[CT] Washington ‐ Congressional Democrats who fear Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham may be conducting a partisan investigation into the origins of the FBI’s probe into Russian meddling in U.S. elections are calling on him to resign.
Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., has written Attorney General William Barr and Durham, saying "neither of you possess the integrity necessary to serve in the Department of Justice."
Signed by 10 of Johnson’s House Democratic colleagues‐but none from Connecticut ‐ the letter’s demand for Barr’s resignation is not unique.
In May, for instance, Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Barr should "probably resign" because, the senator said, the attorney general had mislead the public about the conclusions of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report into Russian meddling.
But calls for Durham’s resignation are new.
The letter ‐ signed by Johnson, Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., Jared Huffman, D-Calif., Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., and five other progressive Democrats ‐ said Barr and Durham should be ousted because they "inappropriately interfered in independent Department of Justice investigations and intentionally used (their) positions to mislead the American public in defense of President Donald J. Trump."
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The letter ‐ signed by Johnson, Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., Jared Huffman, D-Calif., Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill.,
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Integrity? Morals? Brains? No, this lot has none of these and they're in no position to judge others. But I'll give 'em one thing: They have a lot of damn nerve.
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How many scalps will Durham have of Obama cabinet members and Democrat congressmen when this is all over?
China to rewrite Quran, Bible to fit 'socialist values'. Remember how the Marxist–Leninist atheism has failed to establish the control and organize the elimination of religion in the Soviet Union? Good luck, China! #indoctrinationhttps://t.co/b6PxVq5bT6pic.twitter.com/GWsCkXqywG
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I don't have any problem at all with the Koran here, however the Bible is going to be a tough fit. What they seem to doing is, in their minds, negating the malevolence from malevolent cultures, so that citizens are not harmed, including monetarily. Western civilization should take a good look at this.
In this case malevolent cultures could be divided into a) violent ones that want to pillage the planet, and b) other invaders, to whom I'd put to the Australian test of whether you bring in significant value, or not.
Regarding the first paragraph of Velina's tweet, Christianity seems to have a bigger sway in the south, more than around Moscow and Petersburg. Just reflections from a dolmen site that I worked on in 2000 outside Gelendzhik, and an earlier train trip in 1970.
Travel Tips: If your ever around Divnomorskoye the best disco with the best Georgian wines is at the Naval sanatorium. A number of times I went with others, where you climbed huge concrete ramparts in the the moonlight, and then through a big hole in a fence. I later learned that you could just walk through the lobby without hindrance.
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In my opinion they won't find anything needs changing much in the Bible. Maybe they'll do away with parts of the OT that don't relate to their CPC sensibilities, but nothing that changes the way a christian should live.
I think a true christian makes for the most model citizen in any political set up. Except of course the way the rabid western liberals want to run things. I have friends in China who are christian along the lines of the first church, and they are not complaining. There are simple rules. You can't run a church with a self-appointed pastor it seems. If you want to, your pastor has to pass a State examination. You need a license to congregate, and it's easily expedited with a modest bribe. You can't baptize in public places and rivers or the sea, you need your own pool. You can worship only under the decibel level below 'nuisance'. You need to have a rule book or constitution approved by an inspector. I've heard as soon as you tell them your 'sect' is unaffiliated to the Roman Catholic Church, or any of the major protestant denominations; that you don't recognize papal authority or some far off transcontinental bishoprick - they begin to see you as 'acceptable', harmless. I think that's good enough.
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Well, the Chinese authorities have a reason to be suspicious about "Christianity", a little thing called the Taiping Rebellion. Total dead: 10–30 million dead. The West wouldn't see numbers like that till the 20th Century.
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Haters of Christianity still get a warm feeling in their crotches any time the story of Jefferson cutting and pasting his Bible (to make it more to his liking) come up.
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Go Forth and multiply (with one child between you)
Thou shalt not murder (except in gulags and when organs are needed)
[JPOST] "Trump’s Evangelical supporters have pointed to his Supreme Court nominees, his defense of religious liberty, and his stewardship of the economy, among other things, as achievements that justify their support of the president," he wrote. But, he added, "None of the president’s positives can balance the moral and political danger we face under a leader of such grossly immoral character."
