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Europe
Italy, UK’s MI-6 aid the Durham probe of Brennan, Mifsud’s Trump Spygate
[COMMDIGINEWS] As US Attorney John Durham launches a widespread probe into the origins of the Russia Hoax, foreign intelligence agencies implicated in the scandal are cooperating with the investigation. The government of Italia has fired the heads of two Intel agencies over the Brennan-Mifsud spying allegations.

As well as 4 of their top associates.

PM @GiuseppeConteIT has suddenly requested resignations from 6 deputy directors of Italian intelligence agencies: DIS, AISI and AISE.

British spy Remington Christopher Steele is also talking to Durham’s Sherlocks.

ITALIA, UK, AUSTRALIA, AND UKRAINE ALL NEED TO COOPERATE WITH DURHAM
No word yet on the Australian government’s exposing the actions of Alexander Downer in setting up George Papadopoulos in phase two of the CIA entrapment scheme. Yet it is clear that CIA assets Joseph Mifsud, Alexander Downer, and Stefan Halper were all intimately involved in the coordinated conspiracy to portray Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
as a Russian agent.

That this operation was carried out by senior elements of the State Department, CIA, DOJ, and FBI. It is a testimony to the ultimate coordination of the illegal efforts by the Obama White House.

Now that Durham has officially notified Congress of the depth and extent of the Russia hoax conspiracy, we can expect the unseemly revelations to continue to be exposed.

ITALIA FEELS USED BY BRENNAN AND OBAMA
One of the principle reasons behind the turn of events is that the foreign intelligence agencies and the heads of their governments feel that they were used by the Obama White House and John Brennan
...director of the CIA under the Obama administration. One of the deeper dwelling denizens of the Deep State, possibly even the guy who lit the match that launched the Russiagate coup attempt...
They were engaging in illegal activities that clearly interfered in the internal affairs of the United States.

The Italians government particular is incensed. Italia is launching an intensive investigation into the entire affair. They have promised to share the results of their investigation with the United States.

The possibility of criminal activity in Italia against Italian officials is very real.

UK AND MI-6 ARE UP TO THEIR NECKS IN THE RUSSIA HOAX
In the UK MI-5 and MI-6 have been up to their necks in the Russia hoax conspiracy for some years now. Why they would allow themselves to be used in this way? Much less participate enthusiastically.

It was clearly a large, tightly coordinated operation. How and why did they coordinate with Halper, Downer and the FBI? What could they possibly have been thinking? It is a total mystery.

Yet sadly, it is clear that British Intelligence services were not only aware of the efforts to entrap members of the Trump campaign. They actively participated in it.

Imagine the surprise in London, Canberra, and Rome when Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton
... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away...
lost and Donald Trump became President. Just as in the United States, panic set in at the intelligence agencies who had played a role in the scheme. Brennan, Clapper, and Comey were completely freaking out.

As was Hillary Clinton.

Imagine what the heads of MI-6 and Italian intelligence were thinking. Well, it is now clear what they were thinking.

CERTAIN THAT HILLARY WOULD WIN, SO THEY PLAYED ALONG WITH BRENNAN
It seems they were thinking they were about to be exposed. They had joined the wrong garden party. They were waiting for the other shoe to drop. Like their American counterparts, they were certain Clinton would win.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rep. Nadler requested a scope letter from AG Barr regarding the John Durham's investigation of Spygate. Barr letter.

“The Review is broad in scope and multifaceted, and is intended to illuminate open questions regarding the activities of U.S. and foreign intelligence services as well as non-governmental organizations and individuals”

Should include the DNC, FISA and judiciary, HRCs campaign, the Clinton Foundation, MI6, our intelligence agencies, other 5-eye countries, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, the DOS and others. That is very broad. Mueller's $30-40 mil. would have been better spent on this investigation. "Sunk Cost Sessions" was a bad initial choice as an AG.

Whether it will be that broad remains to be seen.

