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-Lurid Crime Tales-
'Increasingly hostile': Flynn lawyers argue Judge Sullivan must recuse from case due to bias
[Washington Times] Lawyers for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn filed a lengthy motion with the federal court on Wednesday, calling for the disqualification of Judge Emmet Sullivan, who has presided over the case since 2017, due to alleged bias against the former Trump national security adviser.

The 40-page filing calling for Sullivan’s recusal, filed by former federal prosecutor and lead Flynn attorney Sidney Powell, argued that the judge’s "increasingly hostile and unprecedented words and deeds in what has become his own prosecution of General Flynn mandate his disqualification from further participation in these proceedings and the referral of his conduct to the D.C. Circuit Judicial Council" and that "the appearance of bias here is terrifying and mandates disqualification." The motion comes a week after Flynn’s lawyers and the Justice Department appeared before Sullivan to argue for the case to be dismissed.

Attorney General William Barr appointed U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Jensen to review the Flynn case, after which a host of new documents deemed exculpatory by Flynn’s lawyers were discovered. The Justice Department told the district court in May "that continued prosecution of this case would not serve the interests of justice" as it sought to drop its case. Instead, Sullivan appointed retired New York Judge John Gleeson to present arguments in opposition to the Justice Department’s motion and to explore whether Flynn should be charged with perjury or contempt.

Flynn’s lawyers cited the federal rules governing recusal which state, in part, that a judge "shall disqualify himself ... where he has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party." They also quoted from a D.C. Circuit Court ruling in a 2019 case involving the military judge presiding over the Guantanamo Bay hearings against Abd al Rahim Hussein Muhammed al Nashiri, arguing that "by the time of his failure to follow the mandamus of the D.C. Circuit panel and his decision with his own retained counsel to take the unprecedented and improper step of filing his petition for rehearing en banc" Sullivan had "cast an intolerable cloud of partiality over his subsequent judicial conduct" and "risked undermining the public’s confidence in the judicial process."
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2020 10:53 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Move him to Portland. He can apply the newly created 'Sullivan' principle to the DA's dropping of charges.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/08/2020 12:14 Comments || Top||


New Jersey mailman, 26, faces up to five years in prison for 'dumping 99 ballots in the trash that were meant for voters in heavily Democratic suburbs'
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A postal employee in New Jersey dumped more than 1,800 pieces of mail, including 99 ballots for the upcoming election, that were intended for households in heavily Democratic areas, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Nicholas Beauchene, 26, of Kearny, faced arraignment later on Wednesday in federal court in Newark on charges of delay, secretion or detention of mail and obstruction of mail.

If convicted of delay of mail, he faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

A conviction for obstruction of mail carries a maximum penalty of six months in prison and a $5,000 fine.

It was not known if he had retained a lawyer. Beauchene has not responded to a request from DailyMail.com for comment.
Posted by: Fred || 10/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.".

The USPS is going to have to change their motto to read "Except for ballots intended for Donald Trump."
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/08/2020 9:51 Comments || Top||

#2  So the guy did not dump ballots to change an election. He dumped 1800 pieces of mail. This is popping up across the US. Why? Lazy workers? Overworked? What's really going on.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/08/2020 10:56 Comments || Top||

#3  "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.".

Actually that is the motto of the Persian couriers of the Persian empire (prior to Alexander setting up new management). The architect of the big post office building in NYC, long time ago, added the motto to the building's facade.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/08/2020 12:25 Comments || Top||

#4  What's really going on

Does the term 'going postal' mean anything to you?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/08/2020 12:26 Comments || Top||

#5  gubmint employees are always overworked. they'll be the first to tell you
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 10/08/2020 20:19 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Disgraced Former Rep. Katie Hill's Former Staffers Take Over Official Twitter Account, Slam Ex-Boss
[BREITBART] Disgraced former Rep. Katie Nice Boobies! Hill
...Dem representative from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, who ran as a bisexual, resigned from Congress when nude pictures of her came to light, along with information that she was being bisexual with one of her aides. Katie appears to be unacquainted with the word shame...
’s (D-CA) ex-staffers commandeered her official government account on Tuesday and posted a slew of messages critical of their former boss.The string of messages from the anonymous former employees came on the heels of an announcement that Blumhouse Pictures, a studio best known for horror movies, is producing a film about Hill’s life.