That argument, that the failings of Trumps’ character outweigh the good he is doing, is one also often heard in the Jewish community ‐ by people who love and support Israel, yet loathe the president.
In their eyes, the undeniable good that Trump has done for Israel is far outweighed by what they see as the nastiness of the man.
"To the many Evangelicals who continue to support Mr. Trump in spite of his blackened moral record, we might say this: Remember who you are and whom you serve," Galli wrote. "Vote Democrat. Serve Moloch and Abortion on demand til and after birth!"
Those US Jews who detest the president could have just as easily written that sentence to their co-religionists who support the president, changing just a few words: "To the many Israel supporters who continue to support Mr. Trump in spite of his blackened moral record, we might say this: Remember who you are and whom you serve."
In the 2016 elections, 81% of Americans who identify as Evangelicals ‐ a number believed to be just under a quarter of the US population ‐ voted for Trump. By contrast, 71% of American Jews voted for 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... Those numbers reinforce the idea that the two communities are monolithic, and lead to statements such as, "all Jews hate Trump, and all Evangelicals love him."
That would be Mark Galli, who wrote what he subsequently admitted was an overwrought editorial in his final days at the magazine to thumb his nose at his remaining readers and the Trump-supporting magazine founder.
That all Jews don’t hate Trump is evidenced by the fact that 24% voted for him in 2016, and that he is greeted enthusiastically in many Orthodox and pro-Israel circles. That all Evangelicals don’t love Trump is evidenced by Christianity Today’s editorial.
And why does that editorial matter for Israel? Because Evangelical support has turned into a bedrock of support for Israel in the US ‐ and on certain issues and at certain times, that support is even stronger than among the Jews. King Herod rebuilt the Temple--but he wasn't the most beloved figure of antiquity. He was the one who ordered the Massacre of the Innocents. Scholars nowadays don't believe this event actually occurred. He is known as Herod the Great for rebuilding the Temple, but he was also a tyrant who sided with Romans. They broke up the Kingdom of Israel after he pegged out.
The war against the Jews was conducted by Vespasian and his son Titus, who sacked Jerusalem in the blow-off of the Jewish War. Titus was referred to locally as "Titus the Wicked," and of having sex with a hooker on a Torah roll while the Temple was being dismantled. That was the AD 70 version of hiring hookers to make pee pee on the bed Obama slept in.
Vespasian was the victor in the Year of the Four Emperors. He was grouchy and grumpy, yet he tolerated behavior from the current crop of Roman wits that should have gotten them a punch in the snoot, if not a quick trip to the Imperial executioner. Instead, he regulated the activity of philosophers (equivalent back then to colleges and madrassahs) and only had one of them executed. He did send a messenger to one guy, whom he'd exiled and wouldn't keep his mouth shut, to tell him not to worry, he wasn't worth bumping off.
Vespasian cleaned up the mess in Rome left by Nero and exacerbated by Galba, Vitellius, and Otho. He stabilized the economy and seems to have ruled mildly. Titus succeeded him, and he was described (by Suetonius) as "The Darling of the Human Race."
"He took away nothing from any citizen. He respected others' property, if anyone ever did; in fact, he would not accept even proper and customary presents. And yet he was second to none of his predecessors in munificence."
Transport the same three men to the present age. Who y'gonna support? The guy who built the Temple, but then saw it destroyed? Or the guys who destroyed the Temple out of duty, dispersed a rebellious people, and ruled well as Emperor? I'm not suggesting an answer, just asking the question. The two Flavians seem preferable to me, over the Oriental potentate, but you have to make up your own mind.
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The Democrats seem to wail that Trump is a very bad person. However they have no evidence for this claim, other than the fact that it repeated constantly by all left wingers and never Trumpers. Yes he was involved in many businesses, some of which were great successes and some not. Yes he was a TV entertainer and yes he survived invovled in construction in New York City, This made elites consider him with disdain and low class and crooked.
But they have never found anything against him, having tried very hard, and base their claims over exaggerated distortions of his tweets, again endlessly repeated.
His nasty tweets have all been aimed at people who had made much worse comments about him. The comments against his tweets are like the sound of one hand clapping.
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Trump is a showman, a bigmouthed braggart, a modern version of PT Barnum.
The man has received saturation news coverage for forty years and yet there is nothing in the way of credible evidence to indicate he's racist or anti-Semitic.