So far, we've seen nada.
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/13/2019 9:40 Comments || Top||

#2  It would be fun to see how many minutes Halper and Mifsud would last in cells at Gitmo. I'm going to guess meal time would be comedy gold.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2019 12:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Basically, we wanna know all the details of the Russian hoax story that Mueller did NOT tell us.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/13/2019 12:21 Comments || Top||

#4  In the UK MI-5 and MI-6 have been up to their necks in the Russia hoax conspiracy for some years now. Why they would allow themselves to be used in this way? Much less participate enthusiastically.

Because David Cameron and Theresa May are globalists in the same vein as George Bush, Baraq Obama and Hillary Clinton. Because they all hate Trump.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/13/2019 12:35 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Hillary: Circumstances of Trump's America 'more dangerous' than Hitler's Germany
h/t Instapundit
Hillary Clinton warned her audience of the rise of fascism in America during an alumnae event held at Wellesley College.

The former presidential candidate joined former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, both alumnae of the school, on campus for a reunion event at the all-women’s college, according to The Hill. The two were interviewed on stage by Wellesley president Paula A. Johnson. During the interview, Clinton alluded to President Donald Trump as a proponent of a fascist America.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/13/2019 10:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sheesh! She actually had the gall and hubris to say this? Does she actually eat with this same mouth?
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/13/2019 11:01 Comments || Top||

#2  It would be great fun to see all the democrats who have gone there (Godwin's Law) take a 50 question high school AP history quiz about Hitler and the Nazi Era. I'm guessing the failure rate would be illuminating.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2019 11:42 Comments || Top||

#3  You'd have to be careful as to who would grade that quiz, MM.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/13/2019 11:46 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm rapidly approaching the point where I am more than willing to make that prediction that the demoncrats are making fact for all the regressive left fucktards.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/13/2019 12:06 Comments || Top||

#5  The only people who will put Hillary in an oven are Hansel and Gretel.
Posted by: Gloger Spawn of the Gepids2733 || 06/13/2019 12:09 Comments || Top||

#6 

Deepest apologies.
Posted by: Woodrow || 06/13/2019 18:12 Comments || Top||


Will Democrats Shut Down The Government To Force Taxpayer Funding Of Abortions?
[The Federalist] Last week, the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer funding of most abortions, became the focus of presidential politics. First Joe Biden said he still supported the amendment, then changed his position one day later, after tremendous political pressure from farther-left Democrats.

But the press should focus less on whether Democrats support taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand. Virtually all Democrats running for president now support that position, as did the party’s 2016 national platform.

Rhetorically, Democrats sound fully in lockstep with their pro-abortion left. For instance, on Tuesday presidential candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) called a pro-life position "not acceptable," and equated nominating pro-life judges to "appoint[ing] a judge who’s racist or anti-Semitic or homophobic." But with the Hyde Amendment, the real test for Biden, Gillibrand, and their fellow candidates will come in how hard they will push for its repeal.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/13/2019 07:34 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yes, if given the chance, they probably will.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/13/2019 7:37 Comments || Top||

#2  While a mother ïs having her baby aborted, the baby is crying for its mother.
Posted by: Angairong Flavigum3253 || 06/13/2019 8:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Let them. Then lock them out of congress, declare them in a state of insurrection, lock them up and start rolling in the military to arrest their corrupt governments.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/13/2019 8:57 Comments || Top||

#4  For my money, Trump won the last shutdown. Another shutdown now would indicate that Dems feel they have nothing to lose at this point.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/13/2019 9:35 Comments || Top||

#5  As I said, mandatory abortions for all incoming pregnant illegals. Then send em back anyway.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2019 12:59 Comments || Top||

#6  You can NOT use the "A-word". Never, never, Never! I was schooled on that by a (truest, bluest leftist you would ever meet) sister: "It is Right. To. Choose. !!!"
Posted by: magpie || 06/13/2019 13:27 Comments || Top||

#7  "It is Right. To. Choose. !!!"

A lot of American males never got that choice with the draft and are buried in hundreds of veteran cemeteries across the country and the world. They never wanted equality, they wanted power without responsibilities and consequences.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/13/2019 15:50 Comments || Top||

#8  Literally tax payer human sacrifice for the left. So yes.
Posted by: Woodrow || 06/13/2019 18:14 Comments || Top||


Dem Representative Torres withdraws 'sex-starved males' comment
[Free Beacon] Rep. Norma Torres

...Nasty-mouthed Dem machine congresswoman from Guatamala, by way of Califonia, of all places. Famous, though probably only briefly, for calling her Republican collegues sex-starved males on the floor of the House...