Blumhouse founder Jason Blum said he was "inspired" by Hill’s story, which includes a "throuple" involving her then-husband and a female campaign staffer.


"Katie’s former staff here," the trail of messages began, before saying they were "disappointed" in Blum, actress Elizabeth Moss, who will portray Hill, and Michael Seitzman, the screenwriter.

"What happened to Katie Hill shouldn’t happen to anyone. But, this moment requires more nuance, as Katie Hill’s story — our story — is also one of workplace abuse and harassment," they said in another tweet.


"Katie Hill can be both a victim and perpetrator," they wrote, alluding to Hill’s allegation that her former husband abused her. "And, staff can experience severe consequences for speaking out against their powerful boss."



Posted by: Fred || 10/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Staffers Slam Ex-Boss

I think she has already been sufficiently "slammed."
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/08/2020 9:53 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Jews Targeted For COVID Lockdowns By Anti-Semitic Mayor and Governor, Hispanics and Blacks Spared
[MichaelSavage] DeBlasio’s Zip Code Lockdowns
NY POST

11219: Borough Park, Brooklyn (3869 caser per) 60 percent Jewish

11223: Gravesend/Homecrest, Brooklyn (3215 cases per) 20 percent Jewish

11230: Midwood, Brooklyn (3614 cases per) 40 percent Jewish

11204: Bensonhurst/Mapleton, Brooklyn (3205 cases per) 20 percent Jewish

11210: Flatlands, Brooklyn (3237 cases per)

11691: Edgemere/Far Rockaway, Queens (4640 cases per) 17 percent Jewish

11229: Gerritsen Beach/Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn (2563 cases per) 50 percent Jew

11367: Kew Gardens Hills/Pomonok, Queens (3073 cases per) 22 percent Jewish

11415: Kew Gardens, Queens (3346 cases per) 49 percent Jewish

Areas not shut down:

Corona Queens – 4661 cases per 100,000 – Ethnic makeup – 71 percent Hispanic, 12 percent black

Airport/East Elmhurst – 4889 cases per 100,000 – Ethnic makeup – 55 percent Hispanic, 10 percent black, 21 percent Asian

East Harlem – 3361 per 100,000 – Ethnic makeup – 40 percent Hispanic, 25 percent black, 7 percent Asian

Pelham Gardens/Allerton/Baychester – 4647 per 100,000 – Ethnic makeup – 29 percent Hispanic, 36 percent black, 8 percent Asian, 24 percent white







Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's not Jews - it's the Ultra-Orthodox. We have the same problem in Israel: 12% of population & 40% of the infected.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/08/2020 2:04 Comments || Top||

#2  The problem is they are not breaking glass storefronts, looting and setting fires.
Posted by: Hupolurong Speasing3559 || 10/08/2020 2:15 Comments || Top||


#4  The Education Ministry on Thursday said that over 50% of children infected by the coronavirus were students of Haredi educational institutions according to the ministry's findings that were presented to the Health Ministry.

There are 448,298 students being schooled in Haredi institutions, constituting 19.39% of the Israeli student body with 1.75% of them having already been ill with COVID-19.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/08/2020 2:38 Comments || Top||

#5  I hear you g(r)om but the same pols here turned blind eyes to the Marxist gatherings. It's interesting how both NY and CA which oppress the 2d Amendment are now getting around to oppressing the 1st Amendment.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/08/2020 7:52 Comments || Top||

#6  ^Don't fall into "enemy of my enemy" trap, P2k.
Just because De Blasio & Cuomo are (IMO) pigs, doesn't mean they're wrong in this particular case.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/08/2020 8:10 Comments || Top||

#7  They have a cultural tendency to self isolate from the rest of population. In this particular case, I'm willing for Darwin's "adapt or perish" to be observed.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/08/2020 8:50 Comments || Top||

#8  1st Amendment
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Not applicable because that they're doing is contrary to Jewish law: Justifications for Medical Quarantine in Jewish Ethics.
See also Quarantine Theory for Dummies – How We Can Curtail COVID-19

They have a cultural tendency to self isolate from the rest of population.

