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-Lurid Crime Tales-
NYT Reveals FBI Deep State Enforcers Retaliated Against Trump For Comey Firing
[The Federalist] n a Friday night news dump, the New York Times revealed the FBI’s surprisingly flimsy justification for launching a retaliatory investigation into President Donald Trump, their chief adversary during their recent troubled era.

Admitting there is no actual evidence for their probe into whether Trump "worked for the Russians," FBI officials instead cited their foreign policy differences with him, his lawful firing of bungling FBI Director James Comey, and alarm that he accurately revealed to the American public that he was told he wasn’t under investigation by the FBI, when they preferred to hide that fact.

The news was treated as a bombshell, and it was, but not for the reasons many thought. It wasn’t news that the FBI had launched the investigation. Just last month, CNN reported that top FBI officials opened an investigation into Trump after the lawful firing of Comey because Trump "needed to be reined in," a shocking admission of abuse of power by our nation’s top law enforcement agency.

The Washington Post reported Mueller was looking into whether Trump obstructed the Russia investigation by insisting he was innocent of the outlandish charges selectively leaked by government officials to compliant media. Perhaps because such an obstruction investigation was immediately condemned as scandalous political overreach, that aspect was downplayed while Mueller engaged in a limitless "Russia" probe that has rung up countless Trump affiliates for process crimes unrelated to treasonous collusion with Russia to steal the 2016 election, and spun off various investigations having nothing to do with Russia in any way.

The latest Times report does provide more detail than these earlier reports, however, and none of it makes the FBI look good. In fact, it provides evidence of a usurpation of constitutional authority to determine foreign policy that belongs not with a politically unaccountable FBI but with the citizens’ elected president. More on that in a bit.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/12/2019 13:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The big roundup of Hollyweird people, college coaches and SAT administrators that is happing today looks like a sign that the FBI wants it to be known they are "moving on" to investigating actual crimes.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/12/2019 14:53 Comments || Top||

#2  When are they going after the internet and telephone con artists?
Posted by: 3dc || 03/12/2019 15:01 Comments || Top||

#3  ...there's always subcontracting and scalps bounties.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/12/2019 15:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Did they ever find Hillary’s emails?
Posted by: Airandee || 03/12/2019 16:55 Comments || Top||

#5  The big roundup of Hollyweird people, college coaches and SAT administrators that is happing today looks like a sign that the FBI wants it to be known they are "moving on" to investigating actual crimes.

How far back is the Bureau going, 5 years, 10, 25, 50....60? Is it too late for a Captain Louis Renault graphic? Shocking, very shocking.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/12/2019 17:10 Comments || Top||

#6  The big roundup of Hollyweird people, college coaches and SAT administrators that is happing today

FBI's got their March Madness brackets picked.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/12/2019 17:32 Comments || Top||


Europe
Finland: Government Collapses Over Universal Health Care Costs, #Bernie2020 Hardest Hit
[LegalInsurrection] Finland has long been touted by American socialists as the socialist Nirvana, where everything is free and everyone is happy, happy, happy. Sadly, fiscal reality hit Finland's government as it collapsed Friday due to the rising costs of its universal health care.

The warning signs were on the wall last spring when Finland, as Leslie noted, ended its experiment with "universal basic income."

Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who has been hanging his socialist mantle on the "success" of Finland's socialist structure, may be the hardest hit.

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

The government of Finland collapsed Friday due to the rising cost of universal health care and the prime minister's failure to enact reforms to the system.

Prime Minister Juha Sipila and the rest of the cabinet resigned after the governing coalition failed to pass reforms in parliament to the country's regional government and health services, the Wall Street Journal reports. Finland faces an aging population, with around 26 percent of its citizens expected to be over 65 by the year 2030, an increase of 5 percent from today.
Social programs are always shell games. As long as the population is young and productive, it can limp along. Once your population ages... you are fucked
It's not just Finland experiencing such problems with its socialist policies. Other Nordic countries, also touted by American socialists and communists as the model America should follow, are suffering similar economic burdens directly related to their socialist policies.

The Washington Free Beacon continues:

Reuters reports that soaring treatment costs and longer life spans have particularly affected Nordic countries.