(D., Calif.) on Wednesday withdrew her statement about Republican men who oppose abortion being "sex-starved males."

Torres was speaking in a House debate on a spending bill for the Department of Health and Human Services when she made her comment, prompting Rep. Rob Woodall (R., Ga.) to speak up and ask her if she would like to amend her language. The ad hominem came while she was attempting to argue pro-lifers should stop speaking on the floor.

"Mr. Speaker, it is tiring to hear from so many sex-starved males on this floor talk about a woman's right to choose," Torres said, drawing gasps from people in attendance.

Woodall interjected and asked to be recognized after her statement.

"Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask my friend if she would like to change her last statement," Woodall said

"If it pleases my colleague on the other side, I will withdraw my statement about sex-starved males on the floor," Torres responded.

After her previous statement was officially withdrawn, she began again by talking about how "tiring" it was for women to be counseled on what types of affordable care they should have.

Torres said it was "tiring to be here on this floor or in committee as a woman to continue to be counseled about what types of affordable [care], whether it is family planning conversations, that rightfully I deserve to have with my own doctor, choosing when women want to have a family and to avoid pregnancy," according to the Washington Post.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/13/2019 02:13 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "and the rest of you should have to pay for it"
Posted by: Frank G || 06/13/2019 9:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Reduced to the most objective terms, they demand everybody pay for an elective procedure to fix an elective condition, a procedure that half the country feels is grossly immoral.
Posted by: Cesare || 06/13/2019 9:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Torres was born Norma Judith Barillas in Guatemala.[2] When she was five, she and her uncle came to the United States, her mother died a year later.[4][3] She worked as a 9-1-1 dispatcher,[3] where in 1994 she led a campaign to require the hiring of bilingual 9-1-1 operators. She was an active member of AFSCME, serving as local 3090's shop steward. She served on the Pomona city council prior to being elected the city's mayor in 2006. In 2008, she endorsed then-presidential candidate Barack Obama before Hillary Clinton withdrew from the race, and was a superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention. She was elected to the State Assembly in November 2008, filling the vacancy left by former legislator Nell Soto, who retired. She earned her bachelor's degree in Labor Studies from the National Labor College in Maryland in 2012 at the age of 47. [5][4]
Posted by: 3dc || 06/13/2019 12:06 Comments || Top||

#4  I do believe that Ms Double Bagger is projecting.
Posted by: Gloger Spawn of the Gepids2733 || 06/13/2019 12:13 Comments || Top||

#5  "Hey, hey! Sex-crazed men gotta pay
For raping poor Mommy that way!
We'll leverage our make-up
And take-ups and break-ups
For freedom to... slay... okay, Bae?"
Posted by: Anginemp Elmitch7774 || 06/13/2019 18:05 Comments || Top||

#6  "And vacay and shoes and more gay.
No praying. No guns. Half your pay.
It's not about money...
But I'll make like a bunny!"
"Whatever you say, honey... Yay!"
Posted by: Anginemp Elmitch7774 || 06/13/2019 18:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Sounds like projection to me. Whale sex has to be illegal, beastiality and all.
Posted by: Woodrow || 06/13/2019 18:17 Comments || Top||


US House oversight panel backs contempt vote in census dispute
[Al Jazeera] A United States House committee voted on Wednesday to hold two top Trump administration officials in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with subpoenas for documents related to a decision adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

The Democratic-controlled House Oversight Committee voted 24-15 to advance contempt measures against Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. The vote sends the measures to the full House.

The committee's action marks an escalation of Democratic efforts to use their House majority to aggressively investigate the inner workings of the Trump administration.

The White House asserted executive privilege on the matter earlier Wednesday.

The Justice Department said officials had "engaged in good-faith efforts" to satisfy the committee's oversight needs and labelled the planned contempt vote "unnecessary and premature".

Democrats fear the citizenship question will reduce census participation in immigrant-heavy communities and result in a severe undercount of minority voters. They say they want specific documents to determine why Ross added the question to the 2020 census and contend the administration has declined to provide the documents despite repeated requests.