They don't have separate buses, or separate hospitals.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/08/2020 9:24 Comments || Top||

#9  My understanding per the honor the mayor, no one on the buses without a mask.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/08/2020 12:21 Comments || Top||


#11  Any mosques shut down?
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/08/2020 19:11 Comments || Top||

#12  Grom is Moti Ravid right?
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/08/2020 19:14 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Joe Biden under ACTIVE criminal investigation for his role in Russia gate and Ukraine
[Right Scoop] Paul Sperry, who the president loves to retweet, is reporting now that Joe Biden is under an active federal criminal investigation for his role in the 2016 phony Russia investigation that led to spying on his campaign. Also, his Ukraine misdeeds are under investigation as well:

I don’t like to post stuff like this from just one source, so take it for what it’s worth to you.

If Sperry is right, this is huge news which would contradict what AG Barr has said, even somewhat recently in his interview with CNN, about Biden and Obama not being under investigation. But the way Barr announced it earlier this year left room for things to change and perhaps evidence has led them down this road.

I doubt Barr would confirm this less than a month before the election though. But maybe another reporter will check with their sources on this and we can learn if this is really true. It would be a bombshell.

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2020 01:03 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hope springs eternal.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/08/2020 2:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Wow, another potential "bombshell". Gee, I don't know just how many more [Bill Barr] bombshells I can take.
Posted by: Clem || 10/08/2020 7:06 Comments || Top||

#3  No one will go to prison though
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/08/2020 9:00 Comments || Top||

#4  ^If Biden wins, a lot of people will go to prison.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/08/2020 9:26 Comments || Top||

#5  the Russia Gate issue is being investigated by the DO'J

Biden's role in the Ukraine is a different matter and would require the Dept of State to provide info as well as the various govt offices in the Ukraine. This would have to be done prior to any DOJ involvement. At this point what Biden did appears to be sneaky and despicable and almost unreported but also legal.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 10/08/2020 10:31 Comments || Top||

#6  If this were Trump, he would be removed from office immediately.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 || 10/08/2020 15:30 Comments || Top||

#7  #yup. The Dems impeached Trump based on zip, nada, nothing. "Removed from office" would be mild with the Dems.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/08/2020 18:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Not good! Now Prissy Wray will use the "on going investigation" excuse to hide, whatever he wants.

Very bad.
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/08/2020 19:09 Comments || Top||


CA Officials Topple Giant 'TRUMP' Sign Overlooking 405 Freeway, Citing 'Life And Safety Hazard'
[Zero] California officials were so triggered after someone erected a giant "TRUMP" sign on a hillside overlooking a Los Angeles freeway, that they promptly removed it from the private property within two hours of a caller reporting it.

The sign, visible on the hills near the Sepulveda Pass as Los Angeles drivers began their Tuesday commute, was first reported just before 7 a.m. by a driver who "was apparently concerned it could spark a blaze" after the state's history of "destructive brush fires in the past few years."
As such, the CA Highway Patrol noted the sign as a "traffic hazard" as drivers began to decelerate to take photos of the sign.

By 9 a.m., the sign was taken down by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), which entered private property and "laid it down so it wasn’t a visual distraction." (h/t The Federalist).
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2020 00:49 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Riots are a life and safety hazard.
Posted by: Airandee || 10/08/2020 6:37 Comments || Top||

#2  I guess they finally got around to filling all of the skateboard parks with sand and went on to the next "danger".
Posted by: Clem || 10/08/2020 7:09 Comments || Top||

#3  I would sue for the suppression of speech.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/08/2020 8:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Trespassing charges come to mind....
Posted by: Glomomp Glumble1079 || 10/08/2020 9:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Put up a 'BIDEN' sign instead and watch then not do the same thing.
Posted by: Raj || 10/08/2020 9:54 Comments || Top||

#6  VOTER SUPPRESSION!!
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/08/2020 9:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Could spark a blaze.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/08/2020 10:36 Comments || Top||

#8  There was a sign some weeks ago next to HWY 8 leaving El Cajon, Ca eastbound that said "Kamala is a HO"....lasted overnight.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 10/08/2020 11:02 Comments || Top||

#9  Churches, free speech. They're starting on the 1st Amendment now that they have suppressed the 2nd.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/08/2020 12:20 Comments || Top||