"Nordic countries, where comprehensive welfare is the cornerstone of the social model, have been among the most affected," according to Reuters. "But reform has been controversial and, in Finland, plans to cut costs and boost efficiency have stalled for years."

Similar problems are bedeviling Sweden and Denmark, two other countries frequently held up as models to follow on health care. Finland's crisis in particular comes as calls for universal health care have grown louder among Democrats in the United States.
They want theirs and yours before the US breaks apart.
Just a few days before Finland's government collapsed over its inability to foot the bill for its expansive socialist experiment, Sanders took to Twitter in an attempt to shame America.

In the United States it costs, on average, $12,000 to have a baby. In Finland it costs $60. We've got to end the disgrace of our profit-driven health care system and pass Medicare for all.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Feel that Burn, asshole?
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/12/2019 09:06 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  hospitals pad the bill of people with heavy health insurance to compensate for having to treat people with little or no health insurance (e.g., illegal aliens).

the hospitals are also paying for very expensive equipment that is almost never used, specialists on call who are almost never consulted, etc.

the markup on ordinary products are astounding also, a single aspirin or one diaper gets billed at $10 sometimes
Posted by: lord garth || 03/12/2019 10:40 Comments || Top||

#2  I can show you a bill where a simple vitamin costs 80 dollars
Posted by: 746 || 03/12/2019 11:57 Comments || Top||

#3  I think the shell-game aspect is why so many GOP are abjectively pro-illegal immigration. They figure tehy'll pay taxes of some kind (or their children will) forstalling the day Social Security collapses.

Democrats just want the votes, they don't have the math skills to realize the long term financial problems.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/12/2019 15:24 Comments || Top||

#4  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Feel that Burn Bern, asshole?

FIFY
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 03/12/2019 16:50 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Rep. Omar: I Wouldn't Equate Trump And Obama Because Trump Is Not Human
[Hot Air] Isn’t it great that the Democrats passed that resolution about hate last week? You can see what a salutary effect it is having on Rep. Omar. Seriously though, the good news is that she didn’t make any comments about Jews. The bad news is that she’s broadened her rhetorical style to literally dehumanizing her political opponents, which doesn’t seem like a huge improvement. Here she is clarifying her comments comparing former President Obama to President Trump saying, "That is silly to even think and equate the two." She continued, "One is human; the other is really not."
Emphasis added.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/12/2019 03:18 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Although the Koran says that Christians received the same punishment, throughout history the term “apes and swine” has largely been reserved for Jews, in both Shiite and Sunni traditions, from the founding of Islam nearly fourteen hundred years ago to today.[1]

The Saudi sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Sudais, imam at the Grand Mosque in Mecca (Masjid al-Haram) called Jews pigs and monkeys. He also preached that Jews are “the scum of the human race, the rats of the world, the violators of pacts and agreements, the murderers of the prophets, and the offspring of apes and pigs.” [2]


[1] “Muslim Clerics - Jews Are the Descendants of Apes, Pigs, And Other Animals,” Jewish Virtual Library, November 2002.
[2] Chas Moore - Where is the Ghandi of Islam? The Telegraph, 9 July 2005.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/12/2019 3:29 Comments || Top||

#2  But he is American and you are Somelly.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 03/12/2019 5:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Despite her rational for this remark, it fits with the left's de-peopling their opponents so the left is fine with it.

Posted by: DarthVader || 03/12/2019 8:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Not human huh? This some sort of Kenya/Somali rivalry?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/12/2019 11:56 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ *snort*
Posted by: Frank G || 03/12/2019 13:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Dehumanizations are the first step to disenfranchisement and death camps.

The DNC is no longer trying to hide their ultimate intent.
Posted by: no mo uro || 03/12/2019 15:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Reason #1973 for the 2nd amendment.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/12/2019 15:12 Comments || Top||


Iowa Hawk - She done stepped in it now!
[Twitter] Pelosi against impeaching Trump.