The administration has turned over more than 17,000 of pages of documents and Ross testified for nearly seven hours in March. The Justice Department said two bigwigs were interviewed by committee staff and said officials were working to produce tens of thousands of additional pages of relevant documents.

The oversight panel's chairman, Elijah Cummings
...Representative-for-life from Maryland, representing half of Baltimore City, which makes his district ultra-safe, and most of Howard County, which is out-populated by the city. His shiny pate is the reason we pronounce the city name Baldymore. Cummings' politix are so liberal they're tedious, nor is he any more honest than the next seedy professional pol...
, disputed the Justice Department's account and said most of the documents turned over to the committee had already been made public.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He is married to Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, who was elected chairwoman of the Maryland Democratic Party in December 2018.

On May 20, 2019, the National Legal and Policy Center filed a Complaint with the Internal Revenue Service against the Center for Global Policy Solutions (CGPS), a nonprofit headed by Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, wife of Rep. Elijah Cummings. Mrs. Cummings is also the principal in Global Policy Solutions, LLC, a for-profit Limited Liability Corporation that the Complaint charges is “impermissibly entwined” with the nonprofit.[39]
Posted by: 3dc || 06/13/2019 12:11 Comments || Top||

#2  I would be proud to be held in contempt by this congress.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/13/2019 12:46 Comments || Top||


Dem Marsha Fudge shouts at GOP rep after being scolded for bashing Trump
[BIZPACREVIEW] Blinded by righteous indignation and hatred of 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...
, Democrats treat rules and protocol as mere inconveniences when it comes to attacking Trump.

All of which made for an interesting exchange on the House floor Tuesday when a Republican member clashed with a colleague from across the aisle.

In an apparent effort to skirt the rules, Rep. Marcia Fudge
...Dem Congresswoman for Ohio's 11th congressional district since 2008. She won a special election to succeed Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who gave up her office when carried out feet first. The strangely-shaped, but really not gerrymandered, district includes most of the black-majority areas between Cleveland and Akron. Fudge was Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus in the 113th Congress...
, D-Ohio, read an alleged constituent letter that described the president as a "mobster, a con man, a gangster" and said he was "sexually condescending to women."

After Fudge read the entire letter, the presiding officer on the House floor, Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Texas, informed the Democrat that she couldn’t read other people’s words attacking the president that would be "improper" if a member spoke them.

"The chair will remind members that remarks and debate may not engage in personalities towards the president, including by repeating remarks made elsewhere that would be improper if spoken in the members own words," Veasy said, according to Fox News.

Rep. Larry Bucshon, R-Ind., was set to be recognized next, but was forced to wait as an indigent Fudge began questioning Veasey from the side over his rebuke.

"Are we in order here, or what are we doing?" Bucshon asked.

"I’m talking to the speaker," Fudge shot back, oblivious to proper order.

"No, you are out-of-order," Bucshon replied.

Veasey called for the House to be in order and Bucshon again told Fudge as she was returning to her seat, "You’re out of order."

"And so are you," Fudge said, as she quickly whirled about to fire back.

As for the hateful letter, Fudge said it was from Ronald S. Williams, senior pastor and chief executive officer of Mount Zion Fellowship in Ohio.

The pastor attacked those who support Trump as "racist, steeped in religious views, ignorant or just plain dumb." The Republican Party was called a "Trump cult" and Democrats were admonished for not impeaching the "dictator" in the White House.

He even attacked a fellow pastor’s wife for supporting Trump, his angst coming from the disappointment of the president not being impeached.

"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...
is a woman who I respect, however I do believe her hesitancy to impeach this president is her opinion based upon polls and her belief that it would further polarize the country," Fudge read from the letter. "However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
the country is already divided and polarized."

"It is glaringly apparent that many support the president administration are either racist, steep in racist religious beliefs, ignorant, or as my mother used to say, just plain dumb," she continued reading.