#10  "Good morning. We are from the California Department of Revenue, and we are here to audit your assets as part of an investigation into zoning violations."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/08/2020 13:16 Comments || Top||

#11  I actually admit it would have been a serious fire risk given the political climate that now exists in the People’s Republic of California. Sad truth, but also another example of how the golden age of American exceptionalism is ending. The left does not permit dissent. Think about how much political power it takes to go from CHP dispatcher receipt of the first call to CalTrans on the property knocking the sign down in 2 hours! Anyone who has every seen how CalTrans works can only marvel how anything would get done by them in TWO hours?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/08/2020 13:31 Comments || Top||

#12  Fire risk because it would attract Molotov cocktails.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/08/2020 13:52 Comments || Top||

#13  Try a hologram.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/08/2020 15:23 Comments || Top||

#14  Could pay for the hologram by live streaming it moving across the landscape from protestors, like a cat and laser pointer.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/08/2020 15:52 Comments || Top||


VP Debate Recap: Mike Pence Eviscerates the Biden-Harris Campaign
[PJ] Vice President Mike Pence dissected each of the arguments for Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, during the vice-presidential debate. Pence schooled Harris on issues ranging from the coronavirus pandemic to packing the Supreme Court to the Green New Deal and from China to the riots to the false "white supremacy" attacks on Trump.

Pence treated both Harris and USA Today’s Susan Page (the moderator) with grace, although he did speak beyond the time he was allotted. Harris also did so, and it appeared that Page cut Pence off more frequently than she cut off Harris. Harris, frequently a prickly debater, came off as very condescending.

Some legacy media outlets may claim that Pence hogged the stage, but according to CNN, the two vice-presidential candidates spoke for almost exactly the same amount of time, 36 minutes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2020 00:41 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  To Democrats, a Republican getting to speak the same amount of time as the Democrat is the very definition of his hogging the stage.
Posted by: daniel || 10/08/2020 2:27 Comments || Top||

#2  She was clueless, rattled, and smirking. She was outgunned and knew it very soon into the debate. On the other hand, Pence looked poised, gentlemanly, and presidential.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2020 7:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Look for several other articles (all opinions) and you'll find Pence won only because he's so boring compared to Trump, Kamala won because she had to conform to male rules (or something), cororavirus won because OrangeManBad, Pence did OK because he didn't lie as much as Trump, Pence won on issues, Kamala won on issues, and so on and on and on.
Posted by: Bobby || 10/08/2020 7:49 Comments || Top||

#4  This was a no-brainer (if not "no line at Vegas"). Pence is one, cool cookie and knows his egesta about many things, in particular, China.
Posted by: Clem || 10/08/2020 7:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Watched about 10 mins. and in my opinion.

Harris was smug, condescending, snarky and displayed a lack leadership skills or talent for the position she hopes to obtain.

As we all know Leadership skills and not Take a Knee Skills must be a focus. Because IF the LSD's win, we know Harris and Nancy will be the actual President Admin in less than a year into any Biden Admin.

BTW:
Her demeanor, false/fake facts and comments came off as if she were auditioning for a seat on The View for after the election.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/08/2020 8:17 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ Smug, condescending California VP 2020 candidate quite similar to the smug, condescending Illinois presidential candidate of 2008 and 2012.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2020 8:25 Comments || Top||

#7  from what i can see, the takeaway for the leftists is that a fly landed on Pence's head
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 10/08/2020 8:40 Comments || Top||

#8  And don't forget all the coordinated comments about the mansplaining!
Posted by: gorb || 10/08/2020 9:32 Comments || Top||

#9  She was clueless, rattled, and smirking.

I accidentally watched a couple minutes of the debate. Ms Harris appeared to be high on something.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/08/2020 9:48 Comments || Top||

#10  I watched a few minutes of it and I'll charitably describe Harris as an ugly, vile coont.
Posted by: Raj || 10/08/2020 9:56 Comments || Top||

#11  from what i can see, the takeaway for the leftists is that a fly landed on Pence's head

Really. My first take-away is the girls were on a first name basis. Then I noticed Harris' pearl necklace.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/08/2020 10:26 Comments || Top||

#12  It's not her first pearl necklace, if ya know what I mean...
Posted by: Raj || 10/08/2020 10:33 Comments || Top||

#13  Dang, you're right about the fly.