Posted by: 3dc || 03/12/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They know "there is no there, there". She is trying to save as much face as possible while allowing lying Schiff and fat-boy Nadler to continue to dig.
Posted by: Warthog || 03/12/2019 9:40 Comments || Top||

#2  All Trump had to do was ask Nancy if she really wants all those documents unclassified and released to the public...bogus FISA warrants, email gate, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, Baraq's Social Security number, etc., etc., etc.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/12/2019 11:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Hope the bogus shit is released.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/12/2019 15:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Nancy is trying to appease her radical bunch in the house. She has passed the knee of the Speaker power and authority curve and is on the slide to the bottom. It is all over but the crying for her.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/12/2019 16:44 Comments || Top||

#5  I wonder how much The Trump campaign is going to use for an "October Surprise" ?
Posted by: Snavimble Bucket1794 || 03/12/2019 17:21 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Oregon's Reed College RA training guide: ‘Make America Great Again' example of white supremacy
[The College Fix] A white supremacy pyramid graphic recently used at a training seminar for Reed College housing assistants states the term "Make America Great Again" is covert white supremacy.

In an effort to discuss diversity, the student employees who help oversee dorm life were briefly trained using a pyramid that identifies various forms of white supremacy broken into two categories, "overt white supremacy," which is labeled as "socially unacceptable," and "covert white supremacy" labeled as "socially acceptable."

"Make America Great Again" is listed as covert white supremacy.

Other forms of socially acceptable covert white supremacy, according to the pyramid, include celebrating Columbus Day, police murdering people of color, denial of white privilege, Confederate flags, mass incarceration, Eurocentric curriculums, racial profiling and colorblindness.Kevin Myers, a spokesman for the Portland-based private liberal arts college, said the pyramid is only meant as a conversation starter for the training.

“It’s provocative, and that was the intention, was to present the RAs with something provocative and spur a conversation about the difference between implicit bias versus explicit bias,” he said.

“This is a way to provoke discussion about what people think is acceptable or unacceptable. It’s actually about tolerance, not about intolerance,” Myers told The College Fix.

The pyramid itself was not something created by staff at Reed, rather downloaded off of the internet by the college’s Office for Inclusive Community, he said. Myers said the pyramid was used for only about three minutes in an hour-long training session in January.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/12/2019 08:34 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This training is racist and the collage people that made this need to be fired, publicly harassed and possibly punched since they are nazis. /leftist /sarc
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/12/2019 9:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Reed is a freak show of a college
Posted by: 746 || 03/12/2019 11:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Anyone forced to take this should report them for hate speech.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/12/2019 13:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Mr. Brick, to whom should they be reported?

The powers that be at that cesspool excuse are the ones that came up with it and it's not against the law.

Publicity and public shaming might work but the MSM is solidly on their side so that won't fly.

Any suggestions?
Posted by: AlanC || 03/12/2019 15:10 Comments || Top||

#5  The School admin. Go to their offices and use their own tactics against them. I'm sure a reading of their official school policy AS WRITTEN would consider these things hate speech. When they balk, take the to court. Using their own tactics is vile, but nicer what should happen. Make them live up to their own rules.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/12/2019 15:31 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2019-03-12
  Baghouz: ISIS militants retreat underground as coalition offensive resumes
Mon 2019-03-11
  Foreign ISIS brides isolated after attacking ‘infidel’ refugees at Syrian camp
Sun 2019-03-10
  More than 60 Taliban militants killed in Special Forces operations and airstrikes
Sat 2019-03-09
  JuD offices in Muridke, Lahore taken over
Fri 2019-03-08
  Nine border tunnels uncovered, destroyed in North Sinai
Thu 2019-03-07
  Blasts target major Shia ceremony in Afghanistan's Kabul
Wed 2019-03-06
  Masood Azhar's son, brother detained in govt crackdown against banned organisations
Tue 2019-03-05
  Indian strike on LeT camp in Muzaffarabad?
Mon 2019-03-04
  Germany to strip 'Islamic State' fighters' citizenship
Sun 2019-03-03
  Syrian Army kills 7 ISIS fighters attempting to escape from Euphrates bastion, SDF advancing on 5 fronts, 3 wounded
Sat 2019-03-02
  Return of captured Indian pilot.
Fri 2019-03-01
  Huge blast rocks Somali capital, killing at least five- police UPDATE: Fighting Continues Into Friday
Thu 2019-02-28
  17 killed in Mali by booby-trapped corpse
Wed 2019-02-27
  Pakistan says it shot down 2 Indian warplanes, shut down its airspace
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