"They have chosen to support a president who has a proven record of being sexually condescending to women, will not oppose the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate organizations, is indecisive, condescending to anyone who challenges him, and hides behind his Twitter account rather than dealing with the real issues in our country and around the world," Fudge added.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another racist outs herself while Pres. Trump has done more to improve black peoples' lives since Reagan.
Posted by: Gloger Spawn of the Gepids2733 || 06/13/2019 1:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Shocking! A bitter and angry entitlement female ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/13/2019 3:26 Comments || Top||

#3  And if you have ever been through there, you can see the district is getting the representation they keep voting for, good and hard.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2019 4:05 Comments || Top||

#4  "Dontchoo tell me when I kin speak, white man !"
"But.."
"Your Mama !"

It's eventually coming to this, no joke.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/13/2019 9:42 Comments || Top||

#5  2008

Official portrait of Fudge for the 111th Congress
After the death of Stephanie Tubbs Jones on August 20, 2008, Fudge was selected as her replacement on the November ballot by a committee of local Democratic leaders. This virtually assured her of election in this heavily Democratic, black-majority district.[15][16] Fudge won the November 4 general election, defeating Republican Thomas Pekarek with 85 percent of the vote.[17] She was unopposed in a November 18 special election for the balance of Jones' fifth term, and won with less than 9,000 votes cast.[18][19] She was sworn in on November 19, 2008
Posted by: 3dc || 06/13/2019 12:14 Comments || Top||

#6  In her picture she has Special Education kind of look.
Posted by: Hellfish || 06/13/2019 14:06 Comments || Top||

#7  #6 Yep, it's a look that says "I went potty all by myself today!"
Posted by: charger || 06/13/2019 16:55 Comments || Top||


Biden promises he'll 'cure cancer' if elected president
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
told an audience in Ottumwa, Iowa Tuesday that his White House would "cure" cancer should he beat President Trump in 2020.

"I've worked so hard in my career, that I promise you, if I'm elected president you're gonna see single most important thing that changes America, we're gonna cure cancer," Biden said to applause.

During his stint as vice president, Biden oversaw the "Cancer Moonshot" initiative of the B.O. regime. During his final State of the Union address, Obama announced the program that resulted in a report outlining recommendations for funding and areas to focus research.

After his term, Biden oversaw the Biden Cancer Initiative dedicated to cancer prevention and research until he stepped down from the organization immediately after he announced his run for president.
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  With unicorns and rainbows.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/13/2019 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  And laying on of hands. Lots of that. Until it works. Might take a while.
Posted by: Thatle Creremble2458 || 06/13/2019 2:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Good news, M.D. Anderson fans!
Joe Biden has medical plans
If your masses don't shrink
From his insolent wink
And the stink of his magical hands.
Posted by: Thatle Creremble2458 || 06/13/2019 2:29 Comments || Top||

#4  All the usual red flag clichés apply: moonshot, Manhattan project, full court press, and so on. The usual crowd of gullible voters and journos will lap it up.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2019 3:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Good! Biden gives me cancer every time I hear him.
Posted by: Gloger Spawn of the Gepids2733 || 06/13/2019 4:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Metastatic government is America's #1 problem.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/13/2019 8:32 Comments || Top||

#7  How do you explain voters stupid enough to vote for these people?
Posted by: SR-71 || 06/13/2019 8:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Maybe he could invent the Internet too.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/13/2019 9:35 Comments || Top||

#9  #6 Metastatic government and fake news media is America's #1 problem. BP, hope you don't mind the editorial add-on.

Whether true or not, George H.W. Bush has been attributed with saying: "If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts"
Posted by: JohnQC || 06/13/2019 10:02 Comments || Top||

#10  I mean, if Al Gore could invent the Internet...
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/13/2019 12:50 Comments || Top||

#11  Always remember the great old jokes: If Trump walked on water the NYT headline would be "Trump Can't Swim." If Trump cured cancer the NYT headline would be "Trump Practicing Medicine Without a License."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2019 12:52 Comments || Top||

#12  JohnQC, I've seen that quote attributed to Hillary.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/13/2019 14:03 Comments || Top||

#13  https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/8aed19e7-3119-45b2-913c-06e317e4e226
Posted by: rjschwarz || 06/13/2019 14:03 Comments || Top||

#14  Good news, M.D. Anderson fans!