Apparently it outperformed Harris, and Pence still didn't flinch at it.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/08/2020 10:51 Comments || Top||

#14  CNN said Harris won...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/08/2020 11:08 Comments || Top||

#15  Did they wait until the debate was over?

Because it looked like she went all 49rs in the 4th quarter.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/08/2020 11:39 Comments || Top||

#16  Pence delivered some great lines last night. It's hard for me to decide which I liked the best.

There was the part where he said Biden's covid-19 plan to has all the same things that Trump has already done..."It's like plagiarism which Biden should know something about."

ZING!!!

Then there was, "You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts."

Now the liberal media accuse Pence of "mansplaining". So from now on, any time a man says anything to a woman he is mansplaining which is probably stopping just short of misogyny. Riiiggghhht.

Pence was cool, calm, armed with facts and a very quick wit. Harris was smug and deceitful. She behaved like a naughty junior high school girl repeating lies that she heard from her naughty little friends. It's easy to see why Democrat primary voters never gave her more than single digit percentages. It's easy to imagine this woman getting her start in politics by allowing Willie Brown to have his way with her because it's so hard to see her getting anywhere any other way.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/08/2020 12:59 Comments || Top||

#17  Channeling Mel Brooks' Robin Hood:

Did you say Abe Lincoln?


The summoning of John McCain's ghost was cringey; the worst was the whole because your web site doesn't say science! you must be anti-science skit which came out like someone pushing noodles through a garden hose.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/08/2020 15:26 Comments || Top||


Whichever RNC staffer did this deserves a promotion
[TWITTER]
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Its all about Power. There is no hypocrisy in power. Power is self rationalizing and self justifying. It's all they live for.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/08/2020 7:50 Comments || Top||


NBC News' ‘Undecided' Voters Previously Featured as Biden Supporters on MSNBC
[FreeBeacon] NBC News featured a pair of "undecided" voters during a network town hall earlier this week who had previously declared their support for Democratic nominee Joe Biden on the network's sister channel, MSNBC.

Lawyer Peter Gonzalez and marketing executive Ismael Llano posed questions to Biden during a town hall on Monday, when he appeared before what the network described as an "audience of undecided Florida voters."

Both Gonzalez and Llano, however, were featured in an MSNBC segment in August to explain why they support Biden. "If we get four more years of Trump, good luck, and good luck with the future attracting younger voters," Gonzalez said as an MSNBC chyron noted he was "voting for Biden." Llano was also identified as "voting for Biden" and offered praise for the former vice president.

It is not the first time that television networks have featured Trump opponents masquerading as undecided voters, who are difficult to find and often less publicly vocal about their political views. ABC News last month described several Trump critics as undecided voters, including one who had previously described Trump as a "f—ing moron," "pathetic," "pig," "swine," and a "punk ass" on social media.
Posted by: Chesing Slavinter3713 || 10/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  To the surprise of no one
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/08/2020 2:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Hard to fathom why polls consistently show Americans' trust in media collapsing.
Posted by: Tom || 10/08/2020 10:34 Comments || Top||


Official New York City ad to promote mask wearing is embarrassingly bad
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 10/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Reverse strip tease.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/08/2020 17:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Ghaawd, that is bad.

Something, something, politicians making display on the porch is South American Dictator Stuff or something something.

Then goes into his place of work to make money.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/08/2020 21:41 Comments || Top||

#3  For other "younger than average but more demented than average" burgers going nuts trying to remember the name of "that '50s stripper tune:"

Posted by: Flelet Spawn of the Antelope1170 || 10/08/2020 21:51 Comments || Top||


Putin Praises 'Ideological' Links Between Democrats, Soviet Communism
[BREITBART] Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
said Wednesday that he could work with Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. I had the great honor of being arrested with our UN Ambassador on the streets of Soweto, trying to get to see him on Robbens Island...
in a new administration, citing common ground he shared with the Democrats over a shared embrace of Soviet ideology.Bloomberg News reported that while Putin praised 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...
for improving relations, he was prepared to work with Biden if he won the U.S. election.