You don't like his manner? Fine, vote for whatever Shitshow clown steps forth to oppose Genghis Mussolini OrangeMan.
But cease making these BS charges of racism against the man.
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81% of Evangelicals who identify as Evangelicals voted for Trump? How many more are out there who did not get polled? The pollsters should check out his rallies.
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We've had two presidents who divorced and remarried: Reagan and Trump. They also had careers in entertainment and were Democrats when younger.
Clinton and Kennedy and Carter and Obama and the Bushes were married to the same woman their entire life. Their careers were in politics, and they were in the same party their entire lives.
Which governed more in the interests of the average American, rather than in the interest of politicians?
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[NYPOST] GOP Sen. CocaineLisa Daddy, can I be a senator? Murkowski ... representing K Street ... said in a new interview that she was "disturbed" over Mitch McConnell’s comment that he would work in "total coordination" with the White House during the upcoming impeachment trial in the Senate.
"And in fairness, when I heard that I was disturbed," Murkowski told KTUU, the NBC affiliate in Anchorage in her home state of Alaska.
"To me it means that we have to take that step back from being hand in glove with the defense, and so I heard what leader McConnell had said, I happened to think that that has further confused the process," she said during the interview, which aired Tuesday.
Democrats have slammed the Senate majority leader, calling on him to allow witnesses and asserting that his pro-President Trump stance won’t result in a fair trial.
Murkowski is one of only a handful of moderate Republican senators who might break from the party’s strong support of the president, though Trump was expected to survive his impeachment by the House, as two-thirds of the GOP-led upper chamber would have to agree to give him the boot.
Unlike pro-Trump colleagues, such as McConnell and Sen. Lindsey Graham ...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John Maverick McCain. Since McCain's demise, Graham has become more outspoken, more Republican and more of a supporter of President Trump. The speech he gave in support of Brett Kavanaugh was downright manly and really cheesed off the Dems... who said they were ready to vote and don’t need to hear any witnesses, Murkowski said she would not "prejudge" the case against the president.
"For me to prejudge and say there’s nothing there, or on the other hand, ’he should be impeached yesterday,’ that’s wrong. In my view, that’s wrong," she said.
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Since McCain and Flake left, we have Droopy, Murky, Sasse, Mittens and probably the appointee from Georgia as identifiable limp noodles in the GOP senate column.
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and probably the appointee from Georgia as identifiable limp noodles in the GOP senate column.
Yes, that wealthy young lady from Normal with the luggage that looked like a floor covering textile.
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Opportunist looking for being the powerful swing vote ’ho star (Pelosi Lite). As an Alaskan I find it disgusting.
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Sorry for the dupe entry.
It’s been known to happen.... once or twice a week. We don’t always catch them before someone comments, and then afterward it’s about the conversation.
[NYPOST] Luxury-loving lawyer Michael Avenatti was $15 million in debt when he tried to extort Nike, Manhattan federal prosecutors charge in new court papers.
"The Government expects that the evidence at trial will show that, at the time of his charged conduct, the defendant was in significant debt," Assistant US Attorney Matthew Podolksy wrote in documents filed late Tuesday in Manhattan federal court.
"Specifically, the Government presently estimates that the defendant’s debts at that time were, conservatively, in excess of $15 million."
In an earlier filing, Avenatti’s lawyers argued that evidence of the alleged debt ‐ including money owed for a race car, Ferrari and Porsche ‐ should be kept out of the courtroom.
Podolksy told the judge that prosecutors want to introduce evidence of his arrears at trial to "establish his desperation for money at that time and thus motive."
Avenatti’s financial troubles also include payments owed to two ex-wives, a former law partner and his celebrity onetime lawyer, Mark Geragos, prosecutors wrote.
When reached for comment, Avenatti said the government’s assertions about his finances were hogwash.
"Any claim that I had $15 million in debt at the time of my arrest is bogus and absurd," he said. "I look forward to the trial in this case at which time I will be fully exonerated and the truth will finally be known."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[CT] Washington ‐ Congressional Democrats who fear Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham may be conducting a partisan investigation into the origins of the FBI’s probe into Russian meddling in U.S. elections are calling on him to resign.
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as 
...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John 