"Making Biden history!"
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/13/2019 15:50 Comments || Top||

#15  Joe, "head up the ass syndrome" isn't cancer.
Posted by: Woodrow || 06/13/2019 18:19 Comments || Top||

#16  I thought it was the Bee at first, but the writing style didn't match.
Posted by: james || 06/13/2019 21:12 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Oberlin College pleads poverty to jury deciding on punitive damages
Yesterday saw the president (salary: over half a million dollars) of Oberlin College (with an endowment of $887.4 million) plead poverty to a jury in Lorrain County, Ohio (median household income: $54,932), urging them not add punitive damages of up to $22 million to the $11 million already awarded to Gibson’s Bakery.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/13/2019 11:39 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  Can't they mortgage the college property itself ?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 06/13/2019 12:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Fuck them. They had no pity on the bakers and were more than happy to try to impoverish them.

You reap what you sow motherfuckers.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/13/2019 12:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Money, meet mouth...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/13/2019 12:20 Comments || Top||

#4  As I previously opined recently, this has the potential to be a watershed moment for outrageous PC professors and campus cultures. Endowments are the holy grail of administrations and a huge award here would serve as a powerful cautionary proof that over the top SJW and PC behavior could cost big bucks. Facing that risk, tenured status would be meaningless. Praying for a huge award to the plaintiffs.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/13/2019 12:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Can't they mortgage the college property itself ?

Mortgage? They should sign the deed over to the bakers.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/13/2019 12:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Since you are going to appeal the 11 million award, why not make it an additional 22 million? You can obviously afford the lawyers.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/13/2019 13:04 Comments || Top||

#7  punitive damages awarded exceeding the $22m

ALSO ATTORNEY'S FEES AWARDED

here


https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/06/oberlin-college-hit-with-maximum-punitive-damages-capped-at-22-million-by-law-in-gibsons-bakery-case/#more-286093
Posted by: lord garth || 06/13/2019 15:39 Comments || Top||

#8  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/13/2019 16:22 Comments || Top||

#9  Quick, Ethel! My pills!
Posted by: Fred || 06/13/2019 16:36 Comments || Top||

#10  OW! Mah Endowment!
Posted by: Frank G || 06/13/2019 17:45 Comments || Top||

#11  Not sure if moral bankruptcy is a plea.
Posted by: Woodrow || 06/13/2019 18:10 Comments || Top||

#12  What Woodrow said. :-D
Posted by: Barbara || 06/13/2019 18:17 Comments || Top||

#13  That's going to leave a mark.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/13/2019 21:14 Comments || Top||



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Thu 2019-06-13
  Middle East on alert as two oil tankers are hit by explosions and one 'sinks' in suspected 'torpedo attack' in Gulf of Oman
Wed 2019-06-12
  Boko Haram kills at least 26 people in Cameroon
Tue 2019-06-11
  At least 95 killed in central Mali village attack
Mon 2019-06-10
  Iran ammonium-nitrate stash in London and around the world ignored for 2015 Iran deal
Sun 2019-06-09
  Tunisian-German couple in court over ‘ricin attack plot’
Sat 2019-06-08
  U.S., Mexico: Trump Announces Deal With Mexico, Suspends Tariff Threat
Fri 2019-06-07
  Houthis kill imam, 9 worshippers for following Saudi Eid al-Fitr moon sighting
Thu 2019-06-06
  ISIS claiming to exterminate a Pakistani Intel agent
Wed 2019-06-05
  Nanagarhar: Senior ISIS leader hailing from India killed in Afghanistan airstrike
Tue 2019-06-04
  Sri Lanka Muslim ministers resign en masse over Easter bombings
Mon 2019-06-03
  Houthi rebels launch a drone attack on a military parade for Saudi-led coalition forces in the port city of Aden
Sun 2019-06-02
  Al-Quds rally rejects ‘deal of the century’
Sat 2019-06-01
  Islamic Jihad chief says Gaza groups can fire 1,000 rockets a day at Israel
Fri 2019-05-31
  COAS endorses death sentence for retired brigadier, a civilian for 'espionage, leaking information'
Thu 2019-05-30
  IDF Destroying Hezbollah's Last, Largest Cross-Border Attack Tunnel

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