He cited Biden’s support for new arms reduction treaties — such as the lopsided New START under President Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
Putin added, approvingly, that Biden’s Democrats shared similar ideals to those Russia embraced under Soviet communism:

The Russian leader even argued that the values of the Democrats were similar to those of the Soviet Communist Party, of which he said he’d been a member for 18 years. The Soviet regime’s longtime ties with the Black community in the U.S. could also be a basis for links to the Democrats, he said.

"Equality, brotherhood, what’s wrong with that?" Putin said. "There is some kind of ideological basis for establishing contacts with a representative of the Democratic Party
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...

Posted by: Fred || 10/08/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Putin after the remaining portion of US uranium that Hillary didn't sell?
Posted by: Hupolurong Speasing3559 || 10/08/2020 2:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Dang! I had Bee...
Posted by: SteveS || 10/08/2020 9:49 Comments || Top||


#4  Well, Vlad, if you like Biden you're gonna love Harris.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/08/2020 13:29 Comments || Top||


Mark Kelly Admits He Would Vote Against Judge Amy Coney Barrett
[BREITBART] Democrat Senate candidate Mark Kelly admitted in a debate Tuesday night that he would vote against confirming Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court.Kelly, like other Democrats, has argued that the confirmation of a new justice to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg should wait until after the election — the opposite of the position most Democrats held four years ago. (At the time, Republicans said the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat should not be filled until after the election.)

But Kelly had been somewhat guarded about whether he would, in fact, vote against Barrett. He might have a vote, even if the vote were to be held before the new Congress, because he is running against Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) to serve the remaining two years of the term of the late Sen. John Maverick McCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump...
(R-AZ).

Though Republicans are promising a vote before Election Day, if there are any delays, Kelly would have to make a choice.

On Tuesday evening, during the one and only debate for the Arizona seat, Kelly said he would oppose Barrett — even though confirmation hearings, scheduled for next week, have not yet begun.
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#1  Stop the Presses!!!!

(Oh wait... he never would have voted for her no matter what anyway.)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/08/2020 6:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Goldwater and the prodigal son, McCain, have destroyed the republican party here in AZ for decades. The best AZ can produce is McSally? She is a fringe player at best, not a national player. And she is the best they have? We are a state that is turning blue because the party here is a wreck. I expect Kelly to win, and he is a fraud.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/08/2020 11:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Can we just skip the hearings and go right to the vote? It's not like anyone is going to change their mind and we could avoid all that grandstanding and spittleous speechifying.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/08/2020 11:10 Comments || Top||

#4  A great troll would be for Barrett to show up wearing a hijab. See how many questions she gets about her religion then.
Posted by: Matt || 10/08/2020 11:52 Comments || Top||

#5  ... might backfire. most of our congressional idjits wouldn't know a hijab from a nun's habit.
The dog-do lives loudly in them
Posted by: Slereling Bonaparte4334 || 10/08/2020 12:45 Comments || Top||

#6  "Sorry, have to shave my legs that day."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/08/2020 15:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Watched his last debate. ChiCom Kelly. What a NASA f-up.
Posted by: Woodrow || 10/08/2020 19:16 Comments || Top||


Army Reserve Investigating Democrat North Carolina Senate Hopeful Cal Cunningham
[BREITBART] The United States Army Reserve is investigating North Carolina Senate candidate James Calvin "Cal" Cunningham III, a lieutenant colonel who is alleged of having an extramarital affair in potential violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).

"The Army Reserve is investigating the matters involving Lt. Col. James Cunningham. As such, we are unable to provide further details at this time," Army Reserve front man Lt. Col. Simon Flake said in a statement Wednesday morning.

The acknowledgment that the Army Reserve is looking into his behavior could cast a cloud over Cunningham’s image as well as career in the military, since extramarital affairs are prohibited and punishable under the UCMJ.

Nationalfile.com first reported that Cunningham and a public relations executive, Arlene Guzman Todd, exchanged sexually-charged text messages that talked about kissing and more.

On Tuesday, Guzman Todd confirmed that they had an affair and more text messages emerged that indicated the two engaged in sexual intercourse in Cunningham’s family home, and that she had nude photos of him and had jokingly told a friend she would send them to his opponent if he continued ignoring her.

