  I myself have been a fascist and racist since the Oslo accords.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/19/2019 8:07 Comments || Top||

#11  Joe Lockhart, a luminary "no-nothing" in a party of no-nothings. "In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king…" He continues to carry water for the Donks. To think, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski embodied in one person--who'd a thought it possible?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/19/2019 8:33 Comments || Top||

#12  I like it. Inflammatory media representations.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/19/2019 8:59 Comments || Top||

#13  I bet he couldn't change a car tire in less than ten minutes. He's a pansy.
Posted by: Raj || 07/19/2019 10:04 Comments || Top||

#14  A Bad Moon Rising.
Posted by: SR-71 || 07/19/2019 11:14 Comments || Top||

#15  The gentleman has quite a record. I want to know which Democratic presidential candidate he supports, so I know who can be safely dismissed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/19/2019 12:20 Comments || Top||

#16  These days the words racist and nazi are used for anyone who doesn't agree with the left. These words have lost their original meaning. But now, I think people who use these words with utter thoughtlessness should try to understand that, as such, these words have become every bit as offensive as the slurs that are used by real racists.

There are no gas chambers, no lynchings and the only Brown Shirts are Antifa who hate Trump. This is real hate with real violence and Democrats condone it.

These are incendiary words that Lockhart is using against a whole class of people who he does not know. That is the very definition of prejudice.

You can't resolve any issues with someone who calls you a racist or a nazi because right off the bat you're so pissed off that all you want to do is punch them out. Even when you try to calm down and reason with them they shout you down. Their minds are closed and there is no reasoning with them. It is a dangerous situation.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/19/2019 12:21 Comments || Top||

#17  Methinks his former boss is egging him on. Note that the frenzied & frothing former shill for Clinton accuses Trump (in Tweet # 347) of raping children with Epstein.

Smells like an attempt at a pre-emptive redirect away from Epstein-related charges that will soon come out against his former boss...
Posted by: Lex || 07/19/2019 12:30 Comments || Top||

#18  Joe Lockhart Calls Trump Supporters ‘Resentful, uneducated people screaming for blood from people of color’

Coming from an ignoramus speaking to a bunch of bleeding hearts for effect only, I take this as a compliment.
Posted by: gorb || 07/19/2019 17:46 Comments || Top||

#19  uneducated

Us? He’s adorable.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/19/2019 20:51 Comments || Top||


Thousands demand resignation of Puerto Rico’s governor
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Thousands marched in Puerto Rico for a fifth day on Wednesday demanding the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rossello, following corruption accusations and the leak of text chats in which he made sexist and homophobic remarks.

To the chant of "Ricky, renuncia!" ("Ricky, resign!") large crowds gathered in the capital San Juan clamoring for Rossello to leave office -- which he is refusing to do.

Local celebrity performers such as rapper Benito Martinez ("Bad Bunny"), pop icon Ricky Martin and Rene Perez ("Residente") had urged their fellow Puerto Ricans to demonstrate.

"Not just me, but many Puerto Ricans will hit the streets to demonstrate for what is correct," rapper Martinez told the Spanish-language Telemundo network before heading to the march.

Police fired tear gas at the crowd on Monday after a fire broke out near the government headquarters. Five protesters were arrested.

The Caribbean island of Puerto Rico is a US territory and residents are American citizens, but it does not have the same congressional representation accorded to states.

Rossello is under pressure after US federal agents arrested contractors and government officials -- including former education secretary Julia Keleher -- on corruption charges.

The protests erupted after the Center for Investigative Journalism on Saturday released 889 pages of text chats on the encrypted messaging app Telegram in which Rossello and 12 other male administration members criticize officials, politicians and journalists.

They shared memes, jokes and crude sexual insults, according to the Center and an excerpt published by local daily El Nuevo Dia.

In one exchange, chief financial officer Christian Sobrino makes homophobic references to Latin superstar Martin.

Martin, of "Livin’ la Vida Loca" and "She Bangs" fame, vented his fury in a video posted on Twitter.

"They mocked our dead, they mocked women, they mocked the LGBT community, they made fun of people with physical and mental disabilities, they made fun of obesity," he said. "It’s enough -- this cannot be."

Demonstrators are also angry over Rossello’s handling of the Hurricane Maria emergency in 2017, which left nearly 3,000 dead, and the island in financial crisis.

Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  not just the executive branch

officials in the legislative branch and many municipal officials have been charged over the past year

and not just this year, corruption is endemic in PR, almost everyone has to pay a bribe at some point and sometimes you have to pay twice because the first guy wasn't the right guy to bribe
Posted by: lord garth || 07/19/2019 1:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump:"Told ya so. You're welcome"
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/19/2019 1:22 Comments || Top||

#3  And Mayors too. Don't forget Mayors.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/19/2019 9:00 Comments || Top||

#4  you mean like the mayor of San Juan?

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al || 07/19/2019 13:14 Comments || Top||

#5  A friend (originally from Puerto Rico) just got back from visiting family there and said he didn't see a lot of significant problems, and that the worst ones were the same as before the hurricane.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/19/2019 20:49 Comments || Top||


US House of Representatives voted to sideline an impeachment resolution against President Donald Trump
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 07/19/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The sane(ish) members of the party know this is a losing proposition.

Thus Trump will ratchet up the insults and watch the demoncrats collapse.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/19/2019 0:34 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't know if it is possible, but IMO the Donks are going to go full-bore unhinged when Trump wins the Presidency in 2020.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/19/2019 8:24 Comments || Top||

#3  As distinct from now, JQC?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/19/2019 8:27 Comments || Top||

#4  ...civil war
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 07/19/2019 8:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Ah'm so conflicted.
Do I load more magazines with my EDC .45x7
or upgrade the .40x13 to EDC?

Yeah, yeah Berserker, I hear "Carry both!"

So many decisions.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/19/2019 9:05 Comments || Top||

#6  'bout time to order another thousand rounds of 5.56, 200 rounds of 9mm and 200 rounds of .270.

Getting low.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/19/2019 9:23 Comments || Top||



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  'HOSTILE ACT' Iran seizes British oil tanker in the Gulf with 23 crew on board days after clash with Royal Navy
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