In a statement to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, Guzman Todd apologized for the "pain and embarrassment, and disrespect I’ve caused to my immediate family, loved ones, and everyone affected by this situation."

"A few months back, I displayed a lapse in judgment by engaging in a relationship with Cal Cunningham during a period of marital separation," she said. "The relationship spanned several months and consisted primarily of a series of text exchanges and an in-person encounter."

Guzman Todd is married to an Army combat veteran who deployed to war five times.

Cunningham, himself a married father of two, has also confirmed the texts are authentic. He said in a statement last week, "I have hurt my family, disappointed my friends, and am deeply sorry. The first step in repairing those relationships is taking complete responsibility, which I do. I ask that my family’s privacy be respected in this personal matter.“
But please elect me to represent you
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Behar to Pelosi: 'I'm Dreaming of the Day When We All Say 'President Nancy Pelosi'
[BREITBART] Co-host Joy Behar revealed one of her desires about House Speaker 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...
(D-CA) on Wednesday’s broadcast of ABC’s "The View."

Behar said, "I’m dreaming of the day when we all say ’President Nancy Pelosi.’ I think that sounds really good. But the polls are showing that Biden is ahead in key swing states. It’s very encouraging in many ways, Pennsylvania, et cetera, but I’m still worried that they could steal this election. I know that the Russians are still involved. Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security just released a report warning that Russia is a key threat to the election. Now we knew this going into 2016 too, and we saw how that turned out. This is why I’m not counting my chickens at all. I’m still nervous. People have to vote, and we have to win in a landslide. How concerned are you about that?"

Pelosi said, "Well, I’m concerned, but I don’t— my motto is we don’t agonize, we organize. I have no doubt that the president, in typical fashion, will lie, cheat, and steal to win this election. So we are prepared for that. I’m sorry to have to say that, by being speaker of the House and he’s president of the United States, but that is the reality."
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#1  I dream of the day that I hear Joy Behar has retired... Do there!
Posted by: magpie || 10/08/2020 2:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Dreaming?
A nightmare for everyone else.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/08/2020 7:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Loons of a feather flock together.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/08/2020 9:51 Comments || Top||

#4  when you're both put out to pasture, you can say whatever you like
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 10/08/2020 17:51 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ ["Katie grooming staffer" photoshop here]
Posted by: Flelet Spawn of the Antelope1170 || 10/08/2020 22:05 Comments || Top||

#6  The staffer was waaayyy hotter than Katie
Posted by: Frank G || 10/08/2020 22:13 Comments || Top||

#7  High-quality vodka "President" is made in Lviv - a city with ancient European history, culture and factory manufacturing tradition of high-quality alcoholic drinks production since 1782!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/08/2020 22:20 Comments || Top||

#8  For sure. Just like Joy Behar is waaayyy hotter than... okay, maybe not.
Posted by: Flelet Spawn of the Antelope1170 || 10/08/2020 22:22 Comments || Top||


'Eat in Peace': Bo Snerdley, PAC targets Kamala Harris in one doozy of an ad ahead of VP debate
[BIZPACREVIEW] Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., the vice presidential running mate for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, is being held to account for voicing her support for the violent protests that rocked American cities over the summer.

Not by the mainstream media, of course, but by a “non-traditional” political action committee headed up by James Golden, aka Bo Snerdley, the longtime producer for talk radio titan Rush Limbaugh.

New Journey PAC seeks to realign the black vote with candidates and issues that “support conservative values and by consequence, help the black community,” and the PAC released a video ad that draws on what could be the pivotal issue in next month’s election — law and order.

Harris is featured in the ad, titled “Eat in Peace,” as she speaks with Stephen Colbert during an appearance on his show in June — this being the height of the civil unrest over the death of George Floyd.

The release of the ad comes as Harris is set to debate Vice President Mike Pence at the University of Utah on Wednesday evening.

“Since the mainstream media won’t do it and it is doubtful the debate moderator will, we’re calling Kamala Harris out on her words and threats directed toward peaceful American citizens,” Golden said.

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#1  Ouch! That is going to leave a mark.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/08/2020 10:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Truth plain and simple.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/08/2020 10:58 Comments || Top||



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